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Keeley Compressor/Boost/Overdrive

Description

Vintage Compressor with Blend
1962 British Amp Katana Clean Boost
Red Dirt Mid-Voiced Saturation

A completely new, re-engineered workstation with upgraded tone, enhanced features, and reduced size that now fits on anyone's board. Compression, Drive, Overdrive, Boost: you get it all here. The Tone Workstation is designed to be the first stage in your pedal board. It may even be the only pedal you bring to a gig.

The classic Keeley Compressor lets you build a nice, thick tone full of sustain. Adjust the Sustain control for increased compression or squeeze. As you add sustain, your notes will ring out longer. The Blend control allows for a Manhattan-style compression, keeping the sound lively and crisp as you blend in your natural guitar tone. The Blend control is perfect for adding a little bit of bite back in with high output pickups or humbuckers. In addition, the Treble Boost switch can be engaged to further increase the treble and sparkle into the signal when using lots of compression. When the Blend is set completely CCW, you get only compressed signal out. Then, as you turn up the Blend, you blend in more and more of your original signal, all the way to a 50/50 ratio. The attack and release times are pre-set in this compressor and are set for use with humbuckers or single coils.

Next up is the 1962/Katana Boost section, because the Keeley Workstation gives you plenty of options for your core tone. With the 62/Katana channel, you can select a sound with just the right amount of break up. Or use it in Boost mode, for that clean, pushed amp-style overdrive. First, the 1962 is Keeley's British amp-style overdrive, which is full and even sounding with a moderate amount of crunch. Based on the famous Blues Breaker, the 1962 stage has been amplified by the Katana Boost on either side, adding tube-like saturation with a JFET valve simulation. But, decide you just want the famous Katana Clean push? No worries. Just a flick of the switch and you have it: pure clean, tube tone. In the Katana Mode, only the volume works; the Tone and Drive are disabled. It's a clean sound people say you just can't turn off.

Last in the chain is the renowned Keeley Red Dirt overdrive. You get 15 years of modding tube screamers distilled into one toneful circuit. Also featuring a JFET front end, the Red Dirt has the perfect amount of crucial midrange coupled with the option to go all the way from clean and clear to super-saturated gain, times two! The Red Dirt circuit captures every nuance of your guitar's tone and delivers a classic, smoking hot, silky smooth lead tone.

Effects Type: 4 Effects, Red dirt Overdrive, 1962 Overdrive, Katana Clean Boost, Compressosr w/Blend
Power Requirement: 9VDC Center Negative, 20mA+ power supply required
Input/Output: Mono Instrument In, Mono Instrument Output
Dimensions are 4.7 Inches wide x 3.72 Inches tall.