Darkglass Electronics Microtubes X Ultra

The Microtubes X Ultra greatly expands on the already immense versatility of the Microtubes X7. Featuring all the great controls that its predecessor has that allows users to select exactly what frequencies they want to compress and saturate for the low and treble respectively, but with four major additions providing an additional layer of flexibility, while maintaining the same compact footprint, making it an extremely complete tool for the modern bassist.

CONTROLS

Low Comp: Controls compression amount for the low band. Both threshold and makeup gain are controlled to maintain a constant level. This control is also used to control the compression amount when the compressor is enabled for clean signal in Darkglass Suite.

Low Level: Sets the output volume of the low-pass signal.

Low Pass Frequency: Controls the cut-off frequency to be mixed back to the high-pass side. Ranging from 50Hz (for only sub-bass) and 500Hz to preserve some clean mids.

High Level: Sets the output volume of the distorted high-pass signal.

High Drive: Sets the amount of distortion for the high pass side.

High Pass Frequency: Controls the cutoff frequency to be distorted, ranging from 100Hz (for thicker, fuzzier saturation) or 1kHz for ultra-sharp definition.

Master: +-12 dB. Sets the overall volume of the unit.

Bass: Low shelf +-12dB @ 80 Hz

Mid bands: +-10dB @ 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1.5 kHz, 3 kHz

Treble: High shelf +-12dB @ 5 kHz

Warning
When the pedal is on bypass the master volume does not affect the headphone volume. In this case the total volume is adjustable in Darkglass Suite. With sensitive headphones, the bypass volume can be very loud if not adjusted.

The Microtubes X Ultra has a current draw of 200mA. Only use a regulated 9V DC adapter with a center-negative plug.

Unregulated power supplies and/or higher voltages may result in suboptimal noise performance and even damage your unit, voiding the warranty.

INPUTS & OUTPUTS

Input
Connect your instrument or output from your pedal board to the ¼” mono jack.

Aux In
This 3.5mm stereo input allows you to practice with backing tracks from e.g. your smartphone or laptop. Auxiliary input can only be used with the headphone output.

The pedal does not control the level, it must be set from your audio source. Remember to always first set the level low before connecting anything to the aux in!.

Headphone Output
Microtubes X Ultra has an internal stereo headphone amplifier capable of driving a minimum load of 16 ohms from the 3.5mm stereo jack. Use the Master volume control to adjust the level.

9V DC
Only use a regulated 9V DC adapter with a center-negative plug

Output
Connect from the ¼” Output jack to the input of your amplifier or another effects pedal.

Direct Output
Balanced XLR output for connecting the pedal to a microphone preamp, PA system etc.

Ground lift
Disconnects the signal ground on the Direct Output to break any ground loops. Set this switch to either position that has less noise. The switch does not affect the ¼” output.

DIMENSIONS

Width: 125 mm / 5″
Length: 96 mm/ 3¾″
Height: 57 mm / 2¼″
Weight: 430 g / 0.95 lb

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