Just got this a few days ago - my ninth Walrus pedal! The classic volume and harmonic tremolo effects are, of course great, from those earliest versions from the '40s and '50s through modern takes. And the Monumental delivers those classic tones perfectly.
But this pedal does so much more, especially when you take it into stereo. I've tried it out running into two amps as well as into my wet-dry-wet rig, and wow! A few ideas that are worth checking out:
* With the S-B-H knob fully counterclockwise, you have a great tap-tempo autopanner.
* Full clockwise and you've got autopanning in two frequency ranges, which I've never heard before. It's a sense of life and motion without any of the cliches of chorus or standard autopanners. Combine that with the ramping and it's a sweet rotating speaker effect.
* Set the rate low and the waveform to random and dial the depth back, and you have a subtle stereo shift that really kicks any down-chain stereo effects to life. For example, running that into my D1 and R1 gets additional motion into those effects. Crank up the depth and switch to a regular waveform and you start getting some crazy polyrhythmic action.
* If you're going into two tube amps or a pair of overdrives or distortions, Monumental's separate depth and volume knobs lets you dial things in so you rhythmically hit the edge-of-breakup point. That's cool. Very cool.
That's some of what I've found in just a day of playing with this thing! Looking forward to more experimenting over the weekend. Cheers!
Hey Greg! Thanks for the thoughtful review. Enjoy your Monumental! - Walrus Audio