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Published on 11/24/14 at 10:14
Value For Money :
Excellent
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!
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!