Why dont UA release a fully featured guitar modeller featuring dream, Woodrow, ruby, lion and anti plus all ua effects all in one package. It would dominate wouldn't it?
Because expensive stuff is selling far less than sub 400 products. ToneX are selling a lot! Kemper pedal is not selling very well. The only exception is Quad Cortex because of their huge marketing and plugin community over the years. Buying 5 pedals from UAFX will cost you as much as an FM3 or a QC😂, but you won’t hit your bank account the same way and you’ll have the nice honey moon over years. Plus you’ll have the ability to cash out some pedals you don’t use that much.
I'm thinking the same thing. Pretty sure it's going to come at some point (2025, 2026, maybe ? so they have time to sell more of those units) with also all the different effects they do have in this pedal format (the starlight, galaxay, max comp,...) I hope it will look like as a refreshed sturdy kemper stage, with an amp block, a cab block, one comp, one mod, one reverb, one delay, an FX loop and that's it. It OBVIOUSLY needs midi. You dont need the endless possiblities of a QC when your modeling is this good. And if it's small enough, you can bring it just as is with a wha, a chase bliss/beetronics for weird madness and your favorite overdrive. And that would be all you ever need... Until the next pedal comes out :)
@@cirisirpula152 true but i think having an all in one unit even at the top end range price of modelers would make them even more money. some people dont want 100s of amps and effects. they just want 5 amp models that are perfect and some really good effects and thats it. a new unit could also fix the problem they have painted themselves in the corner with these horrible designs of no midi no headphone no xlr only stereo in and out. a new unit could have all of the I/O missing
@@jeremygorszczyk agreed. just the 5 amps they've released, the ox box stomp stuff, their compressor reverb and delays and mods. thats it. then the actual unit needs to have xlr, headphone, midi etc, and be powered easily. it would sell a lot for people that dont like option paralysis of new modeler units. even if it was expensive it would sell a lot.
There’s a lot of people commenting and saying it sounds fizzy. To them I say this…I just bought the pedal and spent the afternoon and evening with it. I’ve owned multiple 5150/6505 amps since their inception. This pedal is absolutely amazing and not the least bit fizzy. Additionally I have a dirty tree boost (patterned after the fortin 33 and tc integrated pre) and the tc emulation is dead on. I think the majority of opinions are based upon videos and not real world experience. As someone who owns the actual amps and this pedal I will say the ANTI gets you 95% there. The only thing it lacks is the real mojo that comes from guitar/amp/speaker interaction. Baring that I dare say this comes as close as you’re going to get.
These UA petals sound great but you should be able to switch between three or more presets with your foot if not midi. A great studio tool. For this reason, I would buy a Fractal FM 9.
Agree. Especially when there are already a lot of competition in the "single-amp-in-a-box with no extra effects and features" pedal market, that offers external control (Not including multi-effect modelers). These UAFX single-amp-in-a-box pedals in general are really close to Strymon Iridium in terms of concept and formfactor. Same controls on-board and same features pretty much. Had UAFX included the same controllability as the Iridium, they could really sell a lot of these (and any other amp pedals they have in their product range). Now it's just a tap dance pedal for those who don't want any programmable/digital or even basic footswitch/relay switchers on their pedalboards. But i don't think even those are their real target audience, as those purists rarely dream of a pedal that's phone app controlled to unlock full potential.
Not going to lie, the E/E flat joke was a smoker. I was laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. Great review as always, Henning. You're my #1 go to for gear reviews, however, also really loving the rant videos. Looking forward to more. Thanks for all you do, Henning!
Henning... what timing! Friends and I drove down from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Kia Forum in Los Angeles and are about to head back home after a little painting the morning town red in Hollywood..... and here you go posting up this Van Halen style pedal after we just saw Sammy Hagar pull off an amazing show... his Best Of All Worlds tribute to Van Halen with Joe Satriani as the Guitar Hero of the night.... yeah it's Chicken Foot, but it was pretty amazing! I must get that pedal now! 🤘😎🎸🔥
This is one sick puppy. I think anti means anti-clean haha! You are having way too much fun!!!!!!!♥️ This thing is awesome I like how they call it the 1992 high gain amp. Like we don't know what that is lol. Great demo great video! You were laughing your ass off 👍👍 looks like they've already said everything I wanted to say in the comments. Have a great day like I said awesome video and you're having wayyyyyyy too much fun!!!!!! Okay have a great day See you on the next one. One more thing, Tune your guitar to E sharp😅
I am of similar thinking of the Fender Tonemaster. There are not 800 amps and 1200 pedals, but 'most' or 'some' of the models sound more organic than the others that model anything that is/was popular. Cool shirt! I want one!
I really wish they come up with a Mark IIC+ type of pedal but I smell SLO or Dual Rec in the near future. Love the video as always, Henning! Young James LaBrie's voice at the end makes the video whole a lot better.
Am I the only one not convinced with UA?... that said I will undoubtedly add this to all their other offerings I immediately purchased as they came out.
The biggest let-down of this thing is that it has non-continuous knobs without moving indicators. If you dial in a non-ALT setting, the knob's white indicator line points, well, to where you set it. Then you flip the switch to ALT and turn the same knob for the alternate setting to a different position, now the knob's white indicator line points to where you dialed in the ALT setting. If you now switch back to non-ALT, the knob's white indicator line will be completely off and not related to the actual value of the non-ALT setting anymore. If you then turn the knob just a little bit, the non-ALT parameter's value will jump to wherever the knob currently is pointing. This is not just annoying because you'll constantly find yourself re-adjusting parameters because you don't know where they were set just now, but also it's obstructive because it doesn't show you which settings and values the presets use. So if you find a preset you like, you don't know what the preset is doing, which settings it uses. The knobs should be continuous i.e. turning endlessly, there should be little illuminated rings or LED dots around the knobs, and the knobs should not have indicators drawn onto them. Whenever the ALT switch is dis-/engaged, the rings/dots should jump to display the value of their respective knobs. And when you turn a knob, it should pick up the parameter's value where it currently is and continue to adjust it from there. Much better UX. I understand that knobs with a non-continuous fixed limited adjustment range "feel more analog", but if the entire thing is a DSP box with app control and software distortion, why would "analog feeling knobs" be important.
I was about to order the lion but now… Not sure ;) Will keep my ToneX pedal I think, I captured some nice Lion tones and they’re more than enough for my ear pleasure. Playing the UAFX game is like spending $350 each year 😂 But they sound killer for sure.
Tried the tone x software, i did nit really like how it works the sounds werent really there either. Tone x seems like a cool idea but i wasnt feeling much as i wanted to
@@jonnyf9049 ToneX has some tricks. You’ll have to push the input trim to +6dB at least to have the natural compression of the amp capture, and of course choose the right capture. I made mines and they’re 100% undistinguishable from my amps and pedals.
This Pedal make the metal that melts my brain and kills my remaining hair roots. I will soon be as bald as your clean shaven head and I love it. It just plain rocks. Great review.
No way to remote control is a deal breaker. You can change channels with mappable relays on real amps, if they support a ts/trs footswitch (some even offer midi natively) and most modelers are midi controllable. UAFX pedals require tap dancing on the buttons and even then you are limited to two sounds live. Currently my HX Stomp snapshots trigger midi mappable relays to switch channels on my tube amp. Would have been great if UAFX had included even a TRS connection for a footswitch/relay remote control, if they don't like the idea of full midi support.
Great video, well done. Still, no point in buying this over a Tonex pedal costing basically the same. Tonex has 150 presets, is Midi switchable, has a real headphone out (that can drive more than low resistance airpods), built-in compressor and can do any amp in existence including all UA pedals combined. And it does them as well or better. OK, it has no mobile app, but that is a feature for me.
Not one for me as it wouldn't fit in to my rig but i do love the amp sims from UAFX for what they give us direct players. Yes they need and should have midi but they really are well done
I don’t know, I own the ruby and love it and I’ll probably get a lion, but with this one there’s something off that doesn’t convince me. It would be nice to try it in person.
I originally thought I'd pass on this, since I have the Lion and Ruby (both are superb)... but I owned an original Peavey 5150 head and now have the MIM Frankie so...
Thank you for the in depth review! But it is difficult to get excited for stuff like this with relatively inexpensive offerings like the Kemper Player, ToneX etc.
Having to go to the app to be able to access all the options sucks so much that i'll not even consider uafx pedals unless this changes, which is a shame since the sounds are good
11:30 great bitching and totally agree, let me also add that we need a Desktop App for preset organisation and dialing the pedals from your computer via USB-C, using a smartphone during music making is such a showstopper and workflow killer for me, i cannot express enough. I love the sound and tones i can get out of my Dream 65 and Lion 68, and since i´m a metal guy, i would have instantly bought the ANTI if there is an Desktop App, but no.. not available, i´m sure the ANTI sounds killer, but its not going to work for me in the long run that way. i love watching your videos henning, there are not only informative but also funny and entertaining 🙂
Yeah lack of midi 100% excludes me from the purchase pool. My whole rig is built around midi switching. I’m looking specifically for a replacement for my evh 5150iiis el34 100 watt head. As it is I have to have a couple of different pieces of gear just to run my amp with midi as it’s not meant to. I also would like to lighten my load so I’m not carrying my amp around. A pedal like this is exactly what I’d like to have on my board to replace my amp but without midi I can’t even consider it.
The more I listen to this thing, the less it sounds like a 5150. Idk if it’s the circuit or just the ir but it really doesn’t sound very good at all. Like for the first time ever I’m disappointed in universal audio. But that’s okay. I was starting to wonder if humans even worked over there or if they were machines that only produced perfection. Okay good no, they aren’t machines. Definitely humans. Now that we know that I can’t wait to see what they come up with for their next adventure into high gain. Maybe they will do it a bit better next time.
@@EytschPi42 the one I'm speaking of does (included loadbox). And there is still about 100 € left to pickup all the IRs you may want. Or at the same price point I'd personally go with a helix stomp, again the price is ridiculous. If it was priced like the TC boxes we might be talking. Hell, UA could at least include the amp as a plugin or something to better up the value, otherwise this looks a lot like an apple product to me, pay more and get less.
SLO pedal has that Soldano tone, but not the full breadth of a 100 watt amp. It’s FET distortion vs UAD’s meticulous component-level modeling of the entire tone stack and speaker/mic interactions. Not the same product category.
Over 650 British pounds for ANTI + endgame pedal. It would need to sound and play awesome and also empty the cat litter tray before I even looked twice!
It's a bit strange how circular the EVH tone is. He started with a modded Plexi, used what is essentially a modded Plexi (Soldano SLO 100) and then went to Peavey and made the 5150, which is a copy of the SLO 100. If EVH was still alive, I could envision a point where he would either go back to Marshall or Friedman and do a modded Plexi again.
I mean, you can only get two sounds with this live. Ideally you would have a clean, crunch and lead channel, but here you have to choose just two. Unless you add an additional drive and boost in front of it. Which means even more tap dancing as you can't even remote control this at all with a switcher (relays) or midi. A real amp would be remote switchable.
@@kekkonenprkl Yea, but you couldn't have a real amp on the pedalboard :D Imagine the Anti being the amp AND the footswitch in one package. There's a plethora of multi-stuff on the market. If Henning needs a Helix or a Kemper.... Get a Helix or a Kemper. If anything, the Anti could've had en effects loop, but I guess you're supposed to run time-based stuff in line after it.
The external footswitch would literally take the space of a TRS or even mini TRS jack. Not really that much to ask for on a product in the price range of 400. Strymon Iridium is a similar amp in a box concept and has external control jack, so you can control it like you would swich channels on a real amp. Basically the UAFX products are really limited, unless you are going to tap dance your whole pedal board anyway. But why would a tap dance purist buy a pedal that is controlled with a phone app to unlock all features.
@@kekkonenprkl Three buttons on the FM3... :D Which he has in front of him. If you buy a 5150 derivative with one button, and is planning on playing U2 cover songs, you chose poorly.. There is no logic is any of this. It's like going to a burger restaurant and complain that there's no pizza on the menu! UA serve burgers, and both you and Henning want a pizza.
