• Brian Wampler Book
• Wampler Effects

This book, which is a temporary re-release of a DIY basic electronics classic, will teach you exactly how to modify and custom tailor each of your effects pedals to your needs and tastes. No experience needed. Note that since this is a limited release of the last version of the book, some of the links inside may be dead. However, the book is being made available temporaril This book, which is a temporary re-release of a DIY basic electronics classic, will teach you exactly how to modify and custom tailor each of your effects pedals to your needs and tastes.

No experience needed. Note that since this is a limited release of the last version of the book, some of the links inside may be dead. However, the book is being made available temporarily due to customer demand.

Brian Wampler is the man behind Indyelectronics.com and has been messing around with guitar electronics for at least a decade. His book, How To Modify Guitar Pedals, is of great use to the beginning stomp box enthusiast. If you have a bunch of stomp boxes and are willing to do some experimenting (and investing in tools and components), this book will be your new best friend. Wampler has detailed several modifications for several dozen of the most popular stomp boxes.

The Stompbox Cookbook: Build Advanced Effects for Electric Guitar & Bass Nicholas Boscorelli on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. Written with advanced designers in mind, this book provides stomp-box builders with 38 advanced effects projects for electric guitar and bass.

Want to improve the sound of Brian Wampler is the man behind Indyelectronics.com and has been messing around with guitar electronics for at least a decade. His book, How To Modify Guitar Pedals, is of great use to the beginning stomp box enthusiast. If you have a bunch of stomp boxes and are willing to do some experimenting (and investing in tools and components), this book will be your new best friend. Wampler has detailed several modifications for several dozen of the most popular stomp boxes.

Want to improve the sound of your stock Crybaby Wah? Increase the top speed of your Boss CH-1 Chorus? Need more distortion out of your Ibanez TS-9 Tubescreamer? This is the book you need.

It will tell you which components to replace, what value to replace them with and what changing each component will do to the sound of your pedal. Your specific pedal may not be in here, but that's another way this book comes in handy. Maybe you have a distortion pedal that is similar to the Boss DS-1; you can make some of the same changes to your pedal that Wampler indicates for the DS-1. One of the great values of How To Modify Guitar Pedals is that you can use the information gleaned from here and apply it to other projects and designs. That's one thing that makes this a great book for beginners with just enough knowledge to be dangerous. Another excellent source of information are the first seventy five pages.

Wampler does a reasonable job of explaining the various components used and what they do. It's not the most thorough explanation but it'll do. There is a section that gives ideas for where to buy components, which will turn the reader on to a whole wealth of potential component sources. He also details what kinds of tools you'll need, talks about how to use a multimeter, shows you how to solder and de-solder and even how to fix broken solder traces and tabs. My one complaint about this book is in the editing and layout. It looks like this book was laid out on a home computer and sent straight to the printer.

Brian Wampler Book

Many of the pages have huge blank spaces and in many cases, information is spread over two or more pages that could have been made to fit on one, which would make reading and taking in this information easier for the reader. In addition to increasing the page count and, thus, cost, I have to question the relative accuracy of the information presented. How well was this proofed? While I haven't found any specific instances of errors in component values or what to do with them, I haven't done every modification detailed in this book. I have a feeling, though, Wampler would be happy to help if you were to contact him through Indyguitarist.com. In fact, the internet, as a general thing, is an important resource in your electronics education.

Wampler Effects

No book can contain everything you need to know! Just reading through this book and studying the projects was invaluable to me at the time in that it taught me a lot of the basics of stomp box construction and function. The important thing is to actually do some of these mods. That's when you will really start to figure out what's what. A massive part of learning this stuff is to actually do it. It's empowering to be able to fine tune a stomp box to your needs and very satisfying to know you did it yourself. With some patience, dedication, the right tools and a pile of components, How To Modify Guitar Pedals will teach you exactly what the title implies.