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

This is an update to my previous posting (February '98 - please note my new e-mail address!). My new settings for this pedal are as follows: Volume and Intensity both at 85-90%, and the Speed off. This adds a nice, thick chorus without being warbly or sounding Leslie-like. I use this pedal with these settings along with a Vox Valve-Tone in front of a Carvin 212 Bel Air on the lead channel with the "Soak" control set on "1" and my new guitar - a Fender Big Apple Strat, with its SD '59 neck humbucker. This constitutes my basic sound.
You can do some pretty trippy stuff with this pedal, too. One one song that the bass player and I have written, I leave the Volume and Intensity controls alone and bring up the Speed to match. Then I switch to a clean tone and the dual single-coil setting on my Strat and I max out the reverb on my amp. The result is truly wierd.
Other than that, it still gets a 10.

Have a friend twist the knobs a few times while you play and you will be able to find the sound you are looking for. The foot controller (which just controls the speed and provides the "leslie" speaker sound) is a nice added bonus for creating funky solo pieces.

I am running the following setup: fender blues deville AMP(effects loop)---> Boss GE7 (EQ)---> Dunlop Univibe---> Boss overdrive/distortion---> back to AMP. This has given me all the tone that i have ever wanted. The univibe has a vintage switch on the back of the unit that has been the most pleasing for me. The vintage switch thickens the tone considerably. I like my setup so much that i have decided to sell off my multieffects unit. So if you are looking....

This thing is built road tough. Punish it if you want, it'll keep singing. I would want to carry another power source, just incase, the power source it comes with is not easily available.

I play a combination of stlyes that has become my own over the last seven or eight years. My peddle line-up has given me my tone and sound. If I lost any of this equipment, I would buy the everything the same except the distortion (then I would buy a real tube peddle). I am truely satisfied with the univibe.

The UniVibe is a great effect. It's really easy to use, and even easier if you have the Foot Controller expression pedal, which bypasses the bypass switch and the speed knob. Otherwise the spped and intensity can get annoying.

My setup is this: Epiphone Les Paul => Crybaby Wah => Boss Ds-1 Dist. =>Uni Vibe =>Rivera or Marshall.
This Pedal sounds really great. This pedal sounds great for doing Jimi Hendrix songs. You could try and approxitmate a leslie sound, as heard on SRV songs, but...well try it and decide for yourself.

This pedal was designed for the road. It is built of a sturdy alumionium. The only thing is the power cable (no batteries) is detachable, and sucks 18V, so if you lose it and need a replacement fast, you might be in trouble. But it does come shipped with one.

I love this pedal. It's my first Chorus, and i love it. I would definatly buy it again. I play blues, classic, Metal and Punk. This pedal is Great. And i hear that dunlop has just come out with a stereo chorus Uni-Vibe. Check it out. I gotta go now, i feel an urge to play Purple Haze.

It's pretty easy to use if you're patient enough...a little knob-twiddling and you can sound like Jimi in no time.

I use the Univibe with a Crybaby and the foot-switchable distortion that comes with my Fender Princeton 112 amp. It sounds great clean (or distorted, for that matter). The only downside is the price, and the *UN*reliability (but those don't go in this category). But when it works, the sound is fantastic. Very quiet, too.

Here's the story: I bought my first UV in January of this year. I took it back less than two months later because all that I got from the pedal was the volume knob (I was not getting any of either the chorus or vibrato effects). The new one I got worked okay for a while, but soon recieved the same fate as its predecessor. I brought it back to the store, but it was too late for an exchange or refund, and the repair guy was not authorized by Dunlop. They called the company and I found out that Dunlop made a recall on the model I had because of defective parts! The store sent the UV in and I am still waiting for a new one.

I'm still waiting after 4 or 5 weeks, and it was a big hassle to get a hold of them in the first place.

It's a fabulous effect when it works, but for the hassle I went thrugh, I wouldn't buy it again.

This is a pretty ease effect to use... you will spend most of your time fine tuning the intensity controls... speed is easy to get where you want quickly. But VERY easy to use.

Im using this with a Strat & Hot Rod DeVille. The sound seems to muddy up when using the chorus, but the vibrato is clean. This is a pain, because I dont get the crisp high end when I switch the effect on. The vibrato, in my opinion, is a great effect, with a low speed and intensity set at about 4. The chorus is mediocre, and in my opinion lacks the airy sound from a Leslie... this is more of a strait chorus/phasor pedal than a rotary speaker simulator. You are better off with a Korg G4 if you can find one. If you are looking for the SRV Leslie effect, you will be dissapointed in this pedal. The best examples of this effect are in Kenny Wayne Shepards "Trouble Is..." track and "Shame shame shame". This is actually the pedal Kenny uses.

Really sturdy, built well.

??? dont know

Im a blues SRV/Hendrix fanatic... this is good for Hendrix stuff but miles away from SRV Leslie sound (ala Cold Shot). Kinda cool effect, but the ads and descriptions are misleading, in my opinion. Is it worth the $220? No. Id get a Rotovibe, or DOD Vibro-thang for a similiar and much cheaper effect. Ill keep it, because at lower speed/intensity the chorus definitely adds a unique edge and thickness to your sound... but I wouldnt buy it again.

Three knobs - speed, volume, and intensity - and two switches - effect/bypass and chorus/vibrato. It's mechanically very easy to operate, but you need to experiment with it more than you do with other pedals.

The sound that best approximates what the Uni-Vibe sounds like is Jimi Hendrix's "Room Full of Mirrors," in my opinion. You can get pretty darn close with this thing. The chorus mode is the more useful of the two. It's not a really thick sound - in fact, it's quite subtle. It adds a terrific blurry edge to your sound without being too dominant. The vibrato section is more of a swirling, "Come As You Are" sound. It doesn't have as many applications, but it has its time and place. I'm using this thing with a Washburn guitar with two humbuckers and a middle position single-coil, and I can get almost any sound I want. The footcontroller only makes it better - when it's rocked all the way back, the sound is barely noticeable, but you'd still miss it if it wasn't there. Stepping on it further down increases the effect. Doing this mid-song creates some really cool textures.

Mine is used, and the effect/bypass switch has taken a little bit of a beating, although it still works. That doesn't really matter though, since I'm using the footcontroller to turn it on and off. Overall, this thing looks like it could be dropped, thrown, driven over, or used as a weapon, and it would still deliver fantastic tone.

I haven't talked to the company, but the website is pretty cool.

I'm into Hendrix and Stevie Ray, and as far as I'm concerned, this is the Holy Grail of chorus pedals. I wouldn't change a thing about it. It's an inspiring piece of equipment that is a joy to own and play with. However - this thing is pricey. If I hadn't found this one for so cheap (on this site), I probably would have gotten something else. If it were stolen, lost, or permanently damaged, I'd probably get a Rotovibe or something. Still, this is the coolest effect I've ever used.

This is really easy to use, but it takes a little screwing with to get the sound perfect (were talkin 3 minutes...tops). Just plug it in and hit "effect/bypass" and go.

This is THE BOMB. If you listen to Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa (ex. Willie the Pimp), YOU NEED THIS PEDAL!!!
This is the sound you are looking for!! This is the sound Jimi had on "get my heart back together" at Woodstock.
i concur that the vibrato effect is pretty lame, but i find that when i don't want the heavy heavy chorus sound, switching to the vibrato setting is helpful. It gives an almost imperceptable (as in you wouldn't hear it and go "Wow he's using a Vibrato") but when you switch it off you notice that this sweet warmth has left.
I'm playin this puppy into a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe (all tube 40w) and it sound like heaven. I played it and was INSTANTLY satisfied that I had just spent 240 bucks. I just want to clarify that I was pissed for at least 3 weeks after buying my Strat (a '73 beauty), so i'm not easily satisfied.
The chorus position will make anything clean sound like liquid and will add HUGE amounts of thickness to a distorted channel. Turn this pedal on and get ready to come.

this thing is built like a tank, like every other Dunlop product i've purchased (I have a Cry Baby that i've used to hammer nails into the wall) (it's a long story). I think this thing will probably last the rest of my natural life. I would use this without a backup without even thinking twice (then again i don't have a backup guitar).

I play "classic rock" (god I hate saying that) and jazz. I do a lot of rippin blues solos (in my own opinion) and this pedal has not let me down. It adds the thickness that a guitar needs in a 3 piece setup. It also makes any clean thing you do sound like a Hammond B3 through a Leslie. The geniuses at Dunlop *NAILED* this sound (my friend has a leslie and this thing is so close that unless you want to invest an arm and a leg and lug a Huge heavy cabinet around, you won't regret this purchase). I debated buying this for about 2 years and I really wish I hadn't. The only thing i'd like is if the vibrato section were a little more useful.

Pretty, easy to set up for a decent sound, but getting it just perfect can be tough, especially with the control pedal. Beware, the control pedal uses a stereo 1/4 plug, which in my experience was a real pain to find, I ended up using two adaptors stuck together.

Simply beautiful. They weren't kidding in the ads where they said it was a thick, lush, and airy, phasey sort of chorus. I use it on my bass, and it still sounds incredible. This thing is also dead silent, no audible click when swithcing or bypassing effects.

It has been very realiable so far, I haven't had it to long though. It does seem very sturdy, all metal, and controls are sturdy as well.

I would buy it again in a heart beat. Unless of course, the original actual does sound better. Then I might consider shelling out the extra $700 bucks for one. If I had it of course, but I really can't see how it could get much better.

Uses a pedal to contol speed, (worth the extra money for the foot controler). Uses tele knobs that rip apart your fingers if you are not used to them. With foot switch you can bypass simply by pulling the rocker foot all the way back. Foot petal has an adjust able throw for tension. The only knob that does anything really is the depth and it doesn't change much.

The ultimate effect by far. Does a incredible leslie impression ala "Something" by the Beatles or "Breath" by Pink Floyd. Not too overpowering like a Boss chorus (I own one of those too and I don't even think about using it anymore." Kinda lame in over drive doesn't do the Jimi ala "Machine Gun" thing but it does the "Little Wing" thing like you wouldn't belive.

Built like that Mesa Boogie (V?) petal. I've had to readjust the foot petal a few times and the paints rubbing off the rockerfoot after 2 months, but it still looks bitchin'

Got me. I hear Dunlop's a bitch though.

I am currently trying to sell vital organs to buy another one for backup, allthough I don't belive it will break. Worth the money and then some.

Unit is very easy to use right out of the box. Has three knobs and two footswitches. Knobs are: speed, volume and Intensity. Two foot switches are: effect bypass and chorus/vibrato. The speed knob controls the rate or cycle of the effect and the intensity controls the mix of the effect with the dry signal. The Volume knob can add a bit of gain if turned up all the way but is basically useless. The chorus/vibrato feature is a bit misleading. The units "vibrato" is so bad that I can not imagine anyone choosing to use this unit as their vibrato sound but in fairness that's not what this unit is for. As far as I can tell a "Uni-vibe" is a type of vibrato coupled with a chorus/phaser type of effect and together they create a unique sound! Not certain if the effect/bypass switch is "true" bypass but it doesn't seem to color my sound when shut off. Unit also has jack in the back to add a speed control pedal so you can adjust unit on the fly.

Unit does not add any excessive noise when on or bypassed. Unit does produce nice, strong, classic Uni-Vibe sound ala Hendrix, S.R.V. and a bunch of other classic artist. Uni-vibe is basically a two trick pony-First is the slow to Med. speed setting that produces the Hendrix Star spangled Banner "warble" and Second with the speed turned up it's the S.R.V. "Cold Shot" guitar sound. Mixed with other effects you can really have fun but alone it kind of boils down to those two sounds. Recommend putting Uni-vibe before overdrive/dist. in effect chain- seems to sound best.(IMHO) Set unit for a strong Med. cycle, add a bit of overdrive and it's Robin Trower "Bridge of Sighs" time! Overall unit sounds great.

Unit seems well constructed and is well layed out.Would gig w/out backup since it wouldn't kill me to not have a Uni-vibe sound for one show. A bit baffled by the unit's 18volt AC adapter instead of 9vlt. This makes me fairly dependent on it's AC adapter so I can not afford to forget it since I only own the one 18vlt.

NO opinion yet....

Unit certainly produces a nice useable classic Uni-Vibe sound.I compaired it with the Fulltone Deja Vibe and liked the Fulltone a bit more but could not afford the extra $150.00 or so for an effect I will not be using all that much. Produced a "Monster" sound though when I hooked the two units together!! (someday...) I certainly enjoy this Unit and it's sound versus a traditional Chorus unit that I am completely bored with - although a bit of chorus added to the Uni-Vibe sound can be quite nice. Overall I give this unit a thumbs up for the price convenience and total sound.

No different than dialing in your favorite radio station. Find the settings you like (speed,volume and intensity) and leave it alone. I bought the optional foot controller and had a problem with the patch cord hook up. Hey everybody, you have to use a stereo one between the main unit and the foot controller. There is only one short sentence buried in the foot control instruction sheet to tell you this and I overlooked it. Don't make that mistake or you will think your unit is not working right.

The only true Leslie effect unit outside of an amp on the market today. All the others (Voodoo Vibe and Prescription Electronics) are imitations. Chalk one of for Dunlop! My unit is really quiet.

I have had it for two months now but practice everyday and take it to my weekend gigs with no problem. I do not carry a backup but have never had a problem with the quality of Dunlop products.

I had to call about the patch cord problem I had. I think I talked to the head of production. Whoever it was he was pretty cool and very helpful. Easy folk to speak with.

Except for the patch cord confusion this is a great product. I am a long time player and have herd the original Univibe made in the 70's. This Dunlop unit is better than the original! I would buy another one and I am recomending them to everyone that asks.

The Uni-Vibe is extremely easy to use, as are most "stomp-boxes"

The Uni-Vibe is probably one of the most quiet effects of this type that I have ever heard. Also, it doesn't appear to muddy up your tone when bypassed.

It's built like a rock.

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This pedal is great! I would definitely buy it again. It sucessfully recreates the Hendrix/Trower tone that I love. The effect is also relatively subtle, so I wouldn't recommend it if you are looking for a dramatic effect. I had the opportunity to compare it side by side to the Prescription Electronics unit, and I thought it sounded cleaner, it was $150 less, you can add a pedal controller like the original, and it was made more rugged. This effects tone seems very authentic.

Pretty basic; three knobs, two footswitches.

It has a very good sound, seems to have a clean signal, and you can vary the amount of the effect greatly using the volume, speed, and intensity knobs. That's one reason I prefer it to my Rotovibe, which always seemed to be just a little bit too dry of an effect whereas this Univibe reissue can get very wet.

Seems to be built pretty solid, all metal knobs, housing, and switches. I've only used it live a few times so far and have had no problems yet.

I'd buy it again. I prefer it to my Rotovibe which this replaces. I checked out some "boutique" Univibes but I couldn't really tell what I'd get. I suppose only the really anally-retentive purist wouldn't be happy with this Univibe reissue.
Univibe's are probably the most over-hyped and expensive re-issued pedal by the various "boutique" manufacturers. All I ask of it is a good swooshy quasi-Leslie speaker old-Hendrix kind of sound, and this unit delivers.

To tell you the truth i was very disapointed with the Dunlop Uni-Vibe. Three knobs,intensity,volume and speed. this unit doesn't come alive until you put speed up to at least 4 or 5, even then you don't get that great of an effect going. The two switches, Chorus/Vibrato and Effects/Bypass. The effects/bypass switch just turns it off and on, the chorus on the uni-vibe is nothing great. and the vibrato is not to special either. This unit comes with an adapter but you have to let the unit warm up for a couple of minutes in cold weather.

Once again it sounds ok. its nothing great the chorus and vibratto are very lame.

its very very sturdy, you could throw it against the wall and it would still work

i would never buy this pedal again, in fact i returned it cuz it just wasn't doing it for me. your better off getting the dunlp rotovibe in my opinion, the chours on the rotovibe is very thick and juicy, were as the univibes chorus is very dull. same goes for the vibrato. this pedal is just not worth it.