It's all true, amazing pedal!!! Here is a video we released recently that details and shows examples of stacking: A few fun Wampler-related stacks that work really well together: There are a lot more out there. My favorite mode as of right now is mode 2. Like the reviews are saying it is really open not muddy, dark or any other pedal adjectives.
I also use Boss CS-2 and EHX Soul Food together. It's very affordable and easy to dial in. I've play mostly heavy metal, so a boost pedal is essential for the tones I chase.
It also stacks well with other pedals and the gain channel in my amp. Maybe it wouldn't be what I needed, but it would be good. Heck yeah. 3 setting toggle switch for asymmetrical, led and symmetrical settings.
This sounds far too sterile and artificial. Should I switch the TD first, then the Clarksdale?
Ive got the Sovereign & Tumnus with the ego. It's the best mid-hump clean boost out there. You must log in or register to reply here.
Music Background: Death metal, hardcore, black metal, southern rock, recording artist. The Plumes immediately kicked that off once I played it. The device is well made, and feels like a road worthy tank.
Doesn't change the inherent character of my amp though, which is a good thing. Exclusive deals, delivered straight to your inbox.
Other than that, this pedal is great for a wide variety of tones. I tried out the Plumes and it immediately earned a place on my board. Amazing difference brought to an already amazing amp. I wrote a review back in December 2019 entitled short and sweet. This wealth of options along with the small footprint makes it an easy choice to put on your board, even if you already have an overdrive, boost, or distortion, especially when you consider how much it loves other dirt pedals.
Thanks for any enlightenment! Heads up: the LED is blindingly bright.
I only exchanged it, because it was a bit too bright for my setup, even with the tone knob turned all the way down. This one is staying on my board. What would the benefit be of running a Tumnus Deluxe after the Belle OD? Thank you for your help. from Bothell WA on November 11, 2019, By Steven Teague from FL on December 20, 2021, By John Swift Press J to jump to the feed. You can dial on just a little dirt up to AC/DC-ish tones. Sweetwater is the place to get your gear. Which Wampler pedal would be in the style of a Fender amp on the edge of break-up? from Texas on May 19, 2020.
Ive tried every position these knobs allowIs this thing defective? im running my american fender deluxe strat on a bassman59 reissue all tube. Shaping a particular tone is a huge and fairly complex question. Pushes the distortion into some very, very nicely fuzzed-out territory! All of them have uses and the versatility is a great thing. from N of Dallas on December 9, 2019, By Pelle Also this pedal has a lot of tone tweaking options.I am now officially a fan of Earthquaker Devices. The clipping modes are extremely useful because I don't necessarily want to have the same clipping modes for the clean channel of my amp vs the dirty channel, so I use mode 2 for clean, and 1 or 3 for dirty.
Another idea was a Morning Glory into the Bonsai. I am running a Pantheon on low gain into Plexi Drive Deluxe with both sides on. To experiments? It does well at pushing the preamp but is too noisy for my liking. Any thoughts? It was the last piece I needed for my pedal board. To learn more about our cookie policy, please visit our Privacy Policy.
I have been looking at playing at lower volumes, with thicker tone. They are available to offer you personalized product advice any time you need it. Belle is not totally mid cut is it? Im a big fan of stacking OD pedals together, so much so that it almost seems weird to run one alone for very long. It has three knobs--your basic tube screamer/overdrive setup--but in a additiom has THREE different modes. Thanks Riley Koenemann for helping me with this purchase. Im curious now. No one was home and I cranked it through my Marshall. I just bought an MXR Sugar Drive and a Wampler Plexi drive mini. This thing is AMAZING! It takes your amp to places it could only dream of going. Thanks for taking my kids college fund lol.., This is my first stomp box. Learn More.
I don't like this pedal because it just hi-passes too much and I don't think it adds more chime as they claim in the description. Way more natural and responsive with a thick mid punch. I see myself buying another very soon! I got myself this OD pedal as a birthday gift and man was it worth the wait, it's practically 3 pedals in one!
For the Marshall sounds I go with the Fulltone OCD. This has no more distortion or range than my small portable fender amp with O/D. Man I"ve been wanting a drive pedal that sounds like this for so long.
Hi, Im looking at replacing my Soul Food with a Tumnus (do you have a Newfoundland, Canada dealer?).
At this price point its a steal. I've had a Pantheon for a while (not a MG, but another BB circuit) and it sounds pretty great Plumes > Pantheon.
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from Oklahoma on April 28, 2021, By Sweetwater Customer from ENGLEWOOD, CO on December 31, 2021, Music Background: Foolin' around with stringed instruments since '99, By Brent Thank you EQD for doing innovative work and keeping it in reach.
II to push my Peavey 6505+ head and while I did think it was a good overdrive, it didn't have enough high end sizzle. .is FANTASTIC!!!
Mode 2 is a glorious op amp based no gain clipping clean boost option which is quite useful in many applications, probably my fav, as honestly I do live in the old SRV TS land of single coil tones. from Carrollton on September 9, 2020, By Aaron Stromberger Whats your combos?? Each of the modes in the pedal are distinct and usable in a variety of contexts.
Position 2, gain at 0, volume at max, tone between 1 and 2 o'clock. Do you think they could work well together? I have Tumnus Deluxe and recently added the Clarksdale to my board. Any advice appreciated best wishes from Scotland. I love the build quality and the soft switching true bypass is wonderful! I like the EHX Hot Tubes (drive at noon) into the Hotone Grass (drive at 1 1/2) into my Laney LG35R (crunch channel, drive at 5). Had to place 2nd noise gate in fx loop after preamp. Couldn't be happier especially for the price.
You can use the TS to "tighten up" a high gain amp head and all that usual TS stuff, but for some of us not running those rigs, a TS is not the magic box.
Hands down, adds an amazing color to my amps and pushes them in a way that re-energizes my playing. Buy now before these things shoot up in price. I typically steer clear of TS style pedals, but they friggin nailed it with this one. My perfect match comes from Plexi Drive with the Russian Green Big Muff. At $ you would be insane to pass on this pedal. I bought a second Plexi-Drive Deluxe, thinking it was defective, but it exhibited the same behavior. There are plenty of reviews and demos of this pedal out there, so I'll keep this short. Amazing sound and very versatile. But Ive only tried tube screamer types, or clean boosts. on December 11, 2019, By Sweetwater Customer Retains your original tone while adding some flavor. You can hear the original signal coming through if you're on the clean channel, which is very odd. Note: This article updated May 20, 2020 by Brian Wampler. The Plumes in Mode 3 is the magic sauce I was looking for. I love all the brands at sweet water and the demo videos really help. Finding an overdrive pedal can be challenging because of how many there are on the market. Highly recommended. It claims that you can get even dirtier distortion from pos 1 with amp overdrive as well, and nothing different was the case. Buy this pedal. If stacking how might that work? All three clipping options have their use, whether you're using to add gain or just volume to goose your amp into the sweet spot. The tone knob has a very wide range and sounds great. Running a Tumnus Deluxe in front of a Pantheon, followed by the EQuator into a VOX AC15C1. And for $ this thing just rules. Mode 3 is the highest gain on the unit and again a TS type circuit but with all the limitations corrected. I will probably get another one of these at some point to accomodate darker amps. I do find these TS versions to really expand the gain structure of my amp-in-a-box Revv and Diezel pedals maybe better than a clean boost does.
Kudos to Earthquaker and to Sweetwater, Thanks again Bob!!! Mode 1 is much more compressed and gainy, with less headroom than mode 2, which Ive found to be my favorite sounding clean boost tone. I thought I remembered that they were supposed to be pretty quiet, but mine sometimes seems quite loud (noise in the chain, not volume). Again, even with the TS off the Plexi-Drive will cut out when I dig in. Has a lot of subtle different tones with the LED, OPEN and SILICON switch. I've been playing guitar for 20 years now, and for most of it I wasn't a big pedal guy. All 3 modes are very usable and work and interact very differently with different amps and plays very well with digital modeling like the Line 6 stuff. Nice! But I do love that mode 2 op amp for clean playing and to hit the gains a bit. Plug in and off you go, Tons of tone and character with tick tube tones Great for blues and classic rock. My ONLY gripe with this pedal is mode 3. Happy customers, one piece of gear at a time! All I can say is whatever dirt stacking you do, the Tumnus is just the secret sauce to use sometimes before (before the Euphoria for sure) sometimes after (try it after a TS-10).
This joins the ranks. from Whittier on March 8, 2020, Music Background: 10+ years live guitarist, By Sweetwater Customer The amp is already a bit Tube-y, but the Hot Tubes makes it like lava. Some of the add-ons on this site are powered by. All 3 settings are really useful and stacking this pedal with other OD pedals is great.
from Knoxville TN on October 15, 2019, By Jeremy So this year I have accepted pedals are the better choice for playing through tube amps for me. Responds well to guitar volume roll-off and playing dynamics. from Marshalltown, IA on March 22, 2020. I couldn't stop playing this thing today. I run it through a Fender Hot Rod into a Fender Telecaster. from Florida on August 16, 2019, By Sweetwater Customer Every time I plug into this thing I"m completely blown away. Xotic Wah (XW-1) Fuzztration Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe (echo unit cb-3) Tumnus Deluxe Catalinbread Royal Albert Hall (RAH), Playing through a Friedman Dirty Shirley 40 Combo 59 Gibson Les Paul Custom. on April 22, 2021, By AD3 from Potomac, MT on April 22, 2022, By Sweetwater Customer
Pushing the gain all the way up and laying off the tone and you've got some nice grunge-y tones, almost bordering on Big Muff territory. I use the second setting, very clean and powerful, it makes for an amazing boost and solo enhancer. from New York, NY on March 12, 2021, By Patrick Askey I have it at 9oclock on option 3 and it it way louder than my other pedals at 12 o'clock . This is the best boost/overdrive/distortion pedal I have ever used to date. 3 really great modes. Even sounded great for a little country/ southern rock riff I tried it with. , on August 19, 2020, By Sweetwater Customer The clarity and transparency are fantastic. How would order this combo of Pedals, I was not sure if I should stack the Tumnus and the RAH. The plumes fills in that little something that you didn't know was missing in a tube screamer, it's hard to describe but once you hear it you know (it's like a light switched on) any-who enough chit chat. A second pedal was sent to me but, had the same issue. I am very happy with the sounds and the awesome Sweetwater service that made it happen. These things are perfect at making your edge of breakup tones just that much creamier and crunchier. I bought this pedal, but exchanged it for the Wampler Clarksdale, which is awesome! I never understood why overdrives like the TS were so popular. This pedal is one of the greatest pedals I have ever played, if there was one pedal to own it would be this one. There are zero bad settings. I set it up so it gives me lead tone on full Telecaster volume knob and then can be rolled off by the same knob. from NY on March 14, 2022, By Mike Recently I have become obsessed with different pedals (thanks jhs show) one thing I did use on my rig since the early days of picking up the guitar was a tube screamer, and have tried a few over the years.