Keeley debuts Andy Timmons Muse Driver overdrive at NAMM 2024

January 1, 2024 · 3 sources

Keeley Electronics announced the Andy Timmons Muse Driver Full Range Overdrive at NAMM 2024, with details published on January 23 and 24, 2024¹². It is the second collaboration between Robert Keeley and Timmons within a year, following the Super AT Mod Overdrive of May 2023¹.

The pedal uses a Keeley-modded Blues Driver-style circuit with three knobs: Level, Drive and Tone¹³. Two toggle switches, marked AT and RK, select Timmons' or Keeley's preferred voicing for the tone and drive sections¹. Under the hood, Keeley says the circuit combines an op-amp, JFET and germanium transistors¹. Guitar World describes JFET saturation, diode clipping and op-amp clipping².

Guitar Pedal X counts four combinations from the two switches, hence a 4-in-1 byline³. The pedal runs on 9 to 18 volts DC with roughly 27 mA current draw, and switches between true bypass and buffered bypass by holding the footswitch³². Jacks are on the top of the unit, and it is made in the USA¹². Guitar World gives the price as $199²; Guitar Pedal X lists a $199 MAP/RRP³. Guitar World reports an exclusive white version at Sweetwater¹.

Timmons also said the AT/AT setting is "exactly my Super AT Mod tone"¹. Guitar Pedal X wrote that the Muse Driver may supersede the Super AT Mod³.