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Darkglass - Alpha Omega

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BklynKen said:
What did he use?
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Hey there ain't nothing wrong with Boss. I have used a lot of them and liked many. I just happen to have got bitten by the tone/gear/TB bug a handful of years back that made curiosity kill the cat so to speak. Ever since I joined TB I've always wondered what I could do to take my tone/sound to the next level. If I never joined here I'm sure I'd be using half Boss and half DOD with some sprinkles of other stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with that either. A third of my board is Boss, DOD, Digitech and stuff like that anyway. I'll take it any day. However, when it comes to dirt, it's like you said @monsterthompson, not many are of the same caliber as DG or say Dunwich or the like.
 
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gregmon79 said:
Hey there ain't nothing wrong with Boss. I have used a lot of them and liked many. I just happen to have got bitten by the tone/gear/TB bug a handful of years back that made curiosity kill the cat so to speak. Ever since I joined TB I've always wondered what I could do to take my tone/sound to the next level. If I never joined here I'm sure I'd be using half Boss and half DOD with some sprinkles of other stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with that either. A third of my board is Boss, DOD, Digitech and stuff like that anyway. I'll take it any day. However, when it comes to dirt, it's like you said @monsterthompson, not many are of the same caliber as DG or say Dunwich or the like.
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My comment was partially in jest. They clearly provide a decent quality product which many consumers continue to consume. The TB universe is full of nitpicking people placing the finest point they can on issues that many players and listeners don't generally identify. Cartainly, several boutique builders optimize bass dirt, buy that doesn't render less sophisticated devices unusable.

My playing skills and time spent certainly don't justify my collection. However, my job thinks I'm worth paying, and I like to treat myself (after I've saved enough).
 
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People keep asking about the possibility of an ultra version. I, however, would forego the option of a "clean EQ setting" for multiple dirt channels. This pedal offers so many great tones that it would be awesome to have a few presets - maybe something like what Tech21 did with their more complicated VT bass pedal, in which the analog circuitry is divided up into tiny increments that are digitally accessible.

I don't know if this is a route Darkglass can or would want to take, but I think a 3+ channel AO could cover a lot of ground and mitigate the need to buy multiple units...
 
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IronSpatula said:
People keep asking about the possibility of an ultra version. I, however, would forego the option of a "clean EQ setting" for multiple dirt channels. This pedal offers so many great tones that it would be awesome to have a few presets - maybe something like what Tech21 did with their more complicated VT bass pedal, in which the analog circuitry is divided up into tiny increments that are digitally accessible.

I don't know if this is a route Darkglass can or would want to take, but I think a 3+ channel AO could cover a lot of ground and mitigate the need to buy multiple units...
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Collab w/ Chase Bliss? I really like how they do analog pedals with presets. Something like the Brothers overdrive they recently put out.
 
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Hey guys, after reading all the 1151 comments and listening to the various samples (thank u all for both!) I concluded this might be the sound I too have been looking for. I like an organic sounding, recognizable clean sound mixed with grunt and clanck, without the fizz some distortions produce in high drive settings. I'd like to use it in my thrash metal band. I use a Epiphone Les Paul Standard with Duesenburg bass buckers and Chromes. The pu's have a mid heavy, round sound, so my question is, do u think I'll be able to get the sound I described with the A/O? I do own a VT Bass which I could feed into it.
 
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Bastijnv said:
Hey guys, after reading all the 1151 comments and listening to the various samples (thank u all for both!) I concluded this might be the sound I too have been looking for. I like an organic sounding, recognizable clean sound mixed with grunt and clanck, without the fizz some distortions produce in high drive settings. I'd like to use it in my thrash metal band. I use a Epiphone Les Paul Standard with Duesenburg bass buckers and Chromes. The pu's have a mid heavy, round sound, so my question is, do u think I'll be able to get the sound I described with the A/O? I do own a VT Bass which I could feed into it.
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In short? Yes :D
 
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EMoneySC2 said:
Collab w/ Chase Bliss? I really like how they do analog pedals with presets. Something like the Brothers overdrive they recently put out.
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We've been capable of executing digital features for the past 8 months.

It's not that the cannot or we won't, is that we are working on something slightly more challenging :).
 
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Loving using the Alpha Omega right now for an unexpected use case. Whilst it sounds great with my (Tone Capsule equipped!) Warwick for Karnivool type sounds, it also sounds awesome as a tube amp sim direct to PA/headphones/DAW when set to pure Alpha, mild drive and 100% blend. Sounds very fat and round with a P bass, and very different to the VMTD/B7K. Higher drive settings can cop a good Al Cisneros / Om type of distortion too, but the whole amp sound and not just his DS1!
 
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Darkglass said:
We've been capable of executing digital features for the past 8 months.

It's not that the cannot or we won't, is that we are working on something slightly more challenging :).
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Awesome! From a software engineering perspective I don't think that sort of thing would be hard to put together, so it makes sense that the wizards at Darkglass are working on more advanced stuff ;-)

Lol, I can think of some ridiculous ideas off the top of my head...but I'll wait to see what you come up with!

As always, we all appreciate you're willingness to communicate here, Doug.
 
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Killing gods will be blowin the roof off the Cubby Bear tonight!! I'll be using the A/O on our opening song as well as a couple others. Gonna be a fun one that's fo sho! \m/ :bassist:

Just a little something else. About that first song we play, it's Prison Planet on our new EP. I used to use the Big Game F800b on that one and now I use the A/O. Slightly different flavors but the A/O can get that same type grind and gristle. God it sounds good :D
 
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