OVERDRIVE- KEELEY Super.Bass___NEW___Marshall 200 watt-in-a-Box ...dead cheap!!!

 K E E L E Y  

Super.Bass 

$100.00 USD

The amp was designed with 200 watts to let Bass players keep up with a guitarist Stack, but guys like Ritchie Blackmore loved the headroom on his Strat and the power to cut no matter what. In short it became a 'thing'. On the whole pedal makers have ignored it. The layout is Volume, Tone and Gain with a toggle that you can choose an open back combo sound or a closed back Marshall cab vibe.

          CONCLUSION__ 

It a 'budget' pedal and a Ltd Ed. only at Sweetwater. I am guessing it will sell out fast.

On one hand it is great to have something interesting to stomp so one isn't playing the same popular sounds all night. The price tag limits much risk if it doesn't fit in. On the other hand it is a bit

thin and spiky.                 

I gave in to impulse and ordered one, LOL  

Well the pedal arrived. I found very, very much to my surprise I had to cut the highs back to 8.5 o'clock.  

I prefer the open back cab voice .  

I stack it on a CKK  Anka distortion. It is a JTM45/100 MIAB. The first Hendrix recordings were made

with this short lived Marshall as the first Plexi arrived a year later. It is a convincing MIAB but it 

lacks the chime.The marriage of the 2 pedals nails it. Sultans of Swing meet the Foxey Lady.