Over the weekend, everyone’s favourite member of the Wampler Pedals Tone Group on Facebook asked this simple question. “What is good tone?” When I opened up the list of answers, I was almost in dread as I was expecting an argument of epic proportions about individual...
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Tone is all in the fingers?
As you may know, we run an extremely lively group on Facebook, imaginatively named “The Wampler Pedals Tone Group”. Feel free to click on that and join us. We are quite proud that in the most, it’s very unlike MANY other pages that talk about gear, as generally there...
“$199 pedals”, margins, production costs, R&D, and ‘Made in the USA’
As you might expect, one of the things we hear a lot from some people is “How can you charge $200 for a pedal that I can buy the parts for, for less than $50, and make it myself?” Right, let’s get comfy and pick this apart piece by piece. I’ll do my best to remain...
Your Tone Knob…
When you think of tone, what comes to mind? For me it is all encompassing, from the wood the guitar is made of, the pickups, what type of wiring is setup, the string brand and gauge, to the cables, to each pedal and what it does to the signal, the pre-amp and power...