Overdrive Angry Charlie

In the footsteps of the classic Marshall Gov’ner this monster was born. Just like its big brother Charlie Brown, the Angry Charlie is versatile, well rounded and full of tone but one thing sets them apart. This ones a little more Angry… If you want high gain Marshall tones reminiscent of a JCM-800, than this is the pedal for you.

The gain knob has an unbelievable range of overdrive to head-on heavy grind and the tone knob actually has a solid range unlike many distortions on the market. The additional presence knob adds a versatility and tweaking ability that transforms any amp into a fire breathing monster! Big classic distortion tones are what this box is all about. If you need a high gain but "realistic" sounding pedal than look no further!

Overdrive Black 65

Vintage Overdrive

Over the years, we've had tons and tons of folks asking us when we were going to produce an overdrive pedal that emulates the sound of a cranked Fender® amp.

When Brian decided that he was going to see if he could do it, he wanted to ensure that it was perfect. Looking back at it now, we think he must have spent a good 9 months breadboarding and prototyping lots of different ideas, a/b-ing each one with various Fender® amps, tweaking and changing until he found the sound that was accurate.

Once he got a sound that he was 100% happy with, he took it to Nashville studio ace Brent Mason to test it out. To be certain, Brian also took several pedals by other companies that are supposed to do the same thing. Brent knows Fender® amps better than anyone, and Brian knew if Brent thought it was good, we were onto a winner. Long story short, Brent LOVED it!

We've heard guys say they hear The Twin®, some say Vibrolux®, some say Deluxe Reverb® when they play this pedal. Whatever they hear, it still has that "Blackface" type of sound that we were looking for. When you turn it up, it's going to break up more like the amp would if you turn it up.

With the additional of the boost switch, you can increase the gain to make it sound like the amp is being driven harder.

Overdrive Boss BD-2 Phat Mod

11 Years of Boutique Tone from one of the best overdrive sounds Boss created. The Keeley mod has been used on dozens and dozens of chart topping songs.

Used by players in groups from Steely Dan to Brad Paisley and even The Edge of U2!

The BD-2 Phat Mod is Transparent Overdrive with Full Range sound. Honestly one of the neatest sounds ever put in a stomp box.

For tone-purists, this is it! It's not simply a distortion pedal but rather a tone tool that adds to your guitar tone, supplying really nice lows, crystal clear high frequency, great picking response and detail. For those wanting to set their amp on fire but not change the tone of their system, this is the pedal. The BD-2 is not the same as a TS9 pedal. It has a more FULL-RANGE sound and is much more TRANSPARENT. When cranked it offers a grittier/more-edgy tone.

Want the best overdrive for BASS? Try the Blues Driver! A TS9 or other bass drive pedal will just limit your low end response; this will make tube sounding bass-overdrive a reality for you.

Overdrive Boss SD-1 Mod

This pedal is a key element to many heavy rocker's tone. It's like the TS9 with more transparency and more edge.

If you are looking for something in the Tube Screamer vein, but with a little more hair on it, not as much midrange push, this is it! Plus, this mod has a Germanium diode in the clipping section as a standard part of the mod! The Super Overdrive, GE 5 STAR MOD! Complete with metal film capacitor and resistor upgrade. Increased Bass, Drive, and Fidelity.

This is not just a switch to make it like a TS9 as some folks do. This makes it much fatter, cleaner, and more defined, and gives it another mode to increase the gain beyond what a stock SD-1 offers!

We have improved the BOSS switching to make it even closer to true-bypass! In stock form these units may suffer a bit of bleed through when off if the level and gain are set very high. But now with the new and improved bypass we now have the best sound pedal both on and OFF!

Overdrive Brent Mason Hot Wired

Most people think they’ve never heard of Brent Mason. We would bet that although you may not recognize the name, chances are huge that you have heard him. Brent is, without doubt, the number 1 session musician working out of Nashville and has been since the early 1990’s.

If you have seen ‘Friends’, ‘Bridget Jones Diary’ or ‘Becker’… Or listened to Shania Twain, Travis Tritt, Alan Jackson, George Strait or any other of the hundreds of artists that call Brent first when they need a guitar player on their recording, you’ve heard him. It’s getting to the point now where Brent is probably one of the most recorded guitar players in history.

Not only is he a now a legendary studio figure, but also a renowned composer and songwriter. His compositions have been used in countless films, TV shows and commercials. His solo albums, in particular “Hot Wired” (from which this pedal got its name) has become almost mythical in its reputation for guitar tone and quality of musicianship. With Brent, you will not believe it until you hear it.

Built on the foundations of v1, v2 stands alone in terms of versatility. The studio scene in Nashville has changed over the last few years, so we had to change the Hot Wired to mirror the industry Brent works in. As you probably already know, v1 was geared towards all out chickin' pickin' and beyond - v2 brings you a broader range of subtlety in channel 1 that mirrors Brent's work today. You can still find the chickin' pickin' tones, but you can also find a deeper, warmer overdrive section that will allow you to play as smooth as you like. With the added blend control, you won't believe how fat your tone can be without it sounding too overdriven. Channel 2 still has the same "Plexi" flavor that Brent loves.

Two pedals in one (overdrive and distortion), this is without doubt one of the most versatile pedals available today. One channel has all your overdrive needs, from a gentle break up to all out crunch, the other gives you dirt... Loads of fat, creamy distortion that is tonally perfect from top to bottom. If need be you can stack them both together for a huge, huge sound.

Brent uses this pedal daily in the studio. He uses it live. When it has Brent’s name on it, you know it’s nothing short of perfect.

Overdrive Butah

The Butah pedal has controls for Drive, Level and Tone. Footprint of a Boss or Ibanez and has a bright blue LED and True Bypass.

The Buttah effect is a low gain OD that sounds like an old tube amp being pushed to a slight amount of grit. It really lets the natural tone of your guitar come through and can also push your tube amp into OD when pushed.

Butah is dead quiet with hardly any noise.

Specs:

• - Durable powder coated finish
• - Davies knobs
• - Switchcraft jacks
• - Alpha pots
• - EH 3DPT true bypass switch
• - Military grade wiring
• - Hand picked and matched parts for tone and durability
• - Works on a 9V Battery or Adapter

Overdrive Dirty Little Secret

The Dirty Little Secret has earned itself a well-deserved reputation for replicating the sound and feel of a classic era Marshall amplifier, supplying one of the most iconic guitar sounds in music. When the JFETs used as the base for the Dirty Little Secret were discontinued, and as our stock of them began to dwindle we knew we had to find ones still being manufactured. However, rather than simply re-voicing around these new JFETs, we decided to push the envelope and provide an amazingly robust feature-set, from ever evolving listening and circuit skills, and pure power of intention. This isn't just 'a' Marshall in a box, it's the most versatile and dynamic Marshall-style overdrive out there!

Overdrive Double Barrel

This is our "Everything low to medium gain" pedal. The Double Barrel is for the player who needs a versatile but transparent overdrive at medium and light gain levels. You won’t find face melting distortion here, but you will find overdrive with the character and stacking abilities to cover most any tonal need.

The right side is our JHS-808 with more usable tone control, more focused lows, better presence and warmer clipping than the original screamers on the market. With “Version 3” we added a three way gain switch to choose between saturated/boost/crunch. The left side is our #1 selling “Morning Glory” overdrive. Transparent, discreet and open are what lurk inside this circuit.

When these two circuits are stacked, something magic happens. Tones that are original and fresh come with ease, as well as added flexibility, due to the “order switching” toggle that lets you decide what pedal comes first in the signal chain.

We are convinced that this is one of the greatest 2 in 1 pedals ever made... Seriously. If your having problems getting the tones you want, just snatch the Double Barrel and see what happens!

Overdrive Euphoria

When Brian created the circuit that would eventually become the Euphoria, he was working on creating a pedal that would go from clean tones to distorted tones while adding a bit of warmth. He wanted something for himself that would be dynamic, have a great sounding “gritty” tone to it yet be able to respond to the volume knob like a tube amp. Everything about Brian is in the dynamics of sound and if a pedal can't work with him dynamically, then he just can't use it.

The Euphoria is his take on that elusive tone and feel made famous by Dumble Amplifiers - smooth creaminess yet crunchy when you need it to be, yet the tonality is much more transparent than other “dumble sounding" pedals. Very responsive tone controls that interact with the pedal - they don't just “color” the sound. The controls actually affect the response and feel of the pedal, just like a great tube amp.

If you love the sound of your clean tone, and just wish you could have more “hair” on the note... a little bit of grit without any change in tonality, the Euphoria will do that with ease. PLUS it's extremely flexible... with the toggle switch in the down position you'll get a hint of fuzz along with the overdrive, it's reminiscent of the tones that "Eric Johnson" may use. With the toggle in the up position the tonality is super smooth, creamy yet crunchy when you dig into the strings.

This is reminiscent to the famous “Dumble” tone, though it's really much, much more than that. In the center position, the toggle will give you tons of crunch, or roll the gain back a bit and push the volume up and you have a superior clean boost with a 2 band EQ that's extremely transparent, but variable so you can actually turn it into an awesome treble booster just by cranking up the treble and turning the bass down.

Overdrive Formula 5F6

The Formula 5F6 adds vintage tweed Bassman response to our range of Foundation Overdrives, giving you the awesome characteristics of this classic amp into any clean amp.

The tweed Bassman may be the most influential *guitar* amp of all time. Although it was marketed as a bass amp, its treble, middle, bass and presence controls and 4 x 10 configuration were perfect for guitar, as guitarists soon figured out. How influential was the Bassman? Look up the schematic and compare its preamp to that of a Marshall or Vox and you'll see!

Overdrive Formula No.5

The Formula No. 5 was inspired by old tweed amps, most notably the 5E3 circuit. The character of the 5E3 is very unique. It has very minimal power filtering, low plate voltages, elemental tone stack, and does next to nothing to control the low end between gain stages, not to mention the under-rated output transformer and speaker. The entire system runs inefficiently resulting in a loose bass, greasy mids, cutting treble, and incredible grit – none of these qualities were ideal or intentional back in the day. In spite of this, over the past five decades the amp inspired some of the coolest, most sought after guitar tones ever recorded.

We’ve captured the unique qualities of these amps in the Formula No. 5. For this circuit we felt cascaded JFET gainstages yielded the best result. They have a softer sound than MOSFETs. JFETs also have much more natural attack/decay than diode clipped rigs which are pingy on the attack and fizzy on the decay. We chose capacitor types that enhanced the midrange and burnished the treble.

Overdrive Latitude

From the sweet shimmering tremolo of yesteryear to helicopter choppiness of today, the tremolo has been a staple for guitar effects. With one foot in sweet vintage tremolo tones and one foot in more modern helicopter chops, the Wampler Latitude Tremolo Deluxe offers the best of both worlds.

Finally there is a Tremolo with all the bells and whistles. This tremolo pedal was designed for the player that wants a plethora of tremolo options underfoot. The Latitude utilizes digital technology to control a completely analog guitar signal path; bringing you the best of both worlds.

With its tap tempo controls and multiple time divisions – the Latitude is easy to sync with whatever song you are playing. Have a drummer that’s time keeping is a little off? The tap tempo control will regulate your tremolo speed on the fly. The Latitude Deluxe offers players the choice of four divided sub-divisions: Quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted eighth notes, and triplets. With your choice of 3 waves forms (Bell, Sine, and Square) you can keep your tremolo classy or get it as nasty as you want.

Thanks to the volume control option, your tremolo effect won’t get lost in the mix. The Latitude also features the Wampler standard true by-pass so your guitar’s natural tone won’t be affected when your pedal is not engaged.

From true vintage mojo to modern syncopated pulsating – the Latitude Deluxe was designed to cover all of your tremolo needs.

Overdrive Luna Overdrive

The Keeley Overdrive - As always, 100% Hand Built in the USA!

After years of modifying overdrives, we have engineered our own unique overdrive pedal! I wanted Keeley Fans to have the best possible overdrive pedal at their feet.

Two and a half years in the making, this is the sum of my ideas and thoughts on overdrive and distortion. Endless tonal possibilities are what I strived for and I think you'll agree. Enjoy!

Sandwiched in between the two styles of overdrive is a high fidelity modified Baxandall tone control, beautifully tuned to a guitar players creative needs. The Luna Overdrive combines modern OP-Amp clipping with tube-like JFET gain stages.

Overdrive Moonshine

Are you looking for an overdrive that is not transparent and adds its own character and attitude? The Moonshine is for you. Our Moonshine Overdrive is a highly unique and massively tweaked version of the most famous overdrive ever created and housed in a little green enclosure. Blues, rock, country, jazz, and even hardcore/metal players will find this is an indispensable tool for shaping and creating unique mid heavy tones for almost any need.

You’ll immediately feel at home with our basic Volume, Tone, and Drive knobs, so tweak away! The simple 2-position “Proof” toggle gives you everything from low gain amp-like breakup with powerful colored boost settings to grinding, heavy overdrive that reaches to the very edge of cranked amp distortion.

In the down position, you’ll find the highest gain settings, lots of saturation and sustain and the most mid-range goo available. In the up position are the more open and forceful crunchy tones that will make any amp beg for mercy. The up position also adds more overall volume and more headroom to those searching for cleaner applications. The tone control goes down as smooth as Grandpa’s White Lightning, with none of the harsh ice-pick characteristics that many overdrives have in the brighter settings.

Just like our SuperBolt pedal, the Moonshine uses an internal 9v to 18v charge pump that allows it to run on normal 9v but converting it internally to 18v for an enormous amount of headroom, added low-end and more overall punch.

We wouldn’t be surprised if this is the most girthy, thick overdrive you have ever plugged into. If you’re a fan of stacking overdrives, you’ll love putting this in front of or behind your favorite drive, booster, or fuzz. The Moonshine delivers on any style amp, easily producing anything from SRV classic Stratocaster/Fender amp tones with class to huge “wall of rock” The Edge-style force through a Vox. On another note, you might find a few Dumble-esque lead settings that will have you feeling like you saved a cool $100,000 in search of that sacred tone. Last but not least, it kills on bass guitar, the reason it was originally designed.

Overdrive Morning Glory

There’s a lot of hype out there these days with overdrive pedals and the last thing we want to do is to add to the noise.

As you may already know, almost every boutique overdrive on the market is a modified Tubescreamer of some sort, we have decided to take a different approach.

The Morning Glory is a very transparent tone-shaping tool that is the result of several years of building, gigging, tweaking and improving on the original Marshal Bluesbreaker design. We improved vastly on the BB while maintaining what made it a great pedal in the first place. It now has around 4X more headroom, 2X the available gain and a more useful tone control. The “Bright Cut” toggle allows the perfect level of EQ for your rig.

You will notice immediately how touch sensitive and dynamic the feel of this pedal is. The frequencies are perfectly balanced and the tone knob reacts as a high frequency roll off. The drive allows you a huge range of tones from “little wing-ish” chime to classic rock era bite. If you’re a Strat player, this pedal will bring you sounds that you may have thought impossible and if you like the Les Paul, get ready to discover a new pallet of sounds that you won’t be able to live without.

With enough clean headroom to be used as a boost as well as a hefty amount of drive, this may be your go-to pedal, for good.

Overdrive OCD Prescription Mod

We change the tone-stack to remove the harsh high-end sometimes found on certain rigs. You'll notice more low end, clearer mids, and an overall more useful tone control. The gain is more open and smooth akin to tube-amp break-up. The Prescription mod works on every version of the Fulltone OCD.

Overdrive Paisley Drive

Since late 2009, we discovered that Brad Paisley was using Wampler Pedals. He started with the AnalogEcho, then got an Ego Compressor and then had the Underdog overdrive.

Everything was great until his tech, Chad, mentioned to Brian that Brad still was not quite settled on the overdrive sound he was getting from his live rig… could Wampler maybe look at making a pedal …??

Brads requirements were quite “simple”… it needs to be clean but get crunchy with some “beef” to it. It needs to have a fluid tone when soloing. I needs to add a little hair to the tone but then but then has to be able to give flat out ball busting gain, oh… but please do not wreck the tonality. It needs to have everything, in a pedal format, but do not make it sound like a pedal...!

Over a period of months, Brian made some prototypes and sent them off, there were a couple of “tweaks” here and there to be made and then finally, when “proto #2” landed it went straight into the live rack and out on the H20 world tour.

That prototype has now been made into the Brad Paisley signature “Paisley Drive” and goes with Brad wherever he goes. When you see Brad live, or performing live on the TV, and you are blown away by his overdriven tone, it’s the Paisley Drive.

The truly great thing about this pedal is that it’s not only Telecaster style guitars that it works so well with, it brings the best out of your Strat or anything you may have loaded with humbuckers. You no longer need to have individual pedals for your guitars; the Paisley Drive will make each one sing.

The inbuilt tonal controls, the presence and mid contour switches, will make this pedal the single most versatile and complete overdrive pedal you have ever owned. In fact, we believe it might be the last one you ever buy... Brad Paisley:- “...we actually recorded this (pedal) in the studio, you know, trying it out. I turned up a Trainwreck Amp that I've got and compared the sound of the distortion and it was very, very similar. And that's a very good test because any time a pedal can mimic a great overdriven amp then you're on to something...”

Overdrive Paramount

Handwired, Handbuilt in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma USA using some of the finest quality materials available.

The Paramount Overdrive is a Medium Gain (Second Stage Overdrive) that stacks very well with almost any pedal. It can be ran at 9-18v (18v for more headroom). The Paramount is an original Emerson circuit that is powerful has plenty of usable gain on tap to fit most any situation. The Paramount's character is refreshingly unique yet sits in the mix very well and has a familiar sound. This pedal is very dynamic and responds well to pick attack and the subtle nuances of the player.

Specs:

-USA Made Custom Potentiometers (for an excellent taper and feel)

-Handwired Construction

-Blue LED

-Durable Matte Black Powdercoated Finish

-USA Switchcraft Jacks -3PDT True Bypass Footswitch

-Hand picked and matched parts for ultimate tone.

-Each & Every Pedal is Handbuilt, wired and tested in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma USA

-Power: Standard 9-18V volt DC power supply with a negative center 2.1mm barrel, NO internal battery option.

We highly recommend a quality power supply that utilizes isolated power. This would include the Voodoo Lab PP2+ or the IS0-5 and several other brands/models.

Includes full warranty against defects in components or manufacturing. Please see our Warranty Page.

Overdrive Plexi Drive

Like everyone else, Brian Wampler has always G.A.S.’d after certain amps from history. One of the amps that’s always been high on his personal wish list is a Marshall "JTM-45®". That historic British stack tone that provided the foundations of rock.

Now, not many people know that Brian is in fact a huge fan of rock music… Classic rock music… Rock music that was born of a great guitarist, playing a great guitar into a great amp.

All of this came to a head when a band mate of his inherited a "JTM-45®". That, as they say, was it. Brian had to have that tone. Most people would see that as a cue to get their credit card out and crawl the net in the hope of finding one that wasn’t going to cost him and arm and a leg, but not Brian, there was only one thing for it. Design a pedal that could give him that tone from his gear, and anyone else’s gear if possible.

Have slaved over the breadboard forever, tweaking everything (and perfecting his AC/DC and Hendrix riffs along the way), he had it. The ultimate M.I.A.B. ("Marshall®" in a box), the ultimate tone from the original amp of rock, from his own gear.

Designed to sit somewhere between the "JTM-45®" and "Marshall 18®", this pedal will allow you to have that massive stack tone, full of poweramp tone from your rig. With the added option of the bass boost, you can emulate the sound (and trouser flapping) thump of a 4x12” (or two) at the flick of a switch. All of this available from you gear, whether it be in a bedroom or at a gig.

This pedal remains a favourite of Brian’s to this day, and he still uses it at gigs. For a man who is said to be never satisfied with his tone, the Plexi-Drive has stayed with him throughout and it is still making him smile years later. Your search for a M.I.A.B. is over. There is only one pedal that gives you that tone, that crunch, that response and that feeling. There is only one PlexiDrive, and Wampler Pedals bring it to you. So, as they say... For those about to Rock, we salute you...

Overdrive RAH

In January 1970 Led Zeppelin hit the stage of London's historic concert hall, Royal Albert Hall. At this performance Jimmy Page expressed himself masterfully with a broad pallet of tones and GIANT dynamic range. Of course this has a lot to do with Page's playing technique and Gibson Les Paul. His backline amps, custom Hiwatt heads into Marshall cabinets filled the entire hall with a cornucopia of colors at levels ranging from a mouse whisper to rave ups louder than a jumbo jet taking off only inches over your head.

At Catalinbread we love the RAH performance, but we hadn't considered the possibility of capturing it to put into a pedal… One day our friend Charlie got ahold of Catalinbread's chief circuit designer Howard Gee to ask if we could do it. Charlie said that he'd been trying to get this tone for years and told Howard, if anybody could do it would be Catalinbread. Having proven his ability to capture the essence and experience of famous amplifiers, Howard began experimenting with what is now the RAH.