Cutting through the mix

If you've read this blog, you know I love me some amp in a box pedals, especially when they're used with other boost and overdrive pedals.  Here I have 2 videos of the wampler plexi drive. First up is my parametric eq into the plexi drive.  THe para eq is an excellent tone shaping device that can work wonders on all sorts of pedalboards, guitar and amp setups.  You can add a nice mid hump to a scooped fuzz like the big muff- or you can really cut through the mix with a full on sharp bandwidth cocked wah sound.  It's just a single band para eq but thats all you need for an electric guitar unless you really dont like the way your pedals and amp sound!  Bandwidth control changes the sharpness of the Q of your frequency boost.  You can go from a mild hump to a sharp spike in a small frequency range.  Frequency controls where on the EQ graph the boost will take place, from bass to sharp treble.  you can definitely use this pedal for bass.  Great for bringing in lo-mids on a dirt box for bass.  Gain controls how much boost is applied to your selected frequencies.

Plexi Drive

Para EQ

This circuit has an awesome sounding buffer in it and really makes a difference if I have as few as 3 true bypass pedals in my chain.  And i use 22 guage solid core wire that has minimum loading on passive pickups compared to 95% of all other pedals out there.  True bypass is great and all, but only if you have a buffer in your chain.  And of course you dont want a bunch of different buffers like boss pedals do to your chain.

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YOUTUBE- Para-EQ into Plexi Drive

 Next up I am hitting the wampler with a clone of the DAM Red Rooster.  The red rooster is a germanium booster very similar to the dallas rangemaster- except it has a range knob that can take it from a treble boost to a full range boost.  This modified rangemaster is absolutely killer with the oc44 germanium transistor I got from small bear- mojo components inside!  Put this in front of a tube amp and the harmonic content is just insane, also great with different amp in box pedals!

YOUTUBE- DAM red rooster into Plexi Drive