I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed interested...

[Mad-Max]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

I tried one out today, and I liked it quite a bit. Really fat sounding OD with some bite to it. It made the JVM I was playing through sound metric tons better.

[jimijames]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Different clipping, softer, rounder. I haven't had the chance to play it with any real volume, so I'll give a little more in depth review after practice tonight.

Did I miss the post-practice review? Is it in another thread?

[Scott_F]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Damn. Got mine today. Not sure I like it. Going to have to plug it into some more amps, but it sure seems to loose a lot of bottom end.

[Hank-]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Yeah, I'm planning on using them in a bluesbreaker circuit, which has them in series, with the other side being a 1S1588 silicone diode (I think it's like .65v?)

And, stuffed into the same box, an ep booster.

Here's the layouts I'm planning on using:

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]53156[/ATTACH]

My only concern is that the ep booster won't sound like the real deal, but IDK if I want to spend the $$$ on the real deal right now.

Isn't the Xotic BB Preamp pedal a Marshall Bluesbreaker in a box thing? If it is then you are about to put them both together in one box! That would great

[Scott_F]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Mine is finally being shipped. I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl.


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[jimijames]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

That means it'll clip sooner, which can be desirable. Then you can also wire a couple in series to up the clipping voltage threshold

Yeah, I'm planning on using them in a bluesbreaker circuit, which has them in series, with the other side being a 1S1588 silicone diode (I think it's like .65v?)

And, stuffed into the same box, an ep booster.

Here's the layouts I'm planning on using:





My only concern is that the ep booster won't sound like the real deal, but IDK if I want to spend the $$$ on the real deal right now.

[trevorus]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Do you have any experience with the OA1160? I've heard that it's up there with the OA126, except with a lower forward voltage. This guy seems to like them. I'm just curious about how they compare.

That means it'll clip sooner, which can be desirable. Then you can also wire a couple in series to up the clipping voltage threshold

[jimijames]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Different clipping, softer, rounder. I haven't had the chance to play it with any real volume, so I'll give a little more in depth review after practice tonight.

Do you have any experience with the OA1160? I've heard that it's up there with the OA126, except with a lower forward voltage. This guy seems to like them. I'm just curious about how they compare.

[trevorus]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

I'm curious - what changes?

Different clipping, softer, rounder. I haven't had the chance to play it with any real volume, so I'll give a little more in depth review after practice tonight.

[Chris of Arabia]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Look what I did! A friend found some OA126 Telefunken diodes, which are apparently the type used in the Klon. It sounds great in the Soul Food.

I'm curious - what changes?

[trevorus]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Look what I did! A friend found some OA126 Telefunken diodes, which are apparently the type used in the Klon. It sounds great in the Soul Food.

[Wattage]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Still on my board, it works well with other pedals which is nice. Thins the sound out a little bit but makes it cut more so I guess that balances out.

It's not bad, obviously not high gain, the Pigtronix Class A Boost and this are still both on the board one will stay most likely.

[gvis]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Am I the only one who doesn't like the Soul Food?

No. Returned mine to GC the day I received it in the mail. Least favorite OD of any type I'd ever tried, even behind a DS1; just my opinion of course. Made me appreciate a good TS type pedal with the gain way low. Maybe I'm realizing that's more my sound for low OD; tighter with some compression. Still possibly considering other more open sounding low gain ODs though; route 66 seems promising, but I decided not to explore the wampler offerings. No hurry since I'm now pretty happy with the options I've got.

Instead I gave a muff tone wicker a try that day and decided I needed that type of tone as an option.

[That90'sGuy]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Am I the only one who doesn't like the Soul Food? I've tried two of them so far and they both sound terrible to me. I don't mean to offend anyone. But the gain isn't usable from about twelve o'clock on. And up to twelve it didn't do anything to shape the sound. I tried it through a cranked Princeton, a Twin, an Orange OR15, a newer Blues Deville, and a Marshall plexi type. I'm not impressed with the sound.

Truth be told, I wasn't a big fan of the Mojopedals K2 which is supposed to be a boutique style Klone. After all the hype of the Klon, I thought it was going to be my be-all, end-all boost.

It sounded anemic through my Fenders with single coils at lower settings and I found myself having to push the gain up to around 1 o'clock or higher to get some decent drive out of it. At that point, the midrange takes on a really thick, compressed character, low end becomes really fat and muddy and the highs stay pretty clean making for a weird mix that doesn't sit right with my rig. I had a bass boost/cut feature that offset the muddiness a hair, but it was still too unbalanced for my taste. It did not stack well with my Fairfield Barbershop pedal (which is a light fuzz) as it had a strong character that really should be on by itself (at least with my rig).

I see the appeal for some rigs, however. A few months back when I had an ES-335, my friend came over and I recorded him. He used the pedal through my Vibrolux, cranked the gain and had a pretty darn good rhythm overdrive sound. Oddly enough, I find it's a better rhythm pedal than a lead pedal considering it's touted as a holy grail boost pedal. I don't get it.

[VanDerchuck]

Re: I posted about the EH SOUL FOOD Klon clone a few days and no one seemed intereste

Am I the only one who doesn't like the Soul Food? I've tried two of them so far and they both sound terrible to me. I don't mean to offend anyone. But the gain isn't usable from about twelve o'clock on. And up to twelve it didn't do anything to shape the sound. I tried it through a cranked Princeton, a Twin, an Orange OR15, a newer Blues Deville, and a Marshall plexi type. I'm not impressed with the sound.