Keeley Electronics Unleashes Spectacular XVIII Anniversary Space Panorama Trio - El Rey Dorado Overdrive, Compact Phaser and Delay Workstation

Keeley are getting to be rather good at these limited special editions as I’ve commented on several times previously. Once again they’ve drawn in painter Phillip Ortiz for this cool space-themed diorama / panorama. I actually noted in my recent Walrus Audio Best of Range Overview that they should do some sort of Space panorama as that’s where much of their pedal artwork sits. If you muted these tones a little or rather duo-toned this, then this is exactly the kind of design you might expect from Walrus - which means they seem to have missed a trick here.

So props to Robert and the gang for seeing the potential in this sort of objet d’art! You can of course argue that the graphics can get in the way of the legibility of the controls - which is much less significant for the two compact pedals, but possibly more of an issue with the Delay Workstation - while I guess those legends are probably just about legible enough.

You can buy all three at a discount of 20% = $494 or individually at $149, $169 and $299 respectively; it is only the artwork here that is different, the pedal internals remain the same.

If you were considering any or some of these - now’s the perfect time to acquire the set - for me it makes best sense to acquire the trio, although one spanner in the works is that the order of the panorama is probably back to front - as you would most likely deploy the pedals right-to-left in the opposite sequence to the actual design!