Gifted directly from Bill Finnegan to Tiny Telephone SF for some mixing work we did for Klon Centuar website demos. The pedal is used but sonically perfect. This pedal was used everyday at TTSF by Sleater-Kinney, Spoon, Nada Surf, Death Cab For Cutie, Cherry Glazerr, Deerhoof, Tune-Yards and 100s more.
We never used anything but the 9V brand Bill told us to use and no 9V power supplies. My Tech upgraded the poor quality 9V connector.
This is one of the first 300, which afterward Bill made a couple changes:
"In 1995 I made three small changes: I added a resistor to give the circuit some protection against a static charge delivered to its input—a change that has no sonic effect. I also had the circuit board redesigned with a ground plane for better grounding—again, no sonic effect except the potential for a little less hum. And I added a resistor to give the circuit a very small amount of additional low-mid response—I wanted it to have a little more roundness when used with, say, a Strat into a Super Reverb. I made no other changes."
This is an extremely rare version of the rightfully famed Centaur. It has has TONS of music history. Low serial numbers rarely come up. The pedal is proudly nicked and scuffed, gear is supposed to be used and enjoyed!