Keeley D&M Drive Custom Shop Texas Edition
Keeley D&M Drive Custom Shop Texas Edition
That Pedal Show’s D&M Drive, now in a Keeley Custom Shop “Messin’ with Texas” Edition. Award winning pedal from Robert Keeley with input from Dan and Mick from That Pedal Show with a Texas Guitar Show inspired custom paint job.
- High Voltage Boost
- Saturated Multistage Gain
- Advanced Switching for Pros
The D&M Drive is the perfect storm of Drive and Boost. The D&M offers a gorgeous sounding high-voltage Boost side which is designed to impart the perfect tone on any amp that needs to be pushed. No longer will you wonder what the perfect clean boost should be. As you roll things up, the drive morphs your tone into singing gold. A sexy and smoothly saturated midrange voice appears which breathes confidence. The Drive side offers everything you would want in a powerful gain stage. From flat honest overdrive that is perfect for any set of chords to searing hot lead work with tons of sustain. The Drive is the perfect counterpoint to the Boost. Not only does each side of the pedal provide rewarding guitar tones, they can be used to stack together for an out-of-this-world experience. The pro switching system developed for the D&M Drive allows you to select which side of the pedal comes first. What’s more, you can configure the pedal to work in a pro switching system like the G2 for independent Boost/Drive use!
That Boost
Are you looking for something in between a clean boost, such as the high voltage Keeley Katana, and a germanium modded professional overdrive? If so, the D&M is the answer. To get things started, the D&M Drive delivers insane amounts of headroom. Then, a distinct midrange voice can be dialed in to give you the lead voicing you dream of. When dialed in, it can give you the punch and clarity of a horn yet be subtle and smooth in saturation in order to give you a warm overdrive filled with tons of sustain. Expect it to work well with any amp or rig.
That Drive
Multiple Gain Stages is where it’s at. This drive delivers. From its lowest settings, where you feel like you’ve discovered the perfect pro sounding overdrive, to the roar of a high-end amp, the multiple gain stage Drive delivers a heavily saturated punch. And the headroom here is no slouch. Use it to find that delicate balance between drive and amp saturation for the core of your tone. Turn up the Drive to give yourself a dynamic and searing tube-like gain that excels in sustain. The D&M is designed for quick attack with plenty of high and low end. Rich harmonic gain and sustain with dynamics is what this side offers.
The Switching
Daniel Steinhardt from TheGigRig insisted that this was a versatile dual-gain box that wasn’t limited in any way with its two simple stomp switches. You select the order! A simple toggle allows you to configure the pedal so that when both the Drive and Boost are on, you decide which is first. If you want to have a smooth and round tone to go into a richly driven amp-like gain stage … or if you want a highly driven tone with edge and harmonics to be then boosted with clarity and refinement, it’s your choice. Not only that, but Daniel had the engineers incorporate his idea for TRS insert cables so that this pedal would easily integrate into a professional switching system like the G2. Now pedalboard designers can configure the D&M Drive to act as two independent pedals, switching between either side of the pedal as it were its own stand alone effect.
“Some overdrive sounds have that magic, oh-so playable feel and response. It‘ll be your ideal balance of gain, EQ, headroom and compression, and we’re constantly searching for that.
Part of that search ends here because Keeley has absolutely nailed two separate circuits for our favourite tones respectively, that then combine for a whole extra world of fun and inspiration.
We hope you love it as much as we do!”
Daniel & Mick
It’s a dual overdrive that’s the perfect storm of drive and boost.
The ‘Drive’ side is all about Dan’s favourite kind of rich, harmonic gain and sustain. Expect a quick attack with plenty of high and low end, that can go from a superb core crunch tone through to searing tube-like gain. Huge girth for single coils; harmonic bliss for humbuckers and P90s.
The ‘Boost’ side spans Mick’s love for high-voltage, high-headroom mid boosters and a germanium-modded professional overdrive. Punch and clarity aplenty, this will thicken Strat and Tele single coils into huge, single-note singers, or push humbuckers from mild breakup into rich and fruity drive… always with enough treble to cut when you want it.
Each side sounds great on its own, but used together Drive and Boost open up a whole plethora of inspiring multi-stage gain sounds.
Whether you like the super-fat harmonic bliss of Boost into Drive, or the solo lifting punch of Drive into Boost – and anything in between – the D&M Drive has you covered for anything from country to blues to rock and beyond.
In addition, users of loop-based switching systems have the option of using TRS cables in the ‘in’ and ‘out’ jacks to route each side of the D&M Drive into completely separate loops.
We are immensely proud of the D&M Drive, and honoured that Robert Keeley and his team gave it everything we could have asked. It’s gone way beyond our expectations and then some!
