Walrus Audio Ages Black Five-State Overdrive

£205.00

This is a New Walrus Audio Ages Black Five-State Overdrive from Walrus Audio is in our Overdrive Pedals category on Just Pedals. Read More below.

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The Walrus Audio Ages Black Five-State Overdrive is a hugely flexible drive pedal built to cover everything from bright edge-of-break-up tones to thick saturated punch. Its five-position rotary switch gives you distinct clipping styles and gain structures so you can move from smooth compressed low-gain sounds to more open aggressive voices without needing a second pedal. Add in the Dry control and Ages becomes even more adaptable letting you blend your clean signal back in for extra definition attack and note clarity. That makes it a brilliant choice for players who want one overdrive to handle multiple jobs on the board. It works brilliantly as a main gain sound a boost into a driven amp or a stacked partner alongside other pedals. Simple Treble Bass Gain Volume and Dry controls make it easy to shape the response to your guitar and amp while true bypass keeps your core tone intact when the pedal is off. Finished in black with striking elephant skull artwork Ages looks every bit as bold as it sounds. It also suits a wide range of pickups giving single coils extra body and helping humbuckers stay focused and articulate under higher gain settings.

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Walrus Audio

Walrus Audio describes itself as a collective of artists, musicians and engineers, bringing circuit design together with distinctive pedal artwork. The company says its effects are hand-built and manufactured in the USA. JustPedals listings illustrate the variety: ARP-87 multi-function delay, Slö ambient reverb, Julia analog chorus and vibrato, and Polychrome flanger. Some models focus on direct, compact controls, while others provide broader modulation or atmospheric textures. Compare each model’s modes, stereo connections and control options; the artwork is a signature of the brand, while the circuit determines how it fits a rig.

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.

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Bass

Voiced or equipped to retain low-frequency fundamentals and the higher headroom of a bass signal. Clean blends, crossovers and bass-specific filter ranges can preserve weight and articulation while the effected portion adds harmonics, movement or ambience.

True Bypass

Connects input directly to output through mechanical or relay switching when the effect is off, removing the active circuit from the audio path. It avoids buffer colour but leaves cable capacitance and switching design to influence high-frequency loss and possible switching noise.