Harmonic Booster Demo by Amos Heller
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2020
- Amos Heller shows us the main features and sonic capabilities of our clean bass preamp, the Harmonic Booster.
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5:20 At least they know their stereotype ahaha
"isn't he just going to grab a fan fret bass..." That line killed me! Amos Heller, what a man!
This is probably the best, well-executed review I’ve seen of a pedal, let alone a Darkglass pedal review. Amos Heller deserves more spotlight, and is definitely up there among professional bassists/musicians.
Thanks!
The best of his demos is that instead of playing with the pedal engaged in different settings he shows how he achieves the proper settings.
Most of the demos I watch are people using pedals with different settings and or playing a looped bass line through a pedal and turning every single from the lowest to the highest position.
This guy is the best at doing pedal and gear reviews. I Understood and Bought two pedals that now I love because of him. Amos rocks!
I thought it ducked because they didn't rshiw the harmonic boost without using the mid sweep. I already have a mid sweep on my amp, I wanted to hear a wet/dry comparison without EQ adjustment, I really prefer if the pedal didn't have that function, I mean obviously you4 can just set the knob flat at zero in the middle but I prefer how the old one just had the blend.
He's getting plenty of recognition as Taylor swift eras tour bassist. He definitely getting his cut
This guy makes your best demos, Darkglass.
True! Nobody demos the actual context of a pedal better than this guy.
5:33 is the best part
I play bass for my church, we play really modern music & what i love about darkglass is how versatile all their pedals are!! I just bought my B3K overdrive pedal 2 weeks ago and man!!! Blown away still have my bass tone without it being a complete metal bass guitar, SUPER VERSATILE! going to be ordering this clean boost soon🔥
The amount of control this has per knob is high. It has metal capabilities, but covers a lot of other sonic ground on the way.
When he picks up the Dingwall 🤣🤣
I just bought this pedal after seeing all reviews and believe me , this thing is pure magic
Amos is the bomb...I luv that everything he does is in the context of a mix.
Thank you for keeping your eye on the ball! This is the most information conveyed the most succinctly that I’ve ever seen in a demo video. Subscribed!
You're the only reviewer who correctly explained the Character control. I'm also glad you include passive basses. in your reviews.
Enjoyed that demonstration and loved the Dingwall part too, cracked me up actually. Cheers!
Love using Darkglass with Baritone guitars and my Bass
Easily the best pedal demo I've ever seen. Love this format, love your playing, and love the vibe you give off! didn't necessarily wanna buy this pedal before but now you've got me thinking...
There are more to come!
Thanks for the kind words Brad!
Great demo Amos! That’s a pedal I may have to add to the collection.
Love it, might look at it!
Just ordered one. Super excited to try this bad boy out
If I didn’t just buy one yesterday, I would have bought one after watching this.
I’ll take a retroactive 5%
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🤌🏼🤌🏼
Nice to see you demonstrate that technique of using a high boost setting to locate the "offending" mid frequency before cutting it. Not sure if everyone knows about that...
Ed Butler good catch. I thought about making a section about that but wanted to focus on the pedal. One of the great strengths of the HB.
Surgical Eq is a must
Can someone explain this approach to me? I understand boosting the mid gain and then sweeping the selector around to test the different frequencies, but how do you arrive at the conclusion that “this” is the offending mid freq. Just the one that sounds ugliest when boosted to the max?
@@boojoo1234 Yes, exactly. If you pan the frequency knob with a 12db boost, it's going to sound pretty obnoxious -- but you'll probably find a particular frequency that really makes you cringe hard. That's the frequency to cut. The point is, it's subjective. Find what sounds bad *to you* and cut it.
@@edbutler3 that makes sense then :) it does make me ask though, is there always going to be something ugly to find that needs to be cut? What if by the same search there’s a frequency within that sweep which is beautiful enough to boost instead, yea… evaluate to your ear which one is beautiful enough to boost vs ugly enough to cut and pick one 😅
Great work, dude! Love your videos.
Great demo!
Sounds like a magic wand. Subtle, but once you've switched it on, you'll never play bass without it again ... ever. Take my money now.
I've got one. If adds some flavor through some clever EQ techniques, but it's nice to turn it off too. It's good to have a diversity of tone. Honestly, if you aren't going to turn it off sometimes, it may actually not be the best purchase. The boost doesn't help most solid-state bass preamps to overdrive, so it will be pointless for most. The simple EQ features are already available on your amp, and they may be on your bass too if you have active EQ. The only actual feature I utilize is the character knob. It is like a variable shape mid-filter thing. It's similar to "VFE" knob on a MarkBass amp or the "Aural Enhancer" on an SWR.
Amazing review !!!!
Great Demo, very helpful "AB ing"
Damn. Subtle slap bass on flats. Good tone.
I've recently found used Harmonic Booster in mint condition for a fair price and wanted to partly satisfy my curiosity about DG products, so it seemed like a fair starter. I've tried putting it as the first unit in the signal chain, and after the two stacked overdrives (Battalion+MXR M80). Putting it AFTER the overdrive suits my sound taste much, much better - Its 'character' knob works great (and noticeably better) when the unit is put after the already overdriven signal - it seems to me that it blends in/out that 'Darkglass sound engine' which adds a lot of brightness/crispness and attack to the sound, even when all the EQ knobs on it are set completely flat because its EQ works at the same boost/cut levels, no matter at which position the 'character' is set. Cheers!
Man yeah, choice vid, thnx
I recently tried putting it after the Vintage Microtubes in the signal chain, game changer
It works well after all of the distortions. It's a nice way to sculpt a second sound with the click of a button.
Just the bass and effect !!!
Exactly
Hey Amos - nice clip. Not sure if you have time to read these - if you do what was your recording signal path for the first clip with the P Bass and pick? It sounds great!!!
SOLD
"I know what you're thinking. This is a Darkglass pedal, they're just gonna grab their fanned fret bass and jus..."
Yep, that's why I'm here!
Does boost past 12 oclock introduces noise? Its important and we cant hear boost past 12 nowhere, not only in this video.
I need this to boost my signal in order to properly gain stage hyper luminal.
I'm getting a custom bass built and I'm beginning to think this pedal may replace my onboard pre-amp, and that I'll just go passive pickups with two knobs (volume and blend)
Hi Amos. Nice demo, thanks. I'm thinking it might be good with a fretless as well...
Absolutely! This is a great tool for dialing in the mwah
Where would you place it in you signal chain? I have Bass -> Compressor -> Alpha Omega -> end
How ya gonna demo the NG2 and not touch the B string??
Pretty cool demo. That preamp pedal sounds awesome. I wonder if that white bass in the background is a Yamaha bb bass.
Thanks! It is indeed.
@@AmosHeller I would of figured that was a yamaha bb bass. I have one too. it's a bb235 and it sounds awesome. you should of demoed the darkglass harmonic booster with that bass. that would of been awesome. but that's okay, it's still a great preamp pedal.
I'm a couple of years late getting here. Sorry about that! Would you put this before another Darkglass drive pedal, or would you use the drive pedal to shape the tone all by itself?
Yeah everyone is saying how great the demo is but he didn't show the effect without the mid sweep. No need to demo EQ, we know what that does , I want to hear the harmonic boost I already have the mid sweep on my amp.
How do you power this?
great demo. too bad i bought the aguilar preamp before i saw this.and the dingwall bit was spot on
They can definitely be used together. Despite the name, the Harmonic Booster is really much more like an EQ pedal than a preamp. It is a tone shaper, but without having some overdrive, it really doesn't fulfill the role the Aguilar does.
Are the riffs he's playing improv or are they from actual songs becaue I'm really digging em
Tabarak Sikander thanks! These are improvs/original compositions
So can I say this is basically a darkglass preamp in a pedal format instead of the onboard preamps in basses?
Fabian Thio probably more accurate to say the Tone Capsule is inspired by the HB. The TC has different frequency centers (I.e. 70 hz for bass vs the HB 80hz) and doesn’t have a mid-sweep.
ben stiller doing darkglass reviews??
Best pedal I have ever bought
Should I put it before or after compressor?
Try it both ways! Personally I recommend before-it will allow the compressor to react naturally to the EQ settings (i.e. compressors react stronger to lower frequencies), but if you're simply using a comp to smooth out your levels, it will work after as well.
Save your money. You will get more with a 10 band eq.
This pedal should be integrated into every bass
Am I the only one thinking that this pedal sounds like a Tonehammer?
They both have mid sweeps, which is one of the most useful tools in a preamp pedal...I wonder how they’d sound in a shootout?
@@AmosHeller I'd love to see that!
So it's a preamp style EQ pedal. K
That's what bass really needs in most cases)
It’s not the only thing they sell... and it does it’s job exceptionally well
missing a xrl out to go to the board not a pro gear with missing features.
What happened at 5:34? Lol.
haha, the humor is as classy as the playing..
without a pedal everywhere is better
As I have the Tone Capsule, I’ll skip this pedal 🧐
I like it's farty sound~ burpy farty
LMAO, Dingwalls and Darkglass are overrated, thats literally my face every time I see the 10000000000000th bassist with that set up. Still, Darkglass is goated.
What brands would you recommend if darkglass is overrated?
@@things2408 Well darkglass is goated no doubt, but if were talking straight distortion with similar versatility I would take the EarthQuaker Sun O))). I pair that one with my darkglass and its 👌🏻👌🏻 clean af. Dingwalls are overrated asf, my opinion hasnt changed. I have a 6 string Spector and a 6 String Ibanez.