Hey Bea, great video & playing as always - just one note I thought you might find interesting: I don't believe the Lead mod on the Dream is supposed to be a Dumble. Back in the late ’60s and all through the ’70s, the same way Marshall guys were taking their Plexis to modders like José Arredondo and Lee Jackson to get them hot-rodded, Fender dudes (many of them were huge LA session monsters) would take their black and especially their silverface Deluxe Reverbs to get modded. The huge modder back then was Paul Rivera, who was the amp tech at the legendary Valley Arts guitar shop in LA; when Rivera left that job to start his own amp company, he showed all his mods to his replacement, none other than Steve Fryette, who's now a legend in his own right for the VHT Ultra Lead and Sig:X, the Fryette Deliverance and Power Station, et al. Like the Marshall modders, the Fender guys had different sets of alterations available for different prices (Paul Rivera called them "stages," so when you see amps called the Rivera Stage IV, for instance, that's him saying "this is a Fender with my deluxe mods"), but pretty much all of them focused around the same few things: giving the silverface Deluxe Reverbs more gain, more midrange, more ability to control EQ and boost settings, and more volume control at different points in the amp (master volumes and so forth), so you could get your screaming lead sounds in a quiet studio. Rivera's mods were probably most famous for his 6-position Fat switch, which was a notched rotary switch that added more and more gain at a wider and wider band of midrange frequencies as you turned it up. The early silverface Fenders from about 1968 to 1971 were pretty good, but they got nastier and nastier throughout the ’70s, as they were redesigned to have almost no midrange and NOT to overdrive at high volume, just to generate an ear-bleeding hyper-loud clean tone, so everybody was looking for ways to get mids, gain, compression, etc., back into their Fenders. Those Rivera- (and Fryette-) modded Deluxe Reverbs are on thousands and thousands of records; Steve Lukather used them for his solos on Toto's "Rosanna" and, I believe, Lionel Richie's "Running with the Night," Paul Jackson Jr. had them on everything from Madonna to Bette Midler, and most of the guitars on THRILLER were recorded with a Rivera Fender. ... All of which is a long way to say that I think "Lead" is supposed to be a Rivera-modded Deluxe, really the defining guitar sound of the recording studio (along with Marshalls) from about 1975-1985, and that "D-Texas" is indeed a reference to Stevie Ray Vaughan's use of Dumbles, but *not* the Dumble most people think of. When we say "Dumble," most of us mean that very distinct, smooth-but-crunchy, compressed-but-edgy distortion sound generated by a Dumble Overdrive Special, but SRV's interest in Dumbles tended more toward the Steel String Singer, a 300-watt (!!!) monster that allegedly began as a modded Ampeg SVT bass amp. SRV wanted something that would stay tight, clean, and defined at arena volumes, and the SSS was designed to do exactly that; legend has it that those amps are almost impossible to overdrive or compress, and because Stevie liked to play through lots of amps at once, sometimes 20 or 30!, he would often layer lower-wattage Fenders that were compressing and distorting over the truly insane "foundation" of a 200-watt Marshall Major and a 300-watt Steel String Singer, to make sure the core of his tone stayed clean. Hope you find some of my incurable geek shit entertaining! And though I'm not big on digital amp sims, I do think it's so, *so* cool that UA has put versions of the Rivera-modded Deluxe and the Steel String Singer within reach of the average guitarist. (And blimey, that Ruby sounds IMMENSE.)
Great rundown. I agree the 65 driven tone sounds like a Rivera modded Deluxe (he did a hell of a cool Princeton too). Guitar players are so weird though, when Rivera made his own amps, which were extremely nice, they never did "pop" with the boutique crowd. Lukather used a couple of his Knuckleheads for a time, but by then Soldano had moved to LA and it was "rack city",
@@loudassguitar7499 Yeah, it often seems like there's a cachet in having the rare chop-shop modded stuff, and when that modded Fender becomes its own Rivera, a bit of the hip appeal wears off. Plus, if my experience with producers is any indication, they don't want to see ANY names of gear they don't know coming thru that studio door - even if the Rivera Stage IV has exactly the same clean channel as a silverface Deluxe Reverb, words like FENDER and MARSHALL soothe producers who "know how to deal with this kind of amp" and don't want to spend 5 minutes, you know, listening to your Fuchs or Redplate or Sebago.
I don’t know how they feel to play but I’ll be honest; if you told me you were playing through real amps I would believe it. These sound great. Especially the Ruby. I have an AC10 & a Dr Z Maz 18 & it sounds very close to what I hear from those amps. Bravo UA, I am impressed.
@sooperheep excuse the interruption, but I've been using the AC10 since it came out and I Have to say it has become my go-to gigging amp. I have upgraded the speaker to a Weber Blue Pup, which makes it louder and gives a "stronger" sound if that makes sense? I've stopped using my AC15 as this wee thing is just as loud, and MUCH lighter / smaller. These AC10s will become modern classics IMHO. I haven't tried the Ruby yet, and am on here to see what all the fuss is about, and it's GOOD! But, I cannot see it ever replacing my AC10 for gigging - home recording of course is a different matter, and for that it seems AWESOME! For gigging I still love the feel of air moving behind me, so just sticking the Ruby through PA monitors wouldn't do it for me.
I personally liked the Ruby the most (totally not biased or anything). I felt the Dream did the fendery thing and the Woodrow.....wasn't my cup of tea...., but the Ruby just sounded like all the classic Vox tones. Absolutely beautiful cleans and the perfect "cuts through the mix" rock gain.
Well done. There’s always going to be something new. I’ve been running an Iridium for a year and really only use the Chime mode on it. This has my gears turning since I love the Golden and Astra on my board. I do think the Iridium is still a solid choice either way. Thanks for the vid!
Nice discussions about pro and contras but my bandmember ordered one and my pedal will come next monday. Kemper, Helix and some other Pedals, IR boxes and so on are far away of that small pedals. I coludn't believe it before the pedal arrived but we tested the dream 65 2 days with different guitars and against my Carr Super Bee and there was not a real big difference. UA found the holy grail of an valve amp which fills the room around you. Next on my list will be the Ruby with an Footswich and i will have all tones i need for every situation. Thx for the nice demo Rabea There are so many small locations i have to play and a 10 watt valve amp is mostly to loud if you crank him up and this small pedal feels like an valve amp. Perfect for small Gigs, for Jamsession to go direct in the mix, it works well with all my analog pedals and you have every phase of an amp you like in the same volume range if needed, amazing. And the best, you don't need to carry big heavy stuff from rehearsel room to the car, to tha stage and back. Fits perfect on every pedal board und is a realy nice Amp in front of an audiointerface
the 65 dream pedal has a real super reverb vibe to it , the ruby overdrive almost sounded like a friedman be100 , your review of these pedals is the best i've seen , really shows the flavors of these pedals well ....
Call me greedy, but, after I watched the video, I wish UA would also make Marshal plexi, jcm800 and EVH amp in UAFX amp pedals as well. P.S. Great review as always :)
I wouldn’t be surprised if all models were in all boxes, just one is activated. It would be less expensive just to make them all the same, with different activations, and box art.
Hey, just read your comment, I am actually looking for a solution to use my Dream 65 with an amp and the JC 22 seems cool in terms of functionalities and size, how do you bypass the pre-amp on the Roland to use the UAFX pedal, I am curious about that set-up?
What would be really cool is if you had a guitar with dual outputs, one for the neck pickup and one for the bridge pickup and route each one into a different UAFX pedal. Say....the bridge pickup into the Ruby and the neck pickup into the Dream. Between your volume and tone settings on the guitar for each pickup and all the variations on each pedal I don't know if one has a long enough lifespan to explore all the tonal possibilities !!
I built a Tweed Deluxe last year, and the woodrow is definitely close. There are some great cleans and thick lighter gain tones from the amp itself too. Personally I love the more raucous voicing of a Tweed deluxe, and will definitely be looking at one of these for my ampless rig!
OK Rabea, you speak for UA and Quad Cortex, so.... obvious question: are these new UA amp/cab emulation pedals better than the QC in a basic clean/breakup emulation? To my ears the UA pedals blow the QC away....(ps I do own a QC)
He cant answer that I bet. My QC is coming along fine with some VOX captures of my own AC15( once the official store comes out you will find some studio captures that will elevate ) The best sounds he gets are way overdriven. A real vox would be so loud to get that type sound. I think its a bit harsh and flubby on the UA, could be his tuning maybe. only speaking of the Ruby.
@@wolvesandguitars yeah: to be precise, he could answer but won't: conflict of sponsors. TBH I've almost given up with the QC - it only sounds decent cor heavy rock/metal etc, and we're a year in and many of the promised features are not there, and there aren't (to my ears at least) many decent captures/presets of any value on the app....
@@digitalchris6681 Resale is still awesome !! Have you played the Tone King Plugin? just wait until that is fully compatible with the QC!!!!! That is the only amp ill ever need. And my Tiny Terror.
@@wolvesandguitars yup, tried the plug-in on their 14 day trial. I'm a TK geek ! The plug-in is good but not as good as my Falcon; to me it sounded laggy and lacked that certain TK sparkle without being piercingly bright. I also use their Ironman with other amps to great effect. But this is academic, as I reckon QC - although they promised it - will not allow plugins to be used on the QC (it's marketing madness: why spend £1600 on the QC for its MULTI-amp modelling only to then have to spend another £100 for just ONE amp sim... they;re sort of acknowledging that the QC inbuilt amp models aren't up to scratch. Which they aren't ! )
THAT'S IT !! I was trying to put my finger on that REALLY crunchy sound of the overdriven boosted Woodrow where it almost sounds like a fuzz. Neil Young and Crazy Horse in a pedal !! That was a great catch !!
Probably the best I've heard in this format. They all sound a little fizzy at high gain though. But the low end growl is awesome and authentic sounding. I've listened to several demos and it seems the same.
The timing of UA dropping the Dream '65 Reverb pedal is uncanny. I was about to buy a Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb amp "AND" a UA Ox box from Sweetwater. Now I'm wondering if there's any reason to get the real amp if the pedal can do everything and sound legit. I guess I need to do more research and weigh the benefits of each amp.
I’m still obsessed with my quad cortex. Of course great amps and pedals come first but this just isn’t as exciting and doesn’t hold my interest. But your playing is awesome as usual. You said you’re not a blues player, Rabea yes you are a great blues player, funk player, rock, pop etc. I know you love heavy metal but I enjoy when you play these other genres. You said you wanted to be a jack of all trades and you definitely are.
I really like the way you play the guitar and the rock sound that runs through your veins. I would like to know if you would be interested in making guitars for my productions
So... If you want to use these to the best in a classic situation, bedroom, live... what is the best power amp and cab to use ? I mean, all these demos don't mention in what kind of device you have to plug in (not talking about soundcards)
Amazing !!! They sound sooo good! Is it possible to use the different inputs and outputs to place some other pedals in "fx loop" mode, after the preamp but before the cab simulation?
Run them into a orange pedal baby. ( gain pedals > UA pedal > modulation and reverbs > pedal baby > speaker cab or load box with custom irs) that would be ripper
It's a shame these pedals have come out in this day and age of no gigs, no one playing anywhere or any music scene whatsoever.... except for your bedroom.... I love the Ruby pedal though.
Damned- just when I thought I had made up my mind to go with the new Lion 68- I find the Dream. I have an MX5 already, and tbh it does a decent Marshal thing- but it misses the black faced fender thing pretty badly. The Dream nails it though- and with that Dumble style mod- it sounds great. Idk though- the Lion has some pretty good clean tones in it as well- and it does the whole Hendrix thing. That said- I suck at the Hendrix thing so... hmmm, I don't know, this will require another day or two of mulling over in my head, I think. The truth is that my style probably fits the Marshal better- but I'm trying to change that.
Brilliant channel on Ruby is super noisy for me on higher gain levels, can’t seem to hear any noise on this video. Are you running it through some noise gate?
question, If you have this amp simulator pedal. do you still need real amp to play? how about when playing live gigs? there is real amplifiers. is it applicable to use amp simulators? please reply thank you
It is really insane I mean in positive way - what pedals are produced and coming out these dayz, you have tons and still every month comes something new out or something Tops what done before. There are also a lot of very good new pedal companies coming up in the last years, comparing these to the 80s, 90s you was waiting years for a new amazing boss or something pedal now you can have in month about 10 new pedals, I can not wait to see where this will all lead to new sounds and tweaks.
These pedals seem to be perfect for the serious gigging musicians that need a great amp tone in a compact package. That being said, if you are a player who needs multiple types of tones for your set, I believe the HX Stomp could be a much better value. Regardless, these things sound absolutely killer!
Dope Demo! As a bass player I’ve been eyeing these pedals since they released. 1st I liked the Dream most, then Ruby, now after this demo I’m rocking with Woodrow! I think out of the 3 it would translate best as a bass pedal. Looks like a can’t lose situation really though.
Are these something one would use to go into the front end of an amp? I understand people can use these instead of a traditional amp for recording and performing but could it just be used like any other pedal on the board?
All three are really great. However, the Dream 65 seems to be the most versatile and authentic to me. Wow! Gotta get me one of those! Thanks for a wonderful demo. Cheers.
@@Diax1324 Yes, it's amazing that a pedal can do that so well. If that is the sound you want on occasion, then, obviously, that's for you. For me, I like clean and slightly distorted better, so if I have to choose one (and right now even one is a luxury expense), Dream 65 is for me. I do like DRs a lot. Of course, with sufficient cash, we can have 'em both or all. Ain't life (sometimes) grand?
@@Glicksman1 there are a lot of good cleans in the Woodrow. I actually returned my Dream because I felt the only cleans there were based on a single volume and it broke up pretty easily even at 9 o clock with humbuckers.
@@h1strat That's good info as I like pretty clean best. Thank you so much. Maybe not the Dream 65, then. Yes. tweeds are great clean which, of course, is what they were designed for. It's a very special, inspiring and so musical tone. I have a '59 Super and its clean to slightly crunchy tone is amazing. It's one of the best amps I've ever played through. Alright , so now I have to consider Woodrow as well as Ruby. I love AC-30s, too. I have a beat up candy top - no top boost like Brian May's ones. I think it's a '63, but it wants all of those tubes ($$). What to do? Nice dilemma, anyway.
Awesome as usual, but I really wish reviewers would use "regular" guitars when reviewing Vox style amps............ there are LOADS of us who LOVE Vox amps, but have never touched a Ricky / Gretsch / 12 string / Brian May guitar, but play "regular" Fender / Gibson guitars to GREAT effect through Vox amps (just like LOADS of rock stars did / do......even those who pretended to be playing Marshalls 😜😂) Quick question: can one of these be run out to a power amp and "flat" speakers for stage use? Has anyone done this for pubs gigs etc.? 🤔
Where I’m at, each of these 3 pedals goes for approx $450+taxes. Take the Ruby for instance (similar to an AC30), an AC30 will cost you about $1K. So the pedal + a cabinet will cost about $1,100, so almost equivalent to getting the real deal. Depending on your application it may not make any sense. Unless you are a gigging musician who doesn’t want to haul a heavy AC30, or you have an interface nicely setup.
That Ruby sounds great. There's just something about a Gretsch and a Vox AC30 that pairs really nicely. I can tell you have to mess with it though. It's not a modern Vox sound. It's the old-school AC30 tones that UA has gone for. Some Strymon love with that combination would absolutely take it over the top.
The Dream 65 sounds incredible. Despite how far the modeling software has come, I feel most modeling units stumble a bit with their black panel Fender sounds. That said, UA has come the closest IMO to capturing the vintage Deluxe / Super tone.
I keep coming back to this video. This is my favorite tone sound I've heard. It would be awesome if you could go back to these and show everything you have going on. What speakers your running into and that type of stuff.
Ive seen comments about the dream having annoying background clipping noises and if you watch at 16:25 for a few seconds you can hear what I think is them. Interested to hear from people who have the pedal, do they hear these kind of noises when playing? Is it only at certain gain or boost levels? Was that a characteristic of an original 65 tube amp or is it a pedal flaw?
They nailed these, IMO. No wasted features. No useless options. My only cry is no headphone out. I'm 100% buying one of these. Most likely the Dream 65 to keep tones like my tube amp when I can't be cranking tube amps - or maybe the Woodrow. I have a AC15 already that I don't use much or I'd consider the ruby as well.
A good amp cost 6 times of that like divided by 13 do real good amps, a lot of amps sadly became very low in quality but the price is still 3 or 4 times of that pedal, like from fender you have to go for a hand wired version does also cost about 6 times more then a ua fx pedal. But with a real amp it is much simpler to play gigs and jams, the ua fx pedals are more for home usage or studio, recording or as ab plus as preamp/efx pedal to your real amp. You have also consider a real amp is a little bit more organic has also some kind a LoFi to it and sometimes also hum and feedbacks, the ua fx pedal sounds a bit more cleanish and digital, straight, because it is Hifidelity like you would love to achive on a high cost produced record in respect to genres like shoegaze, post rock, grunge, noice rock .. might also wanna achive more LoFi for a record. Its all comes down to tast and what you want achive with sounds, but most intresting is when you mix modern digital straight and more Hifi with old lofi organic - I think.
@@佳純石川-d3c Yeah, but it's not an amp. It's an amp modeler pedal without a speaker. Even the new Tech 21 (who always produce amazing sounds) Character Plus series is only 300 euro instead of the whopping 500 euro these are supposed to fetch.
Sound a bit thin and buzzy, Same when used in the apollos. Don’t get me wrong I like and use uad plugins and hardware but the amp sims aren’t really there.
Would love to know what you are using to hear the tone of these for yourself in the room. If anyone knows, would really appreciate it. I’m looking to take my home playing to a more modern experience and just want to know what people’s go to methods for hearing the sound in the room are when playing pedals like this.
Goddamn, what sort of wizardry was going on around the 9:08 mark? Sounded very "present" and "in the room." My God. Edit: I guess it's literally "room"
So is the main purpose of these to run D.I. Or would I be best buying a guitar speaker cabinet without the amp? I don’t understand the main purpose, so they take pedals well? They sound incredible
The main purpose wood be DI, yes. You can turn off the cab sim though, so you can go into a power amp (either the effects return of a full amp or a stand alone power amp) and cabinet. I use the Dream for both and it sounds amazing, both in comparison with my FM3 and the analogue amps I have and had.
Great video. Just tried the Woodrow at Anderton’s and could not get those tones you found. Bought the Walrus ACS1 after comparing the Simplifier, Woodrow and Iridium.
I was also immediately disappointed there was no MIDI. They do have Bluetooth and their own app. This made me wonder if somehow UA could incorporate Bluetooth MIDI into the pedal to work with devices like the CME WIDI. It might be possible with a firmware update?
Amazing job as usual Rabea! Thanks for showcasing the new pedals so well!
I want to see Marshall pedal in the Collection
Can you use dual amps? One for the R side and one for the L side? Thank you for what u do for the guitar community 🤙🏼
@@EliasLopez-yq4bg you talking about buying two of these? Yeah. But they are stereo too
Would really love to see James Santiago showcase these as well! Hopefully coming soon.
So these are useless for bass right ? Not one video on line with a bass...?
Hey Bea, great video & playing as always - just one note I thought you might find interesting:
I don't believe the Lead mod on the Dream is supposed to be a Dumble. Back in the late ’60s and all through the ’70s, the same way Marshall guys were taking their Plexis to modders like José Arredondo and Lee Jackson to get them hot-rodded, Fender dudes (many of them were huge LA session monsters) would take their black and especially their silverface Deluxe Reverbs to get modded. The huge modder back then was Paul Rivera, who was the amp tech at the legendary Valley Arts guitar shop in LA; when Rivera left that job to start his own amp company, he showed all his mods to his replacement, none other than Steve Fryette, who's now a legend in his own right for the VHT Ultra Lead and Sig:X, the Fryette Deliverance and Power Station, et al.
Like the Marshall modders, the Fender guys had different sets of alterations available for different prices (Paul Rivera called them "stages," so when you see amps called the Rivera Stage IV, for instance, that's him saying "this is a Fender with my deluxe mods"), but pretty much all of them focused around the same few things: giving the silverface Deluxe Reverbs more gain, more midrange, more ability to control EQ and boost settings, and more volume control at different points in the amp (master volumes and so forth), so you could get your screaming lead sounds in a quiet studio. Rivera's mods were probably most famous for his 6-position Fat switch, which was a notched rotary switch that added more and more gain at a wider and wider band of midrange frequencies as you turned it up. The early silverface Fenders from about 1968 to 1971 were pretty good, but they got nastier and nastier throughout the ’70s, as they were redesigned to have almost no midrange and NOT to overdrive at high volume, just to generate an ear-bleeding hyper-loud clean tone, so everybody was looking for ways to get mids, gain, compression, etc., back into their Fenders. Those Rivera- (and Fryette-) modded Deluxe Reverbs are on thousands and thousands of records; Steve Lukather used them for his solos on Toto's "Rosanna" and, I believe, Lionel Richie's "Running with the Night," Paul Jackson Jr. had them on everything from Madonna to Bette Midler, and most of the guitars on THRILLER were recorded with a Rivera Fender.
... All of which is a long way to say that I think "Lead" is supposed to be a Rivera-modded Deluxe, really the defining guitar sound of the recording studio (along with Marshalls) from about 1975-1985, and that "D-Texas" is indeed a reference to Stevie Ray Vaughan's use of Dumbles, but *not* the Dumble most people think of. When we say "Dumble," most of us mean that very distinct, smooth-but-crunchy, compressed-but-edgy distortion sound generated by a Dumble Overdrive Special, but SRV's interest in Dumbles tended more toward the Steel String Singer, a 300-watt (!!!) monster that allegedly began as a modded Ampeg SVT bass amp. SRV wanted something that would stay tight, clean, and defined at arena volumes, and the SSS was designed to do exactly that; legend has it that those amps are almost impossible to overdrive or compress, and because Stevie liked to play through lots of amps at once, sometimes 20 or 30!, he would often layer lower-wattage Fenders that were compressing and distorting over the truly insane "foundation" of a 200-watt Marshall Major and a 300-watt Steel String Singer, to make sure the core of his tone stayed clean.
Hope you find some of my incurable geek shit entertaining! And though I'm not big on digital amp sims, I do think it's so, *so* cool that UA has put versions of the Rivera-modded Deluxe and the Steel String Singer within reach of the average guitarist. (And blimey, that Ruby sounds IMMENSE.)
Now that is a TED talk!
I could sit there and listen to you for hours! Where does one get all of this knowledge?
Great rundown. I agree the 65 driven tone sounds like a Rivera modded Deluxe (he did a hell of a cool Princeton too). Guitar players are so weird though, when Rivera made his own amps, which were extremely nice, they never did "pop" with the boutique crowd. Lukather used a couple of his Knuckleheads for a time, but by then Soldano had moved to LA and it was "rack city",
@@loudassguitar7499 Yeah, it often seems like there's a cachet in having the rare chop-shop modded stuff, and when that modded Fender becomes its own Rivera, a bit of the hip appeal wears off. Plus, if my experience with producers is any indication, they don't want to see ANY names of gear they don't know coming thru that studio door - even if the Rivera Stage IV has exactly the same clean channel as a silverface Deluxe Reverb, words like FENDER and MARSHALL soothe producers who "know how to deal with this kind of amp" and don't want to spend 5 minutes, you know, listening to your Fuchs or Redplate or Sebago.
Appreciated info.
I don’t know how they feel to play but I’ll be honest; if you told me you were playing through real amps I would believe it. These sound great. Especially the Ruby. I have an AC10 & a Dr Z Maz 18 & it sounds very close to what I hear from those amps.
Bravo UA, I am impressed.
do you have one of the newer ac10's? if so how do you like it, trying to choose between that and the ruby
@sooperheep excuse the interruption, but I've been using the AC10 since it came out and I Have to say it has become my go-to gigging amp. I have upgraded the speaker to a Weber Blue Pup, which makes it louder and gives a "stronger" sound if that makes sense? I've stopped using my AC15 as this wee thing is just as loud, and MUCH lighter / smaller. These AC10s will become modern classics IMHO. I haven't tried the Ruby yet, and am on here to see what all the fuss is about, and it's GOOD! But, I cannot see it ever replacing my AC10 for gigging - home recording of course is a different matter, and for that it seems AWESOME!
For gigging I still love the feel of air moving behind me, so just sticking the Ruby through PA monitors wouldn't do it for me.
Always worth watching a demo by Rabea because he not only dials in some cracking tones, man, can he ever play.
I personally liked the Ruby the most (totally not biased or anything). I felt the Dream did the fendery thing and the Woodrow.....wasn't my cup of tea...., but the Ruby just sounded like all the classic Vox tones. Absolutely beautiful cleans and the perfect "cuts through the mix" rock gain.
I wish he tried the Woodrow at any gain level below totally blowing up.
Bea. You and Danish Pete should throw together an EP of you two jamming. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Well done. There’s always going to be something new. I’ve been running an Iridium for a year and really only use the Chime mode on it. This has my gears turning since I love the Golden and Astra on my board. I do think the Iridium is still a solid choice either way. Thanks for the vid!
Nice discussions about pro and contras but my bandmember ordered one and my pedal will come next monday. Kemper, Helix and some other Pedals, IR boxes and so on are far away of that small pedals.
I coludn't believe it before the pedal arrived but we tested the dream 65 2 days with different guitars and against my Carr Super Bee and there was not a real big difference.
UA found the holy grail of an valve amp which fills the room around you. Next on my list will be the Ruby with an Footswich and i will have all tones i need for every situation. Thx for the nice demo Rabea
There are so many small locations i have to play and a 10 watt valve amp is mostly to loud if you crank him up and this small pedal feels like an valve amp. Perfect for small Gigs, for Jamsession to go direct in the mix, it works well with all my analog pedals and you have every phase of an amp you like in the same volume range if needed, amazing.
And the best, you don't need to carry big heavy stuff from rehearsel room to the car, to tha stage and back. Fits perfect on every pedal board und is a realy nice Amp in front of an audiointerface
I dig that they made them stereo. Not many Amp in a Box pedals do that.
Yeah they really sound fantastic. Great price point too for the quality. Thank you Rabea!
the 65 dream pedal has a real super reverb vibe to it , the ruby overdrive almost sounded like a friedman be100 , your review of these pedals is the best i've seen , really shows the flavors of these pedals well ....
Call me greedy, but, after I watched the video, I wish UA would also make Marshal plexi, jcm800 and EVH amp in UAFX amp pedals as well. P.S. Great review as always :)
You're not alone. I'm betting they'll make more.
I would love a 100w Superbass personally, that is a bit greedy. That and a 59 Bassman with 2x12 cab options would be killer.
68 Lead or Superlead would be fantastic.
Look! I'm trying really hard to resist having all of UA pedals on my board and looking like an unpaid UA's ambassador. Jesus Christ!
I don't know what is better--hearing the tones of UAFX dream pedal, or listening to Rabea play. Super!!!!
Please tell universal audio to make one like a jcm800 haha i would take it to every band practice!
I’ll wait too..
Great review. For me, the Woodrow stands out the most. In a forced choice I would go Woodrow, Ruby, and Dream 65.
I would NOT be surprised to find all three pedals have the same electronics, just different digital model loaded.
That's almost definitely true.
3 way switch and they can put the 3 inside one box...
@@alvarofloresdesertus7563 but each amp requires 2 DSP chips, so it would have to be considerably larger to house 6.
@@thecastermaster1 well you’re only using one model at a time and the DSPs can run anything so you’d still only need 2
I wouldn’t be surprised if all models were in all boxes, just one is activated. It would be less expensive just to make them all the same, with different activations, and box art.
I see all three of these being invaluable recording tools.
I got the Dream 65, and I love it!!!
The Dream is definitely my favorite of the bunch. I’d like to run it into a Roland JC 22, bypassing the pre-amp with the Dream Pedal.
Hey, just read your comment, I am actually looking for a solution to use my Dream 65 with an amp and the JC 22 seems cool in terms of functionalities and size, how do you bypass the pre-amp on the Roland to use the UAFX pedal, I am curious about that set-up?
@@jayvich75you would connect your guitar into the dream pedal, and then its out goes into the return of the jc22
Woodrow ❤❤❤
Neat pedals and I cant wait to hear you talk about the Fender Hammertone series!
These pedals sound amazing! Now where are the JCM 800 and Mark IIC+ models?
What would be really cool is if you had a guitar with dual outputs, one for the neck pickup and one for the bridge pickup and route each one into a different UAFX pedal. Say....the bridge pickup into the Ruby and the neck pickup into the Dream. Between your volume and tone settings on the guitar for each pickup and all the variations on each pedal I don't know if one has a long enough lifespan to explore all the tonal possibilities !!
damn I can listen to you noodle around all day....awesome demo. playing it once more
Great demo! I’m afraid Ruby will take over the place of my Maz 38. :-)
I built a Tweed Deluxe last year, and the woodrow is definitely close. There are some great cleans and thick lighter gain tones from the amp itself too. Personally I love the more raucous voicing of a Tweed deluxe, and will definitely be looking at one of these for my ampless rig!
OK Rabea, you speak for UA and Quad Cortex, so.... obvious question: are these new UA amp/cab emulation pedals better than the QC in a basic clean/breakup emulation? To my ears the UA pedals blow the QC away....(ps I do own a QC)
I'm going to spend some time with the Deluxe amp on my QC more to test as these do damn good!
He cant answer that I bet. My QC is coming along fine with some VOX captures of my own AC15( once the official store comes out you will find some studio captures that will elevate )
The best sounds he gets are way overdriven. A real vox would be so loud to get that type sound. I think its a bit harsh and flubby on the UA, could be his tuning maybe. only speaking of the Ruby.
@@wolvesandguitars yeah: to be precise, he could answer but won't: conflict of sponsors.
TBH I've almost given up with the QC - it only sounds decent cor heavy rock/metal etc, and we're a year in and many of the promised features are not there, and there aren't (to my ears at least) many decent captures/presets of any value on the app....
@@digitalchris6681 Resale is still awesome !! Have you played the Tone King Plugin? just wait until that is fully compatible with the QC!!!!! That is the only amp ill ever need. And my Tiny Terror.
@@wolvesandguitars yup, tried the plug-in on their 14 day trial. I'm a TK geek ! The plug-in is good but not as good as my Falcon; to me it sounded laggy and lacked that certain TK sparkle without being piercingly bright. I also use their Ironman with other amps to great effect.
But this is academic, as I reckon QC - although they promised it - will not allow plugins to be used on the QC (it's marketing madness: why spend £1600 on the QC for its MULTI-amp modelling only to then have to spend another £100 for just ONE amp sim... they;re sort of acknowledging that the QC inbuilt amp models aren't up to scratch. Which they aren't ! )
Lastly, we will try that EP3 boost. (stank face initiated)
For the layman- these Amp mod pedals are connected to audio interface into computers/monitors? Mute point if connected to speakers I guess.
Awesome tones🤘🏿😎
Some real Neil Young vibes from the Gretsch and Woodrow combination!!! Wow!!
THAT'S IT !! I was trying to put my finger on that REALLY crunchy sound of the overdriven boosted Woodrow where it almost sounds like a fuzz. Neil Young and Crazy Horse in a pedal !! That was a great catch !!
Probably the best I've heard in this format. They all sound a little fizzy at high gain though. But the low end growl is awesome and authentic sounding. I've listened to several demos and it seems the same.
Rabbea they are insane !!
Thanks man ! The ruby is so beautiful
I love that “Penguin” just looked it up cant afford yet but who knows!
Maybe a Falcon is more inline with your budget.
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@@CFChristian mmm I think I’d need to sell my kemper to buy one ! And put money in too 😁😁😁
@@pauldncn1 Haha damn.
Fun fact : Gretsch penguins from Japan smell like vanilla :)
@@lukescott8438 lollll
Just jammed for 1/2 hour stealing your riff @18:00 .. was fun as heck
The timing of UA dropping the Dream '65 Reverb pedal is uncanny. I was about to buy a Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb amp "AND" a UA Ox box from Sweetwater. Now I'm wondering if there's any reason to get the real amp if the pedal can do everything and sound legit. I guess I need to do more research and weigh the benefits of each amp.
You merely have to consider whether you will be doing any live shows. If you just want it for home recording, pedal all the way
@@nekkon1989 That's a good way to think about it. The pedal might win in this case.
I’ve had a 90s reissue, and the newer ox blood colored reissue. Just bought the Dream 65 today. Ridiculously good
@@jeremyray2647 hey, thanks for the info!
I’m still obsessed with my quad cortex. Of course great amps and pedals come first but this just isn’t as exciting and doesn’t hold my interest. But your playing is awesome as usual. You said you’re not a blues player, Rabea yes you are a great blues player, funk player, rock, pop etc. I know you love heavy metal but I enjoy when you play these other genres. You said you wanted to be a jack of all trades and you definitely are.
Nuts! Big day for guitar gear
I really like the way you play the guitar and the rock sound that runs through your veins. I would like to know if you would be interested in making guitars for my productions
So... If you want to use these to the best in a classic situation, bedroom, live... what is the best power amp and cab to use ?
I mean, all these demos don't mention in what kind of device you have to plug in (not talking about soundcards)
Wow UA hits nothing but home runs it seems
Christ if they bring out some high gain stuff I'll staff my pants....Marshall mesa boogie and soldano?
One of the best players on RUclips! You always deliver!
9:26 that's beautiful man
Amazing !!! They sound sooo good!
Is it possible to use the different inputs and outputs to place some other pedals in "fx loop" mode, after the preamp but before the cab simulation?
Run them into a orange pedal baby. ( gain pedals > UA pedal > modulation and reverbs > pedal baby > speaker cab or load box with custom irs) that would be ripper
I'm doing that actually. Sounds absolutely stunning!
They messed up not putting a headphone jack . Gonna turn a lotta people away
It's a shame these pedals have come out in this day and age of no gigs, no one playing anywhere or any music scene whatsoever.... except for your bedroom.... I love the Ruby pedal though.
Dang....you could just make an ambient playlist with those tones. Could listen to that all day at work.
Pro vid all the way, as always! Really wish UAD would do a HIWATT pedal and perhaps an Ampeg. Cheers!
I prefer the BC-2 combo drive by Boss, the Ruby sounds fizzy and digital lacks bass response imho
Damn u uafx, makin me buy ruby befor bringing out the plexi. And the recto. So prdictable.
They all sound great because you’re great lol
Damned- just when I thought I had made up my mind to go with the new Lion 68- I find the Dream. I have an MX5 already, and tbh it does a decent Marshal thing- but it misses the black faced fender thing pretty badly. The Dream nails it though- and with that Dumble style mod- it sounds great. Idk though- the Lion has some pretty good clean tones in it as well- and it does the whole Hendrix thing. That said- I suck at the Hendrix thing so... hmmm, I don't know, this will require another day or two of mulling over in my head, I think. The truth is that my style probably fits the Marshal better- but I'm trying to change that.
Wow, that was a great demo of those pedals! Best sounding demo I've heard yet.
Dumb question... Is this a pedal that you can plug your guitar into and either go into an amp input, or use with an fx loop?
They should call the Woodrow the Jack Black
They sound great. Very close to the originals. Deluxe Reverb not a Twin Reverb. It doesn't sound like Twin.
Brilliant channel on Ruby is super noisy for me on higher gain levels, can’t seem to hear any noise on this video. Are you running it through some noise gate?
question, If you have this amp simulator pedal. do you still need real amp to play? how about when playing live gigs? there is real amplifiers. is it applicable to use amp simulators? please reply thank you
It is really insane I mean in positive way - what pedals are produced and coming out these dayz, you have tons and still every month comes something new out or something Tops what done before. There are also a lot of very good new pedal companies coming up in the last years, comparing these to the 80s, 90s you was waiting years for a new amazing boss or something pedal now you can have in month about 10 new pedals, I can not wait to see where this will all lead to new sounds and tweaks.
These pedals seem to be perfect for the serious gigging musicians that need a great amp tone in a compact package. That being said, if you are a player who needs multiple types of tones for your set, I believe the HX Stomp could be a much better value. Regardless, these things sound absolutely killer!
Purchased the Dream and now you've got me considering the Ruby...
Killer Rabea! Being a Gretsch player, I love seeing these pedals demoed with the Penguin! 🤘🤘
That guitar is so beautiful! I'd actually never heard of it before seeing this video, and I absolutely love how it looks and sounds.
I have all three. The Woodrow is awesome at lower gain. He basically dimmed it and demonstrated nothing else.
Dope Demo! As a bass player I’ve been eyeing these pedals since they released. 1st I liked the Dream most, then Ruby, now after this demo I’m rocking with Woodrow! I think out of the 3 it would translate best as a bass pedal. Looks like a can’t lose situation really though.
Are these something one would use to go into the front end of an amp? I understand people can use these instead of a traditional amp for recording and performing but could it just be used like any other pedal on the board?
I got one of those. The sound he is getting here is not how the pedal sounds like on itself. For sure he is adding some juice from somewhere.
What songs are you playing at 9:28 into the video?? Sounds amazing and now I really want to figure out how to play it .
You and me both! Ever find what it was?
@@benjones869 no I still don't know,
A big bold Marshall super bass version would be killer to round off the series !
All three are really great. However, the Dream 65 seems to be the most versatile and authentic to me. Wow! Gotta get me one of those!
Thanks for a wonderful demo.
Cheers.
Woodrow definitely sounds like one of those little tweeds. They fuzz up and freak out super easily.
@@Diax1324 Yes, it's amazing that a pedal can do that so well. If that is the sound you want on occasion, then, obviously, that's for you. For me, I like clean and slightly distorted better, so if I have to choose one (and right now even one is a luxury expense), Dream 65 is for me. I do like DRs a lot. Of course, with sufficient cash, we can have 'em both or all. Ain't life (sometimes) grand?
@@Glicksman1 there are a lot of good cleans in the Woodrow. I actually returned my Dream because I felt the only cleans there were based on a single volume and it broke up pretty easily even at 9 o clock with humbuckers.
@@h1strat That's good info as I like pretty clean best. Thank you so much. Maybe not the Dream 65, then.
Yes. tweeds are great clean which, of course, is what they were designed for. It's a very special, inspiring and so musical tone. I have a '59 Super and its clean to slightly crunchy tone is amazing. It's one of the best amps I've ever played through.
Alright , so now I have to consider Woodrow as well as Ruby. I love AC-30s, too. I have a beat up candy top - no top boost like Brian May's ones. I think it's a '63, but it wants all of those tubes ($$).
What to do? Nice dilemma, anyway.
comparing them with the ORIGIN... What do you say?
These still have some of that DI fizz I find bollocks up the sound. Not bad by any stretch but 100% not for me.
Awesome as usual, but I really wish reviewers would use "regular" guitars when reviewing Vox style amps............ there are LOADS of us who LOVE Vox amps, but have never touched a Ricky / Gretsch / 12 string / Brian May guitar, but play "regular" Fender / Gibson guitars to GREAT effect through Vox amps (just like LOADS of rock stars did / do......even those who pretended to be playing Marshalls 😜😂)
Quick question: can one of these be run out to a power amp and "flat" speakers for stage use? Has anyone done this for pubs gigs etc.? 🤔
thx rabea! my, ( voltage down mod from the 80ties ) , 65 vibrolux Reverb Amp 2 x 10, ..., probably..more direct response....GB2GRB
Congrats Bea on the car and driving! Great video dude, they sound killer. What production or post stuff was done to the final audio?
Played a couple tweeds, but they diddnt come with a built in fuzz. Ruby is awesome
Where I’m at, each of these 3 pedals goes for approx $450+taxes. Take the Ruby for instance (similar to an AC30), an AC30 will cost you about $1K. So the pedal + a cabinet will cost about $1,100, so almost equivalent to getting the real deal. Depending on your application it may not make any sense. Unless you are a gigging musician who doesn’t want to haul a heavy AC30, or you have an interface nicely setup.
That Ruby sounds great. There's just something about a Gretsch and a Vox AC30 that pairs really nicely. I can tell you have to mess with it though. It's not a modern Vox sound. It's the old-school AC30 tones that UA has gone for. Some Strymon love with that combination would absolutely take it over the top.
The Dream 65 sounds incredible. Despite how far the modeling software has come, I feel most modeling units stumble a bit with their black panel Fender sounds. That said, UA has come the closest IMO to capturing the vintage Deluxe / Super tone.
I'm pretty sure these destroy all competitors.... iridium, asc1.... BTW I don't want your stupid free prize dude you can keep it. You're welcome!
I keep coming back to this video. This is my favorite tone sound I've heard. It would be awesome if you could go back to these and show everything you have going on. What speakers your running into and that type of stuff.
Hi Rabea, is there any additional vibrato effect? 00:09:28 This is quite close to what I'm looking for, for my old Gretsch Electromatic archtop ; )
Sounds amazing couple questions, first when in the chain would they go ? Second what ate they played through? Amp ? Monitors ?
Better than the Iridium? Just a question
I've been using the Ruby for a few weeks now for some pickup demos and recording. Thing is ridiculous.
Ive seen comments about the dream having annoying background clipping noises and if you watch at 16:25 for a few seconds you can hear what I think is them. Interested to hear from people who have the pedal, do they hear these kind of noises when playing? Is it only at certain gain or boost levels? Was that a characteristic of an original 65 tube amp or is it a pedal flaw?
They nailed these, IMO. No wasted features. No useless options. My only cry is no headphone out. I'm 100% buying one of these. Most likely the Dream 65 to keep tones like my tube amp when I can't be cranking tube amps - or maybe the Woodrow. I have a AC15 already that I don't use much or I'd consider the ruby as well.
UA have said you can use headphones if you have a splitter cable. 2x mono male to 1x stereo female.
@@robdavies9478Yes, and it works perfectly
Which unit wins in a shoot out? The UAFX Ruby or the Victory Copper V4? especially in a 4cm setup
Can anyone comment on the crackling harsh distortion on the tail of the notes on all the pedal only sound examples?
🤘👍🏿 I would have liked to see a headphone out on them so you could use them as your amp platform for silent practice.
These are just way to expensive for most people.
Not compared to the real amps
A new 65 reverb is around 1500+ a vintage one forget about it.
A good amp cost 6 times of that like divided by 13 do real good amps, a lot of amps sadly became very low in quality but the price is still 3 or 4 times of that pedal,
like from fender you have to go for a hand wired version does also cost about 6 times more then a ua fx pedal.
But with a real amp it is much simpler to play gigs and jams, the ua fx pedals are more for home usage or studio, recording or as ab plus as preamp/efx pedal to your real amp.
You have also consider a real amp is a little bit more organic has also some kind a LoFi to it and sometimes also hum and feedbacks, the ua fx pedal sounds a bit more cleanish and digital, straight, because it is Hifidelity like you would love to achive on a high cost produced record in respect to genres like shoegaze, post rock, grunge, noice rock .. might also wanna achive more LoFi for a record.
Its all comes down to tast and what you want achive with sounds, but most intresting is when you mix modern digital straight and more Hifi with old lofi organic - I think.
@@佳純石川-d3c Yeah, but it's not an amp. It's an amp modeler pedal without a speaker. Even the new Tech 21 (who always produce amazing sounds) Character Plus series is only 300 euro instead of the whopping 500 euro these are supposed to fetch.
Sound a bit thin and buzzy, Same when used in the apollos. Don’t get me wrong I like and use uad plugins and hardware but the amp sims aren’t really there.
Would love to know what you are using to hear the tone of these for yourself in the room. If anyone knows, would really appreciate it. I’m looking to take my home playing to a more modern experience and just want to know what people’s go to methods for hearing the sound in the room are when playing pedals like this.
I tried to contact you... do you monitor these sound at high level trough you Neuman speakers
Goddamn, what sort of wizardry was going on around the 9:08 mark? Sounded very "present" and "in the room."
My God.
Edit: I guess it's literally "room"
So is the main purpose of these to run D.I. Or would I be best buying a guitar speaker cabinet without the amp? I don’t understand the main purpose, so they take pedals well? They sound incredible
The main purpose wood be DI, yes. You can turn off the cab sim though, so you can go into a power amp (either the effects return of a full amp or a stand alone power amp) and cabinet. I use the Dream for both and it sounds amazing, both in comparison with my FM3 and the analogue amps I have and had.
Great video. Just tried the Woodrow at Anderton’s and could not get those tones you found. Bought the Walrus ACS1 after comparing the Simplifier, Woodrow and Iridium.
Rabea do you still have that gretsch white penguin guitar
I was also immediately disappointed there was no MIDI. They do have Bluetooth and their own app. This made me wonder if somehow UA could incorporate Bluetooth MIDI into the pedal to work with devices like the CME WIDI. It might be possible with a firmware update?