Keeley Dark Side V2 Workstation Fuzz Tape Delay Modulation Guitar Pedal

Description

Truly Inspiring Fuzz
Multi Head
Tape Delay
Rotary/Flanger
U-Vibe/Phaser
Product Description
You can behold the universe in a glass of wine.
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.
Atom
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.  We used something   similar in our Psi Fuzz.  This one is completely and radically   different.  We made what seemed like endless changes to extract the   nuances of earlier transistor based fuzzes.   We 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 and   Modulation side.  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 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.
The next atom in this workstation is the modulation effect.  There   are four parts to this 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.  You can find that perfect   blend between a vintage sounding opto-coupler based U-Vibe and the   little orange phaser.
There is also an Expression Pedal port on the pedal.  It is highly   recommended to have an expression pedal handy.  You can make many   adjustments on the fly that just increase the fun and functionality of   the pedal while you’re creating music.  It has to be a TRS style   expression pedal.  We suggest something like the M-Audio or Moog   expression pedals.
You spoke and we listened!  Make America TRS-Free Again.  Okay, we   heard you, you can’t switch order on the fly during a gig.  You never   used the TRS cable to insert effects.  You just tossed the cable aside.    You all said YES when we said effect-order switch.  New units have a   simple push button switch to change the order!  Sweetwater has the first   stock available of the new units.  Mike Hermans did a new video with   the effect-order switcher.
On older units there is a TRS Insert for adding effects in between   the Fuzz and Modulation/Delay side of the pedal.  This is handy if you   have phaser or chorus pedal you might want to add if you want to use the   Delay side of the Dark Side.  That way you can have   Fuzz>Phaser>Delay for example.
Heart
At the heart of the Dark Side is a hand built board that contains   analog fuzz and a high quality 24-bit DSP engine. We studied and   analyzed decades worth of gear and crafted our own sounds that give you   not only the original tones, but an endless range of in-between sounds   you can’t get elsewhere.  Even if you have other Keeley effects or   workstations, you don’t have these exact sounds.  The Rotary is slightly   different than the Monterey, it’s more chorus like.  The Flanger is   different than the hidden one on the Bubble Tron. The U-Vibe on this   pedal is also deeper and throbs with more intensity.  If you were lucky   enough to get one of the Jimi Hazel Phase Delays or put the Bubble Tron   into the hidden bank 2 mode; well then you have heard our 4 stage   phaser.  It’s dead on and a blast to play.  Like the Monterey, this unit   is completely hand built.  Including the high-end DSP, everything is   hand assembled and soldered by our technicians with decades of   experience.  Attention to detail and tone at every point.
Mother
What you get is a Mother Lode of effects and sounds.  Necessity is   the Mother of Invention.  Someone needed to put all these epic sounds in   one box.  So we did.  There’s no need to wish you were here, get out   your Strat and we’ll see you on the Dark Side