Anagram Guitar Essentials
Darkglass Electronics built its empire on bass — the Finnish company's B7K preamp is arguably the defining bass distortion of the modern era — so a guitar-focused Darkglass unit is genuinely newsworthy. The Anagram Guitar Essentials is a one-run, limited edition of the company's flagship Anagram amp-modeling workstation, curated for six-string players and sold exclusively through Sweetwater and Andertons in a stealthy blackout finish. The hardware is unchanged and excellent: a vivid seven-inch touchscreen dominates the top panel, flanked by six endless knobs and three multi-function footswitches, all housed in the kind of aerospace-grade enclosure Darkglass is known for. What changes is the content. The Guitar Essentials edition ships with twelve exclusive guitar amp models spanning cleans to high gain, plus three pedal models, arranged in Anagram's flexible 24-block signal chain. Crucially, it retains the platform's headline trick: native support for Neural Amp Modeler profiles, letting you load up to three NAM captures simultaneously — access to thousands of free, community-made amp captures, in a floor unit, with no computer required. Stereo routing, IR loading, USB audio and MIDI round out a spec sheet aimed at fly-rig players and hybrid studio use. As a variant of the bass Anagram, it mentions its sibling in every spec — same brain, different soul. Limited to a single production run, it is both a collector's item and a statement: Darkglass engineering, finally speaking guitar.
