Walrus Audio Eras High Gain Distortion Pedal with Five Selectable Gain Stages in Black

The Walrus Audio Eras is a no-apologies, high-gain distortion pedal built for modern players who live on tight chugs, surgical palm mutes and saturated leads. With five distinct gain stages, a powerful Blend control and true bypass switching, it delivers everything from precise, percussive rhythm tones to thick, sustaining walls of distortion, while still letting you shape exactly how much of your core sound shines through.

Whether you are stacking it with other drives, sculpting a studio-ready metal tone or adding aggressive grind to bass, Eras gives you a huge palette of clipping flavours in a compact, pedalboard-friendly box. Each mode offers a different combination of mid-voicing and clipping style, so you can quickly move from tight and cutting to scooped and massive, all while keeping your picking response fast and articulate.

Five Distinct Gain Stages

Eras centres around a five-position rotary switch that selects between different gain structures and clipping styles. From ultra-tight, mid-trimmed modes that excel at palm-muted riffs to deeper mid-cut rhythm voices that feel huge in a mix, each position behaves like a different distortion pedal. This makes it easy to tailor your sound to different guitars, tunings and genres without changing your core rig.

Powerful Blend Control

The Blend knob lets you decide how much of the Eras circuit you hear compared to your dry signal or any pedals feeding into it. Set it fully clockwise for an all-out distortion assault, or roll it back to retain pick attack, note definition and low-end punch. It is also a powerful tool for creative stacking, allowing you to mix in overdrives or fuzzes placed before Eras for complex, layered gain textures.

Ideal for Guitar and Bass

Because you can blend in your dry tone, Eras is just as at home on bass as it is on guitar. Bassists can dial in crushing distortion while preserving the fundamental low frequencies and clarity of their clean sound, keeping the mix tight and focused. Guitarists benefit in the same way, maintaining articulation and feel even at extreme gain settings.

Stage-Ready Design and Artwork

Housed in a compact enclosure with true bypass switching, Eras is designed to integrate seamlessly into modern pedalboards. The striking artwork, featuring a stoic four-horned, winged bull illustrated by Adam Forster, gives the pedal a distinctive visual identity that stands out on stage as much as its tone does in the mix.

• Five Selectable Gain Modes - A dedicated rotary switch offers five unique gain stages, each with its own mid-voicing and clipping style. This gives you a broad spectrum of high-gain tones, from tight and aggressive to warm and full, without needing multiple distortion pedals.
• Blend Control for Flexible Tone Shaping - The Blend knob lets you mix the distorted signal with your dry tone or any pedals placed before Eras. Use it to keep your attack and low end intact, subtly enhance your existing drive sounds or go fully wet for maximum saturation.
• Multiple Clipping Options - Silicon and LED hard clipping, plus dual-clipping combinations, provide different levels of compression, smoothness and harmonic content. You can choose fast, tight response for precise riffing or richer, more sustaining textures for leads and big chords.
• True Bypass and Pedalboard-Friendly Power - True bypass switching keeps your signal path clean when the pedal is off, while standard 9V DC centre-negative power makes it easy to integrate with modern isolated power supplies. It is compact enough to fit comfortably on most boards.

General

• Product: Walrus Audio Eras High Gain Distortion Pedal
• Effect Type: High-gain distortion
• Bypass: True bypass

Controls

• Blend
• Five-position gain mode rotary selector

Gain Modes

• Mode I: Tight mode with slight mid-cut, LED hard clipping and internal volume control, fastest response for palm muting
• Mode II: Tight mode with slight mid-cut and silicon hard clipping, smooth with added compression
• Mode III: Dual clipping with slight mid-cut using both silicon and LED hard clipping, rich and full with added sustain
• Mode IV: Rhythm mode with deeper mid-cut, LED hard clipping and internal volume control, scooped mids with tight response
• Mode V: Rhythm mode with deeper mid-cut and silicon hard clipping, rhythmic, warm and full

Power

• Power Requirement: 9V DC centre negative
• Current Draw: 100 mA minimum
• Power Supply: Use of an isolated power supply recommended
• Daisy Chain: Daisy chain power supplies not recommended
• Power Supply Included: No

Enclosure

• Colour: Transparent red with yellow, cream and black ink
• Artwork: Four-horned, winged bull illustration by Adam Forster
• Dimensions: 2.62 x 4.77 x 2.25 inches (including knobs)