KeeleyMini Katana Clean Boost Pedal

Its a perfect clean boost. I don’t hear any coloration at all in clean boost mode. Ive heard others complain that it adds gain, but it adds gain in the same way your guitar volume knob does..naturally. I love it.

Love the tone isn’t altered or too trebly. It’s the most transparent OD I’ve tried and I tested EP booster from Xotic, Spark from TC electronics, and the MXR pedal - the white one. This one is in a class of its own. Well made, I am starting to notice all Keeley pedals are special.

This thing is what it is, a clean boost. I play a Les Paul thru a Princeton 65 RI. I've read EP style boosters are better to add "something special" to single coil pups, but for my humbuckers I wanted CLEAN and pure boost. This does that. After dirt it's just a clear dirt volume boost. I personally use it after a light OD, into the Katana, into a heavier OD, and use the Katana to boost my light or OD or goose the heavy OD, which adds a wonderful mild volume boost and gain saturation. The built quality is great. My only real complaint is that it's a complete mystery to me why the "gain" switch is hidden under the chassis - I'd love to experiment with the gain function, as this thing becomes a real neutral gain pedal when that's switched on, but it's just a dip switch inside the unit. I wish there was just a button you could click, or that you could pull out the knob like the on the full sized unit. Besides that, if you know you just want the boost, or the dirt - set it and forget it, and it works just wonderfully. Very clean, very transparent, more-so than any other boost I've read about. Everything Keeley is good stuff.

I bought because Keely product is known to be very good sounding, and also that it is a small foot print pedal.Kind of does the job which, for me, is to use at the beginning of the Signal Chain to boost the input signal on guitars with single coil pickups with less output than my humbuckers guitars. It does work for this, somewhat. This pedal would probably work better for people that want to boost for their leads, placing it after the drive pedals.I do have an MXR Micro Amp pedal on my other board that really does the job for me. That’s what I would suggest for the use that I’m using it for.

With factory-set gain and treble cut engaged this pedal performs as advertised. A boost without coloration or noise. Easy to dial up volume for solos. Works well after distortion (OCD) pedals.

After much research I decided to take a chance on a very low profile pedal. Wow! What a difference. For me, this thing is an “Always On” pedal.While it can be used as a volume boost for solos, it’s true magic comes through with clean or slightly overdriven tones. The shortest way to describe the change is similar to going from crackly AM radio to crystal HD radio. Every note is polished and served up beautifully.

I use this on the effects loop of my Splawn Nitro SS. The effects loop is a line level loop (not the lower power instrument level). This pedal sounds awesome! Very clean boost and no added noise. It's my same guitar tone, just louder when I want it louder.

Colors the sound in a biting way. Too much edge. I have other ways of getting that.

This is a very nice transparent Clean boost. Highly recommended.

Fantastico pedale!

Really great little clean boost

Breaks up easily for a "clean boost", not as clean as a TC Spark Mini or a MXR MC401

Good product, fast delivery.