Native UAD plug‑in gives guitarists a dream recording environment with classic amps, cabinets, mics, pedals, and studio effects.
Universal Audio Inc. (UA), a worldwide leader in audio production tools, is proud to introduceParadise Guitar Studio, a new UAD plug‑in that combines acclaimed UAD guitar amp emulations with classic cabinets and mics, pedals, and studio effects built upon UA’s world‑class analog modeling.
“We built Paradise to make any guitarist feel like they’re playing in a dream studio," says James Santiago, Senior Product Designer at Universal Audio. “It’s the most complete ‘end‑to‑end’ virtual experience we’ve ever built, with hand-picked tube amps and essential recording gear, all in a single plug‑in.”
Paradise Guitar Studio
$199 USD MSRP | $149 Intro Price
Built upon UA’s renowned analog modeling, Paradise Guitar Studio gives guitarists and producers instant record‑ready tones from jangly cleans and natural overdrive to rare boutique sounds. Its intuitive interface lets producers craft professional guitar tracks all in one place, entirely in‑the‑box.
Key Benefits
Get an entire pro guitar recording chain — complete with classic amps, cabs, mics, pedals, studio effects, and more
Explore 11 hand‑picked vintage and modified tube amps — a “golden unit” collection of essential clean, crunch, and boutique tones
Capture perfect sound in minutes with curated speaker cabinets and expertly-placed studio mics
Sculpt tracks with studio effects like 1176 compression, vintage tape echo, spring and plate reverbs, EQ, and more
Get over 300 inspiring presets spanning rock, blues, indie, metal, funk, pop, and beyond
Integrated tuner and input gate for precise performance and creative flow
Intuitive interface similar to a classic pedal board workflow
UAD Native format — available to purchase separately or with a UAD Spark plug‑in subscription
Paradise Guitar Studio is available for $199 (USD) through authorized UA retailers and at uaudio.com starting December 1, 2025. For a limited time during the UAD Holiday Sale, customers can enjoy special introductory pricing of $149 (USD).
Native UAD plug‑in gives guitarists a dream recording environment with classic amps, cabinets, mics, pedals, and studio effects.
Universal Audio Inc. (UA), a worldwide leader in audio production tools, is proud to introduceParadise Guitar Studio, a new UAD plug‑in that combines acclaimed UAD guitar amp emulations with classic cabinets and mics, pedals, and studio effects built upon UA’s world‑class analog modeling.
“We built Paradise to make any guitarist feel like they’re playing in a dream studio," says James Santiago, Senior Product Designer at Universal Audio. “It’s the most complete ‘end‑to‑end’ virtual experience we’ve ever built, with hand-picked tube amps and essential recording gear, all in a single plug‑in.”
Paradise Guitar Studio
$199 USD MSRP | $149 Intro Price
Built upon UA’s renowned analog modeling, Paradise Guitar Studio gives guitarists and producers instant record‑ready tones from jangly cleans and natural overdrive to rare boutique sounds. Its intuitive interface lets producers craft professional guitar tracks all in one place, entirely in‑the‑box.
Key Benefits
Get an entire pro guitar recording chain — complete with classic amps, cabs, mics, pedals, studio effects, and more
Explore 11 hand‑picked vintage and modified tube amps — a “golden unit” collection of essential clean, crunch, and boutique tones
Capture perfect sound in minutes with curated speaker cabinets and expertly-placed studio mics
Sculpt tracks with studio effects like 1176 compression, vintage tape echo, spring and plate reverbs, EQ, and more
Get over 300 inspiring presets spanning rock, blues, indie, metal, funk, pop, and beyond
Integrated tuner and input gate for precise performance and creative flow
Intuitive interface similar to a classic pedal board workflow
UAD Native format — available to purchase separately or with a UAD Spark plug‑in subscription
Paradise Guitar Studio is available for $199 (USD) through authorized UA retailers and at uaudio.com starting December 1, 2025. For a limited time during the UAD Holiday Sale, customers can enjoy special introductory pricing of $149 (USD).
Flattley Pedals has introduced The Outlaw, the company’s first dual-function pedal, which offers a boost circuit and overdrive circuit in a single package.
The Outlaw’s boost channel is based on Flattley’s Ace tone booster. It has an independent tone stack, so it can deliver everything from clean boost, bass boost to treble boost.
The Outlaw’s overdrive section, based on the Flattley’s Plexi pedal, is an FET circuit that gives a simulation of the harmonic distortion that you would expect from a 12AX7 valve with a wide range between a sweet blues tone to a flat-out rock tone.
Each of the two halves of the pedal has its own bypass footswitch to allow the user to use boost or overdrive individually. However, the combination of these two pedal circuits is taken further by allowing the user to swap the order of the two with the flip of a single switch. This means the overdrive tone can be boosted (with additional tone shaping) in one mode, ideal for lifting level for soloing. Alternatively, the overdrive circuit can be driven by the booster which can push it into extreme compression/ distortion as the boost half of the pedal has its own tone stack that can be used to pre emphasise the signal to give a wider range of overdriven tones.
The pedal’s red halo light rings installed diffuse the light when playing live, so you can avoid being blinded by standard LEDs, and an aluminium foot topper gives you more real estate for contact when switching the pedal on and off during quick changes when playing live.
All Flattley "Platinum Range" pedals are hand processed in our Flattley paint shop, with a strikingly unique finish.
The Outlaw includes this control set:
Toggle Switch: The toggle switch allows you to change the lead order of the two pedals. Toggle switch selected forward has the clean tone booster as the lead pedal, toggle switch selected to the rear has the plexi style overdrive as the lead pedal.
Plexi Drive Controls
Volume: Controls the overall output level.
Gain: Controls the amount of gain/overdrive
Tone: Controls the amount of treble/bass
Tone Booster Controls
Volume: Controls the output of the pedal from zero (use as a kill switch), unity gain is around midway and max gives quite a lift to the output. It’s second function is to act as a gain recovery stage for the tone control.
Tone: Midway the tone control is effectively flat and the setting you would use for a straight lift in volume. Either side of midway there is a sweet spot allowing tone to be a little dark (anticlockwise) or have a bit more sparkle (clockwise). Tone fully anticlockwise, the pedal works as a bass boost, fully clockwise it becomes a treble boost with the volume control being used as a gain compensation control as bass boost requires a reduce in overall gain and treble boost usually requires an increase in overall gain.
Other features include:
9-volt external power operation (no internal battery option)
15mm red anodised aluminium custom etched control knobs
Red halo light rings installed
The Outlaw comes with a purple custom etched aluminium foot topper
All Flattley pedals are handmade and hand wired in the UK using the highest quality components.
The Flattley Outlaw carries a street price of $379/£299. For more information visit flattleyguitarpedals.com.
PG contributor Tom Butwin explores the versatile Pulze Mini from Hotone. The size of a smartphone, the Pulze mini sports full-featured modeling engine, extensive app control, and even a built-in USB audio interface. With 52 amp models, 48 cabinet simulations, 20 user-loaded IR slots, 7-slot effects chains, and up to 11.5 hours of battery life on headphones, you can practice anywhere, anytime.
Larkin Poe’s Rebecca and Megan Lovell join Axe Lords to talk guitars, their new album Bloom, their blood-harmony superpowers, and how building a recording studio with your spouse is a terrific way to test the structural integrity of a relationship—not to mention your credit card limit.
Rebecca walks us through how she became the reluctant lead singer, why she mostly relies on the bridge humbucker in her Strat, and how open tunings both elevate your riffs and ruin your life onstage. Meanwhile, Megan traces her lap-steel journey from a back-breaking vintage Rickenbacker to her signature model Electro-Liege. Warning: You may think you suck at music after she rips an improvised episode outro for us!
Axe Lords is presented in partnership with Premier Guitar. Hosted by Dave Hill, Cindy Hulej and Tom Beaujour. Produced by Studio Kairos. Executive Producer is Kirsten Cluthe. Edited by Justin Thomas at Revoice Media. Engineered by Patrick Samaha. Recorded at Kensaltown East. Artwork by Mark Dowd. Theme music by Valley Lodge.
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