Keeley New-Halo-Core vs Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay
The Keeley New-Halo-Core and the Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay are both pedals sharing ambient, analog warmth, slapback. The Keeley New-Halo-Core leans modulated. The Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay leans warm. Current prices: $249.99 vs $181.50.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.49% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Rock
- Ambient
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- ambient
- analog warmth
- slapback
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$249.99via Reverb
$181.50via Reverb
The Keeley Halo Core is a streamlined, compact version of the Halo Andy Timmons Dual Echo, distilling the signature modulated diffusion delay into three modes: Andy's iconic HALO sound, Quarter Note, and Dotted Eighth. It produces cascading, dancing repeats held together with tape-style modulation, saturation, and compression, creating a reverb-like diffusion that stays out of the way of the dry guitar. Features include true stereo input and output, switchable trails or true bypass, infinite repeats, and tap-controllable subdivisions including dotted-eighth, quarter-note, and golden-ratio stacked echoes. Its brushed black and silver enclosure feels premium and road-ready. It suits ambient leads and expansive stereo textures, delivering the celebrated Halo voice in a smaller footprint.
The Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay is a boutique delay designed to capture the warm, natural sound of classic 1960s tape echo units while using a hybrid digital delay line with a fully analog, unfiltered dry path. Its bandwidth roughly matches vintage tape echoes, and the repeats are carefully tuned around the first critical reflection and how each echo decays, giving an organic, vintage-oriented character that blends beautifully with an amp. Crucially, it is engineered to work well with distorted tones, an application where many delays fail, keeping the dry signal uncolored and clear. Compact with a simple control set, it suits players wanting musical, tape-flavored repeats for slapback, rhythmic delay, and ambient trails without tone loss, equally at home with clean and overdriven rigs.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Blues Rock
- Blues
- Indie
- modulated
- warm
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Live
- Studio
- Worship
- Live
- Studio