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Smooth - hell no. Bloody awful sounding when you crank the gain, there are plenty of smoother ones - including tubescreamer types, roll the tone down and crank the gain up and you've got a good smooth od. The boss od-3 is my preferred od, it's not the smoothest but it's a nice mix of smoothness and crunchiness.
The ktr I tried sounded quite nasty, with a bright top end. Definitely not smooth, it was going into a clean hot rod deluxe. I think it's magic (lol) is more when used as a clean or slightly dirty boost into an already driven, or near driven, amp.
It's worth noting, although I believe it may be cobblers, that ktr pedals are surface mount components. Whether that matters to you I don't know, but there are plenty of clones that use full size ones which are easier to replace on the pcb if there was an unfortunate breakage.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
how the klon sounds as a drive pedal really depends on your amp, your guitar and how you play.
it's really a light/mid drive pedal, so if you want distortion you'll be disappointed.
If your amp fizzes when driven hard, the klon will make this worse, if your amp is "smooth" the klon will respond to this. I've found it works well with fender voiced amps and as a boost to classic style marshal amps.
I've not seen it work great with voxes or the more driven marshal amps, but of course it's a subjective opinion.
I think you've got to look at your gear and how you play to work out if this pedal will work with you rather than just "it's a great pedal I'll buy it", I think that's why opinions are so mixed on the klons, if they work for you, they are fantastic, if not they are just an expensive brick to be mocked.
It worked better into the drive channel but as a standalone od (ie clean amp, all drive from pedal) it was a disappointment. I guess "brash" or "strident" would be the best words to describe it.
Again, a Klone would cost less, get you the mojo parts. And if you believe Internet wisdom, surface mount = bad sounding.
I don't believe that personally but there you have it!
a soul food is worth a punt, it should behave pretty much the same to give you a cheap idea to if you like it or not.
I've got a soul food and a jhs modified soul food and compare it against my klons, gigging it, I think only I can tell, recording, I can certainly hear the difference in the standard soul food and the klon. but for £40 or whatever it is, it's a good option, especially if you are not going to hit the amp hard with the gain knob.
But, try one. You may like it, AND you can flip em all day !
This is the second batch in the last few months. It seems that there may be a reasonably regular supply so I would image that second hand prices will drop. I wouldn't be buying one as an investment.
Have you compared the buffers? Depending on how my boards pan out, it might actually be the cheapest way to get a decent buffer (and it's a fairly small pedal too, though admittedly not just as small as some of those standalone buffers). ) I just looked on thomann and the visual sound buffer is 47 euros (and I haven't tried it so I don't even know if I like it), while the soul food is 48... )
No such thing as a magical buffer really - just good ones that work well, and bad ones that don't work quite so well.