New Wampler Brad Paisley Signature Paisley Drive Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal

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

Everything was great until his tech at the time, 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?

Brad's 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. It needs to add a little hair to the tone but then has to be able to give flat out ballsy gain — 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 circuits and sent them off, there were a couple of tweaks here and there to be made and then finally, when official "proto #2" landed it went straight into the live rack and out on the H20 world tour.

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.

"...we actually recorded this in the studio, 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..." — Brad Paisley