Darkglass Electronics

Darkglass makes the pedals everyone else's bass tone is pretending to be.

Doug Castro started Darkglass Electronics in Helsinki in 2009 because the existing options for bass drive were, charitably, designed for guitar players who happened to own a bass (not true obviously but back then it truly felt like it if you were a forum goblin just like us). The B7K arrived in 2012 and quietly became the most-copied bass preamp circuit of the decade. The Microtubes line followed. Then the Alpha Omega. Then the amps, the cabinets, and most recently the Anagram, a full bass modeller that does the work of about six pedalboards. Their inboard preamp (ToneCapsule) changed the course of bass recording thanks to a pretty swell guy named Nolly Getgood.

The shorthand: if you've recorded a modern bass tone in the last ten years, you've probably touched a Darkglass somewhere in the chain. Producers reach for them on default. That's not marketing, that's just what happened.

Bass Freaks is an authorized Darkglass dealer in Europe. The pedals, the Element series, and the Anagram are kept in stock at our Louvain-la-Neuve showroom :

  • B7K Ultra v2
  • Anagram
  • Alpha Omega Ultra, Vintage Ultra
  • and more, you get the idea