Transparent Overdrive That Gets Out of the Way of Your Tone.

The Electro-Harmonix Soul Food is a transparent overdrive inspired by the Klon Centaur, one of the most sought-after and expensive overdrive pedals ever made. The Soul Food gives you that same basic approach: a drive circuit that adds grit and harmonic content without coloring your core tone, so your guitar still sounds like your guitar, just pushed harder.

Transparent overdrive is a specific thing. It is not about adding warmth or scooping mids or making everything sound like a vintage amp. It is about preserving your signal's character while adding just enough saturation to make notes bloom and chords breathe. Set the Drive low and the Soul Food works as a clean boost that pushes your amp into natural breakup. Dial it up and you get into light to moderate overdrive territory that stays articulate and clear even with chords. The Treble control lets you shape the top end so it sits right in your specific rig.

Where the Soul Food really earns its place on a board is as a stacking pedal. Run it in front of another overdrive or a distortion and it tightens up the low end, adds clarity, and pushes the front end of the next pedal in a way that makes the whole chain sound more focused and musical. A lot of players leave it on all the time as an always-on boost and use their other drives on top of it.

Specs

• Type: Transparent overdrive
• Controls: Volume, Drive, Treble
• Bypass: True bypass
• Power: 9V battery or 9V DC adapter (sold separately)
• UPC: 683274011448

Who This Pedal Is For

Guitarists who want Klon-style transparent overdrive without the Klon price tag. Players who stack pedals and need a clean boost or low-gain drive that tightens up the chain. Blues and rock players who want grit that preserves their guitar's natural voice. Anyone who has been chasing that pushed-amp-on-the-edge-of-breakup sound and wants a reliable, affordable way to get there.

Available at The Pied Piper Music Store in Charleston, WV and The Pied Piper of New Albany in New Albany, OH, serving guitarists across central Ohio including Columbus, Westerville, Dublin, Gahanna, Powell, Pickerington, Reynoldsburg, Pataskala, and Johnstown. Ships continental US.