KEELEY
ELECTRONICS
30MS DOUBLE
TRACKER
REVIEW BY FLETCHER STEWART
STREET PRICE $199.00
DOUBLE TROUBLE
DEVIATIONS
Imagine a subtle—yet
infinitely versatile—
modulation machine that
straddles the line between
chorus, flanger and slapback
echo. This pedal would
add movement and a
mysterious backdrop behind
the guitars core tone,
while seamlessly slinking
into the nether realms of
ambience and intrigue. This
shadowbox would tiptoe
behind the scenes of known
modulations, weaving a
web between the familiars
into tonal tapestries of
new sonic subtleties. Add
to this the ability to create
polymorphic dual deviations
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and spread or condense
them at will, and we have an
idea of what the new Keeley
30ms Automatic Double
Tracker is all about.
In a convoluted overlapping
landscape of boutique
tone tweakers, modders
and noise box builders,
veteran tone doctor Robert
Keeley has come up with
a strikingly original pedal
design concept—the studio
stompbox. The first in
Keeley’s studio-in-a-stomper
series is this mighty red-andblack twin attack. The 30ms
ADT crams all the magic
of Abbey Road Studios
engineer Ken Townsend’s
tape reel stereo treatments
into a compact form factor
that belies the kaleidoscope
of trippy tones within. As if
this wasn’t enough, Robert
Keeley has even included
the famous “Abbey Verb”
chamber effect, modeled
after the fabled Studio Two.
Far out.
TRIPTYCH OUT TO
STEREO FIELDS
FOREVER
Upon unboxing, I jacked
the 30ms ADT into the
effects loop of my trusty
dual channel clean-to-crunch
machine—The Victory V30.
While most folks like chorus
and flange tones before dirt,
I wanted to hear the full
movements of these more
subtle modulations, while
having the built in reverb
Keeley Electronics 30ms Double Tracker