NEW Katana Clean Boost – ‘Throwback White’ Edition
$199.00
- The Definitive Clean Boost
- Our Best Katana EVER
- ‘Throwback White’ Colorway
4 in stock
Introducing the NEW Keeley Katana Clean Boost in a new ‘Throwback White’ colorway!
Our Katana Clean Boost is back and better than ever! Redesigned while going back to our roots. We listened to what our players wanted and went back to our roots.
The new Katana uses the original JFETs that made the original so special. We used the same component values from the original Katana, and updated the Boost mode to offer a more robust, clear sound, giving more clarity to bass notes when engaged. We updated the build with modern construction techniques to make this Katana the most dependable Clean Boost on the market, including an updated aluminium control knob, designed to be adjusted on the fly.
WANT A MIRROR IMAGE OF YOUR TONE, ONLY LOUDER? Roll the volume knob forward with your foot and you’ll be good to go! NEED EVEN MORE? The Katana Boost is also a fat, harmonically rich boost, just pull out on the volume knob and push the limits with overdriven tone! You can keep it on all the time to push your amp harder, or as an occasional boost to cut through the mix.
The Katana circuit is Robert Keeley’s first guitar effect design for Keeley Electronics. It was originally designed as part of the Time Machine Boost, but then became an independent product under the Keeley name after the release of the original Keeley Compressor.
WE ARE PROUD TO OFFER YOU THE BEST KATANA EVER.
Two modes, Pure Clean and High Gain
1. With the speed knob Pushed In, think of it as a volume control that goes to 20.
2. With the speed knob Pulled Out, it’s a cutting boost with a bit of gain. Not quite an overdrive, just overdriven tube grit and edge to your tone.
The Katana Clean Boost offers two modes. Pull the control knob for extra +30db Boost – It will make your signal sing!
Voltage Doubling
Dual FETs for the most tube like tone in a transistor design. Power Doubling on the inside so you put 9VDC in, and we use a charge pump to nearly double operating voltage! (Caution – 9 Volt DC Maximum Input Voltage (don’t try to put 18 volts to the unit hoping that the doubler will make it 36VDC!)
What do higher power supply voltage rails mean?! -> SUPER CLEAN HIGH-HEADROOM BOOST! Pull the Level knob out to switch -> Tube-like gain! THE EDGE!!!!
The Katana circuit is Robert Keeley’s first effect design for Keeley. As far as clean boosts go, the Katana is KING TONE!
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1 review for NEW Katana Clean Boost - 'Throwback White' Edition
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rich –
“More Louder, More Toner!”
My review is of the Custom Shop PWKY edition but the innards are the same. This is the simplest and perhaps most versatile pedal on my board. I think of it as a +10 volume with the knob in and a +20 with the knob out (these numbers might not be electronically accurate!). Like this, it basically acts as an immediate extension of the volume knob on your guitar and can push the output of single coils or let you flip quickly from quiet/clean sounds to overdriven crunch in a 60s volume-style. You can dial in a little more thickness/tone to nearly any other sound you’re making, and it’s great for sitting at the front of some gain-stacked overdrives to give an on/off “Oomph!”
I think if I lost all my Keeleys, this would be the first one I’d repurchase. This, then a Compressor Plus… maybe…