i'd recommend to put the smaller pedals on top of the bigger ones, otherwise they might fall over (especially when you stack more than three pedals)

Love the Tumnus Deluxe. I've had it for a couple years and last week I sitting and playing with my phone on my knee. It slid off and landed straight down on the switch and broke it. Emailed Wampler and told them what happened with a few pics and wanted to know what it would take to get it fixed. They sent me 2 new switches with no hassle. Awesome customer service from these guys.

I love that you are wearing another youtubers merch. The way you guys support each other is awesome!

The cat is back! Your Tumnus still sounds like Tumnus - pure gold.

Can I just say thank you for making the Tumnus. It's such a simple yet powerful pedal. I use it going through my orange rocker and it's basically acts as my dirty channel. I have a ts9 after it that adds the mid hump I need for solo's. What blew my mind when I first started using the Tumnus was how powerful the volume knob is! It's so versatile with other pedals but just as a normal overdrive it sounds beautiful.

Long story short...Tumnus makes EVERYTHING BETTER.

People think the Tumnus, Klon, Architect, Merman, etc. are transparent -- for those that do not know -- because of the way the drive / gain knob works. It is a dual gang pot, meaning it is essentially two pots in one (not a dual concentric knob). As you turn down the drive knob, the gain circuit is mixed out in favor of the clean signal. The drive portion of the signal is very mid range heavy, while the clean portion of the circuit is "transparent."

I have been stacking pedals for quite awhile now. However, this maybe one of the best explanation of how stacking pedals really works. Thank you.

Another neat trick is to stick a delay pedal between the two distortion/overdrive pedals. You don't need to use much to realize a great tone. It's something that Carlos Santana is credited with doing.

overdrive low gain + trasparent overdriva 2:39 overdrive low gain + overdrive higth vol = + gain 5:09 overdrive traspartent eq flex + trasparent overdrive 6:57 amp drive or distorcion pedal + overdrive = hard rock vibes 9:50 amp driver + pantheon overdrive = pantheon best pedal 10:16

That cat was like "Who you trying to get crazy with esse? Don't you know I'm loco?"

One of my favorite tones is the Pantheon into the Paisley Drive. Pantheon is set up for a medium gain, loose but airy type tone, then the Paisley Drive comes in with a mid bump and volume boost for lead tones. Super awesome with medium to high output pickups

Damn. The Pantheon and Tumnus sound amazing individually but takes it to the next level when you stack them!

I totally appreciate that you used “tighter” to describe the overall tone that we get. That has help me heaps in looking for the tone I’m trying to hit.

Love my Pantheon. Though the Pantheon and Tumnus should be the newest 2-in-1 pedal.

Good lordt!! That Pantheon sounds so good. Can’t wait to get mine tomorrow. (It better be here tomorrow!) and boost it with my Tumnus!! Can’t believe I waited this long to order a Pantheon. Wampler Dirt is good Dirt!

I was mostly an acoustic player and have ventured into the electric world. I'm focused on overdrives and experimenting with the King of Tone, Mojomojo, and ODR-1, but now it seems I'll need to try the Tumnus and Pantheon. Great stuff, and thank you for the very useful video.

Tumnus is the best first stage overdrive available nowadays. Mine is always on at low gain. I have tried many many others (SD1, TS808, POT, Klon KTR, Moonshine, Amp11), but the Tumnus is by far the best one and makes my other distortion/overdrives to shine. Congrats on such an amazing pedal.

I am a clean tone freak and here I am listening to this genius channel.

Wow - great info! I just ran my Tumnus into an old Boss DS 1 Distortion and it cleaned it up and made my humbucker power chords crisper and more articulate. I hate muddiness and fuzz!

Thanks. This is a helpful video. I enjoy stacking a tumnus deluxe into a snouse Black box 2. I like having the extra control over the mids, particularly as the gain is up on the on the tumnus.

Amazing combination (Tumnus & Pantheon). I recently bought the Tumnus Deluxe and Nobels ODR-1 BC. I kept both in the end. I have now 3 Wampler pedals on my board and love them all very much.

Brian's videos are, as always, eminently educational.

Wow that Tumnus pedal is straight up 70’s Hard Rock tone heaven! Great sound!

The Tumnus into the pantheon is the thing I've been doing for ages. It was my little tone secret.... Until now that is....

Tumnus for the solo boost! Placed between my rythem pedal (paisley) and the amp. Leave the rythem pedal on. Creamy crunchy goodness. You can see it on their faces.

Tumnus paired with Pantheon = magic

Absolutely love the Pantheon, the best sounding BB overdrive pedal I’ve ever heard, only thing I would stack it with is a Les Paul😷

Literally waiting in my Pantheon to do the same thing, haha I know some amps have sounded great due to their “gain-stacking” so I’m glad you brought this one up! 🖖🏻

I bought both pedals because of this video, I can do most of my gigs with these pedals and a delay. I think a double drive with one side tumnus and another pantheon would be the goat. Love them!!

You are great Mr Wampler! Thanks for all the pedal advice!

Brian knows his business for sure. This man knows how to build great pedals.

Tumnus is my favorite pedal to stack.

That cat is having none of Brian's shit today, thank you.

thanks for these cool tips !

I wouldn't dream of telling you anything about how you should run pedals or stack drives, but for me personally I run my Tumnus Deluxe at the end of my drive chain rather than at the front. I run my Tumnus in a typical Klon mode with gain at about 10:00 and level at about 2:00, and let the Tumnus spread its buttery goodness all over everything else. And I leave my Tumnus on all the time unless I am just looking for super clean sparkly tone. In front of the Tumnus I have a custom Tube Screamer and a Boss SD2. When I want a lot of crunch I turn on the SD2 and when I want distortion I turn on the TS turned way up on the gain. And when I want nasty I turn on all 3. I think the Tumnus Deluxe EQ gives me the best tone control which is why I put it last in the chain, and then when I discovered I just like to leave it on all the time it made sense for me to leave it there. Of course, since I don't have a Pantheon my options are a little different than yours. Thanks for the video. You make great pedals and have a wonderful way of teaching to boot. And that you know who Tumnus is makes me especially happy. :)

Brian, thank you for these videos. And also your 'nerd' videos. Its really helped me to understand the multiple ways to use distortion pedals. Also,not much on modulation, but still find it interesting

I have to say - the Pantheon is one of those pedals I NEVER consider taking off my board... I just love it as a mid gain sound by itself, or being pushed for a higher gain. But now I feel like an idiot because one of the few pedals I haven't tried in front of it is the Tumnus!

Thanks again for another well done video. Informative and easy to understand. I love my Pantheon, as well. Looking forward to swapping it around now that you offered some excellent clarity on the matter.

I use Xotic SP Comp (always on/subtle squeeze) into Mini TS into Mini Tumnus...TS for light blues...Tumnus for creamy boost...both on for great lead blues/rock OD/Dist.

I ordered a Tumnus yesterday, so I'm excited to be adding my second Wampler product to my gear. The "pedal platform" ideology is brand new to me in spite of playing out regularly for over 30 years, but it's cool that you are as dedicated to showing how to really get the most out of these pedals as you are in building them. Wampler absolutely rocks, hands down. Side note: all those crazy "pedal platform" discussions I'd brush off over the years... those people were RIGHT!! Late to the party... :D

dude. fuzz face into tumnus is amazing. make a 2 in 1 pedal. add a bass boost for the fuzz face and youll have a new best seller.

I run a Wampler moxie in to a inferno distortion then a booster with some EQ setting. I'm loving it. I can't wait to get off work to Jam out

Funny you mentioned the ocd. Ive been digging my 808 into the ocd recently. Pretty heavy tones to be had. This got me thinking to flip the order to see what happens. Great video as always, Thanks!

Just wanted to say thanks for your work, I have a Tumnus Delux, it is fantastic.

I just stacked my OCD v1.7 into a Golden Klon- It was a revelation!

I did a lot of stacking pedals at one point and it made me think about what people call "tone" much differently than I did before and certainly moreso than people typically think of it. Tone is how you are manipulating the strings and guitar; the notes. The gear is dictating the voicing, which is different than tone in my opinion. I realized how much speakers influence voicing, as well as amps and pedals later in the chain. Things like pickups matter to some extent, but you'll see a bigger improvement in voicing from a speaker upgrade.

Wicked. I just bought both of these. Gonna try it.

I've been running a Nu-Tube into a MXR Zakk Wylde overdrive, it's definitely a different setup, very lively! Really love this topic!

I've been using the Tumnus Deluxe running into a Boss Angry Driver. Pretty sweet!

Pantheon is my favourite pedal !

Recently, I came into possession of the Pantheon. I stack it with a Way Huge Swollen Pickle. The tone is astounding! Brian, thanks so very much for these videos! Thanks to you, my guitar tone is improving more than I thought possible! Best to you, sir! Cheers!

Have a klon... Convinced now that I will be ordering a Patheon. Thanks for these awesome videos Brian.

That was very helpful. Thank you!

That first thing was pretty neat. I want a pedal with Both a tumnus and a pantheon. Kinda like a king of tone kinda thing. With a switchable arrangement setting (tumnus into Pantheon or vise versa).

Imo this is what makes stacking fun- I can take some of the drive pedals I have that have fixed parameters and no eq and run them through a pedal that has EQ, contour, presence, etc.- and totally change the sound. In fact, I have a few drive pedals I was going to get rid of because I didn't care for the way they sounded- until I ran them through a pedal that had the controls I wanted- now they sound amazing. The Rat for instance, not really my cup of tea- too muffled sounding, but you hit it with a midrange boost and keep the dist. turned way down- sounds great. It does a lot for my clean tone as well because I have all that eq ability built into my signal chain- just turn the drive pedals on and kill the gain. The only issue I run into sometimes- too many pre-amps. It can get a little aggravating sometimes when you have 3-4 different EQs in the chain to try and tweak.

I've been stacking a pantheon into a tumnus deluxe, but after watching this I am definitely going to try flipping them around! Great video!

Brian, have you ever taken apart a BBE Sonic Stomp (maximiser)? Would love to hear your take on that pedal and what it actually does to your signal. It’s an interesting one for sure.

I stacked an original bud box distortion plug into the tumnus tonight. It was cool. Volume up and gain down on the mxr, gave the tumnus such a thick fat bottom end.

The Tumnus into the cranked Deluxe Reverb was great. If you just turn the treble a bit on the amp, I bet you’d have an amazing OD sound.

Wow that was excellent Brian. Gain stacking experimentation here we come!

The klon is the most transparent clean boost ive ever heard. Not a transparent od but transparent clean boost. If you have an amp like a plexi or jcm800, the klon will give you more saturation (when used as a clean boost) but with very little colouration. I dont think its a very elegant circuit but its very utilitarian.

I am currently running an OCD into a Beetronix Overhive into a Tumnus... quite enjoying the variabilities! Thanks for another great video, Brian!

So can we think of a pedal board as a macro circuit? Wonderful video.

Must get a Wampler pedal. I have a Eye See 78 into a BB-Pre. Sometimes I use a Dark Matter 2nd. Great info!!

This is the advise I'm looking fr. Thanks!

Right on! I've always wondered how that works. Thanks!

Very informative Brian, Thanks! I will now be swapping pedals this weekend

I like to stack my drive pedals from less gainy od to one with most gain distortion. It's that because, on a high gain stage I would like the character of the more gainy pedal, that's why I have it in the first place. From Wampler I use a Plextortion right on the end of my gain stage and it works fine for me

Thanks Brian. Very helpful!

Great video Brian! Especially for a relative newbie. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

That sounds incredible. All of it.

Superbly helpful tutorial. A Proper education!

Thank you for another great vid Brian!! You, and your pedals are the best, and have improved my life a lot!!

yup, i always do gain staking in reverse. Put my Janray at the last of the dirt chain (but as first gain stage), then stack Klon style pedal into it for 2nd stage gain.

Time for a 60 Cycle Hum collab with Wampler! :) Great video, and really instructive

I need both of these.

Amazing tones, and amazing tips... Thanks, hoss... Cheers from Nashville...

SD-1 with the volume dimed but no gain into a Rat with a low gain setting and I little tone cut is an absolutely killer tone.

Ive always liked the Tumnus 😊

outstanding job on this topic

I run my euphoria v2 into the tumnus deluxe. Love them

Thank you Brian, this was a very informative video.

Nice work Brian Mico K

Grumpy Cat doesn't look too excited about overdrive and distortion pedals.

love cranked sound from that pedals

I say this as often as often as i get a chance to, i built a Brian May style Treble Booster that sounds incredible and when i use it to boost the Klon Clone i also built its magic into my Marshall DSL100HR. The klon was just a pedal kit and one of the first kits i did and it sounds really great also. The warm/transparent tone of the klon works really great with the articulate high end/mid boost of the treble booster. I also added a tone selector switch to the treble booster and auditioned capacitors until i found the perfect ones for stock/treble boost, mid boost, and full range bass boost. But the Klon also sounds great being boosted by a normal TS9 for a more modern tone.

Heck that Pantheon sounds good! Might have to buy it to pair it with my Tumnus Deluxe :D

Pretty much all I use is your pedals. Need to try your amp?? I use older Fender and Matchless. Great job!!!!!!! Love your products...

I already wanted to try both of these pedals and now you made this video..... hahah great tips! I currently stack a TS mini into an OCD to get my tones, but none of them have a lot of EQ options

Thanks so much greetings

I use a XTS Tejas Boost into a Wampler Plexi Drive into a Reeves Custom 50. It's absolutely tone heaven.

Good advice! I'm going to try these concepts in the HX Stomp.

Tumnus into Belle both at low gain. Tasty sound.

Your awesome with information on pedals

Just got a TS style pedal and put it in front of my TC MojoMojo. I like the MojoMojo by itself but the TS tightens up all that low-end so well! I even get chunky palm mutes now! Additionally, the gain structures work together super well. I can have the gain dimed on both pedals and it sounds amazing. What a pleasant surprise!

The sound I like best in this video is just the Pantheon by itself. The second best sound is the Tumnus by itself.

Love your channel Brian... Your pedals are awesome...

God tier tone my man

Love the intro. Cute kitty.