Walrus Audio shows eight-pedal Fundamental Series at NAMM 2023
April 14, 2023 · 2 sources
Walrus Audio demonstrated its Fundamental Series at the NAMM show in Anaheim, in a Premier Guitar video published on April 14, 20231. The series comprises eight pedals: overdrive, distortion, fuzz, tremolo, chorus, phaser, delay and reverb1.
Each pedal has three controls and a slider in the middle that selects the effect type, with three modes per pedal1. The overdrive has Smooth, Crunch and Bright modes with slider controls for Gain, Tone and Volume2. The distortion has Dark, Silicon and LED modes, also with Gain, Tone and Volume sliders2. The fuzz has Gate, Classic and Mid+ modes2. The chorus has Light, Medium and Heavy modes; Walrus' Colt said Light emulates the Walrus Julia, Medium is two choruses in series and Heavy is a tri-chorus1. The reverb has hall, spring and plate modes with decay, mix and tone controls1. The tremolo has Sine, Rectangle and Random waveforms with Rate, Depth and Volume sliders, and the phaser has Light, Medium and Heavy modes with Rate, Depth and Feedback sliders2. The delay has Digital, Analog and Reverse modes with Time, Feedback and Mix controls and tap tempo2.
Input and output jacks are top-mounted, while the 9V power input sits on the left-hand side of each pedal2. MusicRadar reported that all the pedals are assembled in the USA2. Colt said Walrus wanted to build them the same way and to the same build quality as its other products1.
The overdrives are priced at $99, and the tremolo, phaser, reverb and delay at $1291. MusicRadar listed the chorus and phaser at $129 as well2. Colt said the pedals were available at the time of the video1.
"So, there's three controls on each pedal, and then within that there's uh there's a slider in the middle that you can change uh the type of effect that it is. So, there's three flavors of distortion, three flavors of overdrive, so on and so on."
Colt said the average Walrus Audio customer had been playing guitar for about two to three years, and that he wanted to get quality effects into players' journeys earlier1. He also said the series came out of time spent during the pandemic1.