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Today we do something quite unconventional for Wampler- we’re introducing to you two new pedals, but with a twist… these are $99. In addition, a new twist to how we do things normally: you’ll be able to buy them direct from our reverb.com store (http://wampler-reverb.com) as well as through your favorite retailers. Also, make sure you add a comment as to what other types of pedals you’d like to see in our line in this $99 range.
First, we have the Triumph overdrive. This is based around one of my favorite two of my all time favorite overdrives, the Bad Monkey and the boss sd-1. Typical of me, though, I’m adding in additional EQ stages that allow a variety of different tones as well as internal switches in both that change the circuit quite a bit in order to add some glassy flavor.
The Phenom distortion is a circuit I’ve been working on for a few years now. Years ago we made several versions of a pedal called the plextortion but I never was 100% happy with it, so I restarted from the ground up using JFETS arranged in multiple gain stages instead of op amps and clipping diodes. Doing it this way the fets are driven much in the same way that you would use tubes to distort a signal, but it’s a unique circuit and not a clone of anything. I wanted to get a bit more of an old 5150 type of flavor to it. Please keep in mind – I wouldn’t necessarily call this an exact “5150 amp in a box” but it certainly heads pretty close to that direction.
Timestamps:
0:00 Start
0:44 Triumph, telecaster, Bravado amp
1:38 Triumph, strat, Bravado amp
3:09 Triumph, 335, Bravado amp
5:32 Triumph DIP switches inside explained
7:33 Triumph, telecaster, Vox AC-30 amp
9:16 Triumph, 335, Vox AC-30 amp
10:10 Phenom, telecaster, Bravado amp
13:58 Phenom, strat, Bravado amp
15:52 Phenom, 335, Bravado amp
17:49 Phenom, telecaster, Vox AC-30 amp
19:28 Phenom, 335, Vox AC-30 amp
21:08 Where to buy it
Reverb store: http://wampler-reverb.com (forwards to reverb.com)
Triumph web page: https://www.wamplerpedals.com/products/distortion-overdrive/triumph/
Phenom web page: https://www.wamplerpedals.com/products/distortion-overdrive/phenom/