Wampler Super Plextortion

The Wampler Super Plextortion is a distortion pedal, described by Premier Guitar as "a beefed-up variation of Wampler's popular Plextortion pedal"¹. It sits alongside the original Wampler Plextortion in the maker's range of distortion pedals, and Premier Guitar listed it at a street price of $199 USD¹.

What it does

The Super Plextortion is built around three internal gain stages. Premier Guitar reported that the idea was to provide a more modern array of tones by altering those stages, giving more transparency and bite and a tighter low end¹. The voicing is darker than most vintage Super Lead heads the reviewer had come across, and the pedal is suited to high-gain work in the vein of George Lynch and the modded-Marshall tones of the '80s and early '90s¹.

How it differs from the Plextortion

The original Plextortion, designed by Brian Wampler, was originally designed to emulate a JCM800 with Celestion Greenbacks, and MusicRadar described it as having more gain on tap with a warm tone, with less of the sizzle often associated with modern distortion². The original is still offered by Wampler, because it has more of a vintage vibe with a heavier midrange emphasis than the Super Plextortion¹. In short: the Plextortion leans vintage and midrange-forward, while the Super Plextortion goes for a darker, tighter, more modern high-gain voice.

What reviewers said

Premier Guitar's reviewer found the pedal handled light, open-chord riffing well with great transparency, and noted that as the Gain was increased, the definition just got stronger and punchier¹.

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