Keeley Filaments High Gain Distortion Pedal Reviews

This thing goes from a classic mellow crunch with beautiful sound to an ear bleeding monster, and sounds good in all its range. There's something here for everybody.

The best high gain pedal I've tried. It sometimes has to much gain if that's possible. But goes great through my 5150iii-S clean channel.

This has been on my pedal board for a while now. I play through a Mesa triple crown and I have my three channels set for clean crunch and heavy crunch. Which covers 90%of what I play pop and classic rock. On the rare occasion I get to play metal I pop on my clean channel and kick this beast in. Soooooo much gain. Be prepared for feedback though.

This is a very useful pedal for all style of rock music. It is not real buzzy like a Metal Muff can get. Very wide range of distortion. Useful for lead or rhythm playing.

This is the Swiss Army Knife of distortion pedals. So many flavors inside this stomp box, it's amazing.

This pedal has a lot of controls to adjust. Take a while to get use to dialing.
Lots of options. I like the sound and the heavy duty feel of this pedal. Thank you

Takes some time to experiment and tweak in but I am finding it a very multi voiced high gain. I wanted something that had more low end punch and adjustments and this is the puppy. Best uber gain pedal I have had so far. Can be very dark but plenty of switch toggles and knob range to tweak in to your liking. Borders on bombastic fuzz to articulate high gain, dig it.

Great pedal!! Love Keeley pedals and a must have on any pedal board!!

This is an extremely versatile distortion. I flip on the crunch switch for medium to high gain rock tones. Flip the crunch switch down, up the gain, and you get heavy metal tones. Seven different options for EQ, bass, body, treble, presence, bright, boost, crunch. Sounds great with single coil (including P90's) and humbuckers. Note: there is a significant volume boost when engaging the crunch switch, I turn the volume down to complensate. I have to turn the volume about a quarter turn down to maintain the volume level. This drive knocked a few other pedals off my board as this one can do it all.

The Keeley Filaments is a unique, versatile high-gain pedal. It takes a little patience to coax the sound that you desire, but it's most likely in there. If you play a specific genre, or want to sound like a particular musician, there are other specialized pedals available. If you want your own sound, this is a pedal to consider. Some pedals have an annoying hiss when energized, this pedal is quiet and is barely noticeable - you have to listen for it [unless you engage the gain switch]. Because it is so quiet, you can roll back the volume and lurk in the mix, and then roll on the volume when it's time to solo. Used alone, it will cover most metal. When put downstream from a compressor and klone/tube screamer, it became a beast of an alpha pedal which I had to tame down. With modest upstream gain, you can just make it to chug town. The Keeley Filaments not for everyone, but it is a good fit for me.

I am a gear nut, and I love pedals. I've got about 25 dirt pedals, and after watching review videos, I tried to resist, but could not. This pedal sounds awesome and is so tweakable, I have only just begun to scratch the surface. I have not yet experimented with stacking it, but will try that soon. I really am enjoying this pedal, and would recommend it for just about any style/genre requiring dirt. The half star deduction was for noise - it's a bit buzzy, but not too crazy. Sweet pedal.

I've been playing with pedal along side several other high gain pedals and this one is very different from the rest. First of all, the pedal is so quiet it's almost Hi-Fi like. In general, I put my highest gain pedals first in pedal order (after the compressor) so as not to pickup and amplify any latent signals coming from anything ahead of in in the signal chain, I absolutely don't have to do that with this pedal. It is amazingly quiet, especially compared to other high gain pedals in and around its price range.

It's certainly modern sounding but it is by no means a chug/djent factory. Yes, it will do that but this pedal has far more range than that. In fact, I prefer to use it for lead tones. There is plenty of everything on this pedal, bass, treble, gain, volume, body (whatever that is) and so on, so much so that I have to assume these are active controls that provide a boost rather than audio taper pots.

The pedal is sort of a blank canvas, there are lots of sounds that you can dial in but there isn't one over reaching "character" that you notice when you turn it on unlike some of its contemporaries. That's neither a good nor bad thing but it is significant enough for it to be a "thing" in my opinion which is why I mention it.

The size is nice, it's about the same size as a standard MXR pedal and it can take 9 or 18volts which is nice.

Overall it's a great high gain pedal that can do rock tones all the way up to metal. I'd recommend it unless you're going for ultra scooped, super compressed Nu Metal tones. If so, I've not been able to make this one sound bad enough for that.

This is a bit of a pedal nerd review. To start off I have been playing for 35 years, have 35 guitars and a recording studio and somewhere around 150 pedals. Great amps etc. when I see something new or exciting I get it. As usual sweatwater is great, filaments was released like 3 days ago and I have already had it delivered to my house yesterday and played with it all on my day off. Here's what I like. High gain. Lots of controls to dial in sound. Great Keely quality ( as usual). I got some tones similar to judas priest but also had some Boston classic rock bigness. What I didn,t like was that it was noisy. For the price I could get similar great tones out of some electro harmonix pedals and the very affordable TC dark matter pedal which is only $50. It sounds just slightly like a carpet was thrown over it. Now that's maybe picky or unfair cause I have so much to compare it too and am lucky enough to be able to afford all of this stuff. That said it's a great pedal totally high end professional. Great for rythm chugging. I'm very glad to have ought it and it will be in my chain for some time. Get it

Not my fav high gain. For me it's kinda mediocre just didn't have the wow factor for the price tag !