UAD Guitar Amp Bundle

The Woodrow 55 is best upgrade ever. I stayed up way too late playing and got up early to play before being late for work. Cough. Ahem. Same thing happened earlier with the other three in this bundle.

In reading the manuals and trying things (I know, I know -- real men don’t read the manual, but then they also complain that the tone sucks) I am finding all of these UA Amps (Dream, Ruby, Lion and Woodrow) to be unbelievably flexible—much more so than the real amps. And I find tones I never would have found in real life either, without going completely deaf. I mean who ever cranked a Deluxe to 9 or 10? Not me and I had one. Neil Young maybe, but he was always nuts anyways. I did it with a Plexi in 1982-83 a number of times and lost a fair bit of hearing that later further degraded while in the Marines which was loud a lot.

The BF Twin I also had at the time (that I paid $100 for and sold for $400 when I bought an MP1 I wish I still had…) never made it past 1 ½ or 2. I cranked the Twin like Johnny Winter....once. That was enough.

The Plexi I got by trading a near new Peavey Heritage to a keyboard player who said the Plexi was too dirty when loud enough. I found it too loud when dirty enough without pedals and the only attenuator at the time was the Tom Scholz’ Power Soak, which was also known as a Tom Scholz Tone Suck. Bought, tried used for a year, sold. Foam Earplugs. Much cheaper. Made the drummer sound better as a side benefit and muted the high hat nicely, which…