Scott McKeon

Scott McKeon is a British blues-rock solo artist and sideman, described by Guitar.com as a "British blues-rock solo artist and sideman to the stars"¹. As a player he has worked with a wide range of artists, and he has also designed pedals of his own, including the SM Fuzz, an old-school germanium fuzz pedal that MusicRadar covered on its return².

Credits

Nobels quotes McKeon's credits as including Zigaboo Modeliste, Tom Jones, David Ryan Harris, Lana Del Rey, Derek Trucks, Ed Sheeran, Van Morrison, Will Young, Pino Palladino, Tom Hickox, Andreya Triana, Imelda May, Bootsy Collins, Jamie Cullum, Stereophonics, Eliza Doolittle, Jocelyn Brown, John Illsley, Lucy Spraggan, Joe Bonamassa, Natalie Williams, Stooshe, Jay Ja, Westlife, Jesse Davey, The Hoax, Rita Ora, Gordon Raphael (Strokes) and many more³.

Gear

McKeon's pedalboard, as he describes it himself, includes:

• The JAM Pedals Delay Llama, a delay pedal, and the RetroVibe, a vibrato pedal. He says: "I've been using the Delay Llama and the Retrovibe, and I really love how musical they are."⁴
• The Nobels ODR-1 and ODR-mini overdrive pedals. Of the ODR-1 he says: "The Nobels ODR-1 sounds so natural and big. It keeps all of the tone from the amp, and adds just the right amount of drive and gain without taking anything. Killer."³

Pedal designer

McKeon designed the SM Fuzz, and MusicRadar's review team described it as "big news for anyone looking for an old-school germanium fuzz pedal without any of the associated reliability issues"². Guitar.com notes that for McKeon, "all roads eventually led to one place: building his own"¹.

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