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You know how you want to sound. I can help you get there.

It usually comes down to understanding the gear you already own and how to set it, not buying more. (even if pedals have always overwhelmed you.)

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Tom

If you want to understand your pedals and your tone this course is necessary. You aren't going to find this information at Guitar Center.

Ricky

I am very pleased by how enjoyable this course was and how inspired I feel.

Christopher

I loved this, as Brian says at the end, there just aren't a lot of books or resources out there that teach you this sort of thing. 

You can hear the tone in your head. Getting it out of your rig is the hard part.

Here's how it usually goes. You hear a sound in your head, or on a record, and you know that's the sound you want. So you start tweaking. You add a pedal. You move it around in the chain. You copy someone's exact settings. And it still doesn't sound like the thing you're hearing. Eventually you start wondering if it's your gear, or your ears, or some basic thing everybody else figured out and you missed.

It's none of those. After more than 20 years designing pedals for players like Brad Paisley and Brent Mason, I can tell you what's actually going on. Nobody ever showed you how the pieces work together, not the marketing, not the demo videos, not the forum threads. So you've been changing five things at once and hoping, instead of knowing.

That's the whole reason I made The Wampler Guitar Tone Method.

I walk you through how your gain and drive pedals actually behave, how your amp and the rest of your rig respond to them, and how modulation like chorus, phaser, and tremolo fits in. There's no engineering math and no circuit theory. It's just how things really work, explained in plain language, so you can set your gear to get the sound you're after instead of guessing at it.

Once it clicks, the whole thing changes. You stop fighting your rig and start playing it. You hear a tone and you know how to get there. You get the same great sound on Tuesday that you got on Saturday. And you stop buying pedals hoping the next one finally fixes it, because you actually understand the ones already in front of you.

It's not just about the pedals.

Great tone isn't only the pedals. It's how your amp, your guitar, your pickups, and your pedals all talk to each other. So the course covers that too. Why the same pedal sounds completely different on two different amps. Why your pickups change the way a pedal responds. What all those knobs and switches actually do. How pedals behave through an amp modeler, and how to get a good tone when you're recording in a DAW. By the end you understand the whole system, not just one box on the floor.

For $79 (less than half the price of most overdrives), you'll understand how to get the sound you're after from the gear you already have, instead of buying another pedal and hoping.

You're covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you're not happy with the course, just contact us within 30 days and we'll refund every penny.

Stop guessing at your tone. Learn how your gear really works, and go get the sound you hear.

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The Wampler Guitar Tone Method: Get the Tone You Want Without Buying More Gear

  1. Welcome to The Wampler Guitar Tone Method

    1 lesson
    1. Introduction to the Course

  2. Section 1: Overdrive Pedals

    4 lessons
    1. The Surprising Truth Behind Most Overdrive Pedals & Their Circuitry
    2. Unmasking the Myth Behind "Genre-Specific" Pedals
    3. How Different Guitar Types Affect & Influence OD and Dist. pedals
    4. Tips & tricks on using overdrive pedals with a dirty or distorted amp

  3. Section 2: Distortion Pedals

    3 lessons
    1. Distortion Pedals: Are they all the same?
    2. The Importance of Distortion Pedal Diversity
    3. The Impact of Gain on Guitar Tones and Textures

  4. Section 3: Fuzz Pedals

    2 lessons
    1. Fuzzface Type Pedals: The Intricacies of The Fuzz Face Pedal
    2. Other Types of Fuzzes: The Mosrite / Tone Bender / Big Muff Circuits

  5. Section 4: "Other" Types of "Dirt" Pedals

    1 lesson
    1. "Dirt" Pedals That Defy Categories Entirely

  6. Section 5: "Stacking" Pedals For More Tonal Variety

    6 lessons
    1. Layering Distortion and Overdrive Pedals for Complex Tonal Textures
    2. Navigating Challenges When Stacking Similar Types of Pedals
    3. Dialing in Settings When Stacking Overdrive Into Distortion
    4. Dialing in Settings When Stacking Distortion Into Overdrive
    5. Stacking Transparent Overdrives With Distortion Pedals
    6. The Art of Stacking Two High Gain Distortion Pedals Together

  7. Section 6: Booster Pedals

    3 lessons
    1. Running Boost Pedals Into the Input of a Clean Amp
    2. Using Boost Pedals With Overdrive and Distortion
    3. Running Boost Pedals in the Effects Loop of an Amp

  8. Section 7: Noise Gates

    1 lesson
    1. Exploring the World of Noise Gate Pedals

  9. Section 8: Buffers

    1 lesson
    1. A Deep Dive Into the World of Buffers and Impedance

  10. Section 9: Compressors

    4 lessons
    1. A Deep Dive Into the Ross/Dynacomp "OTA" Type Compressors
    2. A Deep Dive Into "VCA" and "FET" Type Compressors
    3. A Deep Dive Into "Optical" Types of Compressors
    4. Compressors & Overdrives: Tips, Tricks, & General Rules For Stacking Them Together

  11. Guitar Pedals 101

    6 lessons
    1. 1-Intro and how different pedals affect the amp, Part 1
    2. 2- How pedals affect an amp differently, part 2
    3. 3- How different guitars affect tone
    4. 4 - How pedals affect amp modelers
    5. 5 - How pedals affect amp modelers differently in a DAW
    6. Closing thoughts on this bonus course

  12. Tips on getting better clean tones

    1 lesson
    1. Video: Tips on getting better clean tones

  13. Getting the Best Out of Modulation Pedals

    11 lessons
    1. IMPORTANT NOTICE BEFORE WATCHING
    2. Auto Wah
    3. Auto Volume Swell
    4. Envelope Filter
    5. "Univibe" type Rotary Speaker effect
    6. Rotary Speaker
    7. Flanger
    8. Chorus
    9. Phaser
    10. Tremolo
    11. Harmonic Tremolo

The Wampler Guitar Tone Method

$79

For beginner and intermediate players

  • Understand how your pedals, amp, and rig work together.

  • Set your gear to get the sound you're actually after.

  • Stack your drives without turning your tone to mush.

  • Dial in modulation like chorus, phaser, and tremolo.

  • Get the same great tone every time you plug in.

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Tired of owning pedals you can't quite dial in?

This isn't about collecting more gear. It's about finally understanding the gear you've got and getting it to do what you want.

You'll learn how gain and drive pedals really work, overdrive, distortion, fuzz, boost, and compression, and how to stack them without making mud. You'll learn how modulation fits into your sound. And you'll learn how all of it sits together with your amp and guitar, so the tone in your head finally comes out of your speaker.

The Wampler Guitar Tone Method makes your current rig work for you instead of against you.

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, Vince Gill, and many more.

Over the years, I've learned that the tone a player wants usually comes from understanding the gear they already own and how to use it, not 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. That's exactly what I built this course to do.

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