WALRUS AUDIO MAKO SERIES R1 & ACS1
We were warned last year that the world-conquering D1 multimode digital delay pedal, the inaugural entry in Walrus Audio’s high-end Mako Series, wouldn’t be an only child for very long. Well, bake a cake and crack open the bubbly – because this time it’s twins.
Sticking closely to the D1’s classy design template, Walrus’s R1 reverb and ACS1 amp and cab sim fill out the Mako line in moody black and opulent gold, respectively. Both sport the same side-mounted mono/stereo inputs and outputs, and the same control layout. But will they make the same impact as our 2020 pedal of the year?
The reverb trend in 2021 seems to be ultra-lush modulated epicness but the R1 isn’t just here to blow our own minds with celestial sorcery. Three of its six modes are dedicated to the basics: spring, hall and plate. The others are BFR (two of those letters stand for ‘big’ and ‘reverb’, let’s just leave it at that), Refract and Air. That’ll be the ethereal
