Keeley Bubble Tron Dynamic Flanger Phaser Pedal Overview
Keeley Engineering has created another batch of Neo-Vintage effects "that never were" to explores some of the famous, but very hard to find, sounds of the past. This time Keeley has made the Flanger and Phaser in dynamic with your pick attack and strength. Add in the Random Stepped Filter with the new “M-Style Synth” bandpass shaping feature, and you have a lead guitarist’s dream tool.
The Flanger section of the pedal draws on inspiration from the MicMix DynaFlanger. This Dynamic Flanger - one that starts and stops based on your pick attack or envelope, was used to create many of the sounds in the late 70s to mid 80s. Most flangers just cycle around with a "whooshing" in the background - not in this case - the Bubble Tron only cycles as you play.
The DynaMoPhase section of the Bubble Tron is actually two phasers; one has an LFO with a Rate Control, and the other is a true Dynamic Phaser - which, like the Flanger, starts and stops with pick attack. Again, you can set the Depth and and Sensitivity of this phaser to give you a very watery sound that is all based on your guitar’s signal. You can turn off the standard phaser and just run it DynaPhase by turning the Rate Control off.
The only effect that isn’t dynamic is the Filter Section of the Bubble Tron Dynamic Flanger Phaser. With the Filter you can control the different ramps or random nature of the pedal with the Shape Control. The very exciting part of this pedal is the Sensitivity Control which is actual like a vintage synth style bandpass filter control. It shapes the bandpass filter on the filter and gives you some incredible keyboard like sounds.
Shut up and play your effect pedal! Yeah, you play this thing like an extension of your mind and fingers.
