BBE Soul Vibe Gives Owen O'Malley Flashbacks From Times Before Owen O'Malley
Its simplicity is one of the BBE Soul Vibe's greatest assets. This rotary pedal has two knobs and a switch, all heavy-duty enough for even the most undainty of feet, and that's really all it needs.
Owen O'Malley demonstrates how this stompbox works and more importantly, how it sounds.
[OWEN PLAYING GUITAR WITH SOUL VIBE BYPASSED]
[OWEN PLAYING GUITAR WITH SOUL VIBE ENGAGED]
OWEN O'MALLEY: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. I'm Owen O'Malley, and this is the BBE Soul Vibe. The Soul Vibe is a Univibe copy basically, a very simple effect: just two controls, speed and intensity, inside the effect. There is a trim pot where you can adjust the range of the sweep but I mean it's a pretty bare-bones version of sort of the classic Leslie simulator effect, the Univibe.
Let's just play around with this sort of the speed range here. This is the setting that they recommend for "Breathe", the Pink Floyd tune that opens -- sort of opens Dark Side of the Moon. Let's bring the speed down, keep the intensity up.
[OWEN PLAYING GUITAR WITH SOUL VIBE ENGAGED AT SLOW RATE]
And if we bring the speed up here, you can here, you can hear it's a pretty intense effect with the intensity all the way up
[OWEN PLAYING GUITAR WITH SOUL VIBE ENGAGED AT FASTER RATE]
Now if we bring the intensity down a little bit -- but let's just bring the speed all the way up to. This is it's max.
[OWEN PLAYING GUITAR WITH SOUL VIBE ENGAGED AT FASTEST RATE]
It almost sounds a little bit like an auto-wah when both the controls are dimed here. Let's bring the speed back down again, you can see the blue LED blinks in correspondence with the cycle speed, and bring the intensity about half way.
[OWEN PLAYING GUITAR WITH SOUL VIBE ENGAGED WITH ABOVE INDICATED SETTINGS]
It becomes a much more -- much subtler effect here.
[OWEN PLAYING GUITAR WITH SOUL VIBE ENGAGED WITH ABOVE INDICATED SETTINGS]
Let's hook this guy up to a stompbox just to kind of hear what it sounds like overdriven. A lot of the great original Leslie players, guitarists who played Leslies, play through overdriven amps so let's hook it up.
Alright. So you can see we've got our Soul Vibe plugged into our Green Screamer here also from BBE. The Green Screamer, as you may have guessed, is a Tube Screamer emulator. Let's turn both of the effects on here.
[OWEN PLAYING GUITAR WITH SOUL VIBE ENGAGED AND GREEN SCREAMER ENGAGED]
Turn up the intensity.
[OWEN PLAYING GUITAR WITH SOUL VIBE ENGAGED AND GREEN SCREAMER ENGAGED]
So pretty thick sounding pedal in front of a distortion pedal. Pretty legitimately vintage vibe to the pedals for sure. I mean it's not the most exciting vibe pedal I've ever seen. It's very simple but if you're looking for that sort of like real vintage, classic, Univibe sound in a more compact package, it's definitely a decent pedal. It definitely does what it sets out to do, and all these BBE pedals are true bypass and come in really pretty rugged housings here. The controls feel very solid, you know, adjust them with your feet without worrying about kicking the pots off because they're pretty sturdily built.
So there you go. That was the Soul Vibe from BBE. You've been watching Gearwire.Com, and I'm Owen O'Malley. Take care.
Your worthless Owen
Your worthless Owen O'Malley, get a new reviewer Gearwire. He's a boutique snob. Also monster cables Gear Wire? Those are ridiculously priced, lets review the most expensive stuff and use the most expensive items as well. Yep because its a great example to advertise or review items that are not affordable for musicians in this economy. Economic low, come on review some great budget gear, there out there.
look at it this way...
Do you want to buy some behringer pedal that's going to fall apart, or buy something you will love and cherish forever? Look at the big muff- no one wants to part with an original if they have it. there are good budget products out there, but you have to know which brands and models out there are decent. Boss, for example, has some good economy stuff, but a lot of their budget digital stuff sounds either muddy or harsh (at least to me). It's all about knowing what's good and what is not. Also, you can't expect (in my case) a keyboard that costs 400 dollars to sound and act like a moog.
Again, for me (and I'm pretty sure for owen) it's all about quality of the purchase. Being a careful consumer is what it's all about in this economy. Let's face it, the consumer market is flooded with products designed to fall apart after two years. During the 30s, you could generally buy something and assume that was not going to happen. That's really what makes boutique gear more appealing.
A suggestion- maybe look into building your own monster or mogami cable. it's significantly cheaper.
Amen.
Brother Laggerheim, if you are referring to my personal assets, I couldn't agree with you more. I am absolutely worthless. Good thing Gearwire bought those Monsters before the economy hit the fan, eh?
Also, your name means "More Home" in German. You should get out more.
I'm from Germany, born but
I'm from Germany, born but moved to the states then moved back. Behringer is concieved in my home country (Willich,Germany), made elsewhere. There was documentary about Behringer factory conditions, they were satisfactory and workers were late teens to 20 individuals. Now Boss is made elsewhere (as well, taiwan/japan in 70s and 80s) with unsatisfactory conditions. Also Boss they increased up the price for profit by 55% than what its actually worth. Behringer is cheaper made for sure, but none can argue with the sound. They thought of a way to make pedals affordable for common man though not my favorite brand. The schematics for pedals can be made cheap because their not complicated cicuits. You realize that true bypass is a mere 4 dollars more than what we refer to in Germany (elsewhere to) as bypastic pedals. Metal casing costs around 3 dollars to make of that size. But over compensated profit gains are common as we know, cheap labor and higher prices (Boss). Laggerheim is a nickname, after the 'great' Gustaf Lagerheim. The American friends added an extra 'g' and it stuck.
Sound quality is fantastic
This one will stay on your board. It brings the best out of clean tones as well as fuzzes. Where some companies pride themselves on controls which go out into new territory the SOUL VIBE gives more in the sweet spot. The whole range is a variety of sweet spots for your playing, not in place of it.
There is alot of magic between the classic signature sounds which it nails. Look at the guy on the pedal. He's not impressed by some glitch pedal or boring gimmick boxes. The Soul Vibe will add some lushness to your tone. It can be at the forefront or snake along like a curl of smoke through your riffs.
These pedals aren't really that expensive either. The sound, components, contruction, and presentation are class.
Not really a Univibe copy but sounds like one
It's not light bulb based nor is it a four stage phaser like the Univibe was. It has two sets of LDR/LED pairs which makes it a two stage phaser. I don't think things need to be just like a Univibe to be really usefull though. For example not every chorus is like the original CE-1 so why should a vibe have to have the exact same blah blah blah...you get the point (yes Fullclone I point the finger at your pompous arse). The Soul Vibe is a sweet sounding vibe though. It has a brightness and works well with overdrive or clean. I have one now and prefer it to my Micro Vibe which I owned for a few years prior. Nice review, some of the comments about the reviews or reviewers are a bit rich I think. For example would you prefer no review instead? ;)
About you
Yes you are an stupid
About you
Owen yes you are very stupid
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