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The Soul Food from Electro Harmonix is a killer sounding overdrive. At higher gain levels with lower volumes it can help you get a nice colored tone that also works great to cut through a mix really well. On the other hand, when it's used with the volume past twelve o' clock and the drive really low it can really push your amp to break it up more, giving you natural tube overdrive. I love it!
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Well made by a long track record company . As usual the video sounds much better than the extensive experimenting search for the sweet spot . The Dunlop Jimi fuzz was easier to find the sound . It will probably work for a lot of ears out there .
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As a user of treble boosters and a fan of Electro-Harmonix pedals I was curious about this pedal. I bought one here on eBay as an added tonal color to complement my other boosters. The other ones I have collected are either very midrange heavy to give a very definitive sonic stamp on the sound or are boosters in volume with some additional tonal shaping. The Screaming Bird is more of a higher range booster where the treble frequencies get pushed more than the midrange as is common on most treble boosters. That is not to say it is not cool but rather that one needs to know what the unit does and if it will fit in with their rig. A player using a dark sounding amp or a player wanting to have a good boost for neck pickup soloing would probably crank up a Screaming Bird higher than someone who needs a slight push to the treble on a already distorted amp. With this in mind the Screaming Bird is very good overall. Compared to other models on eBay I would say that the best purchase I have made is the Dirty Bird Boost Screamer pedal. The build quality is very nice, the boost in the normal switch position is very round and musical which lends it to use with a huge number of styles and the bright position adds a sweet jangle or sparkle to the upper frequencies that makes chords and sustained notes sound killer. I own over ten boosters and the Boost Screamer is my main go to pedal for covering the widest number of styles and makes me play better every time I switch it on.Read full review
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' 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!!Read full review
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Great as a transparent boost in front of a dirty tube amp !!! Dial up the volume to hit V1 with a hotter signal then bring in just a touch of gain It's like having a volume knob on your guitar that goes to 11 !!! Not the greatest dirt tones, but not bad either ... Tone control lacks a ton of range, but works well enough ... Comes with the AC adapter which is very cool Hard to beat for the price !!!
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