Wampler Tweed ’57: Luxury Overdrive With A Rich Retro Flavour
This American boutique pedal aims to get under the yellow cloth of the late-’50s Fender Deluxe, often cited as the pinnacle of overdriven tone
The tweed-covered Fender combos of the 1950s were the inspiration for the very first ‘boutique’ amps, and now the desire to capture some of that sweet and creamy valve overdrive has spread to stompbox-makers – including Boss (FBM-1), HAO (Sole Pressure), TC Electronic (MojoMojo) and Lazy J (Cruiser).
US builder Brian Wampler’s take is the Tweed ’57, a compact pedal that boasts a three-band EQ section and, even cooler, a ‘linked inputs’ simulator. But does ‘Tweed’ mean strictly retro? To find out, Guitar Planet tried it out on a bunch of famous riffs by everyone from Hendrix to Vai.
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