Skeleton Key offers the QOTSA tones of Josh Homme
Queen of the Stone Age tones in a stompbox
3,7 / 5,0 | 
The Skeleton Key pedal is a QOTSA collaboration from Funny Little Boxes and Let’s Play All. The UK pedal company is famous for the 1991 pedal which offered Pearl Jam tones. Now you can get closer to Josh Homme’s guitar tone with this £99 stompbox.
Skeleton Key
Funny Little Boxes’ Skeleton Key is a collaboration between Matt Webster of the Let’s Play All YouTube channel and the pedal builder Andy Ilgunas.
No One Knows
The idea behind the pedal is to get guitarists that Queen of the Stone Age guitar tone as used by Josh Homme, the band’s frontman and main songwriter.
If you didn’t know how to get these tones, then now you can get closer to those secret guitar tones of the Queens.
Josh Homme’s tone?
Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret
The pedal consists of a super simple control setup that consists of Gain, Tone and Volume controls and it runs only on a 9V DC negative power supply.
I do like simple setups for controls and this pedal really could not be any simpler to use with only three controls to play with.
No secrets here and it is all very easy to use.
No One Knows… Or do they?
Boneface
The pedal has artwork by Queens of the Stone Age’s album cover artist Boneface and I think that the black and white graphic stands out really nicely against the red background.
Verdict
The main drive sound is pretty close to Homme’s signature guitar tone for a lot of his QOTSA work and gives a solid core guitar tone.
I’m guessing the Op-Amp-based distortion pedal will benefit from humbuckers and possibly a down-tuned guitar to even closer to that Queen’s guitar tone.
MSRP – GBP 99
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