I tried these settings a for both pedals and they both sound great Yek! However I was confused about one of your settings: Volume 12. Which setting/value does this represent? Thanks!
Gonna guess by "12" he means, "to match setting 'Volume' on the original pedal at
'12 o'clock'" (i.e. "in the middle", "straight up", "at 5", or however you prefer to refer to that position of a knob)...
The way I read that is...
If you have a Soul Food (envision starting with all knobs "in the middle") and adjust the knobs:
Volume Knob: stays in the middle (often referred to as "12 o'clock", or "noon")
Treble Knob: stays in the middle
Drive Knob: a quarter of the way to the left (aka "9 o'clock")
And then add a Drive block and set the knobs as follows:
Type: FET Boost
Drive: 7.5
LoCut: 130 Hz
HiCut: 5119 Hz
Mid Freq: 1373 Hz,
Mid: 1.0 dB
ClipType: Op-Amp
(and leave all other Drive block knobs at their default settings)
Then the pedal and the Drive block will sound reasonably close to one another.
Similarly, If you have a Soul Food (again envision starting with all knobs "in the middle") and adjust the knobs:
Volume: in the middle
Treble: turned not quite a quarter of the way to the right (i.e. "2 o'clock"
Drive: turned to the same position as the Treble knob
And then add a Drive block (or change channels) and set the knobs as follows:
Type: FET Preamp
Drive: 6.75
LoCut: 476 Hz
HiCut: 1056 Hz
Mid Freq: 1373 Hz,
Mid: 1.0 dB
ClipType: Op-Amp
(and leave all other Drive block knobs at their default settings)
Then the pedal and the Drive block will sound reasonably close to one another.
I would imagine if you like to turn your Soul Food's Volume up higher or down lower, then experiment with adjusting the Level knob on the Drive block to something other than 5
And I completely agree, those drive block settings do sound great together. Quality A/B (or X/Y) channel material here...