Keeley Dark Side Fuzz Delay Vibe Pedal Overview
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; 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. But, this one is radically different - changes were made to extract the nuances of earlier transistor based fuzzes to create this - a more transparent Big Fuzz which lets your guitar sing with sustain, while retaining the essence of you guitar, whether single coil or humbucker based.
The next core element in the Dark Side pedal is the Delay and Modulation side. You can select between a multi-head tape delay effect or a combination of 4 different modulation sounds. Rhythmic and featuring the tonal quality of old spinning drum tape delays, the Dark Side delay has 12 different syncopated options, and many subtle filters to get the tape delay feeling like those original machines whilst also allowing a range of control for modern features - like expression pedal control for the number of repeats. Extremely subtle modulations in the delay make it very musical.
The next atom in this workstation is the four part modulation effect: Flanger, Rotary Speaker Cabinet, U-Vibe, and Phaser. You can blend between the “Electric Lady” Flanger and a Les-Rotary cabinet, creating new sounds such as that perfect blend between a vintage sounding opto-coupler based U-Vibe, and a little orange phaser.
This unit is completely hand built - including the high-end DSP. Everything is hand assembled and soldered by Keeley's highly experienced technicians. Attention to detail and tone at every point - someone needed to put all these epic sounds in one box, so Keeley did it.
