Keeley Dark Side Workstation
$299.00
YOU CAN BEHOLD THE UNIVERSE IN A GLASS OF WINE.
The individual pieces that make up the Dark Side workstation are Fuzz, Delay and Modulation. The Fuzz side of the Dark Side is a big fuzz style distortion based on a 1977 op-amp style. We used something similar in our Psi Fuzz. This one is completely and radically different. We made what seemed like endless changes to extract the nuances of earlier transistor based fuzzes. We gained it way to down to fit the time period and the style. This is a more transparent Big Fuzz. This one lets your guitar sing with sustain, yet retains the essence of your guitar whether single coil or humbucker based.
Shipping
We offer free shipping anywhere in the continental US. Vintage, used, and showroom products are shipped from our studio in Rock Hill, SC. New products are shipped directly from our partner manufacturers and makers. Some products are not available for shipping (this will be noted along with the product information). Shipping times vary per product.
Pickup
You can purchase a product online and then pick it up at our studio in Rock Hill, SC. Pickup times will be arranged after purchase. Vintage, used, and showroom products are onsite. New products will be shipped in from the manufacturer before pickup.
Returns
New Products
The Local Pickup offers free returns on new products within 14 days of purchase. Plus, each manufacturer/distributor offers their own extended return warrantees.
Used Products
The Local Pickup offers free returns on used products within 7 days of purchase. The product must return in the same condition as when it was sold. If there are new damages to the product, then the product will be assessed by The Local Pickup for its new value. This new adjusted amount will then be offered for the return.
Taxes
All purchases from The Local Pickup are made online on this website. Tax is automatically applied to purchases made by buyers with a South Carolina address.
Rentals
We plan to offer rentals, but we do not currently offer rentals.
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The next core element in the Dark Side pedal is the Delay and Modulation side. You can select between a multi-head tape delay effect or between a combination of 4 different modulation sounds. The Dark Side delay has 12 different syncopated delays. They are rhythmic and have the tonal quality of the old spinning drum tape delays. The Dark Side has many subtle filters to get the tape delay setting to have the feel and warmth of the original machines, yet gives you range of control to have modern features like expression pedal control for the number of repeats. You can use it for creating a feedback oscillation delay. Extremely subtle modulations in the delay make it very musical.
The next atom in this workstation is the modulation effect. There are four parts to this effect. Flanger, Rotary Speaker Cabinet, U-Vibe, and Phaser. You can blend between the “Electric Lady” Flanger and a Les-Rotary cabinet, creating new sounds. You can find that perfect blend between a vintage sounding opto-coupler based U-Vibe and the little orange phaser.
HEART
At the heart of the Dark Side is a hand built board that contains analog fuzz and a high quality 24-bit DSP engine. We studied and analyzed decades worth of gear and crafted our own sounds that give you not only the original tones, but an endless range of in-between sounds you can’t get elsewhere. Even if you have other Keeley effects or workstations, you don’t have these exact sounds. It’s dead on and a blast to play. Like the Monterey, this unit is completely hand built. Including the high-end DSP, everything is hand assembled and soldered by our technicians with decades of experience. Attention to detail and tone at every point.
