James Santiago of Universal Audio | What’s on Your Pedalboard?
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Hot off our trip to the Universal Audio headquarters, Nick Bowcott rendezvoused with UA’s senior product manager and sound designer, James Santiago, to find out what the man and the mind behind UAFX pedals deploys on his pedalboard. But this wasn’t just any edition of WOYPB. For a proper sonic showcase, James brought out two lauded axes: a Sunburst Fender 1956 Stratocaster with a 10/56 neck (“The one!” Nick says), as well as a vintage 1964 Fender Strat with a mahogany body and an intriguing mix of pickups. Dive in to learn more about James Santiago’s sound!
00:04 - Play in and Intro
01:18 - Lion ’68 Pedal’s “Hidden” Clean Tone
03:44 - Going “Old School”: Using Your Guitar’s Volume and Tone Controls
04:40 - James’s Pedalboard Philosophy
05:06 - 1966 Arbiter England Germanium Fuzz Face
06:14 - Silicon Fuzz Face Option
07:02 - Way Huge Overrated Special
08:46 - Ibanez SD9: NOT a Tube Screamer!
12:10 - Klon KTR
14:14 - Way Huge Blue Hippo
15:48 - Tinsley Audio Sir Henry Vibe Pedal
17:52 - UAFX Orion Tape Echo Pedal
19:31 - UAFX Lion Super Lead Amp Pedal
19:37 - UAFX Starlight Echo Station and Golden Reverberator Pedals
21:35 - James’s 1956 Fender Strat: “The One”
24:53 - 1964 Strat with a Great Story
29:15 - Wrap-up
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James would be a really cool hang. The guy knows so much and has such a great way to deliver his knowledge...also a great player. Great job Nick!!
Sweet water and James: People don’t realize the big bright sound of the Police was actually Marshall.
Andy Summers on Rick Beato’s channel the same week: in studio I used a Fender Twin, I was never a big Marshall guy, but I had to use them on stage.
James is such a driving force in guitar innovation these days. All of the UA stuff he touches these days is pure gold! Now about that Ox Box 2……
Came here to learn about uafx’s tape pedal…but then realized, I would love to sit down and chat with James Santiago too. He sounds like a very knowledgeable, humble cool dude. (Mrs. Santiago: thank you for letting him buy stuff!! :))
Great board rundown, much respect to James and Nick. Both of these gentlemen are historical musical treasures.
Keep up the good work guys 🤘
YES!!!!!!!!! A LEGEND and James Santiago together!!!!!!!!!!!
So 2 Legends...! 🤪😁
Awesome player with awesome tone. His EJ tone video is stunning!
What a great interview with an obvious sound enthusiast. Well done Nick. Anyone who enjoys this should also listen to Rick Beato's interview with Andy Summers - another enthusiast.
You instantly notice how good of a guitar player he is and how MUSICAL he is. Most guitarists on this app just play boring blues riffs with zero emotion or variation. This guy played like 10 inspiring melodies/chords and impressive sounds with great tone in just the first few minutes of this video. Wow what a legend.
Any info I get get from this guy is pure gold. Best ears around.
If you get a chance to interview him about the dream pedal and his specific favorite use cases for some of the particular settings on there, I would love to get some of that information
James shares lots of interesting knowledge in this video: czcams.com/video/X3nSYHx9hQs/video.html
Way Huge are great pedals that get zero airplay. Tripps is an industry genius
Yes! Finally. Johnny A. was my intro to Marshall clean. Still is, I said to myself, "What Da?"
Johnny A Rules 🎶♥️🎶‼️‼️‼️
James is one of the reasons I play guitar today and I will never not click when I see his namr
Every single pedal designed by James sounds just awesome. I have a couple of Voodoo Lab pedals, and they never left my board.
Me thinks James is a modest incredible guitarist!
No argument about the clean Marshall sound but Andy Summers just revealed on his interview with Rick Beato that early on it was Fender Twins. Sounds like he used Marshall’s later in live settings. James is a wealth of knowledge, I always enjoy his vids.
You forgot the GRATEFUL DEAD. They recorded at Sound City. Since you're listing all the greats, thought we should mention one of the greatest American bands ever.
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James has one of the most beautiful phrasing and tones.....awesome player...so good^^^^
Finally, been trying to find a demo to here the cleans👌👌
What an incredible video. James is a wealth of knowledge
For the record. This is epic. Thanks guys.
My telefunken bc108c into the uafx lion is absolute late jimi heaven🎉
That Strat got some extra shielding, yet its as noisy as s*%#.
What a gifted guitar player
I just realized UA has released their amp pedals in a timeline order. Obviously the first 3 were released at once, but we have the Woodrow 55, Ruby 63, Dream 65, and now the Lion Super Lead 68. I wonder if they were waiting to release a bass amp modeler to keep the timeline. The obvious choice for a bass model would be the SVT and that came out in 69. 🧐
Probably not, and i could just be having a moment, but i could see them doing that at the same time.
Can't wait for the UAFX Spider in 2030!
@@pinheadgringo I really hope they get the insane channel right
Fantastic player!
Santiago is the gear GOAT
Always killer tones and playing with James! Is he using Jazz 3’s here?
I always chuckle when I hear you can’t get a good clean tone from a Marshall.
What’s on *my* pedalboard? Not a single one of UA’s effects.
But I can wish. 🤞
I’ve always preferred Marshall cleans as opposed to fender
please ask why there is no on/off switch or a headphone out on the Lion 68?
What’s knuckles, mental and enigmatic?
Anyone know what Hendrix song that is that he plays the chords to at 17:05 ?
So when playing live, is James plugging the Lion into the FX loop of any given amp for that gig? Or is he going straight to house, and listening back with a stage monitor?
Almost anyone I know who is using something like the Lion (Dream, Ruby, Woodrow, iridium, hx stomp) is using them as a direct solution. Plug it into a DI on a stage have front of house send a mix to a wedge or use an in ear monitoring system. At home or in the studio, these get plugged into an audio interface and you hear them back through studio monitors. In general pedals like this are not meant to be used into the front of an amp and they sound pretty bad if you do that. People try to get around this by using full range full frequency (frfr) speakers and cabinets, but in general those still don’t sound as good as just going direct.
My experience is that these are good amps for silent stage environments with in ear systems or playing around in a studio environment (home or otherwise). These pedal are not great for most people for jamming with a band or playing bars. Hope this helps.
@@Jonathandavidk That’s helpful thanks. I thought as much. Trying to get my head around the idea that all this great Marshall tone is going to end up going through a stage wedge before I would hear it, and/ or through a set of PA speakers that the soundman is going to EQ to his taste anyway. You really want this sound to come out your guitar cab on stage, right behind you.
hi-is a Treble Bleed in the Strat? greetings from germany
I am old school and believe in playing the GUITAR and not the effects rig.
Indeed 🎶♥️🎶‼️‼️‼️
17:06 what song is it?
I think it’s intro chords of ”Angel”
that noise on the guitar makes me crazy!
That’s Why “They” Made HUMbuckers and Noise Gates 🤪😲🤔🎶♥️🎶‼️
Single coil stuff, love it or hate it hahaha I personally think it has "personality", but not everyone likes it.
i agree, i play my strats with noiseless pickups, and my amps with isolation transformers
it's supposed to be a commercial video! just by turning the position a lot of noise goes away... @@vspa
Yeah, its hard to listen to real instruments played by real players. Go listen to a modern overproduced piece of music and be happy.
ok happy to see James on but note to the presenter, putting the volume and tone on 10 and never leaving the bridge is peak boomer behavior.
Pretty noisey on my end
WHAT are You Listening Through ?
The 60 cycle is strong here.