Distorted mids (only)

Why go through the trouble of separating the signal and depending on soundguys to get your sound right when you can mix the two within the pedal though? The x has high pass and low pass filters. And a clean blend. No need for over complicating the signal chain

 

Well regardless of what the manual says I have the pedal and it does what it seems like you’re looking to do The darkglass x series is based off of the b7k/b3k drive. They started with that b3k drive, tweaked it a bit and added the additional features. The b7k drive already had the upper highs removed. So the dirt on the x does have lows AND highs removed.

As for the soundguy thing. I wouldn’t limit my setup to one soundguy personally.

 

Then your option is to split thé signal in two and EQ them to your liking…

 

Just seems weird. I mean I even play slap bass with my x where I want that clean high frequency bite. Don’t seem to have that issue. You don’t have to low pass the cleans. It is adjustable.

 

Ok ok I see where the misunderstanding is. Yes the low pass isBut the dirty tone is already low passed and you don’t have

when the low pass is at 500 it sounds like there’s plenty of highs to me. One of the confusing things I think some people have about the x is that the the low pass is for the cleans and the high pass is for the dirt. But the dirt is already low passed. So seems you’re wanting like 2k in your clean tone.which is basically what the b7k does

 

Sounds like the b7k is more what you want. Check out this video around 6:30. Is that the kind of vibe you’re looking for?

 

Accidentally Replied to my post instead of yours. Check out that video I posted above

 

Hmm- definitely not my experience. In fact I found turning down the High channel and just using the clean Low channel was pretty much a Motown or Dub tone even with the filter all the way up. That was my biggest issue with that pedal (I feel like both filters should have been adjustable through the entire bass frequency range, but the clean Low channel in particular definitely needed to go at least into the high-mids for the tones I wanted from it).

 

If interested, you might reach out to Schalltechnik to see if he still has any available as the Omnilooper would do this nicely IME- instead of using the high-pass as a loop, you can just use it as an EQ’ed send to your drive pedal(s) then to the soundguy and the normal out can have your 2nd signal (then you’d also have a third low-pass loop to play with as well!). It’s just a fantastic utility pedal with lots of cool uses and pretty cheap compared to similar alternatives. He did only sell them as DIY projects though, so you’d need to assemble yourself.

 

Like I said- if you just use the “Send” jack it will just be a filtered (hi-passed or lo-passed depending on channel) copy of the input, so it does most of what you need. Though it won’t isolate the mids to only the dirty channel, if that’s what you are going for (which would potentially be a better choice because of potential phase issues that happen when blending different types of signals). If I was using the Omnilooper for such a thing I’d probably put an EQ in the high-pass loop with a compressor to scoop out the mids to be blended with the dirty high-passed channel.

 

I’ve seen that kind of setup done. Friend of mine does it with a big shot aby to split the signal. Then his drive of the day usually the mxr or the sans amp bass driver, and his clean signal goes to a radial pro di. Heres a shot of his board.

The guy I know who does that plays cover gigs and he supplies the PA and runs his own sound. That’s how he’s able to do it. So if you guys have someone who runs sound for you all the time it’ll work.