In this week's Friday Free Plug-in, we are featuring the Clon Minotaur From Nembrini. A model of the painfully hip Klon Centaur a guitar overdrive pedal developed between 1990 and 1994. Original examples of this hand made pedal now change hands for thousands. This plug-in version is free and sounds amazing!
What Is Clon Minotaur?
The Clon Minotaur is characterized as a "transparent" overdrive, meaning it adds gain to the signal without significantly altering the tone of the guitar.
Depending on the settings of the control knobs, the Clon Minotaur Transparent Overdrive can act mostly as a clean boost, adding mostly volume and minimal coloring to the sound. This can be used to drive the input valve stage of the virtual amplifier to use the characteristic distortion sound of an overdriven guitar amp.
What Does A Pro Guitarist think of Clon Minotaur?
We asked production Expert Contributor Mark M Thompson for his opinion. it turns out he’s been using it for some weeks:
“I think it's absolutely stellar, in fact I've already used it on a session! It's fab.”
Rather than explain what he likes about it he provided some examples of the Clon Minotaur used with a Fender Twin Reverb model from IK Multimedia’s Amplitube 5 and his “very orange” Strat (the one in the picure above as it happens..
How Do I Get This Plug-in?
Go to the Nembrini website by clicking the button below, set up a free account and download the installer.
Clon Minotaur is available in 64 bit VST, VST3, AU and AAX. No iLok is required.