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| $150.00 USD |
The classic Uni-Vibe that Hendrix put on the map
started life as a Leslie in a box pedal.
The Leslie being an organ speaker cab with a rotating drum open on the side being driven by 15" speaker and a horn rotating by a pulley. A mechanical device meant to create the chorus effect of the acoustics in a cathedral.
They failed to copy it but created an interesting chorus like effect with a cool sound of it's own.
The very best clone is the Unique-Vibe is a part for part
duplicated clone. At $900.00 USD all but a few purest.
buy them. They are not only expensive but unreliable
as like the original work from a photo-cell.
The unit is in fact a multiple stage phase shifter.
The design created enough of a shift in time for it to produce a chorus effect. The photo-cell creates a rich warmth and tends to break up like a tube amp when over driven into rough and gutsy sound.
CHOICE ?
There many company's offering a UniVibe wannabee in every price range. The big deal about the Voodoo Lab designed it what functions are used by nearly all the users. It is used like a chorus by 99% of it's users.
So it is smaller, cheaper, reliable and has a huge analog sound.
One of of the few pedals Paul Gilbert uses is a real Uni-Vibe. On a recent tour he borrowed one from a friend when he forgot his. It was the Voodoo Lab.
The next day he went out and bought his own!!!
CONCLUSION
If you play it with a clean sound it sounds very similar to really
great and thick chorus.
It is amazing pushed by a Fuzz as it fattens the sound and adds a
tube like breakup.
I heard Paul Gilbert use his. He drives it with a high gain dirt pedal.
Hendrix pushed his with a Fuzz Face.
So note the the last minute of the video when some serious dirt is going thru it.
With both the sound and price this pedal is a winner!!!.
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