Electro-Harmonix Soul Food Overdrive

The soul Food is anice overdrive on it's own, but also also great for adding a little hair to you existing drive sounds. I run mine before a BYOC orange Distortion (DS-1 clone) and a Fulltone OCD. With a little gain and slight voume boost to push the dirt pedal harder

Original is very weak and thin sounding. Had JHS mod mine. Things screams. Very transparent. Sounds just like a Klon.

Everyone knows that the soul food is Mike Matthew's cheap knock-off of the Bill Finnegan's fabled Kon Centaur. Its in a smaller enclosure, is machine-made on a PCB, the buffer can be disabled internally via dip-switch and doesn't have the unobtanium, err, I mean germanium secret sauce clipping diodes to ground that produce the distortion. Otherwise its the same TLM107 op amps and everything. It could use a little more low end to sound perfect through my ac30s, but this circuit sounds really good for 70s classic rock kinda sounds and doesn't color your base tone too much. Your amp will still sound like your amp with your settings, your les paul will sound like a les paul and your strat will remain a strat. If you need to fatten a fender into a fender for syrupy solos try a TS9.

I have not played an original klon in ages nor have I tried any of the fancier alternatives. This pedal sounds a lot like like I recall the klon I tried sounding back in the 90s. The klon was too expensive for a drive pedal then and its way too expensive now that its discontinued and collectable. For all its innovations like the dual ganged pot, fancy pants buffer and charge pump, the core concept of the klon centaur is just diodes to ground clipping the peaks off your signal like a rat, a ross distortion, mxr distortion+ or a DOD od250. Nothing special. What Klon did was nothing different than all the guys still fine tuning tubescreamers. The EHX price is just right for this little beastie. Someone should combine the centaur's amplification and control arrangement with the clipping diode arrangement from fulltone's OCD (which is just stolen from an old voodoo lab design, so don't feel bad). That would be a really dynamic and interesting take on the original distortion/OD pedal format.

The Soul Food is recognised as the cheapest version of Klon (can I say that word... no one seems to ever be able to do it) clone on the market. Essentially, if you were looking for an honest written description of the soul food, you will be hearing a tubescreamer levelled overdrive, not too bitey, that can clean right up that has a lot more treble to it than a TS... which are a bit muddier than this guy. The gain behind the level control makes it particularly useful as a boosting device...hmmm... a boost that has some treble to it... a treble boo... nah...

This pedal, intended to replicate the sound of a KLON centaur is a great light overdrive with plenty of headroom. Sounds very crisp.

This pedal does a great job of creating solid overdriven tones when I'm unable to crank a tube amp up loud enough to cause it to distort and stacks great with other pedals. It takes a little to get used to it, but overall it sounds solid.

Classic, bright, transparent, shimmery overdrive that sits nicely in the mix. I use this as my primary overdrive and would recommend it to anybody.

The pedal does a decent job of sounding like a Klon Centaur, and for the price of $62, you seriously cant beat it for what it does. I use it as a clean boost instead of overdrive, like John Mayer does, to either stand on it's own or to push my other pedals. It really shines when it's pushing a tubescreamer, or other similar pedals.

The sound coming from this baby is matched only by the angels. This came highly recommended and I can tell you that I ain't mad!

Its a transparent OD. Excellent clean boost. Satisfying amounts of dirt. Get it to find out what the Klon hype is all about and then don't bother with the horsie because EHX did the job for less than a tubescreamer.

Great affordable pedal that adds dirt without coloring your tone. I strongly prefer this to the tube screamer

This pedal, for the price, really can not be touched. A Klon type pedal for under £100, what more could you ask for?

Ok, that's another cheap Klon clone pedal. But it sounds really good boosting the tubes of my Fender amp. I don't know how it works with a transistor amp, because in my opinion it doesn't add really anything to the sound, it just improves the tubes saturation. And, believe me, that's really something.

Reading about the Soul Food got me intrigued. Never owned a Klon, heard a Klon, nor care about a Klon. What I need was some boost and light overdrive that was transparent and affordable. Blues artist I know all have raved about the Soul Food tell me this is what I need that they have one or on the wish list.

So getting one home I didn't care for it a first being use to tube screamers and compared to the Boss BD-2 it a little bright. However in the past few months the Soul Food has been integrated back in. The Soul Food makes a great clean boost and with the drive set about 1 o'clock I get a nice break up and great transparent tone. Responsive to the force in picking/strumming. While not my main OD pedal it is the most transparent of my OD pedals and works as a nice boost to the other Distortion pedals I use. For the price it was a steal.

Great pedal for blues/fusion jazz and classic rock.

Similar to my Epiphone Sheraton II, this pedal is a great value for getting as close to expensive tones as possible without spending the 4-figure $$ tag that comes with a Klon Centaur.

This one is always billed as a clone or copy of the legendary Klon box, but it really doesn't sound a lot like it at all from what I've heard. However, that doesn't mean that it's not a fantastic addition to your pedalboard. It gives you some rockin overdrive tones which I really dig and matched up with the Boss Blues Driver you can get some awesome tones as well. Always seems to find it's way back onto my board. Love this one.

Attention if anyone who is looking for boosting overdrive

This is the coolest boosting overdrive that I've ever used in my life.

Compared to Tube Screamer, I think it has more treble on it, and it's more transparent than tube screamer that it really doesn't affect other overdrive that you are stacking as much as tube screamer.

You can use this pedal independently, but I think it's better when you stack with other overdrive pedals.

Sounds like a Klon and costs 60$, i think there's nothing else to say!

Just got this one to add some more bite. Was not disappointed. Run it behind a Fulltone '69 and infant of a TC Dark Matter distortion - the three sound epic. Lots of tonal variation from SF - neat little number!

I of course changed the diodes out to germanium which makes it even better and smoother. It sounds better than a Klon in my opinion and gives me the distortion I need on my rig!

Really nice overdrive pedal. I use this on everything. Very versatile. I recommend this to pretty much anyone.

This pedal (which was gifted to me) has been one of the best additions to my board! It is the rare pedal that never leaves your board, as you should have no reason to remove it. I use this more as a boost than an OD. Whether using my clean channel, my overdrive channel, with the fuzz engaged, or any other imaginable scenario, this pedal gives that extra punch needed for that good, gritty, old-fashioned 60's Garage sound that I strive for.

Great pedal for gain stacking! Using this at the edge of breakup in front of a Tubescreamer type pedal.

This is really warm and gives a lot of room for crunch

Fantastic pedal! use as a clean or overdrive boost to bring your tone upfront and give it a shimmering feel.

Twitchy. Has been a bit tempermental until I showed it who was boss with a scredriver.

It is one of the best clean overdrives. With the tone controll you can get wonderful bottom to your sound.

Cheap and sounds great! What more can you require from a pedal? Love it

I mostly use as a boost but the OD is very good as the reviews say.

I just love this pedal. Really transparent with great power. Plus - it doesn't cost a ton.