You can go from Jerry Cantrell to Jerry Garcia with ease. You can coax some utterly robotic sounds that are almost talkbox-like. But unlike some envelope filters, which seem to put uneccessary stress on your amp’s preamp when the signal hits its peaks, this one seems contained and slightly compressed, which keeps it from getting out of control. Want a funky, scratchy, treble-heavy tone? That’s in here. Y’know those great old ‘home organ’ tones? This can get that out of your guitar no problem. Plug this baby into a clean channel and you’ll get all sorts of great tones, from ‘quacky’ and edgy to big, fat and ‘gloopy’. The ‘effect on’ indictor LED is nice and bright and the switch feels satisfyingly clicky. Oh and the graphic design is really great, with easy-to-see controls and a cool blue/magenta graphic over a white box. There’s also a Direction switch on the side that controls whether the wah-wah sound goes up or down (like pressing the wah-wah pedal down on each single strike, or up on each single strike). There’s also a Range switch, which lets you emphasise either the high or low frequencies. The Filter Selector is a three-way selector knob that lets you choose between three different types of filters. The Peak control lets you set how bright or dark the effect is, from deep and bassy to shrill. The Gain control lets you set the input level to get the best response to your picking strength. Keeley uses the classic opto-coupler design for depth and warmth, and has built in plenty of control. More of a ‘bwah-bwah’ or ‘qwow-qwow’ sound than a ‘wah-wah,’ depending on how you set it. If you’re unfamiliar with this effect, it’s triggered by how hard you pick, and can give you automatic wah-wah sounds or something altogether different.
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