Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive – Olive Green

The Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive is a massively versatile overdrive machine standing ready for any amp and pickup combination thrown at it. This overdrive features innovative circuitry that allows it to stand on its own or stack well with other drives, delivering a sound that won't soon be forgotten to its loyal listeners. Capable of everything from clean, sparkly, and smooth gain to thick, chewy, and compressed overdrive, the Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive is used to charge through the front lines of the mix. The striking "olive green" enclosure features artwork of a mythical three-trunked warrior elephant ready to charge into victorious battle.

Key Features:

• Five Unique Gain States: A five-position rotary knob offers different internal gain and clipping combinations, giving you five distinct "flavors" of the pedal.
  • Mode I: Low-gain mode with symmetric silicon soft clipping, providing compressed and smooth tones.
  • Mode II: Low-gain mode with symmetric LED soft clipping, offering pushed, open, and sparkly tones.
  • Mode III: High-gain mode with symmetric silicon soft clipping, delivering increased saturation and a tight response.
  • Mode IV: High-gain mode with symmetric LED soft clipping, producing saturated, punchy, and big tones.
  • Mode V: High-gain mode with symmetric silicon hard clipping, resulting in heavy compression, and thick, chewy tones.
• Dry Blend Control: The Dry knob allows you to mix your dry guitar signal with the overdriven signal for added clarity and amp-like punch, offering a near infinite supply of gain options.
• Pre-Gain Bass Control: The Bass control is a boost/cut feature that hits your signal before it reaches the overdrive, helpful for "beefing up thinner pickups or cutting the mud produced by some humbuckers."
• Post-Gain Treble Control: The Treble control allows you to gently tame or bring up the high frequencies of the overdriven signal after the drive circuit.
• True Bypass: Ensures your original tone remains untouched when the effect is disengaged.
• Power Requirements: Operates on 9V DC, center negative power supply (100mA minimum).

With its mammoth-sized versatility, the Walrus Audio Ages Five-State Overdrive is the crucial effect for any player looking to deliver a clear message in the mix. The ability to fine-tune the five unique gain-states with the Dry knob and the placement of the Bass and Treble controls makes this a standout overdrive, ready to convey an unforgettable sound. It’s a supremely adaptable pedal, capable of light-gain transparent drive all the way to saturated, chewy overdrive.

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