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 Now gradually raise the DRIVE knob and get a feel for the level of grit it adds to your tone. Find the sweet spots where you enjoy the tone and what type of playing it suits. This is a very dynamic pedal so the position of the DRIVE knob should really reflect what you are doing. Once you find a DRIVE position you enjoy, adjust the TREBLE knob to find the position you enjoy the most. At this early stage (I’ve only had the pedal 3 days at the time of writing), I’m just not sure when the Soul Food is the right option for me. Recommendations

So, plugged in, powered up, struuuum...THE nicest cleans I've ever heard. Rich and full of harmonic content that's absent plugged straight into the amp. Today, I want to talk klones, and specifically the most important klone pedal ever released: Electro-Harmonix’s Soul Food. Make yourself your favourite morning drink first. This one is going to be a #longread … with audio demos. Table of Contents It was pretty easy to play around with the settings and set it up for different uses. For example, if you’re looking to use it to give your clean tone a bit of a boost to drive your valve amp, then keep the DRIVE knob low and adjust the TREBLE and VOL knobs to suit your personal tastes.Do I think the Soul Food is a good Klon klone? No, I don’t. While it’s usable, I haven’t (yet!) found a reason to choose the Soul Food on tone alone. The mid-boost just isn’t that sweet-sounding, and it doesn’t affect the next pedal in the chain quite how I’m used to. It made people hungry for better klones. As I’ll demonstrate later, it’s not a great klone. Thanks to YouTube demos like the ones I shared above, some of us wanted that tone, and when we couldn’t get it from the Soul Food, we eagerly went looking for other klones.

The silly money that Klon Centaur pedals fetch is just a testament to show how much value the Soul Food gives as nearly all guitarist can afford to get one. Is this pedal for you? The Mosky Golden Horse is even cheaper, but I can’t recommend it because I’ve never played one. I do have other pedals from Mosky, and I’ve been very impressed with them. If you preferred the Tumnus Mini but it’s well out of your price range, give the Golden Horse a try. We’re Not Done Yet! If you have a valve amp and enjoy playing the styles this type of overdrive is suitable for (eg: if you’re a metal player, this isn’t the pedal for you), then this is a no-brainer. Even if you have a solid state amp I still feel it’s a great pedal worthy of most guitarist’s pedalboards.

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My personal answer is: no. I don’t care about the hype behind the Klon and I don’t feel you shouldn’t care either. Does it really matter how close the Soul Food replicates the Klon sound? And while these are the most common variations, Bill Finnegan also made a gold version with no graphic and silver version with centaur graphic. Played side-by-side with my TS9,, this is pedal is similar in application to the Tubescreamer: find the right settings on the pedal and leave it on for great cleans and fat overdrive, and use either another pedal or the gain channel of a multichannel amp for distortion and fuzz. Does that really need any help from a Klon? Arguably not. I could happily spend the whole day just reeling off riffs with the Belle on its own. It’s got that song-on-the-radio sound. I’m not doing any post-processing in my DAW at all. Can You Use The EHX Soul Food As A Clean Boost?

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. The EHX Soul Food is quite light on featuresbecause it is designed for one main goal: a clean high-end boost and overdrive. It doesn’t get much easier to use than this. It’s a simple overdrive pedal meant for those who like a simple tone. Overdrive and booster pedals work best with avalve amp so if you own a solid state amp, this may or may not suit your needs. You will know for sure whether this is the right pedal for you by listening to the tone in the video later.

It can be used with low gain to get a volume boost, a tiny bit of breakup, or then with the gain up it can push a tube amp or another drive pedal nicely. 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. There’s also a switchable buffer that’s a help if you use fuzz pedals ahead of the Soul Food in you signal chain. When the buffer is switched off, the pedal functions as any standard true bypass pedal. Overall, the build quality is exactly what you would expect from Electro Harmonix—rugged, and built for real-world gigging. Meanwhile, the Soul Food’s controls mimic the minimalist set on the Centaur: gain, treble, and output.