Parasite Overdrive 2026

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.

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

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

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)