Walrus Audio Fundamental Series Overdrive Pedal

£99.99

Walrus Audio Fundamental Series Overdrive Pedal by Walrus Audio is part of our Guitar Pedals selection. See the current Andertons listing, specification and availability 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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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.

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Guitar Pedals

Guitar Pedals is a useful category for players looking to shape their guitar or bass sound in a more focused way. Products in this area can help with tone, control, routing, performance or creative sound design depending on the exact type of gear involved.

For anyone building a pedalboard, guitar pedals options can help fill a specific gap in the signal chain or open up new sounds that are difficult to achieve with an amp alone. They are worth exploring when you want a more personal, flexible and practical setup.

Overdrive Pedals

Overdrive pedals add warmth, grit and amplifier-like breakup to your guitar tone. They can be used as a light always-on tone enhancer, a bluesy crunch box, a mid-focused solo boost or a way to push a valve amp into richer saturation.

Different overdrive circuits have very different personalities, from transparent low-gain pedals to classic mid-hump designs and heavier modern drives. They are one of the most important pedal types because they respond to picking dynamics, guitar volume and the character of your amplifier.

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Guitar Pedal

Guitar Pedal pedals and related effects are commonly used by guitarists looking to shape their tone in a more focused and creative way. Different designs offer their own response, feel and tonal character depending on the style of music and the type of amplifier or guitar being used.

Many players build pedalboards gradually over time, combining different effects and utilities to create a setup that suits their own sound and workflow. Guitar Pedal related gear can play an important role in both live performance and studio recording.

Overdrive

Overdrive pedals recreate the sound of an amplifier being pushed harder, adding warmth, breakup and sustain while still responding naturally to picking dynamics and guitar volume changes. They are one of the most important and widely used pedal types in modern guitar rigs.

Different overdrive circuits offer very different flavours, from transparent low-gain boost-style pedals through to mid-focused classic rock tones and heavier amp-like saturation.