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How to break your Ratsbane
In case it escaped your attention, we released Brian’s take on the infamous rodentine 80’s distortion circuit last month - a pedal that has been requested numerous hundreds of times. I’m happy to say it's been a big success so far, we almost couldn't shovel the coal...
For those about to rock…the Plexi Drive Mini
Last month we finally released the Plexi Drive Mini pedal, a pedal that has travelled an interesting path to get to its destination, and one we are all very fond of at Wampler. The idea of simply making mini versions of our own pedals is not something that Brian likes...
Introducing the Belle and paying our respects to EVH
2020 is going to be a historical year for a number of reasons, most of them sucky, and I am sure I speak for a good proportion of our readers when I say that the death of Eddie Van Halen was a major downer that we could have done without. Everyone at Wampler was...
5 fun ways to use compressor pedals
I love the compressor. I just do. It’s a really solid guitar pedal effect, and there are tons of different ways that you can use it. In this blog, I want to break down a few of my favorites. A couple of these methods are fairly standard, but a few of the others? Not...
Telecasters, Partscasters, and GAS
The news this week of the new Fender Brent Mason models (which have been in the pipeline for some 3 odd years I am led to believe...) sent the online gear community totally aflutter with frenzied chat for many good reasons. The top end model, the masterbuilt one,...
How to design a basic overdrive pedal circuit
UPDATE: If you enjoy this article, be sure to check out my follow up here: How to design a basic distortion pedal circuitYou may have noticed that I've been dabbling with some DIY books over on Amazon's kindle platform recently, and that has had me playing with...
Chasing the Silver Sky
I know – it’s been a while right? We’ve not been blogging as much as we normally do so apologies - but this has been a tough old month for all of us at Wampler HQ. We lost one of our own, a huge part of our community, a tone brother to us all, and a very valued and...
And the winner of the free pedal is….
Everyone at Wampler would like to congratulate Justin Budlow on winning the free Wampler pedal from our giveaway on YouTube last week! Justin chose a Velvet Fuzz as his free pedal, and as you can see from this video on Instagram, he's been ripping it up ever since!...
Chasing the tones of Jerry Cantrell and…. It’s time to win a free pedal!
It’s been literally AGES since we’ve done a giveaway, so we thought it was about time we caught up with ourselves and give you the opportunity to win a pedal, for doing very little at all. It’s all contained within the video that Brian posted yesterday… In the video,...