UA, listen. There are some really unbelievable FX pedals out there that are less expensive with more options. Take the Strymon El Capistan. 299 new. Sounds incredible. For $49 more, there's the Timeline with infinitely more possibilities. Then there's TC Electronic. The Flashback x4 is $199 and has the option to load any echo you'd like within seconds. All that to say, UA is a killer company for recording, but if you are going to get into the guitar pedal business, you need take a good look at your competition and price accordingly.
I mean, the same goes for their interfaces right? The apollo series sound amazing, have the benefit of the UA plugins.. but purely as a audio interface you can get the same quality for a lower price.
I have no doubt that these are gonna sell like hotcakes as it is. They are going for an upscale market, and it's full of people who will pay for it. For what it's worth, in every demo I hear I think they sound frigging amazing. Best reverbs I ever heard. Comparing to TC Electronic's HoF and other budget reverbs is downright offensive.
These sound great but at that price point you're close to the Strymon big boxes or other pedals with way more options. 400 for these is outrageous, imo.
Strymon Big Sky isn't an emulator like the UA Golden, and just on a completely different level AND direction. But I agree that the Golden is a little simple for the price, nevertheless. And not even stereo. Disappointing. It'll be selling based on just brand name.
People usually purchase music equipment as lifelong possessions so I dont consider a few hundred bucks expensive. If you have a job that shouldnt be much. These are also multi effect so its not like your getting just a reverb, or one type of modulation. Styrmon the same; you buy a big sky, you dont ever need to worry about chorus effects ever again for the rest of your life on earth for $300. And just like guns, jewelery, real estate, they somewhat hold a resale value if you still think you got robbed and hate it.
@@kingfisher7960 sure, dunno, ive got a job and savings and a decent pedalboard, but I actually think many people buy music equipment as impulse purchases that they assume will make them better players (and more complete people). To your point, that’s not different from the psychological security people think they are purchasing with guns and jewelry. And those items have kept their resale value in recent times because we continue to covet them. Sure. The industry was fairly enough trending into $300 for premium units, but a brand introing into the market at 4 just seems... in my humble opinion... to be a bit overpriced when wages have stagnated for decades and the American economy is in a precarious spot. Of course, people will use their stimulus checks to buy them (arguing that these are ‘premium’) and then simply take out more credit if hard times come next year.
No matter how one justifies it, there is no way a stomp box with 3 types is of digital reverb, for example, should cost $400, I don’t care if it says UA or Robert Neve or Bob Moog on the box. Even some of the best, most groundbreaking boutique pedals don’t come with f u pricing. These glorified plugins in pedal format have missed the valuation mark by a lot.
@@MisterNiles Honestly that’s super common. A majority of the pedals I own didn’t come with power supplies. If you’re gonna be using more than one pedal you really should be using a pedal power supply, and if you’re only going to be using the one a 9v power brick is dirt cheap. I would prefer to not get a bunch of cheap power bricks with all my pedals. They’re wasted plastic and are just junk I have to find a home for.
Love my Starlight. It sounds amazing, especially in a mix. For the record I don’t use MIDI and I run two delays on my boards so the somewhat limited feature set of the Starlight doesn’t bother me. I’m in for the tone.
Most excited about the reverb!!! UA has always nailed they’re reverbs and I miss them so much when I play live! This will save me dsp when tracking and let me take them out with me live (soon.....hopefully) lol
price aside, ya'll gotta remember that these have infinite possibility with the UAD setup. These are basically like h9s, each one already comes with extra algorithms you can load in. As a long time UAD user, their effect algorithms are legit
Yeah I’m waiting for some ab demos too. Have to say Andy just made the ep3 sound great here. Have herd rumours josh smith is a fan of the ua too.......
I think these sound great if your doing live gigs but I am retired and record as a hobby so get by with the excellent plugins and my 80s hardware Lexicons..nice playin' and demo btw.
Yeah well those are better than 99 percent of guitar pedals. That’s what the UA golden in particular is trying to address. If it is quality it’s worth it in my book. I spent $200 on a reverb pedal that I just returned because it’s so harsh and digital sounding. So it was $200 for nothing. $400 that I can use is worth it.
So expensive compared to other options. The design is amazing though. Just curious, the phaser and trem you can download, I’m guessing they replace other effects on the pedal? Swapping them in and out. Or can you have all of them on the device?
Well... reverb and modulation pedals tend to be the priciest. They're in line with the Strymons and the Eventides of the world and that makes total sense.
The verb looks awesome. The delay looks pretty good, not sure about that precision mode. The Astra doesn’t seem quite right. The fx selection seems mismatched. The trem should have been a phaser instead. And overall it would have been better to have trem, harmonic trem, and magnatone vibrato as the mod types.
Feel a wee like a “broken record”, but you continue to do a great job of keeping the licks pedal-appropriate. How do you stay Off the road?! You must certainly be known as the one of the best curators and purveyors of your thick book of tricks.🎸👨🏼⚕️🎸😎🫶✌️♾️
They sound next level, but very limited in pallet. Wondering if putting all 3 in a single unit might be more tempting... or heck, just enter the floor modeller wars, although I have a feeling that you might price yourself out of the party. No doubt they sound as good as anything out there , if not a step ahead. Doubt I could justify £400 on three or four algos. Great video ✌️
whats the pedal andy did a demo of playing rusty cage by sound garden on? the one that sounds like a wah pedal left at halfway but doesn't have a footswitch that rocks back and forth?
@@haloskater24 just get a strymon pedal over these. I love my el capistan and Deco. Covers my flanging, modulation, doubling, chorus, lofi vibrato, saturation, various delays and reverb (on el cap)
@@hershiekopper The Deco is ridiculously useful for so many things. I just recorded my first tune in like 10 years, after a long haitus, and the Deco was all over it.
Sounds great. Lots of good stuff in the pedals (and somethings missing for some users). High price - product placing them in Origin and Spaceman territory. Test time for the $400 band consumer acceptance criteria space.
Yeah the lack of even rudimentary program change midi control is head scratching. Especially at this price point. That’s one of the biggest advantages of digital. What were they thinking???
@@sebaseba33 Lawyers buy lots of gear and keep premium manufacturers afloat. If you'd like a world where Boss pedals are the best thing you can get then ban lawyers from buying gear.
@@Toolleeow you don't need talent. Just play through these or some strymons. Learn a couple chords and a scale on youtube. i use so much crap I forgot how good I can sound just into a clean amp. I love the pedals too. Just yacking.
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Very expensive..$499 MSRP to $399 MAP price.... If it was $100 less at $299 plus tax...maybe.
I like the golden reverberator but it’s not as drippy as a surfy bear if you wanted true surf tone sounds. It’s honestly very lacking in that department. It sounds nothing like a black face fender reverb either despite being a type or simulation of it. I’d still pay $400 plus tax for it though. My gripe is the lack of transparency in indicating the specs of the hardware. They don’t mention it anywhere on their website and if you ask their customer service. They’re close to non existent. From what I’ve read online their customer service is garbage and they have a terrible business practice of selling used units as new/refurbished. It explains their non plastic wrapped pedals. I’m a rich man, I buy fancy boutique stuff. This is in no way a boutique experience. I’ve seen cheaper boutique pedals with a premium experience. Anyways all this time I thought these were usa made but apparently that’s not the case. They’re made in Malaysia. You know that place where they exploit workers and have wage slaves and they’re treated like garbage. Places like that, haven’t found out where or what company they have to manufacture their stuff but I think I’ve narrowed it down to a few potential factories. Some of which have abusive and bad practices. For the prices they’re asking I was expecting something made in the USA. I’ve heard about the knobs being easily broken too and the switches breaking on someone. Talk about poor build quality. The people who made it seem like they worked on this in their lockdown during Covid. I doubt 2 years of research and development went into this. As a business man that seems like a far stretch. I’ll give them some slack since it was during Covid times apparently. So maybe it’s plausible. But Universal audio is the apple of musical hardware. Sure their stuff works and all. But there’s always someone else innovating and bringing you a better more transparent experience. I’ve seen the unboxing and it’s nothing too spectacular. No stickers or anything. Just a warranty card and some logo thing with the way to register the pedal for the bonus feature. Which to me seems like a lazy data mining way to gather more information from you. They probably sell your information. If you’re from another country other than the USA or maybe Europe. Their customer service is very lacking is what I’ve seen from some horror stories reagardigng their audio equipment. Sure they have the ox box and that’s their most innovative thing in years now. as a company they seem too greedy even for me. Which is a bit disappointing. I’d probably still buy their golden reverberator tho. i don’t use midi and have scaled down my musical equipment to a mesa badlander combo. Unfortunately it doesn’t have a reverb. This is as close to a real reverb as I’ve seen in digital form. Sure the surfy bear sounds a lot better for spring reverb. But unfortunately for me my store credit is locked to guitar center who doesn’t have surfybears. Also the surfybear is huge and I’m kinda leaning towards small and compact. This thing is still pretty huge but it sounded the best to me. I don’t use any plugins from them and I first saw them on andertons. I normally buy European stuff from them if I can’t find it anywhere else. I have seen used golden reverberators go for $300 in the USA. So they don’t hold their value very well. Kinda unfortunate, I however don’t buy used stuff anymore.not after Covid. If you’re like me maybe midi isn’t a thing for you. I’ve seen many complaints of lack of midi at this price point. But UA is a old fart company penny pinching. I might just wait for a midi version if that’s what you’re after. I feel like this is a rushed beta version. Like a virtual boy from Nintendo. Some have said it’s just their plugins in a box. I recall seeing that on Reddit somewhere in my research. Companies can lie and there’s no legal action against that most of the time. So their 2 year R&D could be all smoke and mirrors. If anyone has more information reply here. I’ll update comment if more information is found.
I just wanna say for the record I hit the pre-order button for one of these today. I think people are being ridiculous in the comments. Because it doesn't say Strymon on it it's not as good or something? The comparable Strymon pedals cost MORE than this one. I think people are unnecessarily shitting on something that has the potential to be a really badass tool. It's sad that unless it has every feature anyone could ever possibly have that somehow makes it overpriced garbage. I'm personally REALLY excited for the auto rate speed feature. I'm hoping that the rate is adjustable but I dig that concept. "It has plastic jacks." Yeah, so have a lot of other things I've owned in my 30 years of guitar playing. You know many of them I've ever broken? None. Get over it.
@@alexanderdonev6556 Oh, I agree, with TRS midi like the new Strymon units, these would be about perfect. I think the people who would look at these are likely Stymon customers.
@@aguynamedben If I bought everything on my pedal shopping list my pedal board would cost more than my car. These UA boxes went straight on the wish list.
I’ve known 3 pedal buying types: 1) haven’t yet invested in an expensive one; 2) now (all too?) comfortable buying expensive ones; 3) started out on the “hard stuff”, expensive from the start.
I have slightly crossed over into #2, because of various reasons-like too much idle, pedal shopping time (and financing options) garnered over this past year. 😉
@@chiefbucknell or you can be smart and know what is worth what. Some unique high quality stuff is worth investing in, but there are also tons of effects that can be built for less than $100 and still sound pristine
@@ileutur6863 This is what I try to do. Some high end stuff just sounds better, and there's no getting around it. But I also have a Behringer UV300 on my board and I pretty much can't tell the difference between that and a VB-2. The newer Waza VB-2 has a few bells and whistles the Behringer doesn't have, but the sound is basically identical...and the UV300 costs like 20 bucks.
They sound like studio effects, too harsh and stale for me. The tape echo doesn't sound like any tape echo I've ever used either. There's better pedals for 1/2 the price.
Don’t really care about the pedals, I’m here to listen to Andy playing the guitar. Since PGS year 2010 👏
I’m here for the pedals but Andy’s playing is sublime!
Same lah bro
Dang, 400 bucks with plastic jacks and no midi?
I'm going out on a limb and guessing those are black metal jacks.
All good in that case. Cough up the dough buddy.
UA, listen. There are some really unbelievable FX pedals out there that are less expensive with more options. Take the Strymon El Capistan. 299 new. Sounds incredible. For $49 more, there's the Timeline with infinitely more possibilities. Then there's TC Electronic. The Flashback x4 is $199 and has the option to load any echo you'd like within seconds. All that to say, UA is a killer company for recording, but if you are going to get into the guitar pedal business, you need take a good look at your competition and price accordingly.
I mean, the same goes for their interfaces right? The apollo series sound amazing, have the benefit of the UA plugins.. but purely as a audio interface you can get the same quality for a lower price.
But they have to manually rewrite the code for each dsp for each pedal! /s
Exactly. Most Chase Bliss Audio pedals are $350 and blow these UA pedals out of the water.
I have no doubt that these are gonna sell like hotcakes as it is. They are going for an upscale market, and it's full of people who will pay for it. For what it's worth, in every demo I hear I think they sound frigging amazing. Best reverbs I ever heard. Comparing to TC Electronic's HoF and other budget reverbs is downright offensive.
@@lordgraga comparing it to a strymon is hardly offensive. The strymon will spank this verb like a red-headed step child.
I have the Astra and it is freaking amazing. The sound quality is sublime.
These sound great but at that price point you're close to the Strymon big boxes or other pedals with way more options. 400 for these is outrageous, imo.
If you are right they will fail.
@@pd4165 and ultimately be sold at closeout prices... $199 and we might be getting somewhere.
@@ElBrooklyn1 Not gonna happen
Strymon Big Sky isn't an emulator like the UA Golden, and just on a completely different level AND direction. But I agree that the Golden is a little simple for the price, nevertheless. And not even stereo.
Disappointing. It'll be selling based on just brand name.
@@Jason75913it is stereo.
Remember when we thought Strymon was expensive.
People usually purchase music equipment as lifelong possessions so I dont consider a few hundred bucks expensive. If you have a job that shouldnt be much. These are also multi effect so its not like your getting just a reverb, or one type of modulation. Styrmon the same; you buy a big sky, you dont ever need to worry about chorus effects ever again for the rest of your life on earth for $300. And just like guns, jewelery, real estate, they somewhat hold a resale value if you still think you got robbed and hate it.
@@kingfisher7960 sure, dunno, ive got a job and savings and a decent pedalboard, but I actually think many people buy music equipment as impulse purchases that they assume will make them better players (and more complete people).
To your point, that’s not different from the psychological security people think they are purchasing with guns and jewelry. And those items have kept their resale value in recent times because we continue to covet them. Sure.
The industry was fairly enough trending into $300 for premium units, but a brand introing into the market at 4 just seems... in my humble opinion... to be a bit overpriced when wages have stagnated for decades and the American economy is in a precarious spot.
Of course, people will use their stimulus checks to buy them (arguing that these are ‘premium’) and then simply take out more credit if hard times come next year.
Its 2021 so its ok
No matter how one justifies it, there is no way a stomp box with 3 types is of digital reverb, for example, should cost $400, I don’t care if it says UA or Robert Neve or Bob Moog on the box. Even some of the best, most groundbreaking boutique pedals don’t come with f u pricing. These glorified plugins in pedal format have missed the valuation mark by a lot.
The new reverb from UA does sound pretty nice but I like my Strymon flint more hehe
Best in-song usage demo of these pedals I’ve seen. Nice work, and thanks yet again, Andy!
Looks like Tore has been up to his old tricks again! Good!
hope they come out with the compressor series, 1176/LA2/Fairchild in a pedal, can you imagine?
Odd decision to not have an expression pedal input on any of these, especially the modulation and delay.
thinking the same thing - exp pedal is a must, not sure why they left that out
And the power supply is not included.
@@MisterNiles Honestly that’s super common. A majority of the pedals I own didn’t come with power supplies.
If you’re gonna be using more than one pedal you really should be using a pedal power supply, and if you’re only going to be using the one a 9v power brick is dirt cheap.
I would prefer to not get a bunch of cheap power bricks with all my pedals. They’re wasted plastic and are just junk I have to find a home for.
Surprised they didn't make a compressor pedal
For a compressor stompbox for guitar you can't beat the Wampler Ego compressor.
@@jessevandendoren That’s a great pedal; I have the mini one. Price notwithstanding, however, I’ll take the OE Cali76 over any other comp any day.
@@onenotesolo256 Do you find its noise level higher than most other compressor pedals?
@@jessevandendoren I love my Walrus Audio Deep Six Compressor
@@onenotesolo256 got one. It’s amazing.
Astra...Flanger...B mode. When you switched to that with the drive on. That sounded frickin epic. 🤙🏻
Andy, was that another original in the intro? Beautiful piece of music. I love this channel.
Love my Starlight. It sounds amazing, especially in a mix. For the record I don’t use MIDI and I run two delays on my boards so the somewhat limited feature set of the Starlight doesn’t bother me. I’m in for the tone.
Awsome little jam in the intro man!
Can we build a tape-free version of Tom Scholz's Hyperspace pedal now?
Dunlop has does nothing with rockman name and I don’t know why. They need to start building pedal versions of Tom’s designs
sounds great, but needs more. I'd be happy to swoop all 3 of these up if there was MIDI and more algos to choose from.
Most excited about the reverb!!! UA has always nailed they’re reverbs and I miss them so much when I play live! This will save me dsp when tracking and let me take them out with me live (soon.....hopefully) lol
Way too expensive but that's the uad way...
price aside, ya'll gotta remember that these have infinite possibility with the UAD setup. These are basically like h9s, each one already comes with extra algorithms you can load in. As a long time UAD user, their effect algorithms are legit
you pay 199 for a good pedal 200 for a brand name
Great review! The pedals sounds fabulous!
Always great demo's Andy thank you!
The reverb pedal sounds nice - hope it has a line level switch or something for synths.
These do sound awesome. Very musical. The price is high, but they sound amazing. It may be a premium pricing model?
How does the Tape Echo compare to the Catalinbread Epoch?
I'm assuming it's meant to be an Echoplex given they have a plug-in for that.
Yeah I’m waiting for some ab demos too. Have to say Andy just made the ep3 sound great here. Have herd rumours josh smith is a fan of the ua too.......
I think these sound great if your doing live gigs but I am retired and record as a hobby so get by with the excellent plugins and my 80s hardware Lexicons..nice playin' and demo btw.
Yeah well those are better than 99 percent of guitar pedals. That’s what the UA golden in particular is trying to address. If it is quality it’s worth it in my book. I spent $200 on a reverb pedal that I just returned because it’s so harsh and digital sounding. So it was $200 for nothing. $400 that I can use is worth it.
The Astra font looks like the SEGA logo
So cool! We live in a golden age of effect pedals.
im in a golden age of being broke
Whatever you try Andy, I like your playing.
So expensive compared to other options. The design is amazing though. Just curious, the phaser and trem you can download, I’m guessing they replace other effects on the pedal? Swapping them in and out. Or can you have all of them on the device?
I hear their Audio interfaces are good, these pedals sound great!
...Wow - love the layering of the different guitars (Intro) - question: what are you using for overdrive on the slide portion (LP) ? sounds great!
andy is known to stack klons, original run klons...
Is someone gonna tell this studio rack company that effect pedals generally don't cost as much as studio gear?
Well... reverb and modulation pedals tend to be the priciest. They're in line with the Strymons and the Eventides of the world and that makes total sense.
That final chord - Cocteau Twins' Pandora..?
This was unexpected. They sound great, although Andy could make a toaster sing beautifully
Yet and the sad thing is when I buy a pedal that Andy has made the demo for, I generaly manage to make it sing like a toaster. Am I alone ? :)
@@alannedelec2714 Nah I’m with you
First tune sounds like Big Wreck "Albatross". Well done sir
Andy’s a great player sheesh
The verb looks awesome. The delay looks pretty good, not sure about that precision mode. The Astra doesn’t seem quite right. The fx selection seems mismatched. The trem should have been a phaser instead. And overall it would have been better to have trem, harmonic trem, and magnatone vibrato as the mod types.
I hate phaser.
Awesome track on the intro🤘
Wouldn’t the “65 Dual Showman” setting just be the bypass kicked on, since the Dual Showman didn’t get internal reverb till 68?
Feel a wee like a “broken record”, but you continue to do a great job of keeping the licks pedal-appropriate.
How do you stay Off the road?! You must certainly be known as the one of the best curators and purveyors of your thick book of tricks.🎸👨🏼⚕️🎸😎🫶✌️♾️
They sound next level, but very limited in pallet. Wondering if putting all 3 in a single unit might be more tempting... or heck, just enter the floor modeller wars, although I have a feeling that you might price yourself out of the party. No doubt they sound as good as anything out there , if not a step ahead. Doubt I could justify £400 on three or four algos. Great video ✌️
Next I want them to make an 1108 pre pedal with 2nd footswitch to toggle eq and/or distortion
Is there a way to switch with TRS since there is no midi in/out?
Bravo in the intro! So good!
whats the pedal andy did a demo of playing rusty cage by sound garden on? the one that sounds like a wah pedal left at halfway but doesn't have a footswitch that rocks back and forth?
Already knew these were gonna be super expensive. Not sure what they were thinking
Reverb is 400
@@haloskater24 just get a strymon pedal over these. I love my el capistan and Deco. Covers my flanging, modulation, doubling, chorus, lofi vibrato, saturation, various delays and reverb (on el cap)
@@hershiekopper The Deco is ridiculously useful for so many things. I just recorded my first tune in like 10 years, after a long haitus, and the Deco was all over it.
Does anyone know what tuning Andy was using on that slide guitar at the beginning?
Oh, is THIS (partly) why (or a result of) them hiring Tore away from TC Electronic?
id think so
@@T-Hawkeyes Yes he is now at UA...
@@GregoryStoner thanks stoner
Wow. Interesting to know. I would jump one of these...only if they had MIDI.
I would love a super low gain mic style preamp pedal (cascade 1176 to 1176 circuit).
The delay is awesome, but with no midi I’m out. Can’t have a delay that price without midi.
and not even stereo
Not stereo?
@@kernowcalli3312 my mistake, it's stereo but with TRS jacks, annoying penny-pinching bit
anyway, still rather underwhelming for its price
@@Jason75913 iirc it’s 4 mono jacks, I’m going to immediately mod it for external tap
@@jessedaly7847 no, they did go 2 TRS, another commenter corrected my confusion elsehwhere
Did I see a Gray Guitars tele in there????
Yes! A Grayling model in Oz Green. 👍🏻🎸
Happy I ordered the volante now
Sounds great. Lots of good stuff in the pedals (and somethings missing for some users).
High price - product placing them in Origin and Spaceman territory. Test time for the $400 band consumer acceptance criteria space.
Great playing.. as always!
I have the Astra. It's so damn great.
this guy is always such a good player!!! He could make a potato sound good
Yeah the lack of even rudimentary program change midi control is head scratching. Especially at this price point. That’s one of the biggest advantages of digital. What were they thinking???
Would have been nice to have panned delay as an option for this price
The last 2 division settings are different flavors of ping pong
What that black pedal, some kind of preamp?
Are the spring verbs mono?
sure sounds like the spring is 98% mono, where as the rest are true stereo. Spring sounds great for a digital though.
$400 ?
I kept expecting to hear Bob Dylan’s voice on that first track
For this price, I'm pretty sad there are no MIDI capabilities.
Always some asshole that can't be happy !!
@@Alchemyrecordingstudioatl Like you.
One trick pony for 400$... Lawyers effects...
@@Alchemyrecordingstudioatl yes I am an asshole spoiled by other pedals that have MIDI control
@@sebaseba33 Lawyers buy lots of gear and keep premium manufacturers afloat.
If you'd like a world where Boss pedals are the best thing you can get then ban lawyers from buying gear.
Pricey!
Joe Walsh at the start? Very much good vibes.
There's a little nod to The Bomber, had to with the EP-3 setting!
400 bucks is insane!
why no midi? I'd consider all 3 with midi
So each pedal costs about 8 guitar lessons. Not a bad deal when you think of it that way. Quality sounds good.
Except 8 guitar lessons will actually make you better at guitar, unlike buying these stuff and keep playing like a beginner. I totally need these
@@Toolleeow you don't need talent. Just play through these or some strymons. Learn a couple chords and a scale on youtube. i use so much crap I forgot how good I can sound just into a clean amp. I love the pedals too. Just yacking.
Very expensive..$499 MSRP to $399 MAP price.... If it was $100 less at $299 plus tax...maybe.
I like the golden reverberator but it’s not as drippy as a surfy bear if you wanted true surf tone sounds. It’s honestly very lacking in that department. It sounds nothing like a black face fender reverb either despite being a type or simulation of it. I’d still pay $400 plus tax for it though. My gripe is the lack of transparency in indicating the specs of the hardware. They don’t mention it anywhere on their website and if you ask their customer service. They’re close to non existent. From what I’ve read online their customer service is garbage and they have a terrible business practice of selling used units as new/refurbished. It explains their non plastic wrapped pedals. I’m a rich man, I buy fancy boutique stuff. This is in no way a boutique experience. I’ve seen cheaper boutique pedals with a premium experience. Anyways all this time I thought these were usa made but apparently that’s not the case. They’re made in Malaysia. You know that place where they exploit workers and have wage slaves and they’re treated like garbage. Places like that, haven’t found out where or what company they have to manufacture their stuff but I think I’ve narrowed it down to a few potential factories. Some of which have abusive and bad practices. For the prices they’re asking I was expecting something made in the USA. I’ve heard about the knobs being easily broken too and the switches breaking on someone. Talk about poor build quality. The people who made it seem like they worked on this in their lockdown during Covid. I doubt 2 years of research and development went into this. As a business man that seems like a far stretch. I’ll give them some slack since it was during Covid times apparently. So maybe it’s plausible. But Universal audio is the apple of musical hardware. Sure their stuff works and all. But there’s always someone else innovating and bringing you a better more transparent experience. I’ve seen the unboxing and it’s nothing too spectacular. No stickers or anything. Just a warranty card and some logo thing with the way to register the pedal for the bonus feature. Which to me seems like a lazy data mining way to gather more information from you. They probably sell your information. If you’re from another country other than the USA or maybe Europe. Their customer service is very lacking is what I’ve seen from some horror stories reagardigng their audio equipment. Sure they have the ox box and that’s their most innovative thing in years now. as a company they seem too greedy even for me. Which is a bit disappointing. I’d probably still buy their golden reverberator tho. i don’t use midi and have scaled down my musical equipment to a mesa badlander combo. Unfortunately it doesn’t have a reverb. This is as close to a real reverb as I’ve seen in digital form. Sure the surfy bear sounds a lot better for spring reverb. But unfortunately for me my store credit is locked to guitar center who doesn’t have surfybears. Also the surfybear is huge and I’m kinda leaning towards small and compact. This thing is still pretty huge but it sounded the best to me. I don’t use any plugins from them and I first saw them on andertons. I normally buy European stuff from them if I can’t find it anywhere else. I have seen used golden reverberators go for $300 in the USA. So they don’t hold their value very well. Kinda unfortunate, I however don’t buy used stuff anymore.not after Covid.
If you’re like me maybe midi isn’t a thing for you. I’ve seen many complaints of lack of midi at this price point. But UA is a old fart company penny pinching. I might just wait for a midi version if that’s what you’re after. I feel like this is a rushed beta version. Like a virtual boy from Nintendo. Some have said it’s just their plugins in a box. I recall seeing that on Reddit somewhere in my research. Companies can lie and there’s no legal action against that most of the time. So their 2 year R&D could be all smoke and mirrors. If anyone has more information reply here. I’ll update comment if more information is found.
Nice music before knowing anything about the pedals
This dude shuld be narrating MOVIE TRAILERS.
Andy rules
Dat drip, doe.
i hope they pay Andy a lot & give him rights to all the jams he does.
ASTRA is intense.
$400 each. Yikes.
It's UA, what do you expect? 1000$ audio interfaces without even a TB3 cable.
Fr, i was considering saving up for just one of these and even thats crazy expensive aha
lol
@@ArtyShat yeah but the difference is that the audio interface is actually worth the money, unlike the simple circuit of an effect pedal
They don't do much for $400. For that type of money I would expect something with the functionality of Chase Bliss Audio.
They sound a little harsh to me. Don’t know.
Think his interface was clipping a bit
I just wanna say for the record I hit the pre-order button for one of these today. I think people are being ridiculous in the comments. Because it doesn't say Strymon on it it's not as good or something? The comparable Strymon pedals cost MORE than this one. I think people are unnecessarily shitting on something that has the potential to be a really badass tool. It's sad that unless it has every feature anyone could ever possibly have that somehow makes it overpriced garbage.
I'm personally REALLY excited for the auto rate speed feature. I'm hoping that the rate is adjustable but I dig that concept.
"It has plastic jacks." Yeah, so have a lot of other things I've owned in my 30 years of guitar playing. You know many of them I've ever broken? None. Get over it.
witnessing andy pronounce accurate as acreat, same as i do
and 'bolth' haha! oh well...
Hmm price definitely reflects the UA brand..but for sound its good but not spectacular
These with MIDI should've beat all the rest pedals in the world.
i am wondering about the price of those great pedals...
I feel like the people complaining all over the internet about UA making a $400 pedal are really out of touch with the community.
Yep, their competition is Strymon & Keeley not off brand Chinese boxes.
@@cmdrsocks no, i think most people would expect more midi/preset control for 400 bucks
@@alexanderdonev6556 Oh, I agree, with TRS midi like the new Strymon units, these would be about perfect. I think the people who would look at these are likely Stymon customers.
@@cmdrsocks and pedal snobs who never bought into Strymon but love UA for having analog credentials, i.e. me lol. The Iridium is legit tho.
@@aguynamedben If I bought everything on my pedal shopping list my pedal board would cost more than my car. These UA boxes went straight on the wish list.
Looks great, oh wait, no midi. Next.
Sounds great.... not $400 great though.
Was looking forward to these until I saw the price tag lmao. Art is a bit lame too.
Cocok nemenin yg punya motor honda 😂
Oh no... Golden or Ventris or Light?!?!?!??!
coool!!
I’ve known 3 pedal buying types: 1) haven’t yet invested in an expensive one; 2) now (all too?) comfortable buying expensive ones; 3) started out on the “hard stuff”, expensive from the start.
LOL, I'm at 1, but only because of COVID bashing my business, I already have a shopping list.
@@cmdrsocks With the passage of time, may you become flush with luck and cash, in order that you may acquire some/all the pedals!! 🤑🎛🎚💸
I have slightly crossed over into #2, because of various reasons-like too much idle, pedal shopping time (and financing options) garnered over this past year. 😉
@@chiefbucknell or you can be smart and know what is worth what. Some unique high quality stuff is worth investing in, but there are also tons of effects that can be built for less than $100 and still sound pristine
@@ileutur6863 This is what I try to do. Some high end stuff just sounds better, and there's no getting around it. But I also have a Behringer UV300 on my board and I pretty much can't tell the difference between that and a VB-2. The newer Waza VB-2 has a few bells and whistles the Behringer doesn't have, but the sound is basically identical...and the UV300 costs like 20 bucks.
They sound like studio effects, too harsh and stale for me. The tape echo doesn't sound like any tape echo I've ever used either. There's better pedals for 1/2 the price.
Studio effects are not harsh. Plugins-in-a-box can be
name that entry demo...I would but an alien wiped my memory
UAD - The Apple of music stuff (meaning they know how to take your money). Great stuff though!
Paid promo ...tell me the diff. between this 400€ pedál and my old 50 bucks akai headrush mic placing eq .. you will not
These pedals sound great.
About 150$ greater than they should sound
why those pedals only demoed on Guitars .... that's boring
Because this is a guitar channel
just buy a Tc Electronic Plethora x5 and be happy for $400. UAD is insane