Soul food

Hootsmon

to the guys that have heard/own a Klon.......is it close?

John_A

Close enough!  Have a listen to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6wqvpB1M2U

d8m

It's no where near.




(in terms of price)

Hootsmon

see.........I've got a Timmy at one end ( last in line of ODs) of my board for that nice clean, transparent volume boost

and I have a barber Gain changer on 1st.....so I can have my main OD (Minstrel pedal) either boosted with the Timmy or goosed a little from the GC in front......

I was just wonderin' if the Minstrel would benefit from being "goosed" a little by a OD808 (TS) or a SOUL FOOD job....?

I've had an 808 of course but never a Klon klone

Beexter

Not sure if it answers your question but had a Soul Food and a Gain Changer at the same time... now just have the Gain Changer... 

Adam_MD

There are definitely better klones available. 

Hootsmon

is the Tumnus good?

markslade07

That Pedal Show always seem to rave about the Tumnus

Maynehead

Adam_MD said:

There are definitely better klones available. 

Being a soul food owner, I'm interested to know in what ways are other klones better? Do they sound more like a klon than the Soul Food?

Adam_MD

Maynehead said:

Adam_MD said:

There are definitely better klones available. 

Being a soul food owner, I'm interested to know in what ways are other klones better? Do they sound more like a klon than the Soul Food?



I've never played a klon just klones.  The soul food was a lot hasher than my Juan solo Klone though.  John's built quite a lot of klones and back to backed some with a real gold klon so I'm assuming mine is fairly accurate.  

Maynehead

It does get harsh if you turn up the gain without reducing the treble. The gain and treble are very interactive on the soul food and you should adjust both to get a nice tone.

If the numerous comparison vids are to be believed the soul food seems almost identical to the real thing. Maybe there are klones out there that actually sound better than the klon?

Bucket

Maynehead said:

Maybe there are klones out there that actually sound better than the klon?

Well I've tried a Klon and couldn't really see what all the fuss was about.

I don't know if they're all different or something, but the one I tried was quite nice as a clean boost and pretty rubbish as an actual overdrive. To my ears at least.

Sassafras

Are they any different to most overdrives in that they work better with some amps and pickups than others?

Bucket

Sassafras said:

Are they any different to most overdrives in that they work better with some amps and pickups than others?

The Klon? I can't remember what I tried it with, but possibly. I didn't try it with a Marshall MG and a B.C. Rich Warlock though, I can assure you  I think it may have been through a Dumble-inspired amp with a Strat, but I could be remembering wrong.

It was the kind of gear you'd imagine might complement such a pedal, and it did sound pretty nice as a clean boost - fattened up the clean signal nicely and added some nice compression and sparkle, but the higher up the gain went the less convincing it was. The gain doesn't go up very far anyway, even maxed out it's like a Tube Screamer with the gain at about 3. It just sounded a bit fizzy and like the wrong sort of clipping was going on. Definitely not comfortable being an overdrive.

My dad has a Rockett Archer which is similar. Not my thing... I'm not a gain freak but I like an overdrive to have a bit more on tap.

Corvus

Great boost for dirty amps or dirt pedal - maybe designed specifically for that. Standalone dirt's not really it's thing.
Soul Foods ok within limits, cheap enough to try & flip, I even made a whole quid profit. Got two klon pcbs to build up now.

EricTheWeary

I found the Soul Food very hard to get right in the band mix without a very harsh tone.  Maybe it needed to be going into something more overdriven than I typically use but it didn't do much for me through my Laney or a rehearsal room Marshall. 
The YouTube stuff I've seen seems to suggest you have to dial them all in differently to then get the same sound so the Soul Food needs experimenting with.  People seem to really like the Tumnus but it isn't,  apparently,  the most accurate Klone -  just has some of the fatness the others are missing.  

Dodge

I got offered a real Klon in a trade (value a the the time was circa £700) which I tried, and frankly I didn't get the hype. It's a nice clean boost and to add a bit of hair, but nothing more. I declined the trade.

I own a Soul Food. It cost me £35. Does the same thing, not identically, but is it close? Yes. Is it worth £35? Yes.

I wouldn't pay more than £100 for a real Klon, let alone the figures they're advertised as these days. You're paying for hype like Dumble and Trainwreck, nothing more. There are better choices.

Octahedron

*shrug* I love my Soul Food. No need for a Klon IMO. I use it as a boost, mostly. It's a very transparent tone. Works really beautifully with my Std Tele in front of my Jet City head. Also sounded great when I tried it with a humbucker loaded Tele Deluxe through a Fender Hot Rod amp. 

If I need the dirt, I got a Way Huge Green Rhino. Axed the Bad Monkey. The Soul Food/Green Rhino combo is one I'm gonna be holding down for some time to come.  

peteri

I have a Klon KTR, which it's taken me a long time to love.

I think they have two uses, firstly as a clean boost and secondly as a TS style overdrive with a little more glass and a less obvious mid-hump

I really enjoy the pedal, and I like it a lot - is it really worth the money? Probably not - my ThorpyFX gunshot has more versatility for about the same money.

I'm on the waiting list for a King of Tone to replace the one my ex made me sell. When it turns up, I'm not sure if the Klon will stay

markv

I haven't tried a Klon but I A/B-ed my Soul Food with a friend's J Rockett Archer. The Archer was smoother, the Soul Food's overdrive, in isolation, is a little more harsh.

But then I don't use it in isolation. For fattening up an already crunchy sound, it's really nice, regardless of price, I think.