Universal Audio guitar pedals

allen

Just launched today

Interesting

Multi effect
- Reverb pedal
- Delay pedal
- Mod pedal

https://www.gak.co.uk/en/universal-audio-guitar-products?page=0

joeyowen

I know things cost what they cost... but bloody hell that price

Sassafras

£355 for a chorus pedal!?!?!
World's gone mad!!!

EricTheWeary

Just looking at the delay and struggling to see what makes it a £355 pedal. Although maybe hearing is believing, that it’s not all about the bells and whistles. 

EricTheWeary

https://youtu.be/AjRgSl0o9uw

dindude

They will basically sound amazing is my prediction.

I’ve never really taken to reverb outside of a good valve spring unit but the Plate on my OX when I had it was nothing short of stunning. If it’s that in a pedal then it’s worth the price alone.  

JamieLF

Agree on the OX Plate verb, it's insanely good.
The reverb pedal could be enough to persuade me to sell on my Big Sky now that I think about it...

mixolyd

The ‘verb does sound promising.

https://youtu.be/-eVw29QTteA

WiresDreamDisasters

So THAT's what Tore has been doing

stonevibe

The official UA videos sound pretty sweet as well, they are unlisted but I've added them to my article 

https://www.gearnews.com/universal-audio-launches-new-pedal-line-uafx-pedals/

timbuk02

They are doing a giveaway, enter tonight/tomo during the launch.  On their site

https://www.uaudio.com/live#giveaway-anchor

Seziertisch

Sassafras said:

£355 for a chorus pedal!?!?!
World's gone mad!!!

It does emulations of the CE-1, the MXR Flanger/doubler, Blackface tremolo, Phase 90 and a dynamic tremolo

octatonic

UA are not a company to put out crap.
I haven't played with these (yet) but I imagine they are killer.

WiresDreamDisasters

I imagine they've said to Tore - here.... have a budget and a team.... what can you come up with?? And there are basically two obvious routes to success:

- Take existing IP, rebadge it and sell it on a low cost high volume deal. Ala, the Behringher/TC Electronic low cost pedals.
- Take existing IP, refine it and sell it at boutique prices to a more discerning customer.

Universal Audio are the latter kind of company.

digitalscream

I know it's an oversimplification, but...they kinda seem like posh Toneprint pedals, with even less functionality. They have limited options for algorithm selection at runtime, and there's no capacity for external control with MIDI devices, and likely extremely limited preset availability.

And at £355, that's basically Timeline money for something lacking almost all of the Timeline's functionality.

This seems like something exclusively for the obsessed fanboys, I think.

soma1975

These are influencer pedals. As in pedals that get given away for free to influencers who will try to justify why they are the price they are. 

Strymons are expensive but absolutely feature laden. Compared to the Walrus Makos they are a joke. 

soma1975

Seziertisch said:

Sassafras said:

£355 for a chorus pedal!?!?!
World's gone mad!!!

It does emulations of the CE-1, the MXR Flanger/doubler, Blackface tremolo, Phase 90 and a dynamic tremolo

So does a Line 6 M5.

shaunm

Fan boy is an interesting term, does it do something a hall of fame doesnt? No but then does a custom shop strat do something a MIM doesn’t do either? 

We haven’t heard this yet but if they have nailed their plug in Reverb’s in a pedal then consider me sold. 

DiscoStu

I have no use for them but I think the design looks great.

Seziertisch

soma1975 said:

Seziertisch said:

Sassafras said:

£355 for a chorus pedal!?!?!
World's gone mad!!!

It does emulations of the CE-1, the MXR Flanger/doubler, Blackface tremolo, Phase 90 and a dynamic tremolo

So does a Line 6 M5.

I own a Helix and the modulation effects, though all usable, vary from pretty good to fairly uninspiring. 

I’d expect the mod effects from UA to be able to go toe to toe with the real things.

Seziertisch

octatonic said:

UA are not a company to put out crap.
I haven't played with these (yet) but I imagine they are killer.

I’m surprised at people’s willingness to dismiss these.

AFAIK UA were the first company to implement DSP-assisted software emulations of hardware. The UAD-1 card was released in 2001, predating the TC Powercore by a couple of years.

The fact that they made and continue to make some of the most iconic hardware in recording history, and are the official partner for the software versions of so many prestigious hardware makers should count for something. As an example of their influence, the Origin Effects compressors are stomp box iterations of the UA 1176, and the Effectrode compressors are based on the UA LA2A.

These are aimed at those who are most interested in the sound quality of the effects and not any extra functionality.