Darkglass Anagram

[LukeFRC]

1 hour ago, Chadu25 said:

 

Agree! A proper synth block  or more modulation blocks would be good. Darkglass listens to user feedback and requests. I hope they line it up in the future. For me, I'm hoping they would add a nice moog block and a 1073 preamp.

what do you think the plan is with 3rd party blocks? If I were Darkglass it almost would make sense to focus on the drives and comp (which Darkglass are known for) and let others develop the other stuff? 

[jwood662]

Reckon so, I can’t see them having the bandwidth to do everything people might want from scratch so hopefully they have an mxr/boss/ehx deal lined up or in progress. You would have thought that they have software versions of their own pedals already that will be easily portable. Boss definitely do, just a question of whether they want to play ball I guess. 
 

But yeah, dirt pedals are low hanging fruit as they are pretty simple circuits and gives people some different and classic options to the dg ones. Shows they are good on the updates so that’s a win win.

 

looking forward to updating and trying the muff in particular!

 

 

[LukeFRC]

3 minutes ago, jwood662 said:

Reckon so, I can’t see them having the bandwidth to do everything people might want from scratch so hopefully they have an mxr/boss/ehx deal lined up or in progress. You would have thought that they have software versions of their own pedals already that will be easily portable. Boss definitely do, just a question of whether they want to play ball I guess. 
 

But yeah, dirt pedals are low hanging fruit as they are pretty simple circuits and gives people some different and classic options to the dg ones. Shows they are good on the updates so that’s a win win.

 

looking forward to updating and trying the muff in particular!

 

 

I doubt it would be boss/ehx/Mxr as frankly if they wanted too they could bring their own anagram type unit to market - and they aren’t going to undercut their own products.

 

I imagine it will be things like is it the Valhalla reverb where a plug-in can find a new audience and compete with something like blackhole

[MichaelDean]

Looks like there's a new software version 1.5 with more distortions. I really want to check one of these out. 

 

@LukeFRC a Valhalla plugin would be insane! I'd love something like that. A guitarist in an old band used to loop everything live and ran Valhalla. It was a huge swirling beast!

[Greg Edwards69]

14 hours ago, LukeFRC said:

I doubt it would be boss/ehx/Mxr as frankly if they wanted too they could bring their own anagram type unit to market - and they aren’t going to undercut their own products.

 

I imagine it will be things like is it the Valhalla reverb where a plug-in can find a new audience and compete with something like blackhole

Boss pedals might be possible, without them losing out on sales. The Anagram has/will have plugin support, and Boss already have a plugin suite of their most popular pedals available to purchase. There may eventually be a way that a user can purchase the Boss plugin to run on the Anagram, or they can work together to integrate it as a paid addon.

[Greg Edwards69]

Darkglass have released a video demonstrating the new blocks.  I have to say, the Sansamp and Big Muff sound great.

 

[Chadu25]

1 hour ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

Darkglass have released a video demonstrating the new blocks.  I have to say, the Sansamp and Big Muff sound great.

 

Me too! I also like the Arc Dreamer block. The Boss OD one is too harsh for me even at low gain setting

[Greg Edwards69]

Just now, Chadu25 said:

The Boss OD one is too harsh for me even at low gain setting

Just like the real thing then. I bought one once. Took it back a week later. Couldn't get a sound I liked out of it.

[Chadu25]

3 hours ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

Just like the real thing then. I bought one once. Took it back a week later. Couldn't get a sound I liked out of it.

Yeah it’s pretty spot on, just don’t have a use for it for the stuff I play. I like the PiRate muff! Feels and sounds organic. I like it better than duality fuzz. I can go pure chaos or something synthy. 
 

I wonder what’s next. I hope they optimise bank switching so there’s no lag. Also a better darkglass suite where you can arrange and set your chain there like Helix editor. 

[jwood662]

10 hours ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

Boss pedals might be possible, without them losing out on sales. The Anagram has/will have plugin support, and Boss already have a plugin suite of their most popular pedals available to purchase. There may eventually be a way that a user can purchase the Boss plugin to run on the Anagram, or they can work together to integrate it as a paid addon.

Agreed, I wouldn’t rule it out at all. A subscription model or one off software purchase of a pedal with near 100% margin and no possibility of you selling on the second hand market thus depriving them of another sale? They’d bite your hand off to offer it on any platform.

If someone at boss hasn’t already started thinking they’re a software company that also makes hardware rather than a hardware company that also makes software I’d be surprised. Another great example is Microsoft developing for PlayStation because they’re more interested in selling software than shifting Xboxes.
 

I think the main obstacle to them putting this in place, boss or for other plugin creators, is going to be developing a robust delivery method as that would take a hell of a lot of dev work in terms of payment processing and authentication etc - so suspect it may be some time off still!

 

Also, yes agreed with some other commenters, the muff and sansamp sound great and are very accurate. Tube screamer is a bit meh though…

[krispn]

On 08/09/2025 at 15:33, LukeFRC said:

Am I being stupid?

 

top is sansamp and green muff

 

bottom right boss od1 from the font…

 

what’s an arc dreamer? 

Exotic RC Boost maybe - (aRC) which I believe is a TS type circuit? 

Edited 13 hours ago by krispn

[Greg Edwards69]

Just placed my order with GuitarGuitar, and it should arrive tomorrow. Eeek!

 

I doubt I'll be able to dial in the tones I need in time for this weekend's gig, but I understand it's easier and quicker to achieve a good tone with it than with the Helix, so I'll wait and see.

[joeabass]

38 minutes ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

I doubt I'll be able to dial in the tones I need in time for this weekend's gig, but I understand it's easier and quicker to achieve a good tone with it than with the Helix, so I'll wait and see.

I absolutely agree with spending time with it when you can but if you just need a basic tone stick the noble DI model in and whatever drives you’d want and it’ll sound spot on. I went into my first gig blind when it first came out and it sounded great. Most of the blocks sound good as soon as you load them up which I suppose is the advantage of a bass specific unit 

[krispn]

1 hour ago, Greg Edwards69 said:

Just placed my order with GuitarGuitar, and it should arrive tomorrow. Eeek!

 

I doubt I'll be able to dial in the tones I need in time for this weekend's gig, but I understand it's easier and quicker to achieve a good tone with it than with the Helix, so I'll wait and see.

If you were able to dial in a tone on the HX units this will be an absolute breeze. It’s very intuitive and the way the global eq is set up fine tuning the tone is even easier as you can do those nice broad eq change to enhance more subtly or specific notching/cutting to sort out problems in a flash. 
 

I just wish I could justify the cost and not feel bad about having my pedal board sitting gathering dust. 
 

TL:DR

If you can program a HX Stomp you’ll be fine! 😀