Rambler Effects

HAND-CRAFTED TONE

Welcome! Explore our pedals

 

My name is Chris Ingham. I am a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, engineer and electronics enthusiast. I have always had a love of great guitar music and great guitar tone, and throughout my career as a musician I have, like many other guitarists, went through my fair share of gear. I decided to try my hand at building a pedal from a kit in early 2020. I was pleased with the results - and I started sourcing my own parts and tapping into the great community of PCB builders to to build my own custom pedals, designed around my needs, and ideal for both playing live and recording in many different venues, and through varying setups and systems.

The result, I am proud to present, is Rambler Effects - hand-made musical effects using the highest quality components available (hand-tested for low tolerance) and focusing on tone, versatility, and reliability. Rambler Effects are hand-crafted and built-to-order, so please allow 1-2 weeks for your pedal to be completed and shipped. I will soon be adding custom options for each effect, but please feel free to contact me with questions or special build requests.
I can’t guarantee that I will be able to meet every special request, but I am always up for a challenge to do something I’ve not done before. Stay tuned for more updates!

We will soon be recording demos of each effect, discussing tone, controls and genre usage. Check out our Shop to learn more!

 
 

What’s New

 
 
Outlaw Overdrive

The Rambler take on the classic ‘screamer’ pedal taps into the Rambler Overdrive’s clipping formula, pairing it with the screamer configuration and a boost for three distinctly different textures. 3 switches work with the Tone knob to adjust the tone response.

 
JIMMY Deluxe

The JIMMY Deluxe is a pure amp over-drive that offers authentic Hiwatt™ tones with a great passive three band equalizer to sculpt it! The JIMMY Deluxe is an all-Mosfet Stage circuit designed to emulate that powerful Zep sound from their later albums.
The Deluxe adds an independent JFET Boost making this a 2 in 1 pedal. Use the boost on its own, or place it before or after the Jimmy for more distortion or a solo boost!

The JIMMY Deluxe delivers tube-like tone and classic amp overdrive for any rig.

 
 
 

Featured

 

Rambler Overdrive

As indicated by its namesake, the Rambler Overdrive is Rambler Effects' flagship overdrive. An adaptation of the Marshall Bluesbreaker™ circuit, the Rambler Overdrive can go from pushing your amp to the edge of breakup to the roar of a screaming stack and takes several boutique adaptations to the next level. With the player always first in mind, the Rambler comes in several versions to suit each player’s needs and playing situations. The Deluxe models were designed with the recording or gigging guitarist in mind - pairing clipping options suitable for tailoring your sound to whatever amp is in the back-line, as well as tone-shaping options to tame your tone in harsh rooms.

 
 

The standard — Volume, Gain and Tone controls.

 
 

Additional Presence Control
3 Soft Clipping options, Switchable Hard Clipping
Available with side mount (small box) or top mount (large box) jacks

 
 

6 Hard Clipping Options
Bright Cut switch with 3 treble cutoffs

 
 

Footswitchable Solo Boost & Volume Control

 
 

2 Independent Rambler Overdrive Channels
—Exclusive Channel 2 - 8 soft/8 hard clipping options
Independent, foot-switchable Boost in-between the Ramblers
All-analog speaker emulated output for DI use
—FX loop before the speaker emulated output