Wow, more expensive than I thought. I think it's the only true stereo BBD delay out right now. The new Boss ADM is mono in/stereo out only. Having said that, I'm not sure which pedal I'd consider the "king of analog pedals", but I'm happy that BBD pedals are not only being made, but being innovated. Thanks.
i think pedals at this price are going to force more people to just pick up modelers...so imo, they are kinda shooting themselves in the foot !! ++ does the audience really give a 💩 about analog or tell the difference!!
@@YesItsReallyKeiththere’s a tonal difference between digital and analog pedals and there does seem to be a movement of folks preferring analog. I personally now look to go analog when I can.
@@EJH-jn6mo totally... but the average person in the audience can't tell imo! and I don't see how spending a grand on a pedal can be justified... it makes no sense to me personally.
Excellent video. Got my Meraki yesterday, but haven't had time to use it yet. Still in the box. I play stereo at least 95% of the time and I can't wait to get this going. Thanks for some ideas.
I'm afraid to look inside that box. The Maxon AD-999, made shortly after Panasonic discontinued 4096-stage BBDs, used eight 1024-stage chips. All BBDs require a trimpot to adjust the DC bias of the signal going into the chip. Some, though not all, will also use a balance trimpot on the complementary outputs of the BBD to cancel out the clock noise as much as possible. As a result of this, and what else it had to do to get the BBDs to "line up" in time, the AD-999 had 25, yes *25* trimpots inside, all of which had to be adjusted by a human being. The Xvive MN3005 chips that Walrus is using are *NOT* cheap, but the trimpot adjustments required to coordinate 8 of them, likely adds not insignificant labor costs to its production, just as it did for the Maxon delay.
@@Dolle_Man My point is that, especially these days, long analog delay entails more labour costs than digital. The AD999 is kind of the worst-case scenario, but I'll wager the Meraki starts to approach it, in terms of how much post-installation twiddling is required to have it operating optimally. Especially when the price-point is high, the expectation is that noise levels will be acceptable for studio use, and that always entails more trimmers and more trimmer twiddling, which translates into higher labour costs.
Haha yes I see it as a hotel logo too 😂 god that price tho, I’m hoping at some point to get a delay with MN3005 chips, I almost did last year buying a 1983 Dm2 but opened it up..nope missed that chip by a year. The independent controls of it in stereo is pretty wonder, it sounds really beautiful 👏 they did a good job with this. Is that divisions section with the secondary switch control possibly could relate to the degrees of spread of the frequency of the stereo modulation? That’s my guess
After talking with Walrus if you use the delay in mono and in Series you use all 8 chips. For a vast majority of us mono is still the stage standard at most events and I could see how this would be a great sounding mono dual delay and be one of the best choices for those running a mono rig. Great review! Great playing! Great channel! Thank you
I heard Portland Andy demo this yesterday and my first thoughts were "Oh, this sounds different". Watching and listening to this video confirms that: this is a pro's pedal, rich and lush and meant for the studio and the road. Inspiring is the perfect adjective because I wanted to hear more from it. The price is irrelevant, _this_ is quality.
@@onenotesolo256 of course it is, (and GAS-wise guitarists can never have enough pedals 😅), but for live purpose I prefer a mono delay like the "cheaper" Chase Bliss Thermae ( because I don´t play stereo)
@@mofateam1 yep I hear you. I usually run (‘TPS’) wet/dry when I can get away with it, with mono as plan B. The Meraki has prompted me to rewire the board so that I can run either of those or stereo depending on how many amps I can bring and what mood I’m in!
Great video!. Stereo was invented in 1931, electric guitar in 1937, and by 1945 multi-track stereo was invented. Home stereos came out in the mid 1950's and by the 1970's they were common in homes. So, here it is 50 years later and 99.9% of the gear market is mono only? Seems we are getting stereo products in piecemeal at really big $$$$, nice product but not at those prices.
Haha, I’m American, and it’s pronounced “meh-RA-kee” to me. Sorry, Walrus. As a stereo player, I’m pleased to see such a stereo-specific pedal. Very cool!
Stereo in and out, this one is made for the synth players imo, I think this beast will be more expensive the more people are understanding it's one of a kind. I rather have this than 3 different digital emualtions. the 8 MN3005 chips alone are setting you 200 euros back. Gonna use it for studio use.
Stereo is very underrated as delay... I always use my pedalboard in mono, with mono delay, but maybe I should rethink my choices, at least when recording. I can record from my Boss IR-200 as an amp, split my two delays, or just use a stereo delay and get some good stuff in. Buuuut, then the question is what I'm doing musically, what type of songs I'm writing and how good they are. Still, stereo delay is really cool, I get inspired just listening to this messing around in the demo.
The modulation phase would be an offset for the lfos modulating the delays? That way when one lfo is going down, the other one is going up, to modulation is going opposite ways left and right, creating wider sounds. With the same phase, bothe delays pitch the same way, less interesting.
What a coincidence! There is a word in Greek with exactly that spelling and meaning! ΜΕΡΑΚΙ (yes in Greek P is the latin R and Π is the latin P). But it's not pronounced meh-ru-kai but meh-rah-ki exactly as you pronounced it with your German accent my friend. This could be the ERASMIAN pronunciation the latin world uses to read Greek for convenience. For those not familiar with ERASMIAN It's as if someone would read the english word "thought" as ...tho-oo-gt hahaha.
@@PooNinja hahaha very good!... I wish you could too my Latin friend! The "scholar" that advised WALRUS AUDIO to pronounce the Greek Ra as Ru should be put in academic jail. Even for the ERASMIANS it can't be right.. it makes absolutely no sense.
Seriously now i see this right after i blow all my moon credits on a boss DF-2 from 84!!! Oh I gotta stop getting distracted by your linear time scale. This delay monster would fit in nicely to my WDW fo lyf rig.
Well, i rather save some bucks and get a Strymon, or the Empress Delay. But for those who want Stereo+BBDs in the most expensive form it's certainly great.
Dr. Google tells us, that meraki is a greek word: Meraki, μεράκι, literally means "essence of ourselves". Pronounced something like meh-RAH-key (or for German speakers me-RA-ki)
As soon as someone comes up with a unique sounding hit record with this pedal, sales will skyrocket and hopefully the price drops. Sort of like what happened with Hendrix and the Wah pedal or Gilmour or The Edge with echo in general. That is just me wishful thinking out loud. Walrus Audio is excellent.
I read the longest delay time on this is 1.2s, however with the time at max in this video it seems way shorter than that to me? Maybe it's the division settings...🤔
Ya had me by the balls until you mentioned maybe getting triplets on this. Heck, I can’t even handle our twins, let alone getting triplets on top! 😂 On the other hand, buying this device would force us all to starve, thus simplifying the effort. 😅
Wait about 12 to 18 months and someone will have a digital true stereo BBD this good for under $400 USD. At least I hope so... But can i wait that long? Maybe
I have found that with a stereo set up, if you turn off one amp, you can hear both delays in the other amp but need to tweak the settings bit. Otherwise I would run it into something like a Goodwood Audio Ouput, which has summing.
my mouth felt down and knock my balls out. that price.... this is crazy musik making with great tools is only affordable for lawers and doctors...good job walrus....
Not all “great tools” are expensive. You can find great tools to make music for an affordable price. You can make your music on a less expensive delay pedal or processor. But some people have the means to afford this. Just like cars: not everybody can afford to buy a Ferrari, but that doesn’t mean people of average means can’t drive. This pedal has expensive parts in it. Should Walrus make the pedal for $200 and then not make any profit off of selling it? Go to a recording studio and you’ll see compressors and preamps and microphones that cost $10,000…EACH. Recording studios will buy a pedal like this and offer it to their customers to use when recording. And some people (like doctors and lawyers) might buy it for home use. That doesn’t mean you can’t make good music. I will also say “good job, Walrus”. It is the ultimate analog delay pedal, and I may even save my money up for a year and buy one myself.
@@tiptop8218 I made my point. What is YOUR point? You sound mad because Walrus made an expensive delay pedal. You say “only doctors and lawyers can afford great tools to make music”. I’m telling you, you do not need expensive tools to make music. I am glad Walrus made this pedal. And I think it’s actually cheap if you consider all of the cost involved for them to make it. You could buy the chips and electronics and build your own stereo analog delay pedal and it won’t cost you $600
@@zenlandzipline don´t get me wrong, i am 45 years old, i make music since 30 years, i own a studio and really expesnive gear. my point was that the most musicians can´t afford this prices. i do not spoke for myself :) i spoke for the majority of musicians... kind regards
@@tiptop8218 it’s all good brother. I got real excited when Boss came out with that new analog delay pedal that is supposed to be stereo. But it’s not. It’s pseudo stereo. 1 input. Still a cool pedal, but this new one from Walrus is really everything that Boss pedal wanted to be. I love the DMM modulated delay sounds for my clean tones. Right now, I run a TC 1210 for chorus and I get a nice Echoplex ping pong delay from an Eclipse, and then to top it off, I run my Caitlinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe in mode 5, which is DMM and gives me that beautiful modulation. It’s mono though. I want that modulation in stereo, and then I can dump the 1210 or use it for spatial expander, put my BED back in Echoplex mode, and use the Eclipse for pitch shifting. This new Walrus pedal will give me the sound I love, and free up some gear for other things. Yes, it’s expensive, but it’s also the only pedal on the market that does what it does in true stereo. 👍✌️🤪🎶🎵
If outputs do not have their own independent dry/wet pots going from KILL DRY to FULL DRY gradually, than this is NOT a Stereo pedal. And these outputs do not have that very important option. This pedal is going to put the DRY signal always on BOTH outputs, Left and Right, meaning that DRY sound is going to be in the CENTER. For example, guitar amplifier is going to always be infront of a kick drum, center. This is done by designers who are not musicians who actually play on live stages with a band, so they do not know how STEREO FIELD is created.
Meraki, a Greek word meaning to do something with soul, creativity, or love; to put something of yourself in your work.
Thank you for sharing that translation written in comments for folks to catch if they didn’t in the video.
Thank you @@PedalPlayhouse, just subscribed to your channel
Man this pedal has me completely enchanted…I’m trying to find reasons not to spend 669€ on it, so expensive, but my the sound…
Wow, more expensive than I thought. I think it's the only true stereo BBD delay out right now. The new Boss ADM is mono in/stereo out only. Having said that, I'm not sure which pedal I'd consider the "king of analog pedals", but I'm happy that BBD pedals are not only being made, but being innovated. Thanks.
The one that allows you to have presets so not this one.
i think pedals at this price are going to force more people to just pick up modelers...so imo, they are kinda shooting themselves in the foot !! ++ does the audience really give a 💩 about analog or tell the difference!!
@@YesItsReallyKeiththere’s a tonal difference between digital and analog pedals and there does seem to be a movement of folks preferring analog. I personally now look to go analog when I can.
@@EJH-jn6mo totally... but the average person in the audience can't tell imo! and I don't see how spending a grand on a pedal can be justified... it makes no sense to me personally.
@@YesItsReallyKeith100% but there are alot of pedal junky attorney and doctors out there
Excellent video. Got my Meraki yesterday, but haven't had time to use it yet. Still in the box. I play stereo at least 95% of the time and I can't wait to get this going. Thanks for some ideas.
I'm afraid to look inside that box. The Maxon AD-999, made shortly after Panasonic discontinued 4096-stage BBDs, used eight 1024-stage chips. All BBDs require a trimpot to adjust the DC bias of the signal going into the chip. Some, though not all, will also use a balance trimpot on the complementary outputs of the BBD to cancel out the clock noise as much as possible. As a result of this, and what else it had to do to get the BBDs to "line up" in time, the AD-999 had 25, yes *25* trimpots inside, all of which had to be adjusted by a human being. The Xvive MN3005 chips that Walrus is using are *NOT* cheap, but the trimpot adjustments required to coordinate 8 of them, likely adds not insignificant labor costs to its production, just as it did for the Maxon delay.
So whats your'e point excactly?
@@Dolle_Man My point is that, especially these days, long analog delay entails more labour costs than digital. The AD999 is kind of the worst-case scenario, but I'll wager the Meraki starts to approach it, in terms of how much post-installation twiddling is required to have it operating optimally. Especially when the price-point is high, the expectation is that noise levels will be acceptable for studio use, and that always entails more trimmers and more trimmer twiddling, which translates into higher labour costs.
Haha yes I see it as a hotel logo too 😂 god that price tho, I’m hoping at some point to get a delay with MN3005 chips, I almost did last year buying a 1983 Dm2 but opened it up..nope missed that chip by a year. The independent controls of it in stereo is pretty wonder, it sounds really beautiful 👏 they did a good job with this. Is that divisions section with the secondary switch control possibly could relate to the degrees of spread of the frequency of the stereo modulation? That’s my guess
That LION just sounds amazing...
it does
After talking with Walrus if you use the delay in mono and in Series you use all 8 chips. For a vast majority of us mono is still the stage standard at most events and I could see how this would be a great sounding mono dual delay and be one of the best choices for those running a mono rig. Great review! Great playing! Great channel! Thank you
Hi there, I run two delays in series. Did you find out if it can be run in mono? (That would save me a lot of space). Thanks very much?
I heard Portland Andy demo this yesterday and my first thoughts were "Oh, this sounds different". Watching and listening to this video confirms that: this is a pro's pedal, rich and lush and meant for the studio and the road. Inspiring is the perfect adjective because I wanted to hear more from it. The price is irrelevant, _this_ is quality.
"The price is irrelevant. This is quality. " 100% agree. What is the pedals value? More than its price in this case.
Budgetwise for live use it is kind of a overkill - but for studio use it seems to be even more versatile than the Boss DM101 - due to true stereo..
It’s good live as well.
@@onenotesolo256 of course it is, (and GAS-wise guitarists can never have enough pedals 😅), but for live purpose I prefer a mono delay like the "cheaper" Chase Bliss Thermae ( because I don´t play stereo)
@@mofateam1 yep I hear you. I usually run (‘TPS’) wet/dry when I can get away with it, with mono as plan B. The Meraki has prompted me to rewire the board so that I can run either of those or stereo depending on how many amps I can bring and what mood I’m in!
@@onenotesolo256 cool👍
that sounds sooooooooooooooo nice !!
Looks beautiful
Looks like somebody had fun!
Great video!. Stereo was invented in 1931, electric guitar in 1937, and by 1945 multi-track stereo was invented. Home stereos came out in the mid 1950's and by the 1970's they were common in homes. So, here it is 50 years later and 99.9% of the gear market is mono only? Seems we are getting stereo products in piecemeal at really big $$$$, nice product but not at those prices.
Haha, I’m American, and it’s pronounced “meh-RA-kee” to me. Sorry, Walrus. As a stereo player, I’m pleased to see such a stereo-specific pedal. Very cool!
Stereo in and out, this one is made for the synth players imo, I think this beast will be more expensive the more people are understanding it's one of a kind. I rather have this than 3 different digital emualtions. the 8 MN3005 chips alone are setting you 200 euros back. Gonna use it for studio use.
Stereo is very underrated as delay... I always use my pedalboard in mono, with mono delay, but maybe I should rethink my choices, at least when recording. I can record from my Boss IR-200 as an amp, split my two delays, or just use a stereo delay and get some good stuff in. Buuuut, then the question is what I'm doing musically, what type of songs I'm writing and how good they are. Still, stereo delay is really cool, I get inspired just listening to this messing around in the demo.
That sounds killer!
With this logo design it shouldn't cost more than 100 bucks. Leslie is right! 😉 Thanks for the review Henning.
Meraki is a Greek for working on something with passion and gusto
gorgeous pedal :)
18:40 sounds great
The modulation phase would be an offset for the lfos modulating the delays?
That way when one lfo is going down, the other one is going up, to modulation is going opposite ways left and right, creating wider sounds.
With the same phase, bothe delays pitch the same way, less interesting.
What a coincidence! There is a word in Greek with exactly that spelling and meaning! ΜΕΡΑΚΙ (yes in Greek P is the latin R and Π is the latin P). But it's not pronounced meh-ru-kai but meh-rah-ki exactly as you pronounced it with your German accent my friend. This could be the ERASMIAN pronunciation the latin world uses to read Greek for convenience. For those not familiar with ERASMIAN It's as if someone would read the english word "thought" as ...tho-oo-gt hahaha.
utinam legere possem!
@@PooNinja hahaha very good!... I wish you could too my Latin friend! The "scholar" that advised WALRUS AUDIO to pronounce the Greek Ra as Ru should be put in academic jail. Even for the ERASMIANS it can't be right.. it makes absolutely no sense.
I love early Walrus pedals, but I think I’m going to save up for the TC 2290p that has ducking capabilities.
Seriously now i see this right after i blow all my moon credits on a boss DF-2 from 84!!! Oh I gotta stop getting distracted by your linear time scale. This delay monster would fit in nicely to my WDW fo lyf rig.
For that kind of money it should be able to be used as 2 separate delays.
Well, i rather save some bucks and get a Strymon, or the Empress Delay.
But for those who want Stereo+BBDs in the most expensive form it's certainly great.
Yes, the word is litigious.
Dr. Google tells us, that meraki is a greek word: Meraki, μεράκι, literally means "essence of ourselves". Pronounced something like meh-RAH-key (or for German speakers me-RA-ki)
so I did say it correct and Walrus got it wrong
As soon as someone comes up with a unique sounding hit record with this pedal, sales will skyrocket and hopefully the price drops. Sort of like what happened with Hendrix and the Wah pedal or Gilmour or The Edge with echo in general. That is just me wishful thinking out loud. Walrus Audio is excellent.
you mean the price will rise! by populair demand they can ask more, called dynamic pricing.
I read the longest delay time on this is 1.2s, however with the time at max in this video it seems way shorter than that to me? Maybe it's the division settings...🤔
probably
Great review. Anyone ever find a link to an online manual?
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Ya had me by the balls until you mentioned maybe getting triplets on this. Heck, I can’t even handle our twins, let alone getting triplets on top! 😂 On the other hand, buying this device would force us all to starve, thus simplifying the effort. 😅
Wait about 12 to 18 months and someone will have a digital true stereo BBD this good for under $400 USD. At least I hope so... But can i wait that long? Maybe
This kid is totally famous on MySpace.
VERY!
More famous than QFJ thats for…. Wait what?!? 😂
I’d likely have purchased but no preset capabilities and you want $600? Hard pass for me but can understand why someone might want in studio.
most things become brilliant if u got the $$ =p
I ain’t got the cash, no walrus for me
Anyone have an update if both delay sides sum to mono?
as far as I know they do not
Booo. thank you!!@@EytschPi42
I have found that with a stereo set up, if you turn off one amp, you can hear both delays in the other amp but need to tweak the settings bit. Otherwise I would run it into something like a Goodwood Audio Ouput, which has summing.
This is why the HX One is essentially a steal. People releasing delay pedals that cost as much as some robust processors
but it just won't sound like that
my mouth felt down and knock my balls out. that price.... this is crazy musik making with great tools is only affordable for lawers and doctors...good job walrus....
Not all “great tools” are expensive. You can find great tools to make music for an affordable price. You can make your music on a less expensive delay pedal or processor.
But some people have the means to afford this. Just like cars: not everybody can afford to buy a Ferrari, but that doesn’t mean people of average means can’t drive.
This pedal has expensive parts in it. Should Walrus make the pedal for $200 and then not make any profit off of selling it?
Go to a recording studio and you’ll see compressors and preamps and microphones that cost $10,000…EACH. Recording studios will buy a pedal like this and offer it to their customers to use when recording. And some people (like doctors and lawyers) might buy it for home use. That doesn’t mean you can’t make good music.
I will also say “good job, Walrus”. It is the ultimate analog delay pedal, and I may even save my money up for a year and buy one myself.
@@zenlandzipline what´s the point? Everyone can buy whatever he want ;)
@@tiptop8218 I made my point. What is YOUR point? You sound mad because Walrus made an expensive delay pedal. You say “only doctors and lawyers can afford great tools to make music”.
I’m telling you, you do not need expensive tools to make music.
I am glad Walrus made this pedal. And I think it’s actually cheap if you consider all of the cost involved for them to make it.
You could buy the chips and electronics and build your own stereo analog delay pedal and it won’t cost you $600
@@zenlandzipline don´t get me wrong, i am 45 years old, i make music since 30 years, i own a studio and really expesnive gear. my point was that the most musicians can´t afford this prices. i do not spoke for myself :) i spoke for the majority of musicians... kind regards
@@tiptop8218 it’s all good brother.
I got real excited when Boss came out with that new analog delay pedal that is supposed to be stereo. But it’s not. It’s pseudo stereo. 1 input. Still a cool pedal, but this new one from Walrus is really everything that Boss pedal wanted to be.
I love the DMM modulated delay sounds for my clean tones. Right now, I run a TC 1210 for chorus and I get a nice Echoplex ping pong delay from an Eclipse, and then to top it off, I run my Caitlinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe in mode 5, which is DMM and gives me that beautiful modulation. It’s mono though. I want that modulation in stereo, and then I can dump the 1210 or use it for spatial expander, put my BED back in Echoplex mode, and use the Eclipse for pitch shifting. This new Walrus pedal will give me the sound I love, and free up some gear for other things.
Yes, it’s expensive, but it’s also the only pedal on the market that does what it does in true stereo.
👍✌️🤪🎶🎵
If outputs do not have their own independent dry/wet pots going from KILL DRY to FULL DRY gradually, than this is NOT a Stereo pedal. And these outputs do not have that very important option. This pedal is going to put the DRY signal always on BOTH outputs, Left and Right, meaning that DRY sound is going to be in the CENTER. For example, guitar amplifier is going to always be infront of a kick drum, center. This is done by designers who are not musicians who actually play on live stages with a band, so they do not know how STEREO FIELD is created.