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Colortone | Parasite 2026 | JFET Overdrive w/ Cabinet Switch (CT-P02024—BL) - Gsus4

Colortone Parasite 2026 JFET Overdrive w/ Cabinet Switch

by Colortone Pedals
$299.00 - $299.00
$299.00
$299.00
$299.00 - $299.00
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Colortone Parasite is a versatile JFET based ‘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.

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

For Tweekers

Internal Bias Trimpots for Q1 5457 and Q2 J201 Transistors

BUILD

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

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David Petersen
Colortone Parasite and Gsus4 winning combination

I came across this Colortone Parasite in an article on “top ODs” for the money “
I was familiar with many pedals cited but curious about the range of sounds that the Parasite could achieve. Here is where I would like to give the caveat given in the article, that the Colortone Parasite does not replicate the sound of just one pedal like a straight forward clone would try to do, but it does give you many different sounds that are similar to well known pedals by offering an incredible range of tone controls that work in conjunction with the drive and volume. You do need some patience while getting used to the tweaking, because the Parasites’ design is one of those “a little does a lot”. My P90s roared and I could fatten the Tele and Strat type pups very nicely. The build is a really top notch with a hefty feel that will take the rigor of pedal board life and look unique doing it! I look forward to seeing what Colortone will come up and will check back regularly.
Now for Gsus4, Being in the US it can be an adventure ordering from overseas. Gsus4 was incredible to deal with! The packaging and processing was terrific but what really stood out was the communication that kept me posted right up through delivery. As solid as the the best I’ve ever experienced and I have been playing a long time.