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Darkglass Electronics Partners with Neural DSP for the First Official Microtubes Plugin

Darkglass Electronics has made its mission to serve bass players in the never-ending quest for the perfect tone. They have relentlessly worked to push the engineering and design envelope, continuously improving their products to help bassists be more creative and get the most out of their equipment.

"When we started in 2010, there were only a handful of high-quality bass preamp/overdrive pedals, which meant bassists more often than not had to go for effects designed for other instruments to craft their sounds. We saw a similar gap in the plugin market with very few software options dedicated to getting the best out of bass signals.

We are partnering with Neural DSP, a young and audacious Finnish audio software startup, to take two of our most emblematic products to the digital market.

Initially, we were skeptical; our circuits are much more complex than your usual guitar overdrive...

Trickfish Amplification unveils the all-new TF408 bass cabinet, which previewed at the 2018 Winter NAMM Show. The design is centered on the new 8” custom Eminence ferrite bass drivers, designed in conjunction with Trickfish’s System Designer Anthony Fregoso and the team at Eminence.

“This cabinet is one of the last projects we were able to work on with Trickfish founder Richard Ruse. He no doubt wanted to capture the focus and speed of the 8” drivers but also wanted to harness that power into the right enclosure to make a 4x8 that would stand up to the highest demands. Richard's first response upon hearing the first prototype was 'Concentrated Evil!'....he knew he got it right!” - Ryan Owens, Trickfish VP

The TF408 features impressive specifications making it a great stand-alone cabinet and an absolute game changer as a two-cabinet stack. Weight-saving measures were taken into account while not losing the main objective of a killer compact cabinet that would be at home on stages...

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (March 19, 2018) — Cort Guitars knows that sophisticated players are serious about their tone. With each addition to the Artisan line of electric bass guitars, Cort offers excellent workmanship and world-class materials to meet high expectations. Cort’s new five-string A5 Plus SCFF model follows this tradition by offering a new take on premium wood tones and a new-to-series multiscale fanned-fret design. The combination of these features, along with premium electronics and hardware, offers players a sleek bass guitar with excellent depth and range.

The A5 Plus SCFF’s fanned frets form the foundation of this 34’’ to 35.5’’multiscale instrument. This design modification and a corresponding single-string hardtail bridge improve tension and enhance the tonal response of each string. The A5 Plus SCFF also incorporates the series neck-thru-body construction that allows strings to vibrate across the neck and body in a coherent, linear manner, maximizing...

This course is an introduction to the unique percussive finger style technique that Dmitry Lisenko pioneered on the acoustic bass guitar. Lisenko has mastered this technique, and shares some of his tips and tricks in this one-of-a-kind video course.

Lisenko has found several ways to imitate a drum kit, and shows how to perform melody, bass, and rhythm at the same time using only a 4-string acoustic bass guitar.

Dmitry has brought new attention to the acoustic bass bass guitar: He has gained millions of views on social media platforms, signed endorsement deals with Warwick & Gallistrings and won a bass guitarist competition in Russia in 2015. He performs at the largest bass player events like London Bass Guitar Show 2017, Warwick Bass Camp 2016/2017, Moscow Bass Day 2016, and St.Petersburg Bass Day 2016.

SpectraDrive Bass Preamp and Line Driver is a powerful tone tool for serious bass players in search of an exceptional sounding and ultra-flexible preamp pedal.

Lifted directly from our awesome BH800 bass head, the preamp section features a 4-band intelligent EQ for surgical tone sculpting and TonePrint compression courtesy of our mighty SpectraComp.

But the real power of SpectraDrive is the custom built studio-grade DI with switches for pre/post-EQ, ground/lift, and line/instrument level, which allows you to control your sound through the house PA from the stage.

Add to that a TonePrint TubeDrive circuit with a separate footswitch to cover your low-end in an array of different dirts while the built-in BonaFide Buffer keeps your tone crisp and loud no matter the distance.

To keep your chops as good as your tone, SpectraDrive easily pulls double-duty as the perfect practice companion thanks to its high-quality headphone amplifier and AUX input.

SpectraDrive features...