In this video, Sam takes a look at the Keeley Oxblood Overdrive, a pedal dubbed "the Klone killer", check it out here: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/keeley-oxblood-overdrive-pedal
The Oxblood is Robert Keeley’s response to other pedal manufacturers attempts at cloning what he refers to as the “Mythical Beast”, the highly sought after Klon Centaur overdrive from the early 1990’s. But instead of being a direct copy, the Oxblood is an original design offering a higher gain range and wider tonal scope, so whilst allowing for that classic low to mid gain, K-style overdrive, which is great for pushing a slightly overdriven amp over the edge, it also works really well as a standalone, higher gain stomp box, with focused, punchy mid-range frequenicies.
Control-wise, there’s level, drive and tone knobs. Level adjusts the overall output of the pedal, offering up to 25db boost, and drive controls the amount of that creamy overdrive, and this can be turned right down if you just want to use the pedal as a clean boost. The tone control has a nice wide sweep to it, and this is accompanied by a phat switch which toggles the bass response between 736hz and and more emphasised 66hz to fatten up your tone. Finally a clipping switch allows you to switch between two different diodes in the circuit, offering different ways to clip and saturate the signal. Keeley say that these diodes have been carefully selected to offer a bigger, more open tone without a lot of compression. The diode on the left side of the switch offers more saturation and a tighter distortion, but flick the switch to the right and you get increased output level and dynamics more akin to that classic Klon pedal.
The pedal it’s looks fantastic with it’s vintage styling and colour scheme, as you’d expect from Keeley it’s built to the highest standard using top quality components, there’s a true bypass foot switch and the pedal can run on either a 9 volt power supply or a battery. Take a quick look and listen with PMTVUK and check one out at your local Professional Music Technology store...
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