UAD Ox Amp Top Box

Apologies if already posted. This looks awesome though. Studio miked sounds from your tube amp at any volume. Expensive ($1299)
 

OX is a premium reactive load box and guitar recording system, giving you perfectly studio-miked amp sounds from your favorite tube amp. OX lets you play and record your amp in its sweet spots — from huge clean tones and edge-of-breakup to fully cranked — at any volume level, and with mic, room, and speaker cabinet emulations at the turn of a knob. 

Featuring Universal Audio’s breakthrough Dynamic Speaker Modeling, OX is the first system to accurately emulate speaker drive, breakup, and cone cry — making it the world’s finest speaker attenuator and guitar amp recording solution.

NOW YOU CAN:

Play and record your tube amp in its tonal sweet spot — anywhere, at any volume, with full dynamics

Get stunning mic and guitar cabinet combinations at the turn of a RIG knob — no miking required

Audition, tweak, and save more than 100 jaw-dropping custom Rigs from compatible iPad or Mac

Get authentic “edge of destruction” sounds, complete with UA Dynamic Room Modeling, speaker breakup, and cone cry

Cost on the OX is high... but the cab modeling process isn't as static as an IR.
At least that's what they're claiming...
Based on what I've heard, this may be the best sounding (modeled) mic/cab option available.
Would love to have this connected to a Friedman BE-100.     HUGE and the cost to match!
 
 

The BE-100 is large and in charge...
Wish it wasn't $3700
 
I believe Friedman has a 50w model now... 
About $200 less.  

Jim Roseberry
The BE-100 is large and in charge...
Wish it wasn't $3700
 
I believe Friedman has a 50w model now... 
About $200 less.  

Well that's the answer then, isn't it? 50W is at least half as good as 100...

here's an example of a song i recorded (off the bats brew 'the time is magic' album),
that used a 60 watt mesa boogie markIIb head thru Palmer PDI-09 for direct recording.... monitoring thru an attenuator set at whisper volume, the palmer takes the signal BEFORE the attenuator...
no mics on any of the electric guitar parts
 
 
https://soundcloud.com/bats-brew/just-walked-away
 
 

Bat, that was excellent from top to bottom!
Liked the guitar a lot.

but, back on topic,
this post i made was just to show what can be done with a simple direct box with a good cab filter built into it..
 
the weber i have, has a line out, and i can feed that directly to my interface and load a celestion 4x12 IR into the daw, and basically have the same thing as the UA device is doing, 
but with less control over the tonality of the thing.
but in my opinion, that happens at the amp, and how you set it for the purpose of direct recording.
 
i'd buy a custom low watt amp before i'd spend that much on a load box!
 
 

Jim Roseberry
Someone on The Gear Page made a short demo using a Plexi clone into the OX.
Sounded amazingly good... very little work involved... and dead silent when recording.
 
Anyone played a Mesa Triple Crown?
The 50w model is about half the cost of the BE-100.
Had a Dual-Rec not too long ago.  Really didn't care for it's distortion (clean channel was nice).
The dirt sounded kind of "ratty" to me.  Hard to describe in words... just not complex or pleasant sounding distortion.
Tried tweaking it for weeks... 
The BE-100 OD pedal sounded nice thru the clean channel.  
 
The new 5150 with EL34s looks promising (at much lower cost).
I like the original 5150-III... though it has absurd amount of gain on the Red channel.
New models have separate volume for the Green and Blue channels (can now be properly balanced).
 

I have the Triple Crown 50w and absolutely love it.  Clean is great sounding whether you leave it on the clean setting or flip the switch to give it a little bit of extra grit, the blue lo-gain channel has a pretty good range from light breakup to decent older hard rock and even 80s metal gain levels, and the red hi-gain has plenty of gain on tap for anyone.  The MIDI switching capabilities are just icing on the cake.  It's got a lot of the British vibe of a Marshall, but with a Mesa take on it.  It doesn't have the earth shattering low end of a Recto, but it has enough for what I use and it is tighter and more pleasing to me.  Some have said that it sits somewhere between a Mark and Recto in tonality and that it kind of has it's own thing going on.  I was interested in that or the JP-2C and was leaning toward the TC50 based on listening to every clip I could find.  Then I called Mesa of Hollywood and asked them for comparison, and they said that the blue channel was really the big advantage.  The JP-2C, has is more like a clean channel with two hi-gain channels that are fairly similar in voicings (with a few options on each of course), whereas the blue channel on the TC50 does the in-between sounds much better.
 
I also had the 50w 5150 III with the 6L6.  Mine had been modded with concentric volume controls, which the EL34 now has stock.  I liked it a lot too, but the TC50 covers more range of tones in my opinion. The 5150 seemed a bit more metal tonally is one way of describing it.  Not that the TC50 can't get metal, it's just capable of a lot more range than just metal.
 
A buddy of mine recently picked up the new EL34 flavored 5150 III 50w and he is using that over the Peavey 6505+ that he was using.  I've only heard it once myself and I liked the tones he had.  Would like to play around with one for a bit myself to see how it compares to my old 6L6 version.  I know it's got plenty of gain for him to use the blue channel for pretty hi-gain rhythm, and he doesn't turn up the gain too much when he kicks it over to red for solos, so it's got that over the top gain structure mine had.
 
Sorry for the thread derail, but Jim asked, and since he's built my last two DAWs and offered me and countless other great advice over the years, I had to chime in. :)

This is the thing I really wanted. Looks freakin' awesome. The bummer, at least to me, was the app, which you need to go deep with the product, is Mac only!
 
I had a credit card out too ...
 
Great video on the unit where the guy tests out the Vox speaker sims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbQZSMXtyMg

I agree with what you said about the 5150 III Jim.  I also swapped a couple of tubes to drop the gain a bit lower on the red channel and still never ran it past 11 o'clock on the dial. 
 
Congrats on the TC-50 and OX setup.  I bet that kicks all kinds of @$$. I'd be lying if I said I was't tempted to do that.  I've been using mics to record mine, but recently decided to get back into the Axe-FX thing.  I have the II, but couldn't resist getting on the list for the new Axe-FX III.  I think I'll be using it for effects with the amp live, but also using it in the studio. I like the way you can dial in everything on the amp for my live setup and adjust the solo boost to the right level, and tweak the tonestack on the amp without having to dig into an editor for the live setup, but like saving my presets with the exact settings I used for recording consistency with the AFX.

scottcmusic
 
Interesting idea ... I wonder if I can get that app on my iPhone? That is something I already have.

Unfortunately... the OX control app doesn't work with an iPhone.
 
The OX was just released... 
I have to think UA will ultimately offer the control app for PC.

Very interested in your thoughts on OX, Tom.
IMO, A nice amp into OX sounds better than either the Kemper, Helix or Axe-FX.
It's not that those solutions sound bad (not by any stretch)... but the real amp just sounds more... real.
I'm sure it's similar to a pianist playing a real grand vs. a sample library.
 
Pete Thorn just released a half-hour video demo of the OX (used with various amps).
Sounds amazing...
Don't recall Pete producing anything that actually sounds bad.  
 
 

The OX isn't cheap, but you have to think about what's it's replacing (and what that's worth to you).
To put things into perspective, a single Royer R121 is about the price of the OX.
Considering you get a *reactive* load box (not static), dynamic speaker models (not static like an IR), multiple good sounding mics (including room mics), an attenuator, and quality DSP (EQ/Dynamics/Delay/Mod/Reverb)... I don't think the price is out of line.
 
The OX is a complete (silent) guitar recording front-end.
Those who don't have ideal physical space (for proper room ambience), those who don't have space for multiple guitar cabs, those who don't have an extensive collection of mics (not to mention quality preamps); For these folks, the OX is a good sounding, super convenient solution.
FWIW, The dynamic cab modeling sounds more lively than using IRs.
 
IMO, UA rushed OX to market a little early.
No support for Windows or Android was short-sighted.
Though UA have been tight-lipped about OX's future, I can't image OX not eventually supporting Windows . 
Looking at UA's track record, they ultimately supported Thunderbolt on PC with their Apollo series.
Too large a market-share to leave abandoned...
 
 
 
 

batsbrewSEE THREAD #2

 
Hmmm ... that one admittedly went over my head ...