I have the Anti 1992 and love it - to my power amps and real cabs. I ordered the Knuckles last night. Have the Lion 68 I’ve been using since December too. Great amp pedals. I use with my Line 6 HXFX and never use their cab modeling. Straight to power amps (Orange Pedal Baby, Seymour Duncan Power Stage 170) and real cabs (two 112’s, one 212). Feels like playing my tube amps to me. My tube amps now sitting and are my backups. No tube wear for awhile I guess.
Dude would love to see a shootout comparison of all the Duel Rec pedals from the UA Knuckles, TC Duel Wreck, Westminster 2716, Tone X, Ibanez SM7 etc. See what’s the last pedal standing! 🤘🏼
I know you can't record it 572 different ways. But plugging the pedal into the FX return of that rectifier would have been a cool way to compare the pedal preamp to the preamp of the real thing. Though the pedal might try to emulate the poweramp by default with the intent of that signal going to a flat power amp, in which case, don't listen to me/disregard.
Sounds pretty good to me - I think if you had dialed back the mids just a bit more on that Knuckle thing, it would've sounded WAY closer to the Dual Rekt.
I’m saving on tube wear and using these UAFX pedals instead. Sending to my Orange Pedal Baby and Seymour Duncan Power Stage 170 out to my cabs. I really can’t tell the difference. They dial in the same as the amps. My Plexi clone in particular I was going through power tubes pretty quickly playing it cranked up a few hours a night. Clone is my backup now. They sounded too close to keep using the real one and most of the time needing to send through my Fryette PS2a. I don’t even have to access hidden features through the app much. I setup one preset with hidden features one way, and set the Live side with hidden features setup different, then just tweak the preset or live side as needed. Too much like dialing in an amp to worry about accessing presets all the time.
I’ve tried the UA Lion. Two concerns: 1. The Alt for the knobs is lazy. It would be so much easier to tweak with a third row of knobs. 2. The attack wasn’t as instant as a real amp. The feel between my pick, strings and sound just seemed dulled.
That is the kind of demo we REALLY need, coz otherwise, for some reason, our mind is always desperate and ready to receive every new fuckin trashcan as the answer to our guitar tone problems.. Thank you for putting everything in its right place. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad at all, but hey, that fuckin real amp tone with the overdrive blew every illusion away.. And that's EXACTLY what the real thing does every single fuckin time
I have the feeling that the TC Dual Wreck sounds the same, maybe better, for less than half the price... just sayin'. Also, I don't understand why all these companies are so focused on the Mesa Rectifiers, why nobody makes a damn IIc+ or a mk.IV? They are iconic amps as well and way less muddy and sloppy than a Rectifier, which would make them more appreciated by the audience.
It’s ok. Sounds a bit digital to me even with headphones. Definitely serviceable for a bedroom setup but not a replacement for the real thing. Good review nonetheless.
@@gohyung I'm with this guy. I got the Anti when it dropped, and I managed to get the Knuckles 2 weeks ago. I'm running them in stereo with a KMA Endgame, and it might be the baddest thing ever!
That's what I thought as well! I didn't have the chance to try a Knuckles but I have the TC one and I have to say it's pretty convincing. Even if it doesn't sound better but the same, still is less than half the price... 🥲
@@DiegoScagliarini For what it offers this UA pedal is expensive af... these UA pedals don't even come with a power supply and they require a specific +400A ps to work properly...you can't save multiple presets and switch in between them, there's no MIDI function, you can't load your own IRs.... this pedal is almost 600 CAD here in Canada lmao
GTFOH 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂, I don’t know if that’s true or if you’re just messing with me but either way, that’s freakin hilarious!!!!!!!!! Now I want that to be the next pedal even more!!!!!!! And I will stencil or laser etch a sonic the hedgehog on it!!!!! My GF would love it, she had a hedgehog as a pet for years!!!!
@@erikrummel6277100% true!! Jun Senoue was the music director for several Sonic games and there’s tons of documentation of him recording with it; it’s been his main amp for 30 years and he’s still using it on new music! It’s all over the Sonic Adventure (1998) soundtrack.
That one is mostly classic plexi/superbass. The variac’d brown sound isn’t really modded in terms of gain stages etc. I agree we need a hot rod Marshall and basic jcm 800
@@hb8482 yep, should have these presets standard 800, #39, #36 (AFD), #34, Jose mod. Maybe have a built in EQ option in the software interface. UA would probably be able to nail those mods, given how well they did on this new pedal.
I have Seen many videos about this New pédale and you're the only one who's compare to thé original head. And also, the only who sounds great. Before your vidéo, I thought this pedal sucks. Now I think it's closed to the original
For the asking price of $400 for a digital pedal featuring only one amp model like this one, I would expect it to have a small screen with multifunctional knobs (like new Zoom pedals, Line 6, or Boss ir-200, for instance), instead of these flimsy switches, where you can access every single feature directly on the pedal itself and without me having to worry about downloading and installing any additional apps either on my phone or computer. Also, at this price, I expect such a pedal to be able to take a USB flash drive to either load an IR or update firmware from it, again, without me having to plug it into a computer or phone. Finally, what will we do if UA goes out of business someday and their app or drivers are no longer compatible with the newer operating systems? This app dependency is not future-proof and quickly makes the product obsolete. And, to me, this pedal was already outdated in many ways on the day it was released, which was as recent as yesterday. All of this would have probably been okay if it had been some cheap Chinese knockoff, but for $400, I don't feel like I'm getting enough value or features, given the competition.
Njääh not imprest, mesa is in My opinion bit overhypet AMP i am More ENGL Guy, so why? why don't UFX, NuX or enyone WHO pruduckt pedals, do Fireball/powerball IN A BOX type solution for us 😱😮
