CakeEater
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Universal Audio UAFX Anti 1992 High Gain Pedal
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MirrorProfiles
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If they haven’t modelled the master volume knob, that’s an unbelievable howler.
BahamaDada
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Why? I have not followed UA at all so I am curious. For your statement, not for the pedal. Pedal's not interesting tbh.
I watched a part of that Andertons "review"/ad this noon. First thing: THANK SPAGHETTI MONSTER they took someone who can chug. Another Lee Anderton and Pete Honoré blueswankfest when the pedal/thing is clearly labeled for harder styles: Horrible. Second: Lee said (no direct quote), that UA makes these separate bc they want to FULLY COMMIT to having special knobs/pots for the specific amps. Sure. And Nintendo sold 2 Pokemon versions when I was a kid bc they could not figure out how to make a Game Boy game red AND blue.
Isn't UA the company, where that one ex Marshall amp designer (the other one besides Santiago Alvarez) went?
paisleywookiee
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Cool, so to have a Plexi, a high gain amp, a Vox, and a black panel, I’ve now spent $1600. With no MIDI. This line continues to be pointless to me.
the swede
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Irl alone by itself it sounds horrible imo. But in a loud rehearsal room with full band and a decent cab its…. It’s out this world awesome. If the person using it knows how to control the amp. The Master… is where it’s at.
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IMO the amp sounds best below 4. Above that it’s overly mushy and bloated and not good. Below 4 you can tweak the character of the mids - between 1 and 2 it’s a bit more scooped and tight, between 2 and 3 you can get a bit of thickness while still preserving the big lows and crisp highs.
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[Nathan]
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People want UA to bring out an all in one modeller and people are also wanting Fractal to break out amps like UA, wild.
Watched one or two demos on this, I should love the concept but it’s coming across as pretty mid tier to my ears. I think so far the Lion is the only one out of this line I’d like to get my hands on one day. Who knows maybe actually playing one is a lot better than what I’ve seen but kind of an eh proposition at their price point on these.
Watched one or two demos on this, I should love the concept but it’s coming across as pretty mid tier to my ears. I think so far the Lion is the only one out of this line I’d like to get my hands on one day. Who knows maybe actually playing one is a lot better than what I’ve seen but kind of an eh proposition at their price point on these.
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Manual mentions post gain in the iphone app, along with bias and some modded crunch channel modes. Looks like the OD pedal doesn’t have a dedicated off switch, you can only turn the drive to 0 to “bypass” it. Which is a bit weird as a lot of people use tubescreamers with drive at 0 anyway.
Kind of curious how their modelling holds up against TC and other emulations for JUST the amp section.
holoholo
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I’d guess this is what it will lead to. Once they have enough amps it will eventually make sense to have a modeler unifying all their amps and effects.
They still have 57,000 six knob enclosures left from their wicked score at Costco, so it may be a few more years though.
MirrorProfiles
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IDK if I can see UA doing a full on modeller, they’re pretty stubborn as a company and their approach is usually keeping things dumb and ANALOG to use. Think they’d rather just make people cough up for lots of little pedals than compete with established products
