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Been gassing for a Julia and then a Lilian for months but didn’t take the plunge (ooer). Last week I decided what I need was a Slo and ordered form Andertons, based mainly on Rabea’s demo. I’ve been dabbling with ambient styles but not had much joy. This pedal is ambient in a box. Three types of reverb, huge trails and a lot of modulation makes for sumptuous sonics. The mix can be dialled back for subtle, of full wet for full on spaceyness. The modulation adds nice movement. The Dark setting adds a lower octave, like a choir underneath. The Rise setting does auto swells. The Dream setting can latch for a permanent pad.
What makes this better than other reverb pedals I’ve owned is the extent you can shape the sound to your liking. With a new volume pedal for swells I’m getting the sound I’ve been after, and it’s very inspiring. Sounds good with an acoustic too. It’s not in stereo, but I’m just a pedals into one amp guy.
Well I’m certainly impressed, it would be good to hear views of those who have tried other Walrus Audio pedals. I can see myself getting more.
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If the Slo ends up being too weird for you, honestly give the Fender Marine Layer a go - there's a wet/dry switch (just don't leave the wet switch on when the pedal's deactivated, it'll kill your signal!) and fantastic modulation, as well as loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong trails.
The Slo has got me the closest to Nick Mcabe's Holy Grail sound yet, such as this:
@joetele do you use the latching sustain on the Dream mode? When on, it seems you can only play a dry signal over it. It needs another pedal before it (you have the Marine Layer before the Slo?), or I've looped it with a looper pedal and then use the Slo as normal. I'll try placing my Flint or EQD despatch master before the Slo.
@MagicPigDetective - you are right, the Rabea vidoe is awesome;
Sounds cool, I'll give it a go. On delays, I also have a DOD Rubberneck, it's good but I’m not sure if it's dirty analogue sounds really suits ambeinty stuff, think I need something cleaner/digital. A DIG maybe.
I've got my old Ibanez mini analog delay coming back to me - I do like using an analog delay on ambient stuff but you have to find the right 'space' for it, if you'll pardon the pun.
I'd quite like to get another Boss DSD-2 delay as that's my favourite digital delay I've heard (plus the sample function is good fun) - I'm mainly using the existing Hardwire DL-8 for tape delay and additional looping at the moment. It's kind of a jack of all trades, but a pretty decent one after moving on my old Digidelay.
Looks like the Slo idea was based on this pedal with three modulaion settings. I believe there is also some staff crossover between OBNE and Walrus.
Never a great idea to buy before you try but it sounded too good to resist, will see when it gets here and they are hard to find in UK. The V2 has a internal trim to change the volume boost which I'm hoping means I can make it nice and quiet, cannot stand noisy pedals.
Sounds interesting @Fuengi let us know how you get on with it. Your really shaking up your pedalboard recently!
I can't be doing with that, so its gone back to Andertons.
Well that must be very disappointing. Hope it was just a one off. I'm still enjoying the lush sounds of the Slo. With it's modulation, it doesn't really need other modulations with it or they get lost, though a touch of phaser sounds good. I'm using it mostly with TC Forcefield compressor-Peacekeeper-White Atom Fuzz -DOD Rubberneck-Slo- Flint trem. Using a volume pedal for swells, it can sound almost synth like at times.
I never use Plate or Spring reverb from a pedal so it's absolutely ideal really.
I'll let you know how the OBNE Procession compares tomorrow.
I'd say the modulation feels a little separated from the reverb but it does work. Need to play a little bit more with the tremolo setting but it's certainly a useful things to have.
Got a sort of police siren cascade in on the flange setting which was interesting!
The the delay is easy to use but is weird enough to create some truly weird delays which is great to have, the fathom is beautiful and I'm a bit of a traditionalist with reverb so not fully explored it all yet, but so far....it's popped my