Just had a A/B party with all most of my vibes: Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe, Sweetsound Ultra and Mojo, Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe. I used an upside down Stratocaster and a Hiwatt DR103 1/2 stack.

ALL were great for a vintage vibe sound, albeit with subtle differences. Especially the last 3.

However, the RM Voodoo Vibe had, by far, the strongest throb. (The RM at 60-70% intensity = the others at 100%. This I found most useful in the slowest speed settings, where the throb is less pronounced.

If I had to pick one, it'd be the Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe (for my purposes, as I'm not as interested as emulating the vintage Hendrix sound (as much as I love him)).

If only you could power it with battery I would buy definetely a Mojo Vibe. The best demo so far on the web are those recorded with the Mojo Vibe.
I heard that the Voodoo Vibe sounds a bit Hi-fi, but i don't know exactly what does it mean...do you know what people mean when they say Hi-fi sounding?

Older Voodoo Vibes have a buffered stereo output, while the Voodoo Vibe + offers both a buffered stereo output as well as a mono true bypass output.

The buffer is what adds the hi-fi element to the sound, it makes the thing less noisy but effects the tone in a not so pleasant way (I found), making it kind of hard sounding. It also does this in bypass mode. With the buffer it sounds better insofar as the signal is stronger and cleaner, but the price I found was that it was also a lot less musical.

The intention with the buffer is that it would drive long lines of cable without signal loss.

A lot of people are not so keen on buffers so for that reason the + offers both buffered and unbuffered signal.

It is also possible to easily bypass the buffer on older models (which I did) and this warms them up significantly.

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Originally posted by jan:
Just had a A/B party with all most of my vibes: Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe, Sweetsound Ultra and Mojo, Fulltone Mini Deja Vibe. I used an upside down Stratocaster and a Hiwatt DR103 1/2 stack.

ALL were great for a vintage vibe sound, albeit with subtle differences. Especially the last 3.

However, the RM Voodoo Vibe had, by far, the strongest throb. (The RM at 60-70% intensity = the others at 100%. This I found most useful in the slowest speed settings, where the throb is less pronounced.

If I had to pick one, it'd be the Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe (for my purposes, as I'm not as interested as emulating the vintage Hendrix sound (as much as I love him)).

So you hit on the two things that keep me the most preoccupied. The 'throb' thing and the 'maxed' thing. I've heard the MJM vibe and it has a huge throb, but almost too much you know? I get seasick listening to the demo too often. Doesn't a great vibe have to have a balance between the throb and that soft sweep going on? I checked out the PE Vibe on a YouTube demo and, while it sounded fantastic I could see he had the dials maxed, so I get my shorts in a knot over that because, as some have said about the MJM, that is the the ONLY good setting. I always found the Mojo Vibe had the perfect balance between throb and sweep but maybe that's just my opinion. Looks like Dave Fox might have a pretty good thing going on as well.

If you have any sound samples I'd love to hear them. I would also like to hear wha others find he most important in a vibe. The throb, the sweep or both? And is there a usable sound when it's not maxed (particularly in the Mojo Vibe)?

I'm with you, humbugger, in that I don't like real extreme vibe going. That Hendrix sound on "New Rising Sun" is pretty much the gold standard for what I want.

I like to get some kind of subtlety going. I don't like super throb, or extreme phaser-type sounds. Just that watery, "Am I on drugs or did the guitarist just switch on an effect" type thing.

Mojo Vibe can totally do that. I find that the Mojo Vibe is better without everything maxed and I don't think Hendrix had stuff maxed. Hendrix's speed was not maxed, but slower. Slower usually means less intense with vibes.

Not in the same league quality-wise, but the new Dano Cool Cat Vibe has a clean blend knob and does not suck. To get a giggable vibe for $50 is pretty cool.

Hendrix's Univibe speed was never the same, because it varied due to the footcontroller.