Leave it to UA to finally drop some really good blackface cleans in a box. To me it seems like the most difficult sound to emulate well. Especially for the price.
Great job on the Dream 65. Amazing model of the most recorded amp in history. You need to play with the Ruby some more. The AC30 was a unique and brilliant design. Folks need not be afraid to crank the treble and/or bass controls to the extremes then adjust the cut control to compensate. Every control on those amps is important to the voicing. You'd be surprised how pristine and how much usable overdrive one can get from an AC30. Hank Marvin with the Shadows got amazing tones from the AC30. Brain May, the Beatles, and even Slash recorded with this classic amplifier.
I have an Iridium and a Flint as well as a real 1970s Vibrochamp and Fender spring reverb tank, so it’s hard to justify, but man this thing sounds so good. The Fender sound is my sound, so I can definitely see myself caving. Maybe I can last until Christmas. Lol.
It certainly doesn't require a degree in psychology to notice that are in love with the dream machine ! It could have been your signature "amp in a box". They all sounded excellent to me, so great work UA
May be a dumb question, but do you just plug in a pedal like this to any old amp (I have a spark) just as you would any other pedal, or what do people typically play these amp modelers through?
Is not supposed to go thru a real amp. For casually players, headphone output or audio interface on computer. For people bands, go to PA system or a FRFR (flat response) speaker that can even look like an amp.
Yes, you can plug straight in, but if connecting to an amp it is preferable to plug in the fx loop. 4 wire method. The pedal is more to be an amp in itself for the studio or plugging into a pa/mixer/headphone pre.
My Ruby arrived and it does clean early Beatles tone with ease. I was very worried because I haven’t liked any demos of it. You’ll have to try one, people. I can’t wait to get the Woodrow.
Thank you so much for this video. I actually wanted the Woodrow because I play '60s style soul and wanted something that got me closer to that Steve Cropper/Stax tone. Granted, he used a Harvard, not a Deluxe. But every video I watched on it was guys with strats, or some kind of humbucker pickup equipped guitar, cranking the Woodrow up and complaining about how hard it is to get a sound out of it, and saying how limited it is and none of the videos showed me what I wanted and so I gave up and decided I'd watch a few Dream 65 videos and most likely I'd get that. The first I watched was from Sweetwater, and he played enough clean stuff that I was starting to think "yeah...maybe". Yours was the second one I played and 5 minutes in you sold me. I was down. I mean, I kept watching but after five minutes I opened another tab and dropped that in a cart to buy online. I kept watching more out of curiosity but I was already sold. But then you switched to the Tele (which is what I use mostly) and at 44:02, you did a quick cut in your edit and suddenly you started playing something that sounded like the intro to Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" and for about 15 seconds you played me exactly what I wanted to hear in all those other Woodrow videos. Of course then you went like all the others and kept trying to play with the dirt. But that's cool. That's you. But you did change my mind and now the Dream 65 is something I'll look into buying later. The Woodrow's in the cart and for that I thank you again.
These pedals sound great, especially the Dream 65 and Woodrow. Great for recording and maybe live as well (you can never tell that until you try it). I expect these pedals to be a big hit. I can tell this is an honest from the heart appraisal, the wide eyes and the salivation! :)
This stuff really makes me reconsider my rig. I have a Deluxe Reverb and AC30 that I can't put above 3 or my neighbors flip their shit, so I'm mostly playing into a Boss Waza tube amp expander, often just with headphones. It's so much stuff. And like $3000 if I sold it.... When this sounds as good as it does, it's beyond difficult for me to justify all that stuff when I only record, no gigs.
Absolutely. I haven't played a gig in years, and only record at home. Why not go direct when it sounds good? Who cares if it isn't an "authentic" amp. Who knows other than you?
I have Traynor and my Princeton into some doodads attenuator or even re-amp setup just to enjoy them without neighbours going bonkers. This is a killer tool. I'll pump it into the PC, or perhaps some Class-D headphone amp. Ordered.
The good fellows at UA did he best job imaginable. This platform they have developed can do any amp. They picked 3 iconic amps. Incredible job on the demo as well.
FYI, Universal Audio recommends plugging both male ends of this cable into the two stereo outputs, then low impedance headphones into the female port of the cable. I’ve done this with my Woodrow ‘55 and it works great. www.amazon.com/dp/B07WSNGLG7?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_JNNC5KKT4A3B6ARFA0G7
I’m pretty sure UA have done a great job, because these pedals nail all the tonal aspects for which I would go for a Marshall over any of the amps modeled by them.
Guys guys guys I'm so excited, I'm gonna leave this comment under every Dream65 review I can find. No idea why they don't advertise this more clearly, but you CAN indeed use headphones with it. I bought a little 8$ adapter cable (Y-cable, two quarter inch inputs to one mini output), and it drives my Sennheisers (HD25) fine. No idea if there are cans this won't work with, but it worked great for me.
I am pretty happy with my Walrus ACS1, but I always just have them on the Fender setting and don't utilize the different cabs/amp types on the separate outputs. Having this guy where it focuses on being the best fender amp in the box thing seems like a better fit. Having an Apollo X4 interface, I've been really impressed with everything UA I've touched from the interface to UAD plug-in stuff. Wasn't sure how you might compare the two? I also really appreciate how you showed it before drives. I felt my amp sim was about gassed out, but that is now apparently been completely fucked and it's all your fault. Great vid and will have to try this out soon.
Having seen Sweetwater and Andy's demos of these pedals, I couldn't wait to see you play the 65 because I knew you'd turn into a teenager again with joy. They should give you one free just for how the pedal made you.
I’ve got one on the way. I told them if they didn’t give me one I’d buy it. Thankfully they are giving me one lol. I would have bought it without blinking though.
Love all the current direct recording technology. It really sounds authentic. So simple too. Don't get me wrong, still love my combos for everything but recording, but sure aint missing all the fuss associated w/ mic placement and isolation.
The English guy in the Sweetwater video did a much better job with the Ruby. It sounds very good there, although he wasn't using ANY Fender guitars, which is weird demo-ing an amp thats emulating a Vox!. You'd never know how good the Ruby is from this demo here. I have a feeling that best demo of the Ruby is yet to come. The Dream 65 sounds great in the demos I've seen. I have to say, It's very tempting to go this route (DSP models) when recording. So much simpler.
Just picked up one of these because of this review! It takes OD's and distortions like a champ. Even running a Revv G3 into it sounds pretty good. Also running a Line 6 DL4 post pedal sounds great.
Oh man...the reverb alone has almost sold me on the Dream 65...Wasn't even looking for another pedal but after listening to an A/B with a real Deluxe in another vid I mean cmon! I sincerely feel your pain that the pedals were just loaners from Sweetwater. Hope you were able to get one of your own 65's at least. Classic comment after the trem test--"uh yeah--Demo's Over!" I've never owned a Deluxe but have played through a couple of them over the years and loved them. Lately have been feeling I really should get one. Or is it NEED one? This has completely knocked me out. Early Christmas present anyone? ha ha. Thanks for the great demo Ryan!
@@60CycleHumcast Glad to hear that-yes! It was really nice to see how much you enjoyed playing through it, the last time I checked isn't guitar playing supposed to be a pleasure as well as out and out fun? The sustain seems to be quite nice as well-for days! That's really important in my book. Lately I've been checking out the Kemper videos heavily because I'm unhappy with my IK MM Amplitude 5,. All of the different reverbs are a bit underwhelming, often no real sustain and I spend ridiculous amounts of time tweaking tones. Would rather just play you know? I'd pretty much made up my mind that the Kemper would be my next major purchase.Then I heard the Dream 65. Still on the fence a bit but leaning more towards the Universal Audio. I'll definitely check out your other shootout video.
Same here....great sound but i will never consider buying something that is great at only "one" thing but cost too much. I will stick to my NuX Amp Academy & my Boss MS3....but this still is a great pedal & if u can afford & justifies the high cost, why not. This is just my own personal opinion only.....🙏
You were gutting the tone on Ruby where you had the Bass and Treble knobs. Those are cuts, not boosts... the knobs behave backwards from traditional knob behavior if you didn't already know this. And crank the Boost (top boost)... it needs it. Cheers.
Brilliant demo. Trust UA to truly capture the tonal essence of these amplifiers. When they announced they were moving into pedals, I was skeptical. Not any more. I own the Starlight, Astra and Golden pedals after being blown away when I demoed them. I predicted that they would bring out some amp sim pedals soon, but I wasn't expecting them to be released this quickly and I certainly wasn't expecting them to sound so gorgeous. Wow. The only problem is I have to save up $1200 for these three delightful musketeers!
For those who tried the Dream 65: having tried with pedals, I think it only sounds good when the volume is 9h or below. Above 9h, you start to get a Fender amp distortion, which sounds nice by it's own, but I think it "modifies" the sound of the other pedal too much (I've tried Origin Revival drive compact, Jackson Audio Golden Boy and a RAt clone). Do you guys experienced something like that?
I have and they sound great. It also gives you a second amp channel when you have the pedal engaged you have the preamp of the pedal, and when you disengage the pedal, it reverts back to the preamp of the amp, you’re plugged into you use the four cable, method and disable the speaker cabinet on the pedal
Why is there an English greenback speaker that did not exist in the USA in 1965 Fender type pedal and no JBL D120F (F for Fender) which did exist and was a Fender option in the 1960s? EVs were a later option for some Fender amps. Oxfords were common lowest bidder Fender speakers as were Jensen, Utah Coil & CTS.
I got the Dream and the Ruby. I love the AC-30 and really think the Ruby will be great, but like you...the Dream was so wonderful I haven't gotten past it. I play in a band that covers 60's thru 90's and the Dream blows away my Helix (even though I love my Helix). As soon as I plugged up the Dream at rehearsal the keyboard player jumped around his keys and said that my sound was wonderful!! It is really nice to have an emulation pedal that does one thing great and has pots similar to a real amp.
have also a helix that i like and now buyed the ruby and the dream ...i am absolute blown away how the uafx pedals sound and feel ...you can get very good sounds out of the helix but the feel is a lot more tube like with the uafx pedals and they also take pedals very well 😉
399 is a lot for a pedal but relatively it's fairly priced along with the competition. The strymon iridium, boss ir 200 and the walrus audio acs1 are all 399, with the "cheaper" option being the nux amp academy. These prices are not so bad considering they are potentially replacing axfx and Kemper units that go for 1000+ used.
I got a Dream 65 and I love it... and I've only begun to explore the possibilities. :) I'm curious if you bought one how it's working for you, how you like it, and how you use it in your own music.
Great video. It’s a lot like Alice In Wonderland-the first half soars, the second half just doesn’t lift off. I noticed that you misunderstood the tone controls on the Ruby. They cut when turned clockwise. You had all the treble rolled off when you when trying cabs and I could tell it messed with your ears. I would recut the video and try again on a fresh day with each pedal. In other words, make this a three part series. Even if you don’t spend a lot of time on the others it’s cool because the Dream65 portion was outstanding.
You should check out the Koch 63'OD pedal. Fender based tube preamp with excellent speaker emulation on the XLR out. I've been using them for years. I'll check the UA out based on this review...
I hope my comment don’t hurt anyone or cause a problem, I bough this pedal 2 days ago and last night I had a casino gig and I was very happy cuz I wanted to play my analog board amp less : The clean sounds amazing very good Regular overdrives like screamers very good but when I used the high gain distortion jhs angry Charlie ect it sounded terreble and skinny and the delays get lost too on leads. Only clean was cool. So I’m disappointed cuz the pedal only works well on clean and by itself . I going to the store give it back no point for me use this , the boss got-1 directly sounds 100 times better . So if you only wanna studio work it should be fine but for live and big analog board it went really bad for me.
Does this sound better than UA computer plugins? They seemed to lavk something for me. Not sure if this sounds better because of the setup in this vid or it sounds that good on a line out?
Sounds good but crazy expensive. Most pedal makers have similar at half the price. Why does UA think a pedal should be such a high fraction on the cost of real amp?
In one of the other videos the UA rep talked a little bit about this. Most digital pedal companies spread all the DSP across as many sounds as they can fit in. Whereas UA’s philosophy is to use all the DSP on one sound and make it sound as as phenomenal as possible. Technically you’re getting two complete amps in stereo. My Dream will be here today and I am pumped!
Nah. That DSP line is bumpkis. You can allocate DSP to the current model and still allow model switching. You're paying $400 for a single model (chip with software) and 30 bucks of hardware. Overpriced, UAD is trying to get rich off a software model of someone else's amp (Fender, Vox, Marshall). Stupid to pay through the nose for a single model.
I disagree pretty strongly. I think it's a super accurate amount of drip, at least compared to my '65 DRRI. My first thought when hearing that was "Wow, it actually gets into the insanity level of drip like mine does."
@@HeelBJC there can be variation between reverb drums in the same model amp due to spring pan models changing over time and other components. One of my princetons drips way more than the other.
They sound phenomenal. Woodrow would be amazing for stoner rock/ metal. I see why you love the Dream and I'd choose it as my fav too. The price is in a category where I'd just buy HX stomp (I already have it) or any other multi-effect processor. Mind I'm from Latvia where price comes before quality. I don't know if that emulation is analog or digital. With analog emulation, the price could be justified.
NIce job.. I realize you just got these, but I wish someone would explain how the presets work. How to clear them or call them up. I am not sure how many presets this thing has. It is not in the manual, that I can tell.
I have a RI Fender Twin Reverb and a late 70s Fender Dual Showman Reverb head. This is the first stomp box that actually comes pretty close to the sound of these amps. And it doesn’t weigh 65 pounds or more. I think it’d be a lot easier to get up and down my basement stairs.
Great demo! In an unrelated question, I really like that shade of blue that you painted your walls. Would you mind sharing which paint you used (make/name)? Thanks.
Okay so when I first watched the video the Dream 65 wasn't available yet. Just saw it today and nabbed one. Ryan go get yours now, before they run out. Yes I use the affiliate. LoL
So might be a stupid question, but I have a Marshall SV20H and I have a hard time with getting a good clean sound. Would using the 4 cable method with this pedal into the loop allow me to essentially have a fender and a Marshall in one rig?
If you plan on plugging straight into the Marshall with this pedal in the fx loop, no matter what you do you’ll still have that dirty Marshall tone because of the preamp. If you plug straight into this pedal and go into the fx return you could perhaps still get a clean tone but you’ll also need to bypass the cab sim in the pedal. Hope that helps.
I don’t think the previous reply is right if you go 4 cable method into your Marshall amps effects loop, when you engage the pedal it bypasses the Marshalls preamp when you disengage the pedal, it reverts back to the preamp of the Marshall giving you two completely different amp channels like the previous reply, said be sure to disengage the speaker cabinet on the pedal
Videos like this unfortunately brought me to buying all 3 of these terrible amp sims at once….and then selling quickly before nobody wanted them. Lots missing on them…good sound quality with a crap operating system and no flexibility is not a good product. Notice Ryan doesn’t have them chained together….maybe we should ask UA why?
I don’t have them chained together because they are power hungry little beasts and the power supply I use on my desk only has one outlet that works with them. Power issues have been my main criticism of the line since. If you watch my video of the new tc pedal I mention that a lot.
What I'm confused about and no one discusses, is this powered like Blackstars amped series? Can it just be plugged into a cabinet, I'm old school so idk alot about silent stages and everyone has ear monitors in. Anyone, please describe the ways you would use this live. Thanks!
Maybe they come up with a break-out box of sorts for these (i.e. a small line mixer with switchable 76 compressor, „vintage mode“ (Neve sim) and DI, thru and HP Out), it will be $399 hahaha @UA you heard it here first, guys!
When you consider it’s a full amp, reverb and tremolo replacement it’s really not that bad. I run direct live all the time so it’s a no brainer for me.
So The Surf Junkies currently bring a third amp to all gigs as a redundant backup. Maybe we just bring a Dream pedal and also use it for fly rig gigs. Hmmm…very tempting indeed especially with that legit sounding drip!
I have a real 65 (use it with the OX) and I'm not really impressed by the UA 65 tone right into the mixer/audio interface,too thinny/ unorganic...at least in this vid.. maybe the pedal into the front end of a clean tube amp will bring better results...
Hey Ryan!! Awesome vid!! Thanks for showcasing the pedals so masterfully!
He's definitely sold me.
I watched this demo,and purchased one immediately. What a fantastic pedal.
It's really hard to find a good demo about the Dream 65 but this one is by far one of the better ones. Thanks a lot for that.
Leave it to UA to finally drop some really good blackface cleans in a box. To me it seems like the most difficult sound to emulate well. Especially for the price.
@YouStink lol
Great job on the Dream 65. Amazing model of the most recorded amp in history. You need to play with the Ruby some more. The AC30 was a unique and brilliant design. Folks need not be afraid to crank the treble and/or bass controls to the extremes then adjust the cut control to compensate. Every control on those amps is important to the voicing. You'd be surprised how pristine and how much usable overdrive one can get from an AC30. Hank Marvin with the Shadows got amazing tones from the AC30. Brain May, the Beatles, and even Slash recorded with this classic amplifier.
I have an Iridium and a Flint as well as a real 1970s Vibrochamp and Fender spring reverb tank, so it’s hard to justify, but man this thing sounds so good. The Fender sound is my sound, so I can definitely see myself caving. Maybe I can last until Christmas. Lol.
How do they fit the tubes in that thing?
It certainly doesn't require a degree in psychology to notice that are in love with the dream machine ! It could have been your signature "amp in a box". They all sounded excellent to me, so great work UA
May be a dumb question, but do you just plug in a pedal like this to any old amp (I have a spark) just as you would any other pedal, or what do people typically play these amp modelers through?
Is not supposed to go thru a real amp. For casually players, headphone output or audio interface on computer. For people bands, go to PA system or a FRFR (flat response) speaker that can even look like an amp.
Yes, you can plug straight in, but if connecting to an amp it is preferable to plug in the fx loop. 4 wire method.
The pedal is more to be an amp in itself for the studio or plugging into a pa/mixer/headphone pre.
I have the spark go and I plug my Woodrow straight in and use headphones sounds great
Fantastic review, love your enthusiasm!
My Ruby arrived and it does clean early Beatles tone with ease. I was very worried because I haven’t liked any demos of it. You’ll have to try one, people. I can’t wait to get the Woodrow.
My ear took me to the 65 Dream too. Mine will be here Friday! Great review. And man the spring reverb is freaky spot on!
43:40 "I'm sure someone out there loves that sound...." ✋ You may have just sold me on the Woodrow 😅
Thank you so much for this video. I actually wanted the Woodrow because I play '60s style soul and wanted something that got me closer to that Steve Cropper/Stax tone. Granted, he used a Harvard, not a Deluxe. But every video I watched on it was guys with strats, or some kind of humbucker pickup equipped guitar, cranking the Woodrow up and complaining about how hard it is to get a sound out of it, and saying how limited it is and none of the videos showed me what I wanted and so I gave up and decided I'd watch a few Dream 65 videos and most likely I'd get that. The first I watched was from Sweetwater, and he played enough clean stuff that I was starting to think "yeah...maybe". Yours was the second one I played and 5 minutes in you sold me. I was down. I mean, I kept watching but after five minutes I opened another tab and dropped that in a cart to buy online. I kept watching more out of curiosity but I was already sold. But then you switched to the Tele (which is what I use mostly) and at 44:02, you did a quick cut in your edit and suddenly you started playing something that sounded like the intro to Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" and for about 15 seconds you played me exactly what I wanted to hear in all those other Woodrow videos. Of course then you went like all the others and kept trying to play with the dirt. But that's cool. That's you. But you did change my mind and now the Dream 65 is something I'll look into buying later. The Woodrow's in the cart and for that I thank you again.
These pedals sound great, especially the Dream 65 and Woodrow. Great for recording and maybe live as well (you can never tell that until you try it). I expect these pedals to be a big hit. I can tell this is an honest from the heart appraisal, the wide eyes and the salivation! :)
This stuff really makes me reconsider my rig. I have a Deluxe Reverb and AC30 that I can't put above 3 or my neighbors flip their shit, so I'm mostly playing into a Boss Waza tube amp expander, often just with headphones. It's so much stuff. And like $3000 if I sold it.... When this sounds as good as it does, it's beyond difficult for me to justify all that stuff when I only record, no gigs.
Couldn't agree with you more!
Absolutely. I haven't played a gig in years, and only record at home. Why not go direct when it sounds good? Who cares if it isn't an "authentic" amp. Who knows other than you?
I have Traynor and my Princeton into some doodads attenuator or even re-amp setup just to enjoy them without neighbours going bonkers. This is a killer tool. I'll pump it into the PC, or perhaps some Class-D headphone amp. Ordered.
I'm also looking at a tube amp in the corner that would cover the asking price for a Dream and a Marshall flavour if they released it...
The HX Stomp offers this and so much more, just to toss another wrench in. That little box replaced an entire rig.
Sorry if this is a dumb question! Can this power a speaker on it's own?
Dtex isn’t Dumble, it’s Diaz, for Caesar Diaz
YEP! I guessed and guessed wrong, I thought it stood for "Dumble - Texas" as some sort of reference to SRV.
@@60CycleHumcast diaz is an sr reference
@@60CycleHumcast you got SRV right… but Caesar Diaz was his guy also
Caesar was. Gentleman..and worked on SRV amps..A Genius..met him several times
Excellent deep dive! Thanks, Ryan.
I love how choppy/hard clipping the tremolo is in the Dream, sounds fantastic. Reminds me of the EQD Hummingbird more than anything else.
The good fellows at UA did he best job imaginable. This platform they have developed can do any amp. They picked 3 iconic amps. Incredible job on the demo as well.
I'm sold. Just got the Dream at Sweetwater. Gonna let me get all my Fender tonez without having to mic up the Twin Reverb. Such a good amp in a box.
Not to mention carrying that heavy-assed amp around.
Sounds awesome! Not to complain or anything but if it had a headphone out, it would be the most magic practice device!
FYI, Universal Audio recommends plugging both male ends of this cable into the two stereo outputs, then low impedance headphones into the female port of the cable. I’ve done this with my Woodrow ‘55 and it works great. www.amazon.com/dp/B07WSNGLG7?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_JNNC5KKT4A3B6ARFA0G7
@@MRMClips amazing, thank you!
I’m pretty sure UA have done a great job, because these pedals nail all the tonal aspects for which I would go for a Marshall over any of the amps modeled by them.
Really amazing that this is from the pedal. The only thing that gets me is I think the tremolo is a bit too choppy
Guys guys guys I'm so excited, I'm gonna leave this comment under every Dream65 review I can find. No idea why they don't advertise this more clearly, but you CAN indeed use headphones with it. I bought a little 8$ adapter cable (Y-cable, two quarter inch inputs to one mini output), and it drives my Sennheisers (HD25) fine. No idea if there are cans this won't work with, but it worked great for me.
I am pretty happy with my Walrus ACS1, but I always just have them on the Fender setting and don't utilize the different cabs/amp types on the separate outputs. Having this guy where it focuses on being the best fender amp in the box thing seems like a better fit. Having an Apollo X4 interface, I've been really impressed with everything UA I've touched from the interface to UAD plug-in stuff. Wasn't sure how you might compare the two?
I also really appreciate how you showed it before drives. I felt my amp sim was about gassed out, but that is now apparently been completely fucked and it's all your fault.
Great vid and will have to try this out soon.
Having seen Sweetwater and Andy's demos of these pedals, I couldn't wait to see you play the 65 because I knew you'd turn into a teenager again with joy. They should give you one free just for how the pedal made you.
I’ve got one on the way. I told them if they didn’t give me one I’d buy it. Thankfully they are giving me one lol. I would have bought it without blinking though.
@@60CycleHumcast you deserve it! You are the guru of spring reverb good sir!
@@60CycleHumcast There is some justice in the world
Bought by The Edge for the Sphere shows. Im guessing that if you use in ear monitoring and go straight to pa these are the dream
Love all the current direct recording technology. It really sounds authentic. So simple too. Don't get me wrong, still love my combos for everything but recording, but sure aint missing all the fuss associated w/ mic placement and isolation.
No, it doesn't sound authentic... but yeah... it's great... but not authentic sounding
@@Subtle-System You may be right. It might sound better than my mic and iso cab.
At last, something that really sounds way better than an American Sound + a decent IR! 😁
The English guy in the Sweetwater video did a much better job with the Ruby. It sounds very good there, although he wasn't using ANY Fender guitars, which is weird demo-ing an amp thats emulating a Vox!. You'd never know how good the Ruby is from this demo here. I have a feeling that best demo of the Ruby is yet to come. The Dream 65 sounds great in the demos I've seen. I have to say, It's very tempting to go this route (DSP models) when recording. So much simpler.
tweed sound is most underrated amp tone
Ryan after watching your review I bought one myself this week . It's on it way thanks for the great review!
What would happen if I plugged A DREAM 65 into the front or fx loop of a Orange Thunderverb 200 head? Would the orange colour it?
The clipping in the woodrow sounds like speaker and cab noise from a tiny combo cranked. Pretty neat.
Just picked up one of these because of this review! It takes OD's and distortions like a champ. Even running a Revv G3 into it sounds pretty good. Also running a Line 6 DL4 post pedal sounds great.
2:33 😂😂 Great review!
This is a great review thank you.😎👍
Oh man...the reverb alone has almost sold me on the Dream 65...Wasn't even looking for another pedal but after listening to an A/B with a real Deluxe in another vid I mean cmon! I sincerely feel your pain that the pedals were just loaners from Sweetwater. Hope you were able to get one of your own 65's at least. Classic comment after the trem test--"uh yeah--Demo's Over!" I've never owned a Deluxe but have played through a couple of them over the years and loved them. Lately have been feeling I really should get one. Or is it NEED one? This has completely knocked me out. Early Christmas present anyone? ha ha. Thanks for the great demo Ryan!
I did get my own! I did a follow up video to this where I shoot it out against my other amp pedals as well.
@@60CycleHumcast Glad to hear that-yes! It was really nice to see how much you enjoyed playing through it, the last time I checked isn't guitar playing supposed to be a pleasure as well as out and out fun? The sustain seems to be quite nice as well-for days! That's really important in my book. Lately I've been checking out the Kemper videos heavily because I'm unhappy with my IK MM Amplitude 5,. All of the different reverbs are a bit underwhelming, often no real sustain and I spend ridiculous amounts of time tweaking tones. Would rather just play you know? I'd pretty much made up my mind that the Kemper would be my next major purchase.Then I heard the Dream 65. Still on the fence a bit but leaning more towards the Universal Audio. I'll definitely check out your other shootout video.
The bass and treble cuts are up pretty high on the ruby but I think it does help it sound more vintagey
Great video, but dude.. you don’t need to hit the tremolo arm after every chord you play!
Love these but I think I will stick with my Boss IR200.
Same here....great sound but i will never consider buying something that is great at only "one" thing but cost too much. I will stick to my NuX Amp Academy & my Boss MS3....but this still is a great pedal & if u can afford & justifies the high cost, why not. This is just my own personal opinion only.....🙏
You were gutting the tone on Ruby where you had the Bass and Treble knobs. Those are cuts, not boosts... the knobs behave backwards from traditional knob behavior if you didn't already know this. And crank the Boost (top boost)... it needs it. Cheers.
No headphone out kind of kills it for me.
Hey Ryan, thanks for the awesome demo! What is your signal chain from the UAD to your headphone?
Brilliant demo. Trust UA to truly capture the tonal essence of these amplifiers.
When they announced they were moving into pedals, I was skeptical. Not any more. I own the Starlight, Astra and Golden pedals after being blown away when I demoed them. I predicted that they would bring out some amp sim pedals soon, but I wasn't expecting them to be released this quickly and I certainly wasn't expecting them to sound so gorgeous. Wow. The only problem is I have to save up $1200 for these three delightful musketeers!
For those who tried the Dream 65: having tried with pedals, I think it only sounds good when the volume is 9h or below. Above 9h, you start to get a Fender amp distortion, which sounds nice by it's own, but I think it "modifies" the sound of the other pedal too much (I've tried Origin Revival drive compact, Jackson Audio Golden Boy and a RAt clone). Do you guys experienced something like that?
Well I think you would always want to put the other pedals before this one, at least for the most part.
Did you guys try it in the Fx Return of an amp?
I have and they sound great. It also gives you a second amp channel when you have the pedal engaged you have the preamp of the pedal, and when you disengage the pedal, it reverts back to the preamp of the amp, you’re plugged into
you use the four cable, method and disable the speaker cabinet on the pedal
The EHX Oceans 11 Reverb pedal is also worth a mention if on a budget.
Increasing the bass and treble on the Ruby will cut those frequencies.
Dude! I'm loving it! Just in time for Sweetwater's Memorial Day weekend sale! I wish I had the money for even the sale price!
Why is there an English greenback speaker that did not exist in the USA in 1965 Fender type pedal and no JBL D120F (F for Fender) which did exist and was a Fender option in the 1960s? EVs were a later option for some Fender amps. Oxfords were common lowest bidder Fender speakers as were Jensen, Utah Coil & CTS.
Definitely out of my price range. Just would buy a GTX-50 or 100 for all that money & get all the stuff.
Can u run them into the poweramp of my tube qmp?
I got the Dream and the Ruby. I love the AC-30 and really think the Ruby will be great, but like you...the Dream was so wonderful I haven't gotten past it. I play in a band that covers 60's thru 90's and the Dream blows away my Helix (even though I love my Helix). As soon as I plugged up the Dream at rehearsal the keyboard player jumped around his keys and said that my sound was wonderful!! It is really nice to have an emulation pedal that does one thing great and has pots similar to a real amp.
have also a helix that i like and now buyed the ruby and the dream ...i am absolute blown away how the uafx pedals sound and feel ...you can get very good sounds out of the helix but the feel is a lot more tube like with the uafx pedals and they also take pedals very well 😉
I was ecstatic about the pedal ... but then I saw the $399.99 price and I sort of fainted. But I remain a fan of the "Afford-a-Board" Ryan.
399 is a lot for a pedal but relatively it's fairly priced along with the competition. The strymon iridium, boss ir 200 and the walrus audio acs1 are all 399, with the "cheaper" option being the nux amp academy. These prices are not so bad considering they are potentially replacing axfx and Kemper units that go for 1000+ used.
I got a Dream 65 and I love it... and I've only begun to explore the possibilities. :)
I'm curious if you bought one how it's working for you, how you like it, and how you use it in your own music.
Well heck..
I was watching reverb pedals and bought a True Spring but for $100 more I think I should just get this!
Great video. It’s a lot like Alice In Wonderland-the first half soars, the second half just doesn’t lift off.
I noticed that you misunderstood the tone controls on the Ruby. They cut when turned clockwise. You had all the treble rolled off when you when trying cabs and I could tell it messed with your ears.
I would recut the video and try again on a fresh day with each pedal. In other words, make this a three part series. Even if you don’t spend a lot of time on the others it’s cool because the Dream65 portion was outstanding.
You should check out the Koch 63'OD pedal. Fender based tube preamp with excellent speaker emulation on the XLR out. I've been using them for years. I'll check the UA out based on this review...
I hope my comment don’t hurt anyone or cause a problem, I bough this pedal 2 days ago and last night I had a casino gig and I was very happy cuz I wanted to play my analog board amp less :
The clean sounds amazing very good
Regular overdrives like screamers very good but when I used the high gain distortion jhs angry Charlie ect it sounded terreble and skinny and the delays get lost too on leads. Only clean was cool. So I’m disappointed cuz the pedal only works well on clean and by itself . I going to the store give it back no point for me use this , the boss got-1 directly sounds 100 times better . So if you only wanna studio work it should be fine but for live and big analog board it went really bad for me.
D Tex, couldn't it also be Diaz Tex for Cesar Diaz, SRV's amp tech who modded his Fender amps? I'd guess that over Dumble Tex.
Does this sound better than UA computer plugins? They seemed to lavk something for me.
Not sure if this sounds better because of the setup in this vid or it sounds that good on a line out?
I’m not that impresses and I’m not a tube snob. But I think I’ll stick with my Princeton for gigs
How's the FX loop? If I can add fuzz in the right PLACE? This would be awesome!!!😊
Sounds good but crazy expensive. Most pedal makers have similar at half the price. Why does UA think a pedal should be such a high fraction on the cost of real amp?
In one of the other videos the UA rep talked a little bit about this. Most digital pedal companies spread all the DSP across as many sounds as they can fit in. Whereas UA’s philosophy is to use all the DSP on one sound and make it sound as as phenomenal as possible. Technically you’re getting two complete amps in stereo. My Dream will be here today and I am pumped!
Nah. That DSP line is bumpkis. You can allocate DSP to the current model and still allow model switching. You're paying $400 for a single model (chip with software) and 30 bucks of hardware. Overpriced, UAD is trying to get rich off a software model of someone else's amp (Fender, Vox, Marshall). Stupid to pay through the nose for a single model.
D-Tex stands for Cesar Diaz, who modded SRV's amps.
I'd say the reverb actually drips way more than the one on an actual Deluxe Reverb.
Thats totally possible.
I disagree pretty strongly. I think it's a super accurate amount of drip, at least compared to my '65 DRRI. My first thought when hearing that was "Wow, it actually gets into the insanity level of drip like mine does."
@@HeelBJC there can be variation between reverb drums in the same model amp due to spring pan models changing over time and other components. One of my princetons drips way more than the other.
@@HeelBJC Fair enough! The couple i played were reissues and the reverb was quite underwhelming, drip wise.
They sound phenomenal. Woodrow would be amazing for stoner rock/ metal. I see why you love the Dream and I'd choose it as my fav too. The price is in a category where I'd just buy HX stomp (I already have it) or any other multi-effect processor. Mind I'm from Latvia where price comes before quality.
I don't know if that emulation is analog or digital. With analog emulation, the price could be justified.
All digital, but really all that matters is getting the sound that you like.
NIce job.. I realize you just got these, but I wish someone would explain how the presets work. How to clear them or call them up. I am not sure how many presets this thing has. It is not in the manual, that I can tell.
i would loove to know that also
When you save a preset, it overwrites the previous you can only save one preset
Would you use the Dream 65 to replace any other of your compact Reverb pedals?
I think my $35 Joyo American pedal sounds better.
So, the bigger question is...how are you going to turn this into your mobile rig for Gearfest?
I already have one, but I still love watching this demo.
I have a RI Fender Twin Reverb and a late 70s Fender Dual Showman Reverb head. This is the first stomp box that actually comes pretty close to the sound of these amps. And it doesn’t weigh 65 pounds or more. I think it’d be a lot easier to get up and down my basement stairs.
Great demo! In an unrelated question, I really like that shade of blue that you painted your walls. Would you mind sharing which paint you used (make/name)? Thanks.
Okay so when I first watched the video the Dream 65 wasn't available yet. Just saw it today and nabbed one. Ryan go get yours now, before they run out. Yes I use the affiliate. LoL
I have mind on the wt
the woodrow sounds very nice too. Like you, I would not know what to do with the Ruby
So might be a stupid question, but I have a Marshall SV20H and I have a hard time with getting a good clean sound. Would using the 4 cable method with this pedal into the loop allow me to essentially have a fender and a Marshall in one rig?
If you plan on plugging straight into the Marshall with this pedal in the fx loop, no matter what you do you’ll still have that dirty Marshall tone because of the preamp. If you plug straight into this pedal and go into the fx return you could perhaps still get a clean tone but you’ll also need to bypass the cab sim in the pedal. Hope that helps.
I don’t think the previous reply is right if you go 4 cable method into your Marshall amps effects loop, when you engage the pedal it bypasses the Marshalls preamp when you disengage the pedal, it reverts back to the preamp of the Marshall giving you two completely different amp channels
like the previous reply, said be sure to disengage the speaker cabinet on the pedal
Videos like this unfortunately brought me to buying all 3 of these terrible amp sims at once….and then selling quickly before nobody wanted them. Lots missing on them…good sound quality with a crap operating system and no flexibility is not a good product. Notice Ryan doesn’t have them chained together….maybe we should ask UA why?
I don’t have them chained together because they are power hungry little beasts and the power supply I use on my desk only has one outlet that works with them. Power issues have been my main criticism of the line since. If you watch my video of the new tc pedal I mention that a lot.
So, this is only for recording, you can't use it for live sound?
Use it however you like!
What I'm confused about and no one discusses, is this powered like Blackstars amped series? Can it just be plugged into a cabinet, I'm old school so idk alot about silent stages and everyone has ear monitors in. Anyone, please describe the ways you would use this live. Thanks!
no they don't have enough power on their own to push a speaker. You need to run it into a PA or a powered speaker.
They sound great!
Why UA didn’t add a HEADPHONE OUTPUT is beyond me, though.
No need that would be an amp simulator. This is a uhh. Well. Umm.
this
Maybe they come up with a break-out box of sorts for these (i.e. a small line mixer with switchable 76 compressor, „vintage mode“ (Neve sim) and DI, thru and HP Out), it will be $399 hahaha
@UA you heard it here first, guys!
no need if you record with interface what have headphone output. For live gig i use real fender amps and left my dream pedal at home sleeping.
I believe these are more meant to be direct amp replacements. They’re kinda meant to be used like you would a tube amp
you were almost going into gibbons territory with that thing.
UA is just Amazing
Holy shit man that 65 sounds amazing! So drippy on that reverb.
Wondering why there aren't more comparison videos to the Strymon Iridium. Any thoughts?
There are videos on UA-cam of that comparison, the guy I seen actually preferred, the iridium
over the dream
I just bought one!1
Totally dig the demo and the pedal. That's a pricey chunk of pedal though. Dang!
When you consider it’s a full amp, reverb and tremolo replacement it’s really not that bad. I run direct live all the time so it’s a no brainer for me.
So The Surf Junkies currently bring a third amp to all gigs as a redundant backup. Maybe we just bring a Dream pedal and also use it for fly rig gigs. Hmmm…very tempting indeed especially with that legit sounding drip!
So many speaker options 🤘🏽
OK CRAMPS RIFF --YUP DEMO OVER
Great demo, just ordered the dream…. All your fault:)
I’m having issues getting mine clean…gain almost all the way down and volume literally all the way up. Idk what I’m doing wrong
Mine is clean with the gain around 9 o’clock. If you aren’t getting that then something is up. I hope you solve the issue.
Those do be sounding good af.
I have a real 65 (use it with the OX) and I'm not really impressed by the UA 65 tone right into the mixer/audio interface,too thinny/ unorganic...at least in this vid..
maybe the pedal into the front end of a clean tube amp will bring better results...
Curious about your thoughts on what small, clean, tube amp to pair this pedal with if you were going to gig with a small amp
The clear answer to me would be the hot rod deluxe IV
Why do you think that they didn’t make a Marshall style pedal instead of the Woodrow?