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with my marshall...an immediate Jimi vibe w/the strats. and superb tone on the paul. perhaps SF likes KT66s better for hummers than 5881s in the fender. its all subjective. the marshall also has adjustable gains whereas my classic fender does not. The Soul Food came out at the end of 2013. JRAD were almost certainly working on the silver Archer pedal by then, after their original involvement in the Klon KTR came to an end ( here’s Bill Finnegan talking about that). We still would have seen the JRAD Archer pedal.
The seemingly mythical Klon Centaur circuit was first developed by Bill Finnegan in the early 1990s. I acquired this a couple months ago after thinking about it for several months. I spent 20+ years with a TS9 and knew it was time to move on. This was the perfect change. 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. 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 If you try this, you will notice that it adds a slight sparkle or brightness in the high frequencies and if you play hard you notice it brings out the overtones slightly. It’s a subtle change but it still adds a bit of edge or enhancement to your tone. Of course then when you dial in some gain or adjust the treble you really bring those overtones out, but it was nice to see that even on a very clean sound it does add subtly to your tone.And I think it works even better with my Les Paul in the middle position (which is where I like to live): Les Paul middle position > Soul Food
It says Overdrive/Distortion, but that's not really accurate; it's a nice overdrive, but even with the Drive knob DIMED, it doesn't really cross over into distortion like a DS-1 or a Rat. Okay, so that's out of the way. What this thing does do and do very well is fatten up clean tones and give you everything from clean to overdrive with your guitar's volume knob.There are typically two main variations of the Klon Centaur that you’ll see on the pre-owned market. To finish, here’s how the BD-2 sounds with the middle position of my Les Paul: Les Paul middle position > Boss BD-2 What this DOES sound like is a nice clean low gain overdrive. Think that barely broken up bluesy sound, something like "Jenny Don't Be Hasty" by Paolo Nutini kinda sound.
Right out the box (if it had come with one 😂), I think that’s a very usable sound if you’re after an old-school vintage drive tone. Though it is not a distortion or fuzz pedal, I get more than enough drive from it, especially when using the dirtier channel of my amp. Brand new, the Boss BD-2 can be had for around the same price as a brand new EHX Soul Food. There’s always plenty of second-hand BD-2s to be had as well, although it can be very difficult to find one for a bargain price.
This oedal deserves no less than 5 stars for the wuality of tone and the price... sure there are nicer Klones but at least at double the price... it might soubd a little thing conosred to a 2,500 dlls Klon, but you ad an so booster, poom, problem solved....