All user reviews of 4/5 for the Electro-Harmonix Soul Food

Introducing: the soul food is cheap and large-scale replica of the pedal that has caused a lot of ink, hype, sound snobbery and money (1500 euros still used and 400 reissue) the klon centaur!

Késako the klon?
A priori transparent overdrive, with 3 settings: volume, overdrive, and treble.
It is used by the largest, rightly or through, including its buffer and pulls a reputation for clean very effective not usurped boost!

Soul food is placed so as a clone of this legendary pedal, and it's no surprise that we find the same controls as well as a buffer activated or not internally. (A good point)

A footswitch, LED, battery power or the one supplied (top for the price!) And we left.

USE

There are therefore three knobs and an activatable or not buffer.

Regarding the buffer: I noticed a small treble gain (I provided a pedalboard enough, and I had no buffer), nice but nothing more. At the same time it is one of the goals of a buffer to be discreet, and there, nothing to say.

The settings are then very simple, the knobs are responsive and allow you to vary the parameters although they are resolved.

SOUND QUALITY

So now, we have not as transparent pedal the world, when you push the gain was something quite messy, which removes some "body" to your sound. We lose a low hair, but we win the treble and midrange.
But I do not'll probably call it a tube screamer, no soft side that I associate with TS.

Where this pedal turns out great, it's on an amp set to crunch, and used clean boost (ideal for me: 14h volume, 9am gain, treble depending on the material). We can tackle big solos (according to the gain set), or just earn some saturation (just enough) to attack a little.

It is nice too all the time if you have enabled hardware that sounds a bit "dark". For example, I have an orange with a Les Paul, activating it, I have a more light for some nice rhythm, particularly by increasing the treble.

on the other hand, spent a certain amount of gain (I say 11h 12h), the sound becomes sloppy and not very dynamic.

For me it's really usable as clean boost pedal that goes slightly dirty your sound, but not an overdrive. If you are looking for something a little more guts, it's probably not the pedal to make, here we are in the field of subtle.

NOTICE GLOBAL

For the price, you really have a pedal quite usable, supplied with a power supply (!), Which sounds good in clean boost!
For me, this is the "Litterbug its light" perfect! You want a little grain vox on your clean sound? ideal! A little bit more gain and volume for a solo that kind of mix? So perfect!

Very simple, and effective, really a good pedal for me!

Warning against by the following:
- Your sound is already relatively "bright": this pedal tends to reinforce the sharp side, nice for a marshall, orange or humbuckers, much less on guitar fender fender amp for example. You may end up with a sound too thin and aggressive in the treble
- Looking for an OD, no subtlety: it is not in the field, strictly speaking, overdrives for me here. Setting a high gain sounds really means, it's really to slightly dirty your sound, if you are looking for a true overdrive, look elsewhere.

on the other hand:
- If you need a boost
- Which may slightly dirty your sound for rhythm or solo
- With a buffer (you have lots of cables)
- Good price

Go for it!

Boost pedal / overdrive 9V in a small compact body.

UTILIZATION

The settings are simple, 3 buttons, an internal hard bypass switch / buffered and that's it.
We will generally be able to use it in two ways:
- As a booster with the volume above 12 and below the drive from 9 am;
- As overdrive with the drive over from 10.

I use it mainly early in the effects chain, right after the fuzz, with the following settings: Volume 13h, 8h Drive, Tone 12.

SOUND QUALITY

With the mini drive, we have a very transparent clean boost. By mounting the drive between 8 and 9 am we start to make a very nice little bump in the midrange. This is my favorite position. Above, the drive begins to take over but severe fall: I like less.

Note, I can not driver my germanium fuzz as you would with a tube screamer. The sound becomes "gritty" unmanageable, this is a very bad combination (may be due to the buffer that my house is on).
on the other hand in an amp / preamp tube, or even in another overdrive on single or dual microphones, this is the big ensured potato!

OVERALL OPINION

Apart from this incompatibility with fuzz and feeble low on extreme settings, it's a good pedal. Its value for money is very good.

a clone of klon centaur version of EHX. super boost overdrive

UTILIZATION

3 knobs, volume, gain, treeble. Manu a lil English but not really necessary

SOUND QUALITY

nano but just in the name! in fact boost it as well as walrus travel 3x more expensive. overdrive In a lil lack of bass, mids of a well-placed blow in its chain according to the pedal distortion, fuzz below. otherwise frankly for 60 euros that happiness

OVERALL OPINION

it leaves more my pedalboard. I play a fender blues deville 4x10 with an overdrive and distortion rattler jam a Sovtek Big Muff, and as it comes to all this booster it does more than fine. then the deco is nice 60 euros and are less afraid to make her sores that a boutique pedal 200