Andy is one of my favorite guitarists in the world. Seriously, he is amazingly talented and his playing is always spot on. If I want to to hear an effect pedal demo I see if he has done it first.
@@gffg387 Just checked, the plugin version does not have a Dwell control, and I know I can't get the plugin version to sound like that. Maybe it's their fingers plus the added dwell, but I'm pretty sure that is not the same reverb as the plugin since it sounds completely different than the instance I am running right now...
we went from analog pedals/racks to digital simulations of the latter with digital "plugins", and now we have individual plugins inside individual pedals at disproportionately expensive prices. Eventide did the same, however it also produced the h90 which contains hundreds of these plugins at an excellent quality/quantity/price ratio. I'm hoping for something similar from Universal Audio.
@@MatthewHyatt Yep. It's 2023. Every pedal company that's going as deep into emulation as UA is going has full midi functionality built into everything. Heck, Strymon was doing it like 12 years ago.
These aren’t particularly feature rich though and generally emulate gear that predates MIDI. Whilst it’s a strange omission, being able to swap presets via an app is more useful for a lot of guitarists because most don’t have setups that use MIDI, as well as it not being the nicest protocol to use.
True. But as people have said, almost everyone else building pedals like this manages to include midi and often an app too. UA are excluding a whole bunch of users by leaving out a “standard” capability, inclusion of which would in no way disadvantage people who don’t want to use midi. V disappointed…
After watching this, the thing I want to buy is a Dunable DE since it apparently makes country, reggae, and Americana sound fantastic. Andy, you slayed on that axe!
great sounding compressor pedal but a little blown away (and correct me if i'm mistaken here) there is no way to blend uncompressed signal into the compressed signal. surprising on such a high end unit.
There's a way now to use this pedal for dual mono where Comp 1 and Comp 2 are separated. You can then set Comp 2 to be incredibly light (or none at all?) and run dual mono out into a summing device or continue the dual signal path to two amps.
@@AndyDemos And here I thought that Vini was a major influence of yours since the day Gearmandude plugged in his coily cable and put on his snakeskin boots, especially considering the way you play with the edge of your thumbnail through tape echo. I'm sure you can hear the similarity between your unique clean tone and style and Vini's playing in Durutti Column.
@@AndyDemos Cool Andy! I'm glad you're enjoying discovering The Durutti Column. Vini was a pioneer, a true artist ahead of his time and his influence is greater than many people know. He's a bit like Bill Nelson in that other people who are hugely influential like Brian Eno, U2, Radiohead, The Smiths and The Cult were all influenced by him and his good friend Martin Hannett, producer of Joy Division. Vini's story is one of triumph and tragedy. Like many genius level talents, had the music industry been more kind, a lot more people would have heard of him.
@@AndyDemos Vini is the Leonardo da Vinci of the electric guitar with "Requiem Again" and "My Country" from the 1981 Durutti Column album "LC" being his trademark compositions. Vini was way ahead of his time considering how he's using the Roland RE-201 with dual echos with only a Stratocaster plugged directly into the tape echo unit and then out into a Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus amplifier. This is where The Edge drew inspiration as well as many others who've used echo in front of their amp(s) to create a baked-in cascading atmospheric sound. Johnny Marr has sited Reilly and so has Brian Eno and Billy Duffy. It makes me wonder if any of the P&W folks know that their signature dual echo guitar sound was prototyped by an Italian Catholic.
Hmmm the source audio collider has competition with the del verb, I didn't catch if it had any on board presets but it does have just the essential standards for both delay and reverb
I still wonder why reverb on the right. I'm sure they looked at the Collider when making this and they should have figured out that it's weird having the reverb on the right.
Seems like they mixed the Golden and the Starlight together to make the Del Verb / Galaxy. I am questioning if they are the same quality as the standalone Golden and SL due to the extra features and cheaper look.
I mention this is the demo: the Del Verb has 3 algorithms from the Starlight and Golden. These are on par with the rest of the UAFX in regards to build quality 👍🏻
In my dreams - I'm already fighting with bad Blue Tooth. Oh wait.... I own the Ruby and Dream... I can fight with the bad Blue Tooth on those right now!
The Max is nothing like an SSL Fusion and LA2A’s and 1176’s are not popular choices for mastering applications. The other issue is the lack of decent GR metering for the whole ‘if you can hear it, it’s too much compression’ thing. Also consideration this is more or less UAD’s emulations in a pedal, would arguably make more sense to use those plugins rather than go through a piece of hardware to achieve the same thing and there’s a whole variety of emulations of famous bus compressors.
@@3rdStoreyChemist hi, I’m a FoH engineer and looking to give my mixes some analog warmth. I agree that the lack of metering is an issue. But if you could use the two compressors separately and its sounds good I really consider buying it.
@@maxgrymonprez77 if you’re specifically looking for a touch of saturation and not spend Fusion money, there’s always the Elektron Analog Heat and the OTO Machines BOUM, the latter also has a compressor, though not sure how well suited it for bus compression. These also feature dry/wet mixes and some tonal shaping. The emulation of the 610 preamp on the Max seems to go quite far really quickly, great for guitar, but way too aggressive for other sources/roles and appears to lack other options. As I said already, another issue is the compressors being emulated are not conventionally bus compressors. If UAD was to bring out a unit bringing their emulations into hardware, that could be really interesting!
@@3rdStoreyChemistan you do that on the way in, while tracking?That's the purpose of that pedal,to use it as a studio outboard gear for tracking,vocals, guitars,synths,drum machines,heard its not so good for bass guitars though.
@@savanaviolenta Its a guitar pedal, so therefore its not intended as studio outboard to use on line level signals. Most guitar pedals are not great in a studio applications because they are not designed with the headroom required for the levels that are involved.
"So much for hoping UA would actually expand on the pedals they've already released. It's clear that the Golden and Starlight are capable of loading new algos, but of course they're just going to make us buy whole new products. That's disappointing. Doesn't seem like they're all that interested in giving us more editing capabilities that are clearly possible based on the presets. Maybe an update is coming along with these new products?"
The design of the Astra, Golden, Starlight and Ruby was spot on and suited the high price. The visual design of the new line is awful and looks cheap and nothing like the first line. I really don't get why they went for those plastic knobs and the weird colour code. It seems like there is an other designer in charge of the new line.
Because UA can't play with high price marketing anymore due to Eventide h90. For the price of two one trick pony UA pedals, you can buy H90 with endless sound / routing options. (+ real professionals use h9 and h 90) That is why msrp of Golden series are $399 and new ones are $349.
Astra, Golden, Starlight and Ruby knobs might look fancier, but they're also plastic. At least the pots (on all of their pedals) are metal. I'm not crazy about Del-Verb and Max visuals but Galaxy looks perfectly nice IMO.
Good resonating technology, nice reverb, good compressor pedal, good harmonics, but gotta attach sensors to it for better dynamics making it much more resonating, making it to have better dynamics, much more effective and efficient.🤘✌️👍❤️
UA is a joke when it comes to pedals. Overly expensive for uninspiring overhyped pedals with less possibilities/options compared to their competitors at this price point. Only people buying them are blues lawyers with more money then common sense, peeps with to much GAS or Fanboys of their other stuff. No Midi, meanwhile strymon had midi on their pedals that are over 10 years old. PS - Love u andy
As an owner of two uafx pedals... and first time ua customer... really not sure about trusting the company. They make a lot of claims, but so far I have almost no trust in them.
El Capistan - launched in June 2010 UAD Apollo - launched in 2012, so sure that's later Roland Space Echo - launched in 1974. The Galaxy is doing Space Echo, that's its jam. The El Cap actually does Echoplex and other tape echos too. I guess they're comparable in that both are digital recreations of tape echos... but calling this an El Cap clone is a bit like calling a Gretch White Falcon a PRS clone. I mean, they're both electric guitars, so kinda? Neither was first, and they have different foci.
I don't get it. I own the Dream, Golden and Starlight. Amazing Pedals. Galaxy and Del-Verb are just limited and ugly Versions of the Golden and Starlight for almost the same price?!? The Max could be interesting, but using the Dream's Preamp, it is only a way too overpriced compressor. Was hoping for some Marshall like Preamp Stuff 🫤
The pre amp in this and the amp sims of the dream/Ruby are two different things. This gives saturation of a console pre amp. Not actual amplifier sounds. Also it’s two compressors in one that can be used together. You arnt wrong about the Del-Verb but it gives you all the best algorithms in one pedal instead of having to buy both.
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Andy is one of my favorite guitarists in the world. Seriously, he is amazingly talented and his playing is always spot on. If I want to to hear an effect pedal demo I see if he has done it first.
Thank you, I really appreciate this!
@@AndyDemos great demo, as always! Now, I need more room on my board to get these pedals!
@@AndyDemos You are welcome although I should be thanking you.😁
Great video Andy
Wow, seems like they really nailed that Space Echo sound!
It's the same thing as their old ass plugin.
@@gffg387 looks like they updated the spring reverb closer to the stuff they did for golden, sounds way better than the plugin
@@willjam3068 it's confirmed that it's same as the plugin.
@@gffg387 Just checked, the plugin version does not have a Dwell control, and I know I can't get the plugin version to sound like that. Maybe it's their fingers plus the added dwell, but I'm pretty sure that is not the same reverb as the plugin since it sounds completely different than the instance I am running right now...
not if you have played a real RE-201 .. its a digital flat approximation
we went from analog pedals/racks to digital simulations of the latter with digital "plugins", and now we have individual plugins inside individual pedals at disproportionately expensive prices. Eventide did the same, however it also produced the h90 which contains hundreds of these plugins at an excellent quality/quantity/price ratio.
I'm hoping for something similar from Universal Audio.
Awesome intro track!! So good!
Andy has too much fun! Great playing, great sounds.
Big UA fan, and they almost had me with these. But pedals this feature-rich with no MIDI makes no sense at all.
I agree. Even though I don't care for midi I see the benefits
guess thats what the app is for, they probably don't want it to compete with their plugins
@@MatthewHyatt Yep. It's 2023. Every pedal company that's going as deep into emulation as UA is going has full midi functionality built into everything. Heck, Strymon was doing it like 12 years ago.
These aren’t particularly feature rich though and generally emulate gear that predates MIDI. Whilst it’s a strange omission, being able to swap presets via an app is more useful for a lot of guitarists because most don’t have setups that use MIDI, as well as it not being the nicest protocol to use.
True. But as people have said, almost everyone else building pedals like this manages to include midi and often an app too. UA are excluding a whole bunch of users by leaving out a “standard” capability, inclusion of which would in no way disadvantage people who don’t want to use midi. V disappointed…
8:30 sounds like "Hero" by Michael Kiwanuka. Very cool!
Andy makes everything sound good. But damn those are sweet.
After watching this, the thing I want to buy is a Dunable DE since it apparently makes country, reggae, and Americana sound fantastic. Andy, you slayed on that axe!
Forever impressive. Everything in perfect professional and lay-terms. 👏 👏
great sounding compressor pedal but a little blown away (and correct me if i'm mistaken here) there is no way to blend uncompressed signal into the compressed signal. surprising on such a high end unit.
There's a way now to use this pedal for dual mono where Comp 1 and Comp 2 are separated. You can then set Comp 2 to be incredibly light (or none at all?) and run dual mono out into a summing device or continue the dual signal path to two amps.
Yeah - these days ANY compressor without a clean blend is just a ridiculously glaring omission - pass 👎💩
At first glance before watching the video I thought the Max was UA doing a Sonic Maximizer and I lol’d
No presets yet?
Great stuff Andy . The Max is on my list ,fer sure .
Nice quote of Vini Reilly, Andy
Hey thank you! I actually had not heard his music before but you got me listening to The Durutti Column today!
@@AndyDemos And here I thought that Vini was a major influence of yours since the day Gearmandude plugged in his coily cable and put on his snakeskin boots, especially considering the way you play with the edge of your thumbnail through tape echo. I'm sure you can hear the similarity between your unique clean tone and style and Vini's playing in Durutti Column.
@@BobGuido Yes, I totally get the comparison now! Love what I'm hearing so far, better late than never I guess. Thanks again!
@@AndyDemos Cool Andy! I'm glad you're enjoying discovering The Durutti Column. Vini was a pioneer, a true artist ahead of his time and his influence is greater than many people know. He's a bit like Bill Nelson in that other people who are hugely influential like Brian Eno, U2, Radiohead, The Smiths and The Cult were all influenced by him and his good friend Martin Hannett, producer of Joy Division. Vini's story is one of triumph and tragedy. Like many genius level talents, had the music industry been more kind, a lot more people would have heard of him.
@@AndyDemos Vini is the Leonardo da Vinci of the electric guitar with "Requiem Again" and "My Country" from the 1981 Durutti Column album "LC" being his trademark compositions. Vini was way ahead of his time considering how he's using the Roland RE-201 with dual echos with only a Stratocaster plugged directly into the tape echo unit and then out into a Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus amplifier. This is where The Edge drew inspiration as well as many others who've used echo in front of their amp(s) to create a baked-in cascading atmospheric sound. Johnny Marr has sited Reilly and so has Brian Eno and Billy Duffy. It makes me wonder if any of the P&W folks know that their signature dual echo guitar sound was prototyped by an Italian Catholic.
looks like i need that MAX pedals for my collection
The UA Max is very special
Came here for Andy’s invisible pick.
Y?
I came for the Rory Gallagher shirt
Hmmm the source audio collider has competition with the del verb, I didn't catch if it had any on board presets but it does have just the essential standards for both delay and reverb
No presets
I still wonder why reverb on the right. I'm sure they looked at the Collider when making this and they should have figured out that it's weird having the reverb on the right.
All buttons in? Where’s the XLR I/O!!!
Beware! Andy can make a half opened can of Sardines sound great on a pedal board. 😅
Seems like they mixed the Golden and the Starlight together to make the Del Verb / Galaxy. I am questioning if they are the same quality as the standalone Golden and SL due to the extra features and cheaper look.
Pretty sure it's based on their Galaxy Tape Echo plugin which emulates the classic Roland RE-201 Space Echo.
You mean the del verb
I mention this is the demo: the Del Verb has 3 algorithms from the Starlight and Golden. These are on par with the rest of the UAFX in regards to build quality 👍🏻
@@troy8420 Yes, but both really, the Galaxy has one reverb rather than 3 algorithms.
Does the Del-Verb have the same Golden Reverberator sounds?
Think of it as Golden's greatest hits!
@@UniversalAudio Thank you
The carbon copy sounds great!
Volante is better for simulated tape delay imo
Did I hear boards of Canada for sec?
Andy the GOAT!
In my dreams - I'm already fighting with bad Blue Tooth. Oh wait.... I own the Ruby and Dream... I can fight with the bad Blue Tooth on those right now!
Do they take line in? I'm thinking about the Max pedal as an insert on group? cheap ssl fusion alternative?
The Max is nothing like an SSL Fusion and LA2A’s and 1176’s are not popular choices for mastering applications. The other issue is the lack of decent GR metering for the whole ‘if you can hear it, it’s too much compression’ thing.
Also consideration this is more or less UAD’s emulations in a pedal, would arguably make more sense to use those plugins rather than go through a piece of hardware to achieve the same thing and there’s a whole variety of emulations of famous bus compressors.
@@3rdStoreyChemist hi, I’m a FoH engineer and looking to give my mixes some analog warmth. I agree that the lack of metering is an issue. But if you could use the two compressors separately and its sounds good I really consider buying it.
@@maxgrymonprez77 if you’re specifically looking for a touch of saturation and not spend Fusion money, there’s always the Elektron Analog Heat and the OTO Machines BOUM, the latter also has a compressor, though not sure how well suited it for bus compression. These also feature dry/wet mixes and some tonal shaping.
The emulation of the 610 preamp on the Max seems to go quite far really quickly, great for guitar, but way too aggressive for other sources/roles and appears to lack other options.
As I said already, another issue is the compressors being emulated are not conventionally bus compressors. If UAD was to bring out a unit bringing their emulations into hardware, that could be really interesting!
@@3rdStoreyChemistan you do that on the way in, while tracking?That's the purpose of that pedal,to use it as a studio outboard gear for tracking,vocals, guitars,synths,drum machines,heard its not so good for bass guitars though.
@@savanaviolenta Its a guitar pedal, so therefore its not intended as studio outboard to use on line level signals.
Most guitar pedals are not great in a studio applications because they are not designed with the headroom required for the levels that are involved.
This man must showcase his personal pedal collection.
I imagine he has a great amount of good personal stuff.
check out his personal channel, he showcases some more obscure stuff
@@DolemiteSammich thanks. I'll do search for it. 👍
@@DolemiteSammich Much appreciated!
"So much for hoping UA would actually expand on the pedals they've already released. It's clear that the Golden and Starlight are capable of loading new algos, but of course they're just going to make us buy whole new products. That's disappointing. Doesn't seem like they're all that interested in giving us more editing capabilities that are clearly possible based on the presets. Maybe an update is coming along with these new products?"
my only gripe: 400mA power supply required.
Strymon zuma
@@cour1988 yes! I have a nuclear reactor connected to my Zuma 😂
long live andy
The design of the Astra, Golden, Starlight and Ruby was spot on and suited the high price. The visual design of the new line is awful and looks cheap and nothing like the first line. I really don't get why they went for those plastic knobs and the weird colour code. It seems like there is an other designer in charge of the new line.
Because UA can't play with high price marketing anymore due to Eventide h90. For the price of two one trick pony UA pedals, you can buy H90 with endless sound / routing options. (+ real professionals use h9 and h 90) That is why msrp of Golden series are $399 and new ones are $349.
Astra, Golden, Starlight and Ruby knobs might look fancier, but they're also plastic. At least the pots (on all of their pedals) are metal. I'm not crazy about Del-Verb and Max visuals but Galaxy looks perfectly nice IMO.
Don`t like these knobs. Why did they changed them ?
Cheaper... 😞
Galaxy...well, kind of... Del-Verb, some day, maybe? Max Preamp-yes, yes, yes!!! :-)
No midi yet, It is a shame. would have been the perfect pedals
Well I’ll be..
Good resonating technology, nice reverb, good compressor pedal, good harmonics, but gotta attach sensors to it for better dynamics making it much more resonating, making it to have better dynamics, much more effective and efficient.🤘✌️👍❤️
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UA is a joke when it comes to pedals. Overly expensive for uninspiring overhyped pedals with less possibilities/options compared to their competitors at this price point. Only people buying them are blues lawyers with more money then common sense, peeps with to much GAS or Fanboys of their other stuff. No Midi, meanwhile strymon had midi on their pedals that are over 10 years old.
PS - Love u andy
fr ong
As an owner of two uafx pedals... and first time ua customer... really not sure about trusting the company. They make a lot of claims, but so far I have almost no trust in them.
No tap, no preset, and MONO?! No thanks
No presets nor tap tempo? Nah, dog
Both delays have a tap switch...
@@jessebell03 ok, well, but no expression or presets or midi, correct?
@@baseboardmatt there are presets but you need to use an app. Negative on midi and expression input.
Oh boy an El cap clone, can you say money grab
It's almost like when you make a pedal based on a vintage tape delay, it is going to share features 🤔
@@autumnnull6133 Oy vey
El Capistan - launched in June 2010
UAD Apollo - launched in 2012, so sure that's later
Roland Space Echo - launched in 1974.
The Galaxy is doing Space Echo, that's its jam. The El Cap actually does Echoplex and other tape echos too.
I guess they're comparable in that both are digital recreations of tape echos... but calling this an El Cap clone is a bit like calling a Gretch White Falcon a PRS clone. I mean, they're both electric guitars, so kinda? Neither was first, and they have different foci.
I can literally feel my brain rot from just reading this shit post. You are such a Colin Robinson.
Um, no
I despise the fact that they require you to register each pedal to unlock features.
The knobs look horrible
Had four UA pedals
They all went back. I don't like the tone.
Oy boy a Roland Space Echo clone, can you say money grab?
I don't get it. I own the Dream, Golden and Starlight. Amazing Pedals. Galaxy and Del-Verb are just limited and ugly Versions of the Golden and Starlight for almost the same price?!? The Max could be interesting, but using the Dream's Preamp, it is only a way too
overpriced compressor. Was hoping for some Marshall like Preamp Stuff 🫤
The pre amp in this and the amp sims of the dream/Ruby are two different things. This gives saturation of a console pre amp. Not actual amplifier sounds. Also it’s two compressors in one that can be used together. You arnt wrong about the Del-Verb but it gives you all the best algorithms in one pedal instead of having to buy both.
I agree with you in everything