Walrus Descent

Keeping within their tradition, Walrus have come up with a fantastic and unique piece of technology. Boasting more than its fair share of sonic capabilities, the Descent is way beyond decent. There is much more to this pedal than your standard reverb box. It is a perfect way to give you some slightly wacky but absolutely beautiful colors in your sound.

External Control: EXP/REMOTE 
Cost: $$$

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Interface:  4/5
This interface takes a lot of options and settings and makes them easy to understand. As with other Walrus pedals, the separate wet and dry knobs are a huge benefit.

Versatility: 3.5/5
This reverb pedal can do a lot. It can achieve standard simple reverbs, but can also send you out into the ambient stratosphere. With its octave up and down additions and three reverb modes, this is uniquely versatile.

Quality of Effect: 4/5
Each of this pedal’s many effects sounds wonderful. Your tone will not be compromised even with all of the wacky octave options dialed in. On sax, the lower octave reverb voice sounds very nice. The upper octave can sometimes be somewhat shrill.

Live application: 4/5
Great live pedal! It is easily manipulable, applicable in many contexts, and has three presets.

Product Information

The Descent was designed to create ambient textures of sound, from thick and endless hall reverbs to symphonic shimmers. The Descent is a three mode reverb system; hall, reverse, and shimmer. In each mode, the user has the ability to feed +1 and -1 octaves into the reverberated signal. The Hall mode will feature a classic reverb sound that can move your signal from a small-room-echo to a haunting long hall- echo. The Reverse mode smoothly flips your signal to playback unique responses and can be manipulated with pre-delay time controls. Shimmer mode highlights the octave features, dry signal, -1, and +1 to mix in your signal and creates a symphony of sound.

The Descent offers you eight controls to precisely hone in your perfect reverb. In addition, the user can use an auxiliary momentary switch in the fav input to switch the pedal on/off and/or save presets. If you have an already crowded pedal board, you can set your Descent at the back of the board and run a small SPST switch to the front of the board so you don’t lose valuable real estate. The Fav input requires a TRS cable to be used. The expression pedal control works with most on-the-shelf expression pedals. This feature allows the user to set the high and low parameters of each control and then fade in and out the those controls by moving your foot up or down on the expression pedal.

Specification

5 5/8″ x 4 5/8″ x 1 9/16″

The use of an isolated power supply is recommended for powering all Walrus Audio Pedals. Daisy chain power supplies are not recommended.

Power requirements are 9VDC (130mA minimum). Power supply not included.

Product info taken from the Walrus website.