Tru-Fi The Newton vs Walrus Audio Voyager Mk II

The Tru-Fi The Newton and the Walrus Audio Voyager Mk II are both pedals sharing bright, transparent, silicon. The Tru-Fi The Newton leans clean boost.

Similarity
citedBlended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.

48% somewhat different

Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • bright
  • transparent
  • silicon
  • dynamic
Citation fame
citedCitation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.
0%
17%
Price

$199.95via Reverb

Description

The Tru-Fi Newton is a Klon Centaur-inspired overdrive and clean boost pedal offered in a compact modern enclosure. Its top-panel Centaur/Brown mode switch selects between a stock Centaur-style voicing and a Brown mode with roughly 20 percent more gain on tap. Internal DIP switches let players further tailor the circuit: one pair selects between stock treble response or a fuller, bassier voicing, while a second set chooses among the original 1N34A germanium diode clipping, no diode at all for a cleaner boost, or asymmetrical silicon diodes for a different breakup character. This flexibility lets the Newton function as either a transparent clean boost or a low-to-medium gain overdrive with the mid-forward push associated with Centaur-style circuits, without needing a different pedal for each variant.

The Walrus Audio Voyager MKII is a substantial redesign of the original Voyager transparent overdrive, adding a footswitchable parametric mid-frequency EQ with +/-12dB boost/cut and a Freq knob sweeping the midrange center from 250Hz to 2kHz, well beyond the original's simple three-knob layout. It also introduces five distinct clipping modes, Classic 1N34A Germanium, Germanium with Bass Boost, Symmetric Silicon, Asymmetric Silicon, and Asymmetric Silicon with Bass Boost, plus a redesigned enclosure with top-mounted jacks and a soft-touch relay footswitch. This Sea Foam colorway is a finish option on the MKII hardware.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • alternative
  • indie rock
  • blues
  • Classic Rock
  • Blues
Tonal lean
  • clean boost

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