Keeley Monterey

dean111music

Has anyone tried the keeley Monterey?

i was looking at fuzz, envelope filter and chorus/Leslie 

this has all three! 

Majorscale

Yes, owned one. Great in theory, not so great in practice! The fuzz in particular was awful. 

dean111music

Haha. Thought it might be too good to be true 

Dominic

Absolute crap.....kept it less than 12 hours
shit fuzz
filter was very digital clang sound and very tinny
Leslie was ok but still very treble dominated and very plinky digital
All in all it was awful and so is the mod station
these mass market Keeley digital pedals are probably just badge engineering, made in China for the Keeley brand and devalue the brand IMO

BBBlues

Is it a fuzz face circuit? Silicon?

thecolourbox

@velvetsky01 didn't you have one of these and thought it was quite good?

hotpickups

Dominic said:

Absolute crap.....kept it less than 12 hours
shit fuzz
filter was very digital clang sound and very tinny
Leslie was ok but still very treble dominated and very plinky digital
All in all it was awful and so is the mod station
these mass market Keeley digital pedals are probably just badge engineering, made in China for the Keeley brand and devalue the brand IMO

I think I'll get one

velvetsky01

yes i did but i sold it - it was very good tho I thought

peteri

I had one and sold it - on here I think

also had one of the super-mod workstations.

I really agree with the comment on these aren't really what you expect. I had two of the mod-stations because of a software bug, so excellent customer service to be sure - but shouldn't have happened.

Very generic in terms of case and knob quality.

And honestly - just not very good (talking about the mod-station)

The Monterey lasted longer, but not that long - I found it ok for the 'cliché Hendrix' thang, which isn't actually usable at all - the Fuzz was not even close to the JHS Fuzz Face mini I replaced it with - just not even the same effect.

The mod side was ok for 2 minutes of Woodstock impressions, and then stayed off.

I would really advise a Fuzz Face mini (either the red or light blue), and whatever other pedal you need - it will sound better and likely be cheaper!