What's INSIDE a UNI-VIBE Effect? | Too Afraid To Ask
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- Uni-Vibes are mysterious modulations which have confused many users as to what they really are.
We take a look inside the JAM Pedals Retrovibe to find the answer.
Leave your TATA in the comments and perhaps it will become the topic of a future video.
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Uni-Vibes are mysterious modulations which have confused many users as to what they really are.
We take a look inside the JAM Pedals Retrovibe to find the answer.
Leave your TATA in the comments and perhaps it will become the topic of a future video.
Grab your own Retrovibe:
www.jampedals.com/retrovibe/
Thanks to JAM Pedals for funding the creation of this video.
#univibe #jampedals #tata
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The original Univibe was NOT made to emulate Leslie speaker. Please stop spreading this false information!
The designer of the Univibe made this to sound like the Radio Moscow signal that he heard growing up!
So many people just regurgitate what they hear others incorrectly spew...
You are the reason I bought this pedal! I have one small correction though:
Original Uni-Vibe design engineer Fumio Mieda actually designed the effect to replicate the phase-y Soviet Union propaganda broadcast from extremely powerful radio towers that his radios in Japan would pick up as interference. Part of what caused it to sound the way it did was because of how the atmosphere shifted the phase of the radio signal. HOWEVER, the vibe was MARKETED as an effect to resemble a Leslie speaker, which is where the confusion of what it was trying to emulate comes from.
It’s crazy how lucky the modern generation are. This information is so invaluable, and anyone can get it for free! Thanks for the content Colin, you’re a true g
Very true. Back in the day, you'd have to rely on books and magazine articles for this stuff, and much of the information was either unreliable, or often written assuming the reader already has a baseline understanding of certain topics, meaning they were pretty much useless to a lay person like myself.
I wouldn't say free exactly. You have to have access to the internet and a device TO ACCESS the internet. Those cost money and are required to be able to use the internet. Whether it be a phone, tablet, laptop, PC, or what. There's plenty of free wifi so that one can be taken care of. Still, you need a way to access it.
Now, it's true that once you have access and a way to access this info, then it's essentially free after that. But you really can't say it's just free in general.
Its kinda like saying antenna TV was free back in the day. Yea it was but you still had to buy a TV to watch it on. So it wasn't really free. There was an entry cost essentially.
@@Jaspertine much of today's info is unreliable still. Why? Laziness essentially. What else do you call it when people refuse to read anything about the subject they think they're right about. So instead of actually learning anything, they write based on what they believe they know because they believe what they know is right.
At least back then, you could depend on the fact that the writer of said article did some sort of research before writing. Yea the info could still be wrong but most times it wasnt because somebody just wrote and did no research. It's because the accepted wisdom st the time was wrong. Meaning the articles and books they pulled their info from were wrong.
Today, you can't trust that anyone does any sort of research before writing anything on the internet. Not news articles, not e-magazine articles, not Facebook posts or tweets on Twitter/X, etc...
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This is a better description of what phase is than I got in 4 years of music tech classes
This is why you employ a physicist to explain physics, not some music twat with a laptop
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Colin, could you do a video about Filtertrons? History, design, how they compare to other pickups, etc. Thanks
I hope you know you're one of the best instructional channels. Anyone can show different scales, but you explain how & why our equipment works. And do it in a way we can understand. Thanks.
Im a drummer, yet I find myself watching your videos because of just how well you describe everything. Makes we want to start learning guitar again.
Well, The best way to start Xmas holiday: Colin's video!
If you don’t already have a teaching degree, you should get an honorary one. I learn more stuff from you than any electronics teacher I’ve had.
I've been looking for this explanation for about a week now. Thanks! Subscribed !
This reminds me of your episode about phasers, which i used as a reference when writing my final exam in college. I made a phaser and an overdrive pedal
Excellent! That explains why I have always loved the sounds created by phasers, uni-vibes and certain choruses (with a delay time control). It's phase cancellation.
The drawings are great as always !
They should be, I spent long enough on them
Dammm it’s 12:30am in Australia I’m still up with my hot chocolate
Ah must feel good to be living in the future
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Your hair cut looks really cute
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year !!! Very informative and technical video, thanks man !!!!!
One of the really cool things about uni-vibes is the master volume. No other mod pedal has it and it's super handy for pushing an amp into overdrive or under-driving a gainy amp for a cleaner sound.
Great video :)
The alien music during the TATA title is legit the exact notes from the Metroid intro and I love it.
So rad
.. You rock dude
Another great post thanks.
That was clear and entertaining, quite a tricky one to pull off! Thanks.
Now that's another question answered, before I even knew I needed it answered !! Great work Colin many thanks 👍
Loved that last tone, idk how, but it actually felt sharper, Dirtier, and chuckier all at the same time. Definitely going in the tone tool bag
The Fender Pinwheel is a fantastic rotary effect pedal. It replicates the Leslie amplifier along with the rotary speaker effect. If you’re looking for a Univibe style pedal, check one of them out. Street price is around $250, but you’re getting a lot of pedal.
I knew it was a phaser the moment I first plugged in my Phase 90 and it sounded VERY SIMILAR to my Univibe-style pedal. 👌
I remember years back (when I was a young metalhead- before i matured) and I came across a video of a long haired Scottish guy ranting about how active pickups suck and I loved it! so many butthurt comments! ...years on, you and your channel have grown into something truly special. This video was informative, really well presented and your editing is top notch. well done sir you have earned a new subscriber!
I knew how a vibe pedal worked, but I definitely learned something here. Nice video.
I have the fulltone Deja Vibe and Electro Harmonix Good Vibes Uni Vibes both are Authentic and fantastic
I am impressed...
My little $30 vibe pedal uses an optical circuit. If you isolate each bulb from each other so one bulbs light doesn't bleed into the other bulbs sensors, it actually gives it a little different sound than when totally stock with bleed over.
My cheapest compressor uses an optical circuit, also. I was pretty surprised by that, TBH.
Thanks for matching the Vibe with a Fuzz and AD30! I haven't been able to use my AD30 since the pandemic hit. During which time, I got my first (and second and third) Uni-Vibe. So I haven't actually ever heard them together yet.
Thanks Colin 🖐😃
Great explanation, you made it easy to understand, thanks!
I have the jhs unicorn and I love it
Absolutely tasty stuff my guy, that's a killer tone. Gotta check one out!
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discord squad absolutely destroying it!
You absolutely won't be disappointed to check out a Vibe, they are a lot of fun.
Really love this series! I think a great one might be 'what is an impulse responses?'
The amount of guitars who think they are just used for cab models is astonishing. They have so many other uses like modelling reverbs, simulating acoustic bodies (banjo, piano ect) and making outright bizarre sounding effects.
It sounds SO good on the lead tone! damn!
Hair looks good bro👍
Merry Christmas
I love the haircut. It looks nice on you.
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Gotta a suggestion lmao what about info about old and obscure effects maybe or just lesser known effects in general
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WHY are you not a multimillion subscriber channel already? This is truly baffling O_o'
That Jam PCB you showed us has EIGHT photoresistors! My DejaVibe and the original only have four. I must research this.
i love my Wilson Haze on bass, down low it’s super throbby, and dare i go up the fretboard i get some awesome Peter Hook-type modulation tones
Nice vibes :)
In the earliest days of recording, Thomas Edison would have a booth at county fairs, where you could record your voice on a wax cylinder, for a fee. Some of the journalist reports of the era that I read couldn't get over the quality of the wax recording and noted how "lifelike" the recorded voice was. Of course, it didn't take long for people to conclude that there really was a major disparity between the actual human voice and what was on the cylinder, once you got over being impressed with the mere fact (and miracle) of recorded sound.
So it was with rotating speakers. The bubbly sound of earliest Vibes, phasers, and chorus were often dubbed as accurate and far more convenient substitutes for refrigerator-sized Leslies. Some of the older Boss phasers in the 70's included a ramp-up/down feature, as did a number of phasers in the 80's and 90's. But, like the Edison wax cylinder recordings, we eventually said "Well, it's not *exactly* the same. There's this and that and this other quality missing."
Your explanation of why vibes yield different outcomes placed before or after distortion makes some good points, but doesn't tell the full story. Unlike phasers that use same-value capacitors in all stages, vibes create broad and shallow dips in the spectrum, rather than deep and very focused notches. One of the consequences of this is that, when placed before distortion, it moves large portions of the spectrum away from and closer to the clipping threshold. The resultant effect feels more "animated" than filtery. To a much more limited extent, one can achieve a similar tone by situating a phaser before a distortion, making sure to remove all feedback in the phaser.
Which brings us to a few other tidbits often overlooked regarding vibes. One is that you will NEVER see a feedback/regeneration/emphasis control on a vibe. That's because, for a host of reasons, they don't actually do anything useful. Seriously. I've tried and there's no point. Two is that the range of speeds on a vibe is narrower than that on a phaser. Because the notches and peaks are more focused and pronounced on a phaser, especially when the feedback is turned up, you can sweep VERY slow and still hear the effect quite well. Since there are no emphasized peaks, and the dips are shallow, vibes need to sweep faster than some minimum rate in order for the effect to be audible. This is also true of chorus, phaser, and flanger pedals converted to provide vibrato (i.e., wet only). The slowest sweep rates on those pedals that produce pleasing sounds AS chorus, phaser or flanger, always need to get turned up faster in vibrato mode in order to be audible. That's just a matter of how our hearing works.
Finally, people will often mistake vibes with harmonic tremolo, and vice versa. Why? Harmonic tremolo, you'll recall, applies modulation to the mids/highs, and the lows, in reciprocal fashion. That is, as the one gets louder the other gets softer. Unlike conventional full-signal tremolo, that people can appreciate for a bit, but rarely leave on for a whole tune, harmonic tremolo tends to be the sort of effect that people don't mind leaving on all the time. Just like a Uni-Vibe, the perceived effect is one of an undulating "animation" to the sound, rather than something that appears to take the sound away and then bring it back. The here/not-here effect is quite dramatic, and deservedly used to create drama. In contrast, both vibes and harmonic tremolo are capable of providing gentle and subtle effects that can sit comfortably in the background and provide just enough to make the sound *interesting* to the player and listener.
I'd love to see one on master, volume, and gain controls. I know what those things *do* but I don't totally understand the relationship between them
Phaser just makes my mind pulse
Nice jimmy clip you got there ;)
Colin, you mentioned that the JAM Univibe requires 9v input, and will convert the voltage to 15v internally. But why can’t all pedals be designed this way? I.e, why do some pedals require 12v, 18v, or 24v from the input power plug, not just 9v and then internally convert the voltage? #TATAs
I know this video's a couple years old now but I have a related TATA: what is it exactly that makes Uni-Vibe different from a phaser?
I put an MXR Uni-Vibe on the first permanent iteration of my pedal board almost a year ago and I loved it and I was able to dial in a sound I really liked but then I started getting really into Lichtlaerm Audio pedals and replaced the Uni-Vibe with their Kassandra phaser thinking of it as an upgrade having heard people say things like "the Uni-Vibe is like an early four stage phaser even though it says 'Chorus'" and reading in the description of the Kassandra that it can achieve Uni-Vibe tones. So I sold my Uni-Vibe (one in, one out) and almost immediately regretted it. I lost something in my tone that I haven't been able to put my finger on.
The Kassandra is great and I've found a place for it in my sound but I rebought the Uni-Vibe and put it right back where I had it before this whole expensive experiment.
Can we get a TATA on fretboard radi? Bonus points if you can cover how that scales on 7+ strings
This is a genuinely brilliant series. I might have said this before. I can't get used to the short hair though. Great content though.
helping the algorithm for u Colin. 😘
Praise be to the glorious Algorithm
I have a TATA: Why is it a bad idea to use lemon oil on maple fretboards in particular? Other fretboards are fine, but I've heard people saying that lemon oil does bad things to maple fretboards; yet I've never heard seen/heard anyone explain why.
Good information! Thank you for the interesting courses.
But have an interest, what is effect Deep Purple applied in the chorus of the composition "Super Trouper" of the album "1973 - Who Do You Think We Are!" Everything flies there. Is it a flanger or is it rotating speakers like Leslie for Master track? Thanks!
I love TATAs.
How could someone dislike this? The knowledge is invaluable to a regular jackass like me
you look so handsome with short hair brah.
Yo Colin! I don't remember if you've done this or not but can you make a TATAs video on pickup magnet types and pot voltages? I know the basics of their function and physical construction, I'm more interested in how they effect tone.
Thanks in advance bro!
I like future Colin, knows his stuff.
A red llama tshirt. I like that :)
This video is giving me vibes
So that's why John Frusciante used a Phaser to make it sound like a uni-vibe. I never found the point of having that pedal but now I understand it
I feel all cancelled out! I will have to watch it again.
Feed the algorithm Seymour! We may get more tone!
Nice vid, as usual. It looked like when you used the expression pedal that the speed decreased as you moved your foot downwards, rather than the other way around which is what I personally would expect. Did I get that wrong or is that what's happening? And whichever way round it is, is that fixed or can you 'reverse' the direction to taste?
5:35 Almost licc spotting... the arp is really close to the licc. 🕵️♂️
Bro can u explain the burns trisonic pickups please. i assure u , u will love it👍 btw u explain stuffs great👍👌🤘
TATA: Unity gain across pedals, AMP and OD and steps on how to achieve it?
What I want to know is why you don't see many phasers with a tap tempo button. Something with a time-based effect really needs more precise control.
you are giving me flashbacks to talking about trigonometry in math. still don't understand that shit
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@@ScienceofLoud Thanks MUCH!!!
Has anyone noticed the wee mans eyebrows have a life of their own?
I love it. I, too, have one of these faces. The eyebrows betray me constantly. The rest of my face can remain calm, cool, but my eyebrows, like my hands, will tell you everything, for better or for worse. That shit keeps you honest.
Colin, could you explain the difference between power conditioners and power regulators?
Yo collin, could you do a video on Morley and their ldrs
I have a question. I'm looking into the Mosrite Ventures models of guitars. I've been trying to find out what pickups they have. But I can't find anything on them. What pickups are they? Is it a form of Humbucker or P90?
Quite fancied one of these... until you said "reflected in the price"... nearly 300 quid, fuck a duck! I'll still to making weird noises with my Super Chorus, Phaser and Flashback.
Yeah, they are all hand made, hand painted enclosures etc.
Jam genuinely have the best sounding effects I've ever heard, but you do have to pay for it.
I just can't justify this kind of cash on something that will only be a secondary effect. Its very cool though.
it's like you knew I've been lusting for a univibe :(
Radians FTW!!!
Is there an effect that has split signal in 180 degree phase and clips it asymmetrically, then sums it up?
TATA
Just how bad is CZcams compression and why does it exist
And what the hell did you do to your hair?
instead of stepping up the voltage why not series 2 9 volt batteries?
or better yet use a lower voltage bulb instead of a 24, 18 or 12 volt bulb why not use a 6 or 3 volt bulb thereby the device can be ran from 2 or 4 D batteries?
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Hi, thanks for all the detail!
I received mine today (a MK3), is it "normal" for it to pop in the amp when engaging and disengaging?
A DSP, that's what is in my univibe.
“If you think back to my chorus/vibrato video you’ll see”.. the hair is gone 😭
I love my Dunlop Hendrix Univibe, but I suspect it doesn't have that light-controlled resistor device in it... Does anyone know if it does?
This version uses Jfet transistors much like the Phase 90 instead of the lightbulb/LDR combination as mentioned in the video.
I miss the lush, psychedelic throb of a truly vintage Scoosh.
Is the univibe similar to a leslie speaker?
Interesting fact: The original univibe wasn't designed to emulate a leslie speaker. the Leslie thing has become common place but here Is the real story restated by Josh scott on the JHS website.thejhsshow.com/articles/univibe-101
JHS makes a univibe with tap tempo. I think it's called the Unicorn 🦄
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