Parasite Overdrive

Colortones PARASITE is a harmonically rich and versatile overdrive equipped with 4 easy to dial-in tone shaping tools.

Re-tooled in 2024 to create a more pedal board friendly size, the circuit and tone has not changed from its successor.

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

ADDITIONAL TONE SHAPING

Bass Switch

Pre-drive Bass Boost switch simulating the Bass resonance of a 4x4 Quad cab. Up is engaged

Treble Switch

Pre-Drive Treble Boost switch. More active at lower drive settings. Up is engaged

Active EQ

Post Drive Low and High Active EQ knobs

TECH INFO

Input Impedance. 420 kOhm

Current Draw 30mA

Input Voltage 9VDC

Bypass Switching True Bypass

Enclosure Dimensions 122 x 66 x 42

COLORTONE recommends use of a 9VDC Isolated power