Darkglass Anagram - NAM profile player & multieffects unit

[laxu]

Made in Finland, nice. Are Neural and Darkglass the only companies not making their modelers in China/other cheap labor countries? I think Fractal moved production to China as well? Edit: Kemper is probably made in Germany.

Oh, and it's nearly a third of the depth of the FM3. What about heat management??!?

It's really more like assembled in Finland. They have a factory basically in the middle of Helsinki where they assemble most likely quite premade boards from China.

 

[DLC86]

Made in Finland, nice. Are Neural and Darkglass the only companies not making their modelers in China/other cheap labor countries? I think Fractal moved production to China as well? Edit: Kemper is probably made in Germany.

Oh, and it's nearly a third of the depth of the FM3. What about heat management??!?

To my surprise IK stuff (including Tonex) is made in Italy, there's a recent factory tour video by Leo Gibson showing it.

 

[AFKAEjay(retired)]

Not really, Darkglass was founded as bass focused company long before the Korg acquisition. The real tragedy is that bass effects horribly mangle guitar tones and threaten the player with grievous bodily injury if not used with extreme caution in highly controlled environments.

those efx in the hands of bassplayers…what could possibly go wrong

 

[Rev. Irreverent Revenant]

those efx in the hands of bassplayers…what could possibly go wrong

Big strang go oomp bah oomp bah hur dur dur dur…

 

[GTR37]

The best line is this is a platform that is set to evolve adding new devices in future updates

 

[Audio Transformer]

Didn’t know bassist needed more than a câble and a DI (and a comp maybe)

 

[JCW308]

No expression pedal jack? Or am I missing it?

 

[JCW308]

Didn’t know bassist needed more than a câble and a DI (and a comp maybe)

We use all kinds of effects too. It's a thing. Really.

 

[JCW308]

At least it's not bass-only.

 

[Chocol8]

Didn’t know bassist needed more than a câble and a DI (and a comp maybe)

Even if that were true, there is not a lot of money in selling bassists just a cable and a DI. There is no reason bassists shouldn't be subject to the same crippling GAS as guitar players other than gear marketers have not targeted them enough.

 

[2dor]

No expression pedal jack? Or am I missing it?

I think the Return input can act as an expression pedal input.

 

[Audio Transformer]

Even if that were true, there is not a lot of money in selling bassists just a cable and a DI. There is no reason bassists shouldn't be subject to the same crippling GAS as guitar players other than gear marketers have not targeted them enough.

I personally use a cable, ToneX or NAM and a light delay or reverb (often just a room) and for cleans a comp and a chorus at most.
Can do 99% of music.
But amp sound and cab is where I put the most effort. That’s why I ditched the Axefx 3 for ToneX and NAM

 

[2dor]

Just catching up a bit on this now (crazy day); I think they did the I/O calibration good - everything seems to be set up to unity gain & impedances are well aligned so it *could* be a great reamping unit.

 

[quadgear]

No expression pedal jack? Or am I missing it?

I think the Return input can act as an expression pedal input.

TLDR; Expression input with a mono FX loop ... or a stereo effects loop.

The expression input is shared with the stereo effects return.
If you want both expression and mono FX loop, you can use the stereo effects send as a mono effects loop (which they refer to as a mono insert).

 

[2dor]

I personally use a cable, ToneX or NAM and a light delay or reverb (often just a room) and for cleans a comp and a chorus at most.
Can do 99% of music.
But amp sound and cab is where I put the most effort. That’s why I ditched the Axefx 3 for ToneX and NAM

The AxeFx is still a great piece of gear; if you leverage the "Tone Match" block and are trying to match an amp you own for instance, it can get crazy close too. Shame that block's only limited to the Axe and wasn't ported to the FM9 and FM3.

 

[AFKAEjay(retired)]

Is there an efx/parameter list? (Not in the manual)

 

[Lysander]

Is there an efx/parameter list? (Not in the manual)

Looks like it inherits most effects from the Exponent 500:

• Dynamic: Luminal FET Compressor
• Dynamic: Limiter Compressor
• Dynamic: Bus Compressor
• Filter: Darkglass Equalizer (6-band)
• Filter: Amp Equalizer
• Filter: Mo**erf**er
• Filter: High Pass
• Filter: Low Pass
• Filter: Gain
• Modulation: Gravitron Envelope Filter
• Modulation: Mint Chocolate Chorus
• Modulation: Sublemon Octaver
• Modulation: Sublime Octaver
• Modulation: Flamingo Flanger
• Overdrive: Alpha · Omicron
• Overdrive: Microtubes B3K
• Overdrive: Vintage Microtubes
• Overdrive: Chinchilla
• Distortion: Microtubes X
• Distortion: Duality Fuzz
• Preamp: Jim Bass
• Preamp: Leo Bass
• Preamp: Gentile Tube Preamp
• Preamp: Super California Tube Preamp
• Preamp: Kallinen Kruukkeri Transistor Amp
• Preamp: Peggy Bass Tube Preamp
• Preamp: Harmonic Booster
• Pitch: Pitch Shifter
• Pitch: Subcitri Poly Octaver
• Time: Digital Delay
• Time: Analog Delay
• Time: Mod Delay
• Time: Shimmer Reverb
• Time: Hall Reverb
• Time: Plate Reverb
• Time: Room Reverb
• Utility: NSP Noise Suppressor
• Utility: NAM Amp Loader
• Utility: NAM Distortion Loader
• Utility: IR Loader

 

[BenIfin]

This is a true game changer! Aimed at Bass players but will mostly be used by guitar players world wide!

I love your enthusiasm Nicholas .... but unless you really want to pay "massively through the a**" for 2 or 3 NAM Blocks ... why would any guitarist by a multi efx unit that the manufacturer is going out of their way to say is specifically designed ground up for Bass ?

You really want to run a static Drive Pedal Capture into a static Amp Capture and then change settings and expect it to sound "right" ??????

Apparently its got 7 Bass Amps and supposedly 7 guitar Amps but cant find an amp list anywhere.

Its current FW 1.1 only does Midi PC - no Midi CC - we have no idea how Darkglass/Korg are with regular FW fixes and updates ?

And almost certainly, the drives, Comps and EQ's are all "tuned" for "best results" on Bass.

Its absolutely awesome for Bass Players ... period

I.m.h.o, its a total no brainer no-buy for guitarist until - if ever - lots of Guitar Amps and Guitar Specific EFX are added.

Anyone who buys a product these days for what they hope / want it to become -as opposed to what it is- may as well [metaphorically speaking] set fire to their money.

And yes - it was/is a deliberately pissy click bait tease by Leo - and that's the problem - they increasingly have to deliberately do "not quite right" sh*t like this to get the eyeballs and keep the [probably] few $$ per month coming it.

 

[BenIfin]

I think this video will answer and clear-up and show us a lot more of what it is for and what its not for. also, all the Y/T "Bass" Channels have all dumped their Y/T reviews already

Official 1hr 08min Deep Dive Video. Playing andd holding a Bass the whole time. And unless I'm mistaken the word "guitar" [without Bass in front of it] is never mentioned.

 

[paisleywookiee]

The form factor seems pretty cool, I’ll give them that.