Keeley Super Mod workstation

TimmyO

Anyone here got one ?



How do you get on with it ? 

Alnico

I almost bought this and the Dark Side in November until i saw how small they are. I'm a massive fan of Keeley, i've got two of his pedals on my board and there's a couple more i want in the future they're excellent but what the deal is with these size pedals from him i just don't get.
How are you supposed to stand on those buttons on stage, my foot covers nearly all three of them at once.

If you haven't seen one of these in the flesh yet, they're roughly the same size as a tobacco tin.................with three button switches on the top ??? To put that in context, three Mooer pedals right up against each other have more room between the switches than these do.

They sound incredible, the functionality is outstanding and maybe for a studio / desktop style use they would be great but for a pedalboard i completely failed to see how they'd work and they're not cheap either.

If someone has made this aspect of it work for them i would love to know about it and how you manage using it with your feet?

Dave_Mc

^ Wow, I didn't realise they were so small! Thanks for the heads-up.

TimmyO

They're not on Pedalboardplanner.com unfortunately so hard to guestimate size 

Alnico

Here is Pete Thorn Demoing the Compressor Pro.



This pedal only has one switch so it doesn't immediately look so small or out of proportion however it's exactly the same size as the Dark Side and all the other Workstations including the one mentioned in the OP.

Imagine three switches on top of that compressor, equally spaced and you've got the workstation.

Like i said, incredible sound and i'm sure they're excellently engineered as well but i just can't get past how difficult it would be to use with feet on a pedalboard.

TimmyO

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TimmyO

I got hold of one today thanks to forumite @Dominic - cheers buddy. 

First impressions are very favourable.

The ADT doubling effect is fantastic - bit of reverb or flanger after it and it's instant 80s rock

The feedback controls for phaser and flanger are cool and make both sound more extreme.

The variable waveshape on the standard trem is cool - anywhere from triangle to square

the harmonic trem is nice - no Flint but perfetly usable.

Chorus and vibrato are fine.

Both reverbs are good - I'd happily use either. The plate set to its longest setting is capable of some very atmospheric noises. 

Both delays are good  -whilst you could have 2 delays going at once there's no easy way to set them to complimentary times, but it's not intended as a delay machine. The 'analog' setting is genuinely good. Great chips n gravy delay for rock lead. 

I'll hook up my expression pedal and try it out with that - either for rotary speed or delay/reverb mix. 

Dominic

Sounds are good - have heard better versions of each single one from specialised boutique pedals but they are 95 % as good as the best in class in a tiny ,easy to use package with none of the LCD display/program stuff to do -very tweakable
What's not to like ?
 Believe it or not ...you get used to careful footwork quite quickly 

TimmyO

Dominic said:

Sounds are good - have heard better versions of each single one from specialised boutique pedals but they are 95 % as good as the best in class in a tiny ,easy to use package with none of the LCD display/program stuff to do -very tweakable

I agree with that summary - a useful tool to have around