For me, it's been a huge inspiration to delve into sound making again. I can't define what kind of Swiss Army Knife pedal the UW is, because for any given song, I may use it just for compression, I have 5 different presets set for various compressed sounds for bass, and one for when I'm using the acoustic guitar. There's EQ on one of them as well, just reinforcing the EQ2 curve, so a clean boost in effect. Then there's the crazy sound making aspects. Since I got the pedal in the Beta shipments on Valentine's Day, it has been a device for sonic explorations I've not engaged in for years. It led me to also go completely SA, and that led me to trying an experiment where I would create sounds and create a song to use them in. The UW is either a clean compressor or a fairly outrageous distorted sound where I've gotten some good thick, harmonically rich sounds that create huge power chord sounds with single notes or double stops, essentially getting some decent distorted guitar sounds. I also got a nice pitch shifted sound that works excellently as a lead sound, and in conjunction with other pedals like the Spectrum and Lunar gets a synthy tone like Pete Townshend's guitar going through his ARP for Going Mobile or Bargain. I also achieved an aggressive bowed cello sound while trying to use the multiband tremolo feature. Which reminds me, I've done most of this sonic exploration without the C4 engaged at all, and I hardly miss using it. The UW is not a pedal that can be defined by what it does, it's defined by what you use it for, and what you can bring forth with it. It's an incredibly deep pedal, and like @bassbrad , I'm barely scratching the surface of the thing.
I did not see those presets, but will be grabbing those, and hopefully diving in this weekend.
. Also, if you have a pedal compressor (diamond) and the spectrum, where should the UW sit in relation to those other pedals. Thanks! Rick
