“It’s really kind of a miracle cure for those that have the Klon blues”: Keeley Electronics’ new Manis Overdrive remixes the classic K-style drive recipe for those who don’t like the original (and those who do)

The Keeley Electronics Manis is a three-knob overdrive inspired by the Klon and is offered in gold, silver and black with red knobs.

What if you were to swap out the mythical germanium diodes in a Klon Centaur overdrive pedal circuit and replace them with germanium transistors? Guitar effects pedal guru Robert Keeley asked that very question and found the answer in Manis, the new drive pedal from Keeley Electronics.

While there are some other points of difference between the Manis and the original Klon, Keeley says this does “absolutely nail the original Klon sound” – and with germanium transistors, it might just be the K-style drive that players who do not like K-style drives will like.