In no particular order they are the duesenberg white drive ii, the boss bd2w blues driver, the fulltone ocd, the ehx soul food and the carl martin plexitone. When i inquired about the availability of the crayon, my friendly pedal pusher asked me how do you know about that i make it my business to know these things. I have found that i like it in front of my blues driver to pump it up a bit, but that is the only time i think i will be using it. I have the soul food before it to boost the gain for solos and for parts that call for more high end gain. The soul foods clipping is nice and soft, really natural. Our soul food put klonlike transparent overdrive into the hands of players at an unprecedented price point. Heres a shootout between a boss blues driver and an ehx soul food. I boiled it down to the boss blues driver and the ehx glove mainly cause these are the only good ones available used in my area. The soul food and erd are a klon and ts respectively, so theres a mid hump. Ehx bought the man himself in on the design of this pedal.
Electroharmonix soul food overdrive electroharmonix soul food overdrive. It targets to take the guitar to that realm of tone for a small fraction of the cost of a used centaur. Mostly great sounds in here, the highend will bite you if youre not careful but most everything else is great. Inexpensive pedal clones a list january 05 2015, 3 comments there are a lot of great pedals out there manufactured by some of the well known manufacturers. The xotic ep booster and the electroharmonix soul food are based on two mythical pieces of the equipment, the echoplex tape delay and the klon centaur. Trex tonebug od, ehx soul food and finall my favourite, the digitech bad monkey sound. It will give your tone a lift in all the right places. Id suggest you consider the digitech mystic blues its a blues driver clone with a better sep bass and treble tonestack, for far.
However if youre determined one or the other, the soul food and the lower price would be my pick, unless you want a higher gain option. Some of them can be relatively expensive which means theres a big market for guitar pedal clones. The klon and soul food both have boosted mids just a little. The cool thing is the tone stays the same at low and high volume. The main difference between the bd2 and a tsklon type pedal is wether or not you want that mid hump and the compression, or a more neutral eq with more gain.
Everything ive read from ehx fails to mention the pedal guru by name, so kudos i guess for not name. I was torn between the joyo ultimate drive ocd clone and the soul food. As many jazz guitarists prefer the natural sound of the amplifier to carry through, this is a paramount feature of any. The soul food transparent overdrive pedal from electro harmonix does just this, and is crafted to ensure the original signal remains. I have a zoom pd01 klone and a caline orange burst xotic bb preamp clone, so yeah, pretty diferent animals. The bd2 adds a higher end gain and a bit of sparkle to the sound that the soul food doesnt. Soul food vs blues driver vs sd1 super overdrive overdrive. From the period you plug into the soul food, you can not help but notice that it sounds very klonlike. Best of all, you dont have to be a rock star to own one. Blues driver or soul food for my setup help please. If i want more scream, then my big muff also electroharmonix does the trick.
Tone aficionados kept telling ehxs mike matthews about a pedal that had achieved a lot of buzz because it was only obtainable at an exorbitant price. More transparent than the soul food i used to own and has a great jangly tone without being piercing. The ocd was harsher and fizzy to me, and the soul food a little too dry and lacked sustain. Are the soul food, ocd, and bd2 completely different pedals. I played it stock til all the way up til the beginning of last year. Ehx soul food the soul food is ehxs take on the legendary, and ridiculously overpriced, klon centaur overdrive. The sf works much better with my fender blues deville 410.
Hopefully some of his mojo rubbed off in the process. Watch for my video comparing the jhs modded soul food to the original. Electroharmonix soul food overdrive guitar effects pedal. The difference is like trying to cuddle a fat house cat as opposed to a rabid opposom. Its a soul food with a jhs type mod jeez, i hope so.
Katana blues drive is a kind of modded sd1 stacked into katana boost style jfet circuit. The soul food was a great match for the p90s, and with the treble knob on the soul food set to tame the p90s more sizzling side, i got a very big and robust clean sound. The soul food s clipping is nice and soft, really natural. He himself admits that it is explicitly an 808 clone. The electroharmonix soul food overdrive is a highly affordable alternative to the famous klon centaur. Its circuitry features boosted power rails to provide abundant headroom and increased definition. Nov 18, 2015 ehx has made them rather affordable and to me, that is a recipe for disaster.
The spark gives me every thing from a clean boost to that edge of breakup to full out overdrive into the front of the amp. I use each, and sometimes both together, to goose my ocd with great results and the two stacked together sferd pushes the erd up a notch and adds fatness. Boss blues driver versus electroharmonix soul food. The soul food cuts a little bass but adds some mid girth and makes things feel tight, with the tone knob it gets extremely bright if needed. Soul food vs blues driver vs sd1 super overdrive ehx vs boss heres another overdrive pedal shootout for you. In no particular order they are the duesenberg white drive ii, the boss bd2w blues driver, the fulltone ocd, the ehx soul food and the carl. Tone aficionados kept telling ehxs mike matthews about a pedal that had achieved a lot of buzz because it was only obtainable at an exorbitant. It doesnt do that beefy bottom that the ep does, but it does add something at a little higher frequency. The ehx soul food overdrive does the tricks of a highly sought after and hard to find overdrive at a fraction of the cost. So just recently i bought a ehx soul food overdrive pedal. Egitaar effectpedaal overdrive, clean boost, controls voor volume, drive en treble, helder en transparant. Really, any good boost pedal like a ep booster or a treble booster will serve you well.
So i doubt katana blues drive can serve as a good substitute for bd2. Playing through a blues junior im finding that having the gain off on the pedal, and volume and treble at 12 oclock it adds a beautiful responsive dynamic edge to the tone and slight break up as if im playing through a much better amp absolutely love it. Oct 24, 2017 we tested a tube screamer, a fulltone ocd, an ehx soul food, proco rat and a fulltone plimsoul back to back. We tested a tube screamer, a fulltone ocd, an ehx soul food, proco rat and a fulltone plimsoul back to back. The electroharmonix soul food pedal seeks to mimic the classic klon centaur tone and succeeds in fooling most ears. The soul food delivers transparent overdrive with great touch and response. With boosted power rails, the soul food is able to. You can choose to turn the knob leds on or off, true vs. Tone aficionados kept telling ehx s mike matthews about a pedal that had achieved a lot of buzz because it was only obtainable at an exorbitant. Soul food is better as a clean boost, just adding a little bit of sparkle at the signal and making it more hifi, while the crayon is a better as a standalone od or as a volume boost. Well, even with the relationship that the soul food pedal and klon share, there are still those that tamper with the circut. Whether or not the soul food lives up to the legend of the klon is a different discussion, but the soul food is a celebrated clean boost in its own right. Ive already hounded my local music store about getting one.
So now i have the soul food set to take the clean channel to crunch and add a bit of boost on the dirty channel. Really, any good boost pedal like a ep booster or a. Overdrive pedals occupy a unique niche in the guitar world. The glove is ocdlike, so in the same vain as a ts but grittier. A believer in bringing great tools to starving musicians, mike tasked his trusty team to create an affordable alternative, and that is how the soul food was. Ive considered having mine modded to add more bass with the jhs meat and potatoes mod.
Ehx soul food demo txba tone tuesday texas blues alley. They are very different pedals and they work great together. I prefer the soulfood as a boost with some added midrange, its much cleaner and natural sounding than the bd2. Yes i know they are different sounding pedals but im open to hearing any experience you guys may.
Nov 23, 2015 its a soul food with a jhs type mod jeez, i hope so. Are the soul food, ocd, and bd2 completely different. The verdict with the right setting, the soul food is the kind of tone shaping tool you can keep on all the time. Mostly though i like to flavor the tone, not override it with too much heat. The real value, however, is recognized by discerning listeners who appreciate the original and satisfying sonic territory that the ehx soul food overdrive provides in the spaces where it differs from the klon. Jul 14, 2015 ehx founder and president, mike matthews, stated. Mar 07, 2016 in spite of the similar names boss bd2 blues driver and keeley katana blues drive are actually quite different animals.
The blues driver is the best overall overdrive pedal ive tried. Between the boss bd2 blues driver and a tube screamer. The title should read ehx soul food wtimmy instead of versus timmy. The blues driver with an allums mod is a pretty nice pedal. As for the ehx drives, they all have different flavorsi like the hot tubes nano, but its pretty bassy. I had a boss sd1 on my board and added a soul food, but after some time, i decided to take the sd1 off as i like the amps dirty channel just fine with a little goose from the sf. I have both on my board and they are completely different sounding pedals. For a klon tone i highly recommend the arc effects klone v2, but its a little pricier. The electroharmonix soul food is an original circuit design which is inspired by the centaur. The only thing is, this would be utterly stupid for ehx to do. Jul 23, 2015 in no particular order they are the duesenberg white drive ii, the boss bd2w blues driver, the fulltone ocd, the ehx soul food and the carl martin plexitone. In spite of the similar names boss bd2 blues driver and keeley katana blues drive are actually quite different animals.
The soul food od pedal gives me distortion from very mild to mediumscream, which i use for old jazz and blues. Well, in the case of the electroharmonix soul food the answer might just be a resounding yes. Like the original, the soul food provides a wide range of tones, from fat, transparent cleans to creamy overdrive saturated with warm mid range. He consulted on the design of the circuit and the parts used in the build. The ehx jhs modded soul food, the boss blues driver with keeley modifications and the original 80s maxon ibanez tube screamer od pedal.
Turn up the gain and its got a nice beefy tone with minimal low end loss. The case for another tube screamer ehx east river drive. It will take you from clean boost to heavy amp saturation at a price any guitarist can afford. Some might say its thinner sounding because of less midrange hump. Played this live vs some of my other klon types, sounds better than them and the price is so. Selectable true or buffered bypass modes and a switchable 10db pad.
Strat players often get on well with the blues driver, because the pedal tends to gently balance out the strats toppy sound. Blues driver easily, but my opinion of the soul food is that its one of the worst pedals on the market. So the erd replaced my bd2 and soul food replaced my ts9. The stock soul food is a great pedal for the price but towards the upper gain levels it sounds a bit thin and shrill. Electroharmonix od glove mosfet overdrivedistortion. I just ordered a soul food to boost my big muff pi. When i first started using the pedal, things were going fine. Probably the best sounding pedal ive heard so far through a nos blues junior. Why put out a pedal so closely related to your other pedal, but better.
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