Parasite Overdrive 2026

$199.00

Colortone Parasite is a versatile JFET based harmonically rich ‘Full Spectrum’ Overdrive guitar pedal with Treble Boost features and active tone controls.

While the Parasite has you easily covered for Blues Breaker, Dumble and OCD style tones in particular - and also does that really cool soft smooth voicing. The Parasite offers great touch sensitivity, cleanup, and dynamic response.

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.

Colortone Parasite is a versatile JFET based harmonically rich ‘Full Spectrum’ Overdrive guitar pedal with Treble Boost features and 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.

Colortone Parasite Overdrive 2026 JFET Sparkle Drive. Dumble - OCD - JCM

BUILD

• Hand matched dual 5457 and J201 JFET’s
• True Bypass ‘quiet’ SoftTouch footswitch
• Colortone custom ‘Cog’ style Knobs with ‘Headliner’ silicon knob caps
• Hand Assembled with love in Sydney Australia

ADDITIONAL TONE SHAPING

Cab Switch

Pre-drive Bass Boost switch simulating the Bass resonance of either a 1×12” cab or a 4×12” Quad cab

Bright - Treble Boost Switch

Pre-Drive Treble Boost switch. NOTE: More active at lower drive settings

Active EQ

Post Drive Low and High Active EQ control

TECH INFO

Input Impedance 420 kOhm

Current Draw 30mA.

Input Voltage 9VDC

Bypass Switching True Bypass

Enclosure Dimensions 127mm x 79mm x 63mm

NOTE: External Power supply not included. (Colortone recommends use of an isolated clean Power Supply)

Alberto Barrero explores the Parasite Overdrive 2026

EXPLORE THE SETTINGS

REVIEWS

- GuitarPedalX 2026 Review -

- GuitarPedalX 2024 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.

Demo with Original Enclosure - Same audio circuit

Colortone Parasite Video 2026