More UAD amp models pleeeaaaase! (UAFX pedals or plugs)

[sgretz]

I don't mean for this post to minimize what I am sure is an extraordinary amount of work required to create an amp emulation as fantastic as UAD's recent offerings are. I am a long-time resistor of digital everything who is just blown away by how good Lion is especially, and would love to see more models available (in either pedal or plug form, each has its pros and cons but both have use cases for me).

First - please, please do something with a true output tube bias-modulating tremolo. Princeton Reverb, 5F11 Vibrolux (that would be incredible), 6G2 Princeton, 6G3 Deluxe--I use this effect all the time on real amps and what this does to a power stage in overdrive is something a front end trem doesn't really capture.

Second, would love to see a "mid-sized tweed" pedal--the 5F4/5E5/5E7 circuits are so similar, any of them would be great, especially if you had options for the different speaker configurations (I know in reality there are subtle differences here in output transformers and impedance matches, but a single version of the circuit with different speaker options would still be excellent).

Third - one of the brown/blonde circuits with harmonic trem would be fantastic. I know Astra has this effect but a blonde Bandmaster piggyback or 6G4 Super would just be so lovely.


I suspect none of these quite has the market the existing models do, but I would buy all of these.

 

[exoslime]

i totally agree, i would also love to see more amp models by UA, i have the Dream 65 and the Lion 68 and totally dig em

probably an unpopular opinion but i would love to see somehing like a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, Bogner Uberschall, a Peavey 5150 and high gain amps like that

 

[UniversalAudio]

No news to share at this time. We prefer to announce when you can buy/use.

But I can tell you we're not done with pedals for sure!

 

[yabino974]

Please port the amps to UAD plugins. That's most wanted.

 

[UniversalAudio]

That's most wanted.

yup, everyone has their own "most wanted".

 

[yabino974]

For me yes, it's 1081 mkII.

But amps speak to anyone. If I had to be subjective I would have said BASS amps.

 

[klasaine]

Mesa Boogie Mk.1 and Mk.2c

 

[sgretz]

No news to share at this time. We prefer to announce when you can buy/use.

But I can tell you we're not done with pedals for sure!

Thanks! Obviously intended this post to be more enthusiastic than demanding... just a huge fan of what you guys are accomplishing with these amp recreations.

 

[UniversalAudio]

Thanks! Obviously intended this post to be more enthusiastic than demanding... just a huge fan of what you guys are accomplishing with these amp recreations.

Thanks for noticing the difference!! We appreciate it! And thanks for the support.

 

[chrisharbin]

yup, everyone has their own "most wanted".

I think though that it's a little more than than that though Seems to me anyways that this is a very highly requested thing.

 

[BeingHumans]

I’d dig a Hiwatt, an Orange and a Burman.

 

[chrisharbin]

Burman.

Had to google. The only hit I got was an expired Reverb posting. Any more info on them?

 

[klasaine]

Hi-Watt would be cool. Or, Sound City (the amps).

 

[BeingHumans]

Had to google. The only hit I got was an expired Reverb posting. Any more info on them?

This old Reverb News post has a bit of info https://reverb.com/news/6-more-vintage-british-amps-worth-tracking-down
My engineer/producer friend Bill Kennedy had one years ago, I think he found out about them from working with Killing Joke. Bill said it was his favorite amp because it could take any amount / type of gain you could throw at it.

 

[BeingHumans]

Hi-Watt would be cool. Or, Sound City (the amps).

& I haven’t even played a DR version yet.

Years ago a buddy of mine bought a Hiwatt Lead 30 for $150 - this was right after I’d purchased a new Matchless HD30.

So we took it to our friends’ studio where he had some old Marshall 4x12’s.

We loved it immediately so then we tried some gain on it, lined up a Fulltone ‘69 and a ‘70. Tried them each - awesome.

Then as a gag, both fuzzes in series - normally an amp would fold/compress - this Hiwatt was like, “Come at me bro”.

Needless to say, I felt much less nicer about having just spent 3 grand on my Matchless.

 

[klasaine]

When I was a kid I was in a band and the ‘lead’ guitar player had a Sound City half stack and a Hayman solid body … https://blackguitars.com/burns-1969-hayman.html
This was around 1976 or 77. I have no idea how he got a hold of these two semi-off brand British pieces. *I played an SG and a Twin. Neither one of us knew anything about pedals. We were both ridiculously loud and clean.

 

[chrisharbin]

This old Reverb News post has a bit of info https://reverb.com/news/6-more-vintage-british-amps-worth-tracking-down
My engineer/producer friend Bill Kennedy had one years ago, I think he found out about them from working with Killing Joke. Bill said it was his favorite amp because it could take any amount / type of gain you could throw at it.

That's a fairly sad story. Thanks for that though, I'd never heard of them.

 

[collinmorlock]

I'm seconding a Princeton UAFX emulation and an amp with the tube-biasing tremolo.

I'll add that I'd love to see an "obscure amps" pedal where you put 2-3 different less known amps with different character than the standard Holy Grail/coveted studio amps into one pedal, kind of in-line with what UA is doing with the Verve Retro Machines plugin. Something fun, creative and a little different. I'm just riffing here, but it would be a fun studio/stage tool to have something like an old Gibson tube amp with an 8 inch speaker, some old "crappy-but-good" solid state amp or the tube preamp section from a tape machine or tube radio.

 

[UniversalAudio]

More coming!!! And they're A-MAZ-ING.

 

[scratch17]

I'd like to see an amp sim that combines two Dumbles: a Steel String Singer and an ODS. You could play the SSS as your clean channel and the ODS for overdrive crunch and lead.

And while I'm wishing on a star, why not make it a three channel sim for a WDW rig. One channel would be dry (optimally Unison) and the others would be wet. Of course the wet channels would take a feed from the dry channel to maintain the amp sound. Those channels would need to have some slots where you could put UAD2 plugins. UA developers would need to internally route the dry channel's output to the wet channel and link the three channels so they were in sync.

I don't know if it's possible with the current state of UAD2, but I'd love it if all UAD2 amp sims could be updated to this WDW architecture.