UNIVERSAL AUDIO IS a dominant force in analog and digital recording tools, so the Northern California company was well equipped to create a trio of effect pedals that borrow from the best of both worlds. Introduced last year, UA’s Astra Modulation Machine, Golden Reverberator and Starlight Echo Station were designed from the ground up to deliver the most authentic classic modulation, delay and reverb effects ever put into stomp boxes.
These pedals feature dual-processing engines, true-stereo operation, a knob-based interface, and foot-switchable Live and Preset modes that effectively give you two completely different sounds that you can recall in real time. Live reflects the current settings of the knobs and switches, and Present reflects the stored setting regardless of the knob/switch positions (that is until you move a knob or switch, and the unit automatically updates to those settings).
