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Get the classic American tube amp — now in a plug-in.

The native UAD Dream '65 Reverb Amplifier plug-in gives you the essential American tube amp sounds used by artists and producers for more than 60 years, from Muddy Waters to The Beatles to Elvis Costello*.

Based on our award-winning UAFX pedal, the Dream '65 plug-in perfectly captures the timeless sound and feel of a "golden unit" 1965 reverb amp, with its bold cleans, sweet tube breakup, and divine spring reverb and vibrato. Plus you'll get built-in boosts, famous amp mods, and a collection of perfectly mic'd speaker cabs.

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UAD Native
Runs on your Mac or PC without UA hardware.

UAD Native plug-ins run on both macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer and Windows 10 and 11. Go to our UA Support page for system requirements.

  • Get the most authentic emulation of a mid'60s American tube amp in your DAW — no Apollo required
  • Immerse yourself in vintage tubepowered spring reverb and vibrato effects
  • Professionally capture world-class studio amp sound, complete with classic mic/speaker pairings and boosts
  • Take your tone a step further with custom mods and drive sounds made famous by artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Steve Lukather

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      Experience Legit Tube Amp Tones in your DAW

      Experience Legit Tube Amp Tones in your DAW

      The UAD Dream '65 plug-in perfectly captures a "golden unit" 1965 reverb combo amp, famously used on stages and in studios across six decades of hits — from pop, rock, and country to funk, soul and more. Based on the award-winning UAFX pedal, the plug-in gives you all the essential controls for getting incredible amp tone right inside your DAW.

      Play Through Famous Spring Reverb & Vibrato

      Play Through Famous Spring Reverb & Vibrato

      Tube-driven spring reverb and vibrato are essential to the guitar tones you've heard on nearly every classic record. From soul to surf, funk to punk, blues to bebop — UAD Dream ‘65 is the only plug-in that faithfully delivers the two most important guitar amp effects you need to craft immersive, inspiring guitar parts.

      Get the Sound of a Modded Studio Amp

      Get the Sound of a Modded Studio Amp

      Take your vintage tone a step further with custom mods and legendary drive sounds made famous by artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Steve Lukather. With two iconic mods and a clean boost built in, UAD Dream '65 offers even more variations of a classic amp – just like the pros used back in the day.

      Find Your Sound Fast 
with Expert Presets

      Find Your Sound Fast 
with Expert Presets

      Dial in classic tones fast with an expertly-curated collection of presets across musical genres. You can use these presets to start recording quickly, or dial in the perfect sound for your playing style.


      Explore Classic Mic & Speaker Pairings

      UAD Dream ‘65 gives you six classic speaker cabinet setups, with perfectly placed studio mics and dynamic room sounds.

      GB25

      GB25

      A Vintage Celestion Greenback speaker in a blackface deluxe amp, mic'd with an M160 ribbon mic

      Great for:
      Classic Celestion bark with the smooth open midrange of a '60s ribbon mic

      Oxford

      Oxford

      Original Oxford 12K5-6 speaker mic’d with a 57

      Great for:
      The classic sound right off the shelf from 1965

      EV12

      EV12

      A classic 12", 200 watt Electro-Voice EVM12L with a massive magnet in a blackface deluxe amp, mic'd with a 414 condenser mic

      Great for:
      Thick and tight bottom end with airy top end

      Boutique D65

      Boutique D65

      2x12 boutique Celestion G12-65s mic'd with a 57 and a 121 ribbon

      Great for:
      Classic California ported combo cabinet sound and mildly overdriven sounds which cleans up well

      S-Verb

      S-Verb

      4x10 original CTS speakers mic'd with a 414 condenser mic

      Great for:
      Surf sounds with a slightly lofi quality. Heaps of midrange

      JBF120

      JBF120

      2X12 original JBL D-120F speakers mic'd with a 57 and a 121 ribbon mic

      Great for:
      Very detailed speaker, especially for clean and low gain, excellent for fingerstyle playing. Very forward and sizzly when used with more gain

      *Use of artist names does not constitute official endorsement of UAD Dream ‘65 Reverb Amplifier. **Product names used herein are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way affiliated with Universal Audio Inc. These name(s) are used solely to identify products studied in the creation of the sound models found in UAD Dream ‘65 Reverb Amplifier.

      Customer Reviews

      UAD Dream '65 Reverb Amp

      Overall Rating

      3.1/5
      (13)

      S. Elmblad

      November 4, 2024

      Native only for a plugin you're supposed to record with is beyond stupidity

      What the title said.

      A. La Placa

      November 1, 2024

      Not the best

      I am a customer and fan of UAD, but this time I am disappointed. It is a toy sound, thin and digital, some competitors with the "tube" have much better and realistic Fender simulations. I hope you will take the Amp simulations to another level, like that of mixing plugins.

      Z. Mo

      October 31, 2024

      Clearly for players , not producers

      Sounds great but the cpu hit is ridiculous (like a lot of last releases) , for comparison in my system Neural stuff avregae around 20 % ,this one can reach 50 % (in studio one )
      7 Treads at 3.6 ghz
      So if ya a guitar player that want to jam , cool , if you're a prodcuer that wanna re amp or mix several tracks , be sure to test before on your system .

      C. Nedohin

      October 30, 2024

      AMAZING SOUND! BUT needs a phase switch BADLY!

      I’ve never enjoyed Deluxe Reverbs. I’ve always been a Bassman/Vibrolux guy, but this plugin changed my mind. The sound is amazing!

      It feels like a real amp. I REALLY want to switch away from Line 6 for my amp sims… BUT!

      This plugin (and the pedal) BADLY need a phase switch. Most players I know play a Fender/Vox Stereo combo and these two are out of phase. Very disappointing that UA won’t add basic usability features. I have to run a separate plugin just to flip phase.

      On that end: why not just give us some basic features UA? Phase, post EQ, maybe even a delay (up to 15 ms for stereo set ups).

      And PLEASE! Put midi on all your pedals, or some universal control app that can be accessed by a wireless Bluetooth or something.

      A person could make a REALLY awesome rig out of just the UA stuff, IF we had basic features and midi.

      P. Mata

      October 21, 2024

      Sounds as good as the pedal

      Congratulations. Best Deluxe Reverb emulation in the market.

      A. Levine

      October 18, 2024

      Almost

      Beautiful interface. But the gain staging is a mess. No dB value indicator on the in/out faders. The amp itself goes straight from thin (1-3 on the volume knob) to dirty on anything above that. You can get it cleaner by turning down the input volume but then the Out volume at max is still too low (this is all following the UAD recommended settings of no gain on the Apollo input channel, and plugin Input set to Hi-Z). Overall the sound is good but thin and brittle if you're using single coil (audible in the demo video). Does not have the warmth and bass definition of the real thing. Hopefully updates will address some of this.

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      October 13, 2024

      best amp simulation i've ever heard

      Works very nice in combination with my Volt 476 and Luna.
      Can't hear any lag or delay with my signal chain, very natural sounding.

      U. Sabiniewicz

      October 13, 2024

      Question of taste

      I cannot compare with the original Fender, however, the sound is not my taste.
      One star minus because all these plugins dont have noise gate.

      C. Huber

      October 11, 2024

      plays and sounds fantastic, but

      it really plays and sounds fantastic, well done UA, however, only released as native UADx and not on UAD-2 is such a huge missed opportunity for UA to have the best modelling amp sims available at zero latency on our appollos. i dont get it why UA didnt take this chance and strengthen and underlining the importance and power of dsp interfaces in 2024!
      Also its missing some basics like a tuner and a noise gate which should be included in any amp sim product nowadays.
      I´m also missing a loyality price offering for users who own the hardware UAFX pedal and registered to the account.

      D. North

      October 11, 2024

      Not as good as the pedal

      I was really excited when this was announced, but it was an immediate let down in-use. I have the Dream pedal, and I really like it. Side-by-side with my Twin/Pro Reverb/Deluxe, the Dream pedal holds its own, I'd say it gets me 85-90% to my fender amp + OX sound. The plugin, however, gets maybe 50% there. The dynamics are bad, the way the volume and tone knobs work doesn't mimic reality (to get a clean sound the volume has to be at 1, that's super weird). There is no stereo room sound available, which is a huge bummer. No DSP is a bummer. I can find use cases for my UA amp pedals, but I don't think I will find any use case for this plugin. I so wanted to use it in UAD Console too; I guess it doesn't matter though, I will probably never use the plugin again.

      Overall, the sound is dull, very narrow, fizzy, and has a bad digital character. Why doesn't it sound or behave like the pedal? I wish i knew.

      D. Montoya

      October 9, 2024

      Nailed it.

      Just need the Apollo version with Unison. Por favor!

      j. serum

      October 9, 2024

      It's ok but could be better.

      I really wanted to love this plug in. While some of the presets are really good, the plug in is very basic . It's also missing things like a noise gate, mic blending , mic placement and being able to switch mics on different cabinets. Also, switching between mono and stereo. Is it usable ? YES. Can you get good tones from it ? YES . Are there other plugin versions of this amp with great tones and all the other things mention above already in the plugin that are more budget friendly ? YES. Hopefully, UAD will update the dream 65 with more features.

      T. Benoist

      October 9, 2024

      Needs to run on an Apollo with Unison capability

      As a native-only plugin, I did the free trial and am glad I did. I am used to using amp models in the Unison tab. I am using the native plugin on a Mac Studio M2 Ultra with ARM disabled. This just doesn't fit my workflow. Hopefully, the software will be modified to host on an Apollo.