EHX Bass Soul Food overdrive

[Thunderpaws]

Thanks Ratman. If you have a minute can you explain why?

[ratman]

Here's an article that explains it way better than I can:

http://www.ovnilab.com/articles/fxloop.shtml

I hope this has helped you.

[hrnn1234]

I'm probably the only one here, but I got it a few days ago with very high hopes and I'm not thrilled at all with this thing. is way too mild, altough it sounds good combined with the UD. I'm thinking about sending it back- not really worth the price for a so mild overdrive.

[danbowskill]

Have you tried it in a mix yet? That's where it works wonderfully

[ratman]

I just got one and I'm not too impressed. It thins out my sound no end and I have to blend so much clean back in to try to retain my tone, I may as well not turn it on. Although I haven't tried it live yet but I don't think it'll be a keeper for my needs.
I have plenty of other pedals that do the low-medium gain drive a lot better.

[zawinul]

Get the original pedal not the bass one, works fine on bass, no tone suck. Its a subtle but wonderful pedal,adds just a nice amount of gain, and slight overdrive....works well with bass pi pedal

[danbowskill]

Horses for courses as always with any drive pedal..works just right for me n my set up :-)

[dudewheresmybass]

Works really well in all 3 of my rigs and in a di only rig too.
Holds the original tone well, and adds a really nice gritty edge and more if needs be to the sound.
On top of that its only a £60 pedal!!!!

[zawinul]

£43 pedal with power supply, the 'guitar' version..

[danbowskill]

Needs the blend IMO.....tried the guitar version ,not as nice.

[mcnach]

[quote name='zawinul' timestamp='1441624347' post='2860289']
£43 pedal with power supply, the 'guitar' version..
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I'd want that blend control on the overdrive, any overdrive, really...

[Musicman20]

I've just got one and I like it. Read the manual for info re clean boost/overdrive.

Love how EHX make age pedals for £40-100!

[ratman]

[quote name='ratman' timestamp='1441449413' post='2858957']
I just got one and I'm not too impressed. It thins out my sound no end and I have to blend so much clean back in to try to retain my tone, I may as well not turn it on. Although I haven't tried it live yet but I don't think it'll be a keeper for my needs.
I have plenty of other pedals that do the low-medium gain drive a lot better.
[/quote]
I finally gigged my Bass Soul Food last night, and I have to say it sounded loads better at high volume than it did quietly at home. It retained the low end well and added some nice bite to my sound. And running it into other dirt pedals worked well too.
Pedals just don't sound the same at bedroom levels and gigs. I take back what I said about it, It's now a keeper

[danbowskill]

Aye,volume and mix's is where it works the best

[uncle psychosis]

Just tried out my Bass Soul Food tonight and whilst I like it it seems like you have to go past 12 on the drive knob before you really begin to get "noticable" distortion. Does this tally with everyone else's experience?

[mcnach]

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1453164605' post='2957113']
Just tried out my Bass Soul Food tonight and whilst I like it it seems like you have to go past 12 on the drive knob before you really begin to get "noticable" distortion. Does this tally with everyone else's experience?
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it also depends where your tone control is: the more towards the treble you are, the sooner you hear the distortion.

[uncle psychosis]

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it also depends where your tone control is: the more towards the treble you are, the sooner you hear the distortion.
[/quote]

Cool. It's a nice pedal but more subtle than I was expecting (not a bad thing).

[danbowskill]

It plays exceptionally well with other pedals. I run mine into a b3k and its a match made...I have very hot pickups so I can get quite a aggressive growl from it,I have blend at 11o clock drive at2 tone noon and level to suit.

Just found out it also has an internal switch for true bypass or buffered.

Edited January 19, 2016 by danbowskill

[mcnach]

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1453191586' post='2957168']
Cool. It's a nice pedal but more subtle than I was expecting (not a bad thing).
[/quote]

indeed! It can do pretty distorted if you want it to, but I like how you can get a wide range of mild overdrive sounds, which is what I prefer

[ratman]

Me too, I use mine for some high end bite. It sounds great stacking into my BB, 66 & Tarkin pedals.

[Japhet]

I use mine at the beginning of my effects chain (always on) and have a Way Huge Green Rhino further along for a more driven sound. Seems to work well.

[WeeWheels]

Hi. I don't post much but I'm always on here mining your collective knowledge. So here goes. Just got a BSF off EBay. Pedals mint. Used it on Thursday at a gig. Was fine. Sounded great actually. Plugged it in today. Large electronic whine and now all I can get out of it is fizz. I'd read here that they can be sensitive to voltage. Any advice or is the pedal fecked? Thx in advance and apologies for being a technotard.

[gs_triumph]

How are you powering it?
Maybe try it with a fresh 9v battery. See if that helps.
If that works then I would start looking into whatever you were powering it with.

Edited June 4, 2017 by gs_triumph

[WeeWheels]

Hi. The for replying. I was using a daisy chain on both occasions. Seems to be luck of the draw from what I've read. It's an Ebayer too. Pretty gutted as it's a great pedal. Is there a way of plugging this in to avoid blowing it. The power was on both times I used this too.

[rOB]

Just ordered a Bass Soul Food in my quest for overdrive that's just right. Fingers crossed.