Continued Deep Dives into the World's Finest Pedals
And others....
We are returned and we are to be driven. Overdriven you might say.
There is drive. There is distortion. There is Fuzz and frolics.
But, as ever, enough of my gibberish. You're here to hear from the Master.
Take it away my friend.....
The Pedals
Darkglass Vintage Microtubes Bass Overdrive Pedal
Did you know.. that Darkglass pedals.. have the brightest indicator light.. in the world?
We digress. The Darkglass Electronics Vintage Microtubes is not only a pedal you can see from space, it's an awesome time-spanning bass overdrive pedal at it's core. It's ability to shape it's tone via the "ERA" knob is fairly mindblowing, sweeping from 70's lo-fi warmth all the way to dense 90's fuzz in the span of a control dial. But if your just looking for something as simple as bass tone shaping, the Vintage Microtubes does that too, and does it really well. It actually smoothens out playing styles and generally ramps up the fun. Designed as an "always on" style pedal, but with cranked "Drive" and "Era" dials, it might be safer to use discreetly.
We go through all the settings and features in this video, and we hope you enjoy!
Darkglass Microtubes X Multiband Bass Drive
We all know by now how good Darkglass bass gear is. The folks have it sussed. But in case you needed a reminder..
Here's the Darkglass Microtubes X Overdrive pedal. They also do overdrive really good too. The Microtubes X multiband distortion engine brings into controls producers have been using for years in the studio, allowing you to separate and sculpt the portions of the spectrum that are distorted and remain untouched for ultimate flexibility. Using LO PASS and HIGH PASS filtering with flexible blending options for both, it's limitless tones will having you foaming at the mouth!
Enjoy!
The modern age gives us a lot of hi-tech wonders, and it's exciting to see where it's all going. But as far as distortion pedals go, just leave them the way they were - analog, loud, aggressive and downright dangerous sounding.
This just happens to be Maestro Invader Distortion's speciality!
The Maestro Invader Distortion is a high-gain, all-analog modern distortion pedal with a heavy, aggressive, dominant sonic character and loads of rich harmonics. With the Maestro Invader Distortion, users can generate a wide range of distorted sounds. The 3-knob control layout gives users intuitive control over Gain (distortion amount), Tone, and output Level, with more than enough volume on tap to easily exceed unity gain when you want to. Users can also engage a built-in noise gate with the top panel toggle switch. An internal trim pot mounted on the circuit board inside the pedal allows the user to adjust the level of the noise gate's Threshold. The true bypass footswitch triggers the LED lights in the bugles in the Maestro logo when it’s on, so you’ll always know when the effect is active.
We ran through it's features and sounds to check it out..
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That's what Grandma used to say anyway.
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