What the...Darkglass Vintage Microtubes?!?!

[Down_Low]

Looking forward to heading some demos.

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[aledeville]

Why not top mounted jacks? This is the most practical design by far.
So... why not?

 

[jwr]

Pfft! Who cares!!!!

I actually don't care about the whole top mounted thing.

 

[MSUsousaphone]

I prefer top mounted but it's not a deal breaker, by any means.

I would have LOVED to see two footswitches with separate gain knobs, though.

 

[jcburn]

Subbed as interested.

 

[fivestringgecko]

Designed in Finland (by Doug I am sure)

Yes, a design from Doug! He spent some serious time researching vintage amps (hence the name Vintage Microtubes I'm sure) and this one's meant to go after old school Rush, The Who and Yes type stuff.

5sg.

 

[willbassyeah]

You know for some reason I think this will be a fuzz pedal, remember Doug has mention that he is going to make a fuzz pedal based on old circuit?

 

[DeltaPhoenix]

This isn't the fuzz pedal for sure.

 

[ryansalmond]

I wonder if the era knob is more like a sansamp character knob or a low pass filter.

 

[fivestringgecko]

This isn't the fuzz pedal for sure.

Nope, not fuzz.

5sg.

 

[BrentSimons]

Yes, a design from Doug! He spent some serious time researching vintage amps (hence the name Vintage Microtubes I'm sure) and this one's meant to go after old school Rush, The Who and Yes type stuff.

5sg.

Oh Mama! Really??? I wonder how it would sound through my GK rig?
Brent

 

[Spencer!]

Not based on an SVT. The Era control is a tone control but it's more than just a simple low pass.

 

[Spencer!]

Why not top mounted jacks? This is the most practical design by far.
So... why not?

It would have had to be in a much larger box for that - we wanted to keep it compact.

 

[Darkglass]

Not based on an SVT. The Era control is a tone control but it's more than just a simple low pass.

It does a lot more... since it's meant to unlock different tones throughout rock and roll history, it does much more than changing the frequency response (like any other EQ or Tone stack).
It interacts beautifully with the Drive knob to recreate the effects that other factors like recording techniques had over the sound, such as different types of harmonics and even compression levels!

 

[ryansalmond]

Sounds fantastic. When will we hear a demo?

 

[M Sterling]

Wow...

 

[gidbass]

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lol!

and i agree...my bk3 needs a new friend...

 

[Spencer!]

I would have LOVED to see two footswitches with separate gain knobs, though.

No space for that in a little box!

 

[MSUsousaphone]

Well if you fellas do a Vin7K.

 

[Hobobob]

MUST HAVE SOUNDCLIPS! The way you guys are describing this thing, it's sounding more and more like my holy grail OD.