Walrus Audio Fundamental Series Overdrive Pedal

£99.99

This is the Walrus Audio Fundamental Series Overdrive Pedal from Walrus Audio, listed in Overdrive Pedals on Just Pedals. Read More below.

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For the Fundamental Series, Walrus Audio have challenged themselves to design a set of pedals with the tonal integrity that’s required to live on a professional’s pedalboard, but with simplified controls friendly enough for even the newest effect pedal users.

Each Fundamental pedal has 3 sliders for tweaking the sound and a three-way switch for changing pedal modes. The result is a line of 8 pedals that will keep you covered from your first band practice, all the way to a sold-out arena.

Fundamental Drive

The Fundamental Drive is a versatile overdrive that allows for a wide range of tones thanks to its 3-mode switch. This is the perfect tool at the front of your chain to set the tone for your whole rig.

Key Features

  • Overdrive Variety – The slide switch allows you to change between 3 distinct flavours of the pedal. Each position has different clipping modes or tone profiles:
  • Smooth – A classic soft clipping silicon overdrive. Clean and smooth.
  • Crunch – Silicon soft clipping with added hard clipping silicon diodes and a slight low-end boost. Crunchy and edgy.
  • Bright – Silicon soft and hard clipping from the Crunch mode with a pre-clipping low end cut. Bright and glassy.
  • Bypass Switch – Turns the effect on and off. 
  • Bypass LED – Illuminated when the effect is engaged.

Specifications

  • Gain: The Gain slider sets the amount of gain applied to your guitar signal passing through the overdrive circuit.
  • Tone: The Tone slider controls the amount of high-frequency level reduction.
  • Volume: The Volume slider sets the overall output volume of the pedal.
  • Input Jack: 1/4-inch cable from instrument.
  • Output Jack: 1/4-inch cable to amplifier.
  • 9v Jack: 9-volt DC, Center Negative, 100mA min.

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Brand

Walrus Audio

Walrus Audio is an American boutique guitar effects pedal company based in Oklahoma City, known for its high-quality, innovative designs and artistic approach to pedal-making. Founded in 2011 by Brady Smith, the company quickly gained a reputation for creating pedals that offer a unique blend of rich, expressive tones and striking visual aesthetics.

Each Walrus Audio pedal is designed with meticulous attention to detail, often incorporating complex circuitry that allows for a wide range of sonic possibilities.

The pedals feature distinctive, hand-drawn artwork on their enclosures, making them visually appealing as well. Walrus Audio’s product lineup includes a variety of effects such as reverb, delay, overdrive, modulation, and more, and their pedals are widely appreciated by musicians for their creativity, durability, and superior sound quality.

Category

Overdrive Pedals

Overdrive uses soft or moderate clipping to add harmonics and compression while retaining more of the original note shape than heavy distortion. Some circuits emphasise the midrange and trim bass before clipping; others remain broad, transparent or amplifier-like. Gain, clipping arrangement, headroom and tone filtering decide whether it supplies a light edge, a saturated drive sound or extra push into another gain stage.