The Darkglass Electronics Alpha Omega is a fully operational bass amplifier with two very distinct distortion circuits that can be blended together or used independently.
Released a few years ago, the Alpha Omega was Darkglass Electronics’ first co-creation. Made with composer, producer and bassist, Jon Stockman, the Alpha Omega is a truly flexible bass amp in a box. No, it doesn’t have a cab sim (from my understanding), but I don’t think you’ll particularly miss it.
I will say, the big issue I have with this pedal is that there didn’t seem to be a way to reduce the volume of the pedal, which is why it took me a minute to get my levels right.
Bass is Fender Player Mustang.
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Hey, my name’s Emily and you’re watching get offset. And today I’m here with the alpha Omega by darkglass electronics. It’s a unique kind of bass amp, situation in a box. and it’s part of the Andrew canard ha Andrew Rinard bass board collection. That was so dumb. I’m so sorry. Let’s talk about the controls.
[00:00:29] So, first things here, this blend knob, what it does is it blends the clean and the overdriven signal and, is always at unity gain. So all the way over here, counterclockwise it’s clean as can be. And although on the other side, it is as loud as well as distorted as can be. It. It only has the distortion.
[00:00:56] This year, there is a high bed boost understanding this is the volume of the gain circuit, the overdriven signal. This is some sort of base shelf response that I’ve already forgotten. What it does. This is the amount of drive this. It goes between two drivers circuits. So you can have either one on or one or the other on, or do some sort of blend.
[00:01:23] Then we have our trouble, our base, our meds in our trouble. So let’s kind of, For a clean CBLs still feels a smudge overdriven to them.
[00:01:54] So these toggles and stuff. Right.
[00:02:35] Maybe it does matter more when the game’s up, but I didn’t really hear much there. Let’s look at these guys.
[00:04:32] All right, let’s start blending in some of that on drive sound.
[00:05:13] So when the drive volume is all the way down and the blend is all the way to the drive, obviously there’s not going to be any signal there.
[00:11:19] All right. So that is, just a look at the alpha Omega. I mean, it’s not a new pedal there, other more bass player demos out there. I just wanted to go through it really quickly. A little refresher, I guess, for all of us. it’s cool. There’s a lot of sounds in it. It really excels with the, those overdriven.
[00:11:42] Overdriven tone. So, it’s a really cool, really cool little pedal, and enormous thanks to, to Andrew Renard for, for loaning it out to me. check out the podcast. Andrew’s on it every week, along with me. yeah. Thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding. Please comment like subscribe, et cetera, until next time.
[00:12:06] Goodbye.