In this video, Sam takes a look at the Keeley Caverns, a powerful delay and reverb pedal. Check it out here: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/keeley-caverns-delay-reverb-v2
As you might expect from a pedal designed by Robert Keeley, the Caverns is no ordinary Reverb or Delay pedal, offering huge scope for tonal tweaking allowing you to create huge, lush, ambient soundscapes, whilst still remaining simple, intuitive and inspiring to use.
The pedal’s split into two halves, on the left is the Reverb and on the right the Delay, and you can toggle these on and off individually using their corresponding switches. The delay side has controls for delay time, ranging from thirty to six hundred and fifty milliseconds, there’s a feedback knob to set the amount of delay repeats and a blend to adjust the mix between wet and dry signal. The delay itself is derived from Keeley’s much loved Magnetic Echo circuit, so it’s designed to emulate a vintage analog tape machine, so to add a bit of colour to the tone there’s also a modulation switch, to add virtual tape wow and flutter to the delay repeats. This is switchable to either light, deep or no modulation, and the speed of the effect is controlled by a rate knob.
There’s three different reverb modes to choose from. Spring mode offers a lovely vintage, Fender Blackface style spring reverb and tremolo effect, Shimmer mode puts an emphasis on octave up harmonics and modulation mode adds a kind of chorusy modulation to the tone to create a huge, cavernous sounding reverb. These are then controlled by knobs for reverb decay or time, reverb warmth, from nice and bright to muddy and dark, and a rate control to adjust the modulation elements.
As we’ve come to expect from Keeley pedals, the Carverns is built to the highest standard using top quality components and this means that sonically, it’s sounds absolutely fantastic. It look great too with it’s funky geometric artwork, and considering all it offers, it’s not too big so won’t take up too much room on your pedalboard. Finally, there’s 9 volt DC input, you will need a power supply as it can’t run on batteries, and the input and output are TRS stereo jacks, allowing you to run place the pedal in either a standard mono signal chain or integrate it into a pro switching system with stereo pedals in the chain.
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