Wampler Pantheon | Awesome overdrive tones with a Stratocaster, Telecaster + Les Paul! Review & Demo

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The Wampler Pantheon overdrive pedal is Brian Wampler and co.’s take on the much-loved Marshall Bluesbreaker circuit. First an amp and then a pedal back in the early 1990s, the original Bluesbreaker stompbox gave guitar players a way to take their tame tube amps into rich, snarling British-flavored overdrive.

Marshall stopped making the original Bluesbreaker pedal fairly quickly though, and that paved the way for other FX builders to have a crack at the circuit – the most well-known derivatives today are probably the AnalogMan King Of Tone and Prince Of Tone, the JHS Morning Glory, the Snouse BlackBox… and this one, the Wampler Pantheon. (Marshall actually do still make a version of the pedal, by the way, but it’s never really found the love the original has.)

Get the Wampler Pantheon here:

This video is my take on the Pantheon, which Wampler bill as a transparent, dynamic overdrive pedal that takes the original BB circuit and adds Brian Wampler’s new features and functions. I’ve had the Pantheon a couple of years now and love it, and today I want to show you how it sounds in a range of styles with three of my favorite guitars: my Fender Stratocaster, my Fender Telecaster and my Epiphone Les Paul!

So, as usual, I play a bunch of riffs in my favorite styles. Each one is played three times: first with the Tele, then the Strat, and finally with the Les Paul. I tweaked the settings on the Pantheon for each riff, but the settings on my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 amp stay the same the whole time (clean channel all the way).

Afterwards, I do a loop with each guitar where I tweak the pedal’s knobs to show you all the extremes you can get with it if you so desire. I would love to know which guitar you think sounds best!


Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:39 Introduction to the Wampler Pantheon
01:33 What we’re doing today!

02:37 Clean reference tones and turning on the Pantheon
03:50 Indie barre chords
04:40 Almost clean ringing indie pop chords
05:20 Indie picked arpeggios
06:17 Country lead riff
06:39 Bluesey southern rock melodic lick
07:56 Ascending droning indie chords
08:39 Classic rock rhythm tone
09:29 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff
10:05 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
10:55 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
11:40 Indie rock rhythm chords
12:31 Indie octave chords
13:59 Alternative rock barre chords
14:41 Droning palm muted indie rock riff
15:17 Upbeat rock riff
16:11 Classic hard rock riff
17:02 Glam rock riff
17:45 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock tone
18:36 Modern alt rock riff
19:19 Alternative rock riff
20:39 Pop punk riff
21:19 Pop punk lead melody
22:07 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
22:51 Hardcore chugging riff (Drop D tuning)
23:32 Mastodon inspired metal riff (Drop D tuning)
24:04 Hardcore punk riff (Drop D tuning)

24:48 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop: here I loop an indie riff and tweak all of the Pantheon’s controls to show you all the sounds you can get with the Tele and the pedal

28:05 Fender Stratocaster indie loop: here I loop a riff again and tweak the Pantheon’s controls to show you all the sounds on offer

30:39 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop: and here I loop yet another riff and tweak the Pantheon’s controls to show you all the sounds you can get with the pedal and a Les Paul


33:47 My thoughts and your opinions wanted
34:05 Why I first bought the Pantheon and why I still love it
35:18 The sounds and the controls
37:49 With the Fender Tele
39:16 With the Fender Strat
39:56 With the Epiphone Les Paul
41:06 All the controls on the front is a big plus point
41:45 Things I don’t like so much about the Pantheon
44:37 Final conclusion and goodbye


My setup was as follows: I ran the Pantheon pedal straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my TC Electronic Ditto Looper to play the loops.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
TC Electronic Ditto Looper:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!



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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Dusty Fingers – DJ Williams.

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