Darkglass Adam

Preset one provides the perfect amount of brightness, without any of the sizzle or crackle often associated with the high end. Preset two is quite different from that first, brighter distortion: if you like scooping your midrange, you’re in for a treat. The third preset is reminiscent of the late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton’s sound on his famous solo, ‘Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)’, but even more fuzzed out. My clean signal remained completely unaffected by any of these, so much so that I had to roll back the low end on my Microtubes head.