Brad Paisley: Paisley Drive
I’m guessing that most of you know the story about Brian modding a pedal and throwing it onto the stage in front of Brad Paisley?
We’ve been working long and hard with Brad Paisley for a while… trying to come up with the overdrive that he’s 100% happy with. This is it
It's true, at a gig Brian once threw a modified pedal at the feet of Brad Paisley in the hope that he would pick it up and try it. Fortunately for us, and you, Brad’s tech picked it up,
played it - digged it and gave it to Brad who took it away and LOVED it. From that point on, he has used and loved Wampler Pedals.
After a few years of using our pedals (Ego, Underdog and Faux AnalogEcho) Brad’s tech at the time, Chad, mentioned to Brian that Brad wasn’t 100% content with his
tone and maybe we should all work together to make the perfect overdrive for Brad to record and tour with. His requirements were quite “simple”… it needs to be clean but
get crunchy with some “beef” to it. It needs to have a fluid tone when soloing. It needs to add a little hair to the tone but then but then has to be able to give flat out ball
busting gain, oh… but please do not wreck the tonality. It needs to have everything, in a pedal format, but do not make it sound like a pedal!
Over a period of months, Brian made some circuits and sent them off, there were a couple of “tweaks” here and there to be made and then finally, when official “prototype v2.0” landed,
it went straight into the live rack and out on the 2010 “Brad Paisley: H20” world tour.
“…we actually recorded this (pedal) in the studio, you know, trying it out. I turned up a Trainwreck Amp that I’ve got and compared the sound of the
distortion and it was very, very similar. And that’s a very good test because any time a pedal can mimic a great overdriven amp then you’re on to something…”
Technical Details
Built in the U.S.A.
High grade components picked for their superior sound and response
2 switches – Presence and Mid Contour
Top mounted input and output jacks
Battery connection and 9v power jack
Power draw: between 9mA (9v) and 17mA (18v) (LED will flash 3 times when power from battery is getting low)
3PDT True Bypass
As used by Brad Paisley live and in the studio 2.5” x 4.5” x 1.5″ in size (63.5mm x 114.3mm x 38.1mm) – height excludes knobs and switches
