GazWills Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) you don't half get through some pedals Andy!! Edited January 8, 2016 by GazWills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 [quote name='Darkglass' timestamp='1452278341' post='2948513'] Hey guys! Whoa, the drama continues, unfortunately. I have tried to stay out of this whole situation as much as possible on forums: I started Darkglass because there's nothing I love more than designing electronic circuits and making bass sound good. All this drama, conjecture and confrontation are very distracting and I really don't think they help anyone. That being said, I feel obliged to clarify any assumptions that I feel are baseless or simply inaccurate: If anyone thinks that I would or could coerce Mark from Bass Direct into doing anything against his will clearly doesn't know me or him very well, I've gone through enough owning and running a business to know that blackmail is a very poor business move in the long run and hope to never be naive and foolish enough to go that route. Mark is a great guy, he was our first dealer and has continued to be a great one throughout the years, he's always been very pleasant and fair but he's no push over. Aside from that, I'm pretty sure Darkglass accounts for a very modest portion of his business - he deals, many times with exclusivity much bigger brands - it's reasonable to assume that I don't have nearly as much muscle as some of you think I have. Mark is his own man and I'm quite confident me nor anyone can tell him what to sell or not to sell at his store. Hopes this helps clarify some of this so we can move on, I for sure already have. [/quote] Good to see you here Doug! I don't know what happened in the whole Darkglass/Spencer affair, and I don't want to know. If I've spoke out of turn I apologise. But... I DON'T think the term CLONE should be being bandied about as there has been development in these pike pedals... even if the visuals are, ahem, questionably familiar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 [quote name='Bigwan' timestamp='1452287932' post='2948638'] Good to see you here Doug! I don't know what happened in the whole Darkglass/Spencer affair, and I don't want to know. If I've spoke out of turn I apologise. But... I DON'T think the term CLONE should be being bandied about as there has been development in these pike pedals... even if the visuals are, ahem, questionably familiar! [/quote] Agreed. Thread title amended as appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0175westwood29 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 [quote name='GazWills' timestamp='1452285828' post='2948614'] you don't half get through some pedals Andy!! [/quote] i do indeed ;-) Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Looking forward to hearing about these! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0175westwood29 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Demos done and edited will be up at some point today. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Apple Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 [quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1452391376' post='2949608'] Demos done and edited will be up at some point today. Andy [/quote] Any initial thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0175westwood29 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 [quote name='Billy Apple' timestamp='1452392066' post='2949610'] Any initial thoughts? [/quote] Both sound very nice, the colour setting are very nice a lot of sounds and the the little Vulcan has a lot of sounds in it! I haven't played any darkglass stuff but from videos I have to say the pikes are def a dif sound, less gainy at the top end. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HazBeen Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Great to see someone now has the Pike's to check out! For the rest I see all of this is down to a number of bad decisions made by the owners/CEOs of 2 companies and neither is any better than the other. BassDirect should have kept on selling the Pike's, business is business. Or he should never have started selling them in the 1st place. All he has achieved now is raise lots of question marks about his reasoning for stopping all of a sudden. Mark sort of got himself caught up in this as well now.. And lets not forget this entire thing is about as important as deciding what colour socks to wear in the bigger scheme of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0175westwood29 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 first of the videos! first up the smaller "Vulcan" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlywbVQG0t0 only in size! Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HazBeen Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Great stuff, I like the tone of it. It is less grindy than a B3K and the switch B15-Hi Gain is a cool feature. I never liked the DG VMT much it never felt as if the dirt and clean gelled. it appears this may be a great alternative to that pedal and would be a good in addition to the B3K on my board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0175westwood29 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 [quote name='HazBeen' timestamp='1452438707' post='2949921'] Great stuff, I like the tone of it. It is less grindy than a B3K and the switch B15-Hi Gain is a cool feature. I never liked the DG VMT much it never felt as if the dirt and clean gelled. it appears this may be a great alternative to that pedal and would be a good in addition to the B3K on my board. [/quote] thats what i like so many blends are crap this works well with the independent controls for each andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbowskill Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 It's sounds lovley. Could work well as an 'always on' pre type effect to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0175westwood29 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 [quote name='danbowskill' timestamp='1452443744' post='2949978'] It's sounds lovley. Could work well as an 'always on' pre type effect to me [/quote] would work really well for that. as promised guys! heres the Vulcan XL demo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7kcjhbTJnc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HazBeen Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 XL sounds good too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_Bass Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Thanks for the demos. I now know that i won't be trading my B3K for the Vulcan, it sounds really great (not even close to the B3K) but i prefer to have the extra dirt-almost fuzz in my arsenal for an odd request from the audience and the more "in your face" sound of the B3K works better for me, it cuts the mix perfectly. Nice sounds on the Vulcan too, great pedal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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