GEAR REVIEW
UNIVERSAL AUDIO UAFX OX STOMP PEDAL | Steve Sattler
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• Like an OX Amp Top Box minus the load box
• Missing link between your pedalboard amp and FOH
• Good Value for all that you get
Universal Audio has over the last few years made significant moves to re-invent themselves not only as a manufacturer of Professional grade audio interfaces , plug-ins , and pro audio equipment , but also as a manufacturer of highquality guitar pedals and effects .
One of the standout products for worship guitar players that Universal Audio came out with a few years ago was the OX Amp Top Box . The OX is a desktop reactive load box and speaker emulator which has become a studio standard for taming the output of your favorite tube amp down to a manageable volume . It allows you to go straight to front of house or direct into
your audio interface , all the while retaining the full tonal characteristics of your amp , with or without a speaker cabinet connected .
As a follow-up , late last year Universal Audio released the OX Stomp , a pedalboard friendly stomp box sized version of the OX Amp Top Box . It incorporates essentially everything found in the OX Amp Top Box minus the ability to function as a load box . The OX stomp is for your pedal board what the OX Amp Top Box is for your tube amp . It is designed to go in your signal chain after your favorite amp-in-a-box .
Universal Audio makes a number of great options including the just released flagship UAFX Lion 68 Sper Lead Pedal . Placing the OX Stomp into your signal chain gives you the ability to send a realistic equivalent of what otherwise would be your traditional amp cabinet and microphone configuration , along with user configurable studio quality effects .
The OX Stomp is designed to be the missing link between your pedalboard amp and front of house by giving you just the emulation and tone shaping capability of the OX Amp Top Box . The only thing you cannot do with OX Stomp is plug your speaker output directly into it . Whether you are a fan of virtual guitar amp technology or not , there is no denying the ability to realistically recreate the sound of a tube amp on a pedal board is here to stay . The available amp emulators today ( not just from Universal Audio but in general ) are getting better and better all the time , so much so that it is now viable even for pro level players to leave their amp and cabinet at home and go virtual .
The top panel of OX Stomp is based around the option to select six user selected “ Rigs .” An OX Stomp “ Rig ” is a complete sound with cabinet , mics , room , ambience , and multiple effects . The rest of the OX Stomp ’ s top panel controls are designed for real time adjustment of virtual microphones , room size , speaker drive and output . The two A / B footswitches allow you to select up to four Rigs in real time . The back of OX Stomp has stereo inputs and outputs and a USB C Port which is there solely
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