Price: $149.97
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There Is One Overdrive Circuit To This Day Has Been The Most Talked About, The Most Sought After, And The Most Mythical Of Them All. It’S Big, It’S Expensive, And It Has Certainly Earned Its Place At The Table. Wampler Has Painstakingly And Faithfully Reproduced That Magical Tone In All Its Glory In An Unbelievably Small Package, And Its Name Is Tumnus.
Designed to be a versatile addition to any setup, any style
Use with other pedals to shape the total gain, as a stand alone overdrive, or as a slightly dirty boost to push the front end of your amp
Can even be used as a buffer because this pedal is not true bypass
This pedal contains a buffered bypass tone legendary in its own right
The streamlined 3 control knobs (Volume, Gain, and Tone) allow you to quickly dial in your tones no matter what the gig calls for
Slim, compact design ensures that this pedal will fit anywhere on your board setup
12 reviews for Wampler Tumnus V2 Overdrive & Boost Guitar Effects Pedal
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Pauk knapik –
Sounds Fantastic!
I Love the way The Tumnus make my guitar Sound! Itâs my ALWAYS ON Pedal. Great work Brian Wampler!!
Eric J. Stahl –
Makes me smile more! Versatile Monster.
Hi all! Eric the soloist here. Love the Tumnus Deluxe from Wampler after a year of ownership.First, the pedal is super versatile. You can use it as a boost for cleans and/or distortion. They call it a transparent pedal and I agree. You can layer it over what youâve got to fine tune any sound without totally blowing out the character and EQ of your sound.Often I play through a small tube amp on a clean-ish setting and use the Tumnus as my primary gain stage. This works sweet for blues but can heat up for rock as well.The âhotâ setting is next-level. Often I try to emulate Joe Satriani and the hot brings out more sustain, harmonics and overtones. All the while it stays composed and articulate.For anyone trying to find the perfect distortion/overdrive sound and is layering pedals already, this pedal is a must-have. I like to layer with a Wampler Plextortion (pushed through a 1 watt tube amp) but often play around mixing it with my Boss metal zone or a fuzz. The one pedal that never changes⦠the Tumnus. It just makes me smile.5 stars! Eric
Justin French –
It’s a Klone, and it’s loud!
This pedal is everything it’s advertised to be, including the thing they don’t say. This is a great sounding Klone. I’ve never played an original so I can’t attest to how “accurate” the Tumnus is, but I really don’t care.I run it Josh Scott-style as a heavier drive stacked behind a lighter drive. It delivers all the tone characteristics that stand out to me in his videos using a KTR after a Morning Glory in this way, which is plenty close fas far as I’m concerned. There’s a sweetness in the mids that stands out compared to other circuits and I really like it. I assume that’s what everyone’s paying $5k for with the ‘real’ ones.I’m surprised how much volume this pedal can produce. Running it with the gain around 75-80% I have to keep the volume in the 10-15% neighborhood. When you bring the gain down you progressively have to bump it up to more ‘normal’ settings, so maybe the intent was to give sufficient volume for those that want to run it as a clean boost? This isn’t an issue at all (who cares where the knob is if it’s doing what you want?), but definitely a notable characteristic of the pedal.I was torn between this one and the Rockett offering (who built some of the silver centaurs for Klon). I ultimately went for this one because of the form factor and I’m glad I did. It’s tiny. It is really well constructed as well. I’m sure the Rockett is great, but if you want to save some space the Tumnus does the thing.The LED is blue. Since the pedal is gold I kinda expected amber or something, but that’s the worst thing I can say about it.Oh, I don’t think this has the magic diodes though, or the goop, so it’s clearly terrible despite all the praise I just gave it.
Chris –
Awesome pedal for the money
I use this as an always on for my clean channel but love what the tumnus does, makes amp sound more full without having shrill highs. Wish i would have discovered this years ago, bravo mister wampler
Christian Smith –
Very transparent overdrive
This is the most versatile overdrive that can handle many jobs but Klon like performance is what itâs most known for. Built like a tank. This pedal stacks very well too. Must have in my opinion
Ken –
Great pedal but needed disassembly to spray dirty gain knob
TLDR – Great sounding pedal but had to completely disassemble it to clean the gain pot after moderate use.I have had this pedal for a year and a half and I can say I love the sounds this thing is capable of. I use it with the gain between 3 and 5 o’clock and the hot switch on. Stacking it into other overdrive pedals has been fun. I recently picked up the Wampler Plexi-drive which I’ve settled into using as an on the edge of breakup amp in a box that I push into glorious overdrive with the Tumnus Deluxe. Alone both pedals sound good but together they sound amazing. Think: complex rich harmonic overdrive.This pedal is versatile, you can use it like I’ve described or as a clean boost or like a tube screamer (gain low, volume high). It sounds better to my ear than a tube screamer when used like this but tastes vary. It sounds great, its warm but articulate.However I did run into an issue when going from using it as a dirt pedal to a boost pedal. The culprit was a dirty gain pot. When I turned down the gain, I heard a loud hissing noise that overpowered any guitar signal that managed to get through. I thought the pedal was ruined so I emailed the guys at Wampler to see if I could get it fixed. Jerry suggested that I use a deox cleaner on the pots. I was skeptical since I’ve heard dirty pots on a guitar and this was a constant loud hissing noise, unlike the temporary scratchy sound you get when turning the knobs on a guitar. I figured I might as well try it, so I dedicated a Saturday afternoon to take the time to disassemble it and spray the pots. Holy crap it worked!So aside from the somewhat tedious disassembly of the pedal to spray the dirty pot, I love this pedal. Its a little spendy but it does have a premium feeling footswitch, the construction and looks feel quality and the sound is great. The only reason I would (and probably will) buy another dirt pedal is because of GAS (gear acquisition syndrome). With all that said and assuming I had the power, this would be a deserted island pedal for me. Its great!
Juan Camilo Ramirez –
My always-on pedal
My favourite tone shaper. Absolutely loving the versatility the EQ offers, from light/transparent overdrive, to a high gain, pushed power tone. Definitely a must on my pedalboard.It can be expensive, therefore, trying other Klon clone pedals is always recommended to get to know the sound/tone. If this is your taste, and you can afford it, you will never be disappointed!
Southeast –
It’s the “More” pedal
I mainly use it as a boost after a Revv G3 distortion. It gives the sound more punch and clarity. I liked it so much, I bought an additional (used) Tumnus to go in the loop.
Amazon Customer –
I have 2 foundational âdriveâ pedals on my board that I have going into my Marshall DSL40CR which is set to barely break up on channel 1B of the amp (the red light on channel 1). I use The Rat and now The Tumnis that I alternate between depending on the song. I never run these 2 pedals at the same time. The Rat gives me a nice fuzz distortion sound, and the Tumnis has replaced a Boss Blues Driver I was using for my standard primary dirt Tone. The Tumnis is a beast and sounds very sweet. I run a Treble Booster (Catalinbread Naga Viper) at the front of my chain that I turn on for my lead tone for solos and the Tumnis takes the Treble Booster very well.Great buy and you ultimately can not go wrong with a Tumnis. Highly recommend for rock, blues, alternative, metal, pop to cut through the mix in a band setting.
Suparious –
It is a bit costly for it’s function, but I use this pedal infront of my effects and pre-am to regulate the input volume. This allows me to freely switch between different types of guitars that have different output volumes, and not have to make many changes to the signal chain.When playing super clean sounds, this pedal tends to change your EQ to favor a specific range of mids that may be best suited for E-Standard tuning. When using Drop-A, and heavy (but tight) distortion, especially with leads, this pedal make the tone even tighter. I’m sure there are better boost” pedals out there for this application, but I have been statisfied with this sound for awhile now.
daryl graham –
PEDAL: I was always skeptical about these ‘clean boost’ type pedals. I’d tried some cheaper versions in my setup over the years and really wasn’t impressed. I am very lucky to have top notch gear in my setup. What more was this pedal really going to bring to my setup? Honestly, I can’t believe that I lived without a Tumnus for this long. It is worth the money just for the clean boost alone. If you have great gear it will pop everything up a notch. I don’t have cheap gear but I can only imagine that the 5% extra that I get in my setup, would be amplified even more for anybody starting out on their musical journey, or in a position where they are building their tone with a budget in mind. I’ve fooled around with scenarios where ‘what if I lost all pedals except this one?”. It honestly would work as a do it all pedal. If I had to choose one pedal, I could live with this one.COSMO MUSIC: These guys were fantastic to deal with. Super quick order filling and the pedal arrived well before the estimated shipping date…even with Holiday delivery to account for.
Denis Ladouceur –
My first Wampler pedal was the Tumnus Deluxe. I love it. Itâs my favorite pedal. Then, I have purchased a Wampler Plexi Drive Deluxe and I love it too! Very high quality and very nice sound. You canât go wrong with this pedal. I will purchase other Wampler pedals in the future. I use my new pedal with a Fender Strat and a Fender Blues Junior III Red October amp.