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Would have rather had a UA "Amp Room" Iridium style pedal with the cab sims and fx from the Ox built in, interchangeable amps and cabs via an app etc. Maybe that's coming at some point - hope so!
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Compared to the Walrus Makos the UA pedals are a joke?
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
I like UA as a company and I'm sure these pedals will be excellent, but Pro Tools TDM had been around for six or seven years before the UAD-1 came along. In fact the first UA digital products were TDM plug-in emulations of the 1176 and LA2A, but I think there were other developers making hardware emulations before then.
That's what I thought you meant, but my brain is ready for the weekend and couldn't quite decide if that was what you said.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
CE1s are creeping up in price all the time, you’ll struggle to find one for under 300 maybe ever 400 quid.
You have more options when it comes to tremolo emulations, though the better quality ones such as the one in the Strymon Flint are not exactly cheap either, same with dynamic trem, I know Keeley make one and bundle it together with a reverb and charge a couple of hundred quid for it.
The modulation pedal I’m not so sure of - you could buy three analogue mod pedals (not the same models but comparable) for the same price which would mean you’d effectively have three presets, be able to use them together and have better ergonomics at cost of physical space.
The delay kinda sounds good, it does seem to do the clear yet soft percussive attack I associate with the Echoplex which other pedals don’t seem to be able to cop, but other than that I don’t hear anything special to put it above better featured pedals at the same price point.
If I get back to playing then I may be tempted by the verb at some point, but for the same money I could buy a real Surfy Bear spring reverb and rely on the Acustica Nebula (I picked it up very cheap around Black Friday having kept an eye out for a while) reverbs for in-the-box which I feel are generally superior to UA’s algos anyway.
It's not a CE1 and it's not a Phase 90. It's some digital models of them. Not the same thing at all.
End of the day nobody outside the influencer sphere is going to make the case for them being a value proposition. If you like them then cool. If they sound nice then cool. If money isn't a thing to you then cool. They will definitely sell. But not because they are a value proposition.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
The value proposition of the UA pedals is that they presumably/hopefully sound and behave so much like the real thing that someone who would previously only have settled for the real thing on grounds of sound quality will not have to sacrifice convenience for sound quality.
He now owns 4x UA Ox Boxes - he compared them to the real thing (similar cabs and recording chain) and said he was either unable to tell the difference in a blind test or the difference was one of taste rather than quality.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Do they have a CE-1's preamp modelled as well then? None of the bumpf says it does, which means it doesn't do that thing most people love a CE-1 for.
I'm all for good digital pedals. I own a bunch. But let's not start being silly about these suddenly being as good or better than the real thing and being indistinguishable. As an aside a Strymon flint is still holding its value remarkably.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.