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    DIRTY BUSINESS

    Mar 21, 2022 4 minutes

    WALRUS AUDIO

    ERAS FIVE-STATE DISTORTION AND IRON HORSE LM308 DISTORTION

    Walrus Audio’s two new distortion pedals provide varying flavours of the effect via clipping from silicon diodes, LEDs or both together. However, each takes a different route to dialing it in.

    The Eras Five-State Distortion has five hard-clipping options, gain and volume knobs, and very effective tone controls – the treble knob is especially adept at dialling in cutting presence. There’s a great variety of dirt on offer, from crunchy drive to high-gain metal tones, and all the clipping modes have something different to offer. The main delineation is between the three Tight modes

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