Colortone | Parasite 2026 | JFET Overdrive w/ Cabinet Switch

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