Wampler Triple Wreck Distortion

Today we take a look at Wampler's Triple Wreck.

This is a high gain distortion pedal. It was designed to be bad ass, and that's exactly what it is.

Controls:
Volume: Controls Volume
Gain: Amount of distortion
Treble, Mids, Bass: EQ shaping

Toggle:
Vintage: Less high end and bite, more compression
Modern: Less Compression, more high end bite
Crunch/Cream: Controls the contour of the boost stage. Crunchy distortion vs creamy fuzz.

Even dialed down on tame settings you can get a decent overdrive sound. But quickly as you increase the gain, it saturates to pure distortion. I love having a 3 band EQ to shape my overall tone as well. As always, you can crank in WAY to much bass. Which is awesome, no complaints about losing the low end! This is also useful for thickening up strat/tele sounds.

The pedal also has TONS of volume, even cranking the EQ settings affects the volume. It can get very loud, real quick. This pedal sounds amazing. Easy to get good tones, lots of harmonic saturation, lots of distortion. But Brian took it a step further and added a boost switch.

Kicking this on allows you to blend in even more distortion, or you can crank on the thickest, most saturated and smooth fuzz you've probably ever heard and any blend between the two!

I admire Wampler for making pedals that sound amazing, but I also commend them for being inovators.

Pro's
True Bypass
9V Operation via battery or adapter
3 band EQ
Choice of Distortion shaping via Vintage/Modern toggle
Tons of volume
Anything from slightly overdriven to thick smooth fuzz
Remains articulate