Thank you Brian, for mentioning the feel of the pedal. This is an argument I seem to have a lot with people; you can have all the tone you want, but if it doesn't have the feel... I'd rather play gear with the right feel, that is not exactly my tone, than something that has all the tone, but leaves me cold!
Just got my Mofetta a few days ago and I absolutely love it you did such a great job with this! Im absolutely in love with the way it stacks with my prince of tone it’s much fuller and thicker than a klon of a tube screamer.
I've built a few MT10 clones, for myself and people who asked me to, and personally I find the best part of it is the 3-band EQ. I find it is able to dial in a very broad range of sounds. So thank you for twisting all those knobs and showing just how flexible it can be. A second aspect of the stock MT10 that yields a pleasing tone is the use of a 2+2 clipping diode complement, like a Timmy, for a little more dynamics, and a much lower bass rolloff than found on a TS-9 or SD-1, for a fuller beefier sound. But I think the REAL secret is those 6-pin op-amps. I'll bet you had to go to the Akihibara in Tokyo for those. I've tried breaking 2 of the pins on 8-pin dual op-amps. Maybe I've just broken the wrong ones, but I can't seem to get a decent tone from them, or indeed ANY tone. 😀 But without revealing too much, do you consider the modded circuit to be a "double clipper"? A triple clipper? Something else?
Great demo Brian, I just placed my order and can't wait to integrate it into my pedalboard. I really like the fact that the Mofetta has a three band eq for fine tuning. I like the fact that it can be used as a "clean" boost in addition to the high gain stages. Great sounding pedal Brian!
Dude. You had me at Mosfet. I remember once having an albeit brief back & forth conversation with Zack Vex about "amp like" MIAC distortion, and he absolutely schooled me on why a Mosfet circuit is superior within that particular application. Z-Vex is an absolute genius. No Cap! Personally I play within the whole Post Punk Hardcore/Doomy/Stoner Rock genre, but as a creature of habit? I tend to prefer boosting and/or running a fuzz into an already driven Marshall-esque crunch tone rather than relying on any one specific pedal through a clean amp. If that makes sense?!! The Mofetta seems like just what I've been searching for. Absolutely brilliant Brian! Muchas Gracias! Cheers!
This pedal is absolutely the best OD-Dist pedal ever!! It makes everyone of my guitars sound better. It's incredibly versatile, built like a tank and has tons of volume. Highly recommended!!
Another win from Wampler! Not only is this channel amazing and I’ve learned so much, both as an engineer and a musician about the pedals that help make even my attempts at noise sound terrific. Thank you for the great sounding pedals re-released at prices the working guy or gal can afford and not worry about dragging a priceless artifact around, and with the extra benefit of the updated version often sounding better, AND with more features. Now.....time for a shootout/comparison! Ibanez MT-10 Mostortion vs Karma MTN-10 vs Wampler Mofetta! Let's get it on!
I've always liked the mosfet distortions that I've played in the past and was thinking recently why don't I see that as often as I used to. And boom here it is
Sounds great! A very open rich sound. Haven't bought a drive pedal in over 2 year and only have 2. I might dip my toe back in, maybe. Drive pedal addiction can be very similar to drugs....😅 I'm 2 years clean!
I got over that addiction last year myself. Really trying hard to resist. My plan is to pick this one up on the used market after the sticker shine has worn off. If I had more money, I'd buy it outright but in this economy...
I don’t think they’d like to see my garbage playing. Been trying to learn the whole gambit of video editing. Getting back into playing after nearly 25 years of not playing. But ok
Cannot wait to check this out. Would also love to hear your take on the old distortion charger. I used one of these back in the nineteen eighties for lower volume playing with my Marshall 2104/2204. I've always felt that pedal doesn't get much love.
Definitely along the same lines as the Mosfet switch on my FAT RAT pedal, adding a certain "something" to an already-good-sounding circuit and making it even BETTER. Dig it!
Damn you Brian. I don't need another crunch pedal. But................here I go. I think it's a lot like the Paisley which I now use for my crunch. However the 3 band eq just sold me on it. So again....Dan you, and another great pedal.
Have you ever discussed clipping zener diodes? That seems to be at the heart of all my favorite distortion circuits and I’d love to see you walk through how to use them.
We need a silent stage bravado pedal with IRs. Yes they are plenty of options but most more complicated then need be for running pedal board into a PA. just a thought.
It sounds just like a Marshall to me. In fact, I'm pretty sure HnK put out an amp in the early 2000s that was basically using FETs instead of 12AX7s into a pair of EL34s. 3 band EQ. Yeah... Basically sounded exactly like this and was meant to do the Marshall thing as well. Great pedal Brian! Love this design.
@wampler_pedals I love the fact you threw a pedal on stage at Brad Paisley. Love the paisley drive. You got Taste the Biscuit stuck in my head though lol
In my opinion, the texture switch in that position sounds like a great overdrive, Switched up It sounds like several different types of amplifiers as you adjust the bass, mids and treble.
My subjective opinion - FET generated clipping sounds GREAT on single coils. The Rivera Clubster 25 Doce, which I have wrestled with for years, sounds kick ass on Tele’s and Strats but just has a “mush” or compressed attack and a sorta “beef cake” sound with the increased output of a humbucker. The Rivera has an introductory stage FET in the overdrive channel….and as you have learned and shown, the MIDS are super important to regain some of that crunch and attack with FET overdriven humbucker guitars. Personally, I don’t care for it - but with single coils it is great. It’s a flavor, as you mentioned. Not good or bad, but certainly open to interpretation and opinion. The “feel” of the chords and notes is lacking the touch and tube compression with humbucker unless you do a certain trick on the front end…which is a fair compromise. Great video and I enjoyed it as well as the pedal!
My favourite part of Brian's pedals is that includes the original circuit just so you can see how much worse it is than his design and then never touch it again lol. Another great new circuit!
It’s so funny Brian is talking about his need to build in his own flavor/tweaks. I got a Tumnus Deluxe several years ago. I’m sure that I flipped that toggle switch to the right when I first got it, but it’s been pointing left for a long time. Yesterday morning I got the urge to flip it to “modern” and almost immediately found a sound I just love. Now that I have a Duke of Tone, I know what a KoT is supposed to sound like. I can get there pretty quickly with my Pantheon, but there are so many more sounds in that pedal. That’s supposed to be a long winded “thank you” for making pedals that are fun to explore with. P.S. this thing sounds great but I need to play more and no more pedals.
Very well spoken. That is what I love the Pantheon for also. Unbelievably versatile pedal. High Gain mode + Hard Clipping mode even gives you Diezel VH-4 channel 3 sounds (Tool/Adam Jones). And I bought that pedal to get Julian Lage's sound that he acquired with a JHS Morning Glory. I can't believe how absurdly well designed, usable and inspirational the Pantheon is. Thank you, Brian!
I just wish they would make a pedal that has selections for clipping,gain stages,and tone stacks. Like the coppersound switching modules but in an actual pedal.
I love it!! I just find that a "clean blend" has become a non-negotiable for my OD/DS/FUZZES. I wish this one had it. Although I've found some ODs to be transparent enough so I don't miss it. Is that the case with this beauty?
This is one I think I can definitely buy because I like what my original Mostortion does but the bypass switch is bad which is not unusual for Ibanez pedals. I have to open the pedal compartment and push the white plastic button by hand, so I don’t use it that much. Plus-it isn’t true bypass. I can tell right from the start this sounds better than the Mostortion!
Brian, would you say that the late ‘80 Fender amps like the Princeton Chorus and M-80 were using these type of ideas and circuits for theps Thanks Ruderik
Brian, Do you make a "Utility Pedal" that combines an EQ, Boost, Noise Gate, and Tuner into one? When I used Pedals, it was easy for Pedalboards to quickly grow too big. I've used Modelers for many years, but I think there still may be a place for a single Pedal with those 4 critical functions.
One question: Is the "unmodded" setting a more or less exact copy of the MT-10? I didn't get that from the video. Btw: I think it is so cool that you keep an eye out for the whishes of your fans! When I saw your Mostortion video, I also thought immediately: please make this a pedal! Nice to have some whishes come true! :)
It was just a different time in the pedal world back then. My guess is that they were simply combining a few different circuit blocks in order to bring out something new. Back then it was mostly engineers working under deadlines. These days it’s a lot of people like me, guitarists who have learned electronics and view pedal designing more like an art form.
I'd love for you to make a chorus pedal. Walrus Audio Julia is good, but I don't like the volume increase I get with it. I'm sure you could make a wicked one and help me get that Zakk Wylde tone.
How does the second mosfet stage work? If the first is clipping and distorting why is that not limiting the signal preventing the second from clipping?
Im confused on the circuit diagram, Brian. So it goes through the 3 band EQ twice? Can anyone explain what he means when he says it exits the two fets into a "not really 3 band eq" then to the op amps,then back to the 3 band EQ again...
