Keeley Oxblood Overdrive

Quad Mode – Adjustable Bass + Gain

The New Voice of Rock and Roll

When inspiration hits, you need the voice to proclaim it. When you need that voice, count on the Keeley Oxblood Overdrive to be your beast of burden.

The Keeley Oxblood Overdrive is our response to everyone cloning the “Mythical Beast” pedal. They decided to build an original design, to build a new circuit that lets players blend from perfectly clean to amp-crushing roar, creating that impossibly huge and focused midrange that makes any guitar – Strat, Paul, Tele – sound incredible. Keeley knew they could do it their way and offer you more tone, so they designed this pedal over the course of a few days to outdo the old pedal.  They are confident they not only drew blood, but crafted a killer.

Clean, Distortion, Fuzz — It’s All There

With the Oxblood Overdrive you roll off the Drive Control and get a perfectly clean sound; you can dial in any amount of distortion and volume to stomp an amp into pure tonal nirvana. The Keeley Oxblood Overdrive offers two ways to clip and saturate your signal with overtones by selecting carefully chosen diodes. These are different than the standard Oxblood diodes, chosen to give bigger, more open amp tones without a lot of compression.

The key to the ultimate overdrive is the ability to control six different parameters:

• Bass response: The Phat Switch cuts bass response to give you that classic Screamer or that mythic, K-like midrange shelving. The bass response, when cut, is saturated with a hint of 2nd order harmonics. Punchy and full yet not overbearing, it cuts like a buffalo. 
• Clipping: Sometimes there just ain’t enough gain in the world. Well, not so with this beast. The Clipping Switch gives you the ability to sing with near infinite sustain, or just stand on your amp like a chief.
• Tone Control: You need to be able to dial in the highs perfectly or nothing else matters, right? The highs are what make it ear candy or ice picks. The Oxblood gives you the range to do whatever the heck you want to do. 
• Volume: You have to be able to put the pedal to the metal whenever you darn well chose. Voltage doubling in the Oxblood circuit does just that. Headroom for days! Slay an amp, leave it a bloody mess. No, you won’t blow tubes, but you will have them at the right temperature to make them glow with delight.
• Drive:  “Is it ON?” cleans to searing sustain and saturation; it pushes you, compels you to play.  
• Midrange: The sixth sign of a wonderful overdrive pedal is what’s under the hood, it’s masterful creation of sultry mids, the kind of mids singers or cellos are known for: throaty and powerful. Not congested and stuffed up, focused and brilliant.

Trifecta

The Keeley Oxblood Overdrive was designed by Robert Keeley and Craighton Hale with a lot of help and insight from Jack Orman. Jack Orman has been a pioneer in the modern world of effects for 20 years. His thoughts and ideas are incorporated by nearly every boutique builder out there. Here is your chance to hear a brand new creation designed to outperform any of the clones.