Brian Wampler never set out to put his name to a guitar effects pedal company and make a living out of stompbox design. It just happened that way. Like every other tone hound out there he was following his nose, trying to sound like his heroes.
“I always approached this, even as a kid, as a very naive, ‘How do I sound like Eddie Van Halen?’ Even as a little kid I’m buying inexpensive amps and wondering why my little Gorilla amp is not sounding like the Van Halen II record,” says Wampler, with a knowing chuckle, because haven’t we all asked ourselves that question in one form or another? “Like, ‘Why is that not happening!?’ And yeah, as I went along, me buying some pedals, me trying some processors, trying other amps. That was tone chasing back in the ‘80s and ‘90s.”
