Darkglass Luminal Booster Ultra

The Darkglass Luminal Booster Ultra combines high-precision dynamics control and broad-gauge tone shaping, supplying bassists with a potent pipeline to their personal creative nirvana. This pedal’s studio-quality compressor offers numerous options for imaginative processing, while a bass-tailored graphic EQ puts six bands of premium sonic sculpting at your fingertips. You also get variable Mid Gain and Mid Frequency knobs for dialing in your midrange, a Character knob for blending in the tone-shaping circuitry, and a flat +/-20dB footswitchable Cut/Boost. The Luminal Booster Ultra includes an XLR DI output and a 7-slot IR loader, granting you access to a formidable cache of award-winning cabinet simulations. Moreover, this bass preamp’s built-in headphone amplifier and stereo auxiliary input facilitate silent practice sessions, complete with backing tracks. A handy ground-lift feature rounds out the Luminal Booster Ultra. Bassists in need of an all-in-one pedalboard-based preamp with ample tone tweaking will get all that — and more — from the Darkglass Luminal Booster Ultra.
 

Front Features

• Filter
  Adjustable lowpass filter for the compressed signal (150 Hz to 20 kHz)
  
  
• Blend
  Blends between clean and compressed signal
  
  
• Comp
  Adjusts the amount of compression applied
  
  
• Level
  Adjusts the level of the compressor after the blend control
  
  
• Boost
  +-20dB boost or cut
  
  
• Character
  Allows blending in the perfect amount of the tone-shaping circuitry. Press to select between 7 IRs.
  
  
• Mid gain
  +-20dB @ the frequency selected by “Mid Frequency”.
  
  
• Mid Frequency
  Mid frequency from 250Hz to 2.5kHz.
  
  
• Master
  +-12 dB. Sets the overall volume of the unit.
  
  
• Bass
  Low shelf +-13dB @ 80 Hz
  
  
• Mid bands
  +-13dB @ 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1.5 kHz, 3 kHz
  
  Treble
  High shelf +-13dB @ 5 kHz
  Dimensions
  Width: 125 mm / 5″
  Length: 96 mm/ 3¾″
  Height: 57 mm / 2¼″
  Weight: 430 g / 0.95 lb
  
  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 Luminal Booster Ultra has a current draw of 400mA. 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.