The White Whale V2 is a fully-fledged analog spring reverb and tremolo circuit, inspired by classic American amps of the ‘60s, crammed into a beautifully compact pedal enclosure for your board. The V2 simply packs more options and a bigger sound into a box of the same size – more features, same board space!
Capture those surf-worth ripples and metallic twangs at the stomp of a switch with multiple modes, flexible effect ordering, and more – totally rad!
Key features
- Real, analog spring reverb and tremolo sounds in compact pedal enclosure
- 3 different flavours of spring reverb (long, short, medium)
- 3 types of amp style tremolo (harmonic, optical, tube bias)
- Reverb and Tremolo section can be operated completely independently or in series
- Change FX order: Tremolo into Reverb or Reverb into Tremolo
- Compatible with expression pedals and tap tempo footswitches, including the White Whale V2 Remote
Here’s what Crazy Tube Circuits say:
The 3-spring reverb tank assembly housed inside White Whale’s enclosure has remained the same, but Crazy Tube Circuits has upgraded the power amp driving the springs for increased headroom and wider frequency response. Following the signal topography of vintage units, Crazy Tube Circuits has also upgraded the dwell control to allow users to dial the right amount of signal that goes into the springs for a mellower or splashier reverb sound.
Real spring reverb found in 60s American tube amps and external reverb units featured a tube power amp driving the spring assembly via an output transformer, so Crazy Tube Circuits has delicately tuned an analog circuit to emulate the tube and output transformer saturation that was produced on higher dwell settings.
The tremolo section has also been upgraded to feature harmonic tremolo, besides the opto and tube bias found in the previous incarnation of the ‘marine mammal’. This hypnotic and mesmerizing effect originated on certain models of the brown and blonde era amps and does frequency-based modulation by shifting between high and low frequencies compared to the amplitude-based modulation (opto and tube bias) that shifts between volume levels.
Crazy Tube Circuits made sure to include the two most significant variations of harmonic tremolo, as found in the original amps, that differentiate in the range and sweep of pulsating frequencies. The depth control sets the intensity of modulation while Crazy Tube Circuits extended the range of the speed control beyond the span of vintage amps to maximize users’ creativity. The volume control will boost the signal if needed, even in the hardest throb settings.
Specifications
- Dimensions: 17 x 12.5 x 7.3 cm
- Spring reverb tank is driven by a real power amp.
- Tube and output transformer saturation simulation circuit.
- Controls for reverb: size, dwell, tone, mix and volume.
- Controls for tremolo: style, speed, depth and volume.
- FX order selection and independent operation of the reverb and tremolo effect sections.
- Click-less true bypass design via high quality relays for each section.
- 2 Footswitches / 2 Status LEDs – one for each effect section. Tremolo section LED lights in tempo.
- Power-up bypass/engage preset function for the footswitches.
- Top mounted jacks.
- Expression control functions for reverb mix and tremolo speed (expression / tap pedals not included).
- Remote bypass / engage control function for each effect section – matching artwork remote footswitch sold separately.
- Power Supply: Use only 9V DC, 2.1 mm x 5.5 mm, center negative (not included).
- Max current consumption: 180mA.
- Light Green die-cast enclosure with colour-coded lettering for the control section (blue for the reverb section, white for tremolo section).
- Weight: 815g
- Made in Greece
