dunlop univibe

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what does it sound like/do!?

Pacomc79

Listen to Hendrix, Robin Trower or David Gilmour.

It was meant to be a rotating speaker (leslie) simulator, instead it is a phasey chorus like sound.


well this is better http://www.voodoolabs.com (see microvibe)


or http://www.musiciansfriend.com has the clips or http://www.buzzfox.com


hell I think http://www.jimdunlop.com has clips of the dunlop univibe. It's a more cheaply made version of the original Univox Univibe. If you want the original http://www.fulltone.com (dejavibe)

or http://www.foxroxelectronics.com (provibe)

62strat

whats the difference between univibe..and rotovibe? if any?

exhausted

the rotovibe is it's own thing. just a different sound. it's more chorusy i think.

the microvibe suffers from a lack of flexibility.

Pacomc79

Originally posted by 62strat
whats the difference between univibe..and rotovibe? if any?

rotovibe is more like a rotating speaker, no phasey sound, more like a chorus you can control with the treadle. Still no leslie but a better copy than the Univibe was. The univibe is it's own animal.

62strat

Originally posted by Pacomc79
rotovibe is more like a rotating speaker, no phasey sound, more like a chorus you can control with the treadle. Still no leslie but a better copy than the Univibe was. The univibe is it's own animal.

which one do you prefer?

exhausted

hughes & kettner rotosphere......mmmm

Pacomc79

Originally posted by 62strat
which one do you prefer?

Me? Hughes and Kettner rotosphere for the rotating speaker or the Electro harmonix Wiggler. Despite both's lack of treadle.

The Vibe is a completely different effect.

I prefer the Fulltone Deja2 I guess because it's pretty much perfect but I'm going to end up buying the CC-2 from Foxrox so I'll have the Provibe with the Envelope Speed Control.

If you are looking for a rotating speaker simulator, the 3 you really need to examine are the H&K like Ex said, the Option 5 Destination Rotation and the EH Wiggler.

http://www.musictoyz.com/guitar/pedals/gtrpedaluni.php

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thanks again guys

that sounds great actually, does anyone know if mike ever used it in the studio? i'm sure i saw it in his line-up

FinsburyParkCarrots

If you want your guitar to sound like Hendrix's studio recording of "Little Wing" (1967), buy a rotovibe which, as paco says, simulates a leslie sound quite well.

If you want that Jimi Hendrix late 1969-1970, acid-drenched wobbly phasey sound (think of "Machine Gun"), then the pedal out there that's perhaps closest to doing the job is a Dunlop Univibe (a control box with an optional pump-pedal). However, the Dunlop isn't really too much like the Shin-Ei univibe that Hendrix used, as you might discover.

All these pedals have chorus and tremolo settings for you to play around with.

Oh, by the way ... I think you can hear Mike using a univibe on the studio version of "Not For You", if I'm not mistaken.

goto_l

Yeah Mike used to use the Uni, but has since swithched to Hughes & Kettner. It's by far the best & closest to a leslie that you're gonna find. I'm a freak for these effects, I buy them all, even have a giant leslie speaker that I'm trying to get operational again. Go with the H&K, I love mine. As for a rotovibe, at least mine, you have to load a drive behind it or else you get almost no effect from it, the single quietest effect ever made. Most keyboardist have stopped carrying the leslie around on tour & have switched to H&K also, it's that reliable. Just don't buy a H&K amp with the built in Rotary Chorus on it if you want to sound like Hendrix, or Trower, it's effect is more like 5150 era Van Halen sound. Kinda phasey, kinda chorus, but really neither.

Here's a sound clip of the H&K
http://www.hughes-and-kettner.com/files/sounds/Rotosphere.mp3