Keeley Electronics Dark Side Fuzz / Mod / Delay pedal
We should all be so lucky as to be identified by the sound of a single note. Some players are so well defined that their entire musical journey can be heard in a single note they play. Tone is in the fingers. Tone is in the mind. Effects can be a great way of expressing emotions or creating textures. The Dark Side Workstation Analog Multi-Effects Pedal is about creating sounds and adding new tones to your symphony. It's the things you can’t create with your fingers or mind. It's metasymphonic. The Dark Side provides all the textures that define an essence, in one pedal. The individual pieces that make up the Dark Side Workstation Analog Multi-Effects Pedal are Fuzz, Delay and Modulation. The Fuzz side of the Dark Side is a big fuzz style distortion based on a 1977 op-amp style. Keeley used something similar in their Psi Fuzz. This one is completely and radically different. They made what seemed like endless changes to extract the nuances of earlier transistor based fuzzes. They lowered the gain to fit the time period and the style. This is a more transparent Big Fuzz. This one lets your guitar sing with sustain, yet retains the essence of you guitar whether single coil or humbucker based. The next core element in the Dark Side pedal is the Delay and Modulation side. You can select between a multi-head tape delay effect or between a combination of 4 different modulation sounds. The Dark Side delay has 12 different syncopated delays. They are rhythmic and have the tonal quality of the old spinning drum tape delays. The Dark Side has many subtle filters to get the tape delay setting to have the feel and warmth of the original machines, yet gives you range of control to have modern features like expression pedal control for the number of repeats. You can use it for creating a feedback oscillation delay. Extremely subtle modulations in the delay make it very musical. The next atom in this workstation is the modulation effect. There are four parts to this effect: Flanger, Rotary Speaker Cabinet, U-Vibe and Phaser. You can blend between the “Electric Lady” Flanger and a Les-Rotary cabinet, creating new sounds. You can find that perfect blend between a vintage sounding opto-coupler based U-Vibe and the little orange phaser. There is a TRS Insert for adding effects in between the Fuzz and Modulation/Delay side of the pedal. This is handy if you have phaser or chorus pedal you might want to add if you want to use the Delay side of the Dark Side. That way you can have Fuzz>Phaser>Delay for example. There is also an Expression Pedal port on the pedal. It is highly recommended to have an expression pedal handy. You can make many adjustments on the fly that just increase the fun and functionality of the pedal while you’re creating music. It has to be a TRS style expression pedal. At the heart of the Dark Side is a hand built board that contains analog fuzz and a high quality 24-bit DSP engine. Keeley studied and analyzed decades worth of gear and crafted their own sounds that give you not only the original tones, but an endless range of in-between sounds you can’t get elsewhere. Even if you have other Keeley effects or workstations, you don’t have these exact sounds. The Rotary is slightly different than the Monterey, it’s more chorus like. The Flanger is different than the hidden one on the Bubble Tron. The U-Vibe on this pedal is also deeper and throbs with more intensity. If you were lucky enough to get one of the Jimi Hazel Phase Delays or put the Bubble Tron into the hidden bank 2 mode; well then you have heard their 4 stage phaser. It’s dead on and a blast to play. Like the Monterey, this unit is completely hand built. Including the high-end DSP, everything is hand assembled and soldered by Keeley's technicians with decades of experience. Attention to detail and tone at every point. What you get is a Mother Lode of effects and sounds. Necessity is the Mother of Invention. Someone needed to put all these epic sounds in one box. So Keeley
Keeley Electronics Katana Boost Mini Clean Boost / Pre-amp
Want a mirror image of your tone, only louder? This is it. The Mini Katana Boost is also a fat, harmonically rich boost, just pull out on the volume knob and stretch your imagination with overdriven tone. You can keep it on all the time to push your amp harder, or as an occasional boost to cut through the mix.
Keeley Aurora Digital Reverb Guitar Effects Pedal
From the distant echo of cathedrals to 600-pound sheet-metal plate vibrations to spring reverb coils in a tank, reverb captures our imaginations and plunges us deeply into our musical psyches. Few effects complement a guitar better than reverb. At Keeley Electronics, the Aurora Reverb had to meet certain specific criteria: It had to be affordable with no compromise to audio quality; easy for guitarists to use and be inspiring; and offer the essentials for tailoring your tone without a dozen knobs to learn. The final product does all of that with a true-bypass, 100% dry analog path, low noise, 24-bit, high-fidelity reverb processor. The Aurora Reverb's controls offer everything from pristine fast reflections to ethereal spaces to deep, dark, and endless caverns. Decay: Decay controls the amount of time it takes for the reverberated sound to disappear. The Aurora Reverb's Decay provides a range from a realistic, close-quarters reverberated dimension to a walk-away-and-come-back signal of complex, still-ringing musical reflections. Slapback: Slapback is essentially a pre-delay. Pre-delay creates distance. How soon or late you hear the first reflection is crucial to crafting the reverberated space. Sometimes you do not want any delay between your note and the reverb. And sometimes, for clarity' sake, you want the reverb to wait a moment before joining the dry signal. Such a setting would enable short, staccato, single-syllable type expressions to finish articulating before being suffused and being joined by the tail-end of previously reverberated sounds. But when the illusion of infinite space is required, set your Slapback to zero and you™ll streak vividly away like Dr. David Bowman breaking free of Jupiter' gravitational pull in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Keeley Aurora Slapback setting provides you with a sufficient range of time, from zero milliseconds to 100 milliseconds, ample time considering a pedal board footprint this small. Warmth: Opposite to most tone controls, this one increases the warmth, as it is a dampening control. Its brightest setting is when completely dialed down. Blend: Blend will take your 100% analog dry signal and blend in the reverb, from just the slightest mix of wet to much more. Because the Keeley Aurora Reverb is a pedal board unit, place it at the end of your pedal chain and use the Blend Knob to tailor your sound. The Toggle Switch: The three most popular reverb styles that don™t come built into your amplifier are Room, Plate, and Hall. In the smallest footprint possible, the Aurora Reverb offers what used to take up entire city blocks or an entire studio room. You can achieve cathedral resonance, enormous surface areas of sheet-metal plate sounds, or convincing room decays. Room sizes range from something like a broom closet to that of a barn. All in all, the Keeley Aurora Reverb promises to provide the essentials guitarists are looking for when they need reverb on their pedal boards. Like that ethereal glow to the mighty Earth herself, Aurora creates a natural halo of sound in the atmosphere of your magnificent core tone.
Keeley Filaments High Gain Distortion Effects Pedal
The Keeley Electronics Filaments accurately replicates high-gain tube amps by layering three stages of gain while providing seven ultra-flexible ways to EQ the tone. Level and Gain set the stage for rich layers of high gain tube-amp saturation. Bass and Body give you the punch and authority of a gain monster no matter what size amp you are playing. Even if you’re running a 10-inch speaker the bass and body controls will give you the low end bass response you need. Running through a 4x12 already? Just dial back the body control to keep the sound tight and focused. Have an amp that’s hard to push? The Boost and Crunch switches give you two different levels of gain and compression to get your edge just right for your tone. The Presence control works with the Bright control to give any guitar or pickup combination the authority to stand up and shout. Lastly, the Treble control gives you that added range of highs to make your amp sing. Style is a Metal Head’s SwaggerMetal is more nuanced and subdivided that nearly any other style of music outside the classical stuff. The Keeley Filaments High Gain Distortion pedal feels your pain, brother. So of course its amazing 7 layer tone-shaping lets you chameleon into any of these types of metal: Christian or Death Metal, Black Metal or Folk Metal, both types of Core, Grind and Metal. Crust Punk or Glam Metal? Progressive Jazz Metal or just good old Stoner Metal? Keeley has you covered. Get a Keeley Filaments High Gain Distortion pedal and pound it out!
Keeley Red Dirt Germanium Overdrive Effects Pedal
Keeley’s mod to the venerable platform has everyone grinning. The Red Dirt Germanium is nothing short of a red hot saturation machine. Perfect classic amp tones. The ModIn modifying the circuit the designers came across a way to have variable gain on different parts of the frequency response. The resulting sound has an exceptional 3D quality. It’s more of everything. By allowing differing gain rates for the bass response, the bass stays tight and forceful. The mid range and highs are soaked in sustain and saturation. The balance is exceptional. Red Dirt HistoryThe Red Dirt overdrive began from a quest to find the perfect classic drive sound while also offering new levels of sonic versatility to satisfy a wider range of musical styles. It all culminates in an overdrive that is superbly dynamic, with crispness and clarity that let players cut through a dense mix, while retaining the plump midrange. By incorporating these tones along with the Keeley standard of U. S. A. hand-built quality using premium components, the Red Dirt overdrive aims to become an indispensable part of any pedal chain.
Keeley D&M Drive Effects Pedal
The D & M Drive is the perfect storm of Drive and Boost. The D & M offers a gorgeous sounding high voltage Boost side designed to impart the perfect tone on any amp that needs to be pushed. No longer will you wonder what the perfect clean boost should be. As you roll things up, the drive morphs your tone into singing gold. A sexy and smoothly saturated midrange voice appears that breathes confidence. The Drive side offers everything you’d want in a powerful gain stage—from flat, honest overdrive perfect for any set of chords to searing-hot lead work with tons of sustain. The Drive is the perfect counterpoint to the Boost. Not only does each side of the pedal provide rewarding guitar tones, they can be used to stack together for an out-of-world experience. The pro switching system developed for the D & M Drive allows you to select which side of the pedal comes first. In fact, you can configure the pedal to work in a pro-switching system like the G2 for independent pedal use!The BoostLooking for something in between a clean boost like the high voltage Keeley Katana and a germanium modded professional overdrive? The D & M Drive delivers insane amounts of headroom and a distinct midrange voice can be dialed in to give you the lead voicing you dream of. Dialed in to give you the punch and clarity of a horn yet subtle and smooth in saturation to give you warm overdrive and tons of sustain. Expect it to work well with any amp or rig.The DriveMultiple Gain Stages are where it’s at. This delivers. From a its lowest settings where you feel like you’ve discovered the perfect pro sounding overdrive to the roar of a high end amp. This side of the D & M packs a heavily saturated punch. The headroom on this side of the pedal is no slouch, use it to find that delicate balance between drive and amp saturation for the core of your tone. Turn up the Drive to give you a dynamic and searing tube-like gain that excels in sustain. Designed for quick attack with plenty of high and low end. Rich harmonic gain and sustain with dynamics is what this side offers.The SwitchingDaniel Steinhardt from TheGigRig insisted that this was a versatile dual gain box that wasn’t limited in any way with its two simple stomp switches. You select the order! A simple toggle allows you to configure the pedal so that when both the Drive and Boost are on you decide which is first. If you want to have a smooth and round tone go into a richly driven amp-like gain stage….or if you want a highly driven tone with edge and harmonics to be then boosted with clarity and refinement, it’s your choice. Not only that, but it also has TRS inputs so that this pedal would easily integrate into an professional switching system like the G2. Now pedalboard designers can configure the D & M Drive to act as two independent pedals, switching between either side of the pedal as it were its own stand alone effect.
Keeley Hooke Spring Reverb Effects Pedal
The Hooke Spring Reverb from Keeley brings vintage tube-amp spring reverb and tremolo into one package. Bring your blackface reverb and tremolo on the road with you without lugging around your prized possession! Choose from Classic Spring, Black Face Trem-n-Verb, or an organ like Fugue-Verb. Classic Spring ReverbThe Hooke Spring Reverb has the Spring Reverb mode. The main features of this mode include the Tone and Spring controls. The Tone control allows you to set the pedal for a bright, spanky reverb tone or a dark, thick reverb. The Spring control is the amount “looseness” or “Spring! ” in the reverb pan. Loose springs seem to give a lot of reflections and you can hear the reverb “bounce” a lot. You can simulate a specific reverb pan you had in a vintage amp. Combinations of these two controls allow you to fine-tune both the tone and the character of the springs and tubes in your favorite vintage reverb. You won’t believe the depth and warmth of this reverb. Black Face Trem-n-VerbThis is designed to give you the ultimate black panel Vibrato channel reverb. Everyone knows that it’s not really (pitch) vibrato, it’s tremolo. The engineers carefully EQ’d and filtered the sound to not only be tube-like but we crafted a tonal modification that makes for a deep throbbing tremolo. By adjusting the bias of the output tubes for the volume tremolo, you also dip the volume of the reverb. Keeley found a special recipe where the reverb washes over the tremolo texture a little thicker and creates a tone that is truly magical. Fugue, an Organ ReverbThe Hooke Reverb needed something crazy. Something that just didn’t exist. The Keeley designers started playing with shimmer-springs, octave down and sprung, all sorts of other coiled manifestations of things springy and coily and then it hit us. The problem was they could hear the original guitar part. Ah, yes, all wet. All wet is where the magic happened. No original signal, all wet spring reverb with octave up and down. What more from your Keeley Reverb? Take the back plate off your Hooke Spring Reverb and change the Bank Switch to Bank 2. Now you have 3 more Spring reverb patches! Long Decay Trem-n-Verb – Same as in Bank 1, but set up for single-coil guitars and super-long decay/reverb trails. If you want a huge springy mess of reverb and you have some spaghetti logo guitar for making surf music, this is it. Spring-Plate – Another Keeley original. Cross Fade between Spring Reverb and Plate Reverb. And that’s just exactly what it does. Dial in 25% spring reverb and 75% plate, dial in 50/50, dial in your own perfection. This is like taking your tube amp with spring reverb into the studio, and then the producer adds their plate reverb. Vibro-Spring – What if a Blackface and Magnatone amp had a love child? Yeah, a pitch vibrato spring reverb. Something that would have been right up Lonnie Mack’s alley? Well, it’s in there too.
Keeley DDR Drive-Delay-Reverb Effects Pedal
The DDR combines the most common guitar effects—DRIVE and WET—into one pedal. Choose between two classic overdrives and then pour on some delay or reverb. One pedal, any gig. The DRIVE section gives you two styles of overdrive to choose from: Crunch or Lead. The Crunch Style gives you a gritty British tube-amp combo sound. The Lead Style gives you a warm and dark, mid-pushed overdrive. The WET side of the pedal gives you Delays and Reverbs. A Vintage/Modern switch allows you to toggle between spring and plate reverb or analog and digital delay. Use the built-in effects loop to insert effects between Drive and Wet, or run it by itself as the only pedal you'll need!
