PARASITE OVERDRIVE 2024

DESCRIPTION

Designed with hand matched 'smooth gain' JFET's, the PARASITE is a drive rich in textural character, with touch sensitive playing dynamics and smooth Guitar Volume clean-up

At mild drive settings the PARASITE can function as an ‘always on’ device, subtely adding a light organic textural breakup to your clean sound

Crank up the drive and you'll experience the creamy tubelike compression, tonal breakup and harmonics of a driven tube amp

The additional tone shaping tools allow precise control over your guitar tone, ensuring clarity even amist your bands full performance volume

"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” GuitarPedalX

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REVIEWS

- 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.