Didnt realize that over a year ago a friend of mine gave me a box of goodies, and this was in it sitting in my garage..Is it a decent unit? or is it GARBAGE?
behringer ultra-g
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I have a couple of Ultra-G's. Personally I think they sound pretty decent. Not as good as impulses, but to my ears, they hold up to many more expensive ones.
They sound different than most of the higher end Palmers and such, but at the end of the day, impulses sound better than all of them, so why drop the cash?
At $35, they have been immensely useful to me. I used them for silent recording or scratch tracks with my amps (still need a dummy load). They sound great with a bit of verb. Some guys prefer the clarity, especially blended with a mic'd track and phase compensated with PhaseBug or the LittleLabs IPB.
I even prefer it to a lot of "stock" speaker sims in modelers, especially a few years ago before many became impulse based. With things like the V-amps, I used the Ultra-G onboard the Pro Units all the time. Way better than the internal sims.
These days I use it for direct and zero latency monitoring of tube amps for tracking. I take DI track, a Raw amp Track, and the Ultra-G track. You can add impulses later or re-amp, but at least I get the feel of my amps. They were built to model the Jensen C12 cabs, which are a bit bright, so keep that in mind.
Hmm.. at oh 7 years I have had mine, and they have traveled a lot, thrown in gig bags, rolling around in cases of other DI Boxes and cables, they are beat up and still work. One of the B*hringer Jems...
They sound different than most of the higher end Palmers and such, but at the end of the day, impulses sound better than all of them, so why drop the cash?
At $35, they have been immensely useful to me. I used them for silent recording or scratch tracks with my amps (still need a dummy load). They sound great with a bit of verb. Some guys prefer the clarity, especially blended with a mic'd track and phase compensated with PhaseBug or the LittleLabs IPB.
I even prefer it to a lot of "stock" speaker sims in modelers, especially a few years ago before many became impulse based. With things like the V-amps, I used the Ultra-G onboard the Pro Units all the time. Way better than the internal sims.
These days I use it for direct and zero latency monitoring of tube amps for tracking. I take DI track, a Raw amp Track, and the Ultra-G track. You can add impulses later or re-amp, but at least I get the feel of my amps. They were built to model the Jensen C12 cabs, which are a bit bright, so keep that in mind.
Hmm.. at oh 7 years I have had mine, and they have traveled a lot, thrown in gig bags, rolling around in cases of other DI Boxes and cables, they are beat up and still work. One of the B*hringer Jems...
raisedfist
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I was in the market for a DI with Cab sim about 7/8 years ago after gigging with a few bands who were micing and using H&K redboxes live but I didn't wanna pay the £100/120 or whatever the H&K boxes were at the time and stumbled across the the Ultra-G and ordered one as it was only £24 at the time which wasn't too bad.
Anyhow to cut out a long boring story I ended up A/Bing a H&K redbox up against the Ultra-G in speaker sim mode and I was suprised that the Ultra-G actually sounded better and realer that the H&K which sounded way more fizzy and unusable in my opinion. As a blend with a mic'ed cab live I think these things are a gem for the money and as aortizjr says the palmer one are probably leaps ahead as they are a much newer design but for free its a handy little box.
Anyhow to cut out a long boring story I ended up A/Bing a H&K redbox up against the Ultra-G in speaker sim mode and I was suprised that the Ultra-G actually sounded better and realer that the H&K which sounded way more fizzy and unusable in my opinion. As a blend with a mic'ed cab live I think these things are a gem for the money and as aortizjr says the palmer one are probably leaps ahead as they are a much newer design but for free its a handy little box.
guitarguru777
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Ya saw that email you sent me about it. Not a huge fan of them for final mix, but tracking they are great!
Omega_Void
Your Eventual Destroyer
I've used Ultra-G live on a few occasions for convenience, and it worked out pretty well. In toilet venue the PA probably isn't much more accurate than a guitar speaker at the frequencies of interest, which is probably why.
For recording it's lame, doesn't compare to a real speaker in a room at all. For rough tracking it might be handy though, if you have phantom power. Battery life isn't terribly good.
For recording it's lame, doesn't compare to a real speaker in a room at all. For rough tracking it might be handy though, if you have phantom power. Battery life isn't terribly good.
