Wampler Sovereign Distortion Guitar Effects Pedal

This thing is smooth transparent and killer. Plenty of gain on tap. Never gets fizzy even at the highest settings. It sounds like your amp and your guitar with a clean transparent distortion. Of course no pedal is completely transparent, sans a volume boost. I can hear the mids and upper mids pushed a bit, but with plenty of tight bottom end also. The mid contour is very useful. I personally like mid range in my metal tone, but you can scoop it out of desired. It is noisy when engaged and my volume is up on the guitar. But that's a small price to pay. Turn down your volume control! Very responsive and sensitive to touch and volume changes. It's a great pedal. I A/B'ed with a few other popular drive pedals. This one won hands down. I highly recommend.

Any complain, It sounds great and very easy to use.

Great pedal that delivers some tremendous sound. Really outperforms my old distortion pedal.

Had this pedal for almost a year. Tone grows and grows on you. Can safely say this is the best distortion pedal I've ever used. Extremely touch sensitive. But I have to say I had originally gave it 4 stars. After a year I am not giving it 5. Why? Wampler service and support is outstanding. Pedal developed a problem after 10 months on my board. Contacted Wampler and without any explanation other than telling them whats wrong with it, they said send it in. They fixed it and sent it back to me NO QUESTIONS ASKED...AFTER 10 MONTHS ON MY BOARD. Outstanding. I am a Wampler fan for life. Great service and great tone....what more could you ask for.

To me, its worth every penny. It was a little tricky for me to get used to the tone and mid behavior cause they interact a little sometimes. But, I sold a couple of pedals after getting this. I tried it out and did shootouts and comparisons with this and a lot of overdrive/distortion pedals. It beat them all by a mile. It costs a lot, but it sounds and acts like an amp and not like a pedal. Your original guitar tone really comes through. With the right guitar/pickup, it does all genres of rock and metal. Even with the gain maxed, it is quiet and it cleans up better than any other pedal I've tried. It plays well with all of my other pedals. The bass stays tight. You can get Low/High gain Marshall-like and Low/High Gain Mesa-like tones out of it. You can boost it with another pedal and it'll sounds great. Its the best that I've tried.

Really like this pedal. I was a little surprised how much I had to crank the gain in order to get the level of distortion that I was looking for. The pedal is surprisingly closer to an overdrive box than I had anticipated. However after getting the gain dialed in its been great. Jammed once with it in a small venue and it performed great. Not giving 5 stars as nothing is perfect but this is a nice distortion box that fits more in the genre of fusion/rock. Not for metal players.