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

[fivestringgecko]

I like the tones I hear people get from the other Microtubes pedals, but they're just a little too gritty and gravely(?) sounding to my ears to be perfect. This one sounds like the answer.

It depends. Players on Talkbass really seem to love their dirt pedals, and love them a LOT... Like, "crank that gain all the way up or it's not a good pedal" a lot. Most of the demos I heard of the B3K were all really aggressive metal-ish demos, but I took a chance anyway and love it. I'm very much a low gain guy that uses overdrives to just barely warm up my sound... Which the B3K can still do. I usually have the drive knob around 7:00-8:00 at the most, for what that's worth to you.

5sg.

 

[Hobobob]

It depends. Players on Talkbass really seem to love their dirt pedals, and love them a LOT... Like, "crank that gain all the way up or it's not a good pedal" a lot. Most of the demos I heard of the B3K were all really aggressive metal-ish demos, but I took a chance anyway and love it. I'm very much a low gain guy that uses overdrives to just barely warm up my sound... Which the B3K can still do. I usually have the drive knob around 7:00-8:00 at the most, for what that's worth to you.

5sg.

I don't doubt the low gain prowess of the B3K at all, it's more a question of the pedal's inherent tonality. I'm sure if I were to receive one for free, or even half price, I'd be happy as a lark with it. But I'm far too poor to drop that kind of coin on a pedal that's anything short of perfect for me .
Besides, the best metal tones I've heard had just a touch of grind on top anyways, a la Newstead or Inez. The iGuitar video on the Darkglass site has a good example of this tone using the B3K.

 

[MSUsousaphone]

The sad (or awesome, depending on if you're looking to sell or buy) fact about the B3Ks is that now that they're made in the US and sold at Prymaxe, they'll probably be going for under $200 in the classifieds, soon. So keep looking.

 

[fivestringgecko]

The sad (or awesome, depending on if you're looking to sell or buy) fact about the B3Ks is that now that they're made in the US and sold at Prymaxe, they'll probably be going for under $200 in the classifieds, soon. So keep looking.

I'm selling and I hate you for reminding me. lol Mine's not far from that and it's a Made in Finland that I got straight from Doug...

5sg.

 

[kenstee]

They are totally different, maybe the description sounds alike though, but sound-wise (and design-wise) they are totally different animals... the Vintage is not designed to emulate any specific amplifier brand or model but many different characters! (among my favorites Rush, Yes, The Who, John Paul Jones, TimmyC) sure some of them used Ampeg, but many of them didn't.

Also, I am not aware of other overdrives taking into consideration, for example, the natural compression produced by tape recording methods so characteristic of the 70's... our Vintage does!

Regards, Doug.

Thanks Doug. Already put in an advanced order for it with my favorite effects dealer BassEFX www.bassefx.com

 

[x64]

Any chance of soundclips soon?

 

[caeman]

I want a pedal that emulates a Sunn.

 

[Veldar]

If you turn the Era all the way up will it sound like feildy?

 

[NKUSigEp]

I want a pedal that emulates a Sunn.

Correct Sound Eclipse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQe6GeXbVBw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[gillento]

preorderd at bassdirect.co.uk !

 

[Hobobob]

I gotta step up my game and make some money, or these will all be gone!

 

[Darkglass]

If you turn the Era all the way up will it sound like feildy?

Not really... it doesn't get that scooped. I think the B3K/B7K are more likely to approach that type of character more accurately .

 

[fivestringgecko]

Wait... Fieldy has a bass tone? Last I knew he tuned down so far the only thing you could really hear in the mix was a clickety clackety sound of strings on frets. lol

(Sorry... Couldn't resist... Lol)

5sg.

 

[smeet]

People make a lot of fun of Fieldy, but the fact is, I can always hear the fundamental note he's playing (in addition to the admittedly ridiculous amount of clacking).

Anyway, I'm definitely going to order one of these bad boys early in the new year.

 

[MSUsousaphone]

He uses a parallel looper. He runs clean in one loop and puts his clack in the other.

 

[Darkglass]

People make a lot of fun of Fieldy, but the fact is, I can always hear the fundamental note he's playing (in addition to the admittedly ridiculous amount of clacking).

Anyway, I'm definitely going to order one of these bad boys early in the new year.

Nice! I don't hate Fieldy's tone at all... I think it suits the style in a very original way!
But the Microtubes Vintage is designed to do something extremely different from that type of character .

 

[DeltaPhoenix]

Thank goodness

 

[Darkglass]

Thank goodness

Hahaha, it's interesting though.
I just design the pedals I'd like to use myself. And I was super into metal when I designed the B3K... so that's why it ended up being that tight and aggressive.

Now with the years I've ended up listening to a lot more classic bands... Rush, Yes, The Who, RATM, Led Zeppelin, etc.
So the "ideal" sound in my head has changed drastically and that really influenced the designing of the Vintage.

Regards, Doug.

 

[DeltaPhoenix]

...gettin' old I guess, eh Doug

 

[Darkglass]

...gettin' old I guess, eh Doug

Yeah fortunately the young savage in me still craves for bass dirt, so no worries... there probably won't be any Darkglass hand-knitted sweaters any time soon .