Keeley Dark Side Workstation

Presenting the all new Keeley Dark Side Workstation, a combination Fuzz/Delay/Modulation pedal.

From Robert Keeley about the Dark Side:
"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 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 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. The team at 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 gained it way to down 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.
For the Delay portion 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 also 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.