Screamingdaisy
Well-Known Member
I recently picked up a Darkglass Infinity. It's kind of an experiment. I'm going for a clanky rock/metal bass tone, but it's not as extreme as a lot of the stuff I see on YouTube. I need it to fit into a mix with guitars rather than overpower them, and for some reason getting a distortion sound I love has been a bit of a struggle for me..
I've been running a BDDI to FOH, then periodically hitting that with a distortion for certain songs. For the last year or so I've been using a B7K. I like a certain consistency in my live sound, and the way stepping on the B7K would change my low end kind of bugged me, so I decided to give this setup a shot.
I also recently switch from a 4 string P/J to a 5 string DC/DC. I absolutely loved my Spector P/J + BDDI sound, however I wasn't thrilled with how the DCs were sounding through the same setup/settings, so I'm somewhat motivated me to make some changes.
I'm using the Infinity in multi-band mode, so one band is high passed and fed through a B7K and sim IR, and the other is low passed, left clean and compressed, then merged back together.
Pros - the results are a lot more polished sounding, fat, and fits into the mix really nicely.
I also like that it'll let me run different configurations on each output. So, I can have remove the cab sim from one output and use that to feed a stage amp.
Cons - the results are a lot more polished sounding, so it's harder to get more extreme sounds out of it as they tend to blend in and don't stand out as much. I'm generally cool with that, others my find that to be an issue.
It also has a tube amp emulation mode that sounds like a good SVT. I wish I had a way to feed the B7K mode into the tube amp emulation mode.
I was about one step away from splitting my signal into a clean/dirty setup and doing this all analogue, but I figured I'd give this a shot first as it's a fraction of what that would cost.
I've been running a BDDI to FOH, then periodically hitting that with a distortion for certain songs. For the last year or so I've been using a B7K. I like a certain consistency in my live sound, and the way stepping on the B7K would change my low end kind of bugged me, so I decided to give this setup a shot.
I also recently switch from a 4 string P/J to a 5 string DC/DC. I absolutely loved my Spector P/J + BDDI sound, however I wasn't thrilled with how the DCs were sounding through the same setup/settings, so I'm somewhat motivated me to make some changes.
I'm using the Infinity in multi-band mode, so one band is high passed and fed through a B7K and sim IR, and the other is low passed, left clean and compressed, then merged back together.
Pros - the results are a lot more polished sounding, fat, and fits into the mix really nicely.
I also like that it'll let me run different configurations on each output. So, I can have remove the cab sim from one output and use that to feed a stage amp.
Cons - the results are a lot more polished sounding, so it's harder to get more extreme sounds out of it as they tend to blend in and don't stand out as much. I'm generally cool with that, others my find that to be an issue.
It also has a tube amp emulation mode that sounds like a good SVT. I wish I had a way to feed the B7K mode into the tube amp emulation mode.
I was about one step away from splitting my signal into a clean/dirty setup and doing this all analogue, but I figured I'd give this a shot first as it's a fraction of what that would cost.