Electro Harmonix Bass Soul Food Transparent Overdrive

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Electro Harmonix Bass Soul Food Transparent Overdrive

Want to add overdrive to your bass sound without losing an ounce of your tonal character? Plug into the Electro-Harmonix Bass Soul Food overdrive and boost pedal. You can dial in incredibly transparent overdrive effects that give you the best of both worlds: crunch and punch!

A natural overdrive and clean boost for the tone conscious player to enhance the original sound of an instrument and amp while retaining their essential character. Its gain stage, treble control and signal path are optimised for bass guitar and guitarists wanting extended low frequency response. An adjustable clean blend assures an articulate, full tone while boosted power rails deliver extended headroom. Selectable true or buffered bypass modes and a switchable -10dB pad for active instruments complete the package. Bass Soul Food runs on a 9V battery and ships with a EHX9.6DC-200 power supply.

Controls

Drive Knob: Controls the amount of input gain. As you turn Drive clockwise, the overdrive ranges from a coloured clean boost in the fully counter-clockwise position, to full distortion in the fully clockwise setting. There are many great sounds found within the full range of the Drive knob; we recommend experimenting with different positions in both halves of the Drive knob to find just the right amount of grit for your needs.
Treble Knob: Acts as a tone control. When set to 12 o’clock (50%), the tone is neutral. As you turn Treble clockwise from the 12 o’clock setting, the treble gain increases making your overall sound brighter. As you turn Treble counter-clockwise from the 12 o’clock setting, the high end is reduced giving you a bassier sound.
Blend Knob: Sets the mix between your clean bass signal and the Bass Soul Food effect. When set fully counter clockwise (0%), the output signal is your dry bass sound. The Drive and Treble knobs do not affect the signal in this setting. When Blend is set fully clockwise (100%), the output signal is the Bass Soul Food’s overdrive signal. Set the knob at 12 o’clock (50%) for a 50/50 blend of the dry and overdrive signals.
- Tip: experiment using the Blend control with various settings of Drive. When Drive is set low, the Blend can control the colour of the Bass Soul Food’s clean boost, ranging from a completely dry (Blend at 0%) to a fully coloured (Blend at 100%) clean tone.
Vol Knob: Sets the master output level of the Bass Soul Food. As Vol is turned clockwise, the output volume increases. This control affects your signal level after the Blend control.
Pad Switch (-10dB/0dB): Sets the initial input level of your bass signal. Set the switch down for no attenuation, and set it up to engage -10dB of attenuation. Active basses and some very high-output passive basses may need this switch to be set to -10dB to avoid overloading the Bass Soul Food circuit. Putting the Bass Soul Food in a pedal chain after high-output pedals may also necessitate setting this switch to -10dB. Overload most commonly occurs when the Drive knob is set low and the Treble knob is set high.
Footswitch and LED: The Footswitch selects whether the Bass Soul Food is engaged or in bypass mode. When the effect is engaged, the LED is lit. An internal Bypass Mode switch is included to select between True Bypass and Buffered Bypass. See below for more information on the internal switch.
Input Jack: This ¼” jack is the audio input for the Bass Soul Food. The input impedance is 1M Ohm.
Amp Jack: This ¼” jack is the audio output from the Bass Soul Food. The output impedance ranges from 650 Ohm to 3.3k Ohm.
Internal Bypass Mode Switch: If you remove the Bass Soul Food’s bottom cover, you will see the bat of a small switch sticking out of the board that holds the footswitch. This is located in the bottom right area of the pedal, below the Amp jack.
- The right side of the footswitch board has the following text: Buffer <--> True
- When the switch is set to True, its upper position, bypass will be True Bypass. When the switch is set to Buffer, its lower position, bypass will be Buffered Bypass. The switch is normally set to “True” in the factory.
- In True Bypass mode, when the Bass Soul Food is set to bypass, the Input jack is connected directly to the Amp jack and nothing else. In Buffered Bypass mode, the bypass signal passes through a high quality buffer circuit before it is output from the Amp jack. The buffer circuit requires power to hear your instrument in bypass mode.