Darkglass Anagram

[attackbass]

It's not necessarily to do with the anagram, I've been feeling this was about the QC for a while but decided to stick it out for a while with the QC. It's great but underused features why. Its almost like I just want less stuff haha

 

The QC is amazing but probably overly complicated for my needs and with some effects I struggle to get the sounds I want or find how some of them interact with my basses I just can't get the sounds I expect from them. Most notably from the filters.

 

It would be to free up some cash and either at some point go with an anagram or actually just buy a few nice pedals and a tuner.. the Anagram would probably make sense due to the range of drives and also the extra effects that I would use sporadically.

 

I've got a whammy, a phaser and an aftershock already sitting in boxes that all do the job. Would maybe opt for a Dunlop Chancellor Wah, MXR vintage bass octave, possibly a comp to add to that but then I love the clean set up of the QC and dislike my OCD with builinf pedalboards.

 

Let's face it I can do pretty much all my gigs with my bass, tuner and sansamp.

[Greg Edwards69]

14 hours ago, tayste_2000 said:

 

Anagram doesn’t have a phaser currently, just an FYI

IIRC, marco said one is coming in that interview with IMA

[joeabass]

I’ve gigged it for a couple of weeks now on its own. It’s excellent. Even in its current form, although I do wish midi functionality had been sorted at launch. I much prefer the interface and sounds (for bass) compared to QC and stomp…. Like I’ve said before I’m absolutely aware you can dial in great sounds for both as I’ve had both but I just don’t want to sit and tinker. I’m going to dive into the NAM side of things next and see how that goes as the ones that are in the anagram as standard sound very good  

[MrDinsdale]

Anyone tried creating a NAM profile?

 

I’ve done AIDA-X captures in the past and it was a real pain with reamp boxes and trying to sync audio signals to offset latency etc.

 

I dont need on-device capturing but an easy workflow is a deal breaker for me. Will have to have a go if I get a mo. 

[tayste_2000]

2 hours ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

IIRC, marco said one is coming in that interview with IMA

Oh I know, but currently it doesn’t and we have no timeline for when it will.

 

Bluetooth he said I hope I’m not too optimistic but it should be a couple of months.

 

Audio over USB was pulled last minute before release, but it’s had 3? firmware updates so far and it’s not there.

 

I’m sure it will all be there, just we don’t know when and if you NEED one of these features you should hold off getting it for now imho

[MichaelDean]

6 hours ago, MrDinsdale said:

Anyone tried creating a NAM profile?

 

I’ve done AIDA-X captures in the past and it was a real pain with reamp boxes and trying to sync audio signals to offset latency etc.

 

I dont need on-device capturing but an easy workflow is a deal breaker for me. Will have to have a go if I get a mo. 

There's an easy(ish) method on the Tone3000 website. Download an audio file, send that through the gear, upload the recording and they work it out. I guess you'd need to do a bit of matching, but it shouldn't be too bad. 

 

https://www.tone3000.com/capture

[MrDinsdale]

15 minutes ago, MichaelDean said:

There's an easy(ish) method on the Tone3000 website. Download an audio file, send that through the gear, upload the recording and they work it out. I guess you'd need to do a bit of matching, but it shouldn't be too bad. 

 

https://www.tone3000.com/capture

Cool will have to give it a go. I'm sure I can get a little template set up in logic with all the correct routing etc and see how it compares. 

[markorbit]

On 22/04/2025 at 20:57, MichaelDean said:

I still can't get on with the Darkglass tone though. That fizzy top end and seemingly disconnected low just doesn't sound good to me. 

It's not compatible with me neither. I had high hopes for a Vintage Ultra but was so disappointed. I will check out the videos of this but Darkglass are on my 'nope, won't be for me' list.

I don't really do digital without a fight either 🙂

Edited May 6 by markorbit

[krispn]

Any updates form folks who have been using this out live? 

[markbunney]

Looks there is now a long waiting list for these, Andertons saying > 3 months, and Guitar Guitar saying end of September 😮 

[attackbass]

On 04/05/2025 at 08:07, attackbass said:

It's not necessarily to do with the anagram, I've been feeling this was about the QC for a while but decided to stick it out for a while with the QC. It's great but underused features why. Its almost like I just want less stuff haha

 

The QC is amazing but probably overly complicated for my needs and with some effects I struggle to get the sounds I want or find how some of them interact with my basses I just can't get the sounds I expect from them. Most notably from the filters.

 

It would be to free up some cash and either at some point go with an anagram or actually just buy a few nice pedals and a tuner.. the Anagram would probably make sense due to the range of drives and also the extra effects that I would use sporadically.

 

I've got a whammy, a phaser and an aftershock already sitting in boxes that all do the job. Would maybe opt for a Dunlop Chancellor Wah, MXR vintage bass octave, possibly a comp to add to that but then I love the clean set up of the QC and dislike my OCD with builinf pedalboards.

 

Let's face it I can do pretty much all my gigs with my bass, tuner and sansamp.

 

 

I have sold the QC to a friend for a bit less than I could've if I had wanted to list it in various places. I lent it to him and he loved it so it was an easy sale.

 

I'm not going for an Anagram though. I've decided to go mostly Analog and down the MXR and Dunlop route, and considering  eventually maybe a HX One Stomp for those one off pedals I like having more for fun or for an extra bit of drive.

 

This way I'll have a fair bit if cash left over from the QC sale.

 

 

[tayste_2000]

39 minutes ago, attackbass said:

 

 

I have sold the QC to a friend for a bit less than I could've if I had wanted to list it in various places. I lent it to him and he loved it so it was an easy sale.

 

I'm not going for an Anagram though. I've decided to go mostly Analog and down the MXR and Dunlop route, and considering  eventually maybe a HX One Stomp for those one off pedals I like having more for fun or for an extra bit of drive.

 

This way I'll have a fair bit if cash left over from the QC sale.

 

 

Best of luck with that, I’m doing the same and my small board of just the essentials is like 10 pedal currently 😅

[krispn]

I was gigging my board last night and if I shifted it for ana Ana I’d only miss the tone it’s giving me - recently flirted with a HX Stomp again but in the AB test my board won. I think the pedal I’m most likely to add is the Kaamos. It’s able to do double duty of Alpha Omega and the octave down options. While I’m enjoying the Anangram videos I just know a multi would be wasted on me as cool as it is I have two or three sounds which are basically the same just with increasing drive. 
 

Now to torture myself thinking about a kaamos. 😀🤣

Edited Saturday at 14:46 by krispn

[Killerfridge]

I just heard from Ivan that the Ampeg and GK models don't have a gain control, and you can't push them into distortion. Seems like a bit of an oversight if true

[attackbass]

4 hours ago, tayste_2000 said:

Best of luck with that, I’m doing the same and my small board of just the essentials is like 10 pedal currently 😅

 Haha!

 

I think I'm going to be pretty strict, and have the bored as a limitation and the hx one there to do any of the delays or pitch shifters I used once in a blue moon. I'm wondering how well the drives are on that too. One weakness I have is I now have artist pricing on Dunlop and MXR so I might get tempted!

 

I had the most success when I had a board of EBS pedals a long time ago, people would comment on the sound to me. Comp, Octabass, Valvedrive and Wah! I'm fact I think you interviewed me about it!

[tayste_2000]

Well Kevin Scott and Ian Allison Martin are both currently on the road with some super secret MXR pedal so that pricing might come in handy.

 

But as I say, best of luck 😅 

 

 

 

 

To us both

[LukeFRC]

8 minutes ago, tayste_2000 said:

Well Kevin Scott and Ian Allison Martin are both currently on the road with some super secret MXR pedal so that pricing might come in handy.

 

But as I say, best of luck 😅 

 

 

 

 

To us both

 how do you know this? and if it is super secret will you have to leave the country and go into hiding from the MXR agents?

[tayste_2000]

23 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

 how do you know this? and if it is super secret will you have to leave the country and go into hiding from the MXR agents?

Seen an mxr box in a IMA video with him saying I’m road testing this at the moment, very exciting but I can’t talk about it.

 

Kevin Scott posted a video of him playing through an MXR pedal he couldn’t say what it is but maybe we can guess from the sound (I couldn’t 😂) and 20 minutes later it was removed.

 

As for any agents finding me anywhere ….. best of luck 😅

[Greg Edwards69]

Is anyone able to comment on the Anagram's screen brightness, particularly outdoors in sunlight? Whilst I'm not expecting 1,000+ nits brightness like my iPhone, it would be good to know if it's more visible than my Helix LT screen, which may as well be turned off when I get to play outdoors.

 

PS, I hope one day multi-effects manufacturers use colour e-ink displays instead!

Edited yesterday at 10:17 by Greg Edwards69

[Dood]

A lil box arrived yesterday afternoon, I’m looking forward to sticking the business end of my nifty-fifty up in the shiny-shiny’s goggle box.

 

It’s going to be interesting to see how it compares sat next to the QC.

[markbunney]

13 hours ago, Dood said:

A lil box arrived yesterday afternoon, I’m looking forward to sticking the business end of my nifty-fifty up in the shiny-shiny’s goggle box.

 

It’s going to be interesting to see how it compares sat next to the QC.

Did you find one in stock somewhere? Everywhere I have seen has a 3-4 month wait list now 

[tayste_2000]

7 minutes ago, markbunney said:

Did you find one in stock somewhere? Everywhere I have seen has a 3-4 month wait list now 

 

He’ll have lent on his fame and skipped the line the rest of us peasants are in.

[LukeFRC]

7 minutes ago, markbunney said:

Did you find one in stock somewhere? Everywhere I have seen has a 3-4 month wait list now 

It’s Dood- he the kind of guy who doesn’t queue to get in a club…

[Dood]

1 hour ago, LukeFRC said:

It’s Dood- he the kind of guy who doesn’t queue to get in a club…

 

Dood doesn't queue to get in the club, the club queues to get in Dood. 😂😂😂

[Dood]

1 hour ago, markbunney said:

Did you find one in stock somewhere? Everywhere I have seen has a 3-4 month wait list now 

 

As much as it would be nice to play along and say its because they know me, its for ma job; I'm going to give Anagram a thorough review and video for y'all!

 

 

 

 

 

 

but yeah, they know me 😂