Wampler Belle Transparent Overdrive Review. The Best Transparent Drive I Have Played in a While
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Alright, you guys have got to check out the Wampler Belle pedal! It is so good! If you are looking for an amazing OD pedal this might be your ticket!!
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Brett! Wicked demo!! I just got my own Belle and man, you're so right!! What a killer OD!!! I love it!
Thanks Mark! Thats awesome you got one! They are so good!
Thanks for the demo on this Brett..I'm sold on this pedal...That gold-top P90 is beyond fantastic.
Thanks! You won't be disappointed! Pedal is fantastic!
Great demo Brett!! You always make it fun!
Thank ya! Glad you liked the vid!
Bought one These pedals thanks in part to your demo. Great review, outstanding pedal, I couldn’t be happier. You can hear the quality! Now I feel like a fan boy 🙂
Lol! Was using mine just yesterday. I LOVE THAT PEDAL!!! So good!
God Damn, Brett....that tone is so good!!! Thanks for the video!!!
Lol! Thanks!
Man, everything you play is so tasteful. Tones, EVERYTHING, is so good. Thank you.
Thank ya!
Love Brian's work! Good stuff Brett!!
Thanks!
Sounds great man! I’ve been keen on this pedal for sometime now. Gonna pick one up after seeing this. Cheers
You'll love it Nick!
Just got this pedal in today... im very impressed. I have an old blackface Princeton and this overdrive is the most transparent OD I have ever used.. 100% recommend!!!
I love that thing! Such a great pedal!!
I friggin’ love mine! It can be dialed in in many ways as well.
Great demo. You sold me.
Awesome! You will love it!
Just bought one due to this review, LOL. Great video, thank you. The tone at 8:46 put me over the edge and made me click the buy button.
Yes! You will love it!
Absolutely! That's partially to the R4 though. Amazing guitars...
Are you happy? Does it, what you were craving for?
Cheers, m. 🙂
I agree Brett, it is something fine! It just might be the perfect drive pedal. Seriously!
Agreed! Thanks for checking out the vid!
Man, that journey riff sounds so good 👌🏻👌🏻
Thanks!
I am gunning for this pedal!!!! I remember when I paid Brian something like 60-70 british pounds in my money! And he made an overdrive pedal for me :) very well built and this was before he got famous :) he’s been a good builder from the beginning and just gets better
Yep Brian's stuff is awesome! It is a great pedal for sure!
The tone at 8:06 is incredible. Guitar, amp, and pedal working so well together at those settings. You don't need anything else.
Thanks Rob! Glad you liked it!
No kidding! I've got a Belle and a Les Paul Classic with P90s... gonna haveta try to get that tone.
The Belle is awesome! Witha Les Paul/P90s - even more awesome-ER!!!!
The journey song tone sounds better that the original song.
Sounds awesome Brett! Brian makes some great products. Trying to decide between this or his new Plexi mini. Thanks for your time and skills!
Sure thing! I did a demo of the Plexi its coming out next week!
@@BrettPapa - well then I must wait to make my choice!!!
I keep coming back to this video Brett! Pretty sure you e nailed the tone I hear in my head. Guess I need a Belle and a divided by 13. Your tone is so good!!
Hey Brett, I love the gain!!! I also have the Belle. Love it too. My OD-1 is going bye bye.
Haha! Such a great pedal!
Great demo. Only thing I wanted is more sound reference with the pedal off along the way.
Thanks Bob!
Well there's something to be said about putting it in front of a slightly broken up amp because I've seen a couple demos of this pedal and this is the best sounding demo I've heard. I'm sure the amp and those guitars have something to do with it as well... those P90s sound monstrous... Cool stuff, Wampler delivers yet again.
Thanks for checking it out! Yeah honestly I think that is the best way to do it.
Awesome tone! Especially the neck pup on that Tele.
Thanks!
So many guys on youtube shred crazy. You are however the most melodic guy around, I gotta try that caged course, would love to see the guitar the way you do. Great playing as always sir
Thanks Anthony! Yeah I try to do demos for all us mortals out there! Some of those demo guys could make a shoebox sound great they are so good!
@@BrettPapa I didnt mean to slight your playing, you fricking rip too, just melodic 1st. Dude ,you are an awesome player
Nice sound man
Thanks! Great pedal!
Damn that sounds good. I'll be buying one of those little fellas.
For sure! You won't regret it!
Sorry about the comment earlier about the lollars Bret. I have a cousin named Greg Papa. Coincidence I called you Greg. Thanks for all the great videos and lessons Bret...I've learned a lot from you over some years. Be safe brother...keep on rock in.
Awesome rot hear! Thanks for watching!
Best drive pedal around imo. Bought one, maybe buying another!
Love your Divided By 13 amp
Yep it's real good! Love that pedal!
May need to displace my ODR-mini with this, given the superior tone sculpting it offers. I really like my ODR, but I'm surmising that I could love Brian's take on it.
It is very good!!!!
Yeah, I agree this is something special. I'd say that it's my favorite Wampler pedal with Tumnus being the second.
Fantastic pedal!
Dang, I can’t even find the Jeff Beck pedal and now you come up with this great sounding pedal. Count down is on for the great pedal board giveaway and it’s 3:33 a.m. and I can’t sleep because I am anxious about the giveaway and the live stream.
Lol! Everyone finds out tomorrow!
Your guitar by itself sounds great.
Thanks Mike!
I came here to see about the pedal... and I’m leaving wanting one of those damn amps ! ...along with the pedal !
Lol! Get them both you won't be bummed you did haha!
I like the tone combination of the tele and this amp... I'm interested in this Wampler Pedal too
Haha! The amp and guitar do sound amazing together. Pedal is fantastic too though through many different amp and guitar combinations. Definitely worth getting.
First “green” pedal,I’ve really liked. Can dial in or push in anything I want. And the size, well, it fits on my crowded board.
This and my Fat Larry. Marriage from heaven.
Haha! It really is a fantastic pedal! I use mine all the time. Rarely turn it off.
It’s refreshing to hear an overdrive pedal through an amp that’s already got some hair on it! I like to hear how a drive pedal merges with the harmonics of an amp. Great demo Sir!
Thanks Aaron! Thats how I roll! I agree and its how most of the old classic records were done as well.
It doesn't make any sense though.
@@Sagerydian what doesn’t make any sense?
A demo about a drive pedal, where you send an overdriven sound through an overdriven amp. How am I to tell which overdrive is which? Completely useless.@@aarondurham75
Damn right it is so good!
I know, such a fantastic pedal!!!
Sounds great man have tried darken that verb/delay the Treb seems to b echoing back competing w the next phrase at least in my youtube compression perception I get it prob sounds great in room...I’ve had succ adding 20ms predelay also
Hey Brett Happy new year man, Hope 2021 is good to you =) that's a sweet little pedal, never heard of that brand before either.... Just before xmas i finally picked up the BOSS BD-2 (blues driver). So far one of the best pedals i've ever come across it pairs so nicely with a Strat i'm so glad i bought it...be great to see you do your own review on that pedal if you have one. I've also got the DS-1 and have been trying to channel the two together and do the whole "gain stacking" thing but I can't seem to find a sweet spot for having those two pedals in the one signal chain.... each pedal seems to just stand tall on its own, I suppose BOSS pedals tend to do that haha =P
Boss pedals are fantastic! Especially for the money. Both of the pedals you mentioned are awesome and I bet they sound great together.
@@BrettPapa I'll tell you what two pedals do sound great together Brett, the DS-1 and the DD-8 Digital delay. I use those two pedals together for lead work if i'm just improvising over a jam track and practicing licks. very cool sound having distortion and a touch of delay together. I'm sure you'd know Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson? The tone I get is very similar to what you hear in that song =P
Oh hell yea!!!!!
Woooohooooo!
What would you rather go for, the Wampler Plexi Drive or this one? Belle sems to be a bit more versatile..
Both are great! Probably Belle.
Wampler pedals are good for sure. I have a few. I always enjoy your videos. How many drives should we buy? I can buy 5 this year and l will want 5 more next year. It gets outa hand really.
Lol! Just find one or two that work the best overall and call it a day!
He did a great job on that pedal it sounds really good
Yep I like it a lot! Great deal for the money as well.
I got the special edition of the Belle (Claymore) and it is a very very good OD pedal with my tele. Sounds good in my Tone King Imperial or even my VOXAC15.
I bet that sounds great!
Papa, How does the Belle pair up with the Tumnus? And would you run it in front or after the Tumnus?
Probably great! Both pedals are really great. I love almost all of their pedals. Really great company, Brian knows his stuff!
Is that based on the Nobles ODR-1? Sounds killer!!!
Yes, it is.
Luvin mine going on 2 yrs. Curious if uncle Larry has tried yours. I don’t think he’s ever mentioned the Belle yet.
Not sure on that. He likes his OG Nobles a lot. He seemed to really like the Keeley Noble Screamer a lot as well. Belle is a fantastic little pedal though.
What's a good Distortion Pedal that will compliment the Belle?
There are tons. However I like to use another OD or boost pedal to get more gain. If you want straight up distortion pedals Wampler makes some great pedals like that as well.
Hey Brett...would you mind shooting over your settings for the BTR23? I have the same amp. Are you using the low or high jack and do you have the pull out engaged on the gain? Thanks so much.
Hey Even! I practically never change my settings except for the gain amount. No I must say there are two ways to approach it 1. with the OX (using a clock for reference) I have the main volume on all the way up and that lets me turn the gain down usually between 9-12 o'clock, bass 9, treble and mids between 12-2. When I can't turn it up I pull out the gain knob and put it between 11-2. I almost always use the top jack however the the bottom jack isa amazing and super useful. Hope that helps!
@@BrettPapa thank you so much. I have an OX as well that I use for both recording and slight attenuation live. Have the reissue ODR1 and then purchased the Belle after watching your demo. I live in the Germantown area in Nashville. Perhaps I will bump into you. Thanks for the reply.
Cool pedal !
Back in the day wrote off journey as some chick love ballad band Neil Schon is an ultimate sniper and shred guitar player that guy is amazing!! 🎯
⚡Love your gold top it's magical !! ⚡
Neal is one of my favorites! So good! Thanks for watching!
Is this pedal the level of quality as a Strymon Sunset? Does it sound that good with low noise?
It is a fantastic pedal! I use it all of the time! Noise isn't bad at all.
Man, this Les Paul sounds awesome.
It's a good one!
How much tweaking's going on in post production here. Where is the (delay/reverb) coming from?
Not a lot. Pretty much how it sounds. The effects are coming from my OX Box.
Amazing demo, as always! Into a Marshall Plexi type amp would you prefer the Belle or a Greer Lightspeed? Cheers!
Both are great pedals. Both are great guys and companies. Tough call. They are different sounding too If it was me I would buy both!
@@BrettPapa Ahah thanks! Better than one good pedal only two good pedals!
Hey Brett is back!!! With his divided by 13 amps n KT88 tuborama... Where have you been duderino?
Been here just been doing a ton of courses etc. Going to start hitting RUclips hard again in the coming months.
Brett Papa! That tele through the BTR23 geeesh that's some good stuff right there. Not sure you need anything more. Pedal is nice too but what's the deal with the tele? Who made it and what pickups are in it. You have great tone's my friend. Got me saving for a BTR 23 and wondering what's the dealio with that tele sounding so good. Alder or Swamp Ash and what pickups. All the nerdy stuff we love.
Thanks man! It's a Bill Nash guitar. They sell ones exactly like at Chicago Music Exchange. It's an Alder body with Lollar Pickups just the way the guitar comes from the store. That BTR and Tele combo is ridiculous! Both my two desert island choices. Thanks for watching!
@@BrettPapa Thank you man!
you are absolutely the best I have a strat a princeton and a Friedman Be od wayyyy too much gain for me...lol is this pedal a a great low gain transparent pedal that sounds great on low volume so I can get that stringy all along the watchtower clear sound?? transparent?? thanks!!!
Thanks Chris! That pedal is amazing! I use it all of the time!!
I like the reverb. What did you use for reverb?
Probably a Flint pedal or Sunset Sound Reverb in post. Can't remember.
Thanks to this video and other opinions, I have to say that this pedal is .... amazing.
Crisp. It's the first adjective that comes to mind. Crisp and subtle distortion...but not so subtle, if that makes sense, LOL.
I have a Supro Blues King 12 amp that has gorgeous cleans but I never bonded with the dirt on it. There is a place for the dirt on this amp, but it's not what I want all the time. It's a great option of tone to have but it's not my go-to tone for dirt.
The dirt (gain) on this amp is inherently fuzz. I'm just not a fuzz guy. Again, a time and place for it but not my first choice. That's on me, not the amp, of course.
The amp has a beautiful throatiness to it that I really love, but for me, when you combine that throatiness and inherent fuzz it's just not up my alley. OK, enough, I think I made my point, LOL.
The Wampler Belle allows me to give this amp exactly what I want from a distortion perspective. I don't want a crazy overdrive crunch, I just want a touch (perhaps a level or two above touch) of crunch, without fuzz, but still have the BK throatiness, and this pedal most certainly gives me that tone. It has 'Bass' and 'Color' knobs that gives you the flexibility to find that sweet spot.
And the 'Gain' knob is pure glory. Absolutely love this pedal.
It's so good!!!
I'm in the same position as you, Steve. I've got the Supro Blues King too and like you, I never liked the amp's dirt. I've had the Nobels OD1 for a while which is the inspiration for the Belle. It's been a great pedal. When I heard that Wampler had produced an upgrade to the Nobels, I was really excited. It arrived this afternoon. At first I was a little disappointed. It wasn't the huge improvement that I was expecting but I've been playing around with it for a while and It's growing on me. It's certainly got more flexibility than the Nobels and on certain settings it's fractionally clearer. On the other hand, I didn't really need it as the differences between the two are slight and the Nobels is still a great pedal and the Belle is twice the price. Don't really know what to do. Haha. I have the option of returning it but I'm slowly getting attached to it now! :-)
Man that les Paul is a beast!
Tis a good one!
Would this work well in boosting a lead/overdrive channel for lead tones?
For sure!
@@BrettPapa thank you Brett...looking to juice a JJ jr a bit
Great video. But then came The R4 and I forgot, that this is pedal demo
Haha! I love that thing!
How does this pedal compare with the MXR Timmy?
Both are great but are voiced different.
Hey, speaking of Pedals, did you give away that pedal board yet?
Tomorrow! Livestream at 11 central to announce the winner.
Great video. Good to see & hear a down-to-earth player & human. First off...before the pedal even came on..which amp are we hearing ?? RSA 23 ?? Nice sounding pedal but,....isn't this what one's amp should sound like ? OK, I am a Marshall & Vox man. So...RSA 23 ?? Thank You!!
Haha! It is a BTR23 which is basically a RSA23 with a master volume and a touch more gain. Great freakin amp. However I do have a RSA23 which has a click channel as well that is pretty tough to beat. Both are fantastic amps. That all being said the Belle is one of the better OD's I have ever used. Great pedal great price. Pretty tough to beat if you are looking for that sound at a low price point.
@@BrettPapa Now that I review the video again...I see that you did, in fact, already identify the amp. So...many thanks for the kind answer and not pointing that fact out to me , as some might have. Very best, CMCB
That neck pickup is a bit of magic
I love Lollar's! Such great pickups!
is it the original P90 on the les paul 54 or the lollar 50's win (or other) ?
It's whatever came in the guitar!
@@BrettPapa yes of course but the 54 has a particular grain, which micro P90 do you use?
damn that is sweetness in a small footprint! and with the P90's fugettaboutit
For sure! I love that pedal and use it all the time!
Which model \ 13 is that?
BTR23
Dialing in overdrive from the amp so one never gets to hear what the overdrive of the testet pedal sounds like. Pete Thorn also does that a lot. Hmm... I don't get it.
It's because that is the way a ton of players do it. Almost all of the classic rock songs back in the day were that way. They were a cranked amp which was already broken up with a pedal in the front.
Nice😊
Thanks!
More bite than Odr-1?
Not to much different than that. More control over the other frequencies though.
Nobels Odr-1 is super expensive?
Old ones are
Nice.
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
@@BrettPapa It’s perfect, actually. I was an amp-distortion guy for 30years. Then, the pandemic happened and boredom got me into pedals. I have a lot of them now, and this one sounds like it could be on the board permanently.
Every single tone was usable, not many pedals can do that…pretty impressive.
Super impressed with this pedal! One will be going on my new board for sure!
Loving that Goldtop Brett.. Shes a beauty
yeah looks cool but i thought the tele sounded WAY better , hard to tell with computer speakers though
That thing has Fantastic tone. Gibson P90s in a Les Paul and a Gibson PAF in a LP are both just fantastic.
Thanks! Such a good one! I feel pretty lucky!
Tele is great too lol!
Using a clean channel amp would focus on the pedal, gain on an amp plus a pedal is akin to combining two effect pedals. Uploader said and knew that would marr the review...did it anyway
I do it that way because most reviews use a clean amp. However in pro situations such as the session world a ton of those guys use this type of pedal for a little more of a push. There are tons of ways to use pedals effectively and this is one of them. I figure if that is how a ton of the session guys I know use it that it would be cool to show people that approach as well. Plus the maker of the pedal wanted me to do my thing with it so I did haha! I love this pedal and use it all the time.
cool guitar n amp
Thanks!
Tone was basically identical when the pedal was off or on... the tone when the pedal was off was amazing... the pedal sounded like it did almost nothing in this demo. I do believe that you thought it sounds good, but what your hearing and what comes across over RUclips is two different things. That said, this was a great demo of your amp, which again sounds absolutely amazing!!!!🤷🏽♂️ seriously I want to buy that amp now!!
Haha! There is a difference for sure. The goal of that pedal is to sound amp like so it just makes a great amp sound even better!
My compliments to the cameraman man then
Incredible how you miss the point, that pedal is incredible.
Huh? I definitely heard the differences. Maybe use headphones.
I disagree, I don’t find a lot of demos showing single coils through truly “clean” amps.
In fact, there are way too many videos with P90’s and Humbuckers through amps with gain that it’s impossible to tell what these pedals will do with single coils and clean amps.
Tele sounds great, les paul, awesome!
Thanks Steve!
Cool
Thanks Dave!
You know who would have loved that? Eddie V - The chords ring distorted but in a very musical way... Nothing is lost.
Yeah Eddie Vedder would love this
Yeah its such a great pedal! Even at the gainiest settings its still clear.
@@BrettPapa Hey Brett how is this pedal powered? Also, would you agree that this is some variation of the Klon?
@@kevinking2468 I think it's based on the Nobles ODR-1 pedal, not the Klon. Wampler does the Tumnus pedal as their nod to the Klon. I have that pedal and it's my favorite OD pedal at the moment Great sounds at all settings!
@@kevinking2468 It's powered by pumpkin seeds & pineapple rings
Good pedal!. Odd that wampler who goes ballistic when folks call their pedals "transparent" would give that name to his own.
Sometimes we like to throw that reference in to see if you're paying attention....
The gold top needs top hat knobs, those speed knobs trigger me
Haha
So nice that Brett knows that guitar sounds like shite without reverb. The Belle is next on my list!
It’s a great pedal!
Gain is good!
Yes sir!!
I love you videos man. And u know you mention this in your video, but if I’m trying to tell from RUclips what a pedal sounds like, I can’t tell diddly squat from videos where the amp is already overdriving. All I hear is the fantastic overdriven tone from your amp. I use my pedals into a clean amp.
Anyway. Don’t want to be negative. I still love your videos. But a pedal demo into a dirty amp has very little objective value for me.
I hear ya for sure. There are tons of players that do fantastic videos of pedals like these through clean amps. However the are also tons of people like myself that run things into a slightly overdriven amp and use the pedals as more of a boost and work the guitars volume to clean things up. I cater my videos more towards that because I feel those are the type of videos that are not seen as much. Thanks for watching the vids! Glad to hear you like them!
Holy hell. Gain is at like 35 lol. Thanks for the demo though.
Sure thing!
Well, shit...now I have to get one...the p 90 Les Paul also...
Lol! Yes you need one!
Hey, you shorted us one Welcome!?!
Lol! I get the other two in next time!
Your cheating with those lollars Greg...knock it off lol. Sounds good. Thanks
Not sure who Greg is but I love Lollars!
Wampler the best pedals w the worse artwork
Funny enough, Brian himself isn't very fond of artwork, but he puts art on the pedals due to the advice given to him by his marketing team.
Have you ever played without a hat on? I like your wall.
Maybe once or twice lol!
Lol this isn’t a clone of an “expensive pedal”. It’s Brian’s take on the Nobels ODR-1.
Have you seen how much the original Nobels are going for?
@@BrettPapa sorry - I misunderstood and thought you were referring to a Klon Centaur. There’s so much silliness on the web...
My understanding is that the many variations of this pedal are virtually identical but for component tolerance variations. I have no doubt that an early version in working order would sell for stupid money. However, you can get later variations for reasonable prices and the Mini ODR is available for about $80 right now.
A Gibson that was in tune!
I've got 9 of them that all have awesome tuning stability.
My secret is installing Graphtech Tusq nuts...The Teflon that is impregnated in them is 3x more slippery than graphite and they are permanently lubricated. It WORKS !!!
@@stricknine8623 thx for the tip! That G string drives me “nuts”
Lol!
Ah, that is a good tip!
Marshal/vox 🤔 guess we all have tone views
It honestly works great with everything.
that's a nice sounding reverb but maybe pump the brakes on that for a demo
There is already a ton of demos like that out there. I just do demos on how I use the gear. That way all perspectives get covered and not all of the same kinds of demos.
It ain't easy, living like a gypsy, tell you honey how I feel.
Perfect tone, but I think 75% of it is that amp.
same. that amps tone is out the gate. im always in awe of it.
Both are great! That amp as a base tone is pretty tough to beat! Thanks for watching!
Thanks! Love that thing!!
And look 2 Ox boxes on the shelf behind him.
*Update:* Just bought the Belle anyway. Pretty good into a Kemper... even though i can't find a Divided by 13 BTR 23 profile!
Papa is ther a mama🤔
Of course
p-90 in a LP = rock n' roll.
For sure!
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