Praising the Darkglass Tone Capsule!

kyral210

kyral210

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The tone capsule is a god-level preamp! Let me explain.

My Helix has the Darkglass B7K Ultra pedal (Obsidian) with bass, low mid, and high mid EQ nearly the same as the Tone Capsule’s EQ frequencies. Yet playing with the dials my sound is sterile compared to equivalent settings on my TC. The TC just has a depth and warmth that the helix misses. I run my Obsidian EQ pretty flat, and adjust my onboard TC to get a great tone.
 
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I had one for a while. I loved the feature set. But mine had an odd compression thin going on. It kept squashing the dynamics of my pickups. Wonder why?
 
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kyral210 said:
The tone capsule is a god-level preamp! Let me explain.

My Helix has the Darkglass B7K Ultra pedal (Obsidian) with bass, low mid, and high mid EQ nearly the same as the Tone Capsule’s EQ frequencies. Yet playing with the dials my sound is sterile compared to equivalent settings on my TC. The TC just has a depth and warmth that the helix misses. I run my Obsidian EQ pretty flat, and adjust my onboard TC to get a great tone.
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Found this as a search... I have a Spector Euro5 LT that has the best tone I ever played. It has a Darkglass TC and Bart PU's. I researched this as i bought it used and really thought it was the Tonepump. I admit, I never really liked Bartolinis as every bass I had them in, shall
I say... super underwhelming tone. I can't describe the tone fully of this Spector but it is so clear and absolutely responsive. When you dig in it responds perfectly. Researched further and found out that it's a custom Darkglass Pre and custom Barts. Damn. I would replicate this in almost ever bass i own because that is the sound!

I just ordered a Darkglass pre from Fat Bass Tone and I am going to throw it in an Ibanez SCMS5 and see whats what. If this is anywhere near the same I have a 97 Lakland 55-94 with Barts and a Bart preamp. It is an amazing playing bass but i have been suspecting the electronics for awhile
 
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vlad335 said:
Found this as a search... I have a Spector Euro5 LT that has the best tone I ever played. It has a Darkglass TC and Bart PU's. I researched this as i bought it used and really thought it was the Tonepump. I admit, I never really liked Bartolinis as every bass I had them in, shall
I say... super underwhelming tone. I can't describe the tone fully of this Spector but it is so clear and absolutely responsive. When you dig in it responds perfectly. Researched further and found out that it's a custom Darkglass Pre and custom Barts. Damn. I would replicate this in almost ever bass i own because that is the sound!

I just ordered a Darkglass pre from Fat Bass Tone and I am going to throw it in an Ibanez SCMS5 and see whats what. If this is anywhere near the same I have a 97 Lakland 55-94 with Barts and a Bart preamp. It is an amazing playing bass but i have been suspecting the electronics for awhile
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to my ear, the USA made barts are some of the most responsive, even, and articulate pickups you can get. i honestly don't know how people can't like them. the licensed versions on some ibby's have likely just given people a bad taste.
 
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scuzzy said:
to my ear, the USA made barts are some of the most responsive, even, and articulate pickups you can get. i honestly don't know how people can't like them. the licensed versions on some ibby's have likely just given people a bad taste.
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Aren’t Bartolini made by Seymour Duncan?
ctmullins said:
I had one for a while. I loved the feature set. But mine had an odd compression thin going on. It kept squashing the dynamics of my pickups. Wonder why?
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low battery?
 
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