Keeley Hooke Reverb Neo Vintage Spring Pedal Overview
The new Hooke Spring Reverb from Keeley brings vintage tube-amp spring reverb and tremolo into one package. Bring your Blackface reverb and tremolo on the road with you without lugging around your prized possession!
Choose from Classic Spring, Blackface Trem-n-Verb, or an organ-like Fugue-Verb.
The Hooke Spring Reverb begins with a Spring Reverb mode - the main features of which includes the Tone and Spring controls. The Tone control allows you to work within the range of bright and spanky to dark and thick, while the Spring control is the amount “looseness” or “Sproing!” in the reverb pan; loose springs seem to generate a lot of reflections, and you can hear the reverb “bounce.” With the Hooke, you can simulate a specific reverb pan of a vintage amp, two-springs, three-springs, short, medium, long decay … it’s all in there. What’s more, combinations of these two controls allow you to fine-tune the tone and the character of the springs and tubes in order to dial in your favourite vintage reverb response. The depth and warmth of the Hooke reverb is simply remarkable. It’s one of their finest creations.
Trem-n-verb is designed to give you the ultimate Fullerton, CA black panel Vibrato channel reverb, which it does superbly, but it was decided that the Hooke Reverb needed something extra, something crazy, something that just didn’t exist, so Keeley started playing with shimmer-springs, octave down and sprung, and all sorts of other springy manifestations when it hit them - the problem was that they could still hear the original guitar part; all wet is where magic can happen, and that's exactly what Keeley did - no original signal here in the Fugue setting, just all wet spring reverb with octave up and down. Church Organ, Organ Reverb, Fugue It! Get Hooked and Go Fugue!
Three More Reverb Patches!
Want more from your Keeley Reverb? Take the back plate off your Hooke Spring Reverb and change the Bank Switch to "Bank 2" - now you have three more spring reverb patches!
Long Decay Trem-n-Verb – Same as in Bank 1, but set up for single coil guitars and super long decay/reverb trails. If you want a huge springy mess of reverb and you have some spaghetti logo guitar for making surf music …
Spring-Plate – Another Keeley Original - a cross fade between Spring Reverb and Plate Reverb. Dial in 25% spring reverb and 75% plate, dial in 50/50, dial in your own perfection - this is like taking your tube amp with spring reverb into the studio and then the producer adds plate reverb. Classic. Happens all the time. Well, now you can do it anywhere with the Keeley Hooke Spring Reverb.
Vibro-Spring – What if a Blackface and Magnatone amp had a love child? A pitch vibrato spring reverb? Well, it’s in there too. The Fugue Mode becomes what Keeley calls the "Mack Mode"; Spring Reverb with Pitch Vibrato.
