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You may have heard the name Brian Wampler floating around, after all he has an excellent effects pedal line called Wampler Pedals with some great distortion pedals such as the Super Plextortion (Marshall JCM800 style) and Pinnacle (Eddie Van Halen brown sound) and the Johnny Hiland Signature overdrive, the “Bad Dog” distortion/overdrive. Wampler also offer a Compressor and Analog Delay pedal too and it doesn’t end there. Recently Brian joined forces with Rockett Pedals for a new series called the Masterbuilt Series which currently has 2 pedals available, the Afterburner and the Rockett Boost. Brian is an effects expert so it seems natural for Premier Guitar to use his knowledge for a How To column.

In this article “Electro-Harmonix Russian Big Muff Pi Pedal Mods” Brian explains in detail how to modify the pedal and includes hi-res downloads of the schematics for you to do it yourself if you are the kind of person who is happy to dabble with a soldering iron and actually understand what he is talking about. Personally I have no idea about this kind of thing and the schematic diagrams mean absolutely nothing to me, I’ll leave it to the experts I think, in fact I’m quite tempted by the Wampler Pinnacle!

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