Andertons already has its in store - UK price ia a pretty reasonable £225. Several Units are in store with most dealers already and imminent elsewhere. I do wonder at the wisdom of having quite so many demos go live at the same time - part of me feels this operation would be better served by a more staggered approach! So props to Walrus for being so strong on the roll-out again.

Walrus Audio has done its usual Big Bang thing - and near every pedal-demoer you’ve ever heard of has released a demo today - I’ve had to be a little selective below - as there must be around two dozen examples already. New on the Julianna is also a 3-way Tap Divisions toggle-switch to go with the Tap-Tempo footswitch - and a couple of hidden extra features revealed below. For the Wave Shape toggle-switch the Julia has a choice of Sine and Triangle, while the Julianna also adds a Random stepped shape. The controls of the new pedal look very similar to its predecessor - Rate, Depth, and Lag (Centre Delay Time for LFO) across the top, and the D-C-V Blend Knob (Dry>Chorus>Vibrato) are the same. The one downside here being the loss of the top-mounted jacks - but you would be churlish to make an issue of that when the pedal introduces so many killer new features.

I really like the Julianna now and it’s definitely very near to or even at the top of my Chorus acquisition list. I feel that had I not snapped up the superb VS Audio Alchemy Chorus this year - which has very similar settings to the Julia but comes with onboard foot-switchable presets - I would very much be immediately looking to add one of these to my collection. Most will know by now that I have a soft-spot for dual footswitch compact enclosures - so the Julia finally morphing into what I fully expected it to be is quite a big event for me. In fact in my recent 28-Strong Chorus pedal roundup I stated that the Julia was still an amazing sounding Chorus - but had not really kept pace with the most recent innovations and developments and thus didn’t quite qualify for my own preferred top tier 6 or 7 candidates. I can only assume we will also now get a Deluxe Lillian at some stage - with similar changes - Tap-Tempo and some cool extra features and alternative settings. I really thought that the Monument would set the pace and the pattern for future development - so I don’t really get why they didn’t do this to the Julia earlier - and the Lillian for that matter. I could not help but be a little disappointed that the newer Walrus Audio modulation pedals were nowhere near as technically formidable as the Monument. I felt Walrus had really missed a beat as such. So when the then new Julia Chorus and Lillian Phaser materialised without tap-tempo and unlike the Monument. Considering how many of Walrus Audio’s pedals are dual footswitch / with onboard tap-tempo - like indeed that other modulation pedal of theirs - the Tap Tempo Monument Tremolo - I never understood why Walrus didn’t roll that feature out for all applicable pedals as standard. The new Julianna though is a whole new beast - and is actually the chorus I always wanted the Julia to be. I didn’t consider that a particularly newsworthy event as the changes were largely just superficial - and the circuit really stayed the same. You may have noticed that I skipped featuring the last Iterative Julia Release - the one with the new prettier Artwork (above right) as it simply just swapped to top-mounted jacks and soft-touch footswitch.

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