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KEELEY ABSOLUTE WURST
Announced on April Fool’s Day, 2015, the Keeley Absolute Würst was initially deemed
an April Fool’s prank because of its highly unusual topology. However, it’s not—Robert
Keeley designed the Absolute Würst as a strange filter and harmony machine, but
there’s no way it stays true to either of those two types. Despite its odd metallic
clamor, the circuit is actually highly advanced and employs the use of an expensive
Spin FV-1 chip, the current standard in boutique digital processing. The Würst was
engineered to screw up one’s signal in the most dissonant way possible, without any
straightforward path to do so. The resulting din is unlike any other pedal before it,
and likely after it.
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