Wampler Paisley Drive Overdrive Pedal

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...”



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