Andy Timmons Signature Pedal (Keeley Electronics)

In this week’s episode, we helped our good friend Andy Timmons release a baller new signature pedal: the Halo Dual Echo, designed by pedal extraordinaire Robert Keeley. The jams make up the bulk of this week’s episode, but we also wanted to let Andy explain the origins of this pedal in his own words, so sit back, relax, and enjoy! 

JOSH

So, Andy…How'd this happen? 

ANDY

It's been a labor of love. Over the course of three years, we finally got to this point. Obviously delay and echo is a big part of my sound. I mean, it's basically never off. Somebody once [said that] it's not an effect for me. It's really part of [my] sound. At a certain point, I decided to try to seek out who I might be able to collaborate with for this type of delay platform. Our mutual friend Daniel Steinhardt with Gig Rig thought maybe Robert Keeley would be the guy. And I think [you and I] even talked about it and you were like, “Yeah, Robert would be amazing at this.”

And so we talked about it at NAMM, things happened, as everybody's so busy and then COVID happened, but over the last year we really dug in. Basically what I wanted was the ultimate dual echo sound, ’cause for years I would either use a couple of Echoplex CP3s…[or] two Memory Men running into each other. The [Strymon] TimeLine was kind of replicating those things, but I'm a simpler guy. I don't need a thousand presets and too much flexibility. [The Halo Dual Echo] is the perfect thing. Basically, the main idea was to get my sound in a smaller box, which is what it comes programmed with. You turn the pedal on and it's instantly my sound. 

JOSH

So they get your skill and talent?

ANDY

(laughs) It comes with the two licks I have...but it is capable of other basic delay things like just a single dotted eighth or a quarter note. But the main thing for me is [that] it's my sound, you know? And then I can have alternates if I need a couple other sounds. 

JOSH

Yeah. The feat of engineering here–

ANDY

–is incredible. 

JOSH

Yeah. Stereo and expression packed in there. This is way over my head. I'm glad Robert did it. 

ANDY

[It’s] called the Halo [Dual Echo]. The reason I've called it that [is that] it's kind of how I imagine the tone if I were to visualize the basic tone. The center of the note stays where it is, and then the echoes gently kind of feathering away, but actually starts to detune at the end, replicating the funky tape, which the Memory Man did a good job with - the modulation on the repeats. So this is the most refined version of that basic sound. 

Thanks again to Andy Timmons and Robert Keeley for letting us help release their newest masterpiece. Grab your Halo Dual Echo today and get jamming!