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Walrus Audio Canvas Rehearsal

warptheory

warptheory

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Just was announced today, looks pretty killer for a home headphone practice rig. Only thing that's missing is a tuner. I like that they included a metronome on there.

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Canvas Rehearsal

*Pre-Order Your Canvas Rehearsal today! Pedals will begin shipping 2/3* The Canvas Rehearsal is your all-in-one rehearsal tool. Designed for musicians who use effect pedals, you can listen to your instrument through headphones, play with tracks via Bluetooth or 1/8” auxiliary input, and practice...
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I am interested in this even though I feel $250 is a little spendy for what it is. I do like the feature set.

Despite the fact that I want to give them my money now, I'm going to have to sit on my hands and see what happens after it is released. I know they have to recoup R&D and investments, and, well, business etc. and I respect that. However, at the moment it appears to be another $200 gadget in a 40% inflationary world.
 
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darev said:
I am interested in this even though I feel $250 is a little spendy for what it is. I do like the feature set.

Despite the fact that I want to give them my money now, I'm going to have to sit on my hands and see what happens after it is released. I know they have to recoup R&D and investments, and, well, business etc. and I respect that. However, at the moment it appears to be another $200 gadget in a 40% inflationary world.
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Yea, that's my instinct too. It is expensive for a practice utility pedal, but it does do a lot of things in a small package. I think that waiting for a sale later this year, even if Black Friday might be the best bet.

Would love if this could have the firmware updated to include a tuner, not sure if its possible, but would think it would be appreciated since this is meant as a practice pedal.

As someone else pointed out to me, Bluetooth is 4.2, which is years old and not the newer 5.x standard. Bluetooth 5 has a greater range and data throughput. Range is nice, especially if it's more stable. Data throughput might make the mobile app more reliable as well. It's sad when companies don't put in the latest and greatest it, but hopefully version 4 is sufficient.
 
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warptheory said:
Would love if this could have the firmware updated to include a tuner, not sure if its possible, but would think it would be appreciated since this is meant as a practice pedal.
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It is odd that the tuner was left out. Maybe incorporating it would have shoved the cost up to $270? I agree that it seems kind of obvious to add a tuner to it. I can also see the reasoning that people already have a tuner. However, we already have metronomes too (well, ok).
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As someone else pointed out to me, Bluetooth is 4.2, which is years old and not the newer 5.x standard.
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I saw that as well and I can't help but wonder if that was a typo. 4.2 was ten years ago. I wouldn't imagine wanting to start production of a product with a chip that is badly out of date and likely to stop being made sooner than later. Sure the chips would be cheaper but did they get them in a deal where a bag of BT 4.2 fell off a truck? "Rehearsal pedals until we run out of our special Limited Edition BT 4.2 chips!".

Dumber things seem to happen in pedal land every day. Why not?
 
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warptheory said:
Yea, that's my instinct too. It is expensive for a practice utility pedal, but it does do a lot of things in a small package. I think that waiting for a sale later this year, even if Black Friday might be the best bet.

Would love if this could have the firmware updated to include a tuner, not sure if its possible, but would think it would be appreciated since this is meant as a practice pedal.

As someone else pointed out to me, Bluetooth is 4.2, which is years old and not the newer 5.x standard. Bluetooth 5 has a greater range and data throughput. Range is nice, especially if it's more stable. Data throughput might make the mobile app more reliable as well. It's sad when companies don't put in the latest and greatest it, but hopefully version 4 is sufficient.
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I suspect they want you to buy their Canvas tuner pedal and DI separately as well (ie not trying to cut sales on existing pedals they already make).
 
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sunbeast said:
I suspect they want you to buy their Canvas tuner pedal and DI separately as well (ie not trying to cut sales on existing pedals they already make).
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I was just looking at their website and realized that they do sell a Canvas Tuner. I was already aware of it, but I guess it makes more sense now that they don't cannibalize their own pedals, but still would be nice to have it.
 
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warptheory said:
Did you happen to ask them on if adding a tuner via a future firmware update was at all a possibility?
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Sorry, I did not. Just the BT question.

@sunbeast responded wisely to the thread before I reached out to Walrus Audio. I just ran with the assumption that they don't want to cannibalize their tuner sales and didn't ask. Thinking about it now I do see those Walrus Cavas tuners on a lot of boards.
 
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darev said:
Sorry, I did not. Just the BT question.

@sunbeast responded wisely to the thread before I reached out to Walrus Audio. I just ran with the assumption that they don't want to cannibalize their tuner sales and didn't ask. Thinking about it now I do see those Walrus Cavas tuners on a lot of boards.
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They are definitely aesthetically pleasing tuners! I’ve considered grabbing one, even as it doesn’t offer much over what I have apart from a cool color scheme
 
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darev said:
One just posted to the classified this afternoon as well. Timing.
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I will say the cool thing about the tuner is you can rotate the display 90, 180, 270 degrees so you can put it on your board at any angle and it will look right. I've had to put on a Peterson tuner sideways, and while it obviously works, it'd be nice to be able to rotate it.
 
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I think you’re speaking about my listing, and rotating it 90 was exactly why I bought it. As soon as more tuners offer screens instead of LED/LCD displays it’s such a stupid good feature to include.

It’s a killer little tuner, but I’ve changed my board around to not necessitate the landscape config. It’s also actually trained me to finally comprehend a strobe tuner. I saw that there’s a strobostomp mini now so I’m aiming to try that out.

On the topic of the rehearsal it seems like they’ve done a good job differentiating it from the Darkglass Element, which is what I would look for in a pedalboard friendly headphone practice box.
 
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tidbits said:
I think you’re speaking about my listing, and rotating it 90 was exactly why I bought it. As soon as more tuners offer screens instead of LED/LCD displays it’s such a stupid good feature to include.

It’s a killer little tuner, but I’ve changed my board around to not necessitate the landscape config. It’s also actually trained me to finally comprehend a strobe tuner. I saw that there’s a strobostomp mini now so I’m aiming to try that out.

On the topic of the rehearsal it seems like they’ve done a good job differentiating it from the Darkglass Element, which is what I would look for in a pedalboard friendly headphone practice box.
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I'm in the process of looking for a headphone practice amp. Something I can plug my board into, play some tracks, and practice with. Was lookoing at the Element and came across this. You mention differentiating. I'm completely new to these types of pedals. Any reason to go one or the other? What's your take on them?
 
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@TaylorJ At the end of the day they're both board friendly headphone amps that take an Aux In directly or by bluetooth - it's the additional features and use cases that differentiates the two.

The Rehearsal seems aimed at solo practice, with a built in metronome and multiple ways to control that tempo (tap, dial, midi connections)

The Element doesn't have any baked in metronome or timing, but instead leans towards ampless playing and maybe even recording with IR/cabsim features and DI.
 
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