My Microtubes X arrived and of course sounds amazing. I’ll upload some samples later.
The big question is was it worth the hefty price tag given what I already have. And initially I would have to say… probably not in my case since I was already getting close to a Darkglass tone with the Battalion + BDI21, and the Battalion is a lot more versatile.
The Darkglass initially seems to me like it does one thing and does it very, very well. It has a pretty wide variety of tones all along one axis.
One thing I do love and will be nice to have even with a clean signal is its low and high pass filter pots. It’s basically going to pull double duty as a tone-coloring distortion pedal and a filter, which is definitely nice to have.
So, no regrets on buying it (especially at the price I got) but this one was definitely a nice-to-have and not a necessity.