WamplerTumnus Deluxe Overdrive & Boost Guitar Effects Pedal

I don’t know what “sheerness” means in the context of a guitar pedal but I still gave it a five because this one is so good. It’s a better buy than the mini version because if the mid/ mud frequencies eq. Its like an input conditioner for massaging the guitar’s signal into the rest of the chain. The switchable buffer sounds excellent, the eq has quickly become indispensable to me and the gain goes from a hint of hair to a lovely overdrive. This version also has more tasteful graphics than the previous one imho. The only bad thing I can say is that the buffer switch should not have been on the side, since it is easily pushed on/ off by the previous pedal on a cramped board.

The 3-band EQ makes this pedal very nice - worth every penny.

Although the pedal sounded great unfortunately it would only work off the battery and kept failing when power supply was plugged in had to return unit as unreliable

Great stuff! Silky smooth boost and overdrive.

5 star pedal... 1 star for selling me a used unit and claiming that it was new. Figured this out when i unplugged it and it still worked. Opened it up and found an Energizer battery had been installed. Not cool. Be wary of this seller.

Having gotten back into guitar over the last several years, and inevitably diving into the trap of "I must find the ultimate tone", I have purchased quite a few overdrive/distortion pedals since my "re-inception" into this world. I'm SURE I will buy more ultimately, but this is by far one of the best sounding overdrive pedals I have ever heard or purchased...Being modeled after the supposed ultimate "transparent overdrive" that will run you upwards of several thousand dollars nowadays when you can find one on the used market, Wampler has created a pedal that FAR surpasses the pedal that the Tumnus Deluxe was based on. A revamped version of their original "Tumnus", he has added a very well designed tone stack to let you shape your tone, as well as an awesome sounding buffer that you can engage to let you run the pedal in buffered mode instead of true bypass. Even when I am not running the pedal, I typically leave the pedal in buffered mode simply because the buffer makes my guitar's tone just sound "better" (and I don't run long enough cables to really effect the highs being rolled off because of cable resistance).. "Better" is just the only way I can describe it..Wampler hit this one OUT OF THE PARK and created an overdrive that greatly exceeds the original "transparent overdrive" circuit. If you are after that type of sound (or even some pretty heavy dirt tone), this pedal doesn't disappoint.. By FAR my favorite overdrive pedal to date..

I love this pedal. I was going to write an article-length review, but it's the best "clone" of that mythologically-themed man-beast pedal from the 90s. Three-band EQ, higher-gain setting waiting with the switch of a toggle. Brian Wampler went there. We were all thinking it. We all knew it needed to happen, so he went and did it. Thank you, Mr Wampler. Just when I was getting tone fatigue out of my pedalboard, I got the Tumnus Deluxe and I suddenly fell in love with my guitar and amp again. I remembered that I actually like the sound of my guitar, pickups, amp, etc. I plug in, stomp on the Tumnus and hear this . . . well, the image that always comes to mind is that clarity of a pre-dawn morning where everything is covered in dew and the air has such a sweet purity that every breath you take is deep and mindful. It's such a fresh sound, without preservatives, weed killers or insecticides. I never realized just how much my other pedals were affecting the color of my sound, or that I could get so much variation just from using the tone and volume knobs on my guitar. I can throw on reverb and delay and it still sounds great drenched and trailing. If I could change anything about it, I'd love an extra footswitch for normal/high gain, or at least for a boost. The only real complaint I have is that it now I have to upgrade my other pedals because they all seem lacking.

Ok... I have been searching the web, studying the electronics, watching the Youtubes and this is the pedal that makes the sound that I have been seeking for 20 years. I could never afford to buy a Klon in the 90's or even now. This pedal goes beyond that and thank you Mr. Wampler for making such an amazing pedal. The controls for the EQ are awesome and I can tweek and tone I want.I did my own comparison between the boss sd-1 and this pedal and the sound is hands down in favor of the Tumnus! The sound is cleaner (less noise) and more full. The bass is more prevalent and fills the room...think Warren Haynes...you can make that sound without spending thousands on an amp. I love it and I'm jamming along with my guitar heroes. This is most likely the end of my overdrive quest. It is my holy grail of tone through my Fender amp clean channel.

If you're looking at this pedal, you probably already know all about the Klon Centaur. I don't own one of those so I can't compare this to the original, but personally I love this as a clean boost and as an OD. I run a lot of different guitars through this into a Fender Blues Junior, so I like that this pedal is fairly customizable. To my surprise, I've actually been using it mostly as a clean boost, though the OD is of course very nice too. Haven't found much use for the buffer, but it's nice that the pedal has that option for those who do want it.