a lot better than what I had with the x series stuff and then“ boom” here comes the Gen 2 stuff and it’ s definitely better, I think, than where they were. But they are still taking advantage of the opportunities to improve the gear. I love that about Universal Audio. I’ ve got and x8p Gen 2 and a Gen 1 at the big studio as well as an x4 Gen 2 on the desktop for additional inputs and monitor control. At home I have an x4 in my small room and then a Solo for my tiny rig. I like having those smaller interfaces and plugins right there at all times and then it also gives me a tactile volume control for the whole system. At the big studio, my x8 Apollos are in a rack behind me, like an old school studio in a rack.
[ WM ] Awesome. Have you tried any of the UA pedals for the pedal board?
[ Linc ] Yeah, I was in early on with the pedals. I got to try the first round of pedals before they came out and then I got to come down to Sound City and be part of filming for that initial round. And not surprising, I knew that James Santiago was part of that and was just like,“ Oh, he’ s the right guy.” He’ ll be a complete tweak head about the details, and he knows the right stuff that you need to know about all the heads and all the different variations.
And he’ s an amazing guitar player. One thing you have to know about modeling anything is the specimen you model determines what the model sounds like. Most modeling technologies from any company now are really good. So it has more to do with, well, which amp did they model? And a lot of modelers do not model great amps. And I won’ t go
into the behind the scenes of things I know about certain specimens, but I would prefer a model of a really great amp with not as good of technology, versus a great model of just a soso amp … it is just going to sound like a so-so or subpar amp. So of course, UA gets the best of the best amps and they just go absolutely hog wild. When I heard the Ruby, that was
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