“Brian Wampler’s take on those fire-breathing amps that defined the sound of the 1980s”: Love hotrodded Plexi crunch and Mesa high-gain drive? Wampler’s Golden Jubilee serves up both in one sparkly green stompbox

Wampler Golden Jubilee: the sparkly-green stompbox has gold anodized dials and two channels of drive to play with, placing classic Plexi and Mesa-style sounds into a compact housing.

Brian Wampler loves a drive pedal. He’s made signature overdrive pedals for the likes of Brent Mason, Tom Quayle and Andy Wood, distortion pedals inspired by YouTube’s – and the Haunted’s – metal guitar tone guru Ola Englund. And he made one of our favourite Klon-inspired drives, like, ever.

But has he just topped the lot of them? Well, maybe, but quite possibly if your tastes in electric guitar were shaped by hot-rodded Plexis and Mesa/Boogie amps, because the Golden Jubilee is both of those vibes in one amp-in-a-box overdrive-cum-distortion.