Hey Ryan!! Awesome vid!! Thanks for showcasing the pedals so masterfully!

It's really hard to find a good demo about the Dream 65 but this one is by far one of the better ones. Thanks a lot for that.

I watched this demo,and purchased one immediately. What a fantastic pedal.

I love how choppy/hard clipping the tremolo is in the Dream, sounds fantastic. Reminds me of the EQD Hummingbird more than anything else.

My ear took me to the 65 Dream too. Mine will be here Friday! Great review. And man the spring reverb is freaky spot on!

The good fellows at UA did he best job imaginable. This platform they have developed can do any amp. They picked 3 iconic amps. Incredible job on the demo as well.

Ryan after watching your review I bought one myself this week . It's on it way thanks for the great review!

These pedals sound great, especially the Dream 65 and Woodrow. Great for recording and maybe live as well (you can never tell that until you try it). I expect these pedals to be a big hit. I can tell this is an honest from the heart appraisal, the wide eyes and the salivation! :)

Just picked up one of these because of this review! It takes OD's and distortions like a champ. Even running a Revv G3 into it sounds pretty good. Also running a Line 6 DL4 post pedal sounds great.

I have an Iridium and a Flint as well as a real 1970s Vibrochamp and Fender spring reverb tank, so it’s hard to justify, but man this thing sounds so good. The Fender sound is my sound, so I can definitely see myself caving. Maybe I can last until Christmas. Lol.

It certainly doesn't require a degree in psychology to notice that are in love with the dream machine ! It could have been your signature "amp in a box". They all sounded excellent to me, so great work UA

Brilliant demo. Trust UA to truly capture the tonal essence of these amplifiers. When they announced they were moving into pedals, I was skeptical. Not any more. I own the Starlight, Astra and Golden pedals after being blown away when I demoed them. I predicted that they would bring out some amp sim pedals soon, but I wasn't expecting them to be released this quickly and I certainly wasn't expecting them to sound so gorgeous. Wow. The only problem is I have to save up $1200 for these three delightful musketeers!

Excellent deep dive! Thanks, Ryan.

Great job on the Dream 65. Amazing model of the most recorded amp in history. You need to play with the Ruby some more. The AC30 was a unique and brilliant design. Folks need not be afraid to crank the treble and/or bass controls to the extremes then adjust the cut control to compensate. Every control on those amps is important to the voicing. You'd be surprised how pristine and how much usable overdrive one can get from an AC30. Hank Marvin with the Shadows got amazing tones from the AC30. Brain May, the Beatles, and even Slash recorded with this classic amplifier.

Fantastic review, love your enthusiasm!

That tremolo at 4:20 will get you 🌊 seasick. Sounds great overall. Ordered one. Thanks!

I’m pretty sure UA have done a great job, because these pedals nail all the tonal aspects for which I would go for a Marshall over any of the amps modeled by them.

I already have one, but I still love watching this demo.

My Ruby arrived and it does clean early Beatles tone with ease. I was very worried because I haven’t liked any demos of it. You’ll have to try one, people. I can’t wait to get the Woodrow.

Really amazing that this is from the pedal. The only thing that gets me is I think the tremolo is a bit too choppy

Fantastic tutorial! Thai vid really shows how to use this pedal. Great job!

Dude! I'm loving it! Just in time for Sweetwater's Memorial Day weekend sale! I wish I had the money for even the sale price!

I'm on the east coast, but this transported me to a speed egg on the west coast. Now I just need to get back to shore, find some warm clothes and hop on the red-eye back. Thanks, Ryan.

As soon as the videos started rolling out for these pedals; I came here for you surfy take on the dream pedal. So awesome. So surf. So fun. It warms my frigid ghoulish heart.

Having seen Sweetwater and Andy's demos of these pedals, I couldn't wait to see you play the 65 because I knew you'd turn into a teenager again with joy. They should give you one free just for how the pedal made you.

Guys guys guys I'm so excited, I'm gonna leave this comment under every Dream65 review I can find. No idea why they don't advertise this more clearly, but you CAN indeed use headphones with it. I bought a little 8$ adapter cable (Y-cable, two quarter inch inputs to one mini output), and it drives my Sennheisers (HD25) fine. No idea if there are cans this won't work with, but it worked great for me.

I am pretty happy with my Walrus ACS1, but I always just have them on the Fender setting and don't utilize the different cabs/amp types on the separate outputs. Having this guy where it focuses on being the best fender amp in the box thing seems like a better fit. Having an Apollo X4 interface, I've been really impressed with everything UA I've touched from the interface to UAD plug-in stuff. Wasn't sure how you might compare the two? I also really appreciate how you showed it before drives. I felt my amp sim was about gassed out, but that is now apparently been completely fucked and it's all your fault. Great vid and will have to try this out soon.

I have a RI Fender Twin Reverb and a late 70s Fender Dual Showman Reverb head. This is the first stomp box that actually comes pretty close to the sound of these amps. And it doesn’t weigh 65 pounds or more. I think it’d be a lot easier to get up and down my basement stairs.

Holy shit man that 65 sounds amazing! So drippy on that reverb.

I got the Dream and the Ruby. I love the AC-30 and really think the Ruby will be great, but like you...the Dream was so wonderful I haven't gotten past it. I play in a band that covers 60's thru 90's and the Dream blows away my Helix (even though I love my Helix). As soon as I plugged up the Dream at rehearsal the keyboard player jumped around his keys and said that my sound was wonderful!! It is really nice to have an emulation pedal that does one thing great and has pots similar to a real amp.

Leave it to UA to finally drop some really good blackface cleans in a box. To me it seems like the most difficult sound to emulate well. Especially for the price.

The Dream fills that Jazz Chorus shaped hole in my heart.

The clipping in the woodrow sounds like speaker and cab noise from a tiny combo cranked. Pretty neat.

I'm getting a Dream, it does all the things that I want it to do.

They sound phenomenal. Woodrow would be amazing for stoner rock/ metal. I see why you love the Dream and I'd choose it as my fav too. The price is in a category where I'd just buy HX stomp (I already have it) or any other multi-effect processor. Mind I'm from Latvia where price comes before quality. I don't know if that emulation is analog or digital. With analog emulation, the price could be justified.

Thank you so much for this video. I actually wanted the Woodrow because I play '60s style soul and wanted something that got me closer to that Steve Cropper/Stax tone. Granted, he used a Harvard, not a Deluxe. But every video I watched on it was guys with strats, or some kind of humbucker pickup equipped guitar, cranking the Woodrow up and complaining about how hard it is to get a sound out of it, and saying how limited it is and none of the videos showed me what I wanted and so I gave up and decided I'd watch a few Dream 65 videos and most likely I'd get that. The first I watched was from Sweetwater, and he played enough clean stuff that I was starting to think "yeah...maybe". Yours was the second one I played and 5 minutes in you sold me. I was down. I mean, I kept watching but after five minutes I opened another tab and dropped that in a cart to buy online. I kept watching more out of curiosity but I was already sold. But then you switched to the Tele (which is what I use mostly) and at 44:02, you did a quick cut in your edit and suddenly you started playing something that sounded like the intro to Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" and for about 15 seconds you played me exactly what I wanted to hear in all those other Woodrow videos. Of course then you went like all the others and kept trying to play with the dirt. But that's cool. That's you. But you did change my mind and now the Dream 65 is something I'll look into buying later. The Woodrow's in the cart and for that I thank you again.

Wow. Sounds great! I would consider buying something like that if I didn't already have a Tubesteader Sunkeeper. Great demo, though.

Im surprised how good it sounds. UA did a great job

My Ruby arrived today my Dream becomes reality tomorrow and my Woodrow arrives on the 2nd of January 2024... Rock n Roll.

You should check out the Koch 63'OD pedal. Fender based tube preamp with excellent speaker emulation on the XLR out. I've been using them for years. I'll check the UA out based on this review...

Love all the current direct recording technology. It really sounds authentic. So simple too. Don't get me wrong, still love my combos for everything but recording, but sure aint missing all the fuss associated w/ mic placement and isolation.

The bass and treble cuts are up pretty high on the ruby but I think it does help it sound more vintagey

The EHX Oceans 11 Reverb pedal is also worth a mention if on a budget.

Yup…Saw the demos…loved the sound and function…Sweetwater out of stock…next day my rep calls to let me know they have them…It is on its way! Just have to add a delay for slapback and maybe a drive pedal and I’m good to go. 🎸

This is a great review thank you.😎👍

Nice to hear you so deep in your element. There is something about the "Surf" sound that is extremely conducive to exploring and composing. The pedal is appropriately named the Dream. 👏

At last, something that really sounds way better than an American Sound + a decent IR! 😁

Great demo! In an unrelated question, I really like that shade of blue that you painted your walls. Would you mind sharing which paint you used (make/name)? Thanks.

43:40 "I'm sure someone out there loves that sound...." ✋ You may have just sold me on the Woodrow 😅

great to see someone focusing on using the DR like we all use our actual DRs. Good job.

So many speaker options 🤘🏽

Hey Ryan, thanks for the awesome demo! What is your signal chain from the UAD to your headphone?

Oh man...the reverb alone has almost sold me on the Dream 65...Wasn't even looking for another pedal but after listening to an A/B with a real Deluxe in another vid I mean cmon! I sincerely feel your pain that the pedals were just loaners from Sweetwater. Hope you were able to get one of your own 65's at least. Classic comment after the trem test--"uh yeah--Demo's Over!" I've never owned a Deluxe but have played through a couple of them over the years and loved them. Lately have been feeling I really should get one. Or is it NEED one? This has completely knocked me out. Early Christmas present anyone? ha ha. Thanks for the great demo Ryan!

the woodrow sounds very nice too. Like you, I would not know what to do with the Ruby

Hi Ryan I have a Victory Copper VC35 its like a Vox with some great features I love it ,but I've been craving this sound...my question is front of the amp or effects loop? Great demo by the way.

I'm sold. Just got the Dream at Sweetwater. Gonna let me get all my Fender tonez without having to mic up the Twin Reverb. Such a good amp in a box.

Those do be sounding good af.

Thanx! Wished they included a better manual.

For those who tried the Dream 65: having tried with pedals, I think it only sounds good when the volume is 9h or below. Above 9h, you start to get a Fender amp distortion, which sounds nice by it's own, but I think it "modifies" the sound of the other pedal too much (I've tried Origin Revival drive compact, Jackson Audio Golden Boy and a RAt clone). Do you guys experienced something like that?

What a great sounding axe!

These pedals excite me!

I would love to see a shoot out with the drip on the Dream 65 reverb compared to the surfybear compact.

Love your channel. Love your reviews. I feel like the only one who doesn’t love this pedal. I want to love it but the cleans are weird. Slightly ‘quacky’ with that strange high end freq that never seems to dial out. I think the OD tones are good though

Listening to this Dream 65 was a little like going on a Fender history tour. It really covered a lot of time that Fender's been doing stuff. I heard a lot of sounds that I've enjoyed over the last 50 years. The Woodrow takes you back another 10 years. The Ruby covers your Kinks, Stones, Beatles, T-Rex territory... you know, if you like that kind of thing.

The Ruby really requires some tweaking - the EQ knobs work in reverse, so dialing them back gives you more clarity and top end.

which one is more versatile for cleanish/crunch tones? I have squier strat guitar lol I really can't decide between the Dream 65 and Woodrow, Dream 65 seems like the obvious choice but the Woodrow sounds amazing plus that Mic setting is great too

I would love to hear the dream 65 with the keeley dark side pedal. I think they'd sound awesome together.

Question one year after you initial post: Do you still love it? How do you use it? Live? Into what: amp or direct?

Ha! At 2:33 when you look at your amps like, “Do I even need you?”

A UA rep wrote on a forum that you could connect headphones to this pedal by just sticking a Y cable in the outputs. It'd be awesome if you could check out if that works fine, and then either post here or make a short vid about it.

The English guy in the Sweetwater video did a much better job with the Ruby. It sounds very good there, although he wasn't using ANY Fender guitars, which is weird demo-ing an amp thats emulating a Vox!. You'd never know how good the Ruby is from this demo here. I have a feeling that best demo of the Ruby is yet to come. The Dream 65 sounds great in the demos I've seen. I have to say, It's very tempting to go this route (DSP models) when recording. So much simpler.

What would happen if I plugged A DREAM 65 into the front or fx loop of a Orange Thunderverb 200 head? Would the orange colour it?

I have a question about the dream 65. I’m interested in how that ALT setting works I’ve been watching so many videos on these trying to figure whether the amp settings stay the same as you placed them before switching to ALT placing the Tremolo effect on top of the amp sound, or if switching to ALT just turns the amp off giving you access to tremolo? Also is reverb still active in ALT mode?

Totally dig the demo and the pedal. That's a pricey chunk of pedal though. Dang!

Wow I’m surprised how good that pedal sounds

I'm looking hard at these UA pedals. I thought I was sold on the Ruby, but now I'm leaning toward the Dream. I'm surprised how clean the Dream gets for taking pedals. The reverb is great because it removes a pedal from my board. If Ruby had reverb, it may be a no-brainer. But if the Dream can get a bright, clean tone then it may be the one for me. Difference in spending $600 for 2 pedals vs $400 for one that does the work of 2.

I mean the instant you turned it on it was just that classic 60's fender tone that you find in old black white recordings

2:33 😂😂 Great review!

Well heck.. I was watching reverb pedals and bought a True Spring but for $100 more I think I should just get this!

Thoughts on using these pedals to reamp DI guitar tracks?

How do they fit the tubes in that thing?

Would you use the Dream 65 to replace any other of your compact Reverb pedals?

Wonder if this would compare to the Boss FDR-1? The boss is pretty handy.

The Dream sounds awesome. It's spendy at $400 tho. Boost essentially makes your pickups hotter before it hits the amp.

Wow, what an awesome tone machine! Great Demo! I am so subscribing!!! How about a shootout between the Universal Audio Dream 65 and the Simplifier DLX going into FOH mixer?

Hi, sound is great but how is the dynamic under the fingers ? That's is the big problem without a normal amp unfortunately.. I'm looking for something that can solve the problem without amplifier....

So, the bigger question is...how are you going to turn this into your mobile rig for Gearfest?

The Dream 65 is the one I would get too.

The distortion sounds a little bit digital to my ears but the clean tones and spring reverb are absolutely ace

Would have loved to see a Woodrow mod setting on this instead of a bunch of mods i’ll never use.

Came here for the Dream, now dreaming of a Jazzmaster.

What is the color of that Jazzmaster? Mystic Surf Green? Beautiful ‼️😎🔥🎸

Can anyone suggest what amp module can be used to send this pedal out to a regular guitar cab ?

D-Tex stands for Cesar Diaz, who modded SRV's amps.

Sounds awesome! Not to complain or anything but if it had a headphone out, it would be the most magic practice device!

How's the FX loop? If I can add fuzz in the right PLACE? This would be awesome!!!😊

Can you plug the Dream into a Fender Blues jr that is set to a flat eq, no overdrive and no reverb and sound good?

This stuff really makes me reconsider my rig. I have a Deluxe Reverb and AC30 that I can't put above 3 or my neighbors flip their shit, so I'm mostly playing into a Boss Waza tube amp expander, often just with headphones. It's so much stuff. And like $3000 if I sold it.... When this sounds as good as it does, it's beyond difficult for me to justify all that stuff when I only record, no gigs.

They sound great! Why UA didn’t add a HEADPHONE OUTPUT is beyond me, though.