Darkglass Alpha Omega

Darkglass Alpha Omega is a flexible bass distortion with two separate distortion circuits and developed in coproduction with Jon Stockman. Jon is amazing at crafting some of the most devastating bass tones in the world. We got together in our then Helsinki headquarters 18 months ago and after endless tweaking and tens of prototypes we are finally ready to announce our first co-designed creation: Alpha · Omega.

This creation differs greatly from our previous preamplifiers and overdrives: it is fully operational amplifier based and has two distinct distortion circuits (Alpha and Omega) which can be selected or blended using our Mod knob. This unusual control, in conjunction with the toggle switches and 3 active band equilizer makes Alpha · Omega the most flexible among our designs.

The pedal has seven knobs and a number of switches. The Blend knob 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. The Drive knob sets the amount of saturation in the overdriven signal.

The Growl Switch sets the amount of low frequency content to saturate. The Bite Switch sets the amount of treble content to saturate. The Bass knob boosts or cuts 80 Hz with 12 dB. The Mids knob boosts or cuts 500 Hz with 12 dB. The Treble knob boosts or cuts 5 kHz with 12 dB.

Darkglass Alpha Omega demo video