Wampler Paisley Drive Deluxe Brad Paisley Signature Dual Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal

Having gotten back into guitar over the last several years, and inevitably diving into the trap of "I must find the ultimate tone", I have purchased quite a few overdrive/distortion pedals since my "re-inception" into this world. I'm SURE I will buy more ultimately, but this is by far one of the best sounding overdrive pedals I have ever heard or purchased...Being modeled after the supposed ultimate "transparent overdrive" that will run you upwards of several thousand dollars nowadays when you can find one on the used market, Wampler has created a pedal that FAR surpasses the pedal that the Tumnus Deluxe was based on. A revamped version of their original "Tumnus", he has added a very well designed tone stack to let you shape your tone, as well as an awesome sounding buffer that you can engage to let you run the pedal in buffered mode instead of true bypass. Even when I am not running the pedal, I typically leave the pedal in buffered mode simply because the buffer makes my guitar's tone just sound "better" (and I don't run long enough cables to really effect the highs being rolled off because of cable resistance).. "Better" is just the only way I can describe it..Wampler hit this one OUT OF THE PARK and created an overdrive that greatly exceeds the original "transparent overdrive" circuit. If you are after that type of sound (or even some pretty heavy dirt tone), this pedal doesn't disappoint.. By FAR my favorite overdrive pedal to date..

make no mistake, this pedal sounds AMAZING. the lead tone is easily the BEST lead tone i have ever heard (think joe satriani crystal planet) and i have played guitar since 1982.the problem is that when you engage the boost, and that is how you are going to use this pedal (boosted gain and compression for soaring crystaline clear lead with awesome pinch harmonics, easy glide legato runs and amazing sustain) it is so LOUD and HISSY that the noise is unbearable and it makes the pedal unusable. what sad thing this is because there is no better sounding 80's shredder metal / lead pedal than this. that's why it is called pinnacle, it's the tippy top of all high gain lead pedals. it's also the noisiest and most unusable as well.so understand that most high gain pedals have a little hiss and noise when the boos is engaged or the gain is turned up. that's normal. and you can just kill that noise with a noise gate. but the pinnacle deluxe v2 is so crazy loud that there's no way to use it in a functional way even WITH a noise gate.i bought this pedal not knowing how noisy it was and then spent another $130 on a isp decimator II to try and kill the noise and keep the pedal because it;s tone is just absolutely killer. but even THAT did not work because although it got rid of most of the hiss, it also killed the sustain and had no way of getting rid of the hiss that is produced when you rub your palm mute hand across the string. the noise is unbearable.it's lead tone is so good it could have been a 11/10, but the noise makes it a 0/10 and unusable. so please come out with a quiet ver 3, brian wampler, i will give it another shot, the lead tone is amazing!

Ive purchased and returned the Wampler Triple Wreck, Dracarys, and Pinnacle Deluxe V2. Wampler is supposed to be the legends of dirt pedals, but I have sadly NOT seen that. Im hoping Im just the one in a million guy who has wierd taste, because I want to believe in the Legend that is Wampler. This pedal is pretty mediocre, has a mid heavy sound, and must be tamed with an EQ. The Distortion on modern channel isnt enough for most metal, and when you use the gain boost it gives obnoxious clipping, WAY too much noise. For all its dials, options, bells and whistles, I cant seem to find a combination of them that gives a superb sound. Sure its tone is sufficient, but for a $270 boutique pedal its got to have SUPERB tone, which it does not.

I hate to say it, but I concur with other negative reviews that say it sounds like a 50.00 fuzz box. I was so disappointed that I couldn't keep it.I expected so much from this well regarded pedal maker. I still can't believe how disappointed I was. The Bottom line is that for this kind of money, it should blow your doors off, and it didn't even interest me. I own many boutique pedals, and I find -the good- in all of them. I'm very puzzled that I couldn't do that with this one.

I love this pedal. I was going to write an article-length review, but it's the best "clone" of that mythologically-themed man-beast pedal from the 90s. Three-band EQ, higher-gain setting waiting with the switch of a toggle. Brian Wampler went there. We were all thinking it. We all knew it needed to happen, so he went and did it. Thank you, Mr Wampler. Just when I was getting tone fatigue out of my pedalboard, I got the Tumnus Deluxe and I suddenly fell in love with my guitar and amp again. I remembered that I actually like the sound of my guitar, pickups, amp, etc. I plug in, stomp on the Tumnus and hear this . . . well, the image that always comes to mind is that clarity of a pre-dawn morning where everything is covered in dew and the air has such a sweet purity that every breath you take is deep and mindful. It's such a fresh sound, without preservatives, weed killers or insecticides. I never realized just how much my other pedals were affecting the color of my sound, or that I could get so much variation just from using the tone and volume knobs on my guitar. I can throw on reverb and delay and it still sounds great drenched and trailing. If I could change anything about it, I'd love an extra footswitch for normal/high gain, or at least for a boost. The only real complaint I have is that it now I have to upgrade my other pedals because they all seem lacking.

Firstly when you open the box you get a Wampler bag, and a couple of very nice stickers. Oh and there's also a blue metal box with some knobs on. Plug it in, grab your favorite Telecaster and crank it up. Sit back and smile. Mission accomplished, tone chase is over. I doubt you can get anything better. The only dilemma you have is what to put in the bag and where to stick your stickers.

The 3-band EQ makes this pedal very nice - worth every penny.

Great stuff! Silky smooth boost and overdrive.

I have 2 foundational “drive” pedals on my board that I have going into my Marshall DSL40CR which is set to barely break up on channel 1B of the amp (the red light on channel 1). I use The Rat and now The Tumnis that I alternate between depending on the song. I never run these 2 pedals at the same time. The Rat gives me a nice fuzz distortion sound, and the Tumnis has replaced a Boss Blues Driver I was using for my standard primary dirt Tone. The Tumnis is a beast and sounds very sweet. I run a Treble Booster (Catalinbread Naga Viper) at the front of my chain that I turn on for my lead tone for solos and the Tumnis takes the Treble Booster very well.Great buy and you ultimately can not go wrong with a Tumnis. Highly recommend for rock, blues, alternative, metal, pop to cut through the mix in a band setting.

It is a bit costly for it's function, but I use this pedal infront of my effects and pre-am to regulate the input volume. This allows me to freely switch between different types of guitars that have different output volumes, and not have to make many changes to the signal chain.When playing super clean sounds, this pedal tends to change your EQ to favor a specific range of mids that may be best suited for E-Standard tuning. When using Drop-A, and heavy (but tight) distortion, especially with leads, this pedal make the tone even tighter. I'm sure there are better boost" pedals out there for this application, but I have been statisfied with this sound for awhile now.