From compassion and encouragement to full-throted rage...how I love this metaphor!!! Great review. I disagree with those whom complain that Darkglass only make drive pedal. So what! They're all awesome!
I mean-they specialize in bass distortion and have a lot of different approaches to it. (And they make the Harmonic Booster, Hyper Luminal and Element for those keeping score)
The GOAT of bass reviews. I’m a guitarist by trade but recently picked bass up again. I played through a Kemper but it lack in bass options, so adding a bass board to use with my ampeg profile. This video is brilliant and has ticked the box for me. Humour, playbacks, mix videos. Thank you Amos. Keep it up 🤘🏻
Hi Amos, I absolutely love your videos in all aspects. The presentation, the editing and the sound is amazing. I Love the way you start with dry in the mix and then dialing in the tone, backchecking with the dry signal now and then is the first time I really get a feeling of what a pedal really does. So thank you and keep going and I will keep watching! One question though: Your basses sound so much better than on other videos - can you give some details on your signal chain? Do use cab sim or compression in your DAW or is there more postprocessing done that makes your sounds much more studio quality than all the other reviews? Thanks ind advance :)
Love the tones you get from the Darkglass stuff. I refer to the drive knob the same way lol. I usually set it at just a little spite and bitterness so you can hear it has a chip on its shoulder. But, it can be fun to really get it pissed off and get my Muse on haha. Another to check out is the Malekko B;ASSMASTER. Pissed, full of hatred, possibly homicidal yet somehow wonderfully beautiful. And... it comes with a toy in the body (for realz) lol. I borrowed one and loved it but I could not contain it's fury and didn't have a project with a practical use for it so I haven't nabbed my own. Would love to hear your take on it.
Hi Amos! First of all i love your reviews. I have a question for you. Would you go for an A/O ultra or an Alpha Omicron + Harmonic Booster? (since they cost almost the same)
That is a great question. I thought about it a bit, and while they’re not *quite* equivalent, I think I’d do the AO Ultra. It’s just so good sounding. EQ is awesome, and it is one of my favorite DG pedals. HB+AO has more flexibility, and the HB is a great always-on tone shaper. You could hardly go wrong either way
So I got this pedal but mine sounds terrible. Using a fender P bass and EBMM into Kemper and can’t get a usable sound out of it. Really disappointed as Amos sold me with this demo.
To be honest this is the only line of Darkglass pedals which I don't like. I have a Vintage Microtubes, a B3K and a B7K and they cover all my drive needs.
