Darkglass Anagram

[milesBguitar]

Very tempted as well but now need to take the dog to the vets as has become lame in one of her legs so might need to pay for another op! Grr....

 

Life happens when you’re making plans and all that! 

[Acebassmusic]

Bass Direct have just posted they have some in......

[JohnR]

All probably returns. 😂

[Kev]

Every time I've preodered something I've seen this happen, definitely learned my lesson there!  Could be a pattern though, as the last time it was Thomann and the Quad Cortex, I ended up cancelling and buying from Andertons instead.

[EssexBuccaneer]

So I’ve had half an hour playing with mine essentially as a stomp-box. I’ll have a better look tomorrow.

 

One thing - my phone Bluetooth won’t find the anagram on the Darkglass suite (iOS). Bluetooth is ‘on’ in the Anagram, but it just won’t find it.

 

Going to wire into the laptop tomorrow and update it

[JohnR]

Pretty much made my mind up to return my Anagram. The UI is great but, to be honest, I don't spend a lot of time creating and tweaking patches. Once I create a patch that's it done. So the benefit of the great UI is minimal for my use case. I don't use any amps or cabs in my patches and they are one of the big selling points of the Anagram. If you use amps and cabs it's definitely worth a look. There are only a small amount of FX pedals most of which are distortion variants and I don't use distortion. That leaves a few pedals of interest to me such as chorus, octaver, compressor, etc. The octavers are excellent but the chorus is underwhelming as are the compressors. 

 

The two things that convinced me to return it are the poor compressor implementation, I can't believe they gave it that beautiful screen but didn't bother to find space for compressor metering and the terrible supplied PSU which causes mains hum forcing the use of a secondary PSU or a USB supply which means you can't have it attached to your computer while powering it. I have contacted Darkglass support through two different means regarding the mains hum but have still to hear back from them. 

 

There simply are not enough fx options of good quality for me  and I have low confidence that a company of the size of Darkglass will have the software development resources to improve this any time soon. 

 

Please don't take the above as a total negative view as I am clearly not the intended user for the Anagram. If you use amp, cab and distortions this pedal will have a lot to offer you. 

[Tripehound]

And sold out again. Puts wallet back in pocket…

[Russ]

4 hours ago, JohnR said:

Pretty much made my mind up to return my Anagram. The UI is great but, to be honest, I don't spend a lot of time creating and tweaking patches. Once I create a patch that's it done. So the benefit of the great UI is minimal for my use case. I don't use any amps or cabs in my patches and they are one of the big selling points of the Anagram. If you use amps and cabs it's definitely worth a look. There are only a small amount of FX pedals most of which are distortion variants and I don't use distortion. That leaves a few pedals of interest to me such as chorus, octaver, compressor, etc. The octavers are excellent but the chorus is underwhelming as are the compressors. 

 

The two things that convinced me to return it are the poor compressor implementation, I can't believe they gave it that beautiful screen but didn't bother to find space for compressor metering and the terrible supplied PSU which causes mains hum forcing the use of a secondary PSU or a USB supply which means you can't have it attached to your computer while powering it. I have contacted Darkglass support through two different means regarding the mains hum but have still to hear back from them. 

 

There simply are not enough fx options of good quality for me  and I have low confidence that a company of the size of Darkglass will have the software development resources to improve this any time soon. 

 

Please don't take the above as a total negative view as I am clearly not the intended user for the Anagram. If you use amp, cab and distortions this pedal will have a lot to offer you. 

That's pretty much where I'm coming from with it. Nice bit of kit, but not right for me. If I spent more time recording on my computer and tweaking sounds for recording purposes, and wanting to do it on a physical unit rather than using plugins, I'd probably get a lot more out of it. 

 

It's interesting though, I was reading the FB Darkglass Anagram group, looking for answers about my expression pedal issue, and a lot of people have been complaining that there's been something wrong with this current batch that have just been sent out to dealers. Darkglass are denying it, but there does seem to be issues - the noise thing is one, the DI output being inconsistent and noisy is another, and lots of complaints about the performance of the compressors and various other things. Wouldn't be surprised if the current batch end up being recalled. 

 

[Acebassmusic]

On 30/08/2025 at 16:38, Russ said:

Not sure I like the Darkglass Suite software - maybe I haven't got to grips with it yet, but I haven't found a way to just visually build patches by dragging and dropping blocks. 

 

On 30/08/2025 at 16:47, Acebassmusic said:

I've not tried to create any patches in the Suite....is this a function as Ive not really looked? 🤷‍♂️

OK, had a look at the Darkglass Suite again today and as far as I can see you cannot create patches in there. You can select a patch and interrogate the settings but thats it.

 

On feature which I would find good (like the Headrush I had) is to be able to save a pedals settings to a unique filename that can be loaded into a new patch. I know I can write the pedal settings down and enter them by hand in a new patch but this would be so much simpler and quicker.

[Russ]

15 minutes ago, Acebassmusic said:

 

OK, had a look at the Darkglass Suite again today and as far as I can see you cannot create patches in there. You can select a patch and interrogate the settings but thats it.

 

On feature which I would find good (like the Headrush I had) is to be able to save a pedals settings to a unique filename that can be loaded into a new patch. I know I can write the pedal settings down and enter them by hand in a new patch but this would be so much simpler and quicker.

It'd be nice to be able to easily copy and paste patches if you have some basic settings you use on everything (for me, it's a preamp and compressor) and using a desktop app would seem like the obvious place to implement that functionality.