Do we NEED Another 5150?!
Universal Audio ANTI 1992 High Gain Amp is the latest in a long line of 5150 imitators – does it have reason to exist? Colin takes a quick first look while at 42 Gear Street.
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Originally posted by UCxrmpiKC7STaDpgWQBwwGMA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3iJYeMRHQ
As someone with a 5W Harley Benton practice amp (I live in an apartment block) who records straight into my laptop, yeah, this pedal sounds awesome! I don't want umpteen big amps. I want good sound on my recordings.
I owned a ’92 in ’93 and haven’t really thought about the amp since… until this pedal’s release. I enjoy the Ruby and Lion: this seems fun and nostalgic in a format I’m used to.
I still want a 6505+
"They’re gunna make him do this ‘till he’s 90!"
5150's get close so do Marshall's ,Friedmans,etc….but EVH's sound was his Wet/Dry/Wet Rigs. One amp may have everything dimed and the other 2 dialed and effected much different from each other. A Wall of Sound with a Mad Scientist type of sonic out come EVH was. There is always room for another Nod too King EVH.
"How does a d-tuner work?" Usually? They don't lol.
Actually this pedal is badass, it sounds amazing and is perfect for a minimalist rig.
Almost every car manufacturer makes an estate, a hatchback, a 4×4, a saloon, etc etc etc… everything in guitar is going the same way. Your main architypes exist in the pedal world (Tubescreamer, bluesbreaker, RAT, Nobels ODR-1, Klon). And the same happens in the amp world (JMP bluesbreaker, Marshal Plexi, Fender Deluxe Reverb, Vox AC30…)
Do NOT buy one of these UAFX pedals. They all have this weird crackling sound that you can't get rid of and their app is the worst I have ever used, if you can actually get it to work in the first place. Absolutely unusable.
How dare you. Just generally.
Is it me or does this pedal sound kind of ass?
Maybe it's just the tuning but as it is I would certainly not pay hundreds for this particular piece of gear.
You have a career talking about luxury items for artistic expression. The proliferation of these have made them higher quality at lower prices. You didn't make your camera, your microphone, your computer, your software, the cables, the internet, or the energy grid powering them but you get the benefits of them for your enjoyment and your career. Capitalism is really dragging you down.
Goddamn the opening rant is great.
Sounds awesome. $400 is a lot though. Imo anyway
We definitely needed this, yes.
This pedal is not that great.
I'll be the guy who says it, Eddie did nothing that inspires me and I don't care about any of the gear he used. That being said, I've used a 5150 because of how versatile it can be and they need to keep tweaking it and experimenting. I don't associate the 5150 amp with Eddie at all and I never will because Eddie wasn't even remotely my reason for trying it out. The amp needs to live on and not be associated with Eddie because Eddie isn't now and hasn't been relevant in well over a decade.
Simply put, we are largely moving away from amps in any format. UAFX has found a format that really works. It’s more accessible than a Quad Cortex or Fractal (think about the old school amp and knob guys). Even though they’re not cheap, they’re still manageable in price.
I love my tubes, but it’s less about tone and more about ease of use to front of house. As long as these pedals keep evolving and the soundboards and interfaces we use get better, we’ll keep getting new generations of 5150s alongside Dumbles and AC30s.
Why are there 1000 Tubescreamers…now that’s a real mystery.
Excellent sound, just can’t get over the price, it’s currently going for about $400 US. There’s all kinda of pedals I can get that either do more, or cost less.
That guy is Dutch… I can hear it.
I'm sorry, I will dispute the 5150 being a great amplifier in terms of its sound. Sure, it's iconic for the legends that used it and at some point you can get a fitting sound out of it, but most of the time I find it quite horrible. It's just that high-end (or higher-mids, I suppose) that I just find really shrill and offputting. But again, it's one of those sounds, like a Plexi or something, that is a bit limited to a certain context for working well. – So I agree, I don't think we need more, cause there are plenty, if not too many, making me just wonder why as I don't see much appeal in it. – That's just me, the snowflake minority if you want to think that, but while I've tried to like it I just never or rarely did. – And it's no coincidence I named the Plexi as an example as I feel almost exactly the same about that sound, appropriate at times but in general I can't really stand it. – That doesn't mean I think they shouldn't exist. They just do and they're a thing and do a certain thing and that's cool and all. It's just a "not for me" thing.
i wait for the 5199…i bet it will be a one channel clean only amp????
why should one buy a modeler that models just one amp since, for the same price or even less, you can buy modelers with much more amps?
Suddenly every YouTuber is reviewing the same gear… Again…
people still want "vintage reissue" les pauls and strats, they still want tube screamers like they were made in their glory days among many others.
Nice preface to get everyone hating on a product! I never had a 5150 because I could never afford one in the 90’s. I only like the first 5 Van Halen Albums so just like the Plexi VH sound. I love the pedal though. Will do everything from spanking clean on rhythm to early VH/classic rock on rhythm to high gain thrash crunch channel to high gain 90’s and modern stuff since we know the 5150 still is a popular amp today. Whatever man – you don’t like it and not for you. Cool. No one has to buy it. Lots of other products being made too. It’s sounds like the amplifier the room for me because I don’t use the cab sims with any UA amp pedals. They go out to power amps and my real cabs – the pedals then sound very much like the raw amps. At least that was my take A/B’ing the Lion 68 against my 50 watt Plexi into same cabs. You do you for sure though. No one has to like them. Particularly if they have a YouTube channel and 30 amps sitting around.
Eddies legacy will never die and you never can have enough 5150 based products , nobodys forced.to buy anything, its nice to have the option , long.live the king
Alot of players go for the 5150 not because of evh.its the most recorded metal amp so i understand the ‘copys’ i get what your saying tho
That opening rant ???? GOLD ????
Kraken’s based on it but I feel like the sound is distinctly its own. The signature fizz is absent and the mids are throatier and the overall tone is drier for lack of a better word. Put it this way – if I wanted a 5150 in the mix I wouldn’t go for it.
<3 the Kraken though. Bea and his tone are amazing. Kraken clean>5150 for my applications. That compression that they worked on is ???????? and much more usable than the uber sparkle of the 5150. Light gain ends up way better for me as well.
Not big on that thumbnail. But more content off the corpse of EVH is okay? Slippery slope, my man.
You can't work a dopey D Tuna? My gripe is this thing costs $400!, UA charges wayy too much for their gear.
can definitely say ive fallen down the rabbit hole of trying to chase his first album tone, so little of it is the amp itself its things like the phase 90 and the reverb being hard panned to the right, and of course being eddie van halen himself, cant replicate his talent