Electro Harmonix Soul Food Overdrive Pedal
Soul Food | Transparent Overdrive | New Low Price!
Soul Food | Transparent Overdrive | New Low Price!
Soul Food | Transparent Overdrive | New Low Price!
Soul Food | Transparent Overdrive | New Low Price!
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The lowest price for Electro Harmonix Soul Food Overdrive Pedal right now is $109.13 at Volt Music Store, compared across 27 retailers.
The all-time low was $64.19 on 25 Oct 2025 — today's price is 70% above the lowest ever. It has been notably cheaper before — worth setting a price alert.
Prices last updated 14 Sept 2026.
Last updated at 14/09/2026 11:56:01
Electro-Harmonix Soul Food Transparent Overdrive Pedal
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originally posted on guitarcenter.com
Truly a versatile pedal. I use it with other pedals or directly with my tube amp as either a clean boost or overdrive. It interacts with the tube amp like having an additional gain stage with a treble boost/filter. With drive all the way down, it is totally clean, not compressed or altered in any way. Depending how high you have the gain set on your amp, this drive will respond differently. I find it provides different ranges of natural tube overdrive up to about noon or 2 o clock and can start getting some light distortion but without any harshness at higher settings. It does not suck tone, or cut highs and lows from your signal like other overdrives. The treble knob works to boost or cut the highs. I find this pedal interacts well with other distortion and fuzz to ... MoreTruly a versatile pedal. I use it with other pedals or directly with my tube amp as either a clean boost or overdrive. It interacts with the tube amp like having an additional gain stage with a treble boost/filter. With drive all the way down, it is totally clean, not compressed or altered in any way. Depending how high you have the gain set on your amp, this drive will respond differently. I find it provides different ranges of natural tube overdrive up to about noon or 2 o clock and can start getting some light distortion but without any harshness at higher settings. It does not suck tone, or cut highs and lows from your signal like other overdrives. The treble knob works to boost or cut the highs. I find this pedal interacts well with other distortion and fuzz to add clarity, or if you wanted to boost your solo. I had trouble finding an overdrive that didn't change the sound of the guitar, or that worked well with my modulation and delay pedals, and this is the one! Sounds good with single coils and humbuckers. I would be curious to stack 2 of these together...
originally posted on ebay.com
Great sound. I use the Overdrive range much more than the Distortion range. Makes my old Princeton sound a little meaner, but without the buzzy distortion that a lot of overdrive pedals have (at least the ones I've heard and can afford). I leave it ON just about all the time, tweaking the Drive knob as-needed. Just bought another one, for my son. We both like these a little more than my old faithful Tube Screamer. Only one caveat: (with mine, anyway) if the switch inside the box is set to 'true'--which is true bypass (which is a good thing)--there is sometimes a big 'pop' when you stomp the pedal on (which might be hard on the speakers). But, IF yours does that, and you don't want that 'pop' (I didn't), then you can simply switch that switch to the 'buffer' ... MoreGreat sound. I use the Overdrive range much more than the Distortion range. Makes my old Princeton sound a little meaner, but without the buzzy distortion that a lot of overdrive pedals have (at least the ones I've heard and can afford). I leave it ON just about all the time, tweaking the Drive knob as-needed. Just bought another one, for my son. We both like these a little more than my old faithful Tube Screamer. Only one caveat: (with mine, anyway) if the switch inside the box is set to 'true'--which is true bypass (which is a good thing)--there is sometimes a big 'pop' when you stomp the pedal on (which might be hard on the speakers). But, IF yours does that, and you don't want that 'pop' (I didn't), then you can simply switch that switch to the 'buffer' setting...and the pop is gone like a cool breeze. I don't know if the one we just bought here on eBay (which is a couple of years newer than my first one) has that same issue. But, to me, it's totally worth potentially losing a very slight bit of transparency to avoid that 'pop'. Or maybe someone has come up with a good mod. Either way, it's one of the most useful pedals on our boards. Love it!!
originally posted on guitarcenter.com
I use the Soul Food as a clean boost on the recommendation of a GC employee in Nashua NH. I mentioned that I wanted a clean boost to my signal so that I could overdrive my amp a little more without having to change the gain I had setup. The Soul Food was recommended over a TS9, a Boss Overdrive and a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster. I am very happy with the Soul Food recommendation.The pedal is a great clean boost for my amp (Marshall TSL122). I put the pedal in the effect loop and set the pedal volume up to about 3:00 and the gain as zero, treble to taste (12:30). Then I dial in the effect loop percentage (its a parallel loop) and with the pedal engaged I get a nice, fat, sweet drive into the power amp section of the amp. This drives those big power tubes a little ... MoreI use the Soul Food as a clean boost on the recommendation of a GC employee in Nashua NH. I mentioned that I wanted a clean boost to my signal so that I could overdrive my amp a little more without having to change the gain I had setup. The Soul Food was recommended over a TS9, a Boss Overdrive and a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster. I am very happy with the Soul Food recommendation.The pedal is a great clean boost for my amp (Marshall TSL122). I put the pedal in the effect loop and set the pedal volume up to about 3:00 and the gain as zero, treble to taste (12:30). Then I dial in the effect loop percentage (its a parallel loop) and with the pedal engaged I get a nice, fat, sweet drive into the power amp section of the amp. This drives those big power tubes a little harder without having to turn up the volume. Thus, I get a heavier, fatter crunch compared to straight pre-amp distortion. This is the exact effect I was looking for.Now I have my pre-amp gain set pretty low and I typically drive most of my crunch from the power amp. Using the Soul Food in the effects loop in the manner in which I described, setup as such, I get what amounts to more 'power amp' crunch without having to dime the amp's volume. Of course with the pedal engaged the volume is louder but because the effects loop is being driven harder on the return, the signal going to the power amp is hotter, thus driving the power tubes harder, without having to open the amp volume any more than I have it set at.Even if this is not the preferred way to get more power amp distortion, using the Soul Food in this manner gives me the effect I want, and its sounds AWESOME, and that's really the bottom line.As a clean boost it works perfectly. I was not very impressed with the pedal's actual distortion, it sounded a little fuzzy to me. Maybe that what its supposed to sound like. I wanted it for the clean boost feature and the pedal works great for that.It came with a power supply, nice!
| Watchers | 7 |
| Analog/Digital | Analog |
| Inputs | 1 x 1/4" |
| Outputs | 1 x 1/4" |
| True Bypass | Yes, Switchable to Buffered |
Electro-Harmonix Soul Food Transparent Overdrive Pedal
Affiliate Disclosure: We may receive a small commission for purchases made through this link at no extra cost to you. This helps support our site. Thank you!
Electro-harmonix NANO SOUL FOOD
Delivery $62.80
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Truly a versatile pedal. I use it with other pedals or directly with my tube amp as either a clean boost or overdrive. It interacts with the tube amp like having an additional gain stage with a treble boost/filter. With drive all the way down, it is totally clean, not compressed or altered in any way. Depending how high you have the gain set on your amp, this drive will respond differently. I find it provides different ranges of natural tube overdrive up to about noon or 2 o clock and can start getting some light distortion but without any harshness at higher settings. It does not suck tone, or cut highs and lows from your signal like other overdrives. The treble knob works to boost or cut the highs. I find this pedal interacts well with other distortion and fuzz to ... MoreTruly a versatile pedal. I use it with other pedals or directly with my tube amp as either a clean boost or overdrive. It interacts with the tube amp like having an additional gain stage with a treble boost/filter. With drive all the way down, it is totally clean, not compressed or altered in any way. Depending how high you have the gain set on your amp, this drive will respond differently. I find it provides different ranges of natural tube overdrive up to about noon or 2 o clock and can start getting some light distortion but without any harshness at higher settings. It does not suck tone, or cut highs and lows from your signal like other overdrives. The treble knob works to boost or cut the highs. I find this pedal interacts well with other distortion and fuzz to add clarity, or if you wanted to boost your solo. I had trouble finding an overdrive that didn't change the sound of the guitar, or that worked well with my modulation and delay pedals, and this is the one! Sounds good with single coils and humbuckers. I would be curious to stack 2 of these together...
Great sound. I use the Overdrive range much more than the Distortion range. Makes my old Princeton sound a little meaner, but without the buzzy distortion that a lot of overdrive pedals have (at least the ones I've heard and can afford). I leave it ON just about all the time, tweaking the Drive knob as-needed. Just bought another one, for my son. We both like these a little more than my old faithful Tube Screamer. Only one caveat: (with mine, anyway) if the switch inside the box is set to 'true'--which is true bypass (which is a good thing)--there is sometimes a big 'pop' when you stomp the pedal on (which might be hard on the speakers). But, IF yours does that, and you don't want that 'pop' (I didn't), then you can simply switch that switch to the 'buffer' ... MoreGreat sound. I use the Overdrive range much more than the Distortion range. Makes my old Princeton sound a little meaner, but without the buzzy distortion that a lot of overdrive pedals have (at least the ones I've heard and can afford). I leave it ON just about all the time, tweaking the Drive knob as-needed. Just bought another one, for my son. We both like these a little more than my old faithful Tube Screamer. Only one caveat: (with mine, anyway) if the switch inside the box is set to 'true'--which is true bypass (which is a good thing)--there is sometimes a big 'pop' when you stomp the pedal on (which might be hard on the speakers). But, IF yours does that, and you don't want that 'pop' (I didn't), then you can simply switch that switch to the 'buffer' setting...and the pop is gone like a cool breeze. I don't know if the one we just bought here on eBay (which is a couple of years newer than my first one) has that same issue. But, to me, it's totally worth potentially losing a very slight bit of transparency to avoid that 'pop'. Or maybe someone has come up with a good mod. Either way, it's one of the most useful pedals on our boards. Love it!!
I use the Soul Food as a clean boost on the recommendation of a GC employee in Nashua NH. I mentioned that I wanted a clean boost to my signal so that I could overdrive my amp a little more without having to change the gain I had setup. The Soul Food was recommended over a TS9, a Boss Overdrive and a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster. I am very happy with the Soul Food recommendation.The pedal is a great clean boost for my amp (Marshall TSL122). I put the pedal in the effect loop and set the pedal volume up to about 3:00 and the gain as zero, treble to taste (12:30). Then I dial in the effect loop percentage (its a parallel loop) and with the pedal engaged I get a nice, fat, sweet drive into the power amp section of the amp. This drives those big power tubes a little ... MoreI use the Soul Food as a clean boost on the recommendation of a GC employee in Nashua NH. I mentioned that I wanted a clean boost to my signal so that I could overdrive my amp a little more without having to change the gain I had setup. The Soul Food was recommended over a TS9, a Boss Overdrive and a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster. I am very happy with the Soul Food recommendation.The pedal is a great clean boost for my amp (Marshall TSL122). I put the pedal in the effect loop and set the pedal volume up to about 3:00 and the gain as zero, treble to taste (12:30). Then I dial in the effect loop percentage (its a parallel loop) and with the pedal engaged I get a nice, fat, sweet drive into the power amp section of the amp. This drives those big power tubes a little harder without having to turn up the volume. Thus, I get a heavier, fatter crunch compared to straight pre-amp distortion. This is the exact effect I was looking for.Now I have my pre-amp gain set pretty low and I typically drive most of my crunch from the power amp. Using the Soul Food in the effects loop in the manner in which I described, setup as such, I get what amounts to more 'power amp' crunch without having to dime the amp's volume. Of course with the pedal engaged the volume is louder but because the effects loop is being driven harder on the return, the signal going to the power amp is hotter, thus driving the power tubes harder, without having to open the amp volume any more than I have it set at.Even if this is not the preferred way to get more power amp distortion, using the Soul Food in this manner gives me the effect I want, and its sounds AWESOME, and that's really the bottom line.As a clean boost it works perfectly. I was not very impressed with the pedal's actual distortion, it sounded a little fuzzy to me. Maybe that what its supposed to sound like. I wanted it for the clean boost feature and the pedal works great for that.It came with a power supply, nice!
I'm hardly likely to say anything that hasn't already been said about this sensational little box o' frogs. OK, apart from calling it a box o' frogs maybe. Its a great transparent overdrive, very clearly replicating the legendary Klon. And to my ear at least, it does a very good impression. I had the opportunity recently to borrow a friend's Klon KTR (which Klon designer/builder Bill Finnegan himself believes to be identical to the Klon Centaur), and run it head-to-head with my Soul Food. And I really struggled to find a discernible difference throughout the entire gain and tone sweep. Both pedals cleaned up without losing crispness when the guitar volume was rolled back. Likewise both pedals delivered a rich, clear overdrive when the juice was turned up. This pedal ... MoreI'm hardly likely to say anything that hasn't already been said about this sensational little box o' frogs. OK, apart from calling it a box o' frogs maybe. Its a great transparent overdrive, very clearly replicating the legendary Klon. And to my ear at least, it does a very good impression. I had the opportunity recently to borrow a friend's Klon KTR (which Klon designer/builder Bill Finnegan himself believes to be identical to the Klon Centaur), and run it head-to-head with my Soul Food. And I really struggled to find a discernible difference throughout the entire gain and tone sweep. Both pedals cleaned up without losing crispness when the guitar volume was rolled back. Likewise both pedals delivered a rich, clear overdrive when the juice was turned up. This pedal can take you from Mark Knopfler to Billy Gibbons and all points in between. I've just been using the Soul Food in the recording studio and it won everyone's praise, especially mine. I needed a range of tones and drive from Jazz, to funk, to screaming blues and it delivered every time. At around a quarter of the price of a KTR, this thing really stacks up. And speaking of which, they 'gain stack' really nicely, so you can set one for a rich, crunchy rhythm and then use the other as a boost for solos. And given the price, its certainly not a ridiculous proposition. ...Which is why my second one is on its way.
This is my favorite overdrive thus far. I previously used the Boss BD-2. I find that the Soul Food improves the tone of my amps. It can go from to clean boost to a heavy overdrive. Lately I've been using it a lot with my Vox AC4 TV and my Les Paul Studio and it improves the versatility of the guitar and the amp by expanding the range of possible tones. I think you could use the Soul Food for just about every kind of music. I wish I had bought one as soon as they came out because I was really missing out on something really great...besides the fact that they seem to have gone up a bit in price (and for good reason).Some people complain that there is a pop when you turn it on. I had this a couple times at first but it seems to have stopped doing that. I would say ... MoreThis is my favorite overdrive thus far. I previously used the Boss BD-2. I find that the Soul Food improves the tone of my amps. It can go from to clean boost to a heavy overdrive. Lately I've been using it a lot with my Vox AC4 TV and my Les Paul Studio and it improves the versatility of the guitar and the amp by expanding the range of possible tones. I think you could use the Soul Food for just about every kind of music. I wish I had bought one as soon as they came out because I was really missing out on something really great...besides the fact that they seem to have gone up a bit in price (and for good reason).Some people complain that there is a pop when you turn it on. I had this a couple times at first but it seems to have stopped doing that. I would say play around with it for a few hours before deciding that it is defective or "unusable."
Great Klon clone. Lots of clean op-amp gain and enough boost on the other dial to take any clean amp from grit to saturation. This won't djent but it will do everything inbetween. I've modded mine with the JHS mods. Very easy to do and germanium clipping sounds much nicer and more authentic Klon imho. Some people say this is a boost and not an overdrive, they are wrong. It does both. The op amps in these are the same as the original Klon and have a huge amount of gain on tap. I can heavily distort a 1977 Ultra Linear Twin Reverb (4x6l6 bottles) with this easily! The buffer works well too and has a switch inside the pedal to do true bypass as an alternative.
I normally use a Big Muff (fuzz) but find it either all or nothing. Was looking for something more controllable and after playing with a wide range in store decided on the Soul Food. Has everything from subtle to full on overdrive. I also like the tone control as I often pair it with a CryBaby which seems to boost treble a bit too much, nice to be able to hold that back...Totally love it!
Overall:Okay, I never write reviews, but the Soul Food overdrive is so good I have to talk about it!Running a Vox VT40x, I like the modeling sounds, but there's a bite that's missing, even at volume. So, I set up a clean channel emulating a Vox AC15, plugged the Soul Food pedal into the chain, hit the switch and was absolutely floored by the tone. I didn't even adjust the knobs, just left them as they were from the factory at 12 o'clock. Instant transformation with both of my guitars. The Mockingbird Custom has more depth, and the natural harmonics cross just at the edge of feedback for some incredible sustain. I got chills when I played the first chords through the Soul Food. My SG now has a vintage crunch it was missing. Soul Food saved me from getting new ... MoreOverall:Okay, I never write reviews, but the Soul Food overdrive is so good I have to talk about it!Running a Vox VT40x, I like the modeling sounds, but there's a bite that's missing, even at volume. So, I set up a clean channel emulating a Vox AC15, plugged the Soul Food pedal into the chain, hit the switch and was absolutely floored by the tone. I didn't even adjust the knobs, just left them as they were from the factory at 12 o'clock. Instant transformation with both of my guitars. The Mockingbird Custom has more depth, and the natural harmonics cross just at the edge of feedback for some incredible sustain. I got chills when I played the first chords through the Soul Food. My SG now has a vintage crunch it was missing. Soul Food saved me from getting new pickups.This pedal is absolutely worth it, as good as the EH pedals I remember from 40 years ago. Almost every user I talked to before buying said that this is an "always on" pedal, it helps their sound so much.Get it, you won't be disappointed.(Hey zZounds, I tried to click 5-stars, but I got 4.5 on a couple and they can't be changed.)
| Watchers | 7 |
| Analog/Digital | Analog |
| Inputs | 1 x 1/4" |
| Outputs | 1 x 1/4" |
| True Bypass | Yes, Switchable to Buffered |
