DARKGLASS Microtubes X7 Multiband Distortion Pedal Review/Demo | GEAR GODS
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2018
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Trey takes a look at the new Microtubes X7 pedal from Darkglass Electronics - it's parallel bass processing and distortion in a single pedal!
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Oh man i believe this Pedal might produce some awesome sounds, but dude... always using maximum gain and letting those bees sting your ears isn't the best representation of this pedal.
That seriously depends on your genre. Im dumbfounded that alternative fusion and even jazz players use distortion and than complain about its aggressive brutal tone
always wait for the ultra version ;)
im trying to wait, but I want it NOW.
@Mitch Lamm me too
the pedal i have always been looking for!! I am getting this
Based on this demo I just took it out of my cart.
It would have been nice to hear it without the OD maxed out. Id personally use some OD for sure but just not that much. With the OD at say.... 10am to 2pm you could use it for any genre of bass playing. Just a thought.
Extremely Helpful! Thank you very much!
sick stuff!!! can you put up a vid that shows it in a mix?
I think this pedal would be so much cooler (and more versiltile) if it was just the signal splitting thing and had an fx loop. Like, you could put a b7k or an AO on the high side and maybe an other pre or eq pedal on the low. You could really go wild and do your own thing then
There is a pedal that does that, it’s called Tyler the Frequency Splitter and it is reeeaalll sick
@@treyxaviermusic oh sick! Thanks, will look that up
Wait for the Ultra? Who knows! ^_^
@@douglascastro320 Wait really? Could it be any pedal? Like compressor or something.
This pedal does that though 👍
Killer demo, trey 😎🤘🏻🎸 I have this pedal and it is absolutely phenomenal. It’s a definite keeper.
That's an excellent review and explanations
Definitely killer for rock and metal !!! I’m not a bass player but that’s gonna get some use in my studio to stop me from having to do the old copy the bass track process the low-end process the grit track....work with blending them and blah blah blah !!!
Great intro to this pedal, thanks :-)
Really good review
Is that EQ pre or post?
So if it’s between this in the micro tubes 900
Can you do a video comparing Amplitube 4 and BIAS FX? Would really appreciate it :) Love your videos!
Went with a sansamp vt over dg cause it was a lot cheaper but mainly it sounds warmer and more natural to my ears
Do quality control on harleybenton 8 string fanfret (non deluxe) and show how to make it sound the best it can be
It sounds like static behind every note
Hey Trey. Great demo. Are you using 9v power adapter? I hear 12v is the sweet spot as 18v may be a bit much headroom. I have this pedal with 9v and I've got a little fizz in the underlying mix on multiple basses.
That's a known issue. Write to DG customer service, they'll sort it out
So how do we get that same bass? Like exact to spec! Don't see it on their website. Great video! sounds incredible!
Could this pedal also do an undistorted sound? Say if I want the option to just use the EQ in tone shaping?
I still have little drive sound with drive knob all the way down (while the bass with full volume).
I can only get the clean tone while the bass with below 50% volume. :)
Btw im a "full volume" guy due to tone issue, so its NO for me :)
Its more like a drive pedal than B7K imo
It does, or gets close to it; put the drive down and play a little on the EQ.
I definitely think of the microtubes as more of an "always on" preamp/eq. Sounds great, but not as a distortion boost so much. That's why I went with the Duality. The microtubes in front of that would be killer though.
I like it. I like it a lot.
:O This looks extremely useful.
So this or the alpha omega?
Would you still consider a compressor pedal to this or does it the trick too?
I don't think it needs additional compression, the built-in compressor sounded great to me
Thanks for the reply! I'm eyeballing the hyperluminal compressor but this seams to be everything I ever wanted for like 10 years..
Problem is when you want to turn the distortion off, you lose your compression, right? This pedal more than the others seems to demand an ultra version.
@@reefersutherland4265 I don't understand why you would lose your compression, since the high and low signal are split and don't interact with each other. Or am I wrong?
@@treyxaviermusic So being that this pedal already has a compressor, when the pedal is off, would you still need a compressor for your other effects and clean tone?
You gotta put this next to a B7K, they absolutely DOMINATE together.
Beautiful bass! Possible review in the future?
Yes there will be one
Awesome!
We Finns are indeed pretty awesome!
Except that the founders of darkglass (and current CEO and sales manager) are two guys from Chile. The company happens to be in Finland but actually most of the darkglass team aren't even finns but latins
Give me it
Kiesel is nice.
Check out Patrick hunters demo of this. With the gain maxed out this is unlistenable.
Doug is from chilli js
Talking of quality control... ought to be some on these tones🤔
Am I the only one that doesn't like the sound of this pedal? I'm set on distortion, because I run two amps; a bass amp for clean bass and some clean mids and a guitar amp for mids and treble that I can distort when I want to, plus any guitar distortion pedal (HM-2!) that I want in the guitar amp line. I understand that many people don't have the back muscles to lug around two amps, so a pedal is preferable... But this pedal reminds me of a cheap radio I owned which distorted when put on 10.
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The distortion from this pedal sounds awful! Was it recorded without a cab sim? Cause otherwise I can't explain this shrieking noise
4 years late, but he said that he’s using 0 post processing so I bet that includes cab sim. A little shrill for sure
Gain in this pedal destroys bass tone.Too much.
Yeah but you can turn it down, I just like a lot. I had it way up for most of the video.
running it through a cab should also really mallow out the distortion nicely
Yeah man. The demo is very well done and I dig the Kiesel. But yeah, this is yet another video where the bass' natural character is lost and ends up sounding the same at high gain as any other bass through it. Not much booty on the low end either. At this point this Darkglass offering probably isn't for me. I do love the ole AO so its all good
I enjoyed the "base" tone a lot more also, but taste is taste, it was still a great demo and we get the gist of the pedal. Gear Gods do great Work.
@@johnosstreeter You have to remember that this sound will work in a mix. Doesnt sound as good alone, but in a band situation..
this bass tone sounds like if Dimebag Darrell played bass. it’s so beautiful
Only 1 question. Will it make me sound like my favorite band? Im talking ear splitting distortion. that shit that the 80s and 90s were made of. I dnt care about overdrive, underdrive, hyperdrive, or the number of midichlorians it has. Just rip on this shit. So I can know if it's wort buying or not!
I was a little dissapointed at first, because I just got a B7K v2 and didn't knew about this X7, but now Im completely sure that I made the right choice, I don't like this pedal
Onde tu comprou dark glass no Brasil???
@@cacadordorio no, I'm from México and bought it in amazon USA, there's no Darkglass dealers over here =/
That thing sounds really annoying. I suspect the settings he has dialed in are the reason in particular that high pass, it just sounds like low end with metallic scraping on top in not a good way.
Man i love Treys reviews but the tones he dials for bass are just atrocious. Ive watched a few other demos of this pedal and they sound so much bigger and better
great pedal, but this bass sounds horrible. How to ruin a video test. Congratulations
330 euros pour faire Bbbrrrrrrrbbrrrrrr 👎
Anyone else think this tone is some scooped, weak shit?
Nah, it's just you man.
this actually sounds pretty bad lol
This really hurts my ears …. judging on this vid I will not buy this pedal
100% agree. However, it could be the lack of cab sim making everything worse
The pedal isn’t the problem, if you check out Jacob Umansky’s demo of this pedal you’ll hear a drastic difference. It’s the fact that he’s equalizing a bass like it’s a fucking guitar that makes this sound like hot garbage.