Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Robert Keeley Effects Pedals - An Introduction

What do guitar players and car enthusiasts accept in common? They both adulation to adapt or "hot-rod" their gear. Since so abundant of guitar arena these canicule focuses aloft the accoutrement of the trade, it should appear as no abruptness that abounding guitarists are not annoyed with their banal accessory and acquisition means to advance aloft it. There's no greater archetype of this adulation of accessory tweaking than Robert Keeley.
What do you get if you cantankerous a adulation of the guitar with an engineer's agog faculty of architecture and experimentation? Keeley Electronics, of course. Armed with an clamorous admiration to advance aloft banal designs as able-bodied as a appetite to bazaar his own aboriginal designs, Robert Keeley has appropriately becoming a acceptability as a top-flight modifier and artist of furnishings pedals.
Keeley's Boss pedal modifications are the getting of fable with the a lot of acclaimed mod getting the BD-2 "Phat" mod. Keeley aswell has superior modifications of the Boss DS-1 baloney pedal, Boss TR-2 tremolo pedal, and Ibanez TS-9/TS-808 overdrive pedals. Keeley aswell modifies assorted added pedals, including those by Line 6 and Voodoo Labs.
However, Keeley does absolutely accept his own aboriginal pedal designs (as far as any pedal architecture can be original). Perhaps his a lot of acclaimed architecture is the heralded Keeley Compressor. You would be harder apprenticed to acquisition a pedalboard in any top LA or Nashvill flat that doesn't accept a Keeley compressor in the arresting chain. Aside from its abundantly agreeable and advantageous tones, the Keeley compressor has a signal-to-noise arrangement that bests a lot of rack-mounted compressors, abundant beneath an furnishings pedal compressor. Available in both 2 and 4 bulge versions, the Keeley compressor is a must-have furnishings pedal.
Also account a attending are the Down Head (a Germanium-bassed down pedal), the Java Boost, and the Time Machine Boost. Combine all of these toneful pedals with apple chic chump service, and you've got Keeley Electronics.

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