Kev

Yikes, what a pink torpedo up!

Can see why he asked though, as there are nail holes? it’s a nice touch, reminds me of the old Sovtek pedals.

I’m not sold on the drive tone at all. I’m not sure what new it is bringing to an already very crowded arena?

I trust Nolly and his mixing wizardry, but I do wonder why they went for no IR on the clean side. Well, I get why, but when recording bass surely it’s the norm to track a dry track anyway, I think this interface even does that? So you keep the lows and high sparkle there anyway, so I don’t really get why you wouldn’t IR the clean side. Ie like the other Darkglass Ultra pedals, just stick the IR at the end of the chain. it’s interesting, as it means you’d struggle to use the pedal as a clean master preamp with other Darkglass circuits as it would mean no IR. Similarly, with an always-on IR on the dirt side, if you had other Darkglass ultra circuits after this, it would mean you would potentially be loading an IR on top of another one? Guess it’s designed mainly as a standalone pedal, which is cool but I’d need to hear more before I could consider swapping the others out. Sounds interesting though, for me (I think I have a fairly trained DG ear) it’s surprisingly quite different from the X and B7K circuits, given those are the ones Nolly has pushed more if any. It seems to share most ground with the Alpha Omega vibe? Definitely has some nice tone in there, but I need to hear a non Dingwall bass through it to form an opinion really.

What are you powering that needs double a DC7 output?!

Logo looks great with the Silver Cloth Do Barefaced do these with the same finish as the 12" cabs, as opposed to the tolex?

Whilst they have common ancestry they are quite separate companies. For example, I know Neural do not have the rights beyond the B*K and Vintage circuits to the Darkglass products, hence there is no X/Alpha Omega plugins or models on the QC. I don't know how related this will be beyond the encoders, its mainly based on technology from the Element.

It really isn't £500 for a "distortion pedal"....

I wouldn’t apologise, this comment is in every new Darkglass thread 😂 I think the price is lower than expected, given how many more features it has than an Ultra pedal, which have rrps of £399. £70 for presets, two different signal paths, a two channel audio interface and all the modern techy stuff doesn’t sound bad at all. I always respond the same way though, it isn’t just Darkglass! The tech21 Geddy is Ultra priced, and that has comparable features. It’s just the price of this level of gear these days. For me, Darkglass has never put something out for an unexpected high price, in fact they seem to continually come in less than I’d expect.

From what Nolly has said, there are five new distortion algorithms in this, ranging from dark drive to almost synth like fuzz. I agree, we need to hear a solid demo without a Dingwall anywhere near it to see what this has to offer compared to the rest of the range. If first impressions from the description/power consumption is right and these are digital algorithms, it'll be the first digital distortion by Darkglass. Big step, but perhaps natural with Neural so closely linked.

Definitely one to hear a full demo of. I feel it can do a hell of a lot more than the standard nolly tone stuff you hear in the video.

Well, this came from nowhere. Utlising some Quad Cortex tech as well with those footswitch/control knob attenuators. Interesting! But yes, I imagine this won't be less than £500... EDIT* £469? Not as bad as I thought at all, considering the standard Ultra costs...

First rule of fight club...

They would do well to stress than you can only be with members of your own household/bubble. That is often being forgotten and friends are going to these places together, which of course is against the rules in Tier 2. I don't really know how gigs can run, unless people are sitting alone or with their partner. I can't see how there can be any full tables, no families I know regularly go out to gigs together! Are venues turning away people who happen to be alone in their household as they can't give away a whole table just for 1 person??

Obviously the album tone has been processed a LOT, but that pretty much nails the live tone. I don't think you'd get closer with a muff and animato. The 2nd half of the riff on the 2nd string is the giveaway, that tone is spot on.

I personally wouldn't wish to go FoH by DI without a cab sim. Particularly when using distortion, full range PA speakers are not kind to the high frequencies, so simulating a speaker cabinet and its eq curving is beneficial. I use a Darkglass preamp, which has an IR Cab Sim loaded onto its DI and have got great result, both Live and recording. I have previously owned Omnicabsim is a great pedal and really easy to use. However, a Cab Sim isn't deemed a must by many bassists, particularly if you don't have an overdriven tone. I would still use one, but its relatively modern tech to have one on your pedalboard.

I’ve just come back to it and now I’m exhausted.

Guys, this thread is about the Machinist pedal and nothing else. Please try to keep on topic otherwise we’ll have to close the discussion. Alex has apologised, let’s move on.

Why is that, Alex? I admit that there are some on the forum that take criticisms of your company uncomfortably far at times, but there is nothing but constructive intelligent discussion in this thread at the moment? Although I fear that may change after your post

I mean you could be right, this could be about getting the foot in the door of the Effects game and, if this is successful, they can then go on to target more game changing ideas. Other than the slight curiosity with the clean section, this is very much part of an unchanged game, and as someone says it simply seems to be a whitelabelling. I can't envisage people getting excited by it though, I really can't. The Cog circuitry used, unless modified more than it seems, has been around for ages. I think when a company has the finances to back a new project, it needs to jump straight to game changing these days. Look at Darkglass; nailed the pedal game, had no experience building amps whatsoever. Built an amp with their tech built in; game changing. Despite having no foot in the door, they sold like crazy and I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of the best selling and most used Class D heads out there right now. However, they also built somespeakers or, more accurately, effectively whitelabelled another cab builder. Not ground breaking, just standard high quality cabs with no particular features to shout about, other than the Darkglass badge. Did they do as well as the heads?? Not even close. I have hardly seen anyone use them. And I feel that will happen to Barefaced too, unless they do something different.