CURRENTLY ONLY 4 UNITS AVAILABLE AS DIRECT ORDER - PLEASE CONTACT VIA CONTACT MENU FORM
DESCRIPTION
Colortone Parasite is a versatile JFET based Overdrive guitar pedal with active tone controls.
At a mild drive setting the PARASITE can act as an ‘always on’ pre-amp style device adding a light organic textural sparkle to your clean sound.
With larger amounts of drive you’ll start feeling the creamy tubelike compression, tonal breakup and harmonic complexity of a driven tube amp.
At its most extreme the PARASITE holds no shame in getting dirty and noisy.
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- Brett Kingman Review -
The Parasite Overdrive by Sydney Australia's Colortone Pedals is a good looking and even better sounding JFET based Overdrive.
It has active bass and treble controls, a 'Bass' toggle that transforms bass response into something akin to a quad box; a 'Bright' control that engages a pre-drive treble boost and a Gain control that covers everything from minor grit through to full-blown tube-like sag.
This is a pedal for the ages. Comparisons have been made to classics but I feel the Parasite has its own thing happening.
- GuitarPedalX Review -
..the beauty of its versatility is that it has you covered for so many different applications.
AD describes it as being closets to a JTM45 - while it has you easily covered for Blues Breaker, Dumble and OCD style tones in particular - and also does that really cool soft smooth voicing.
The broad potential of the EQ may make it sound that it can be tricky to dial in - but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It is really easy to dial in actually, and has really decent Guitar Volume cleanup and great playback dynamics - while the challenge - like tuning into a radio set - is how to decide where to stick the dials in terms of their final resting position!
My Parasite spent the most significant amount of time thus far in ’Dumble Mode’ - which involves both the switches in their Up / On position, while currently I have it set to super smooth - with Drive @ around 9 o’c, Bass and Bright Boost OFF, Level @ 4 o’c, Low @ 8 o’c, and High @ 9 o’c.
If you’re looking for a super-versatile everyday Overdrive - always-on or selective - then this is surely a prime candidate. Of course the dazzling geometric engraved and enamelled enclosure is a big draw too - but like a stick of Brighton Rock - you can see that the quality is carried right through every aspect of the pedal.
CURRENTLY ONLY 4 UNITS AVAILABLE AS DIRECT ORDER - PLEASE CONTACT VIA CONTACT MENU FORM
DESCRIPTION
Colortone Parasite is a versatile JFET based Overdrive guitar pedal with active tone controls.
At a mild drive setting the PARASITE can act as an ‘always on’ pre-amp style device adding a light organic textural sparkle to your clean sound.
With larger amounts of drive you’ll start feeling the creamy tubelike compression, tonal breakup and harmonic complexity of a driven tube amp.
At its most extreme the PARASITE holds no shame in getting dirty and noisy.
—————————-
- Brett Kingman Review -
The Parasite Overdrive by Sydney Australia's Colortone Pedals is a good looking and even better sounding JFET based Overdrive.
It has active bass and treble controls, a 'Bass' toggle that transforms bass response into something akin to a quad box; a 'Bright' control that engages a pre-drive treble boost and a Gain control that covers everything from minor grit through to full-blown tube-like sag.
This is a pedal for the ages. Comparisons have been made to classics but I feel the Parasite has its own thing happening.
- GuitarPedalX Review -
..the beauty of its versatility is that it has you covered for so many different applications.
AD describes it as being closets to a JTM45 - while it has you easily covered for Blues Breaker, Dumble and OCD style tones in particular - and also does that really cool soft smooth voicing.
The broad potential of the EQ may make it sound that it can be tricky to dial in - but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It is really easy to dial in actually, and has really decent Guitar Volume cleanup and great playback dynamics - while the challenge - like tuning into a radio set - is how to decide where to stick the dials in terms of their final resting position!
My Parasite spent the most significant amount of time thus far in ’Dumble Mode’ - which involves both the switches in their Up / On position, while currently I have it set to super smooth - with Drive @ around 9 o’c, Bass and Bright Boost OFF, Level @ 4 o’c, Low @ 8 o’c, and High @ 9 o’c.
If you’re looking for a super-versatile everyday Overdrive - always-on or selective - then this is surely a prime candidate. Of course the dazzling geometric engraved and enamelled enclosure is a big draw too - but like a stick of Brighton Rock - you can see that the quality is carried right through every aspect of the pedal.
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