Overall Rating
(29)
David Bedford
/ Feb 16th 2020
It's not an over the top overdrive pedal. I know it's based on the Klon Centaur, but I've never played through one of those, so can't compare. I'd heard the pedal through online videos, so wanted one myself. I already had a crayon, and heard the two pedals complement each other. I also know there's the mod you can do to it.
However, this pedal sounds amazing out of the box. Without dialling in the volume or gain, it's a great boost. it fills out your tone and just gives you that fuller spectrum. Tone++.
Then you dial in the gain, and it's just a beautiful overdrive. Warm and rich. It sounds particularly sweet and responsive on single coils, but it's certainly not unpleasant with humbucker, no, it's belting.
One of those pedals you just didn't know how you managed without.
Mrs Emma Russell
/ Jan 1st 2020
About to start my first board, sounds are great and are an addition to my guitar bag
Trusted Customer
/ Dec 18th 2019
Quick completion of my order even at this very busy time. Excellent pedal with a great sound.
Trusted Customer
/ Dec 3rd 2019
The ehx soul food sounds different to any other overdrive or boost ive used before. The volume gain and treble controls are very responsive and make this pedal very versitile. Placed before the ehx deluxe big **** it adds a bit of grit and sparkle to the thick fuzz tone. Its an excellent pedal.
Mr ian hooker
/ Dec 1st 2019
Good
Mr John Houston
/ Nov 19th 2019
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Nov 5th 2019
Excellent
Mr Darran Cavaliere
/ Oct 15th 2019
Friendly staff that care about your customer experience. Pedal is absolutely stunning value too. Bravo!
Mr. Sean Gibson
/ Sep 27th 2019
Nice boost/drive pedal and a fair price.
Not an all out drive pedal though so don't expect crazy levels of gain.
Great to use with a already driven amp.
Mr Peter Marsh
/ Jul 11th 2019
My guitar teach recommended this, and I'd tried his out first. I love the range of tones you can achieve with this, from smooth rich round sounds with drive low, to great grainy bluesy rock overdrive, all from just three knobs!
Mr. James Stock
/ May 14th 2019
Wanted a Klon pedals, did not want to pay out a ridiculous amount of money. The Soul Food kept coming up, so at this price decided to go for it. Great purchase. Boost to classic distortion this pedal does it all while at the same time lets your amp shine through. As you increase the gain it does not add ridiculous amount of bottom end and compression as some pedals do. This went straight onto my small pedal board for live use, knocking off another pedal. Well done EHX. Just perfect.
Mr Martin Read
/ Mar 23rd 2019
Great little pedal for a good price
Tony K
/ Mar 21st 2019
Why spend a fortune on Klon clones when this little pedal does an amazing job? Highly recommended.
Trusted Customer
/ Mar 5th 2019
Good
Mr Pete Lawler
/ Jan 21st 2019
Very controllable drive. Even when pushed it still let's you hear what you play. Doesn't get muddy or indistinct. ****** great pedal.
Charlie Bungay
/ Nov 27th 2018
Excellent
Mr Neil Cook
/ Nov 7th 2018
I really like this pedal. Setting the drive right down, and then playing with volume and treble until the tone exactly matched my guitar was a good place to start. Then slowly turning the drive up until the right level of grit is reached. For me 12 o'clock for the drive knob was perfect; a real transparent overdrive (yes I hate that term as well, but it is actually true in this case). Going past 12 you get more saturation and the tone is coloured more.
I use this with the top-boost channel of a Vox AC-30, and it works really well, without any of the fizziness I get from other overdrives.
john oconnell
/ Sep 29th 2018
good company to deal whit
Mr. Richard French
/ Sep 9th 2018
Excellent
Mr J Cottrell
/ Aug 16th 2018
This is the JHS-modded Soul Food. Really versatile, sounds great, vast improvement over the basic Soul Food.
Trusted Customer
/ Feb 13th 2018
It's early day's but does what it says in the description...
Dave
/ Jul 19th 2016
I love playing amplified acoustic guitars, but during the odd song I just wanted to flick a switch and get a "distort electric sound", when visiting Andertons this year, I walked into the acoustic guitar room, and another guitarist was playing a nylon string guitar through the Soul Food OD pedal, and a bose PA and getting a wonderful tone. I new there and then I had found the pedal i was looking for. I purchased straight away, and the first time I tried it myself was back in Sydney, when I plugged my R Taylor into my PA, and wow, beautiful clean tones (as normal), then hit the switch and I was getting this wonderful distort Electric guitar sound out of this acoustic set up. This is the first pedal that I have bought that gave me the sound in my head so easily - I normally have to work both with the pedal, amps, and my technique, to get it. I'm very satisfied.
Bobby
/ Feb 23rd 2016
Great pedal, was looking at a good few overdrive pedals for a while (including your 3 way battle including the Soul Food), and this gives a nice crunch, but can be very transparent too! Exactly what I was looking for! Great that it came with a power supply too!
Mr. Jonathan Simmonds
/ Jan 8th 2016
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Dec 7th 2015
A good sounding boost/overdrive pedal, but poor quality control meant two pedals were returned because of the same fault developing ( After a few days the pedal would no longer work on battery power.) The current pedal seems okay so far but my view of Electro Harmonix is pretty low at the moment!!
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 13th 2015
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 6th 2015
Incredible tone and clarity for the price.
Trusted Customer
/ Jul 8th 2015
Nice retro casing, really tough as expected from EHX. Good versatile pedal that can be used for many styles
Trusted Customer
/ Mar 29th 2015
Best ever
Trusted Customer
/ Feb 7th 2015
A must have pedal
Trusted Customer
/ Feb 2nd 2015
Excellent overdrive, I fancied an overdrive to let the guitar tone shine through more and this certainly did the trick highly recommend, I'm also using a spark booster in front of it which turns the soul food into an absolute beast.
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 27th 2015
Just what the doctor ordered
Lovely warm overdrive
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 1st 2015
Perfect overdrive for me.
Trusted Customer
/ Dec 27th 2014
Just started using but already this pedal has impressed me with the range of usuable sounds. Really like it!
Trusted Customer
/ Dec 27th 2014
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Trusted Customer
/ Jul 12th 2014
The pedal, Electro Harmonix Soul Food is a good solid little pedal, my only gripe is that is billed as a transparent overdrive which I would argue it isn't quite that. However, when used as a clean boost it seems to work really well and helps to take a valve amp into break up territory. Easy to use, the true bypass/buffered switch is a really good idea and one that should feature on a lot of pedals. For the price, this thing just has to be the best value pedal going. It also comes with a power supply which although is a cheap and nasty affair. I would pay another £10 extra for this pedal if the power supply was better quality. On the other hand I would have preferred it came without a power supply in the first place, it would be an even better price I then.
Trusted Customer
/ May 8th 2014
Ace pedal!
Trusted Customer
/ May 7th 2014
This is a great little pedal. For the money, it's hard to refuse. The thing with overdrive pedals is that there are just loads of great ones and the best approach to collect a bunch you really like, so that when you hit the studio or the road, you have options. Overdrives also sound drastically different between guitars, as opposed to a delay or reverb pedal. I think the Soul Food is particularly well suited to single coil pickup guitars. It doesn't stack all that amazing with other overdrives, but if you want a great go to for that 'Klon' sound, this and a Strat will make you very happy.
Trusted Customer
/ Apr 1st 2014
Quality transparent OD
Trusted Customer
/ Apr 1st 2014
Amazing... Sounds just like a Klon at a fraction of the price...
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