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Colortone Parasite Overdrive

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Colortone Parasite is a JFET based Overdrive guitar pedal with active tone controls.

At a mild drive setting the PARASITE can act as an ‘always on’ pre-amp style device adding a light organic textural sparkle to your clean sound.

With larger amounts of drive you’ll start feeling the creamy tubelike compression, tonal breakup and harmonic complexity of a driven tube amp.

At its most extreme the PARASITE holds no shame in getting dirty and noisy.

CONTROLS

DRIVE Gain - Drive amount LEVEL Output Volume Level BASS Active Bass Tone Control (Post Gain) TREBLE Active Treble Tone Control (Post Gain) HiGH Treble BoostSwitch to increase the treble response of the signal being fed into overdrive circuit to cut through the frey of a live gig. (most apparent when using milder drive settings) LOW Switch to increase the bass response of the signal being fed out of the overdrive circuit, emulating the tonal bass push characteristics of a 4x12 quad box cabinet.

BUILD

Hand Matched JFETs Switchcraft 1/4” Jacks Hand crafted Etched and Finished Aluminium faceplate White or Black powdercoated aluminium enclosure avaliable True Bypass FootSwitch with brushed aluminium nut Red Indicator LED

TECHNICAL

Input Impedance : 420k

Current Draw: 30mA

9V DC (Centre Negative) Power (No Battery) NOTE: External 9V DC power only (recommend use of an isolated Power Supply). POWER SUPPLY NOT INCLUDED.

Product specs

Power	9V
Bypass	true bypass
Analog/Digital	analog

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Colortone Pedals: PARASITE Overdrive

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Colortone Pedals: PARASITE Overdrive

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