Keeley Katana Mini Boost

In the realm of clean boost pedals, the Katana is the King of tone.

If you want a mirror image of your tone, only louder - then the Katana Mini Boost is the right pedal for you.

The Katana Mini Boost pedal is a fat, harmonically rich boost. It operates in pure clean and high gain modes giving you an excellent range for shaping your tone.

The Katana Mini Boost is a small form factor version of the
Katana Clean Boost pedal, as the mini only has one knob additional control of the sound can be set using two internal switches, but to change the settings you must unscrew the bottom of the pedal to change the settings.

The mini is really solid, the internals look clean and well constructed. The housing has an excellent finish and the knob has a good quality feel.

The button for activating the boost has a well-defined "click" so you can easy feel when you activate and deactivate the boost.

The mini format makes the pedal easy to fit onto almost any pedal board.

I would have been nice if the power connector was places on the end of the pedal instead of by the output connector.

I would definitely recommend the pedal for any one looking for a high quality booster in a small form factor, it has already gotten a permanent place on my pedal board.

I've looked for a booster for a while and as you know there are many out there. What I was looking for was just a booster with a gain knob, nothing more, nothing less, as I didn't want to colour my signal in any way, but just boost it.

The Katana Mini is small and sturdy and will definitely fit on every pedal board, but is just big enough to be able to stomp on it and not feel like your smashing the pedal under your foot.

When I push the Katana Mini a bit over 12 o'clock you get more crunch and volume, just as my amp would, but also a slight treble boost. If you have a strat or strat-like guitar you probably have enough treble already, so the internal dip switch to cut some treble will be helping you out.

I had heard about Keeley and it's quality before and was already amazed by the packaging and minimalism of the pedal.

All in all it's just what I wanted. 5/5!