Wampler Tumnus Germanium Vs Tumnus V2
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- čas přidán 6. 12. 2023
- This video will compare the Tumnus Mini V2 against the Wampler Germanium Tumnus overdrive. The setup for this recording is super simple: I am using an Invaders Amplification 550 Blue Grass, which is their take on a sort of Fender high headroom style amplifier. I am also using Invaders Amplification's Two Notes IR pack.
There is no post processing such as EQ or compression added to the individual tracks or to the master bus. The only thing that I am doing in post is adding a limiter so that the audio is loud enough for CZcams's standards.
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Thank you for being the only review channel I've ever seen use multiple amp models!!
I struggled to hear any differences on the first amp but it was night and day on the second. Even went back to make sure I hadn't acclimated to some kind of nuance, nope the amp models just respond completely differently!
Feels like the pedal world just doesn't want to acknowledge this basic principle, with the smart guys taking it for granted as obvious and the less thoughtful/experienced blissfully unaware as they chase some idea of a perfect tone that can't actually exist.
There are others who do it, but it's pretty expensive to have so many amps around to demo gear. Some amps don't reveal too much in the way of nuances, while others make it so obvious. There is a difference between these two, but it's not a huge difference and nothing that the audience would ever care about.
Subtleties are lost with CZcams compression. I got the Germanium on day one, and then got the regular one from a friend. I did a similar comparison and definitely preferred the germanium unless the gain was cranked all the way. At that point they sounded really similar, which is puzzling because the diode should be doing more as the gain goes up, correct? I am using the germanium pedal with a Les Paul with everything at noon and it sounds fantastic to me. definitely better than the original. Does anyone in the audience know or care? No.
Sold Out!
In less than 24 hours
@@TheToneLounge it was already in "back order" status in less than 1 hour
The original sounds more balanced and smoother
Very subtle the difference, one seems to be more mid focused than the other
On my end, what I hear is that the regular Tumnus has a tad bit more gain and low end.
Nothing the eq dial cant compensate for
Yes and no. There is a difference in how both pedals break up. The regular Tumnus, to my ears, has a bit more gain, and it's more noticeable in the lower mids.
Honestly the sound difference is pretty minimal. I would however be interested in the "feel" of the pedal - how it reacts to different dynamics for example.
For my personal taste, I much prefer the feel of the regular Tumnus. It sustains notes better and has more weight to the notes.
Hmmm, I have ordered one of the new pedals. Will not keep it, if I get the same impressions as you did ....@@TheToneLounge
@@Andreas_Straub let me know how it goes.
I'm trying to think what's the use of that but, set aside the commercial purpose, still can't think of an important one other than having a more stylish tumnus on your board...
My understanding is that fans of Wampler pedals had been asking for such a pedal for many years, and since Brian managed to get his hands on some Germanium diodes, he decided to oblige them and make a small run of these pedals.
Hard to tell here, but to me the gold one sounds a bit more compressed. The silver one sounds a bit more full range.
I own the gold one. I think i prefer the silver, but not enough to buy one. I've been using the original as a dirty boost into a tube amp since it came out until about 6 months ago when it was finally dethroned from my board by the Keeley SuperMOD AT which is some kind of blues driver variant.
sounds choked off with volume below 12....????? I prefer to open it up a bit more as you diid towards the end.
Guitar players are crazy 😅 I used so many pedals with my Roland Blues Cube Hot. After while discovered actually the amp distortion is much better, sure boost little bit.
Roland Blues Cube imo are awesome ampa. Perfect for home use and also on stage imo.
In my opinion a huge part of the pedal thing is also that you can easily tune your sound into many different directions with reasonable effort if you like.
That will be because you were using a Roland Cube...pedals, good ones at least, are really designed to push valves not digital amps trying to emulate valve sounds. If you add distortion pedals to a digital amp trying to replicate valve tone, you just trample on what the amp's circuitry is already trying to do. Also, "guitar players are crazy"...you're judging ALL guitar players as spending fortunes on pedals. They don't. Guitar players who frequent the internet where pedals are being sold obviously, yes, but that is not all guitar players. I'm a guitar player and have only ever owned about 10 pedals and two amplifiers throughout my 20+ years of playing, and you trade in old gear to get something else. I've also earned a lot more using this equipment to play music with than I've ever spent on it all.
@@AD-kv9kj Dont take it so seriously, I own five amps, one tube now, have owned several tube amps. Yes tubes takes pedals better than transistor amps. My point was, in general one can actually have better tone with less pedals (distortion/overdrive) and use the volume on guitar, tube or transistor. Guitar players are always looking some "magic" ingridient. Al Di Meola played straight to Marshall in 70s.
I already can’t find one.
They sold out in 24hours
Will have to settle for a Bad Monkey :-)
July 24-25, 2024 Who got the Wampler Germanium Tumnus Deluxe? Sold out in a handful of hours.
I did and tbh I prefer the old one. But as far as looks the silver and red knobs look better. But now it’s not about looks but sound. Idk I’m not that thrilled with the newer one.
@Utubewrk123 I feel this way about the GE mini. I much prefer the original Tumnus.
The punter at the back of the room doesn’t care which pedal (demonstrated here) is being used.
This is just cork sniffing.
I see your point. For those that care about these things, it's probably important. To me, it isn't. I'm the kind of guy that takes the cheap gear to gigs and leave the good stuff at home.
Only real difference is the sound of the extra pedal one can afford with the money saved on the regular Tumnus..