Dunlop Uni-Vibe

No more dificult than any of the other Vibes I've ever come across....... since I bought it used, there was no manual. But I s'pose it'd be in the plastic bag I was knealing on whilest tweaking this thing. =-)

I shoulda spent more time with the Rotovibe I used to own b4 posting the review that's here. It's not even in the same ballpark as the Uni-Vibe here..... I dunno.... perhaps I just had a lousy one. Cuz I remember the first one I had sounded better. But oh well.... you play longer and your ear develops. I like this thing. MUCH more richer and wetter compared to the Rotovibe. Although it is rather bright sounding........ I have an older version it seems.... cuz it doesn't have the vintage/normal switch. Also, from popping off the cover, it looks to me like it doesn't have true bypass switching.... although I don't hear the difference like i do with my Vox wah inline. Another thing..... the speed pedal seems a bit sensitive.... but I found a trim pot inside which adjusts the range of the speed pot/foot controller. REMEMBER..... using the foot controller requires a stereo cable to connect it to the Uni-Vibe. Luckily for me the guy I bought it from included one such cable.

I've only had it for about..... 3 weeks or so now. From looking inside, it appears the circuit board is dated February '95. So if it's lasted this long, I'm sure it'll keep on ticking whilest being in my possession. I'm still a bit anxious though cuz I've heard quite a few reports on a certain run of Vibes having to be recalled cuz of a defective IC chip. If anyone knows more about that, please mail me.

Have yet to deal with Dunlop.

I play a lot of Hendrix and Trower and such. While it's no DejaVibe or a Sweet Sounds UltraVibe (which i've heard quite a few rave reviews on), it's quite a good pedal. It's one of Dunlop's better ones.... a LOT better in terms of tone than their Fuzz Face. Speaking of which.... tone-wise a silicon FF sounds better running with the Uni-Vibe than a germanium one does.... which I have, one of each. It's certainly good for the money..... I just can't afford forking out 250-300 bux right now for a boutique effect. Congrats to Dunlop though... while it's not an exact copy, circuit-wise, they certainly got it good tonewise.

THE EASIEST PEDAL.CHORUS IS GREAT.THE MANUAL GOES OVER BASIC OPERATIONS BUT NO SAMPLE SETTINGS.

YOU CAN JUST NAIL DOWN HENDRIX,SRV.I DIDNT EXPERIMENT TOO MUCH.ONE OF THE BETTER SOUNDING ROTARY SPEAKER SIMULATIONS.USED A MESA MAVERICK WITH IT.JUST A TAD OF NOISE ADDED.SOUNDS BEST WITH SINGLE COILS.

HERE IS THE SCENE.I GIGGED TWICE WITH IT AFTER BUYING IT BRAND NEW AND THEN,I WENT FOR MY SOLO AND IT JUST DIED...NO SOUND.NO NOTHING.I BORROWED MY BUDDIES FULLTONE AND FELL IN LOVE WITH IT,SO I TOOK THE JUNK BACK TO GUITAR CENTER.THANK GOD FOR THE RETURN POLICY.THE GUY AT GUITAR CENTER SAID THE UNIVIBE HAS SOME PROBLEMS..OH WELL...

NEVER DEALT WITH THEM.

BE CAREFULL WITH THIS ONE.IT MAY JUST EMBARASS YOU LIKE IT DID ME.LIFE GOES ON.

Got a manual fo it,does't help.Once you start missing around with the knobs and find the settings you want you can nail down Hendrix & Robin Trower.

The best. Great sounds,well wroth the money.Hendix,Stevie Ray& Trower not a problem anymore.The Vibrato is ok,but the chrous is the best I've ever heard. I do hate the wallwart. Wish it ran on batteries.

Built like a tank.Yeah I would gig without a backup.Can't afford another Univibe!

Had a few minor problems when I first got it.Called them up, they gave some info and solved my problem. Very nice and helpfull. They gotten a bad rap!

I play rock and blues. This pedal is awesome. Don't buy a cheap copy get the real thing your wroth it.Voodoolabs MicroVirbe is nice but not the real thing.

very,very easy to use.two knobs?manual should have some sample settings.

sounded great at first,two weeks later it blew up and quit giving roto sounds.

two weeks old and it blew up on me.Dunlop mfg. said that i must have done something to it.judging from all the postings here,i think i got one of abundant defective ones.why cant dunlop fix their products? for $200.00 you shouldnt have to deal with junk.....I challenge jim dunlop to respond to all of these complaints. by listening to the people on the phone,i dont think they give a s**t as long as they make jimmy dunlop money...dont buy the univibe...unless you like sending stuff through the mail and dealing with the "customer support".

please read the above....they are pathetic

no way never gonna buy the s**t again..

The intensity control is odd, because it can fool you. About half way gives a different, but not necessarily any drier sound than full blast. I think around there it is really sweet, and it sounds good at higher intensities, too, but it hits a groove there. I use the footcontroller, which makes it probably the most flexible device I have ever used (everybody make sure you are using stereo cables on that footncontroller, now, or you won't work right). The vintage switch is important; on mine, I think it is working backwards, but it sounds best on mine with it in, and everybody else has to check for themselves. Just so that you know, it lowers the impedance on the input when you have the effect active.

I use a rewired Epiphone LP-100 (for series/parallel, phase, and coil cut switching). I use a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp. Although I get noise through the pickups (I'm going to replace them with shielded ones, at some point), once I ground myself I have a hard time making out any hum. This is a very sweet effect in chorus, and the footcontroller lets you do so much to accentuate your sound. Vintage switch in, please (at least on my unit). Using a distortion unit or overdrive before it with a good deal of treble gives the sound a nice texture. Using too heavy of an overdrive after the Uni-Vibe tends to mask the sound at lower speeds, but tweak with it, and it and you can manage to get it out. I don't really use the vibrato mode, why, because the sound of it entices motion sickness. It's only good if you use it at high speeds, or lower intensities, otherwise, it could drive you nuts. Then again, you have to tweak with any effect to find its nitch. Maybe I will like it once I find a place for it.

I can't afford a backup, so I'd have to swing without it. It's built like a tank, no question, the only problem is if you break the bulb inside. I don't try to prove how road worthy my effects are (e.g. another posting concerning the use of a CryBaby as a hammer), which is the only way that I think I could really get to break the light bulb. I have never heard of any such problems, and I haven't had them so 10 all the way.

I'd love to modify this thing, if I could. I modify everything. Anyway, yes I did call Customer Support, because I couldn't get the footcontroller bypass to work. I was pretty sure that my setup was okay, but at the time I was using a Radio Shack 1/8 shielded stereo cable with 1/4" adaptors. I thought that it was okay. I talked ot the guy, and I asked if I should try checking out the cable again, or trying it with a different one. The guy asked me if I had a multi-meter, and I said yes, and he told me how to check the switching. It worked fine from the jack, but the cable gave some wierd readings. It turned out that one of my adaptors was also a Stereo-Mono Converter. I exchanged it for the proper adaptor, and it worked from then on. For reference, I now use a Hosa 3' Shielded Stereo cable, and I recommend the same for everyone. It's cheap ($3-$5), it has a lifetime warranty, and it's very thin and light, taking up much less room than a heavy-duty stereo guitar cable with metal ends, which isn't really necessary. It works perfectly well.

I play modern rock, grunge, alternative, and some lovely retro 60s-70s stuff, and I can use it for all of it. My favortie band is Pearl Jam, and both Stone Gossard and Mike McCready use this effect, and they got that from Jimi and Stevie and some blues people, and I thought I could make good use of it, too, and I have. I would buy it again if it was absolutely destroyed, but of course that would require nuclear holocaust, and I'd be to broke at this point in my life to buy it again. I compared it to even the TC Electronics SCF, and I must say, in mono, that unit sucks, and stereo isn't worth it for stage performance. I didn't think that that unit was light years ahead of all other stereo choruses either. The Uni-Vibe is the best mono chorus I have ever tried. I'll let you know if I ever go stereo.

This is probably one of the easiest pedals. Volume controls how loud. Speed and intensity control how the effect actually sounds.

Right now I'm using an old Epiphone and a simple 15 watt practice amp. It's not the BEST sound I've ever heard, but it's atleast several notches above pretty good. I'm not really into Jimi Hendrix or a lot of the people who use it, but I actually heard it on a Korn album (believe it or not) and you can get really creepy sounds if you turn speed/intensity to full and volume to whatever, then hook up a distortion pedal.

It's pretty dependable, or atleast so far, it seems damn well sturdy enough.

haven't dealt with them

I've only been playing about 2 years and haven't really gotten into pedals too much, but this being like my fourth or fifth pedal I thought it was great. There isn't really much feedback either, although I've yet to play REALLY loud with it so, I not completely sure.

Easy to use if would work.

Lower noise floor than my Rocktron Tsunami Chorus... but since it puts no signal out at all now, it is my least noisy effect! ;.( To Rocktron's credit, the Tsunami is a bit noisy, but it works!

I should have known better than to buy a Dunlop product. I don't know how many of their crappy wah pedals my band mate has gone through. I won't make the mistake of buying Dunlop ever again.

Going on what everyone else has said about trying to get this thing repaired/replaced, I suppose I should just throw the piece of stainless junk away instead of trying to get Dunlop to do anything about it. I suppose it makes a neato paper-weight though... pretty pricey for a friggin' paper-weight. Thanks Dunlop. :.P

IMHO, steer clear of the Uni-Vibe and all Dunlop products; you are looking for heartbreak and flushed cash if you don't! Maybe they will repent, improve their products, and become more customer service oriented. I, for one, am not going to hold my breath!

Loads of great sounds straight out of the box!

Very good sound, a little noisy, and sometimes gets lost n the mix

Sometimes fails, I would still gig with it though!

No idea!

Verygood for the hendrix sound no other pedal comes close!

VERY EASY TO USE IF YOU CAN GET IT TO WORK.

WHAT SOUND?

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

VERY UNHELPFULL,RUDE, AND THEY MADE IT THE WORST EXPERIENCE I HAVE EVER HAD WITH A COMPANY.HAD TO FINALLY SIT DOWN AND WRITE A COMPLAINT TO JIM DUNLOP ABOUT HIS CUSTOMER SERVICE AND DEFECTIVE IC CHIP IN HIS UNIVIBES THAT CAUSE THEM TO GIVE NO ROTARY EFFECTS.I DONT THINK MR.DUNLOP WOULD HAVE CALLED ME AT HOME IF I DIDNT THREATEN TO POST MY COMPLAINT ON THE INTERNET.WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO AMERICAN COMPANIES THAT FOCUS ON PROFIT WITH QUALITY BEING SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS LATER.

I HAD TO SEND THIS PRODUCT BACK BECAUSE IT JUST WOULDNT PRODUCE ROTARY SOUNDS.I THINK THEY HAVE A BIG PROBLEM WITH THIS MODEL BECAUSE I CAN SEE ANOTHER POSTING HERE THAT IS BASICALLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.IC CHIP OR SOMETHING THEY SAID.I GOT THE UNIVIBE SENT BACK TO ME AFTER A BIG HASSLE, PLUGGED IT IN AND....NOTHING. I CALLED BACK AND SAID IT WAS NOT FIXED,AND THEY TOLD ME THE UNIT MUST HAVE BLOWN AGAIN....HE SAID IT WAS FROM STATIC BUILDUP ON MY BODY FROM MY CARPET THAT DID IT THE SECOND TIME.....SO NOW I HAVE TO PRACTICE NAKED SO MY UNIVIBE WONT BLOW UP......THANKS JIMMY. IF ANYONE ELSE HAS THIS PROBLEM I URGE THEM TO POST IT HERE.AND YES THEY SENT ME DIFFERENT MODEL WHEN I REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE UNIVIBE.HAD TO SETTLE FOR SOMETHING LESS.

This is a really cool sounding effect and easy to use. 3 knobs Speed, Volume, & Intensity. 2 footswitches, 1 to bypass the effect and 1 to change from chorus to vibrato.

I'm using a les paul with a # of effects through a marshall. The sound you get from this effect is a really awesome phasey, rotating speaker sound. Or a pretty cool vibrato effect.

It comes in a stainless steel casing and strong footswithes