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Wampler Triple Recstortion...should I hit it?


scott944

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Found a Wampler Triple Recstortion in a pawn shop today (you just never know!) for what appears to be a good price. Seems it was a limited edition back in '09, or so, with maybe only 100 made. Near as I can tell, the going rate seem to be $150-165. The one I found has an $89 price tag before the inevitable haggling. Thoughts?

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If you can stand fast against brutal toanz that chug right through your core, this is THE pedal for you.

 

If you on the other hand are prone to wilt in a limp fashion in the face of such unrelenting hardcore this the THE pedal for you to ask a friend to check its awesome powers are in order and immediately flip without ever exposing yourself to its unadulterated savagery.

 

Are you made of the right stuff?

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Took a few weeks, but finally made it back to that pawn shop - and they still had it. To paraphrase the guy behind the counter, "...it's one of those guys who builds pedals in his basement. I don't get it. I can't hear the difference." Perhaps he's partly deaf. Tried it using a Greco/Ibanez (logo obscured by ball point ink) Iceman with a bolt on neck, one tone, one volume (which is an interesting piece in it's own right), into a Randall solid state half stack, set up clean. Saying that this rig brought the "rawk" would be the understatement of the decade. Got it for $79! Now I can't stop thinking about the Iceman...

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Took a few weeks, but finally made it back to that pawn shop - and they still had it. To paraphrase the guy behind the counter, "...it's one of those guys who builds pedals in his basement. I don't get it. I can't hear the difference." Perhaps he's partly deaf. Tried it using a Greco/Ibanez (logo obscured by ball point ink) Iceman with a bolt on neck, one tone, one volume (which is an interesting piece in it's own right), into a Randall solid state half stack, set up clean. Saying that this rig brought the "rawk" would be the understatement of the decade. Got it for $79! Now I can't stop thinking about the Iceman...

 

I use the Triple Recstortion myself, picked up one back when they came out (more than a year before working here). It's the Triple Wreck without the boost that does the whole kerblam-fuzz thing, should sound identical (within the minor parts tolerance variance) to the distortion from a modern Triple Wreck.

 

Also, :lol: "one of those guys who builds pedals in his basement" - that's great. One hell of a basement to stock our network!

 

If you decide to sell it, give me first crack, I try to collect Wampler "oldies" :)

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