NPD: UAFX Dream 65

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In an attempt to subvert my inclination for menu diving and endless tweaking, I sold my Ampero stomp modeler and bought a Dream. Got it for $279 from proaudiostar. It’s definitely expensive for one amp but it sounds excellent and takes pedals very very nicely. Already I’ve noticed how much more I’m just playing along instead of messing with IRs and settings.

Anyone else have any of the UA amp pedals? I’m thinking of getting a Ruby if I find a similar deal and running dual amps.
 

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Harry Klippton said:
My buddy has a ruby (and an ac30) and the ruby is really great. He plays in church weekly and uses it direct
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Awesome yeah I read online a ton of church players are using them direct because of volume issues. I think if the Ruby was on sale I would have got that it I figured I’d probably end up with both if they were as good as people say. So far it’s impressing me.
 
I had one briefly, I couldn't justify keeping it as well as my Stomp but it was very good indeed. Tempted to pick one up again when the 2nd hand price comes down. It sounded good enough and had few enough options that - like you - I was able to just accept it as an 'amp' and leave it pretty much alone.

I'd like to try the Ruby as well but I think it's weird how they have different reverbs. Who wants a room reverb at the expense of a nice spring?
 
deft said:
I had one briefly, I couldn't justify keeping it as well as my Stomp but it was very good indeed. Tempted to pick one up again when the 2nd hand price comes down. It sounded good enough and had few enough options that - like you - I was able to just accept it as an 'amp' and leave it pretty much alone.

I'd like to try the Ruby as well but I think it's weird how they have different reverbs. Who wants a room reverb at the expense of a nice spring?
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Yeah exactly when I just think of it like it my amp it gets easier to justify. I got tired of hitting A chords to test out my preset on the stomp lol

I thought the same thing about the Ruby but I plan on running my stereo wet effects into these anyways like the real amps that don’t have effects loops. I used to always run wet effects post in the stomp but I’m really liking it in front with this.
 
I have a Dream65 as well! Love it. Wanna get a Woodrow for that Tweed sound.

Excited to see if UA continues with Amp pedals. I am hoping for a Dumble or Marshall pedal.
 
ThePanda said:
I have a Dream65 as well! Love it. Wanna get a Woodrow for that Tweed sound.

Excited to see if UA continues with Amp pedals. I am hoping for a Dumble or Marshall pedal.
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Yeah it will be interesting to see where they go with these. So far the dream is amazing. I couldn’t really get the same feel out of the other modeler I had. I think it was because they model the normal channel and UA modeled the vibrato channel so they’re just not the same.

Woodrow is intriguing but I don’t know if I’d use it enough to justify it
 
I almost bought that one from ProAudiostar, best price I have seen on it. I have the ToneX pedal but the main thing I play is the capture of the Dream65.
 
ITG6 said:
I almost bought that one from ProAudiostar, best price I have seen on it. I have the ToneX pedal but the main thing I play is the capture of the Dream65.
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That’s funny. How are you liking the Tonex?

Proaudiostar ran out of stock quickly on the same deal for the Ruby but I gotta say I’m totally pleased with the dream. It has a ton of gain on tap and running my protein blue into it while already overdriven sounds glorious
 
The ToneX is really nice, reverb sounds good captures are great. Changing models/software could use some work, not intuitive at all IMHO.
It sounds really good, for whatever reason it "feels" better than what I have gotten out of my HX Stomp so far. The biggest constraint on the ToneX is the mono in/stereo out which restricts where I can put it in the signal chain.
 
ITG6 said:
The ToneX is really nice, reverb sounds good captures are great. Changing models/software could use some work, not intuitive at all IMHO.
It sounds really good, for whatever reason it "feels" better than what I have gotten out of my HX Stomp so far. The biggest constraint on the ToneX is the mono in/stereo out which restricts where I can put it in the signal chain.
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Nice yeah I’ve heard similar complaints along those lines. I saw one YouTube channel that was running two of them so they could use stereo effects into the amps
 
Wow that’s a killer deal. I got a Tonex recently too and love it but would be all over that otherwise.

Just as a random heads up if you get a Ruby and run it stereo with Dream you may find them out of phase with each other. Will need to flip phase at your end or FOH. I know some guys have been caught off guard by that thinking they sound terrible together.
 
Joben Magooch said:
Wow that’s a killer deal. I got a Tonex recently too and love it but would be all over that otherwise.

Just as a random heads up if you get a Ruby and run it stereo with Dream you may find them out of phase with each other. Will need to flip phase at your end or FOH. I know some guys have been caught off guard by that thinking they sound terrible together.
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Yes I’ve seen the out of phase issue mentioned many places. Mark Johnston on YouTube used the new parallel stereo blender from GFI to flip phase and blend the stereo outs from both pedals and it also nicely handled the uneven nature of how each amp responds to gain. Expensive thooooo
 
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