Walrus Audio Pedals: 5 Amazing Hidden Features

• Tap Tempo Sync
• Eons Five-State Fuzz Adjustable Noise Gate
• Fathom Reverb’s Huge Momentary Burst
• Mako and Melee distortion/reverb ramp up
• Smart Momentary Bypass
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Innovative pedal brand Walrus Audio are known for making some of the most inspiring, experimental and unique sounding stompboxes in the current effects pedal scene.

While some larger companies make versatile pedals to cater to a wider market, the Oklahoma pedal builders tend to focus on niche tones that their engineers and artists want to create for themselves. From punchy overdrives to distortion, ambient reverb to tremolo and swirling phaser to chorus, there’s a wealth of effects to explore.

There’s also often more than meets the eye with Walrus Audio pedals, as they like to give us guitarists a bunch of little treats to keep us occupied with their effects and to help us find different ways to use their pedals.

I’ve picked out five of the coolest features you might have missed in the manual and even the Easter eggs they’ve hidden only for the real experimenters to discover.

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Tap Tempo Sync

Any Walrus pedal with a tap tempo switch can sync up with another tap tempo pedal. This means rather than setting an accurate tempo for each individual pedal, you can use a Walrus pedal’s switch to set it for both, saving yourself a few extra very precise taps.

You’ll find this nifty feature in the ARP-87 digital delay, Monument tremolo, Julianna chorus and Mako MkII delay. This function normally works with any tap tempo stompbox. Simply connect the two with a patch cable and you’ll be right on beat.

Eons Five-State Fuzz Adjustable Noise Gate

Walrus first introduced the noise gate with the gritty, thick-sounding fuzz Jupter V2 pedal and they’ve carried that functionality over to the super flexible Eons. A lot of pedals aim for the  stuttering ‘dying battery’ effect but there aren’t many that cover all the fuzz flavours the Eons packs in.

The Eons has an internal trim pot gate control you could use either to dial down the fuzzy aggression or implement hard cut-offs. This way you don’t have to power the pedal from a noisy non-isolated source or use a virtual battery to achieve the same effect.

Fathom Reverb’s Huge Momentary Burst

Create a massive surge of decaying reverb with the Fathom reverb. This effect is great during a crescendo or intense finale to a song. Not only is the Fathom a super adaptable reverb, but it can also turn your tone into a chaotic, swampy, beautiful noise.

With your Fathom turned off, press both the bypass and sustain switches at the same time. This will turn the pedal on abruptly (yet still smooth in transition) and hit you with a trail of reverb longer than where you’ve set the decay knob.

Mako and Melee distortion/reverb ramp up

Ramp is a feature that’s normally exclusive to an effect like tremolo as is the case with the Mako MkII, but Walrus Audio have implemented it into their unique reverb/distortion generator pedal, the Melee.

Essentially, ramp means to increasingly speed up the rate of the tremolo, or intensify an effect like reverb. Hold down the bypass to progressively accelerate the effect to make for some extremely climatic moments in your playing. If applied to tremolo you can adjust the build time, so the ramp will take longer hit peak speed the lower your set the base tempo. Let go of the bypass for the rate or intensity to drop back down again to where you’ve set your controls.

Smart Momentary Bypass

Smart momentary bypass has been a consistent feature in Walrus Audio’s pedals since the Lillian phaser and ambient Slö reverb. Simply hold down on the bypass switch for as long as you’d like to activate the effect. It’s a feature that a lot of companies have adopted, as it simply makes it possible to inject a short burst of the effect without the need to press twice on a pedal.

Ambient, texture-like sounding pedals like the Lillian and Slö benefit greatly for momentary bypass. You’re able to create a bed of trailing phaser or reverb and then add layers of playing on top as it floats underneath a lead line.

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I hope you get to use these fun effects to their fullest potential! Enjoyed this read? Make sure to have a browse of our Industry and Learn articles.

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