DryBell: Unit67 - The Perfect Sonic Assistant!
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2018
- www.drybell.com
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Hands up who owns or would like to own a Vibe Machine? Just about all of us, I'll bet. The Unit67 is built in Croatia by DryBell, the same company that brought us the Vibe Machine V1 and V2. The Unit67 continues the theme of old-school sonic glory with modern day appointments. It's a 100% analog device that offers beautifully voiced takes on the classic UREI 1176 Compressor and the Dallas Rangemaster. You also get around 22db of clean boost, two-band EQ and the ability to use all of these facilities together or independently.
The compressor runs parallel and is finely tuned with a single adjustment knob - Sustain - to mix in/out the compressed signal. The parallel feature is important because it means: 1. You can mix it all the way in or out if you choose and 2. Your dry sound will retain its transients (pick attack) and unaffected tone, depending how much or how little compression you decide to mix in.
The Unit67's 'Range' knob will let you dial in 'that' tone thanks to its finely honed mids. If you're looking for a great Treble Booster you will find it here.
You can run the Unit67 at 9-18V and its built like a tank. I think I'm a little in love with this pedal. You might be too!
Today's tools:
Guitars: 2011 Eric Johnson Stratocaster; 25th Anniversary Music Man. Both stock.
Amp: Plexi 50W, 100W and Vibrato Lux models - Axe-FX III
Extra effects: Reverb - Axe-FX III
Cables: Various
Power Supply: Strymon Zuma
Mic: Samson Airline77 (me)
Camera: Canon 60D (me) and Nikon D5100 (pedals)
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum & Fractal Audio Systems Axe-FX III (guitar, mixing and bouncing).
Computer: Apple iMac 27" i7 3.4 GHz 16 GB RAM
Software: Logic Pro X, Waves Plugins, Apple Final Cut Pro X (video editing and RUclips compression). 
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Yeah. Zvonch knows what he's doing. Love my Vibe Machine V-1. Brett you are always so thorough.
Quite the handy box of tools. Nice demo, Brett.
Again, I will be buying this pedal. Notice that Brett has all the cool stuff.
Great demo!! pedal sounds great. what I wanted to hear man!!
Cool pedal! Aesthetic design very classy!
HEY BRETT! THIS 7:45 could be my desert island tone! my strat and this tone/sound and i would be a happy man.
Great stuff Brett SOLD !
Bought one because of your demo... cannot wait to put this one into action!
Review???
@@georgebarry3153 sorry sir.... Demo.
:-)
I don’t care what pedal you demo, obviously it’s awesome, I just love your playing, just superb. 👍
That's a pretty interesting box!
Digging the music, your jamming too. Nice!
Thanks!
Oh no...I’ve been wanting an 1176 on my board for a while (mostly for “that” thing it does for guitars). I knew that if I stalled on the cali76 too long, something interesting would catch my eye. Now I have to know THIS thing exists. Thanks a lot, guys....
Awesome!!! 🤘🏼🎶
Oh damn I need this
I liked the demo, but every pedal that boosts the volume will make the amp sound better. Volume is a deceiving factor. To know what a pedal actually does, is to set the volume at unity. Ofcourse if you demo the booster side, you need to demo the volume boost. But the rangemaster, the eq section and the compresser section should be demo-ed at unity, to know how they alter the sound. As soon as boost the volume, the tubes start working harder, the speakers come to life, and it might trick you in believing that it sounds better. That's how they do it at music stores to sell more. They boost the input signal, and it seems like it's a good pedal. But mostly you are hearing more volume. But then you come home or at a gig, and you start using the pedal within an 'allowed' volume range, and you'll be surprised that the pedal doesn't work as you thought it worked at the store.
If I go check out a pedal, I first listen to it at unity volume, to hear what the pedal actually does to your sound.
Ofcourse this doesn't count for dedicated boost pedals as the purpose is to boost the signal.
But for an eq pedal, a compressor and a treble booster, and even overdrives or distortion pedals, I'll always check them first at unity level. It's the only way to evaluate the tone aspect of the pedal by excluding the possibility of being deveived by volume
true!
You hear only the change in volume???
The kind of pedal where every time you disengage it, you sigh a little and feel something's missing...
Yep- this pedal seems to be a kind of 'can't live without it' ingredient in a finished guitar sound
it's a killer for sure!
My favourite pedal. Bar None.
Great demo as allways, such a warm guy. Which is the soundtrack from the beginin?
Great pedal and video , any links to get the backing track?
I can tell you like that EJ Strat ! Interesting that the excitement over noiseless pickups seems to have waned. I guess it's not worth the sacrifice in tone - at least for Eric.
Why would you ever turn it off?
Kingman gets his Dan on!
Sounds Very Steely Dan - to me too
Bit late to ask this, but any chance you could post your thoughts on the comparison between this and the OKKO Cocaine? They share the same design idea of a combination effect of compression, EQ, and a range booster. But obviously differ internally. The OKKO is a lot cheaper and has the secondary footswitch, but the Unit67 is more compact.
Hmm....How would you compare it to Cali76CD compressor?
Very nice with the Strat indeed but not much improvement with humbuckers unfortunately. Wonder if one could achieve the same thing (or even better?) with EQ + compressor + rangemaster type pedals. What do you think? I'm asking because many of us already have those kind of boxes on our boards and the Unit67 costs more than all those together so... However I see the point of having things simplified while saving pedalboard space if you don't need the flexibility of adjusting your sound more accurately with the single devices.
Just bought this off this demo....so awesome....any thoughts on where to put it in the signal chain? I currently have KOT, Simble, OCD, ThorpyFx Fallout Cloud....Any thoughts on the current order? Thank you...
Wow - Jim B - you made some great pedal choices.
Does this work on oranges?
i wanna blast a synth threw this
I wonder what a 5150 or 2204 would make of this meal....
Great demo as always Brett, But just wondering if you could possibly do another video with it driving a real amp? I don't think analog pedals work well with digital gear, especially boosts, just sounds super shrill and gets lost in translation. Basically all we need to know is how it will affect a great tube amp compressing nicely. Both clean and dirty tones. Doesn't even matter what kind..(I know you have some real amps there, the MI maybe?:) ...I might be wrong, but I think the average joe that loves real pedals, loves real amps aswell and is always keen to know how certain products may work into their established rigs and possibly replace other pedals on their board. - Sorry mate, I'm definitely not trying to be a kill-joy! Appreciate all your videos since day one - not a hater -(only of modelers) Cheers Brett!
Leigh, since you asked so nicely, I will be glad to accomodate. It might be a few days, though, as I'm on tour at the moment. Cheers, B.
Legend. Thanks! Looking forward to it.
Here it is. Record time for me! :D ruclips.net/video/AM9EJmNphR8/видео.html
I wonder why amplifiers fail to have these features available. It just seems that amps are all lacking in the EQ area.
Not the Glasswerks! Got it all built in and sounds great with beautiful organic transition between tones.
It does sound good. But for the price it should sound good!! I'm not complaining about the cost as high quality pieces of kit always come at a premium price point. It's out of my league though.
Kevin Betts how much is it?
I think it's something in the region of 330 Euros if I remember correctly.
Kevin Betts I don't know how much that is in Australian dollars but it sure sounds like a lot, lol.
Using Google to calculate the exchange rate it's 530 Australian Dollars. Which may be a lot. ;)
Ridiculous price.
Hmm, this might be required.
SECOND most perfect Strat. First being the ice blue metallic Jim Mack job...
Haha. That Strat was heavy and a little clunky for mine. Pickups were great, though. It went in short shrift as a trade for the beat up '60 Tele clone I've been using for the last couple of years.
Ahh, bugger. I have been thinking of building a pedal just like this. They beat me to it. Sounds cool though. Oh well ... back to the drawing board.
I designed and built something very similar - but then the NOS Excelitas Vactrol that I used became stupidly expensive and hard to get hold of, so I only have a couple of prototypes.
Must get round to re-jigging it for something that's not too hard to get hold of.
I'm thankful for easy monthly payments. This thing is pretty unreal. Tone machine.
u play real good, pedal sounds like crap.