The Triple Wreck takes Brian's careful dedication to getting the tonality of an amp
and replicating the sounds that make the amp famous and aims it squarely at
creating superb high gain tones inspired by the Mesa-Boogie® Rectifier® amp
series.
A powerful three-band EQ ensures that you can dial it in regardless of your
amplifier. Any clean amp plus the Triple Wreck equals instant "brutal" high-gain.
Nonetheless, it is still extremely touch-sensitive and responsive in its lower gain
knob settings. If that were all that the pedal were designed to do, it would be
pretty fantastic... Yet Brian worked extremely hard on the Triple Wreck pedal to
accomplish two goals: first, provide that trademark Wampler Pedals tone and
flexibility in achieving the amp-in-a-box function, but second, provide a
beyond-brutal, overwhelming, crushing wall of fuzz with the Boost mode.
Kicking in the Boost is not like anything else you've heard.
It takes a high-gain, made-for-metal pedal and turns it into a fire-breathing fuzz
monster. The Boost is not separately activated, it requires the pedal to be on in
order to do its thing, and it's not a volume boost...
It's a monster. Bringing unreal levels of snarling gain to bear, it can do even the
most high-gain modern fuzz tones, but kick the Boost off again and you're back
to a great, inspired metal tone.
To get the most out of your new pedal, you'll want to become very familiar with the controls. The Triple Wreck features controls
for Gain and Volume, as well as a full three-band EQ for versatile tone shaping and a “Hard/Brutal” Toggle switch to help deter-
mine the overall tonal emphasis of the pedal.
In addition, it has a Boost footswitch, controlled by a knob labeled Boost Contour. As with all Wampler Pedals products, the Triple
Wreck distortion pedal includes a high-quality true-bypass switch which takes it out of the signal path when bypassed. Experi-
ment and enjoy!
Bypass Switch
– A true-bypass footswitch ensures solid, mechanical removal of the circuit when it isn't wanted, meaning you don't lose any
tone when the pedal is off.
Volume
– This control adjusts the output level of the Triple Wreck. There's plenty of volume on tap, so whether you want to go farther than your
input level or just make sure it can do unity volume (the same level of signal going out as you feed it, when active), you're covered. The Gain,
three-band EQ knobs, and the Hard/Brutal Toggle all have an impact on total output volume level, so you're probably better off waiting to
adjust the Volume until you've dialed in the other controls. Re-adjustment might be necessary if you get it to the desired level and still need to
tweak the sound.
Gain –
This control certainly brings heavy gain into play, but it goes farther than that. It lets you dial in medium crunch tones that are very
responsive to your volume knob on your guitar and playing dynamics, or crank it up for a seriously powerful high-gain sound. When using the
Boost mode, this has a dramatic impact as well, and is very, very strongly interactive with the Boost Contour knob. With lower Gain and with the
Boost knob set more anticlockwise side of its range of adjustment, it functions more like a conventional gain boost on an amp, kicking in a
higher gain tone and making it possible to switch from a medium-gain crunch to a high-gain lead tone with one click of the Boost switch. Set to
higher Gain knob settings, though, the Boost Contour knob has more of an impact on the character of the blasting fuzz. The interaction
between the Boost and the Gain knob is definitely something to pay close attention to as you dial in the pedal.
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