Keeley Electronics Loomer

Keeley Electronics Loomer

Wall-of Fuzz drenched in a Wash-of-Reverb

The Keeley Loomer offers Heavy Gain, Soft Focus, Reverse, Cascading Octave Feedback, Tremolo Bar Strummed Reverb. A stoned, morning floaty, messed up, thrill machine is what it is. Washes of reverb in new ways you’ve not heard in a stomp box before and a fuzz that’s like a cigarette burn on your forearm. It rages. Can’t live without these three and the new reverbs are born of a Shoegaze dream.

Main Features:

• Fuzz, Reverb effect pedal
• Muff-Style Fuzz circuit
• Mod section with 3 reverb modes
  • Focus – Recreation of the Soft Focus Patch of the Yamaha FX 500
  • Reverse – inspired by the Yamaha SPX90 and Alesis MidiVerb II
  • Hall – Hall reverb with ascending shimmer
• EXP input – for expression control over Depth
• Order switch – for selecting order of Fuzz and Reverb effects in the signal chain
• 100% analog dry signal, audiophile designed input to output
• Top-Mounted Jacks – for a compact pedalboard layout
• Made in Edmond, USA
• Powered by a regular 9V DC PSU
  (centre -, 2,1 mm, low ~75 mA current draw)

The Loomer’s Muffdive fuzz section grabs you by the fuzz. When you’re a gazer, you can do those kinda things.
On its Reverb side, Loomer is packed with three superbly crafted approximations of legendary reverbs, that will drown you in never-ending waves of sweet, sweet ambience.

Hall is a super long ambient wash with the ability to add octave regeneration in the feedback loop. More than shimmer it’s more like ascension shimmer.
Reverse lets you set different delay times with the Decay control which gives you rhythmic reverse. This is based on the Yamaha SPX90 and the Alesis Midiverb II. It is not a true reversed reverb as it reads through a delay line at various points in the delay while increasing in volume.

The Decay control is more of a switch in that it is choosing between 8 different set “decay” times: 150ms, 200ms, 250ms, 300ms, 350ms, 400ms, 450ms, and 500ms allowing you to set all kinds of delay times in which the notes come back at you.

This is where it gets really cool. The vibrato in this mode is envelope controlled. The range runs from 0 to 50ms of time shift.Tone control is loosely based on the Jazzmaster rhythm tone control with a low pass filter centered at 156.6Hz Strum hard at it pitch bends like you are playing the trem bar on a Jazzmaster or Jaguar! Combine the two for an unreal dual-guitar player effect!

Because all of the reverbs can go All-Wet by means of the Blend Control, this is a great approximation of the Yamaha FX500 patch. Soft Focus Reverb features a dense reverb with two delays in parallel (one set for 250ms, the other set for 380ms.)