Walrus Audio Mako Series D1 Delay Demo and Review

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Welcome to get all set. My name is Emily and I’m here today with the delay pedal by walrus effects. It was sent to me to demo. And this is the first in their Mako series released. In 2020 and was quite a popular hit. And I can see why it’s a lot of fun reverb, sorry, delay sounds. With lots of tweakable parameters, 128 presets with MIDI control, stereo ins and stereo out.

Imagine a puzzle having stereo ins, but not like a stereo out. That’d be hilarious. Tap tempo, including subdivisions and yeah, I mean, let’s, let’s get to it. I’m playing through the AC, the walrus AAC, S one there, what did I say? Fullerton front. Hey, sounds. And yeah, I’ll talk about the controls a little bit time.

Pretty self-explanatory it’s the time between the repeats repeats is the number of the repeats next from full drive, full what unity gained between 12 and two on the dial there. A tweak is, well, you can control three different parameters via that tweak knob. You have a modulation. Tone and age. So it’d be like tape age, which is going to be a quite a cool thing.

And as you’ll see, some of these things are gonna work together age and repeats tend to, to work together. Then you have prog that says for program, sorry, product rockers, and then attack. So you could have either like a hard. Delay attack or kind of a soft, more subtle. And you’ll probably need to adjust that that’s, especially when we’re, you’ll adjust the mix, you’ll adjust the mix and the repeats for, for that, sorry, got a little something stuck in my throat there.

All right. So I will have the time in the middle of repeats. You’re going to start at nine o’clock mix in the middle. So close to unity, actually, to turn that closer to two there. No, turn that down. The tweak. For that.

All right. We’re going to start on the digital delay. So the modulation tone and age they’re different in each program actually. And in the digital, they, the mod adds pitch modulation to the repeats. When turned up tone is a low pass filter. Applied to the repeats and age controls, the intensity of a bit crusher applied to the risk.

Pete’s brace yourselves.

Actually have the age set all the way down there. Let’s look at, it

goes from 60 milliseconds to 2000 milliseconds. Let’s try to.

Let’s do that.

you can also hold down the bypass. Awesome

or just infinite repeats. Let’s see. So let’s, let’s, let’s play with the tweak a little bit. I haven’t set to modulation, so let’s see what that sounds.

Yeah. You can hear it. You can hear that pitch modulator a little bit.

Well, it goes a long way.

All right, let’s play with this low pass filter

age.

You did also hear that as I turned it.

All right.

That’s funny to me. Let’s see what we like the difference of the attack. So I’m also going to turn the modulation down

so you can hear that’s very defined each time,

unless often some

you feel like it gets softer and more detached. Each child almost.

Yeah. So you might want to, you might want to keep the, like, I don’t know how to describe it. Obviously the attack is going to interact with repeats and Mex. As you turn the attack up, you might want to turn the repeats up or the mix up to compensate for that a little bit. If you still like that. Almost that, that softer S

no.

Yeah. So let’s go to the next node. That is a modulator delay. It has a unique modulation LFO. That’s low frequency oscillators applied to the repeats that are random and run at multiple rates to create an unpredictable pitch modulation situations. I, sorry that ad-libbed a little bit this results in a very unique, in very unique sounding repeats.

Perfect for working minds and scattering trains of thoughts.

modulation adds pitch modulation to the repeats when turned up

It sounds more stereo when that was turned up to me. And that sounds very centered. Let’s try tone as low pass on envelope fed a low pass envelope filter applied to the room.

I think it’s pretty cool actually.

Right. Yeah. I liked that. Turned up some and then age adds gentle, warm overdrive, and high-frequency to roll, roll off to the repeats when it turned up. Okay.

I like that. Yeah.

like that. Cool. Next is the vintage mode. Great. Vintage abode. The vintage program allows for analog delay inspired tones to be achieved with complex filtering applied to the repeats. You use the tone now, but a low setting for darker filtering and at a higher setting to roll off the low end modulation adds asymmetric pitch modulation to the repeats.

Wind turned up.

Wow.

Huh. I think we get that tone blends between a low pass and a high pass filter applied to the repeat. For a minimum to noon, it operates as a low pass. No, to maximum it operates the high pass filter. Sorry. I was reading from the manual and the punctuation was kind of odd for that one.

I liked that one.

Yeah. All right. So then age. As a gentle, warm overdrive and high frequency roll off of the repeats. When turned down

That’s very rock and roll. I really like

Yeah, that’s cool. That’s cool. Let’s get all those parameters back down, move to the next setting. Dual delay, the dual program, employees and employees to delays in parallel each with different times of divisions. When connected in mana, the two are had together. Stereo is actually our first stereo delay.

And division switch has unique functionality in dual mode. They said they’ll break it down the next page. Yes. So I’m over here when it’s in the quarter note, it’s a quarter note and coordinate triplet for beats eighth. Note. It is eighth notes and quarter triplet repeats and dot and eighth. It is quarter note and points one eighth.

Repeats that was math. We’ll see you next time with math. Let us look at, let’s just screw it.

modulations touch modulations. That repeats when turned up. Tone as low pass filter the repeats

You can hear the difference

page ads into a warm overdrive and high frequency. Roll off to the repeats when turned off.

just a song that I wrote. It’s like I wrote, Oh, why would I sh I should. I remember how to play it?

well, we have one more and that is a reverse de LA. The reverse program reads the lanes of Murray backwards, creating a unique delay, repeat character as for the leg it’s reversed. It’s just reversed. It’s like, it’s like, it’s like, it’s like trying to explain to someone with water is like sometimes things are already in the simplest description and it’s really hard to write a description for something.

Like it’s like describing the color. It’s just describing white.

turn all these parameters back down a modulation has pitch modulation.

Well, it goes a long way in my humble opinion. Tone low-pass filter again. I like that one. I liked the way that sounded. And then age adds a gentle, warm overdrive and high frequency roll off. So pizza appeasement turned up. I feel like I’ve heard,

that’s just roughly what age does

as I H I have a warm overdrive.

This does have 120 presets available with mini and nine. So that’s a ABC. You have three different banks, three of three that’s nine onboard delay presets. I do find switching between those presets, like more than three. To do more than one bank in a sh in a show, I would find that to be kind of clunky, but still three, three delay precise is really, really a lot.

I think I said big it’s typically a delay on or off, but if you’re a If you’re one of those ambient or praise and worship players, you are probably especially stoked to be able to recall up to 128 presets. That’s really fantastic. There are three bypass modes, true bypass DSP plusher bypass and DSP by pass.

Yep. You like one of them, one of them just shuts it off. As soon as you turn it off, one of them allows it to keep ringing out. It ships true bypass by default, they have instructions on changing the bypass option. I think most likely if you do change this, you will make it so that it has that trails, that trail sort of feature.

So again, the D one came out in 2020, the ACS one, and Arwan came out in 2021. They are a little bit different. If you, if you’ve watched my Arwen demo, As well you’ll see. You probably noticed that this wheel is different on the . It’s I think a little bit clearer, which preset you’re on. So it’s really lovely to see walrus fix that.

I honestly think the presets fishing is a little bit easier in the newer pedals as well. Other than that, I think it’s a really, really sick line. Put the Juliet on this and you just have like a walrus stereo pebble board. Easy peasy and all, all of that. So, yeah. Great line. I think they’re pretty much sold out everywhere.

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