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Dark Side Multi-Effects Pedal

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Dark Side Multi-Effects Pedal

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Dark Side Multi-Effects Pedal
Dark Side Multi-Effects Pedal

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Effects can be a great way of expressing emotions or creating textures. The Dark Side is about creating sounds and adding new tones to your symphony. The Dark Side provides all the textures that define an essence, in one pedal.

The individual pieces that make up the Dark Side workstation 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. 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 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. We suggest something like the M-Audio or Moog expression pedals.

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Keeley Dark SideWatch Video
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keeley Dark Side V2 meets MontereyWatch Video
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Keeley Dark Side - Neo Vintage DemoWatch Video
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Its just like the album 2 of 2 customers found this review helpful
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My dad bought this seeing that had a rotary speaker function on it and he really wanted a Leslie speaker emulator. Without running stereo rigs you're not going to get much of a stereo field to give that effect. But after I played with this pedal for about an hour I was like okay I need to buy this. It does amazing things three modes of operation flange and rotary / phaser and univibe / and it also has go figure the tape machine delay. It's divided into two halves you can have the gain or fuzz come before the modulation or after the modulation you have control over that quite a complex pedal while remaining quite easy to understand and fiddle with. Not like Chase Bliss and their mouth piano on the back of each pedal changing essentially the value of every single knob. Which I still love it just takes a lot more to learn. This is almost a plug and play Great machine
Posted by Kurman Helmsley on Jul 30, 2023
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