Electro-Harmonix Soul Food Distortion/Fuzz/Overdrive Pedal

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Overall it’s incredibly easy to use and it wouldn’t take much adjusting in EQ on your amp or other pedals to fit the Soul Food into your pedalboard. Sound Of course, overdrive pedals like the Soul Food are designed to be used with a valve amp and to push those tubes and produce a warm tone. But I wanted to see how it would go on solid state amps. It still produced a fantastic tone, but that could also be due to the fact that solid state amps today are light-years ahead of solid states from the past. A believer in bringing great tools to starving musicians, Mike tasked his trusty team to create an affordable alternative, and that is how the SOUL FOOD was cooked up.

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I mentioned earlier that there were two different original types of Klon Centaur pedals – typically known as ‘horsie’ and ‘non-horsie’ (or silver and gold). Ever dreamt of playing through a glitsy, transparent overdrive pedal such as the Klon Centaur but have always struggled to justify the rather out-of-reach price tag? If so, look no further, Electro-Harmonix now bring you the Soul Food overdrive pedal, developed to provide you with spacious soundscapes and extreme clarity and definition. There are typically two main variations of the Klon Centaur that you’ll see on the pre-owned market. I bought a second-hand EHX Soul Food overdrive pedal. It came without the original box; all I got was the pedal itself.

Many of the pedals I’m using today have buffers in them. The Boss pedals have an always-on buffer. I’ve got the buffers switched on in the Soul Food, the Klon KTR and the Tumnus Deluxe at all times. Inside the EHX Soul Food, showing the Buffer / True Bypass switch The pedal is known for its ability to add gain without coloring the tone of your amp too much. In other words – a fairly transparent overdrive pedal. Although it does have fairly pronounced mids. FOOTSWITCH and LED The Footswitch selects whether the Soul Food is engaged or in bypass mode. When the effect is engaged, the LED is lit. An internal Bypass Mode switch is included to select between True Bypass and Buffered Bypass. See below for more information on the internal switch. A more interesting comparison would be the Soul Food vs Timmy or Soul Food vs OCD. The Timmy and the OCD are both excellent overdrive pedals with a lot of support by guitarists. Rather than compare a clone to the pedal it’s trying to copy, you’re better off comparing different overdrive pedals to figure out which one suits your tastes as a guitarist. The amount of available gain is very similar to the Centaur. With the Gain knob maxed out I coaxed rich, harmonic overdrive tones out of single-coils that evoked thoughts of Eric Johnson and vintage Larry Carlton. And unlike many TS-style ODs at high-gain settings, the Soul Food’s low end was defined full of presence.

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I’m not looking to boost other pedals or my amp; I’m using the Klon KTR to shape the tone. This is the first test I do with any klone pedal, and so far only one klone I’ve tried has done this well: the Ceriatone Centura. Into The Wampler Tweed 57 Overdrive Pedal The Soul Food, KTR and Wampler 57 on my pedalboard Full disclosure: I'm pretty new at guitar. I spent 10 years thinking I couldn't play like the greats, that I didn't have the talent to do anything except strum some chords. So I let my abilities sit stagnant at chords and nothing else and didn't play much. But after losing a family member recently, I took it upon myself to sit down and stubbornly learn as much about guitar playing as I possibly could. I say all of that to let you know that my opinion is totally subjective based upon my limited experience with gear. If you preferred the sound of my Klon KTR, but you can’t get a Klon KTR, look at the Ceriatone Centura. The one I’ve got sounds identical to my Klon KTR. I’m not quite done yet, though. There’s one more pedal that I want to compare the Soul Food against today. … vs The Boss BD-2 Blues Driver

Is it bad to compare the Electro-Harmonix Soul Food as well as Klon Centaur due to the sheer difference in price of these pedals? Not at all, this comparison is relevant and shows how comical it is that Klon Centaur has attained such outrageous secondhand cost. But if that did not happen, probably guitarists wouldn’t access the Soul Food now. As you can expect with anything from PRS, the build quality is top-notch. The pedal is true bypass and can be powered via a 9v power supply or a 9v battery. Scour online forums and you’ll soon find that if you were to A/B test two gold Klon’s, they wouldn’t sound exactly the same. I’ve taken the KTR off the board, and put the Tumnus Mini on there instead. I’m still using the Wampler Belle, and I haven’t changed the settings from last time. Hand on heart, I can’t say that the Belle sounds better when boosted by the KTR. This is definitely a matter of taste. Here, I’m not trying to ‘fix’ a problematic sound. I’m using the KTR to change the flavour; to make a good sound into a great one. I’m not convinced it does.I was still happy jamming away on a solid state with the Soul Food but switching over to a valve amp did compliment the Soul Food as would be expected. Reliability/Quality This is partly down to the fact the pedal is blending your dry signal with your overdriven signal. In a way, it feels more like an amp would feel when it starts to break up.