Darkglass Microtubes B7K Analogue Bass Preamp

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$336.50excluding VAT

Estimated delivery: 31st Dec. - 2nd Jan.

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Key Features

Blend control maintains clean signal unity, blends overdrive finely
Attack switch boosts treble for clarity, or cuts for taming brightness
Grunt switch selects bass saturation level, enhances low-end dynamics
Parallel output enables parallel processing, expands tonal possibilities

Darkglass Microtubes B7K Analogue Bass Preamp Overview

The Darkglass Microtubes B7K Analogue Bass Preamp is a powerhouse of tone sculpting, offering unparalleled control over your bass sound. With its Blend control, you can seamlessly mix your clean input signal with the overdriven signal, ensuring that your bass retains its natural character while adding just the right amount of grit. The Attack switch provides further versatility, allowing you to boost treble for added clarity and presence, or cut high frequencies to tame brightness, ensuring your bass cuts through the mix with precision.

Meanwhile, the Grunt switch offers three levels of bass saturation, enhancing low-end dynamics and providing the perfect foundation for your tone. Whether you're in the studio crafting the perfect bassline or on stage delivering a powerful performance, the Darkglass Microtubes B7K delivers unmatched sonic versatility and clarity. Plus, with features like the Parallel Output for parallel processing, this preamp opens up a world of tonal possibilities, making it an essential tool for any bass player seeking to take their sound to the next level.

Product Ref: 101261

Full Description

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The B7K Version 2

The Darkglass B7K Preamp is one of their lead pedals on the market for bassists, the engineers at Darkglass thought it was time to implement some of their tricks they learned over the years to give the pedal an upgrade it deserves. The pedal’s EQ section is upgrade with extra controls to expand it tone shaping capabilities, featuring switches to change their centre frequencies of the lo and hi mid controls, allowing players to tailor their ideal distortion tone.

Powerful bass preamp

The Darkglass B7K is designed to be the ultimate tool to give your bass’ tone extra depth and character, offering a tone-crushing overdrive and plenty of controls to shape your sound for any situation. Featuring the dynamic saturation circuitry of their B3K pedal and a powerful 4-band EQ, the B7K Preamp offers incredible tone shaping capabilities which allows players to fully explore their creativity. It's also equipped with parallel and direct outputs, expanding versatility and letting players seamlessly integrate it into existing rigs.

Control options

Blend: Mixes the clean input signal with the overdriven signal. The clean signal remains at unity gain while the volume of the overdriven signal is set by the Level knob, allowing for fine control of the blend ratio.
Level: Sets the volume of the overdriven signal.
Drive: Sets the amount of saturation in the overdriven signal.
Grunt Switch: Sets the amount of low frequency content to saturate by selecting between three different bass boost levels before the clipping stage.
Attack Switch: Sets the amount of treble content to saturate: The “Boost” setting emphasises the treble content extra clarity and presence. The “Flat” position leaves this register untouched while the “Cut” position will reduce the amount of high frequencies being saturated.
Frequencies: Low +-12dB @ 100Hz | Low Mids: +-12dB @ 1kHz Hi Mids: +-12dB @ 3 kHz | Treble: +-12dB @ 5kHz
Low Mids Switch: This switch changes the centre frequency of the Low Mids from 1kHz to 500Hz.
Hi Mids Switch: This switch change the centre frequency of the Hi Mids from 3kHz to 1.5kHz.

Specifications

General

Controls: Blend, Level, Drive, Low, Lo Mids, Hi Mids, Treble
Switches: Grunt, Attack, Lo Mids, Hi Mids, Ground Lift
Input: Standard 1/4'' Jack
Output: Standard 1/4'' Jack
Parallel Output: 1/4'' Jack (Passthrough for Input Signal, Useful for Parallel Processing.)
Direct Output: balanced XLR (For PA’s or Studio Mixing Consoles)
Power Requirements: 9V DC, Centre -, 2.1mm, 30mA Current Draw (Sold Separately)