Pedal Shopping.

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

Grand Poobah
Staff member
I have $150 in birthday gift cards and I want one dirtier pedal for my small pedal board. I was thinking about the Wampler Pinnacle but I'm not 100% sold. I want something that is not a Fuzz, Tube Screamer or clean boost thing (since I have enough of that) but nothing that is a Rat or DS-1 type either.

What else is out there that is "amp like", dirty but not one of the above pedal variants?
 
I don't know...I was thinking something a bit more modern sounding (without sounding like a Bush album).
 
The Pinnacle has a vintage/modern switch.... you can make it sound like a boogie or such... I leave it in vintage mode for pure EVH Brown Sound goodness. I got the Deluxe which includes a boost, so it's like using channel 2 on an amp and then having a higher gain channel 3 to go to for solos.

It has a ton of gain on tap (I run either all the controls at noon, or the gain a touch over like 1:embarrassed:0) but I can still back my volume knob down to 7 and it cleans up really nice. It responds like an amp... not like a fuzz pedal.

Absolutely LOVE it.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
Its still the frontrunner. I might end up just ordering one and seeing how it sounds in my rig. I can always send it back if I make a decision quickly enough.
 
This is nice but I'm pretty well covered here I think:

 
Last edited by a moderator:
lolz. I doubt it. Trying to decide if I want to get the deluxe or the normal one. I don't need the boost in my current pedalboards but it seems like a handy thing to have. Just don't know if it'll fit.
 
Have you checked out something from Mad Professor? The clips sound pretty good for the ones I have looked out.
 
Chad said:
Have you checked out something from Mad Professor? The clips sound pretty good for the ones I have looked out.
Click to expand...

I really like the idea of the mad professor stuff but I've been hearing about issues with volume drops and audible artifacts in the digital reverb/delay component of the pedals. If I had money to burn I'd buy the Eric Johnson one though.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Mark, you probably don't need the extra switch because you already use other clean boost pedals.... I don't, so I run my amp clean for channel one, Pinnacle blue channel for rhythm and some lead, and then red channel (boost) for heavy stuff.
 
After pondering over this for the past few days and all of the tones that you have used since I have known you, the Pinnacle is probably the choice.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top