I don't know about the Soul Food mods. It's a mostly SMT pedal, so there's only so many meaningful changes you can make to one.
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Can't Afford A KLON.........So I Bought An EHX Soul Food Pedal
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Originally posted by Chistopher View PostI don't know about the Soul Food mods. It's a mostly SMT pedal, so there's only so many meaningful changes you can make to one.
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The Soul Food was my first Klon clone. Not a bad one either. After selling that one I didn't find anything else I wanted to try for a while. Ended up with a Pedalmonsters Klone overdrive. A very good clone but their customer service is non-existent for anything. Had an issue with some squeal on one of the two I had and could not get any response from them (still haven't). Offloaded them and will never buy another product of theirs. The next came the Moskey Silver Horse. Same as the Golden Horse but with the diode clipping selection switch. Really like it. It lives at a rehearsal space on one of my boards. At the Dallas Guitar Show I picked up an Octonaut Overdrive by Intersteller Audio. Now this is what I've been looking for. Nothing fancy (other than the enclosure graphics), just a straight up clone. And it sounds fantastic. I've used it at the last 2 gigs and it's been excellent.Last edited by ErikH; 06-26-2024, 11:08 AM.
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Said it before, I'll say it again;
Just to have: Mosky Golden Horsie
Budget use: Soulfood
Serious use: Wampler Tumnus
After that, you are in Archer's and stuff like that. If that is your thing. It isn't my thing, but this seems to be the pecking order...Originally posted by Bad City
He's got the crowd on his side and the blue jean lights in his eyes...
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The Klon 'thing' doesn't seem to be as popular as it was a few years ago. They were everywhere- lots of stuff online, magazine articles, etc.Administrator of the SDUGF
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Originally posted by Chistopher View PostThis has reminded me to compare my SF with my JHS Notaklon. They are both modestly priced Klones so it would make sense to do a head to head.You will never understand How it feels to live your life With no meaning or control And with nowhere left to go You are amazed that they exist And they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why
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Owned an original klon back when it was just an expensive pedal, sold without gaining much because back then it wasn't still skyrocketing, I however have a soul food right now: believe me, it seems to me the sound it's the same, I bet noone, and I mean NO ONE, could ever hear a difference in a band situation, maybe side by side some differences could appear due to component tolerance and pot tapers, but the sound is there.
And, btw, the klon/soul food/archer/notaklon, whatever it is, it's NOT a transparent overdrive, it's middy, with a broader pushed mid freq band than our common Greeny pedal, , but it's middy, in a different way, still not transparent.
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"transparent" doesn't refer to the EQ, but the fact that the distorted signal is added back to the clean signal through a summing opamp. How exactly you choose to filter frequencies pre-distortion is how you determine the character of the pedal. Different frequencies respond differently to differnt forms of distortion as well, so a perfectly flat EQ going into distortion will not usually come out flat on the other side. BUT if you add the clean signal back into it, you can still hear some of the original signal through the fog of distortion.
For reference, the more bass you have predistortion, the fuzzier your sound gets; the more mids, the more tubelike; the more treble the more rasp. An excess of lower frequencies dominates the sound more than an excess of higher frequencies.You will never understand How it feels to live your life With no meaning or control And with nowhere left to go You are amazed that they exist And they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why
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Originally posted by Chistopher View Post"transparent" doesn't refer to the EQ, but the fact that the distorted signal is added back to the clean signal through a summing opamp
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