Mike Fleming
New Member
Hi everybody! I've been following the forums for some time. It's quite admirable how everybody helps each other out in here and listening to all your sounds in the recordings section convinced me to buy. I've been playing for 40 years and have owned it all....probably a few times lol!! :roll:
Yup...you guessed it - it's all gone now and I'm the very happy owner of an Ultra running 9.03.
Recently we did a fairly large gig and my "real amps" went down just before start time. I had a W/D/W rig with a rack of gear, 5150 head, Mesa cabs...the whole nine yards! My new Ultra was already in the rack as I was about to start learning how to use it. I had no intentions of using it that night but had no other options. I had 10 minutes to dial in a sound and just hooked up direct to FOH. The tech put it back through the stage monitors for me to hear. I used a preset with a 5150 amp as I had one of those modified by Voodoo and was familiar with that sound.... made a couple of very small EQ adjustments, added some delay and just went for it!
WOW! I was giggling like a 13 year old catching his first glimpse of a bra strap! Nobody could believe what they were hearing! I kind of almost expected it in a way after hearing what it could do from your guy's sound examples. I had no idea how to run it but the sound was already there. There were other bands at the gig that night and all the guitarists wanted to know what I was using....some even writing down this site to look further into it.
I guess my point here is I've read some comments about how complicated this thing is to operate. If you've ever used a programmable guitar fx unit in the past then you'll find the Ultra very similar and it's actually quite easy to operate...even when you really don't know what you're doing....like me! lol. Do I know what "sag" and "damp" do? No! I just LISTEN when I tweak settings...I don't "watch" numbers changing. I'll learn how to post more sound clips and video in the future and share those with you. Right now though I'm too busy PLAYING with this amazing little box!
You can check out this gig's sound on YouTube if you search "Backdraft Toronto Fire". It's the first video that comes up in the upper left side. It's our only YouTube video....the other "Backdraft" videos aren't us. My "real" amp rig :lol: is off to the side and you can't see it. The little Fender amp behind me was being used by our other guitarist. I have no idea what the house tech did to my sound (if anything) in the PA as I couldn't hear it but this video suggests it sounded ok.
Yes...that's a Lado Strat style guitar that was made for me back in the late 70's! The sound is quite distorted as it came from somebody's camera but you can tell the Axe is there for sure. It's a cover of a Whitesnake song we do. By way of introduction....we are a band made up of Toronto Canada firefighters and we do charity gigs to help people in need. This gig was for Haiti.
Love to hear your thoughts!
Yup...you guessed it - it's all gone now and I'm the very happy owner of an Ultra running 9.03.
Recently we did a fairly large gig and my "real amps" went down just before start time. I had a W/D/W rig with a rack of gear, 5150 head, Mesa cabs...the whole nine yards! My new Ultra was already in the rack as I was about to start learning how to use it. I had no intentions of using it that night but had no other options. I had 10 minutes to dial in a sound and just hooked up direct to FOH. The tech put it back through the stage monitors for me to hear. I used a preset with a 5150 amp as I had one of those modified by Voodoo and was familiar with that sound.... made a couple of very small EQ adjustments, added some delay and just went for it!
WOW! I was giggling like a 13 year old catching his first glimpse of a bra strap! Nobody could believe what they were hearing! I kind of almost expected it in a way after hearing what it could do from your guy's sound examples. I had no idea how to run it but the sound was already there. There were other bands at the gig that night and all the guitarists wanted to know what I was using....some even writing down this site to look further into it.
I guess my point here is I've read some comments about how complicated this thing is to operate. If you've ever used a programmable guitar fx unit in the past then you'll find the Ultra very similar and it's actually quite easy to operate...even when you really don't know what you're doing....like me! lol. Do I know what "sag" and "damp" do? No! I just LISTEN when I tweak settings...I don't "watch" numbers changing. I'll learn how to post more sound clips and video in the future and share those with you. Right now though I'm too busy PLAYING with this amazing little box!
You can check out this gig's sound on YouTube if you search "Backdraft Toronto Fire". It's the first video that comes up in the upper left side. It's our only YouTube video....the other "Backdraft" videos aren't us. My "real" amp rig :lol: is off to the side and you can't see it. The little Fender amp behind me was being used by our other guitarist. I have no idea what the house tech did to my sound (if anything) in the PA as I couldn't hear it but this video suggests it sounded ok.
Yes...that's a Lado Strat style guitar that was made for me back in the late 70's! The sound is quite distorted as it came from somebody's camera but you can tell the Axe is there for sure. It's a cover of a Whitesnake song we do. By way of introduction....we are a band made up of Toronto Canada firefighters and we do charity gigs to help people in need. This gig was for Haiti.
Love to hear your thoughts!