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Darkglass Alpha·Omicron

#64
So my pedal is sitting in Fort Lauderdale in a trailer with no delivery date. Apparently their wharehouse got destroyed so there is no place to unpack the trailer and put the contents. So it could be tomorrow or it could be a month. Who knows. I'm seriously considering buying a second unit and having it shipped via USPS and then returning the other one once it arrives. Super bummed.
 
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Goatrope said:
Mine has shipped from SW!

Now for the compulsive tracking......
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I saw your pedalboard. Wanted to ask you about the B3K and the VMT on the same board. Are they different enough to justify having both? I have the B7K Ultra and the Super Symmetry, with the Ao on it's way. Have room for the Duality and the VMT (don't want another Ultra or another DI). But it seems to me that the VMT might overlap the B7K Ultra in functionality. What say you?
 
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#72
Ordered my second Micron today. There's no telling when my first one will arrive. The folks at Fedex couldn't give me an ETA or anything. Just said it would sit there until they either decided to open up the trailer to deliver everything in there or when their warehouse was repaired. So I called my rep at SW and bought a second one to have shipped via USPS, and he will issue me a RA for the other one once it arrives.
 
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willsellout said:
Ordered my second Micron today. There's no telling when my first one will arrive. The folks at Fedex couldn't give me an ETA or anything. Just said it would sit there until they either decided to open up the trailer to deliver everything in there or when their warehouse was repaired. So I called my rep at SW and bought a second one to have shipped via USPS, and he will issue me a RA for the other one once it arrives.
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You have no Hell in the afterlife.
 
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Hi-End Basses said:
I saw your pedalboard. Wanted to ask you about the B3K and the VMT on the same board. Are they different enough to justify having both? I have the B7K Ultra and the Super Symmetry, with the Ao on it's way. Have room for the Duality and the VMT (don't want another Ultra or another DI). But it seems to me that the VMT might overlap the B7K Ultra in functionality. What say you?
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Absolutely. The B3K is much more modern, and can get very crunchy if you want it to. A real square wave top end. The VMT is much more subtle, like running up the gain on a preamp. Warmth.

With the B3K, I have to be careful of how I set the toggles, depending on the room. Sometimes the "grunt" can cause it to disappear in my mix, sometimes it brings it out. Just depends on what else is happening in the room. But it's a great modern distortion, with its own range of jaggedness.

With the VMT, it's like I'm just digging in and getting that warm overdrive. I can leave it on all night, or punch it in for a song that needs some middy drive. I'll usually work the Era knob to find the right frequency for the night.

Both have pretty wide ranges, but I would say they only overlap slightly, at the top end of the VMT drive, and the bottom end of the B3K.

Now that Duality on the other hand, I have trouble taming that beast. When I first got it, I sent it back to DG thinking it was defective, but no. That thing is monstrous so you have to use it sparingly.

I'd say go for it. :)
 
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Hi-End Basses said:
I saw your pedalboard. Wanted to ask you about the B3K and the VMT on the same board. Are they different enough to justify having both? I have the B7K Ultra and the Super Symmetry, with the Ao on it's way. Have room for the Duality and the VMT (don't want another Ultra or another DI). But it seems to me that the VMT might overlap the B7K Ultra in functionality. What say you?
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I've owned the B7K and VMTD. They are different enough. I've recently acquired a DG M900 head, with the B3K and VMT available at a switch flip, and they are certainly different enough.

I will say the AO can be closer to the VMT or B3Kwith the AO and Mid controls. I'd be more concerned about overlap there, at lower gain settings. Not that one is able to replicate the other, like twins, but they are closer to close cousins.
 
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Goatrope said:
Absolutely. The B3K is much more modern, and can get very crunchy if you want it to. A real square wave top end. The VMT is much more subtle, like running up the gain on a preamp. Warmth.

With the B3K, I have to be careful of how I set the toggles, depending on the room. Sometimes the "grunt" can cause it to disappear in my mix, sometimes it brings it out. Just depends on what else is happening in the room. But it's a great modern distortion, with its own range of jaggedness.

With the VMT, it's like I'm just digging in and getting that warm overdrive. I can leave it on all night, or punch it in for a song that needs some middy drive. I'll usually work the Era knob to find the right frequency for the night.

Both have pretty wide ranges, but I would say they only overlap slightly, at the top end of the VMT drive, and the bottom end of the B3K.

Now that Duality on the other hand, I have trouble taming that beast. When I first got it, I sent it back to DG thinking it was defective, but no. That thing is monstrous so you have to use it sparingly.

I'd say go for it. :)
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Thanks!
 
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Got a chance to plug it in with the rest of my board. Initially I had some noise which I traced to my B1xon multi pedal. That eliminated most of the noise, however it's still not as quiet as with just the AOM by itself. I was thinking about upgrading my pedalboard setup anyway so I think I'll opt for a isolated power supply as well. But right now the noise is very minimal so it's not bothersome.
I originally had the A/O and I ended up getting rid of it in favor of the MBD-1 so Im very glad @Darkglass came out with this smaller, simpler version because the MBD-1 and the AOM stack incredibly well together. Can't wait to spend more time with this one and hopefully record some stuff.
 
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monsterthompson said:
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I will say the AO can be closer to the VMT or B3Kwith the AO and Mid controls. I'd be more concerned about overlap there, at lower gain settings. Not that one is able to replicate the other, like twins, but they are closer to close cousins.
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A gig and a week later, I’m agreeing with Monster’s comments. Because I keep the AO set more to the higher gain/distortion-side, I’ve bounced the B3K off the board for the next few gigs, just to see if I miss it. For now, my EBS Octobass is back in the line-up. I like to keep the spaces filled up.

The AO is definitely easy to get good sounds out of, and I never once felt I dropped out of our mix. Setting it more aggressively nicely contrasts/compliments the VMT. I guess that’s similar to the idea behind having the VMT and B3K on tap in the M900.
 
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