Just like adding a gain stage to your amp!
Scores of players like Brian Wampler have turned to the transparent tone and natural response of Nashville's other favorite green OD for a decade and counting. The Wampler Belle perfects this legendary German circuit, giving you added front-end gain and harmonic excitement for color-enhanced country leads, basted-on blues solos, and muscly moderate-rock crunch.
Color: far more than a tone control
What Sweetwater players dig about the Wampler Belle is that it preserves the midrange content of your signal chain, even amid heavy tone shaping. The secret lies in the Belle's versatile double-filter Color control. This allows you to dial in the high- and low-frequency content just where you need it, all without carving out those critical midrange frequencies.
Bass and Clipping controls add versatility
Fans of the OG green will find even greater versatility in the Wampler Belle's added Bass and Clipping controls. The Bass knob really adds some heart-pounding cab thumb when you crank it past 3 o' clock. Naturally, this control also lets you carve out troubling bass frequencies in a dense mix, but we think you'll agree that cranking it adds a response that many will find lacking in the original. Also unique is Wampler's side-mounted Clipping switch. Engage this at any time for added harmonic saturation and a compressed attack that's perfect for lead and solo breaks.
Wampler Belle Transparent Overdrive Pedal Features:
- Wampler's spin on a Nashville session secret
- Transparent overdrive and harmonic enhancement
- Essential for front-ending an amp or modeling device
- Color control preserves the midrange character of your amp and instrument when tone sculpting
- Bass control scoops mud and enhances cab punch
- Clipping switch ups the drive and compression characteristics
- 9–18-volt power supply required (not included)
- Built in the USA using high-grade audio components
- Small size — just 3.5 inches x 1.5 inches
- Low current draw — 11.4mA @ 9 volts, 14.1mA @ 18 volts
- True bypass switching preserves your tone when removed from your signal path