I can not express my IMMENSE gratitude for you actually using a CLEAN sound to demo pedals... I'm a serious tone chaser and it REALLY seems like 80% of pedal demos will start with "Here's my clean tone"- And it's already distorted as hell by their amp, and I immediately dislike the video and click off if it because it's COMPLETELY useless... Us real tone collectors know- Those videos are more about them showin off their "sick toanz" than giving an accurate and realistic representation of the gear that they're "demoing"... So, again, a million thanks! And GREAT demo, btw!

Love Wampler pedals. Tumnus is probably my all time favorite pedal

I’m considering all three pedals and I appreciate you making this video. Thanks!

The Ratsbane is so much more when you don’t have the gain maxed. I have my gain at 10 o’clock and that’s pushing it. The Plexi drive has that added TS9 feature when you put the toggle on the right side, which makes it great. Wampler is amazing.

I think of you as the Mr. Rogers of the pedal world.

@grayaj23

3 жыл бұрын

Needs more sweaters, but yeah.

@Grvgabe

3 жыл бұрын

And chords of orion is bob ross

@joellebrodeur1015

3 жыл бұрын

@@Grvgabe I was just going to say that😅

@matthewdavis473

3 жыл бұрын

Totally not a compliment

@johnsterthemonster9181

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewdavis473 according to you

Good timing of this video. Currently looking at picking up the Plexi Drive mini for some good old school Marshall tones.

Cool to see you try out some more premium pedals! I am a big Wampler fan, cool to see you give your own take on a few of their stompboxes.

Ryan, I think you are hard on yourself. Personally, I think you are quite a good guitarist. Honestly. Who cares about shredding?! You have a groove and style of your own - that’s what counts.

@JaniceLalla

3 жыл бұрын

It's sad that you can't play actual songs in here with the copyright police lurking

@joellebrodeur1015

3 жыл бұрын

His older videos he plays more and fiddles less. Not sure why he changed it. I tinker on gear. If I bond with it, the playing chops come out. If I can't get comfortable with a piece of gear, I struggle. Like being thrown onto an ice rink and never used skates before.

@JaniceLalla

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure the copyright policies crackdown changed everything for everybody

Liking that Plexi Drive, especially that mids switch.

I’d mention that with the controls set a little different, the side clipping button on the Belle makes a tremendous difference. If you set the colour knob about 1 or 2 oclock and the gain about the same for clarity, you can REALLY hear the difference that button makes. To me with the button in, it’s more natural, non compressed, less gritty sounding and there’s just a presence to the sound that is there, but not as much with the other clipping. In my rig, it sounds like distortion without the distortion. Great video!

Man, I freaking love that sparkly Harley Benton. Need to get one if I ever find it

Yeah, Brian does make pedals for some of the best pickers (Mason, Paisley, Wood...). The Plexi-Drive Deluxe is my current favourite drive pedal - it really comes close to converting a standard Fender amp into a Marshall. The mini version seems really dialed into the modded tone.

The Plexi Drive is great! Very musical at any level of gain!

I got the Belle a couple weeks ago, and it's really great! I keep the button in, and the gain at 10-11 o'clock, then adjust the bass to taste depending on the pickup. So good for Teles!

The Belle's tone, or whatever Mr. Wampler calls it acts like the TBX control Strats came with in the mid1980's. One way pegs bass and highs and then backs them down the other way, more mids. LOVE it. Ratsbane is my new favorite Rat...

@Jaysteenn

3 жыл бұрын

I love the Ratsbane too! Also check out Alexander Circuitry Cranium. Its a rat with tons of different clipping options.

Say what you want about the packaging, Brian makes some premium dirt pedals. Great review Ryan!

You can hear the left switch more when the gain is low. Middle is lowest, left is 2nd, and right is the most gain. If you have the gain low, you can use the switch to go from light gain to searing distortion on the right without moving knob settings

The Ratsbane is speaking to me and the types of tones I'm interested in playing with. I see real lo-fi industrial potential there. Gonna have to get myself one and have some fun.

Excellent “first impressions” video. I agree with you that, for me, the Belle is the most useful but that Plexi-drive sounds so fun. I also dug the little chord progression that sounded like the Andrew Lloyd Weber “Phantom of the Opera” song. 👍👍👍

@60CycleHumcast

3 жыл бұрын

Lol my wife poked her head in when I was editing and asked if I was playing phantom. It was totally unintentional.

@michaelfreer9183

3 жыл бұрын

@@60CycleHumcast Great minds think alike. 😉

I own the Belle, second favorite after my Sugar Drive from MXR

I replaced my Vintage 1987 Rat with the Ratsbane, it plays better with other pedals, less noisy and the extra options really give you more tone control, plus has a very dynamic tone range than the ProCo Rat, I am digging the Plexi Drive too, surprisingly.

The Belle is a great ODR-1 based pedal. You’re right - noon is a great place. Bass control = ODR-1 that we can use with humbuckers

The saddle positioning on that guitar is blowing my mind

@periurban

3 жыл бұрын

I watched Ryan showing how he does his setups. Anything is possible!

I could hear a little bit of the Green Acres theme song in that overdrive noodling.

I think that the regular odr-1 has a lot of low end that is hard to tone down, so that switch on the side cut that a bit to make it more versatile

I love it, drive me over the edge, for real for real!

One of your go to riffs always reminds me of the opening of the 90210 theme song, lol.

The ratsbane is next for me. Pairing it with my Tumnus would be perfect.

The TS-9 Tube Screamer sounds so good in a Marshall DSL on Regular Gain and even Better on Ultra Gain.

the white and the green for the classic rock stuff...the grey one definitely more doomy

I think the Katana has a really nice Nobles clone with the natural overdrive setting. If you never noticed that go check it out.

@Jaysteenn

3 жыл бұрын

Thats good to know, I like the nobels circuit. I'll have to check it out.

I love your videos...um, and if you're not a good player, then I should DEFINITELY give up in shame. I think you're awesome and come not only for the information and entertainment, but for the cool guitar noodling!

The Nobels ODR-1 is by far my favorite overdrive pedal. It's got a very large gain range, it is pretty boomy but they have a new version with a bass cut dip switch that addresses that "issue" some people have. If you look into Tom Bukovac, he's really an incredible session guy with a killer channel here on KZread as well. He's semi credited as being the one to push the Nobels into the limelight in Nashville. And the current reissue of it in production is CHEAP. Like borderline affordaboard cheap. Check it out!

I hope you can do a Nobels pedal show. The Nobels mini would be a good side by side test with the Belle.

I love my Wampler plextortion!

As always, great review! That Wampler Belle sounds a bit like my Mosky Golden Horse (albeit the Wampler a little warmer & no fizzy sound).

@DoobTube71

3 жыл бұрын

Over the line! That's a foul. The Wampler Tumnus should be most similar to the Golden Horse. Lol.

@MaartenAnna

3 жыл бұрын

@@DoobTube71 I know, it didn’t make any sense to me either. I think 🤔 the Golden Horse is supposed to sound like a Klon, but it’s a lot fizzier through my amp (cheap Marshal knock-off). So, perhaps the Wampler Belle is supposed to sound like the Klon?

@brianrollins7275

11 ай бұрын

I have the Belle and it can get you into klon territory but it is based on the nobels odr circuit. Very versatile little pedal and it’s a favorite of mine. ✌🏻

Tee hee…very late to this video but bro, you ARE a really good sounding player, your rhythm, your feel is more than good, I’m glad you’re not inundating viewers with blistering sweep picking & nuclear thrash blasts, makes it so much simpler to really hear what you’re demoing, your gear always sounds great & like ‘they’ say, tone is in the fingers, you got tone bruv!

@nandoblivion

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah, signed, HUGE Judas Priest, Van Halen, Michael Schenker, Randy Rhoads, Pantera, Gojira, Yngwie, Joe Bonamassa, etc. über fan 🤘🏼

Pick up a Nobels Mini, they’re like $79 new and you could compare it with the Belle and see how it stacks up. I don’t see too many comparison vids between the Belle and the Mini from Nobels. I’d love to see your take.

I'm with you on this - The Belle is the most usable for what I play. Plexi for the hard hitting stuff.... I'm just not a RAT user though. Maybe its for distortion lovers.

@JoelCaseyJonesMusic

Жыл бұрын

Most people make the mistake of assuming the RAT is only a distortion box and turn the gain up WAY too much. It handles low/moderate gain better than most comparable dirt boxes with that much on tap. I love it with gain set anywhere below 9 o clock. It also stacks well with other lower gains. Gain staging with different pedals is my jam. I should have went that route a LONG time ago

@andrewstendahl36

Жыл бұрын

I've been thinking about a lower gain setting with the Rat lately. I dont own one, I had and sold the JHS Distortion series (Rat Clone) which I felt was too bright and trebley and I tried the more bass laden Animals Pedals Tioga Road Cycling Distortion pedal which I felt had a really loose gain feel on the strum. The original circuit inside the ProCo Rat has to be its own thing. I still havent encountered one in person. Two other self proclaimed Rat clone pedals sounded different

The Belle Switch on the side makes more of a difference with Humbuckers

"That one has a li'l switchy on the side" You are pip, Edith... 😁👍 Cheers, 🍻

I watch Brian Wamplers channel. He is a genius. I'll own the Belle Overdrive!!

Love Wampler pedals.

I have an 18v slot left on my power supply, and Loop 2 on my EQD Swiss Things is lonely. One of these three is gonna live on the underside of my pedalboard. But how does one choose between such great tones?!

I enjoyed the replay!

I think I want any of them.

9:10 as a guitarist, I don’t think I’d ever use that switch lol. BUT, having some experience mixing music, ie with my producer ears, I hear a big difference and I would be picky with when I do and don’t use the compression. You know?

My ID got hold of my Wampler EGO,...and the rest has been a rabbit's hole of tone chasing. Then came the Belle. Then the Tumnus. Then the Ratsbane. Next will be the Plexi mini. These damn pedal gear shows are addicting. I'm currently in Dogecoin investing recovery to recoup my guitar gear balance sheet loses! Lol. The Wampler Belle is my favorite mini pedal. Stacked with the Tumnus, they both put the pussy on the chain wax! Off. The. Chain!

@grayaj23

3 жыл бұрын

I loooooove my Ego pedal...

The plexi pedal is good for the punk rock sound, probably the more versatile of the 3 pedals

At 7:20 my pop hypnotized me with that riff

Plexi drive for the win. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

I'm most interested in the pkexi-drive

I don't think I've ever seen Ryan intimidated by a pedal before. Just close your eyes and imagine it's an #affordaboard pedal lol.

Love the Belle and plexi sounds. I guess I'm in the heretic side because I don't like he Rat sound at all and the 'Bane hasn't improved on it for me. Now I AM wondering how that Belle would stack in front of my SLOstortion. THAT is an awesome sounding pedal.

I have Moxie, Belle, and Ratsbane ❤

In the market for a Rat style pedal and the Ratsbane is certainly in the mix.

@joshuaevans1922

3 жыл бұрын

I grabbed a Rare Buzz Snitch a couple months ago and LOVE IT, I 100% recommend it.

I’m a San Diego native and I think we should grab a pint at Shakespeares

Plexi is where it's at!

Dude, get ahold of a Browne Amplification Protein. It's half Nobles and it's amazing

. I find the Belle is not necessary because the original does it's thing well enough and is cheaper. One gets a Rat because it is also it's own thing. It too that once it is tampered with ends up moving into a conventional OD or it becomes a mediocre Fuzz that is best pulled off by a conventional OD or a real Fuzz. The Rat is significantly cheaper. It is not broken and does not need to be fixed.The Plexi is what it is. There are mountains of other choices. I think you made it sound much better than the whizz kids that have already demoed it. A Plexi was NEVER used when it was the only Marshall to solo without a Fuzz or treble booster.In short your chord things were the perfect choice, Thanx!!!

Are you building the can'taffordaboard?

I like what I hear but these aren't for my particular sound. The Belle is thick sounding. I'm on a short scale Ric and those tend to be bass heavy (kicks like a Ric bass if I let it). I'm pretty sure I'd blow a speaker using that pedal with that guitar. I'd have to hear the baritone on this to confirm that.

I knew Brain Stew was going to crop up😄

The plexi drive is the nicest

think the belle is based after one of the nobles pedals

The ODR-1 is indeed a Nashville not so secret (anymore) weapon. Basically, they sound amazing with a tele in bridge position into a blackface fender with high headroom, and that’s about all they work for. Very bass heavy circuit that doesn’t work in just any situation, but when it does it’s magic. Great layering tool for recording rhythm guitars too! I can’t keep mine on my board though - it gets lost in a band and makes me have to rethink my basic clean sound too much.

@jw152

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but there are versions now that allow you to dial in the bass (I think the belle does it) for about any use. I’m a just barely to the edge of breakup guy on my clean sound though. It def shines driving into that type of clean sound.

@AndrewLewisHowe

3 жыл бұрын

Word. Just too much bass for my rig. I got the ODR mini, which has less bass than the original, but more bass than the new full-size version with the bass cut. STILL too much bass for my tastes. I'm keeping it for studio use where I can tone adjust the amps and such, but it just won't work with my live rig.

What amp are these pedals running in to?

Why would you use a Tele to test pedals ??

Why am I getting notify after video airs? I thought I'd get notify when the video is airing

@jwjeffrey

3 жыл бұрын

@@mjdbruyn Thanks, sometimes I do come to the site when it's live but it's really annoying to see the video air an hour before.

I wouldn't worry about quality of playing as it is much like most of us or better. You obviously have fun and I really enjoy most of the videos. My wallet on the other hand, dislikes you😇

@grayaj23

3 жыл бұрын

Shredding is overrated. Style is what counts.

@joellebrodeur1015

3 жыл бұрын

@@grayaj23 I get turned off by shredding vids. As a rhythm player, shredding doesn't showcase what I need to hear.

YES MORE BARITONE

It doesn't sound like a ts circuit because it isn't one. The Belle is a Nobls circuit which is as different as an overdrive can be. In a universe of ts rip offs and variants the nobles is its own thing. The low end is just huge with that Princeton, my man. Holy shit!

4:31 King of the Hill vibes

He has the box(es)

How did you smash your ring finger?

@60CycleHumcast

2 жыл бұрын

Driving screws into a fence.

The problem is my foot is the same size. So… I still have to space them out accordingly.

Ratsbane makes my pants tight. The Tumnus is more useful by far. I need to get a Bell.

At 4:55 is a single

18v for the Belle is better

Certified? Maybe certifiable... LoL. Love your vids bro!

I'll wait for the Chinese clones to hit the market, that are made in the same factory. ... ...are they here yet?

@60CycleHumcast

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been to the warehouse where Wampler pedals are made... it’s not in China.

@ravenslaves

3 жыл бұрын

@@60CycleHumcast That's good news. I'm always suspicious of mini pedals that all seem to look oddly similar...(...making squinty, suspicious eyes as I type this...)

@60CycleHumcast

3 жыл бұрын

@@ravenslaves it’s unfortunate that mini pedals have become synonymous with cheap imports, if a circuit can fit it can fit and that has nothing to do with its quality.

@ravenslaves

3 жыл бұрын

@@60CycleHumcast You say "cheap" like that's a bad thing! For shame! I prefer to call it "inexpensive alternative gear". No, I was just reflecting on the manufacturing reality of outsourcing components and manufacturing to places like China to keep the costs down...and then being stolen and rebranded by the same factories and sold at a massive discount. ...I think some enterprising KZreadr even set up an "affordable board" sort of thing, to explore these sorts of pedals.

#notalltubescreamers

I want a rat style pedal. But I can't decide between ratsbane, iron horse, or just a plain old rat. 🙃

@60CycleHumcast

3 жыл бұрын

Iron horse isn’t a traditional rat, the tone stack is very different.

@rcolpitts5528

3 жыл бұрын

@@60CycleHumcast yeah, that is making me lean more towards the ratsbane since it can be close to a rat and also get heavier.

@markn4526

3 жыл бұрын

I've tried and sent back the Iron Horse. It's a very high quality pedal, as are all Walrus products and it operates very quietly. However that "quality" seems to translate into a very refined, sort of "Rat" sound which isn't really what the Rat is all about. I also found the Iron Horse to be pretty dark-sounding too. I actually compared it side-by-side to the Ratsbane. I immediately liked the Iron Horse better because it just had so much girth, so I sent the Ratsbane on its way. After I played with the Iron Horse more...I regretted doing that. So I ended up with a Wampler Sovereign which to me is sort of a combination of a Rat and a high gain distortion pedal. I still yearn for a Ratsbane sometimes which does the Rat-thing really well and a lot more. I really want to try a PlexiDrive though.

@rcolpitts5528

3 жыл бұрын

@@markn4526 so I picked up the iron horse and found that even though I liked it. It didn't completely beat the built in rat on the hx stomp. And yesterday I picked up a used rat at a great price to use with my Amp setup. Sounds killer at a more reasonable price, and sometimes it's nice not to have three different modes and all the extras.

@markn4526

3 жыл бұрын

@@rcolpitts5528 Yeah, usually I don't like a lot of switches and knobs on anything, but the Ratsbane's controls (as tiny as they may be) are very purposeful and work very well. I had to keep the Iron Horse's tone control cranked (as bright as it would go) just for it to be usable. I think if you use primarily single coil pickups and/or have a thin-sounding amp, the Iron Horse could be the ticket. I don't use/have either and that's why it didn't work for me. On another note...all this has motivated me to order a PlexiDrive today!

You underestimate yourself sir

The RAT is such a wonderfully ugly distortion pedal. :D

Wish I could play as bad as you😊

Yeah,...blah, blah, blah....! But does the Plexi DRIP?!? Lol.

@rcolpitts5528

3 жыл бұрын

Asking the real questions! Lol

Please get another more knowledgeable and better player to demo !!! As of now these pedals don’t sound good!

@60CycleHumcast

7 ай бұрын

Are you volunteering?