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

#883
Stoch said:
Hey everyone!

Will it be a bad idea to use both the B7K and the Microtubes at the same time? And if not, why exactly would it be a GOOD idea? :)
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It's a wonderful idea! Those pedals almost seem like they were meant for each other. What's even better IMO is you can crank the blend on the 7 to get more bite out of the VMT. Flip both switches on the 7 up too. Raunch city.
 
#884
In my experience I found that the Vintage sounds better before the B7K (Bass>VMT>B7K>amp). The B7 was a bit dominant the other way, for me. Also, after some experimenting, if I am gonna use them both at the same time I use the raw setting on the B7K and I set both blends to 50%. Sometimes even less on the B7. This worked amazing for me. But hey. Greg seems to like the blend high on the B7, so I would see what works best for you. In short, they sound great stacked. But if you use more subtle settings they produce a more useable, very thick, amazing tone. You get the metallic sound of the B7K and the vintage mid grit from the VMT. So freakin good.
 
#888
franksgbass said:
In my experience I found that the Vintage sounds better before the B7K (Bass>VMT>B7K>amp). The B7 was a bit dominant the other way, for me. Also, after some experimenting, if I am gonna use them both at the same time I use the raw setting on the B7K and I set both blends to 50%. Sometimes even less on the B7. This worked amazing for me. But hey. Greg seems to like the blend high on the B7, so I would see what works best for you. In short, they sound great stacked. But if you use more subtle settings they produce a more useable, very thick, amazing tone. You get the metallic sound of the B7K and the vintage mid grit from the VMT. So freakin good.
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It depends on which amp I'm playing on, ampeg B50R- about halfway or a little less. 1001RB- past halfway most the time or around 3 o'clock. That's what I like anyway. The ampeg just sounds to sweet to take too much away from its smoothness.
 
#893
It's too bad that you can't control the volume of your clean signal but only the affected one. What's the difference between blending a bit more of the drive signal opposed to boosting the volume? I wanted to boost my signal with vmt but I'd like to keep my blend at like noon or so. Boosting the volume only boosts the drive signal.
 
#894
mouthmw said:
It's too bad that you can't control the volume of your clean signal but only the affected one. What's the difference between blending a bit more of the drive signal opposed to boosting the volume? I wanted to boost my signal with vmt but I'd like to keep my blend at like noon or so. Boosting the volume only boosts the drive signal.
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Try rolling back the blend to 9 o'clock or so and boosting the volume of the overdriven signal.
 
#896
mouthmw said:
Yes, but! If I go above my bypassed volume, I'd still only be boosting the drive volume. I know it's not a boost pedal and I guess that's fine, just a small quirk.
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Yeah I hear you - we just felt that it would be better to have a more intuitive arrangement (volume/blend) and sacrifice the ability to boost the clean signal (volume/volume).
 
#897
Spencer! said:
Yeah I hear you - we just felt that it would be better to have a more intuitive arrangement (volume/blend) and sacrifice the ability to boost the clean signal (volume/volume).
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It's still the best OD I've ever used. Made some amazing angry pissed off tones with my GK last gig. Total wow factor! I'll be playing through Ashdown 900 this weekend and I'm looking forward to hearing how vmt will work with it. I never turn it off. It's my always on tone shaper :)
 
#898
Spencer! said:
Yeah I hear you - we just felt that it would be better to have a more intuitive arrangement (volume/blend) and sacrifice the ability to boost the clean signal (volume/volume).
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I agree that vol/blend can be more intuitive than vol/vol, but having the volume knob as a master for the output signal rather than the wet path only would be more flexible. As long as the pot taper on the blend knob allows, there is no sound you can't get with that configuration, whereas with the configuration as is there are certain proportions of wet/dry that are not possible depending on the level you want to achieve.
 
#899
Jeff Moote said:
I agree that vol/blend can be more intuitive than vol/vol, but having the volume knob as a master for the output signal rather than the wet path only would be more flexible. As long as the pot taper on the blend knob allows, there is no sound you can't get with that configuration, whereas with the configuration as is there are certain proportions of wet/dry that are not possible depending on the level you want to achieve.
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We talked about that a while back, but the problem is that at each end of the gain range the blend pot would be really hard to use.
 
#900
Forgive the necromancy, but I just picked up a VMT and playing through my Ampeg SVT3. I am loving the tones, but I am wondering if the VMT is simply redundant to the tones I am already getting with the svt? Anybody else playing a vmt through and svt? What are your thoughts? Thanks,
 
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