The only guy, among the TH-camrs who reviewed this pedal, who did a comparison between the anti and another simulation. At least we can understand how it compares to some 5150 iteration. Well done Rabea We now need a comparison between this and a 1992 5150 😅
Yes, like Bea said they're different but if the thing is kind of inspired in something it's clear people would wanna know how it compares, it doesn't even matter if better or worst but at least a base to judge thanks for that Bea, amazing how everyone else straight ignore that...
@@philfort7886 Kyle Bull is a local from my hometown. He's a cool dude, and I recommend anyone who likes heavier music, metal, thrash, etc to follow his channel! @belligerentamateur
@@bgarza18 It give a good Deluxe Reverb mixed up studio sound, but as soon as you hit it with a drive pedal it becomes apparent it's a "plugin in a box", because it sounds digital. The audience will never notice that though, but I do. Also I don't get why they don't have midi on their pedals.
A bit late here to this video, but I love being able to watch you dial in tones on pedals you review. You spend the time to really go through it and the tone comparison to Nolly is genius. Thanks for the time you dedicate to us, I appreciate your work immensely. Cheers.
Im late to the party here but as always I have to say you are the best on TH-cam to demo a popular new pedal.... especially in this age we all are looking for a pre amp to put into the loop of our modelers 💯🔥🎸👊🏻😎
I play through small tube amps 20 watt and under. A good pedal through a tube amp gives everything I need. Always gets in the mix during practice and even better with a microphone live.
Everyone else make this sound so fizzy , this sounds fine also thankyou for single note lines as most who demo this pedal cannot play lead runs all they can do is chuga chug
Best simulated 5150 sound I have ever heard. Trying to dial it into my Axe FX III and get close, but the Anti sounds like it is punching you in the face.
@@void_snw done to death doesnt mean done well. I bought an fm3 in hopes it would give me all the amps i could ever want without the price tag to match. When i compared with with my 5153 is wasnt close enough, so i got rid of the fm3
@@juhalehtonen9000 I've found a middle ground solution that works well for me. Tube preamps. I got a dumble preamp a while ago that's golden, and just today I got the AMT p-lead in the mail, it sounds close enough to my 5153 to be fun and satisfactory, honestly if someone had told me I was plugged into the amp and someone had messed with my settings slightly I'd believe it. Now all that's left is to figure out a pedal sized power amp that sounds good and my pedalboard amp will be complete
@@cameronfarrell9076 damn really i play an evh 100 watt el34 5150 III and was thinking of getting something digital for certain places/practicing but am afraid of it not matching up.
Hey man, my first time on your channel, and was lookingnfor a good review of this new 5150 pedal. Stopped by another dude, wont name names, but he reminds me of those peoplenthat come in to GC, go to drop D or C and just makes a bunch of noise with 4 power cords and out of rhythm open chords. Really diggin this pedal, and it seems to have some beautiful tones, and alot of room to get really creative, and i can hear that 5150 heritage with in. Great stuff, and your newest Subscriber.
Bea, I’d be interested to hear if the UAFX Lion could pair well with this pedal for the kind of stuff you do. It does have that Super Lead esque sound that you’ve paired with a 5150 in the past. Maybe this could be the case to put the real amps in the museum (lovely though they are).
Ive heard 15 different people demo this. The first 13 people obviously never played the amp its modeled after. It was God awful and sounded nothing like the amp I played for many years in the studio in the early to mid 90s. But you and Jon Symons Sonic Drive Studio nailed it.
ANTI is great, but but maybe too much low end initially that would be cut in a live show or a mix. The last round with ANTI & the plugin and TS sounded great as a comparison. I've also head some other demos of just full gain chugging, no clean and no single note lines. This is the best demo so far.
is it just me? or have all the demos of this thing had a slightly uncomfortable high end spike, not sure where it is but it sounds like it's either 3k or 6k ish, I mean I get that people like 5150s to be biting but aren't they also known for more of a bark? it seems like it's kinda built in to the sweet spot or something since I've noticed the same high end spike on pretty much all the vids I've seen so far...
The delay around 9mins 19 seconds really made the pedal for me. What delay was that, pedal or plug-in? I could image the pedal being too ‘brown’ unless you’re really clean, otherwise the fizz or hight end bleeds across chords. I sort of think you need to be very careful of your complex chords if you’re a messy guitarist, otherwise it’s a bit in refined, just my thoughts.
Hey, Rabea, how do you get such a defined sound on your chords? When you’re playing high gain stuff you can still clearly hear the higher notes of a chord and it doesn’t sound muddy or undefined? I’ve noticed that about some of your other videos as well.
hardware always sounds more forward than plugins and will sit better in a mix with drums, more realistic in a stereo spread as an element, amps and cabs better still
Sounds fuckin incredible. Best demo of this pedal yet. So what would you buy to run into an amp 1 iridium, friedman irx, or this pedal? I was sold on the irx until I heard this beast....
How would you run this through a non-FR FR speaker set up? Can the cab sims be turned off? There's little point using IR sims through a traditional cab that have their own distinctive tone.
Can this be used in a live setting like a two channel amp by using the "Preset" func? I think the other UAFX amp sims have a significant latency or more of a drop in volume when switching between your current and your favourite preset.
Me: "Man, that's a lot of gain..." Rabea: "Now were going to put it on the high gain channel." So why is it called the "Anti"? Like "anti-up" - that's all I can think of. I can't figure out any association between the name and the amp or EVH. Anyway- I can't decide between this or the dual rec. Knuckles sim. I'm leaning toward the Knuckles because I've always been a huge Metallica fan, and they used the dual rec. I'm also a big Foo Fighters fan, they used one. But tbh the Anti sounds really good and the 5150 has been used more often and by more metal bands than any other amp- plus it's perfect for 80s shred. The dual rec. I think is less versatile, more firmly within the box so to speak- it's all about the chug. You're not going to see a lot of 80s shredders using it- it was made famous by bands like Metallica and Dream Theatre. Idk- I'm just as lost now as when I started. Decisions, decisions.... of course, I could just go with a Deluxe Simplifier- or a Freidman IR-J. Or- I could buy the J Rockette PXO, stick it in front of my Lion '68- and see what that sounds like. AHHHHH! I'm losing my mind... Truth is, I'm going to buy it all eventually so, it doesn't matter. The Anti it is.. or maybe the Knuckles... Idk. Damn it.
@@RabeaMassaad Damn - how great would that be (USB Midi)! Regardless, this still seems like such a great thing - and as always, love your tone and style Rabea.
In every demo of this product, i am bothered by a fizzyness , like in a bad IR...it may be my ear plugs but...i didnt felt that on the lion demo...disapointed...
Nope, the upper frequencies are apparent in every review. For some, they enjoy this quality. I've owned 5150 variants and always did my best to dial out the harsh highs when present.
You have to remember alot of them are not in a mix. Also alot of them are showing direct in and not through a 4x12 cab. I would bet this pedal sounds killer through a 4x12 and in a full band setting. Just my opinion.
The clean can sound that good on the original 5150 if you use the low gain input and W twist the knobs. Unfortunately, the channels have shared EQ. Alao, sounds even better with a Unit67 in front and single coils. Hell... I was even able to Squeeze a Samsung Pumpkins Hummer clean tone out of my block with a strat.
As with all simulated amps (digital or pedal), try through a Tube Pilot or Maxon OD808 (or both) to get a bit more realism rather than post gain fx. It’s all in the oregano lol Pre gain. THEN…think about impulses and FX. This sounds a lot like a Sansamp, so I dunno. Some pedals you literally cannot change the sound no matter what you try. Seems like one of those. Probably easy to mod to open it up some. It’s made to deny certain things from happening to output the same kinda tone no matter what. Not bad, though. All sounds the same to me though, just EQ curves for presets over the same initial amp sound.
The only guy, among the TH-camrs who reviewed this pedal, who did a comparison between the anti and another simulation.
At least we can understand how it compares to some 5150 iteration.
Well done Rabea
We now need a comparison between this and a 1992 5150 😅
Yes, like Bea said they're different but if the thing is kind of inspired in something it's clear people would wanna know how it compares, it doesn't even matter if better or worst but at least a base to judge thanks for that Bea, amazing how everyone else straight ignore that...
kyle bull did on his channel
@@philfort7886 Kyle Bull is a local from my hometown. He's a cool dude, and I recommend anyone who likes heavier music, metal, thrash, etc to follow his channel! @belligerentamateur
Crystal clear without being sludgy and noisy. 👌
Fun fact, I just read the manuals, the UA amp pedals can be interconnected in a way that you can have a 4 or even 6 channel rig. 4 cable method.
Mind 🤯
The Anti made the Nolly sound like a simulation. Well done Universal Audio.
I main a Dream 65. UAs amp pedals are insanely good.
UAD is good period.
@@bgarza18 It give a good Deluxe Reverb mixed up studio sound, but as soon as you hit it with a drive pedal it becomes apparent it's a "plugin in a box", because it sounds digital. The audience will never notice that though, but I do. Also I don't get why they don't have midi on their pedals.
I've got no intention of buying this pedal, but Bea's playing so I'll stick around for the whole video!
Moi aussi
A bit late here to this video, but I love being able to watch you dial in tones on pedals you review. You spend the time to really go through it and the tone comparison to Nolly is genius. Thanks for the time you dedicate to us, I appreciate your work immensely. Cheers.
The distortion on that delay pedal when it was in the rhythm channel sounded awesome.
This might be the best pedal I’ve ever heard 😂. Most versatile too. Wow. Thanks Rabea, you’re the best sir.
Im late to the party here but as always I have to say you are the best on TH-cam to demo a popular new pedal.... especially in this age we all are looking for a pre amp to put into the loop of our modelers 💯🔥🎸👊🏻😎
I play through small tube amps 20 watt and under.
A good pedal through a tube amp gives everything I need. Always gets in the mix during practice and even better with a microphone live.
Everyone else make this sound so fizzy , this sounds fine also thankyou for single note lines as most who demo this pedal cannot play lead runs all they can do is chuga chug
Great to meet you at ATG Rabea! I was definitely half cut at the time so apologies for that, appreciate you taking the time to talk to me :)
Impulse response is king! No other things really matter here.
This is the best demo I’ve seen yet!
Sold when I saw 5150 bring it on remember your original Toska set up sounded so good with that Marshall too.
That OG JVM/5150 stereo setup was legendary
Man, Guitar pedals and effects are sounding really cool these days. Lots of companies stepping up.
I guess you could say that UA really upped the Anti.
Well, now I know why the pedal is called that. I was at a loss at what it had to do with Eddie or the 5150.
I came here to say that. Beat me to it!
Haha, I see what you did there. I died laughing. I’m dead now.
Best simulated 5150 sound I have ever heard. Trying to dial it into my Axe FX III and get close, but the Anti sounds like it is punching you in the face.
Honestly most of the difference is probably in the bias point and the cab setup. 5150's been done to death at this point in the modeling world :')
@@void_snw done to death doesnt mean done well. I bought an fm3 in hopes it would give me all the amps i could ever want without the price tag to match. When i compared with with my 5153 is wasnt close enough, so i got rid of the fm3
@@cameronfarrell9076I did the same. Bought few tubeamps instead and world of difference
@@juhalehtonen9000 I've found a middle ground solution that works well for me. Tube preamps. I got a dumble preamp a while ago that's golden, and just today I got the AMT p-lead in the mail, it sounds close enough to my 5153 to be fun and satisfactory, honestly if someone had told me I was plugged into the amp and someone had messed with my settings slightly I'd believe it.
Now all that's left is to figure out a pedal sized power amp that sounds good and my pedalboard amp will be complete
@@cameronfarrell9076 damn really i play an evh 100 watt el34 5150 III and was thinking of getting something digital for certain places/practicing but am afraid of it not matching up.
That pedal sounds amazing. Nice review, dude. Thanks!
Great demo and your playing is fantastic as always.
This is definitely on my new gear day radar...
Thanks for doing this video. Sounds great. Goes to show how much the cab determines the tone.
This is the best pedal I’ve ever bought.
Great tone keep shreddin brother!
❤🎉yahoo! Another UA pedal !
I love listening to this dude ... His tone is always thick and sick 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
Both this and knuckles sound really good
Dude, you make that pedal sound huge. I’m curious as to how many guitar players will get that “fat” sound. You my friend are an exceptional guitarist.
great demo I am sold on getting one thank you
Thank you rabea finally a pedal that kicks people in the face luv it love your work 🤟
incredible the tones you can get these days for very cheap.
You ain't lying! When I was younger only thing you got cheap was solid state turds😂
bloody great demo. GG
i think it sounds amazing.
WOW!
This is quite amazing
No TT fret system anymore?
Sounds great!
Like always the best
Great review! Sounds killer
Sounds ace! 👍
The Woodrow is a Tweed sim. Anyways, great playing and sounds incredible. Cheers!
sounds freakin amazing!
I wonder if a straight SLO pedal would have been better??
Belting review, wicked pedal. Thanks man
My first search when i saw this pedal was "anti 1992 rabea".
It feels like so long ago.
Evh would approve
Always a classic review from this guy.
Hey man, my first time on your channel, and was lookingnfor a good review of this new 5150 pedal. Stopped by another dude, wont name names, but he reminds me of those peoplenthat come in to GC, go to drop D or C and just makes a bunch of noise with 4 power cords and out of rhythm open chords. Really diggin this pedal, and it seems to have some beautiful tones, and alot of room to get really creative, and i can hear that 5150 heritage with in. Great stuff, and your newest Subscriber.
Bea, I’d be interested to hear if the UAFX Lion could pair well with this pedal for the kind of stuff you do. It does have that Super Lead esque sound that you’ve paired with a 5150 in the past. Maybe this could be the case to put the real amps in the museum (lovely though they are).
5150 just always sounds too fizzy for me... though I understand why so many love it.
Your amp doesn't have a treble control?
Woodrow was just a tweed deluxe not a blues junior
Ahhh yeah my bad
b yer awesome... tons of respect bro
Hmmmmm interesting! I have an AXE FX and always find myself going to 5153s
How do you connect your pedal to the app? Bluetooth?
Got a nice signal chain goin on
Ive heard 15 different people demo this. The first 13 people obviously never played the amp its modeled after. It was God awful and sounded nothing like the amp I played for many years in the studio in the early to mid 90s. But you and Jon Symons Sonic Drive Studio nailed it.
My review just went live. I'd love any feedback you may have.
When are we getting a UA Kraken Pedal?👀
Massive!
I wish they’d let Bea do artist presets for this pedal 🤤
ANTI is great, but but maybe too much low end initially that would be cut in a live show or a mix. The last round with ANTI & the plugin and TS sounded great as a comparison. I've also head some other demos of just full gain chugging, no clean and no single note lines. This is the best demo so far.
is it just me? or have all the demos of this thing had a slightly uncomfortable high end spike, not sure where it is but it sounds like it's either 3k or 6k ish, I mean I get that people like 5150s to be biting but aren't they also known for more of a bark? it seems like it's kinda built in to the sweet spot or something since I've noticed the same high end spike on pretty much all the vids I've seen so far...
I noticed it much less in the recordings from all reviewers using a real cab, so I wonder if it's the cab sims or the way the outputs color the sim.
Still kind of fizzy... Lacking that mid chunk/punch. Is it worth the price price?
The delay around 9mins 19 seconds really made the pedal for me. What delay was that, pedal or plug-in?
I could image the pedal being too ‘brown’ unless you’re really clean, otherwise the fizz or hight end bleeds across chords.
I sort of think you need to be very careful of your complex chords if you’re a messy guitarist, otherwise it’s a bit in refined, just my thoughts.
How does this stack up against something that has a ir of a 5150 such as a kemper or tonex?
So, is that into an amp? With amp set clean or mild distortion? Tube or solid-state? Pedal is solid-state emulation of a tube amp?
Hey, Rabea, how do you get such a defined sound on your chords? When you’re playing high gain stuff you can still clearly hear the higher notes of a chord and it doesn’t sound muddy or undefined? I’ve noticed that about some of your other videos as well.
hardware always sounds more forward than plugins and will sit better in a mix with drums, more realistic in a stereo spread as an element, amps and cabs better still
Why you burried everything under a ton of reverb and delay?
Is there not an EVH setting?
hello ! theres something i dont undestand about this pedal ! do u plug it direct to a cabin ?? u dont need an amp or a head? sorry im new to the sport
Sounds fuckin incredible. Best demo of this pedal yet. So what would you buy to run into an amp 1 iridium, friedman irx, or this pedal? I was sold on the irx until I heard this beast....
Not only that but one of the BEST sounding demos across all of YT. 👍
I can set my beloved BOSS SD-1 ($60) to mimic this pedal, very convincingly through my Herbert Mk2, and Mk1.
How it compares with the mighty AMT P-2?
How would you run this through a non-FR FR speaker set up? Can the cab sims be turned off? There's little point using IR sims through a traditional cab that have their own distinctive tone.
Yes, cabinets can be turned off on all the UAFX amp pedals.
Can this be used in a live setting like a two channel amp by using the "Preset" func? I think the other UAFX amp sims have a significant latency or more of a drop in volume when switching between your current and your favourite preset.
Can you load your own IRs?
Thx very much ..again :). I have a "dumb" question...are you in drop C ? or a more complex tuning ?
That thing needed the tube screamer! Not that it was bad without it.
Right but is this a digital pedal or is it fully analog? Seems to be digital?
Belive i figured out the name, ANTI is an acronym for “ampsim in to interface”…
Me: "Man, that's a lot of gain..."
Rabea: "Now were going to put it on the high gain channel."
So why is it called the "Anti"? Like "anti-up" - that's all I can think of. I can't figure out any association between the name and the amp or EVH. Anyway- I can't decide between this or the dual rec. Knuckles sim. I'm leaning toward the Knuckles because I've always been a huge Metallica fan, and they used the dual rec. I'm also a big Foo Fighters fan, they used one. But tbh the Anti sounds really good and the 5150 has been used more often and by more metal bands than any other amp- plus it's perfect for 80s shred. The dual rec. I think is less versatile, more firmly within the box so to speak- it's all about the chug. You're not going to see a lot of 80s shredders using it- it was made famous by bands like Metallica and Dream Theatre. Idk- I'm just as lost now as when I started. Decisions, decisions.... of course, I could just go with a Deluxe Simplifier- or a Freidman IR-J. Or- I could buy the J Rockette PXO, stick it in front of my Lion '68- and see what that sounds like. AHHHHH! I'm losing my mind... Truth is, I'm going to buy it all eventually so, it doesn't matter. The Anti it is.. or maybe the Knuckles... Idk. Damn it.
Awesome chords ! What is the tuning please ?
No headphone out is criminal.
Stereo out to headphone cable works fine
All amps or pedals sound horrible in headphones...
@@gsmeeuwsen not in my experience but each to their own.
Just use a quarter inch to 3.5 on the out and you’ll get the same thing I’m pretty sure
@@jarredbaca8112 left and right out to stereo female in - And you have head phones
What are we tuned to here?
I NEED ALL MY NEURAL DSP PLUGINS IN A PEDAL FORM PLEASE
And I want it to look like it does on computer ….ON MY PHONE….
What delay and reverb are you using?
UA Starlight & golden
@@archieaustin3702 thank you
is it digital or analog?
Digital
Sounds sick! Side note: Did you enjoy Shadow of the Erdtree Bea?
Rabea: I dont use gates because I dont use that much gain
The Gain: *Hits like a bag of bricks*
Midi-capable?
No sadly not
@@RabeaMassaad Damn - how great would that be (USB Midi)! Regardless, this still seems like such a great thing - and as always, love your tone and style Rabea.
In every demo of this product, i am bothered by a fizzyness , like in a bad IR...it may be my ear plugs but...i didnt felt that on the lion demo...disapointed...
Nope, the upper frequencies are apparent in every review. For some, they enjoy this quality. I've owned 5150 variants and always did my best to dial out the harsh highs when present.
You have to remember alot of them are not in a mix. Also alot of them are showing direct in and not through a 4x12 cab. I would bet this pedal sounds killer through a 4x12 and in a full band setting. Just my opinion.
The clean can sound that good on the original 5150 if you use the low gain input and W twist the knobs. Unfortunately, the channels have shared EQ.
Alao, sounds even better with a Unit67 in front and single coils.
Hell... I was even able to Squeeze a Samsung Pumpkins Hummer clean tone out of my block with a strat.
How great if they made a Rabea UA pedal❤
When I was building a pedal board (before I got the Helix), I wanted a pedal just like this. Oh well...................
As with all simulated amps (digital or pedal), try through a Tube Pilot or Maxon OD808 (or both) to get a bit more realism rather than post gain fx. It’s all in the oregano lol Pre gain. THEN…think about impulses and FX. This sounds a lot like a Sansamp, so I dunno. Some pedals you literally cannot change the sound no matter what you try. Seems like one of those. Probably easy to mod to open it up some. It’s made to deny certain things from happening to output the same kinda tone no matter what. Not bad, though. All sounds the same to me though, just EQ curves for presets over the same initial amp sound.
But can you still shove a Boss HM-2 Waza in front of it?
Slight tangent but what do 5150 block letters go for these days?
$100
@@tonekilltech😂😂😂
Block and Sig are the same thing
i think i just got convinced to buy the Neural Archetype Nolly plugin
Anti sounds fuller
Indeed, add the midi function and I'll sell my Engl SE Ironball and add this to my pedalboard.
Can you get kids of an 80,s rock and metal distortion out of this, or is it just geared for only high gain
Sounds great but it's over $400.00 US, for that kind of money I would much rather have something else with more of everything else.
Two UA FX pedals are more than a Line6 HX Stomp.. Yeah...
UA are the king of overpriced audio gear.
Costs like a fucking Synergy module, which is a real tube preamp, not a model.
Would you rather spend 400 on a pedal that gets you close enough...or thousands on an amp?