Microtubes X7 demo by Amos Heller
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Amos Heller shows us the secret recipe for massive distorted bass tones that maintains low-end impact.
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Amos is such a tight and rhythmic bassist, absolutely love these walkthroughs he does and the different ways he uses each pedal
Thank you Patrick! You’ve been a source of inspiration and research for these.
BRILLIANT!!! This is the demo that unlocks this pedal for the “thinking” bassist. I have not seen a better demo.
thanks Ike!
Wow, that didn't sound condescending or elitist at all.
@@EvilBlakey but it was straight forward and honest? No snide tone present
@@AmosHeller it was my honest review after viewing at least several hundred reviews. You have a style that I hope you do not change!
finally someone using it for other than metal! i use my X7 for everything!
I love how you set the pedal from scratch for every example... it's a kind of tutorial about how to get the desired results from this pedal. Other reviews just show a snapshot of the pedals settings and that's all. This is how it just be done. Thanks and greetings from Spain.
I'm glad the process is
helpful Alex!
Thank you for making video that uses more traditional lines and an actual breakdown of how this pedal does what it does...also kudos on not just slamming it after a dingwall and saying "tone"
Fidel Garza could have saved some time with that approach! 😂
As a big fan of Dingwall I still second this. It’s great to see the versatility of this pedal in other contexts that I could totally encounter on a gig.
I think we all recognize the power of DG x Dingwall! It’s a “thing” for a reason. But there’s a lot more on offer with the pedals that Darkglass makes. I feel like they can get more “extreme” than other pedals but that is not all they can do.
This the first Darkglass pedal I bought and the best I've ever had. Sold my old ones and this is now everything I need. No more low end losses.
Best DG review yet...Amos you're a beast
Thanks!
This is great, thank you! I've had this pedal for a little over a year now and am still learning it, this is an excellent clear explanation demo
There is a lot going on with this one. Glad it was helpful!
Excellent demo and review of the X7 pedal. Sounds amazing in metal, but also just as good for adding a little drive to any bass in many songs. I recorded a few on my channel without heavy drive. This demo helped me find the sweet spot on this pedal. Keep up the great work! Cheers!
EXCELENT explanation of the signal flow. Many thanks :-)
glad it helped! (the graphics took TOO LONG)
I came to hear the demo but stayed for that gorgeous bass. The white pickups fit so gooooood!
I saw Amos saying in the comments that it's an Elite model, but the headstock is matching the body color, which is not something that I saw other Elite models have.
Anyways it gave me big GAS and if I get a jazz bass I'm going to 100% make the same color/pickguard/pickups choice :D
Awesome review and tutorial. I have been messing with mine a lot and like to see other artist and their approach to using this pedal.
thanks Daniel. There's a lot under the hood of this one!
Pretty cool demo and also pretty informative about the pedal. It’s got a killer sound and it’s a great pedal to own for metal. \m/
Great demo, Amos. I see a lot of metal guys use this pedal for absurd guitar-like distortion, and that's great and all, but there's so much more going on here. I use this pedal for just about everything, and I find that that setting the distortion conservatively actually feels amazing when I'm jamming death metal riffs with 2 guitarists and a drummer.
Fucking amazing!!! Great video, best video on the pedal I've seen!!!
wow this is great, love the tones your are getting, thanks....getting one asap
Thanks! This one does a lot!
Love the demo for showing non-metal examples. Every other demo is djent-galore! I wish those low and high pass knobs had markers though. Hard to tell where they're at.
They do! It might have been difficult to see in the video, but there are labels to indicate cutoff frequency. Glad you liked the vid!
@@AmosHeller You should get commision from Darkglass because you sold me this pedal today ;)
This is the ONLY bass pedal in this category that doesn't sound cheesy. I love my X7.
What category is this
Great EXPLANATION of the GREAT pedal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
I love mine!! Still playing around with it...but damn!!! You can really sculpt your tone!!
mark gueren lots of flexibility in this piece!
Stoked on my heavy distortion sounds from the alpha omega ultra, it's been killin it! Yet, now I am looking for a heavy drive, for dirt, but with a mutual low end compensation... Thinkin this pedal suits my needs
Killer demo!
thank you
Great presentation and explanation!
As an audio engineer/mixer of all my own music, the options on this pedal give me the control for a live performance to get sounds that otherwise took hours of running dual channels in the studio... and having the parallel output lets me still run my synthy/heavily modulated sounds.. Darkglass is pure brilliance!
Great video👌
Thank you!
Damn. Would have needed that video sooner. Now I have a board with several pedals to somewhat get that one result. Oh well. Next generation will have it easier.
Nudelaug Binideppat exactly!
I've never been a big Jazz bass guy, but that bass looks and sounds great - what is it?
Thanks Glenn! It’s a Fender Elite Jazz.
Can this man please make a youtube channel
I cannot recommend this pedal enough for any bassist wanting to add some dirt, while maintaining everything their clean sound had, for great on/off in performance!
I have this one, great pedal.. it’s so creamy💗 and when I mean “it” I mean me 🤌🏼
Awesome and ew. :)
Will the pedal emulate the "SVT Growl"? Thanks.
If I have this on my rig, will I be good without a dedicated compressor pedal? I'm a minimalist, so the fewer pedals I need the better
So is the only difference between the microtubes X and the X7 is the eq section and an XLR? I have a darkglass head and only play a distorted tone so would a microtube X do the job cause I don't think I need 2 EQs
Are you using an active or passive bass?
Why don't you do some music video with Tim Commerford, and visa verse, be really informative, tnx.
TH-cam instructional / stories, you can't Not do it, I'll hassle Tim also, thanks :-)
Is that an American elite? What pickups did you put in?
It is! Pickups are stock but I thought white covers would be an aesthetic upgrade
@@AmosHeller awesome. I have the elite with no paint and a black pick guard. This video really helped me pull the trigger on an x ultra and it has become my all time favorite pedal by far.
That sounds like a killer looking bass
Sloth like Chunk!
Chunk love Sloth!
AmosHeller 😍 [*truffle shuffling*]
I really like the concept of this pedal but the distortion on the high end is too harsh and modern for my taste. In the demo, I liked more the tones where the level of the high end side is minimal or totally close. I wish Darkglass would build a similar pedal but with the distortion character of the vintage microtubes. I saw however, that the wish granting is currently unavailable. 😁
The pedal is very nice, but honestly that bass sounded best clean.
Modern bass tones are just too thin and trebly for my taste. I always want to like these demos, and its a good demo, but I always think modern bass OD/distortion pedals make the bass sound the same.
I seriously have now idea what he is talking about. Like. What?
Signal is split into two signals: low end and high end. Low end is compressed, high end is distorted. Then it combines back into one signal
Maybe I'm just an asshole, but the DI bass sounds better in every example.
Fair enough! Maybe not everyone will be going for the tones demonstrated, but I wanted to show what it can do. Glad you like the dry tone?
@@AmosHeller Very true. Perhaps it just so happens that I, personally, don't like the tones dialed in this demo. That's not to say that others should share my opinion, or that the pedal isn't capable of sounding good.
Tone was better without it.