Electro Harmonix Soul Food 5-stars Reviews

Food for the soul alright!

Ever try a pedal out and it really grabbed your attention because of the amount of character it had? I love that but in this case I love how the Soul Food pedal doesn't seem to sound like a Soul Food. In other words when you hear a tube scream or a big muff you know what it is. This pedal just sounds like an extension of your amp. Your amp sounds more whole than it did without the pedal. As far as the overdrive goes, I love the overdrive. It sounds like a tube, the breakup is smooth and you don't hear that abrupt change from rich to dirty that you get with pedals like the BD-2. I've only had this for a few days and I can't imagine anything bumping it off my board.

This pedal never get's turned off!

I bought this pedal mainly because I needed a 9V power supply (which is included in the price) so I decided for a tiny bit extra I would get a free pedal!

It immediately replaced my Fulltone OCD on my pedalboard for this always-on, transparent touch-sensitive gain stage I wanted. Don't get me wrong, I really love the OCD but for completely different reason. I play a low-output single coils through Blackface-type amps and the Soul Foods just adds the extra mile with rolling of the bass to much (which TS-type drives are intended to do!).

This is not a versatile pedal. It does not sound good with the gain past 1 and it makes a big low thud-sound when I engage it for the first time after I plug it in. And I don't like the new graphics EHX has come up with. I want to go back to that industrial minimalism of old-school EHX pedals...

I really recommend this product! It cost next to nothing and for that Nels Cline-i, Geoff Farina, Lee Ranaldo type of mild touch sensitive lush gain thing.

Affordable 'Klone'

As some people may know, this is a 'Klone' of the famous pedal, (which are now impossible to get hold of and can sell for hundreds on the second hand market.)

It?s very transparent, and doesn?t colour the sound of the guitar/amp, so works very well for a clean boost, and doesn?t affect tone.

The overdrive works nicely, and you can turn through the dial and get some grit, then some real crunch with it all the way up. No real hard distortion, but some really nice classic rock tones.

It also stacks really well with other pedals. I've tried it with a Pharaoh Fuzz, and Digitech Hardwire Valve Distortion, also a RAT clone, and it sounds great with all of them.

It is definitely a 'keep it on' pedal, transparent but interacts with pedals well, also sounds good on the dirty channels on my amps (Orange TH30, Egnater Rebel 30, Peavey Valveking II)

Soul Food

I read a lot of reviews and watched a lot of videos before purchasing this pedal. All were very positive, so I took a chance and purchased one. I'm really happy I did, it's a really nice addition to my pedal collection.

I have been using it with a Gibson Les Paul, a Gibson Midtown, a Yamaha Pacifica 611 and a Blacktop Tele, going through a Fender Mustang IV.

I tend to use it mostly to give a clean boost when I'm soloing. It gives a transparent overdrive, boosts the volume and lifts you above the rhythm.

If you increase the 'Drive' you can also get a really nice crunch in your tone.

I'm really happy with the pedal, a few friends that have tried it also and all are impressed. It's really got it's own distinct style.

very good pedal

In my setup works as:

1. treble booster on my normal channel

2. increases my clean headroom

3. nice transparent cut trough overdrive

with my humbucker LP close to the distortion border.

little hum when treble knob pushed 100%

There's not really a but to it!

The sound is great, the boost you can get out of this pedal is very clean as well as loud and the tone knob allows you to go a little further than a normal klon would.

The only minor let down is that the pedal aesthatically doesn't really look that great, but a pedal is in the tone right?

Best ever!!

That's the best overdrive pedal I've ever owned. Can be easily used to boost your guitar channel and as a classic drive with a warm and vintage tone. I needed a pedal to make my home practices more interesting but I'm pretending to buy another one to use with the band as well . VERY NICE PRICE fot what you get !!

Electro Harmonix Soul Food

The Electro Harmonix Soul Food is the EHX copy of the legendary clon Centaur. I have been thinking about getting a boutique copy of the centaur for quite some time and then the soul food came out. It's a great pedal with a really diverse range of tones that can get got from it. The true bypass and boosted path switch is a nice touch. I find it gives the guitar tone a big mid range boost. I sometimes use it as clean boost and other times turn up the drive a lot more to get a really nice overdriven tone. I generally tend to use it always on for a slightly overdriven but mostly clean tone. A great pedal I would highly reccomend. A bargain at this price!

Great mid-boost / light distortion sound.

Based on the Klon Centaur, it's a great pedal to boost the mid-range for clean-ich lead parts, it's warm and still precise.

For the price it's quite amazing how good it makes you sound.

Highly recommanded.

What a pedal!

I've had this now for just over a week and am totally enchanted as to what it does to my tone.

It just makes everything sound...better!

Really helps with making my Marshall clean channel (on the edge of breakup) come alive and 'tightens' things up for me on the overdrive channel.

I also use an old modded SD-1 (that I also love) and can confirm that the Soul Food, that I have last in my pedal chain, works well with other overdrives and other pedals as well.

You can even change the bypass from true bypass (stock) to buffered at the flick of a switch in the pedal, this will certainly help some people depending on what they have already on their board. Really useful addition to a great sounding pedal, just wish they had a stereo output on it, everything else is perfect for me.

Does what it's supposed to...and well.

I use this pedal with a G&L legacy into an Orange AD-30 combo or a Fender Excelsior equipped with an Eminence 1518 Legend. I run the amp on the verge of breakup and push it over the edge with the Soul Food. This gives me a the ability to have nice singing solo sustain and good old-school power chording when the guitar is flat out and distinct cleanish tones when I back the guitar volume off. I pilot my sounds mostly from the guitar, I don't much like having to aim for a pedal when i'm playing, so my pedals ( Soul Food + Digitech Digidelay ) are pretty much on all the time. This combination works well for me. The Soul Food delivers a bit of hiss, no big deal, and it does impart a bit of mid-boost the more you push the drive, again, not a bad thing. I had a Klon once upon a time and I find the Soul Food comparable and the price is a whole lot better. I like a pedal that I can dial in and forget and thae Soul Food does the job.

The Soul Food

Another nice footswitch from Electro Harmonix.

Very well made and with a tone to die for. I use it to boost my little solos and once you found "your" tone you will not want to miss it.

I use it for when the solo switch of my mesa mark v is too bright and harsh a boost and i need a creamier and/or less cutting tone.

Our lead guitarist also tried it out on his effect board because he was about to buy the same footswitch, it rocks even more on his setup but this one is mine so he will have to order one himself. Haha!

Soul Food for your guitar

I own the EXH Soul Food for 3 months now and so I decided to do a little "review".

Much is already written about being a "ripoff" or a clone of the Original Klon Centaur. I've never played one before so I'm not going into this topic. Let's just say that the circuit seems to be really close to the "KTR"

But I wasn't searching vor KTR-Clone. I just wanted a Pedal to "enchant" my overall tone and I can tell you: The EXH Soul Food does that job really great and it works as my "allways ON Pedal"

I mostly play Blues(Rock) witch my Gibson R8 into a Egnater Tweaker 15 Set at the Edge of Breakup. The SF is Set:

Volume: 12:30

Drive: 8:30

Treble: 12:30

The SF really fattens the Sound, makes it more round and just "better", really hard to tell. I used a Xotic EP-Booster for this purpose before and the Soul Food just works great as well.

It also makes me use my Volume-Knobs on my Guitar more often because they are just so much more usable with the SF. With these Settings, I can get from soft clean to sreaming rock just with the Volume-Knobs.

+ great infront of a clean or dirty amp

+ super Clean boost but not as neutral as other (e.g. XOTIC EP Booster)

+ Great Tone-Enchanter

+ Works at home and live

+ great for stacking with other pedals

- Gain only usable till 11:00 (for me)

This this is definetly a keeper and you should totally check this thing out, especially fo this price