I’ve never played the amp it is emulating but I know the warm tube tones I’m after, and with the dream I can get very close, what’s more there’s a large spectrum of adjustment possible between the clean and the overdrive sounds, and its real easy to dial in a tone. So, when I saw the reviews on the UA Dream 65’, I thought I’d give it a try, and thankfully I did. and have always been searching for a product that gives me a warm sounding tube like tone for clean and overdrive at low volume, which has led me to buy a modelling amp, and a number of multi effects too, but the cleans always sound too tinny to me, and the overdrives much too fizzy, with virtually no adjustment in between. I love the 70’s guitar tones, funk, blues, rock, soul etc. I’m playing solo at home, and need something that can play well at low volume. In terms of connectivity it would be only 2 stars. Nevertheless, after much consideration I will give this thing 4 stars, just because of the tonal glory of it. Yes, it is able to do different cab sims left and right - or just as easy cab sim left, no sim right - but you will not get access to that. Plus the pedal can do soooo many things, that UA lets you not use or configure. How stupid is that? Why not include this?

Level is a problem, you'll need an additional DI box live. Hum is a real problem, as you can read in many posts here.

Man, there is plenty of free space on all sides. Using the outs for driving your headphones works so la la, with low impedance phones volume is a joke and you'll need a Y-cable anyways. What was UA thinking here? This little buiddy could the perfect practicing and recording tool, but it lacks the necessary connectivity and options. to have such a horrible app, that took me over an hour and four (!) different devices (Android, iOS, Windows) to get the damn thing registered to not let the user have one out with cab simulation and the other without (for going mono into FoH and mono into an amp's power section (e.g. to not have XLR or symmetrical 1/4'' jacks as ggod as it sounds, this 400 Euro thing lacks in other areas in quite a painful way. Used it for recording a couple of times since I got it and even played it live twice now. When the dream arrived, I was eager to see, if this would be good enough to become my 'Deluxe Reverb into Ox-quicky-substitute'. out but instead go directly into the Ox Box (into Apollo 8), which works just beautifully in most of the cases. For recording purposes I mostly am too lazy to get my 121, 414, 57 etc. the Kemper, sold it) but use mainly - or better: exclusively - analog and tube gear.īesides other amps I have a Deluxe Reverb and a VibroVerb, both hand-wired.

I have owned some digital tools (like e.g. It plays great, feels great.īlackface sounds are accurate, reverb is simply perfect and trem super usable as well. The Spark works great with other pedals, too –– throwing it after your favorite overdrive or fuzz can add additional character, EQ versatility, and a volume boost.Great sound, but no headphone out, no XLR, no BT audio, no separated outs, horrible appįirst of all: this pedal sounds great. And moving gain to its nethermost regions even yields convincing British overdrive without getting too fuzzy. Its inner garageband voice at half of the ear-splitting volume usually required to generate that kind of grit.

Pedal for spark amp