Just a heads up to all who read this blog. We've moved all of our new blog posts here:
http://www.wamplerpedals.com/blog
Make sure you bookmark that page. We update it about twice a week.
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Monday, July 25, 2011
New Wampler Pedals artists....
We are delighted to bring diverse artists such as acoustic guitar virtuoso Adrian Legg into the fold... The Benge Family Band... Oli Brown... So many artists from so many genre's.
Don't forget to keep a look out for our monthly pedal giveaways..!
Don't forget to keep a look out for our monthly pedal giveaways..!
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Free pedal give aways...
Every month we give away a free pedal to the one lucky person who subscribes to our newsletter... Are you on it..?
To sign up, just hit the link at the top of our website, www.wamplerpedals.com... Good luck..!
To sign up, just hit the link at the top of our website, www.wamplerpedals.com... Good luck..!
Monday, February 21, 2011
New fuzz pedal almost ready....
We've been working very VERY hard on our new fuzz coming that is coming shortly, the Leviathan fuzz... It will be a monster.
I threw together a quick clip of the fuzz in action (and more importantly, in context) using a Smashing Pumpkins backing track found on the 'net, but the intention was to really nail that Pumpkins fuzz tone.
www.wamplerpedals.com/fuzz/leviathan.html
You'll hear about 40 seconds of the fuzz on the mp3 behind the backing track, then the fuzz by itself. All guitars are with this pedal using a G&L strat into a Marshall JVM410h using the Plexi mode and the JCM800 mode, gains backed off to bare minimum. On the backing track there are 3 layered guitar parts... I think the original had many many more than that, but it'll give you the idea of the tone.
Fuzz controls: bass/treble/volume/gain and a switch to go from Germanium to silicon (diode selection, not transistor). The pedal is NOT a Big muff, fuzz face, or any other clone. It's actually a combination of transistor and opamp gain stages, a completely original fuzz design.
Look for the 'official' release in about a month or so
I threw together a quick clip of the fuzz in action (and more importantly, in context) using a Smashing Pumpkins backing track found on the 'net, but the intention was to really nail that Pumpkins fuzz tone.
www.wamplerpedals.com/fuzz/leviathan.html
You'll hear about 40 seconds of the fuzz on the mp3 behind the backing track, then the fuzz by itself. All guitars are with this pedal using a G&L strat into a Marshall JVM410h using the Plexi mode and the JCM800 mode, gains backed off to bare minimum. On the backing track there are 3 layered guitar parts... I think the original had many many more than that, but it'll give you the idea of the tone.
Fuzz controls: bass/treble/volume/gain and a switch to go from Germanium to silicon (diode selection, not transistor). The pedal is NOT a Big muff, fuzz face, or any other clone. It's actually a combination of transistor and opamp gain stages, a completely original fuzz design.
Look for the 'official' release in about a month or so
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
New Paisley Drive is available!
We've been working long and hard with Brad Paisley for a while... trying to come up with the overdrive that he's 100% happy with. Finally, after months and months we've got it!
Brad wanted a pedal that could get very clean and yet get nice and crunchy with a bit of 'beef' to it, yet he wanted a fluid tone when soloing. Something that will add just a bit of 'hair' to the tone or can add flat out ball busting gain without wrecking the tonality... something that when he stepped on it gave the notes girth without sounding like a pedal.
The pedal LOVES strats and humbuckers as well. Many times you may have a pedal that sounds great with one guitar and utter crap with a different guitar. Not so with the Paisley Drive. You can get great greasy tones - you know, those blues tones that just drip with personality, dynamics, and inspiration.
It may, in fact, save the world. No, seriously. ;)
Now stop what you are doing can go buy it. Your friends will love you, more Mom will love you, and you will eventually take over the world.
http://www.wamplerpedals.com/paisley.html
Brad wanted a pedal that could get very clean and yet get nice and crunchy with a bit of 'beef' to it, yet he wanted a fluid tone when soloing. Something that will add just a bit of 'hair' to the tone or can add flat out ball busting gain without wrecking the tonality... something that when he stepped on it gave the notes girth without sounding like a pedal.
The pedal LOVES strats and humbuckers as well. Many times you may have a pedal that sounds great with one guitar and utter crap with a different guitar. Not so with the Paisley Drive. You can get great greasy tones - you know, those blues tones that just drip with personality, dynamics, and inspiration.
It may, in fact, save the world. No, seriously. ;)
Now stop what you are doing can go buy it. Your friends will love you, more Mom will love you, and you will eventually take over the world.
http://www.wamplerpedals.com/paisley.html
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Free Cranked AC VST plugin, and Demo of my Shaw amp
I've been working with a fellow on creating a few plugin versions of our pedals and I wanted to give you a free copy of the Cranked AC plugin version. It is a VST plugin,in a .rar file. Once extracted it will have a .dll file that you will add to your plugin library. If you download it, please leave me a note to let me know if you like it!
Here is the plugin: http://www.indyguitarist.com/plugin/CrankedAC_vst%20plugin.rar
Tips on installation: http://www.freesoundeditor.com/installation-plug-in-vsteng.htm
Unfortunately, we are not offering support on this plugin, but it is available to anyone who wants to give it a try.
New Shaw Amp, the Full Tilt 18
A few weeks ago I told you I had bought a new Shaw amp that I was really liking ALOT. I made a quick video of it for you in case you like Voxy and Fender style amps.
Here is the link to check out the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM-xqcExGCM
Here is the plugin: http://www.indyguitarist.com/plugin/CrankedAC_vst%20plugin.rar
Tips on installation: http://www.freesoundeditor.com/installation-plug-in-vsteng.htm
Unfortunately, we are not offering support on this plugin, but it is available to anyone who wants to give it a try.
New Shaw Amp, the Full Tilt 18
A few weeks ago I told you I had bought a new Shaw amp that I was really liking ALOT. I made a quick video of it for you in case you like Voxy and Fender style amps.
Here is the link to check out the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM-xqcExGCM
Thursday, August 05, 2010
The new Black '65 Overdrive is here!
As with all new releases, I'm offering newsletter members a discount for the first week or so. Normally $199, but for newsletter members it's $179 this week.
Click Here to go to the Black '65 page.
If you aren't a newsletter member, sign up in the blue box on the front page of the website.
Click Here to go to the Black '65 page.
If you aren't a newsletter member, sign up in the blue box on the front page of the website.
Friday, June 11, 2010
My visit with Brad Paisley last weekend
*See all the pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7297852@N05/sets/72157624127413669/
Last Saturday Brad Paisley came to town. We went up to hang out a bit and talk gear to Brad, Chad, Jody and Gary and I took some pics. Keep in mind, this is after the huge Nashville flood, so all the gear is brand new.
As you can imagine, ALOT of Dr. Z amps, A vox ac30, rack stuff (click HERE to learn about the specifics of the rack stuff), new Crook Guitars (LOVE THEM!)... and pedals! I talked to Brad quite a bit about the current "Brad Paisley" Signature Overdrive prototype we are working on. Brad's loving it - he told me it replaced his Zendrive. I gave him another proto that is flavored a bit different to see which he likes better, this one with a 3 band eq. Brad's current touring board has these pedals:
wampler pedals ego comp
wampler pedals analogecho
wampler pedals"brad paisley overdrive" prototype
mxr phase 90
aquapuss delay
boss delay
maxon delay
keeley/ibanez ts9
Sometimes the Maxon delay is replaced by another one of our analogecho's.
Pic is here: farm2.static.flickr.com/1305/4687948963_0e9584ea4c_b.jpg
Jody Harris and Gary Hooker are using a ton of our pedals too - Jody and Gary are both backing guitarists for Brad and they both are SMOKING hot players in their own right.
Jody is using:
Ernie Ball volume
Wampler Ego Compressor
Line 6 Delay
Wampler Analogecho
Wampler Plexidrive
Hermida Dual Boost
Peterson tuner
Pic is here: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4688579446_fdccf9018b_b.jpg
Gary is using:
Wampler Nirvana chorus
Wampler Faux spring reverb
Wampler Analogecho (2 of them)
Wampler Pinnacle
Visual Sound Open road
Hermida Dual boost
Wampler Ego Compressor
Zvex seektrem
Dr. Scientist Trem
Keeley Fixed Wah
Wampler Faux tape Echo
Ernie Ball Volume
Wampler Ecstasy Drive (switched in and out)
Hermida Distortion (switched in and out)
Pic is here: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4687946145_a6b46f0687_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7297852@N05/sets/72157624127413669/
Last Saturday Brad Paisley came to town. We went up to hang out a bit and talk gear to Brad, Chad, Jody and Gary and I took some pics. Keep in mind, this is after the huge Nashville flood, so all the gear is brand new.
As you can imagine, ALOT of Dr. Z amps, A vox ac30, rack stuff (click HERE to learn about the specifics of the rack stuff), new Crook Guitars (LOVE THEM!)... and pedals! I talked to Brad quite a bit about the current "Brad Paisley" Signature Overdrive prototype we are working on. Brad's loving it - he told me it replaced his Zendrive. I gave him another proto that is flavored a bit different to see which he likes better, this one with a 3 band eq. Brad's current touring board has these pedals:
wampler pedals ego comp
wampler pedals analogecho
wampler pedals"brad paisley overdrive" prototype
mxr phase 90
aquapuss delay
boss delay
maxon delay
keeley/ibanez ts9
Sometimes the Maxon delay is replaced by another one of our analogecho's.
Pic is here: farm2.static.flickr.com/1305/4687948963_0e9584ea4c_b.jpg
Jody Harris and Gary Hooker are using a ton of our pedals too - Jody and Gary are both backing guitarists for Brad and they both are SMOKING hot players in their own right.
Jody is using:
Ernie Ball volume
Wampler Ego Compressor
Line 6 Delay
Wampler Analogecho
Wampler Plexidrive
Hermida Dual Boost
Peterson tuner
Pic is here: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4688579446_fdccf9018b_b.jpg
Gary is using:
Wampler Nirvana chorus
Wampler Faux spring reverb
Wampler Analogecho (2 of them)
Wampler Pinnacle
Visual Sound Open road
Hermida Dual boost
Wampler Ego Compressor
Zvex seektrem
Dr. Scientist Trem
Keeley Fixed Wah
Wampler Faux tape Echo
Ernie Ball Volume
Wampler Ecstasy Drive (switched in and out)
Hermida Distortion (switched in and out)
Pic is here: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4687946145_a6b46f0687_b.jpg
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
New Wampler Pedals Artists!
We are proud to announce new artists who are using Wampler Pedals:
John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival), using Hot Wired, Pinnacle, Faux Spring Reverb and the Analog Echo.
Tony King and Lou Toomey (Brooks and Dunn), using Ecstasy, Hot Wired, and Ego Compressor
Jody Harris (Brad Paisley), using plexidrive, faux tape echo
Welcome guys!
John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival), using Hot Wired, Pinnacle, Faux Spring Reverb and the Analog Echo.
Tony King and Lou Toomey (Brooks and Dunn), using Ecstasy, Hot Wired, and Ego Compressor
Jody Harris (Brad Paisley), using plexidrive, faux tape echo
Welcome guys!
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Email problems
Unfortunately, I've been getting farther and farther and farther behind on email. That's unacceptable and YOU deserve better than that! I guess it's the downside to the business growing a bit and getting a bit more well known.
If you have emailed me in the past week, month, or couple of months and I haven't answered, I'M TRULY sorry. I was not trying to ignore you at all, I have just been having a hard time getting everything done that needs done while filling pedal orders. We are reorganizing a bit and I've hired several people to help with answering emails, questions and concerns. If you have had a question and it's gone unanswered, please go here and submit your question and one of us will reply back to you ASAP - 99% of the time within 24 hours.
https://wamplerpedals.mojohelpdesk.com/login/create_request
Thanks,
Brian
If you have emailed me in the past week, month, or couple of months and I haven't answered, I'M TRULY sorry. I was not trying to ignore you at all, I have just been having a hard time getting everything done that needs done while filling pedal orders. We are reorganizing a bit and I've hired several people to help with answering emails, questions and concerns. If you have had a question and it's gone unanswered, please go here and submit your question and one of us will reply back to you ASAP - 99% of the time within 24 hours.
https://wamplerpedals.mojohelpdesk.com/login/create_request
Thanks,
Brian
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Brad Paisley and Wampler Pedals, George Lynch, Neal Schon news...
The Scoop
There's been a TON of things going on this month for us...NAMM went very well for us, and we are in the process of working on custom pedals for George Lynch, Neal Schon, and several other well known players as a result of NAMM.However, I wanted to let you know about the new Pinnacle 2 reissue video I just uploaded. You can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8HbpZNXJd4
More info about the pinnacle here: http://www.wamplerpedals.com/pinnacle_2_reissue
Brad Paisley and Wampler Pedals
I'm not sure if you are a country music fan or not, but I'm pretty sure you are familiar with who Brad Paisley is. If not, let me just say he's a MONSTER of a guitarist, great singer and songwriter as well. I've beena huge fan of his for a while and found out last year that he was using my analogecho pedal that he purchased from www.truetonemusic.com.
After purchasing the analogecho he picked up the ego compressor and underdog overdrive as well.
I was invited to come down and meet him last week and had the chance to sit down and chat about gear quite a bit. I was floored by how humble of a guy he was - truly refreshing!! Just such a cool person.
I found out that he actually went to TrueTone Music and tried out tons of their delay pedals and picked mine out of all of them because it sounded best to him... that made me feel... well, I don't think there is a word
for it. Flattered x 10,000!
Now, I'm not meaning to boast, but I wanted to sure share with you a little personal victory in this, as I've said I was a huge fan for along time!
Anyway, I took some pictures of Brad's gear for you to check out, here is the link to view them:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7297852@N05/sets/72157623263677258/
I just wanted to thank YOU for your interest in my pedals, and spreading the word which resulted in this little personal dream coming true for me!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
New Blackheart little giant demo with warehouse speakers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAo4JzVn-G4
Blackheart amp that I modified a bit to have more gain, be a bit tighter on the bottom end as well as be less spongy. I wanted something closer to a Matchless type of sound through a marshall cab so here ya go!
Speakers are from www.warehousespeakers.com and are veteran 30's on the left side, green beret's on the right.
Blackheart amp that I modified a bit to have more gain, be a bit tighter on the bottom end as well as be less spongy. I wanted something closer to a Matchless type of sound through a marshall cab so here ya go!
Speakers are from www.warehousespeakers.com and are veteran 30's on the left side, green beret's on the right.
Monday, October 19, 2009
GearMannDude demo's Wampler Pedals
There is an ongoing discussion as to whether this guy is Jack Black... Gear Mann Dude. If you haven't heard of him, he's a sort of a youtube celebrity among many gear hounds. He's a great player, very funny, and sounds remarkably like Jack Black (you know, the "school of rock" guy). Jack, err... GearMann, just uploaded some videos of our Pinnacle, Ecstasy, and Super Plextortion. Check it out:
Friday, July 10, 2009
Triple Recstortion and new Faux Tape Echo videos are up!
I think you are really going to like where we are going - check this out.
The triple recstortion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvRD_x9Qtmw
The new "Faux" tape echo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Gw09bAdkE
You'll notice that our tape echo is quite a bit different than most pedals that claim to be like a tape echo. We dont' do modulation that sounds like a chorus pedal. I've designed a circuit that emulates the flutter from a tape delay unlike any other company. TRUE flutter - not just vibrato added onto the signal.
The Triple Rec will be available on or before August 1, the Faux tape echo will be available on or before August 10th. Newsletter member prices will be around $150-160 or so. To get on the list, simply email me back and we'll put you on it.
Also, if you are at summer NAMM next weekend, let me know - I should be hanging out with Seymour Duncan most of the time, but am not doing a booth. I WILL (as well as my better half) be there during the whole time though.
The triple recstortion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvRD_x9Qtmw
The new "Faux" tape echo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Gw09bAdkE
You'll notice that our tape echo is quite a bit different than most pedals that claim to be like a tape echo. We dont' do modulation that sounds like a chorus pedal. I've designed a circuit that emulates the flutter from a tape delay unlike any other company. TRUE flutter - not just vibrato added onto the signal.
The Triple Rec will be available on or before August 1, the Faux tape echo will be available on or before August 10th. Newsletter member prices will be around $150-160 or so. To get on the list, simply email me back and we'll put you on it.
Also, if you are at summer NAMM next weekend, let me know - I should be hanging out with Seymour Duncan most of the time, but am not doing a booth. I WILL (as well as my better half) be there during the whole time though.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
New Contest - win a FREE pedal of your choice!
Starting immediately until February 1st - an easy and fun way to win a FREE Wampler pedal of your choice! Here are the stipulations:
Let the videos begin and have fun :)
Brian
- Demo any Wampler Pedal on a youtube.com video, even older versions of our pedals are just fine.
- Video must show the Wampler pedal during it's entirety. In other words, if your 5 minute video shows the pedal for 30 seconds and your other pedals the rest of the time, that most likely won't be a winner.
- You must have a link to our website (http://www.wamplerpedals.com or http://www.indy-guitarist.com/) in your video description. Bonus points if there is a link in the video itself. ;)
- After uploading your video to youtube, post on our forum ( http://indyguitarist.com/forum/index.php?topic=1439.0 ) and include the link to your video.
- Videos will be judged by our small staff after Feb 1st and you will be contacted through youtube.com, the forum, or your email.
- We are looking for good sound, decent video quality (if possible), and your enthusiasm!
- Bonus points for videos with alot of views and high ratings.
- Double bonus points if you post your video to sites IN ADDITION to youtube (myspace, etc). Make sure you post that link on the blog as well!
Let the videos begin and have fun :)
Brian
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Monday, October 06, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
For those who love that "Class A" sound of a cranked Vox AC-30,
I've developed an overdrive pedal that will get that tonality
that I love so much. I'm building these in a limited number
one by one. Color is either a purple metallic or blue metallic.
Features:
* True bypass
* Multi-color LED
* Small box size (roughly the size of a boss pedal)
* No battery - requires a 9vdc power source (same as a boss pedal)
* Very pick responsive - play light and it's clean, dig into
the strings and it gets nice and dirty
* Very light overdrive all the way to near fuzz-like when at max settings
* Sounds great with a tube OR solid state amp
* Sounds great at low OR high volumes
Currently: 3 week waiting time once an order is placed.
Here is the link:
http://www.indyguitarist.com/cranked.htm
I've developed an overdrive pedal that will get that tonality
that I love so much. I'm building these in a limited number
one by one. Color is either a purple metallic or blue metallic.
Features:
* True bypass
* Multi-color LED
* Small box size (roughly the size of a boss pedal)
* No battery - requires a 9vdc power source (same as a boss pedal)
* Very pick responsive - play light and it's clean, dig into
the strings and it gets nice and dirty
* Very light overdrive all the way to near fuzz-like when at max settings
* Sounds great with a tube OR solid state amp
* Sounds great at low OR high volumes
Currently: 3 week waiting time once an order is placed.
Here is the link:
http://www.indyguitarist.com/cranked.htm
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