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Get the classic American tube amp — now in a plug-in.

The native UAD Dream '65 Reverb Amplifier plug-in gives you the essential American tube amp sounds used by artists and producers for more than 60 years, from Muddy Waters to The Beatles to Elvis Costello*.

Based on our award-winning UAFX pedal, the Dream '65 plug-in perfectly captures the timeless sound and feel of a "golden unit" 1965 reverb amp, with its bold cleans, sweet tube breakup, and divine spring reverb and vibrato. Plus you'll get built-in boosts, famous amp mods, and a collection of perfectly mic'd speaker cabs.

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UAD Native
Runs on your Mac or PC without UA hardware.

UAD Native plug-ins run on both macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer and Windows 10 and 11. Go to our UA Support page for system requirements.

  • Get the most authentic emulation of a mid'60s American tube amp in your DAW — no Apollo required
  • Immerse yourself in vintage tubepowered spring reverb and vibrato effects
  • Professionally capture world-class studio amp sound, complete with classic mic/speaker pairings and boosts
  • Take your tone a step further with custom mods and drive sounds made famous by artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Steve Lukather
  • Introducing UAD Dream ‘65 Reverb Amplifier
  • Introducing UAD Dream ‘65 Reverb Amplifier

    Introducing UAD Dream ‘65 Reverb Amplifier

  • Getting Started with UAD Guitar Amp Plug-Ins

    Getting Started with UAD Guitar Amp Plug-Ins

  • THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! UAFX Amp Plugins

    THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! UAFX Amp Plugins

  • Is This the Best Amp Sim Ever? UA Dream 65 Presets Rundown

    Is This the Best Amp Sim Ever? UA Dream 65 Presets Rundown

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Experience Legit Tube Amp Tones in your DAW

Experience Legit Tube Amp Tones in your DAW

The UAD Dream '65 plug-in perfectly captures a "golden unit" 1965 reverb combo amp, famously used on stages and in studios across six decades of hits — from pop, rock, and country to funk, soul and more. Based on the award-winning UAFX pedal, the plug-in gives you all the essential controls for getting incredible amp tone right inside your DAW.

Play Through Famous Spring Reverb & Vibrato

Play Through Famous Spring Reverb & Vibrato

Tube-driven spring reverb and vibrato are essential to the guitar tones you've heard on nearly every classic record. From soul to surf, funk to punk, blues to bebop — UAD Dream ‘65 is the only plug-in that faithfully delivers the two most important guitar amp effects you need to craft immersive, inspiring guitar parts.

Get the Sound of a Modded Studio Amp

Get the Sound of a Modded Studio Amp

Take your vintage tone a step further with custom mods and legendary drive sounds made famous by artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Steve Lukather. With two iconic mods and a clean boost built in, UAD Dream '65 offers even more variations of a classic amp – just like the pros used back in the day.

Find Your Sound Fast 
with Expert Presets

Find Your Sound Fast 
with Expert Presets

Dial in classic tones fast with an expertly-curated collection of presets across musical genres. You can use these presets to start recording quickly, or dial in the perfect sound for your playing style.


Explore Classic Mic & Speaker Pairings

UAD Dream ‘65 gives you six classic speaker cabinet setups, with perfectly placed studio mics and dynamic room sounds.

GB25

GB25

A Vintage Celestion Greenback speaker in a blackface deluxe amp, mic'd with an M160 ribbon mic

Great for:
Classic Celestion bark with the smooth open midrange of a '60s ribbon mic

Oxford

Oxford

Original Oxford 12K5-6 speaker mic’d with a 57

Great for:
The classic sound right off the shelf from 1965

EV12

EV12

A classic 12", 200 watt Electro-Voice EVM12L with a massive magnet in a blackface deluxe amp, mic'd with a 414 condenser mic

Great for:
Thick and tight bottom end with airy top end

Boutique D65

Boutique D65

2x12 boutique Celestion G12-65s mic'd with a 57 and a 121 ribbon

Great for:
Classic California ported combo cabinet sound and mildly overdriven sounds which cleans up well

S-Verb

S-Verb

4x10 original CTS speakers mic'd with a 414 condenser mic

Great for:
Surf sounds with a slightly lofi quality. Heaps of midrange

JBF120

JBF120

2X12 original JBL D-120F speakers mic'd with a 57 and a 121 ribbon mic

Great for:
Very detailed speaker, especially for clean and low gain, excellent for fingerstyle playing. Very forward and sizzly when used with more gain

*Use of artist names does not constitute official endorsement of UAD Dream ‘65 Reverb Amplifier. **Product names used herein are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way affiliated with Universal Audio Inc. These name(s) are used solely to identify products studied in the creation of the sound models found in UAD Dream ‘65 Reverb Amplifier.

Customer Reviews

UAD Dream '65 Reverb Amp

Overall Rating

3.6/5
(34)

F. Manteghian

February 15, 2025

How to sell a plugin without cannibalizing your pedal business

Lots of folks out here wondering why UA's Dream Verb and other Spark plugins don't take advantage of the Unison slot on their Apollos? Well, that's simple. That would be a zero latency solution and you should buy the equivalent UA guitar pedal for that. As long as us studio horses are supplementing their studios with four hundred peso pedals, a Spark enabled Unison plugin isn't going to make an appearance. I kind of admire the business acumen, but yeah, sucks for us.

D. Parker

January 28, 2025

No Unison?

I bought this plugin assuming it would be unison tech just like your past amp plugins.. The whole point of apollo is using the zero latency feature for tracking via unison slot... Update these!

J. Gereaux

December 30, 2024

Fender Twin Reverb sound for a song.

I don't often need the Fender Twin sound but, at the price UAD sells this SIM, It is a steal. And, ot sounds identical.

S. St. Pierre

December 24, 2024

Really enjoying this

Really gets me in the right headspace. Wonderful model.

R. Katra

December 23, 2024

Just misses the Apollo or Unisson feature

Sounds amazingly well. Just doesn't make sense to implement it a native plugin (with latency) when you have a full size racked Apollo. Please update it (and the Ruby and Lion) with the Unisson feature or as an Apollo plugin at least

B. Ward

December 18, 2024

Dream of Unison version 65+

Fast and simple to use for decent guitar sounds. Easy to keep in the track for adjustments when mixing. There should be a Unison version included.

M. David

December 18, 2024

I finally bought the hardware version

Very good sounding plug-in. Unfortunately only native and not for Unison. I finally decided to buy the hardware version of the Dream 65.

N. Xidis

December 17, 2024

Dream'sound ...

I love it !!! great sounds

W. Krol

December 15, 2024

Disappointed!

Unfortunately, it's a different league than Softube. The first plug-ins from UA, which for me are simply poor. The sound is plastic and lacks bite. On the other hand, you can play delicate phrases and it sounds quite nice.

N. Zebdji

December 13, 2024

My new favorite amp emulation

Love the clean tones I can get from this as well as the crunchy and crisp distortion! My new favorite amp emulation

C. Peñaranda

December 8, 2024

Thanks UA!

For a long time I'm looking for a good enulation of an Fender amp. Without fear of exaggeration I can say that today UA won my heart, I can't let go of my guitar, the feel under my fingers is very addictive and realistic

l. roussel

December 3, 2024

good simulation but huge cpu consumption

unusable at low latency while recording, like other UAD amp simulations

シ. クヌギ

November 29, 2024

amazing.........

It popped out as soon as I plugged it inI couldn't believe my ears when I heard the golden age deluxe reverb 65 sound...wonderful & Great

C. Huet

November 24, 2024

Not for Apollo Unisson but no latency issue using Cubase

You may or may not like the sound of this plug-in, test it to check, and it would have been great if it had been compatible with Unisson but in any case, as far as latency is concerned, I play with this plug-in in Live without any latency with Cubase 13 or 14. Of course, the same applies to Lion and Ruby. And it works really well.

B. Löffler

November 22, 2024

Great Sound

This is a good sounding plugin. I truly don't understand all these negative responds here. If it only runs natively, doens't make it a bad plugin. I got great sounds out of it. Even with my Cordoba stage guitar taken directly into it (and the plugin was not designed for nylon guitars). It perfectly suites my Fender Stratocaster. I think it's better on clean sounds than on distorted ones. But both are very fine. So thumbs up UAD!

E. Yeung

November 16, 2024

Quality, but could be better

This plugin sounds pretty good, especially on clean tones. I haven't been able to get any good edge-of-breakup tones (yet); not sure if it's because I'm not tweaking right or because of the plug, but we'll see. It could be better, though. The gain structure is a bit weird with the Boost and the Volume knobs, and it's definitely un-intuitive to a producer. Also, it could be really awesome if we could mix and match the cabs and the mics - this is something that would have been so easy to do and is done by a lot of other amp sim makers, but is noticeably missing from this plugin. Last thing - I read a couple of review here that say that the plugin is very CPU-heavy; I didn't have that experience - maybe UA fixed it up by the time I downloaded. All-in-all, I'm happy with it. Finally, there's a (pretty) decent amp sim for clean tones.

A. Burroughs

November 15, 2024

Dream is the right name

Ran some of my previously recorded guitar tracks through the dream plugin and it TOTALLY gave me the sound I’d been looking for. Definitely worth the money!

J. Lazib

November 14, 2024

Excellent plugin but No Apollo Version :(

The best Amp emulation i've ever tryied. But very disapointed because i needed that plugin to work with my Apollo. It is not CPU friendly at all....

G. Caplan

November 11, 2024

is this only for UADx or will it be for Unison?

The plugin sounds great and I've always wanted to have an amp sim of the deluxe with the reverb and tremolo. The potential is amazing! But I'm used to using Unison plugins.

Maybe i'm doing it wrong, but when I try to track with the plugin as an insert in Pro Tools or Luna, I can't use Low Latency or ARM? So I get latency.

Am I missing a step? I have the subscription to UADx plugins and i was so happy to see the amp sims are part of the package but I can't use this way.

Thanks!

R. Jungers

November 9, 2024

Love it

A bit surprised by the current average rating for this product. As a guitar player I find it sits among the best guitar amp plugin I've ever played. Edge of breakup sounds are usually very disappointing to me in other plugins but on this one, with a good Strat, those just shine.

Put volume, treble and bass on ten, the rest on zero with the Boutique D65 cab, add a room reverb (Hitsville Little Bass Room in my case). Use the boost if you need more grit. You're ready for a timeless blues jam.