Dude, that fucking song was a PERFECT way to showcase how the bass can drive the melody of a song while the guitar hangs on to the root note. Simply phenomenal work, both with the mix AND the performance! Is this a legit band, or just a one off song by session instrumentalists?
Glenn, while I appreciate the uplifting joyful demo here and heard what you said at the end, I think it's about time that you make bring a bit of extreme metal to the show a little. Some blastbeats and fast tremolo picking. That would be a fresh change from the usual elevator metal.
Glenn! You obviously learned new techniques and acquired sweet new gear over the years. Why don't you have a new take on the Eagle Has Landed? Hails and Ales from Malta!
Dude today I had to come back and listen to the full mix on this one. It took me a little bit to track this video down because all I could remember was how at the time I was taken aback by just how clear and crisp every instrument sat in the mix. It was very inspiring for me at the time and today i had to sift through ALOT of your demos for gear to find this video. It really truly brought me into your channel from that point forward. I've been playing guitar for about 14 years (im 26 now) and without your videos on speakers, marketing for suckers, stupid musician texts and everything else in-between, i wouldnt be the musician i am today. First video I ever saw was "How to get your band ready for the stage" ive been hooked on your videos ever since. I just want you to know how much I value what you do and I can tell you have only been bettering yourself as a creator and recording engineer over these years. These days those piano lows really shine through. Thank you and fuck you my good sir.
Uh yeah i would love to hear it in a heavy mix, i found a video where they've done it, in just a normal guitar review with rob chapman ua-cam.com/video/FdH3uG8649Y/v-deo.html
I FUCKING LOVE Paiste Cymbals.... even when lightly played, they sound great and crisp.... I'm also a bass player.... with OLD AND DIRTY STRINGS! Because in Brazil we don't have much choice.... unless boil them until it rusts... or sell our fat useless bodies to a lab or something like this... The studio's reality in here is way different from the "First World"... we still struggle with the basic equipment and lack of professional staff (some basement studios in North America, Europe and The Moose Country may be A LOT better than ours) makes us to think creatively and improvise, as we're well-known for it. I like to watch other's countries studio YT channels to try catch up what could be done in here with our stuff, sometimes with really impressive results (besides the way it were made). But we have some quite nice places with good equipment too, but they're becoming needles in a haystack.... If you ever come to Brazil, I'll pay a beer for ya...
All that horsepower sure makes for a tight bass tone. You can really hear how reactive that bass rig is. It doesnt get all smeared sounding. The mix sounds wicked!
Darkglass is reasonable concerning pricing, this head you can get for 999 euro in belgium. Aguilar or mesa are true expensive brands. Aguilar 751 head coste 3200 euro in belgium😫.
I found that cranking the gain knob on this beast is counterintuitively exactly what you should be doing when dialing the tone! Gives a really nice sub bass resonance that I haven't heard in any other bass amp, even if you go direct out.
Holy shit Glenn, was looking for bass gear and saw the progress everyone is talking about! The weight loss, and even the way you talk and the way the script is written, the channel has definitely improved over the years! Keep up the great work and get EVEN BETTER!
Thanks, Glenn. That mix was great, really easy to hear the bass. Hence, easy to hear what the amp was doing. I am very, very impressed. Doug Castro really has a great product there.
Glenn, I think that was the best sounding mix you've done so far on the channel and I've listened to them all! Great work. Also, that was probably the best group of musicians you've had for a gear demo. Congrats on the amazing job and please keep the videos coming!!
Electronics technician here. Another design trade off with the amplifier being Class D is that it uses FET transistors. Without getting into too much detail, FETs break just by looking at them sideways. Work magic when they are working though!
Cool review! I'm amazed by how much power we can now get in such small and light frames. I remember a time - probably a lot of us do - when if you needed "that" kind of wattage, you had to get a monstrously heavy Peavey CS, or a Yorkville-Traynor Cube, that weighed 3x as much as a freakin' car battery. Come to think of it, those battleship-grey Traynor amps really resembled a car battery, too. They weren't rack mount - they came in a heavy square sealed casing, and all controls and connections were on the top... like a car battery. LOL
I own that amp and I pair it with a Mark Bass 4x10 cab. I play a Warwick Streamer Stage 1 and the combination is the best bass sound I have ever heard. Worth every penny
Ha ha. But also, why not the next Geezer, Kimberley or Kilmister? It's not all about noodling and faffing about all over the place, good bass sits in the pocket and grooves.
You're right, that's another good approach, do the Jamerson/Palladino/Family Man/Waters and be the rhythm of the band!... I'm still wondering why there aren't many bands with a lead and rhythm bass player... xD
Too much big booty for the ears, I guess. Also it's fun to do some lead stuff in some songs and show off and then fall back and boogie or riff out. Even some Megadeth songs have the bass drive the rhythm of the song then have a laid back guitar (until the solo of course) and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers definitely is a bass driven band. Not to mention Primus.
I guess that's why the 2 bass players usually only works when one of them have a really bright sound (Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten do it quite often)... And yes, that solo and lead stuff before going back to rhythm is kind of what I love about Sheehan's style, and in a weird way, what Royal Bood does...
Fucking hell, with that fricking awesome a player, bass sound, and mix, you don't need singers in that band, that bass is its own vocalist!! Outstanding!!!
Actually had one of those brought in to the music store in which I was working for a school work experience 'bout a month ago. Damn I could hear my boss playing from the floors above and below. A great headamp and cab if you ask me.
Love it. Also tried your guitar amp idea yesterday with my 1x12 cab. I need to spend more time with it, but I LOVED the sound I got. Thanks for the idea.
Awesome. I have been following Darkglass for a while and have been blown away by all of their products. If you’re a bass player (and I am, the real kind, I mean) you HAVE to check out anything from Darkglass. Thanks Glen for the review, it still seems like Darkglass is a little underrated for what they deserve, and you shed a little more light on a great company. In my opinion, their stuff is top class.
Damn the drums sound great along with the bass in that mix. If you could make a video showing how you at least got the snare tracks sounding like that I'd think a lot of us would be pleased
Wish the bass was this loud in all the mixes. Usually the bass is buried and is barely audible. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford the Darkglass products. Until then, I'll keep using my trusty old Sansamp BDDI. Thanks for the review, Glen! Cheers.
Gonna buy the Microtubes 500: - Same functions except a tiny bit of less Mid-Options on the EQ - With 500 Watts still enough power for Gigs/Practice - Has a Headphone Jack!!
I wonder how this amp compares to an oldscool tube amp with a Darkglass B3K overdrive pedal. I just purchased a vintage Fender Bassman 100 when I first read about this new Darkglass amp. Maybe something for a follow up video?
Have you heard if they are planning on making a rack mount-able version of the head? Sadly, that's basically the only deal-breaker for me on this. That's such a killer amp that, if I ever bought one, I'd want to protect it by putting it in a hard-shell case (not to mention also have a handle to carry it).
Since you referenced testing the bass through a guitar tube amp, running a guitar, maybe a 7 or 8 string through this might be cool to hear if you can find time. Kind of a modern day take on using an SVT (or the power section like Dumble) or Mesa Bass 400+ for super loud, super punchy guitar cleans.
Hey Glenn, do you plan on tacking bass to with the Darkglass amp with a guitar amp, and blend the tracks together? My hypothesis is that bass amps can get the body and the foundation of the tracked frequencies, while the guitar amps can bring up the subtle frequencies that the bass amps can't (albeit that the bass amp has a parametric EQ). Or just have the bass amp on a crunchy setting, and the guitar amp on a clean setting, and vice versa. Cheers from a town that's in a middle of butt-fuck nowhere in the northern region of Quebec!
Played one of these at a house show over the weekend, paired with a Mesa cab. Ran the amp clean with an EHX Bass Soul Food and an MXR Bass Compressor and IT RIPPED. I have sworn by my GK Fusion 550 for years but this thing absolutely blew it out of the water. Now I just need to decide if I have room for another $1100 preamp in my life :P
Sounds great, with the added consequence that you'll be recording real bass amps in the future. I hope that other people go back to this process again, instead of recording direct, it just sounds balsier. I noticed that with guitars it's the same thing, if you record a real amp it has more rumble than when you record with amp sims like bias fx or amplitube. I love bias fx and amplitube, it's what I use to record at home, but the rumble is just not there.
Holy shit I want this amp now. That sounds awesome. Iv had pretty good luck using solid state ampegs (portaflex) with a sansamp bass driver and had decent results but that clean channel just sounds so freaking good. Definitely helps that that guy seems to have great playing tone though, can’t underestimate that.
This proves how infinitely superior is to use an actual amp instead of the usual DI + vst comp and eq. (But I've gotten awesome results running the DI bass through guitar amp sims and guitar cab impulses) (I'm broke so that's the closest I can get)
Dude, that fucking song was a PERFECT way to showcase how the bass can drive the melody of a song while the guitar hangs on to the root note. Simply phenomenal work, both with the mix AND the performance!
Is this a legit band, or just a one off song by session instrumentalists?
+Matthew Brown just a one off
SpectreSoundStudios I hope it becomes a full song at one point. This was some stellar musicianship!
due I thought the same thing, it is such a bliss to listen to songs that are well written when it comes to harmonics and music theory :)
Hey man, I'm glad you liked it. Legit, glenn just gave me the raw drums and I just goofed on the rest. cheers
KeithW Bass hey man, you did some damn fine work on this episode. Especially for just playing around with it.
Love, love, love the Microtubes 900! And Keith is a killer bassist, loved his playing and the song he played!
Glenn's hair is the result of over-cranking the volume on this amp without shoes on.
+Matthew Brown something like that
So fluff, much volume!
He's working towards landing that dream job appearing in a Timotei advert. ua-cam.com/video/_Y_b1zuEFiI/v-deo.html
Maaaan, that full mix song is fucking sick. Flawless, man.
Glenn, while I appreciate the uplifting joyful demo here and heard what you said at the end, I think it's about time that you make bring a bit of extreme metal to the show a little. Some blastbeats and fast tremolo picking. That would be a fresh change from the usual elevator metal.
Glenn! You obviously learned new techniques and acquired sweet new gear over the years. Why don't you have a new take on the Eagle Has Landed?
Hails and Ales from Malta!
SahharBM agreed!
I second this motion!
Dude today I had to come back and listen to the full mix on this one. It took me a little bit to track this video down because all I could remember was how at the time I was taken aback by just how clear and crisp every instrument sat in the mix. It was very inspiring for me at the time and today i had to sift through ALOT of your demos for gear to find this video. It really truly brought me into your channel from that point forward. I've been playing guitar for about 14 years (im 26 now) and without your videos on speakers, marketing for suckers, stupid musician texts and everything else in-between, i wouldnt be the musician i am today. First video I ever saw was "How to get your band ready for the stage" ive been hooked on your videos ever since. I just want you to know how much I value what you do and I can tell you have only been bettering yourself as a creator and recording engineer over these years. These days those piano lows really shine through. Thank you and fuck you my good sir.
Thanks, Brandon!
What a great rocking number that full mix presentation was! Can you make it into a full song?
Totally agreed. That might have been my favorite song of the year!
I agree, the groove was just plain wicked!
MOAR music like this!!!
Yeah sounded great !
Don't cup the bass player !!
+1. It's bad for your mind to have prolonged contact with stupid.
My girlfriend disagrees.
Cup bass the don't player.
@@ayusharipirala3121 Play the bass,not the cupper
So... since you did bass through a guitar amp, how about a guitar (maybe a 7 string?) through the Darkglass? Might sound cool :D
No, just 6 string les paul tuned down with lighter gauge strings and bring the doom and sludge.
Uh yeah i would love to hear it in a heavy mix, i found a video where they've done it, in just a normal guitar review with rob chapman ua-cam.com/video/FdH3uG8649Y/v-deo.html
yeah what blackhaulmike said!!!!!
Rob chapman, heavy? more like my dad. his fast dihhareah runs without actually thinking about what notes sound good, make me wanna puke
Psyfonify no, he's not heavy, just wanted to give a impression on how the amp sounds with a guitar.
For heavy stuff i've got my hopes on Glen
The outro was PERFECT. Nothing more nothing less, Glenn. You really out did yourself with this one😎
I FUCKING LOVE Paiste Cymbals.... even when lightly played, they sound great and crisp....
I'm also a bass player.... with OLD AND DIRTY STRINGS! Because in Brazil we don't have much choice.... unless boil them until it rusts... or sell our fat useless bodies to a lab or something like this...
The studio's reality in here is way different from the "First World"... we still struggle with the basic equipment and lack of professional staff (some basement studios in North America, Europe and The Moose Country may be A LOT better than ours) makes us to think creatively and improvise, as we're well-known for it.
I like to watch other's countries studio YT channels to try catch up what could be done in here with our stuff, sometimes with really impressive results (besides the way it were made).
But we have some quite nice places with good equipment too, but they're becoming needles in a haystack....
If you ever come to Brazil, I'll pay a beer for ya...
+Eric Mac Fadden I'd love to visit Brazil at some point!
All that horsepower sure makes for a tight bass tone. You can really hear how reactive that bass rig is. It doesnt get all smeared sounding. The mix sounds wicked!
Sounds absolutely sick. This company delivers. My gf bought me the B7k for my last bd and I couldn't be more grateful lol.
Doug, Hugo, Loren and team are also kickass people!!! Well-deserved review... congrats, fellas!
Definitely the best bass has ever sounded in your mixes. Very clear, very powerful and just the right amount of distortion.
Darkglass makes some really wonderful sounding stuff. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford it.
haha right? it's all so expensive.
You get what you pay for.
oh for sure
Darkglass is reasonable concerning pricing, this head you can get for 999 euro in belgium. Aguilar or mesa are true expensive brands. Aguilar 751 head coste 3200 euro in belgium😫.
Awesome job guys!!!! Darkglass, Doug and the rest of the crew should be proud. They rock butts and so does this demo. Thanks Glenn!
That bass tone was crisp, sharp and very clean. Thumbs up for that amp
I found that cranking the gain knob on this beast is counterintuitively exactly what you should be doing when dialing the tone! Gives a really nice sub bass resonance that I haven't heard in any other bass amp, even if you go direct out.
Holy shit Glenn, was looking for bass gear and saw the progress everyone is talking about! The weight loss, and even the way you talk and the way the script is written, the channel has definitely improved over the years! Keep up the great work and get EVEN BETTER!
Wow that track was Awesome! Great playing!
+Steven McNally please share!
Thanks! (Drummer)
Of course man y'all did great on that, I really like your style!
Guys, I think we're in Exclamation Point Hell! How do we get out?!
Thanks, Glenn. That mix was great, really easy to hear the bass. Hence, easy to hear what the amp was doing. I am very, very impressed. Doug Castro really has a great product there.
Glenn, I think that was the best sounding mix you've done so far on the channel and I've listened to them all! Great work. Also, that was probably the best group of musicians you've had for a gear demo. Congrats on the amazing job and please keep the videos coming!!
Since you changed the monitors your mixes got a lot more pleasing. The performance in this video was great
Electronics technician here. Another design trade off with the amplifier being Class D is that it uses FET transistors. Without getting into too much detail, FETs break just by looking at them sideways. Work magic when they are working though!
That demo is the BEST thing I've ever heard on this channel IMO
That track was great. Good to hear guitars set further back in mix.
Man you weren’t kidding. This mix is amazing man. Keep up the killer work dude!
Cool review! I'm amazed by how much power we can now get in such small and light frames. I remember a time - probably a lot of us do - when if you needed "that" kind of wattage, you had to get a monstrously heavy Peavey CS, or a Yorkville-Traynor Cube, that weighed 3x as much as a freakin' car battery. Come to think of it, those battleship-grey Traynor amps really resembled a car battery, too. They weren't rack mount - they came in a heavy square sealed casing, and all controls and connections were on the top... like a car battery. LOL
I own that amp and I pair it with a Mark Bass 4x10 cab. I play a Warwick Streamer Stage 1 and the combination is the best bass sound I have ever heard. Worth every penny
Holy shit, Glenn is in the same room as a bass player and not yelling! Good job buddy 😂👍🤘
+Kenny Ruiz :)
Amazing distorted tones. Still sounds clear and present.
I just noticed how close the drummer is sitting to your guitars on the wall. Do you ever worry about the drummer knocking them down?
Glenn, should I go straight to bass or should I start with a guitar and fail?
That depends, do you want to be a standard joke metal bassist or do you want to be the next Pastorius/Clarke/Miller/Sheehan? xD
Ha ha. But also, why not the next Geezer, Kimberley or Kilmister? It's not all about noodling and faffing about all over the place, good bass sits in the pocket and grooves.
You're right, that's another good approach, do the Jamerson/Palladino/Family Man/Waters and be the rhythm of the band!... I'm still wondering why there aren't many bands with a lead and rhythm bass player... xD
Too much big booty for the ears, I guess. Also it's fun to do some lead stuff in some songs and show off and then fall back and boogie or riff out. Even some Megadeth songs have the bass drive the rhythm of the song then have a laid back guitar (until the solo of course) and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers definitely is a bass driven band. Not to mention Primus.
I guess that's why the 2 bass players usually only works when one of them have a really bright sound (Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten do it quite often)... And yes, that solo and lead stuff before going back to rhythm is kind of what I love about Sheehan's style, and in a weird way, what Royal Bood does...
Man those Adam monitors really make a difference in the way you mix bass nowadays, congrats
Probably the coolest demo track so far!
Now put it up against the bass into the generator 120 with the roswell mini k47 and coffee custom cab setup, and maybe do a blend of the two sounds
Holy moly, that tone was something else. Great demo
That was a sweet track guys. That's a song I would throw my money at.
Fucking hell, with that fricking awesome a player, bass sound, and mix, you don't need singers in that band, that bass is its own vocalist!! Outstanding!!!
Actually had one of those brought in to the music store in which I was working for a school work experience 'bout a month ago. Damn I could hear my boss playing from the floors above and below. A great headamp and cab if you ask me.
Love it. Also tried your guitar amp idea yesterday with my 1x12 cab. I need to spend more time with it, but I LOVED the sound I got. Thanks for the idea.
Now run the Rev Generator through the Darkglass cab, hey? Let us hear too!
Best drum tone I've heard on this channel
One of the best things you've ever done according to my ears Glenn.
YOOO that demo was FIRE. I'd buy that song in a heartbeat
Definitely love to see more Bass gear reviews. I have been looking at the Darkglass Microtubes 900, now if only if it was rack mountable.
+maliciousmallo you may be able to get rack ears for it. I'll ask
Awesome. I have been following Darkglass for a while and have been blown away by all of their products. If you’re a bass player (and I am, the real kind, I mean) you HAVE to check out anything from Darkglass. Thanks Glen for the review, it still seems like Darkglass is a little underrated for what they deserve, and you shed a little more light on a great company. In my opinion, their stuff is top class.
+Michael Pennino thank you very much and please share!
Love how Glenn goes full in on recording cab for bass now, sounds aloooottt better
Damn the drums sound great along with the bass in that mix. If you could make a video showing how you at least got the snare tracks sounding like that I'd think a lot of us would be pleased
Wish the bass was this loud in all the mixes. Usually the bass is buried and is barely audible. Maybe one day I'll be able to afford the Darkglass products. Until then, I'll keep using my trusty old Sansamp BDDI. Thanks for the review, Glen! Cheers.
YYYEESSSSS I've been waiting on this review of this by you Glenn! Definitely going to get this amp and cab once I have the money for it.
Gonna buy the Microtubes 500:
- Same functions except a tiny bit of less Mid-Options on the EQ
- With 500 Watts still enough power for Gigs/Practice
- Has a Headphone Jack!!
-is less noisy than the 900 too !
I hear you becoming pretty good at mixing on the adams, also good performance with nice dynamic content. The bass amp sounded stellar
The vintage mode demo song has a VERY Marmozets feel, love it
Noisy ventilator? Not a fan.
+Cast To Void facepalm!
I watched a documentary about how ships are held together. Riveting!
I DIED
Stop it...get some help
Finally giving the good bassists some love. And the pickers out there! A day of firsts
I wonder how this amp compares to an oldscool tube amp with a Darkglass B3K overdrive pedal. I just purchased a vintage Fender Bassman 100 when I first read about this new Darkglass amp. Maybe something for a follow up video?
Omg the vintage setting sounds fucking amazing!
WOW!! that sounds SICK!!
Have you heard if they are planning on making a rack mount-able version of the head? Sadly, that's basically the only deal-breaker for me on this. That's such a killer amp that, if I ever bought one, I'd want to protect it by putting it in a hard-shell case (not to mention also have a handle to carry it).
Definitely my favorite jam in the full mix. Excellent video, Glenn. Would love to see more bass stuff on the channel. Maybe Darkglass pedals next?
+Bronson Jones I've already got 3 darkglass pedal demos up!
Sounds a lot like the tone I got from a Mesa Boogie 400+ bass amp with a miced up cab. Sounds great in the mix!
I love your new halo around your oh so gorgeous flowing locks!
Our bass player got one of these heads to go with his Ampeg SVT810. It sounds HUGE
song and mix was awesome... this is the best video yet!
As a guitarist, I'm always impressed how small these things are.
Since you referenced testing the bass through a guitar tube amp, running a guitar, maybe a 7 or 8 string through this might be cool to hear if you can find time. Kind of a modern day take on using an SVT (or the power section like Dumble) or Mesa Bass 400+ for super loud, super punchy guitar cleans.
Sounds pretty powerful.
That tone is effing brutal!
Fuck Glenn!!! How fluffy is the Fricker hair today man!?? Great video.
Hey Glenn, do you plan on tacking bass to with the Darkglass amp with a guitar amp, and blend the tracks together? My hypothesis is that bass amps can get the body and the foundation of the tracked frequencies, while the guitar amps can bring up the subtle frequencies that the bass amps can't (albeit that the bass amp has a parametric EQ). Or just have the bass amp on a crunchy setting, and the guitar amp on a clean setting, and vice versa.
Cheers from a town that's in a middle of butt-fuck nowhere in the northern region of Quebec!
Played one of these at a house show over the weekend, paired with a Mesa cab. Ran the amp clean with an EHX Bass Soul Food and an MXR Bass Compressor and IT RIPPED. I have sworn by my GK Fusion 550 for years but this thing absolutely blew it out of the water. Now I just need to decide if I have room for another $1100 preamp in my life :P
+JCdizzog of course you do!
Holy shit that song! Best song I've heard in this channel, ever.
Man idk what it is but I really like the drum sound in this demo. Usually I find your drum sound kinda flat but this was great.
Is that an avatar of one of the members of Lost Society?
Thats a really good recorded bass sound! Digging it!
Sounds great, with the added consequence that you'll be recording real bass amps in the future.
I hope that other people go back to this process again, instead of recording direct, it just sounds balsier.
I noticed that with guitars it's the same thing, if you record a real amp it has more rumble than when you record with amp sims like bias fx or amplitube.
I love bias fx and amplitube, it's what I use to record at home, but the rumble is just not there.
That bit from 4:19 on is just awesome music, guys.
Damn, that's one sweet sounding bass amp!
You should use that amp with a guitar. I'd bet it would be pretty solid.
Damn, thats a killer sounding mix!
That drummer though! The bass sounded great but Cam was the highlight of the video.
Gearing Up thanks man! Everyone did amazing.
Holy Fuck that thing is sweet the demo was put together well to Glenn
Glenn!!!! That was freaking beautiful!!!!!
+Tyler Petersen thank you! Please share!
Holy shit, that tone! So clean and precise! 🤘🏻
i have been trying to chase a similar sound and now i know how to get it. thanks glenn
+KATTYWOMPUS1 Np! Please share!
Possibly the best song recorded on any of your videos
+Ryan Wehby thank you!
Got the Darkglass. Yes game changer.
I'd honestly put that demo song on my Spotify playlist and play the shit out of it. It was kick ass.
Holy shit I want this amp now. That sounds awesome. Iv had pretty good luck using solid state ampegs (portaflex) with a sansamp bass driver and had decent results but that clean channel just sounds so freaking good. Definitely helps that that guy seems to have great playing tone though, can’t underestimate that.
I'm in love with datBassTone
This proves how infinitely superior is to use an actual amp instead of the usual DI + vst comp and eq.
(But I've gotten awesome results running the DI bass through guitar amp sims and guitar cab impulses) (I'm broke so that's the closest I can get)
Best demo song yet!!!
Not sure if the link is working for the B7K. Takes me to a no results page. Great demo though. Definitely will check them out.
Amazing mix man, and I love the tone.
Oh and Glenn, hair looking great buddy.
This is fucking magical!
+Fredrik Lundberg I'm thrilled with the results
SpectreSoundStudios too bad for bass players that a tattoo is cheaper
Sounds pretty sweet. I see that these are available in Australia, and the price was less than what I was expecting.
man, I need this for the studio!