In this video, Sam takes a look at the Keeley Filaments, a high gain metal distortion pedal. Check it out here: https://www.pmtonline.co.uk/robert-keeley-filaments-overdrive-amp-in-a-box
Keeley pedals are highly regarded as some of the best sounding stomp boxes on the market, with their widely acclaimed range of boutique sounding overdrives, modulation and echo pedals. But the filaments is a slightly different beast, and when we say beast, we really mean it, as this is a super high gain distortion pedal…in fact, Robert Keeley himself says that this is by far their most potent, aggressive drive pedal to date. But in true Keeley fashion, it’s still built to the highest standard using top quality components, and it offers a really comprehensive range of tone shaping options, making it one of the most versatile metal distortion pedals currently available.
The Filament’s all analog distortion circuit layers 3 stages of gain, to replicate the enormous, crushing tone of a US high gain tube amp, so it’s kind of like having a mesa boogie triple rectifier in a box. There’s controls for Gain, Output level, Bass, Treble and Presence. That presence control works in conjunction with a bright switch, so if your guitar’s pickups are a little on on the muddy sounding side, it’ll really help them to cut through. There’s a Body control which adds more punch to your sound, so even if you’re running the pedal through an amp with a smallish speaker, you can really bulk up the tone to make it sound like a it’s coming from a much larger cabinet. Finally, switches for Boost and Crunch offer two different levels of gain, compression and saturation, so when combined, all of these EQ options give you a huge amount of control over the tone, so it really is suitable for all styles of metal playing.
As we’ve come to expect from Keeley pedals, the Filaments is nice and solidly made and feels really robust, there’s a true bypass switch with bright blue LED indicator, and it’s worth mentioning that although it can’t run on batteries, you can use either a 9 volt or 18 volt power supply, with Keeley saying it’s louder and sounds more powerful when run on 18 volts.
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