KLON / SOUL FOOD Blind test on YTube...

57Deluxe

this will help a few people... is part #1

RaymondLin

I can't watch this as work PC disables Youtube but I've seen a test in TGP about a guy doing a blind test with the original Klon, the Mystic Overdrive and Soul Food.  They all sound 90% the same as one and other.  There are VERY small differences if you listen for it but in isolation I really doubt you can tell.

 

 

mudslide73

Good demo. I don't know which is which but I like B better. It's a bit more open sounding (I think) ... but I can't say that isn't my speakers etc. 

randomhandclaps

Tests like this annoy me;  How can I say which one is better until I know which one is the dearest?

Danny1969

Not a fan of either, amp sounded better before he switched em in. They are not too bad on single notes but don't sound great as soon as there's more than one note being played .... for a boost an attenuator pot  in the loop be better

joeyowen

There is the argument of youtube compression...but, if you going to spend that much on a pedal I hope you are a gigging musician who will most likely have their signal compressed to some extent anyway.

both sound good to me, I would get the soul food, but if I could afford it, I will get the Klon

joeyowen

B is Klon me thinks, his leg gives it away

ThePrettyDamned

randomhandclaps;313429" said:

Tests like this annoy me;  How can I say which one is better until I know which one is the dearest?

Exactly, you can't measure the emotional quality.

57Deluxe

ThePrettyDamned said:

randomhandclaps;313429" said:

Tests like this annoy me;  How can I say which one is better until I know which one is the dearest?

Exactly, you can't measure the emotional quality.

yeah - but in the dark it is a level playing field with the blind...

ThePrettyDamned

Also, didn't someone say they got specially selected ktr's from the man himself for that extra 5 percent tone or something?

So there are klons and klons...

John_P

Does make the ehx great value - I prefer the sound of B but if I wanted that type of sound either one would do the job - if B is the cheap one I should grab one...

Dave_Mc

ThePrettyDamned said:

Also, didn't someone say they got specially selected ktr's from the man himself for that extra 5 percent tone or something?

So there are klons and klons...

Yeah )

A sounds a little softer, B a bit brighter/louder. At the same settings. To my ears, and with my craptacular stock laptop speakers.

Ah nice, later in the vid he's tries to dial them in to sound the same, rather than just going by the same settings. Nice work.

ICBM

ThePrettyDamned said:

Also, didn't someone say they got specially selected ktr's from the man himself for that extra 5 percent tone or something?

No, not a mere 5%… 8-10%.

Personally I'd be quite pissed off if I got one of the good ones and it was only 8% better, knowing that there are others which are another 2% better than that.

I thought B sounded marginally more open and perhaps a little fuller, A was possibly a tiny bit more focused. Very hard to tell them apart given that his playing wasn't identical for each though, and a couple of times it almost seemed the other way round. No idea which is which. Both sounded good.

Dave_Mc

^ Yeah they may well have swapped, I stopped listening closely after the first little bit. Sounded close enough to me that soul food it is, whichever one it is

randomhandclaps

ICBM said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Also, didn't someone say they got specially selected ktr's from the man himself for that extra 5 percent tone or something?

No, not a mere 5%… 8-10%.

To clear this up and avoid confusion, it's actually dependent on whether you are using the US or European tonal percentage scale.

monquixote

I prefered B quite a bit. No idea which is which though.

You wouldn't expect them to sound exactly the same as they have different clipping diodes.

You can get the Soul Food modded to exactly the same spec if you are bothered.

EricTheWeary

Dave_Mc said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Also, didn't someone say they got specially selected ktr's from the man himself for that extra 5 percent tone or something?

So there are klons and klons...

Yeah )

A sounds a little softer, B a bit brighter/louder. At the same settings. To my ears, and with my craptacular stock laptop speakers.

Ah nice, later in the vid he's tries to dial them in to sound the same, rather than just going by the same settings. Nice work.

pretty much that through my ear bud things. In a band mix undetectable I should think. Non blind A B with the Fredrics Zombie on this by the same fella from about 5:30 :

RocknRollDave

joeyowen said:

B is Klon me thinks, his leg gives it away

I thought the same!

57Deluxe

/\ although don't forget he is 'down under' and water drains the reverse way down the plug hole...

xSkarloey

B at lower volumes but once he turns them up it's harder for me to hear much difference.

RocknRollDave

Results are up there now.
*spoiler below in white font*
Complete fail, giving it away with his leg! A = Soul Food, B = Klon