The Keepit Lemon Overdrive is a combination overdrive that merges a wide-ranging gain overdrive with a blues overdrive. The front end delivers a refined tone, featuring gently swaying high frequencies and a warm midrange. The rear end provides a smooth yet rich character, capturing the crisp sweetness of ‘breaking’ blues along with harmonic-rich grit. This design maximizes the benefits of dual overdrives.
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Front end (Griddle/Gainer) delivers a versatile overdrive with a broad gain spectrum, encompassing clean boost, gain boost, overdrive, crunch drive, distortion, and even fuzz characteristics. The Tone knob ensures consistency in tone, adapting to the characteristics of both the amp and guitar. It can be adjusted clockwise for darker tones with humbucker pickups or anticlockwise for consistent tones with brighter amps or single-coil pickups.
Rear end (Downpour/Drive), whilst preserving the original characteristics, offers multiple features to expand frequency coverage and texture. A 3-way toggle emphasizes characteristic mid range frequencies, allowing you to highlight 3.4kHz on the left and 7.2kHz on the right. The drive amount can be adjusted via guitar volume for clean-up, and Presence control for higher-frequency adjustments and asymmetrical clipping option (adjusted through internal DIP switches) are also included.
Additionally, a stack level is added to the rear end overdrive, allowing different level settings when used stacked, e.g., stack level for solo and own level for backing.
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To fully utilize the advantages of the dual channels, the selection method for the two drives is provided. Placing the G/R selection toggle at the top allows you to use the rear end overdrive and front end overdrive on the green and red channels, respectively. Placing it in the middle lets you use the rear end overdrive and stacked overdrive each on the green and red channels, and placing the toggle at the bottom allows you to use the front end overdrive and stacked overdrive on the two channels separately.
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With high input impedance and low output impedance, it ensures no impact on effects placed before or after it. Each overdrive includes its own stabilization circuit, resulting in very low noise characteristics. Internally boosting the input from 9V to 18V provides high headroom, preserving the original characteristics of the signal. Moreover, to control the signal path, electro-mechanical relays are used instead of commonly used FET or analogue switch components in the effects world, minimising colouration by components and preserving the original signal in both true bypass and internal signal flow control.
Input Power: 9V DC (centre negative) / Current Draw: 140mA (Pedal power only, No battery use)
Input Impedance: 1MΩ / Output Impedance: Less than 1kΩ
Dimensions:
Module - 3.7“x2.6”x2.3“/9.3x6.7x5.8cm
Pedal - 51.2“x2.8”x2.6“/130x7.1x6.5cm
Weight:
Module - 0.46lbs / 210g
Pedal - 1.02lbs / 461g
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