LIVE: Why Did Universal Audio Release Guitar Pedals? (w/ James Santiago, Tore Mogensen & Josh Smith)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Today we are diving head first into the brand new Universal Audio pedals with designer, James Santiago and special guests Tore Mogensen and Josh Smith.
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Gear List:
Featuring -
Universal Audio UAFX Astra
Universal Audio UAFX Starlight
Universal Audio UAFX Golden
Guitar Rig -
Seuf Guitars Jazzmaster
Ernie Ball VP Jr w/ Tuner
Lunastone Red Fuzz 1
JHS Morning Glory
Sovtek Mig 50
Voodoo Labs Pedal Power Mondo
Ernie Ball Cables
Bass Rig -
Nash P Bass
JHS Klon Clone
JHS Colourbox
UAD Apollo Ampeg B15
UAD LA-2A
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I like how Andy Timmons had a delay on his voice when talking about the delay. That’s some dedication to the sound!
Came here to say this. I thought it was intentional and clever. Nope, just a happy accident.
It's just life for Timmons. Keep it real.
Thought he was trying to be clever too. Hahahaha!!
Sorry, my response was delayed.
I guess im randomly asking but does someone know of a method to get back into an Instagram account?
I stupidly lost my password. I would love any tips you can give me!
I love that there are people that love this stuff so much.
I just bought the Golden and the Starlight a few days ago waiting for them to arrive, this video almost made me cry, I can't believe what i'm about to be able to play, I feel like if I was about to get a Ferrari or a Stradivarius violin, some sort of top notch quality, highest of all end stuff, and this being my first "expensive" pedals makes me burst in tears out of joy, can't thank enough to the whole uad team for the amount of effort and quality they made available to us, normal people/growing artists.
What a pleasure was to watch all of you speak with such passion about the sounds, history, and dedication you put into this pedals and the gear it's based on
And the JHS SHOW RULES!
woah! that's awesome! i hope you have lots of fun with them and that they're inspiring for lots of new music for you 💪🏼
How are they holding up 5 months later? I'm currently on the hunt for some top-notch reverb pedals. I was looking into Strymon but just came across UA recently and interested.
@@DesertSparrow I think the golden, its a good guitar pedal, I've once used a Strymon a friend owns and I think the uad performs better, although, I did not fell in love with Golden as oppose to Starlight, which is now indeed my favorite pedal I own
@@santiagorojas7195 Thanks. Appreciate the insight.
I think my fav part about this video is just seeing pro guys still geek out over music, tones, and toys after being in the game so long.
I'd totally be into a leslie by universal audio
Just amazing. Seriously, for the amount of meticulous detail that went into creating these pedals, they’re a bargain.
These are studio grade effects at a great price
I was on the fence about the UA pedals, but this video sold me.
Amazing pedals, amazing people, amazing show. Thanks to all.
Those pedals are the first $400.00 pedals that are absolutely worth every penny of that $400.00. Think about if you separated each type of reverb/delay/modulation into individual pedals; how much would you pay?? I'm buying at least 2 if not all 3 and freeing up space on my board. Thank you Josh and Josh and James and Tore for a great video and, of course, products!
Huh? Lots of pedals have many effects in them. Alexander pedals do pedals with more effects for half the price. You could actually get a REAL bbd chorus, a REAL bbd vibrato, and an analog flanger for probably less than the UA algos.
@@lastboxofsparklers Absolutely, this is my biggest complaint. Imagine paying $400 for the starlight and mostly using the DMM mode - just get an actual DMM for less $! MXR phaser is a $90 pedal - wut? The sound quality is great but you can get great analog sound quality with a cheaper analog pedal. They need to pack WAY more algos into these before the become worth it.
Exception is the Golden Reverberator.
Great content. You guys never fail to educate and entertain. Look forward to these every week. Thanks
WOW!!! Thank you Josh and the JHS crew and Universal audio. AWSOME!
This video introduced me to Josh Smith and I thank you for it
I am a massive fan of the Muffuletta (among others) and I think it would be incredible to do the same thing with tone benders!!
Maestro Fuzz - Tone Bender Mk1 - Supa Tone Bender - Fuzz Face Silcon - Fuzz Face Germanium!
Just an idea :) and if you make them, I would buy all of them
YES
Tonebender Master Race
Wow... Just wow. It is so inspiring to hear the genuine passion all you guys have for the art of sound. I loved, loved, loved this. +1 for more sound nerd insight.
That jam right before Q&A was glorious
I mean seriously, this has everything. The best players, ears, innovators, designers, the works you guys. Thanks!
I know I’m replying to my own comment but seriously, James Santiago has ears of gold.
Wow, thanks for making me feel like I’m not the only meticulous tone nerd on the planet! Well done gentleman. Can’t wait to get that memory man!
I have NEVER FORGOTTEN about the SeeSaw Josh.
This is the best demo of these pedals yet. Can’t wait for my starlight now!
That was so great! Uh James is effing brilliant! Holy moly!
Great to see Tore again it’s been too long.
The starlight is the best delay pedal I’ve ever used. I want the Golden now. Sold my Strymon flint.
I caught you guys live for a change and found my favorite pedals being used and talked about, by the creators, in a zoom of all things. Spontaneous, unpretentious, glitchy, but all was ok. Made me want to get my instrument out and jam along. What a fun treat!
Awesome video - feel privileged to be able to listen to this. Thank you JHS for organising and putting this out there. Amazing people and really appreciate you all letting James talk freely. The details are fascinating!!
10 months later I own the UA Golden and Starlight. I’ve even sold both and tried other reverb and delay pedals, I was dumb to ever sell these pedals. They contain the best emulations of the classic delay and reverb styles I’ve ever heard.
Can I get the sound of 4 people on a zoom meeting watching the same video with their mics on in a box? Andy's tone was epic!
We need more shows like this 💜🤘🎸
I think Andy Timmons has achieved a level beyond stereo.
Thoroughly enjoyed this. I had no idea how much detail and time could go in to creating a good pedal.
Glad to see James is doing so well! Haven’t seen him since the early 90’s when he and I worked for Janis Music!
This is the greatest thing ever
As a software engineer, this has such an intriguing aspect to me as well as just the nerding out on guitar tone. So enjoyable.
I have an OX and I love it, I use it with my Bogner Shiva (no cab) straight to FOH (when there were gigs).
History in the making. Nice job.
Epic show. You guys are rocking with the jams, the gear details and demos.
Could you post the whole Andy Timmons segment? I'd love to hear him play that whole DMM sound
They did a great job on these pedals. Great video!
Really enjoyed these pedals. For me, the spring reverb sound was a stand out. Thanks for a really fun and interesting demo and discussion.
These guys have the best jobs in the world, spend an obscene amount of time splitting hairs on effects... :D
Waiting the whole episode for Rhett to burst through the wall with more slide tones!
We can live without that, thank you very much.
Rhett is the luckiest beginner musician in the world
The whole video was funny, inspiring, informative, and just down right fun to watch. Keep it up and thanks for the content!!!!!!
Awe ya @tore nice shredding at the end
This was great! The video was really quite a technical feat as far as I'm concerned. Josh and James jamming with the band (kudos!) real time was special. I have about 5 UA devices in service and didn't see any point in the pedals... until this. The Eric Johnson thumbs up alone is reason alone to get at least the delay pedal, no questions asked. That guy has influenced so much, including even the picks Andy Timmons uses (or at least used). And I would love to see the AT video without the echo, so please post that separate, if you will. AT has some cool combination of EJ's complexity/accuracy/tone combined with the Hendrix's fire. One sec on Hendrix, he played with absolute fire that I think is unmatched to this day. He also played with real fire too. ;)
I need to buy those pedals!!! Sound so amazing!
I have been waiting for a modulation pedal like this for a long time. Big fan of Tore
Your best haircut in ever. Sincerely. Like it.
Love this episode!
14:33 top left screen. That’s me in my studio at least once a week. 😝
I've played through the Woodrow and the Dream65.
I like the Dream 65 better for what i'm doing in the band i'm in but both sounded insane.
The Dream 65 sounds and feels just like my Blackface Princeton and feels just like my champ breaking up.
These really are a game changer.
I love the amount of nerdiness going on here. Just fun to watch guys who know their shit talking about it.
I love it when Josh wears bike shirts. :)
I can’t wait for UA to come out with a floor unit to rival the Helix. When that happens I’ll be switching. I love the tone here. I wish they had midi in or presets.
I guess that could sound like I’m throwing shade. I’m definitely not!!! It’s just playing live I often need multiple things to change across my board at the push of one button. I love these tones and deeply appreciate the painstaking attention to detail and effort involved!!! UA is awesome for doing this, and I hope they come out with these exact same and more algorithms in a major floor unit. I’d pay!
I use Luna and all their plug ins are a cut above the rest. Especially their new instrument plug ins, they just sound better.
@@epscaling Agreed
I love josh just chicken shredding and everybody uncontrollably smiling
The Jam Sessions were great!
Hey John you should have a talk with Sean Haley.Excellent guitarist and former Line 6 promoter also worked with Steven Slate. He's got some serious guitar tones!
Nick is such a great jam session drummer. Sounds great!
Josh's new Ibanez is sweet!
The Univibe should have been the definite modulation choice
Good to see Tore again!
EP-2 is tube Josh, only 3 and 4 are solid state. You’d think a tape echo expert like you would know that.
That is a very good idea but should make it that when you register the serial of the pedal you get an unlock code that can be applied via the USB port of the pedal when connected to the computer that will unlock the pedal so you have access to all effects.
Great stuff. Surprised Tore didn’t use an OX Box into an Apollo, set up his mic and OX levels with the Console app, then set the Apollo as the mic input in Zoom. Would have been clear as day.
I just got the golden reverberator pedal in the mail and the first thing I thought was HE HAS THE BOX!
that backing track is awesome! straight out of the Nokia's first midi playable ring tone cell phone. :) Big love to UA. Sweet ass pedals.
Amazing conversation and deep dive into the meticulous pedal creation process!
You might consider using a service called "Listento". It's a VST that you place in your daw, that outputs high quality low latency audio to whoever you give the link to. Just have your guys mic their stuff up and route through any program that supports VSTs. They pass along the stream links to your sound guy, and boom; everyone can hear.
The oceans 11 does the spring reverb splatter too...totally a gimmick, but I like that it can.
The real question is WHY doesn't Universal Audio offer the real specs on this pedal? No mention of Input Impedance, Bit Rate, Sampling Frequency, Noise Floor, etc. WHY is this the new norm for companies. Do they think we have been dumbed down or are they hiding something?
Maybe because the only thing that matters is ’does it sound the way you want it to’ if they said it was 16khz or 192khz sample rate it wouldn’t make it sound different - but your opinion might change. So try it and see what you hear!
I have tried MANY reverb pedals, rack units, and software. 192Khz is way different. Yes the algorithm is important, but the tails and the artifacts associated with low sample rates is NOT my idea of Golden. @@jamesgrant3343
such f***** aaaawwwwwsome JAM at 1:24:0000..... LOVED IT!
We've got to stop people thinking that if a pedal costs more than they are willing or able to pay then it's necessarily overpriced.
Amen
Exactly. And also, just because something is cheap it must be bad. I ended up buying a Starlight and a Golden but I’ve also played cheaper pedals that are great. The MXR Carbon Copy is still a great pedal to this day and is incredibly affordable.
I want a UA Marshall Amp pedal! Come on guys! I bought the other three and an Orange Terror Stamp... You’re holding up my progress! HAHAHA! Brilliance. I adore my Dream, Ruby and Woodrow. Technology here is amazing .Cheers guys!
Yeah, this is how you do it!
Brilliant episode. They really put it in words why something is expensive and why expensive doesn't mean automatically good, but why sometimes expensive has that something. What the 1% in the sound sometimes is. Similar to Analogman stuff. Many don't care the least bit about it, they buy their $20 chinese copies and are happy. But some people can really appreciate their ear and dedication. And seeing that Robert Keeley turn up in the chat! But honestly I just want Tore to be in every interview. He's getting way too much time to do the job he likes instead of doing media.
Btw that Jackson Kelly behind Tore is super hot. And that Tiger stripe!
We totally missed James Santiago nerding out about the modulation effects.
I think what people should do is not talk when they don't know how things are done. Sometimes even when they know. It's like this phenomenon where people think they know better than doctors because they went to internet and read a random person's opinion.
Didn't think I would, but I watched this, fascinated, till the very end. Only thing I have to add is that I sold my Memory Man because I thought it was shite, after using it for a year or two.
The vocal delay moment soothed my general everyday dissociation 😂
Great Show. Thanks a lot.
Unforgettable Fire outtake.
You’re going the Lords work. Infinite karma points for JHS!
Love the nerdaciousness / nerdacity level!
Sean Michael made a great tape echo pedal The EPH3.....been a mainstay on my board for a while
One of the main (well, the only, really) complaint I've heard about the DMM is the high noise floor. AFAIK the selling point for the Strymon Brigadier was that it offered the option of doing away with the noise.
How does the Starlight deal with that? Does it have a btter signal-to-noise ratio or is it aimed at reproducing the artifacts as well?
I HATE when using this phrase when it’s just simply uncalled for HOWEVER I really do think it applies here. This whole livestream was such a vibe, from the laidback, not-at-all- serious zoom call until literally the end of the vid, such a vibe.
I desperately want them to make a compression pedal. Please make it happen guys. The LA-2A and 1176 are legendary and if they can get one or the other in a pedal I will commit unthinkable acts of desperation.
Origin fx have already done it with analog
Effectrode have already done w
PC-2A
It is great to listen to people who really know their business. Combining analog and digital electronics knowledge with good ear and mudical understanding probably only one expert in a thousand engineers. In a million would probably be too much because some would be able to work on these circuits but have a daytime job in another business. Also the reason why just throwing a massive amount of people onto the task might not give you the best result.
For the money I think I’d rather have the EHX DMM. I don’t get new pedal prices lately. Maybe I’m just getting old.
Amazing show.
I hope they come out with versions that have midi at some point. That’d make me pick these over Strymon
AT’s mic is the most meta thing ever
I picture you guys rolling, then deciding to leave it
Amazing work!! when can we expect a UA modeling pedal? ;)
The sound is great.
Ok, simple question. Pros and Cons of the Eventide H9 vs these?
Hey James. 'member when you and Art came by ADA to do the guitar cord shootout for GP? We have a few UA plugins too now!
THEN LET’S HEAR THE PEDAL, BIG SHOTS!
Josh Smith is such a beast, my lorrrd
great show..
52:40 drip
They all sound incredible, the price can suck it though.
When are we gonna get reviews of the new pedals?
Just wow.
I so want a Lexicon 480 in a pedal. And I want the pedal to be a remote control for the plug-in.
Yes please!!