Keeley Electronics

Keeley Electronics is an American company that makes special tools called effect units for electric guitars. These tools help change and improve the sound of guitars when people play them.

The company was started by a person named Robert Keeley. It is based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The first product they made was called the Keeley Compressor pedal. They also helped change and improve some tools made by other companies like Boss and Ibanez.

Effect units are very important for guitar players because they let musicians create many different sounds and styles while performing or recording music. Keeley Electronics is known for making high-quality tools that guitar players all over the world use.

History

Robert Keeley started Keeley Electronics in 2001 after studying electrical engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He began in his home in Oklahoma City and first wanted to build guitar amplifiers, but decided to focus on guitar effect units instead. His first product was a compressor pedal, and he later improved and rebuilt effects made by other companies like Ibanez and Boss.

Keeley Electronics became very successful, making high-quality effect pedals. The company is now known as one of the best sellers of these guitar effects. Robert Keeley still makes special custom effects for famous guitar players, such as changing an MXR Phase 90 for Donald Fagen.

Notable products

• Compressor
• Dark Side, a multi-effect unit inspired by the work of David Gilmour and Pink Floyd.
• Framptone, an amplifier switcher and talk box developed in cooperation with Peter Frampton
• Fuzz Head, a fuzzbox
• Katana Clean Boost, Keeley's first self-made pedal, is a pre-amplifier used by Billy Gibbons and Dan Spitz
• Loomer, containing fuzz and reverb in one pedal. Its name and design were influenced by a song by the shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine
• Luna Overdrive, containing a Baxandall tone circuit, an op-amp, and a JFET circuit "voiced like a Fender or Marshall preamplifier circuit"
• Phaser, a digitally controlled six-stage analog Phaser

Modifications

Keeley Electronics made special versions of popular guitar effect pedals. They worked on the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver and the Ibanez Tube Screamer. They also created a modified version of the Dunlop Cry Baby, called the Mello Wah.