New Wampler Pinnacle Deluxe v2 - Breaking outside of the Brown Sound... 

Seven years gone by since this video went up, and I've been feeling I need a "dual OD/Distortion" of some kind. I think I'm in love with this pedal.

I bought one of these this week. The search for the best distortion pedal for me has now ended after a 22 year long quest. This pedal is awesome!

This is my all time favorite overdrive/ distortion pedal, I had lost faith in distortion pedals till I tried this one. The fact that it has a “TS” style gain boost that can be used independently gives my two pedals in one. Also thanks for making pedals that use batteries! I’m the player that likes a Wah, a gain pedal and amp.

Congratulations Brian!!!🙌🏻 The Wampler Pinnacle Deluxe v2 is a fantastic unique versatile distortion pedal with a powerful EQ section and some clever extra features that make it a super complete drive box where you can get so many different killer tones! Highly recommend it for anyone who cares about good dirt guitar sounds!🤟🏻🎸🔥

BRIAN WAMPLER SIR, YOU ARE A MAD GENIUS MY FREIND, KEEP IT UP

That is the best Vintage Marshall Tone I have heard from a pedal.

Awesome job on this Brian!!! Out of all my "brown sound" pedals including the Friedman, Bogner and JHS that I own the Pinnacle is by far the most useable. Just sounds very warm and organic and cuts thru so good in a band situation.

Great professional presentation videos from the maker himself. And this is a hell of a pedal! I got totally hooked on it from 9:00 when the Hendrix style was covered so beautifully.

We’re certainly grateful to have a pedal designer/builder who is obsessive about achieving THE best tone he can from each unit you produce. The Pinnacle Deluxe is just that - the pinnacle - in distortion pedals IMO. This covers such a wide range, from OD to Distortion, that I find myself considering a second one to take out any others on my pedal board and have them set differently. Thumbs up to you for a fantastic product again. 👍

Brian, that is probably one of the best demo videos that you have ever done. Man, you have really piqued my interest in this pedal. It sounds FANTASTIC!

This combined with the Tumnus are my two favorite pedals. I am playing them through a PRS amp and I can't get over how good they sound. Thanks

I shake my fist at you Mr Wampler for making yet another pedal I HAVE to have!! I love the fact it has a built-in Tube Screamer type thing going on.

This sounds like the best distortion pedal ever made!

I'm really enjoying your demo videos for the pedals. This is something that I haven't seen any other companies really doing. At least not as well. Thanks for this.

My search for distortion/overdrive pedal is over. Thanks sir Brian.

The success of the Pinnacle's marketing was that it was synonymous to the brown sound (that and it sounded great). It's refreshing to hear it straight from Brian that there's more to this box. I picked up the last version because the saturation was so great.

I just bought the standard version of this pedal and I am quite impressed. I bought it to replace my MXR '78. The MXR is too bright and buzzy, and has what I call the "bees in a beer can" tone. This pedal has no such issue, even at the highest gain settings. It's touted to have that EVH brown sound, which it certainly does, but the tones go way beyond that. It's ridiculously dynamic, as well. Soft finger picking to hard pick strokes take you from a edge of breakup clean to full crunch. Very nice pedal.

This is the BEST vintage sounding distortion pedal EVER. I have the Deluxe 1 but I am going to get this one. It pairs well with just about any amp, alnico pickups, single coil's or HB's but especially w high output alnico HB's. IMHO, the secret sauce of the Pinnacle are its dynamics which are better than any other pedal. Roll your guitar volume back and you'll be amazed at how well it cleans up and replicates the dynamics of a Marshall dimed up to 10 with your guitar volume at 3, 5, 7 or 10.

Brian, I really appreciate all your videos and everything you take time to share. I own the standard Pinnacle. Looks like you nailed it with the Deluxe V2. It'll be on my board soon! :-)

Love the definition of "Quick Demonstration" lol

You are right you covered a lot of tones...nice job on this pedal!

Wow…. Mind blown. I’ll need to start putting some spare change away for this beast. I already own 5 drive pedals but you can never have too many! This would probably replace 2 or 3 of mine anyway so it’s a win in terms of board space. Fantastic job all around here’

I have one of the older ones. It is bloody epic and goes from pushed clean to crushing hard rock....all dials back with volume. Great work Brian!

Brian, I totally agree with what you said about the "boost" side (if it's the same circuit as in the Plexi Drive Deluxe). That boost is almost my favorite effect - sounds AMAZING with my Big Muff into it, and sounds amazing INTO my Flux Five. Plus it sounds AMAZING into the Plexi Drive Deluxe, and not half bad on its own! Great video, awesome pedal.

Managed to pick one up today from Andertons. Till today this is one of the best distortion.

Fantastic pedal from what I see in this video and I can see what you're doing, and it's a great modification! I have a 5150distMXR pedal and love it.....but I'm gonna give this a shot, which says a lot....cause I like a certain kinda sound, but I love the boost option and that sound seems to be here too. I use your Egocomp and love it more than the Boss Blue Comp pedal that I had in my rig 3 years ago. I hadn't had the opportunity to try the previous incarnation of the Pinnacle, but was already thinking of one when I saw this pop up!!! Great pedals....and great playing! That Tele sounds so good!!! Versatile....Heavy to Country!

If I have to have just one pedal to cover all my bases, I would absolutely grab the Pinnacle Deluxe v2!

you sound great Brian! And you made a very versatile pedal. Nice!

The Pearl Jam tone was dead on. I was about to get a Friedman BE-OD but i think i prefer this pedal tbh

It would be great to see you guys make a multi fx pedal featuring all the top wampler pedals.

The "Pinnacle Deluxe" pedal is extremely versatile. I've used it in many various phase modes on my last two CryBaby Creek albums, VERA IX, and No Resolve. Listen to the tracks "Bad Self," "Sea Of Soul," and "Push Harder," to hear what the Pinnacle sounds like in a recording studio situation. And I will use it again on future recordings. But make sure tp run it through a good tube amp, with a well made, "?X12" speaker cab, like a Marshall, Carvin, or Boogie. I used the Vintage setting because it has a less-harsh, high end-treble. More of a warm midrange tone with smooth highs and lows. The Modern setting sounds great as well, but dial back that treble for a more ear friendly tone. The boost adds a nice, rich, sustain to the overall grind, but the gain-switch setting gets a bit noisy. Alone with just the boost, gives a subtle amount of gain over a clean channel. Classic tube-driven tones, "ala- Hendrix/Stevie Ray," great vintage amp vibes. Versatility is the only way to describe it. Versatility with many classic- to- modern possibilities. I think Wampler broke the mold with this pedal. Ive never heard anything like it in a metal stomp box.

Cheers Brian, having one of those pedals today great sounding distortion.

Hey Brian you sold me! I was torn between the Plexi Drive Deluxe and the Pinnacle Deluxe v2. I ordered mine yesterday on preorder from Musicians Friend. Thanks for the demo and I look forward to trying it out!

Woah! Wasn't expecting such sweet country tones from an Eddie pedal haha, great stuff Brian :-)

+Wampler Pedals 5:04 I can't believe you've finally cracked the mythical ???!!! tone!!!!! I've been chasing it all my life. Please take my money.

Many options and sounds great!

Gonna have to get this pedal in honor of EVH passing away today.. It's been on my list quite a while .. Adding it to my Keeley Fuzz bender, Oxblood, Caverns v2 , Joyo maximum od, Uzi, Boss Ch2 Super chorus.. What pedal would you recommend for a modern Rat and modern fuzz .. I'm a huge Gilmour fan.. I'm looking at that Plexi pedal too .. Like the Filaments and the Palladium and recently really looking into the Laney monolith..

Four and a half years late to the party still haven't played this pedal love it even more now than I ever did still haven't played it got to buy it

I went from 1 wampler to 6 wamplers in the span of a year... but only because you are a crazy man (for real).

I can't afford anymore Wampler pedals (there bloody expensive in Australia)!! Great job Brian, nice touch on the Tush and Pearl Jam, so many pedals...

Badass Pedal man WOW, I really like all the tones you got with it. I must have one. I can add all those tones to the things I do. I'm usually a Amp Drive kinda guy but my amp is a 1 trick pony on the gain side which is High Gain. So I have a Fender like clean channel so I know I'll be able to achieve awesome tones with this pedal as an option on my board. Nice work my man!

Way to go, Brian, thanks for making a great pedal. I am going to check out my pedals one of these days and perhaps replace some of them with this, very versatile and sounds great. You are the bomb! :-)

Sounds incredible!

I totally agree with your stance on what sounds good.

I love your work guys! I enjoy my Dual Fusion OD very much.

Sound really amazing!

That sounded really good with the tele......send me one.

I can`t believe I did`nt know about this pedal until now.! damn!!!! 2 yrs.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Much love!!!

love it going to order mine today i play 80s metal love the tone

Just when I thought I'm done with my pedal setup you come up with this???!?! Hahaha. Sounded amazing.

Brian this is a dream come to life and as soon as I can afford it .......I will buy one maybe two

Thanks and van halen presets wampler Pinnacle one of the best pedal thanks Mister Wampler

The fact that Brian just played a Lit song is hilarious

Just bought one a little while ago, sounds great, first Wampler pedal. Not sure if I'm getting the settings just right for EVH tone, but I love it, and there are some nice Slayer-ish and AC/DC tones in there, too. Any tips on brown tone settings, Brian?

Holy hell! This is my new favorite pedal.

Wonderful, another pedal I have to acquire. I can then sell the Pinnacle Limited I've had for several years. It's one of my faves, but I can't pass this new one up, and it does everything my old one does, and more.

Thanks for the demo! Sounded good!

Brian I love the tone deff going to buy this pedal VERY nice

There's a pic of this where every button adds more cowbell 😆

I can finally afford one of your glorious pedals, so I have the triple wreck coming. can't wait .

Thanks for using our song in your video, Brian!

Sounds awesome ❤

Nice stuffffff!! GREAT JOB, Brian!

The animated poo scared me. Please tell me you saw it as well.

My brain exploded at 13:43...awesome pedal

dude were you in that movie school of rock? are you mr schneebly???

Waiting for mine I mail.i have the tumnus and catapult(awesome pedals,this one will be the cream on the cake),my blackstar S1-60 ,marshall jtm45 and fender hot rod deluxe series 1V won't know what hit them,unreal crazy lead tones,good one Brian!

Sounds good Brian I would like to see more videos on OD pedals specifically designed to enhance an amp with great gain tones. I get a little bored with the standard Fender style amp + OD Pedals. An overdrive pedal designed to enhance the existing tone with emphasis on texture, not GAIN,A pedal that can tighten up the bass response and EQ the mid frequency, all using a Humbucker guitar + an already acceptable gain amp.This is what many guitarists I talk to are looking for,Not to be confused with the over saturated market of platform amp plus OD pedals.

Bought it. LOVE IT!!

I was considering buying one of these for a while. but when I saw this demo with the black Les Paul studio just like mine I had to go for it.

*****Brian, I just love your pedal! Great versatility and tonal range. BUT, the link in the description says "page not found" Just wanted to let you know.***** I'm buying this pedal for sure!

I love top mounted jacks

Man....that Tele - best tone of all imo

The original Pinnacle Deluxe is my favorite pedal of all time, but I might have to upgrade to this one.

Got one today, love it!

Sounds great you just sold me on one, huge Improvement on the Hot Rod Deluxe no need for mods just add this pedal. Is that the stock speaker?

Really good sounds. Also your little push switches are simple but clever additions. Your Priest sound was missing a bit of that noisy dirtyness and couple of buckets of reverb etc ;) but honestly, great sounds just from the pedal alone. Very practical ranges. Who needs a Marshall anyway?!

You're killing me Brian! What am I gonna tell my wife? 😆😆😆

brian just dunked the ball on all overdrive tones. every pedal ive heard of his is amp like. however i wish he woukd revisit the vox type pedals. maybe its something im doing wrong but i never quite nailed that perfect ac tone with the pedal. for all modulation strymon is the king for me.

Trading in the 5150 I just bought yesterday to get one of these. Wow

Sounds great, to bad I have a pinnacle already. Hope you come out with V2 of some of your other pedals.

Damn... another pedal to buy... it never ends. Side-note... I really wish you'd go back to the screw type DC inputs. Those flush ones... when you put your board in a soft case, the DC pole can push those DC jacks in/around, whereas the screw mount ones don't move. I've got a green Tremolo pedal mounted on the top row of my board and it has the non-screw DC input. Every time I unpack my board, I have to push the DC input poll down, because during transit, it gets pushed up so the black plastic piece is inside the enclosure, and the pole shorts out against the pedal enclosure.

Yeap it's my main pedal

I believe it covers the exact same sound as the smaller version too, right? Great job, planning to get one from Andertons this week.

excelent pedals ... ALL !

your awesome guitar guy

OOOO this is ssssoooOOO sweet, now I am torn between the Plexi Drive Deluxe and this p2D! Better save up ... wonder how my Tweed 57 will sound with those ... yes BOTH is the only solution, I must buy both hehe!

That sounds amazing !

the tone from this is just plain ballsy !

So good!

This pedals are boxed loaded with 9V battery. If you use an ACDC adaptor, don't forget to take off the battery from inside.

Brian, is there a certain setting you have/provide to achieve the brown EVH sound on this V2.. I want that and want this product rather than buying the older deluxe.In other words i don't want to turn 6 knobs /switches to land on Brown. Thanks

Dear brian,any toughts about marshall shredmaster? Yes i love how huge distorted sound on radiohead - creep Thanks in advance brian,you're so inspiring me!

I just bought it. I played the first deluxe version and then ordered the version 2 online cause its so hard to get it in stores in Netherlands (just here for vacations). sooo... I haven't really tried the v2 yet. but I love the version one so nothing to lose here.

As mentioned before, like to hear it into a Marshall, something with a good OD tone. How does it sound with 18v? My OCD is another beast altogether at 18v. I do like the way it sounds, a lot of people will buy this pedal.

there goes my wallet again... you keep hitting it out of the park!!

Had early one. This kicks ass

Good God!!

Love the Tele!