I have not tested for noise but I can hear a relay switch when toggling gnd lift on an off on the Anagram
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Darkglass Anagram Multi FX Announced
- Thread starter Elmstreet
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Me: “you’ll never believe it, line6 just introduced a whole new refreshed helix platform”
Spouse: “wow, right after you ordered your new…palindrome?”
“Yep. Palindrome.”
“That’s not right. Anagram?”
“Sure. Palindrome will be the sequel”
Spouse: “wow, right after you ordered your new…palindrome?”
“Yep. Palindrome.”
“That’s not right. Anagram?”
“Sure. Palindrome will be the sequel”
Ah yeah, there were issues with the provided adapter apparently although I tried to recreate it and couldn't with the one that came with mine. Not a big issue for me as I was using with the Cioks anyways.
Either way that's a differentissue, both devices have ground lift options.
There is also a volume for headphones too, the gain provides a baseline and then pushing the far right knob pops up the mini mixer so you can control HP volume level.
First gig with the Anagram is on Saturday. I'll be playing an NS NXT electric upright through the Anagram into a Trickfish B1k and Trickfish TF212V. I spent a little time tweaking my EUB preset and am excited to hear it in action on the gig. It's a small'ish, lower volume, pseudo-acoustic gig with no bass in the PA, so I'll be supporting the stage sound and FOH from my bass rig. Should be a good initial test for the Anagram live, especially considering I've committed to not bringing any other pedal solutions.
Got mine in today and about 40 minutes with it doesn’t really paint the whole picture. So far my favorite sounds have been loading NAM files, not blown away by the drives and agree the Luminal Compressor doesn’t seem to actually compress which is a bummer
I also intend to gig mine Saturday night. Ideally I’m providing a clean DI, which I’ll probably use the Noble block for that, and a capture of my Tyler Fliptop on the two separate outputs. Amp for my ears and DI for FOH although they’ll have the option to blend how they see fit. Will need drive, and boost on the foot switches and maybe something else, we’ll see!
I got lucky and snatched one yesterday when a dealer in town received 4 units.
Just had time to go through the factory presets. Coming from the HX Stomp (nothing wrong with it btw), I'm totally blown away. Loved what I heard, and I already can tell the potential it has once I dedicate hours on fine tuning my own presets.
Question for those who might know: how do you factory reset it?
Just had time to go through the factory presets. Coming from the HX Stomp (nothing wrong with it btw), I'm totally blown away. Loved what I heard, and I already can tell the potential it has once I dedicate hours on fine tuning my own presets.
Question for those who might know: how do you factory reset it?
I try to give AI a chance and then it gives wonderful answers like this:
lol yeah, same here. GROK's instructions involved this: "Press and hold both the Encoder Knob (the main rotary control) and the Footswitch simultaneously"... I'm guessing that's not related to the Anagram.
I just realized the Public Presets in the Preset Hub is now live. Start sharing your presets!
Played again for quite a while today got some great tones. Looking forward to the test run tomorrow; I'm using the Harmonic Booster, Limiter/Comp (As it actually compresses the signal a bit) Graphic eq, and Noble amp clone. Also have a vintage microtubes, mint chorus and another DG Eq with some top boost and volume as an overall boost. Sounds really nice
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Mine shipped from Sweetwater on Friday - so excited to get it.
For those that are looking - I noticed that Daves Guitar (www.davesguitar.com) has two in stock - one at two of their different stores. No affiliation - and haven't been a customer of theirs - but thought someone would find it helpful.
For those that are looking - I noticed that Daves Guitar (www.davesguitar.com) has two in stock - one at two of their different stores. No affiliation - and haven't been a customer of theirs - but thought someone would find it helpful.
Want to report back about using the Anagram on my gig last night! I play in a 90’s/2000’s country group (Alan Jackson, George Strait, Kenny Chesney etc..) and we run a predominantly silent stage with a band that can be as small as a 4 piece and as big as 7 pieces depending on venue etc. We run stereo IEMs from a Behringer racked x32; G7 transmitters all around. I use KZ IEMs and have for a couple of years now and enjoy how they sound live. Last night we were a 6 piece band with acoustic rhythm, electric lead, fiddle/mandolin, keys, bass and drums. Typically I have a Mono Lite board with all of my processing (tuner, Cali76, RC Bass Boost or ParaEQ, Nobles ODR-1 and DI which has been Sushi Box in the past or as of late an RNDI-m) I have also been bringing a B15 styled amp with Captor X to “mic” it and giving FOH the option to blend the two signals, direct and amp. While I love the way this sounds it’s quite a bit to setup, two bass channels and my mic channel and I’m also responsible for mic’ing the kit nightly. Last night in lieu of my usual setup all I brought was the Anagram. Put it on the floor with a towel underneath to keep it from moving and as not to scratch the back and plugged the two XLR’s out of the back and to our various stage boxes and used the provided power supply. My signal chain was fairly simple last night but similar to what I’d bring on a normal gig. Used the Harmonic Booster much like I would the RC, Compressor/limiter on a pretty subtle setting 4:1 slow attack fast release as my Cali76, the Vintage Microtubes to kind of do the ODR-1 sound and a Graphic EQ to get some boost. Threw the mint chorus in there for fun on a bass run that I have to do on “God Blessed Texas” which I think sounded okay got a chuckle out of the bandmates which is always a good sign. My DI signal had the gentle Amp (Noble DI) a high and low pass filter and the noise suppressor which does exactly what it’s supposed to do without imparting any sort of sound into your tone which I appreciate. The amp side was a Neural Capture of the B-15, high pass filter and noise suppressor. I monitored the amp all night and at the end of the evening asked the FOH engineer which signal they used, which their reply was that both signals sounded great and a blend of the two was pumped through to the house.
Overall thoughts!
The Pros: I enjoyed how my signal sounded quite a bit. Having gigged the Fliptop a bunch I love the response I get from it and I felt like I was getting something similar from the Neural Capture. I felt like my tone sat exactly as it should and the little bit of saturation from the Vintage Microtubes when I used it helped beef up the bass in a nice way and added a nice subtle grit to an already edge of breakup sound on the Fliptop. The setup/breakdown could not be easier; I picked up the pedal put it back in the carry case and was essentially done and ready to head out; which from someone who’s done this for a long time it was nice to have it all be that simple. I thought all of the different sounds I try to achieve live were translated nicely as I play a Yamaha BB435 with a Lollar Precision pickup and I modded the bridge pickup to be a Bartolini Quad Coil soapbar which is fat and full and more similar to a Musicman than Jazz bass. Everyone in the band said the tone sounded as if I ran my usual DI/Amp combo and no complaints all around on whether or not bass was cutting or being a nuisance to anyone’s mix. All positives essentially. I did need to use the ground lift and while a button on the outside of the pedal would be nice, it was easy enough to open the settings menu to engage it and it worked instantly so plus there as well.
The negatives: It’s really tough to criticize the pedal in regards to how it performed on stage. All of my sounds worked, bandmates were happy, FOH was happy and so was I. My main gripe with the Anagram will probably be fixed in the coming years as the pedal continues to develop. Darkglass plans to continue to add to the available blocks and encourage 3rd parties to contribute to the platform and this should be really exciting for bass players. Personally I’ve never been a fan of Darkglass drive pedals and I was able to make the Vintage Microtubes work for me, however; it still wasn’t quite what I’m used to/was looking for. A quick capture of my ODR-1 would definitely do the trick and I’d be happy with that which is yet another pro for the Anagram; the ability to incorporate three pieces of gear from your analog drive/amp/eq collection into presets. The chorus and other effects I’ve tried really leave something to be desired in my opinion. The chorus doesn’t offer a ton of flexibility like say the 70’s chorus in the HX world. It was ok; but for the price of the unit I’d expect great going forward. Would love to see a company like Walrus or even Boss (although doubtful) build blocks for the Anagram of their pedals to incorporate into the unit. Would make for a stellar piece of kit. Admittedly before the Anagram I’ve never gone through a gig with just a modeler where I really felt my sound was a good as it could be; and I’ll say that outside of the drive not quite being right for me and the chorus being lackluster I never felt I was taken out of the moment by the Anagram because of my sound. It delivers and will continue to do so as it continues to just get better over time.
I’ll have a decision to make here soon about whether or not to hold on to this unit as I really enjoyed the ease of use, but knowing I’ll have to part with a lot of pedals to justify owning it. Overall though I’d say if you’re looking for something new to potentially be your rig going forward the future of modeling is here and I hope it’ll only keep getting better as this thing can replace everything if you want it to
Overall thoughts!
The Pros: I enjoyed how my signal sounded quite a bit. Having gigged the Fliptop a bunch I love the response I get from it and I felt like I was getting something similar from the Neural Capture. I felt like my tone sat exactly as it should and the little bit of saturation from the Vintage Microtubes when I used it helped beef up the bass in a nice way and added a nice subtle grit to an already edge of breakup sound on the Fliptop. The setup/breakdown could not be easier; I picked up the pedal put it back in the carry case and was essentially done and ready to head out; which from someone who’s done this for a long time it was nice to have it all be that simple. I thought all of the different sounds I try to achieve live were translated nicely as I play a Yamaha BB435 with a Lollar Precision pickup and I modded the bridge pickup to be a Bartolini Quad Coil soapbar which is fat and full and more similar to a Musicman than Jazz bass. Everyone in the band said the tone sounded as if I ran my usual DI/Amp combo and no complaints all around on whether or not bass was cutting or being a nuisance to anyone’s mix. All positives essentially. I did need to use the ground lift and while a button on the outside of the pedal would be nice, it was easy enough to open the settings menu to engage it and it worked instantly so plus there as well.
The negatives: It’s really tough to criticize the pedal in regards to how it performed on stage. All of my sounds worked, bandmates were happy, FOH was happy and so was I. My main gripe with the Anagram will probably be fixed in the coming years as the pedal continues to develop. Darkglass plans to continue to add to the available blocks and encourage 3rd parties to contribute to the platform and this should be really exciting for bass players. Personally I’ve never been a fan of Darkglass drive pedals and I was able to make the Vintage Microtubes work for me, however; it still wasn’t quite what I’m used to/was looking for. A quick capture of my ODR-1 would definitely do the trick and I’d be happy with that which is yet another pro for the Anagram; the ability to incorporate three pieces of gear from your analog drive/amp/eq collection into presets. The chorus and other effects I’ve tried really leave something to be desired in my opinion. The chorus doesn’t offer a ton of flexibility like say the 70’s chorus in the HX world. It was ok; but for the price of the unit I’d expect great going forward. Would love to see a company like Walrus or even Boss (although doubtful) build blocks for the Anagram of their pedals to incorporate into the unit. Would make for a stellar piece of kit. Admittedly before the Anagram I’ve never gone through a gig with just a modeler where I really felt my sound was a good as it could be; and I’ll say that outside of the drive not quite being right for me and the chorus being lackluster I never felt I was taken out of the moment by the Anagram because of my sound. It delivers and will continue to do so as it continues to just get better over time.
I’ll have a decision to make here soon about whether or not to hold on to this unit as I really enjoyed the ease of use, but knowing I’ll have to part with a lot of pedals to justify owning it. Overall though I’d say if you’re looking for something new to potentially be your rig going forward the future of modeling is here and I hope it’ll only keep getting better as this thing can replace everything if you want it to
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