Walrus Audio Bellwether
Announced at NAMM and released months
later, the Walrus Audio Bellwether stands
as a tribute to analog delays past as well
as a feat of design. Not only is the pedal
expertly designed and tuned (there are over
30 trimpots on the board), but no stone was
left unturned in Walrus’s quest for the most
feature-laden analog delay on the market.
Of course, the requisite time, repeats and
level controls are on there, but there’s also
an almost-unheard-of tone control. What’s
this, tone control on an analog delay?
You’d better believe it. Joining this is a tap
division knob, a full-featured modulation
section with controls and a toggle switch to
turn it on and off, as well as an expression
pedal parameter selection switch. The unit
contains two outputs for stereo processing,
as well as an effects loop to process other
effects in-line with the delayed signal. Of
course, the Bellwether’s best feature is its
tap tempo, because not many analog delays
have this feature. Tap tempo is a digital
construct and therefore, it’s much easier
to write the tap code into the rest of the
program. Walrus Audio decided to buck this
tradition in favor of a robust feature set. The
result is the most exhaustively controllable
analog delay on the market.
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