Darkglass Kaamos

[Justyn Brando]

sheesh, steep pricepoint.
I love the utility ideas and had me rethinking my board, BUT, seeing that price tag turned the GAS off quick.

 

[Zbysek]

I love the utility ideas and had me rethinking my board, BUT, seeing that price tag turned the GAS off quick.

Same here.

I have started rethinking my pedalboard after I saw Kaamos...but quickly realized that for the intended purpose (sending octave down signal and dirt signal to FOH spearately) I can use my existig gear and just need to get octaver with two separate outputs like EHX POG...which would cost me 3x less...

 

[yaksonator]

I love the idea! Huge octave pedal fan. Only issue i have is the assumed price point. I bought my hx stomp for less than the potential price of this octave? That's crazy to me.

 

[Haveland]

I love the idea! Huge octave pedal fan. Only issue i have is the assumed price point. I bought my hx stomp for less than the potential price of this octave? That's crazy to me.

That is my exact feeling as well- I've just spent the last 2 hours playing around on the stomp and the octave pedals, sending signals down different paths and having a lot of fun. I might try to borrow a Pog or something to see what an external pedal can do better.. Certainly some problems with trying to do this on the Stomp..

 

[projectapollo]

Listed for €519 on Thomann's website which I think is pretty steep. Was hoping it would be a little bit cheaper and sit in line with the Ultra Series. Saw that it will be $429 in the US so a pretty big difference for us here in Europe. A bit disappointing in that regard.

I don't see it on the Thomann website?

 

[Squint]

I don't see it on the Thomann website?

Darkglass Kaamos

Darkglass Kaamos Distortion Octaver; Effektpedal für E-Bass; Entwickelt, um den Klang der britischen Verstärker aus der Mitte der 70er und Anfang der 80er Jahre nachzubilden, satter und voller Klang mit natürlicher Kompression, ohne Höhenverlust;...

www.thomann.de

 

[TaySte_2000]

 

[iTzPrime]

 

[Winton]

I was just about to post this
I love his channel and how he puts in his humor and wit in his videos.

 

[Haveland]

Thinking that I'm going to sell my Alpha Omega Ultra and if it sells pick up one of these...

I also like playing up octaves.. so I'm a bit on the fence, but if my Alpha·Omega sells, it will be an easier decision.

 

[TaylorJ]

Sounds so good!

 

[_Some Dude]

I wasn't interested when this was rumoured to be $650, but at $430 I'm way more interested.

 

[Zbysek]

He mentioned in the video that this was possible. I don’t know if it happens automatically when you plug a cable into the Sub Output or not.

It does not happen automatically-one needs to turn the Octave level all the way CCW (in parallel mode). Amos explained this in the following video (at 8:00):

 

[Justyn Brando]

The moveable effects loop, octave and alpha/omega combo finally broke me down. I ordered mine and It'll be here in a week.
I am a little concerned there's no phase switch for the effects loop though, which might cause headaches with my favourite rodent drives I'd want to run in parallel.

 

[smilinjones]

This is everything the Cog R-1 isn't.
I've listened to everything I could find online, and I'm sold.
I'm not a fan of digital octave, or the Darkglass sound, but this pedal i really like.
The drawback is the power requirement. The price isn't that great either, but i believe this pedal is worth the cost, especially if you do not have AO pedal already

 

[klattman]

That is my exact feeling as well- I've just spent the last 2 hours playing around on the stomp and the octave pedals, sending signals down different paths and having a lot of fun. I might try to borrow a Pog or something to see what an external pedal can do better.. Certainly some problems with trying to do this on the Stomp..

To what problems are you referring? Seems like the stomp should be able to do these things. I’ve done a bunch of bi amping with one side distorted and that seems to work great. I hadn’t thought to try clean low octave and obsidian in the bass tone. Going to have to try that in the hx…

 

[klattman]

I spent some time with the Hx stomp and was able to replicate most of the sounds of the Kaamos. (Split the signal, run octave only on one side and send the dry side through the obsidian module). Takes a bit of tweaking, but it’s very close and adding another affect in a loop is easy. Can’t do the three way routing though…

Doesn’t make the Kaamos any less cool, just maybe less of a need of you have the HX already.

I still tend to reach for external pedals for octave and filter as the HX can be tedious to dial in.

 

[ole Jason]

Sounds good but yeah I'm not hearing anything I can't do with the Stomp.

 

[fauxtoe]

The EBS OctaBass Blue Label has solidly been on my board since I bought it, but this is the closest of anything I've heard so far that would ever have a chance of knocking it off. What I do find both pleasing and ironic is that they included the AO overdrive circuit. The other pedal that never leaves my board is indeed an AlphaOmega. It's another that I have never found better since buying it years ago. The ironic part is that I just used the AO pedal in front of the Wampler Terraform's envelope setting with a 5 string bass and created this pretty amazing sawtooth synth sound. The AO always delivers, so it's great to see they knew it was capable as well. Had I needed an octaver I'm pretty sure it would have created a similar sound.

 

[klattman]