UNI-VIBE- BEHRINGER 69 Vibe___NEW___ Uni-Vibe clone ...what it does, what doesn't

behringer

 69 Vibe 

$80.00 USD

The original UniVibe worked by a sensor reading the pulse controlled by a incandescent light bulb. The kind used in old flashlights and car taillights. Two things would screw it up. 

The bulb faded as it was wearing out and if it got just a hair out of alignment it would f.-up. The team at DIAMOND Pedals came up with using an LED for any modulation devices which neither fades or moves once aligned. 

Once the patent ran out everyone started making Uni-Vibes.

Surprise, surprise none sound like the original, LOL 

The layout is Volume, Intensity and Speed. A footswitch turns of the clean signal which with only the oscillation of the signal gives you vibrato

     CONCLUSION __

Well as I pointed out the LED thing kills the quirkiness of a perfect running real light bulb 

which is part of the sound. The bulb gave it an extra warmth but it added a bit of smearing 

of the tone that is part of the charm. MXR own the UniVibe name. They managed to get

all that nearly unpleasant distortion of the original. It has the soul of the original but it is 

hard to dial in and is for thousands of players, muddy. They are right, it is. That said I 

bought the MXR and I love it and hate the all others. They sound like some clockwork 

mechanical metronome that turns my sound into a drum machine. I primarily use a Fuzz 

Face Fuzz with mine and it nails that vintage sound that got everyone wanting a Uni-Vibe. 

So what's the verdict? The Behringer is an excellent modulation pedal as good as 90% 

out there. I think I had one I would use for clean sound things like strumming or 

flat picking chords but NEVER for dirt sounds.