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...
UniVibe sounds better pre gain... there, I said it. Now, I know this is a subjective statement, but you know, the VAST majority of the people I know and have spoken to consider the UniVibe style circuit to be perfectly placed pre gain stages. Of course, there is going...
When scrolling through social media - especially gear groups - you tend to see a lot of the same misnomers and inaccurately assigned labels put on things… One of the most common is the “transparent” overdrive. I mean, how many times have you seen a K style pedal...
Hi guys, Jason here invading the blog - this has just come up on Facebook from a customer so I thought I would invade Max's blog to address it properly! This has been a hot topic for us for several years now - I am painfully aware of this issue as being the person...
Starting this week on the Chasing Tone Podcast, we decided to try out doing 2 shorter podcasts through out the week instead of 1 large one. Let us know what you think! This week, to my surprise – and probably to a lot of other listeners out there – we actually did a...
So it's Monday once again - which means another episode of the Chasing Tone podcast! For those of you who want the abbreviated version - here it is. For those of you that have watched this podcast on YouTube – we started out this podcast with me cracking up at the...
For most us tone chasers, there are few memories as strong as the first time you plugged in to your very first tube amp. For some of us, that memory was at your local guitar shop, for others it was sneaking in to our big brothers room while he was away, while yet...
Recently I hung out with Dave Weiner, guitarist for Steve Vai, during the “Story of Light” Tour at the Old National Center in Indianapolis to talk about his gear. Dave has lots of awesome effects, some really great amps, and some really killer guitars! So I wanted to...
In March of 2012 Wampler’s own Travis Feaster was asked to record a session for the BBC’s Paul Jones Show. Unfortunately… the BBC’s studio of choice (Maida Vale Studios: Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie) was booked, so Travis’ Band (The WT Feaster Band) was...