Microtubes X

[BigBenH18]

The pedal sounds amazing from what I heard on the demos. Especially the ability to bring in clean lows and low mids. You get the punchy clean low end with a grindy top end.
But few months ago I purchased the AOmicron and am still pretty happy with it. Another reason is that I'm waiting for the Ultra version.

 

[Fuzzbass]

Yeah I'm sure that's what it is. What I've found is that there is a severe shortage of bass players here and most people don't have the knowledge a dedicated bassist would. FYI, We have a couple different shipments scheduled to come in this month. One was scheduled to come in this week I believe. There was a pretty hefty preorder response for this pedal.

Understood! I love Sweetwater's service, just found that e-mail amusing (OJT for my rep's assistant, I assume).

The real takeaway was that the X pedals are on the way. I'd love to have my X7 in time for my Halloween gig so I can dial up some scary-in-a-good-way bass tones! But if they get to Sweetwater "by the end of next week", then that probably means November for me (which is fine, I have 4 gigs that month).

 

[vivaknoxvegas]

I'm sold... going to go preorder now.

Edit: preordered.

Same for me, ordered today. I’m a sucker for new DG gear.

 

[willsellout]

We are expecting a shipment this week and another next week I believe so if you did/do place an order you hopefully won't have to wait too long to get your hands on it. I'm looking forward to reading some hands on reviews of it.

 

[tonymcbony]

Now my question is this or the DP3X for clean lows with a bit of grit when you dig in?

Both do the Di + compress lows cool stuff. I like that the DP3X has a tuner too but adjusting the crossover frequencies + eq seems a bit of a slam dunk for the X7 if it can do a great low gain setting.

 

[monsterthompson]

New demo posted.


And I'm at work without my good headphones


Edit - Brace yourself for the onslaught of "really." I'm sending Patrick a thesaurus to demo

Low-gain demo around 8:15.

 

[Fuzzbass]

And I'm at work without my good headphones

Decent-headphones-for-work should be item number one on your Xmas list!

 

[monsterthompson]

Decent-headphones-for-work should be item number one on your Xmas list!

Not worth it. The dummy-terminals we connect to have horrible sound cards. I think they pass filter anything under 200 Hz.

I actually do have my decent headphones here in my backpack, since I work on music stuff on my personal laptop at lunch.

 

[Matt Dean]

New demo posted.


And I'm at work without my good headphones


Edit - Brace yourself for the onslaught of "really." I'm sending Patrick a thesaurus to demo

Lowe-gain demo around 8:15.

I’m digging the low gain settings... very cool.

 

[willsellout]

For those who have ordered, I checked the status and there is tracking information in the system now. They are officially on their way to us. Expected delivery to us very early next week for our first two orders of the Microtubes X7's so with any luck everyone who has ordered will have their pedals very soon. I don't want to give exact information because god knows what can happen in transit. I don't want a bunch of angry bass players yelling at their respective SE's because of something I said

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Matt Dean]

Just checked with my Sweetwater CS rep and he said they expected the X7s to arrive on Friday, with shipping to begin over the weekend.

 

[hbabels]

New demo posted.


And I'm at work without my good headphones


Edit - Brace yourself for the onslaught of "really." I'm sending Patrick a thesaurus to demo

Lowe-gain demo around 8:15.

Thanks for posting this. It pretty much sells me on wanting this pedal. Which I pretty much already did , ha ha !!

The only think is I could see this being an always on type pedal for me which begs the question if & when will there be an Ultra Version with the Cab Sim feature like the
current ultra’s ??
Cause I consider that pretty esential currently as I’m Almost always direct & ampless more often than not currently.

 

[tonymcbony]

Well, I'm totally sold.

Throwing money at the local distributor right now.

 

[FaithNoMan]

Low-gain demo around 8:15.

I heard some nice warmth and edge at 8:21 that I really liked.

 

[gregmon79]

New demo posted.


And I'm at work without my good headphones


Edit - Brace yourself for the onslaught of "really." I'm sending Patrick a thesaurus to demo

Lowe-gain demo around 8:15.

Please, PLEASE, do haha. He sure seems like a great dude and damn can he jam. But I can't stand watching his demos!!!! haha I usually FF>> through his talking.

 

[bigsnack]

Please, PLEASE, do haha. He sure seems like a great dude and damn can he jam. But I can't stand watching his demos!!!! haha I usually FF>> through his talking.

I agree. The quality of demos overall is great, but his close up head shots and talking are....INTENSE.

 

[monsterthompson]

Please, PLEASE, do haha. He sure seems like a great dude and damn can he jam. But I can't stand watching his demos!!!! haha I usually FF>> through his talking.

He seems like an okay guy in book. I'm just poking a little fun, and I'm sure I couldn't pull off something better.
Also, I'll take his talking over Mr. Ex's scoopy wandering noodle demos any day.

 

[J Posega]

I’m impatiently waiting for hands-on reviews that can answer the question if whether the X7 offers enough tone shaping for those running straight to the PA for use with in-ears. It doesn’t have as flexible of an EQ as the rest of the DG lineup, so I’m mildly hesitant over running the X7 on its own, hence why I haven’t just ordered one already.

 

[tonymcbony]

I’m impatiently waiting for hands-on reviews that can answer the question if whether the X7 offers enough tone shaping for those running straight to the PA for use with in-ears. It doesn’t have as flexible of an EQ as the rest of the DG lineup, so I’m mildly hesitant over running the X7 on its own, hence why I haven’t just ordered one already.

I know that for me I'm in on the X7 because it has the adjustable crossover points and bass compression vs being a direct to front of house tool but if it does that well too...damn, that's a lot of board space cleared up.

 

[Fuzzbass]

whether the X7 offers enough tone shaping for those running straight to the PA for use with in-ears. It doesn’t have as flexible of an EQ as the rest of the DG lineup

The X7 doesn't have as much EQ as the Ultras, but it's on par with most non-Ultras in its class. Also, the filter sweeps aren't EQ per se, but they shape tone as well as shaping dirt.