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Transport Your Guitar Tone to the Heyday of Rock 'n' Roll





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Vintage guitar tone abounds in the Keeley Memphis Sun pedal, and it's sure to put a smile on your face. Equipped with lo-fi reverb, echo, and double tracker effects, it's like being transported to a 1950s recording session. Much more than rockabilly in a box, Memphis Sun offers three modes for three distinct starting points. Slapback 600 delivers echo with long delays, Sun Mode features auto track doubling and slapback with short delays, and Room mode offers "studio simulation reverb." Kick it on and it's sure to inspire some good old-fashioned rock 'n' roll. If you've been looking for something to add to your pedalboard for a vintage vibe, Sweetwater can highly recommend the Keeley Memphis Sun.





Slapback 600 mode ? vintage tape-style echo





In addition to room reverb, this mode offers delay times from 30ms to 666ms, with up to three repeats offered by the Regen control. To really dial in the vintage flavor, this mode filters the reverb response at 1kHz and then compresses it, with some added harmonics to simulate tape response. The result? Gloriously rich tape echo effects with a wide delay range.





Sun Mode ? double tracking and slapback





Engage Sun Mode for room reverb plus double tracking and slapback delay effects. Ok, so Automatic Double Tracking (ADT) wasn't available in the 1950s, but it sounds so right that Keeley included it anyway. For that double-tracked sound, keep the delay time low and Regen all the way down (or increase it for tape-style modulation). For slapback delay, simply increase the delay time control until you hear a distinct repeat ? the delay knob ranges from 0ms to 180ms while in Sun Mode.





Room ? good ol' fashioned studio reverb





If for some reason you're not looking for slapback and double tracking, select Room mode to simulate a small 33' by 18' tiled room. Keeley designed this effect to re-create the natural compression that occurs when you fill a small space with big sound. Dial in your preferred pre-delay amount, from 0 to 180ms, then fine-tune your tone with the Regen control ? in this mode, it's actually an active filter with 10dB of cut or boost centered around 1.1kHz.





Keeley Memphis Sun Lo-fi Reverb/Echo/Double Tracker Pedal Features:


Vintage-themed effects pedal based on the sound of 1950s rock 'n' roll, country, and rockabilly


Slapback 600 mode offers reverb plus echo with long delay times


Sun Mode features reverb plus auto track doubling, and slapback with short delays


Room mode simulates studio reverb, with 0ms-180ms pre-delay range


Designed to replicate the nuances of 1950s recording techniques for a truly vintage character