MOOERDigital Preamp Pedal Guitar Effects Pedal with 14 Preamp Models 3 Global Cabinet Simulation Files

First off, I own a few Mooer pedals. This was my second and I bought it for a very specific purpose. The first pedal I tried out from Mooer is the PreAmp X2. I started to use the PreAmp X2 as a cheap, portable, ampless jam tool for when I didn't want to connect actual amps or larger modelers. It's something I can just have sitting on my desk or a board in to a mixer or Audio interface and roll with it when inspiration strikes. That preamp pedal has a built-in cab sim as well...and with a ton of downloadable IRs and PreAmp profiles from the Mooer site, you can find some excellent sounds. My problem is that effects pedals sounded a bit muffled if put at the end of the chain...this is where the Cab X2 steps in! You can disable the Cab Sim in the PreAmp X2, and use the output like an FX loop which then routes/terminates in to this Cab X2 pedal. This works like a charm.The added benefit is that this pedal has Stereo INs and OUTs as well. This also makes it fantastically compatible with stereo pedals like fancier reverbs or multieffects/parallel fx/synth experiments.The default cab IRs that come with the pedal sound very good, albeit maybe a bit boring compared to the more rigorously tweaked downloadable options from power users. Even though you have 14 presets, I mostly use one or two presets that my ears seem to like, but there is a ton of variability. Mixed with the same downloadable IRs you can get from the website and you have a real powerhouse of options!Tweakable features on the pedal itself are quite nice. There are 14 presets - each of those presets has two cabs associated with it. You can use just one or both for some nice combinations in tone. There is a high and low cut filter so you can muffle out the sharp noises or boost them to cut through the mix more.Perhaps the more interesting knob has the ability to change the latency a bit...this can get the two cabs being used to sound slightly out of phase and give you a very wide sound if using stereo speakers! It's kind of like a cheat code for recording stereo tracks. Not quite as effective as actual overdubbing or double tracking - but for fast recordings its very convenient and sounds great.Word of warning: You will have to register on the Mooer site to get access to all of the downloadable IRs. They're free, but this requires a product serial number, so beware if buying used and someone didn't relinquish their code.Overall, this device is a fantastic value when paired with another preamp (Mooer or otherwise). Great sounds and tremendous tone options. It's sturdy and metal - not plastic. It came with a power supply, but also works fine with an isolated multi-pedal supply like the ones from Mosky or similar vendors. (300mA or higher) I'd definitely recommend this one!

This is my second looper, an upgrade from the lekato one with 3 memory banks and auto sync. I'm not the most advanced player and I don't play live, I use them for scales practice and messing around with layering parts. This looper goes for a little more than twice the price of the lekato, and I'd actually say that's pretty fair value for the money.It shares common features with other loopers at around this price point (stereo/mixed/seperate out, tap tempo, autosync, count-in etc), missing some (no midi, no ext. pedal input) but adding some unique others (adjustable threshold auto sync, automatic quantizing, the auto drum matching).It took me a little while to learn the controls, but ultimately they seem pretty intuitive. The touch screen is fairly useful, though I thought it was a little gimmicky at first. It can display quite a bit of information but can be a little hard to see/press quickly. The buttons are useful and well placed.As a "standard" looper, this device is solid, but all in all I think this requires some firmware tweaking to really realize the full value of it's more advanced features and iron out some annoying things. Firstly, the drum match is pretty hit or miss. Sometimes it does a good job of identifying the tempo and applying a drum loop, but most times it requires some adjustment. The adjustments range from "it's in the ballpark" to "this ballpark is enormous", so I've found a lot of times its better just to do it yourself. Thankfully the drums are adjusted separately from the loop, so making those adjustments is pretty easy. Secondly, if you mess up your first loop you need to delete the whole memory bank to get rid of it and this means having to enter your bpm again as it defaults to the bpm in the main drum menu. And third...perhaps the most annoying...when you dub a layer, you can undo it by long pressing the play switch. But if you want to undo the next layer down in the loop, you can't...long pressing again performs a "redo" of the dub you just "undid". This means that you need to be sure that you like/want all previous layers before dubbing another one, because if something doesn't work, you can't just change it once you record another dub on top, you have to delete the whole loop and start over.The good thing is that all these issues can be solved if Mooer issues some good updates, maybe repurposes one of the buttons/switches in certain contexts, or utilizes the functionality that the touch screen offers a little better, but of course that doesn't mean they will.The only other issue I can see arising is that the enclosure is all plastic. It doesn't feel cheap, and for my purposes I don't see it ever failing in terms of durability (so long as the switches stay solid) but I can see that being a bit of a deal breaker if you beat the brakes off your gear in a live context or whatever.As a creative/practice tool it offers plenty of drum loops to fit whatever you want to play, and most are actually pretty usable. The sound quality is good. 100 memory banks is great. The automatic quantizing does a great job at erasing some mistimed stops, and in combo with the autosync really seems to smooth over the most annoying thing about loopers in general: stopping and starting in time. It's small compared to a lot of the other double switch loopers on the market, and isn't super power hungry either.If you can deal with the issues (or if updates improve them), I think this thing is a great device and I've had a lot of fun with it so far. I'm rating it 5 stars only because I hope that the annoying issues that exist within it's programming will be fixed soon. The drum match is pretty ambitious, so I expect some kinks there, but the inability to undo multiple layers of a loop is silly. If I could do 4.5 I would because I think its that close to being perfect for me, regardless of it's annoyances. But yeah, solid little pedal.

About 25 years ago I bought a Boss loop station for playing guitar . It was fairly new on the market and expensive ( over $300 ) . The total loop time was about 5 minutes . Electronics have come a long way since then . I only owned it for about a year and sold it when unemployed and needed the money .Recently , I wanted another 2 channel ( stereo ) loop station for both playing my Yamaha mx49 synth. and recording music . After much research , the Mooer x2 stereo looper seemed to be the best choice for me . Here are a few reasons why . First , it has up to 300 minutes total record time and up to 10 minutes each on banks #10 and #11 - plenty of time for recording most music tracks . Second , I can record music in stereo , play back to my computer and record in wav. format and save to sd card , micro sd card , or flash drive . Then playback on any media player that accepts wav. format ( most media players do ) . Third , I didn't want or need any drum kits or effects , as my synth. does all of that . Fourth , the price . I bought this on Amazon for $140 and got a $30 off coupon - that's $110 . That $30 off coupon paid for the plugs and cords needed .I just got this a few days ago , and so far I love it . Its compact and sturdy . I'm still figuring out how to use it , as the instructions are vague . Youtube videos are helping me . The sound quality is good plugged into my Yamaha home stereo . I'm still trying to figure out how to hold the recorded dubs in memory after unplugging the unit . I posted the question on Amazon if this is possible and one person said yes .This is an awesome looper , especially for the price , and I highly recommend this stereo looper !