Better Guitar Tone – Pedal, Rig, and Sound Mastery

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Many of us hear a great guitar tone and think, "How in the world do they get that sound?" Or maybe you're overwhelmed by all the different pedals you're staring at, not sure how to set them to get the sound you're really after. I'm Brian Wampler, and after more than 20 years designing guitar pedals at Wampler Pedals, I can show you how your pedals, amps, and the rest of your gear work together, and how to set them so they sound great at home, on a stage, or in a recording.

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20+ Years

of pedal design experience

100,000+

pedals built and sold worldwide

Working Pros

circuits for Paisley, Mason, and more

Thousands

of successful tone students

Is Your Guitar Tone Just Never “Quite Right”?

Maybe you stacked two drives and it turned to mush.

Maybe it’s thin and brittle sounding when it *should* be massive tonally.

Maybe your board sounds great at home but sounds terrible with the band.

Maybe you copied someone's settings exactly and it still sounded nothing like them.

The tone you're after usually comes from understanding how the gear you already own works together, and how to set it. Once you learn the frameworks for getting great guitar tone, you can learn to easily identify problems and get better guitar tone than you’ve ever had.

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Start with the exact system you need right now.

Flagship Course

Real guitar gear setup showing a custom pedalboard with a Fender tweed amp and electric guitar

The Wampler Guitar Tone Method

Get the Tone You Want Without Buying More Gear

The Wampler Guitar Tone Method walks you through how your pedals, amp, and the rest of your rig actually work together, and how to set them for great guitar tone.

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Boss ES-5 switcher on a custom guitar pedalboard setup with Strymon TimeLine and Ibanez Tube Screamer

The Ultimate MIDI Course For Guitarists

Control Your Whole Rig With One Tap of a Button

The Ultimate MIDI Course shows you how to simplify MIDI for your pedalboard. Easily set up presets and switching so your whole board and guitar tone changes with one tap, the same way every time. Set up multiple tones all at the push of a button.

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Latest Better Guitar Tone Guides

Free, practical sound advice directly from the blog.

Guitar Pedal Order: What Goes Where and Why It Actually Matters

There is no single "correct" pedal order. There is a suggested starting order that tends to behave predictably, and then there are reasons to move things around based on what you want each pedal to actually do. This is a breakdown of the most common pedal types...

Strat vs Tele - If You Could Only Have One

This is not a “which is better” argument. It’s a “which set of tradeoffs do you want to live with” argument. A Telecaster rewards simple, stable, show-up-and-play behavior. A Strat rewards expression, those in-between pickup sounds, and the whole whammy bar thing when you actually know how...

Brian Wampler playing a silver Telecaster guitar in a studio setting filled with pedals and amps

Meet Brian Wampler

I founded Wampler Pedals and have spent more than 20 years designing guitar pedals, including pedals used by great players like Brad Paisley, Brent Mason, Vince Gill, and many more. Over the years, I've learned that the tone a player wants often comes from understanding the gear they already own and learning how to use it, not always from buying more. Once the details are explained in a way that's easy to understand, the pieces start to fit together, and getting the tone you want gets a lot easier.

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