my brother is a guitarist in his church where he used this. He is now all praise (no pun intended) for this pedal although it can get quite literally semi-hot when its at use.
I mixed a live punk-rock gig last week and one of the bands used DI signal sent through these pedals and used their cabs for stage monitoring only. And they sounded tight and juicy, loved it.
Could we see some lower gain tests too, maybe with a Sheriff and a Strat? Sounded awesome but be interested to hear how the more crunchy or clean stuff sounds rather than the gainer side of things. Thanks dude
Fully agree ! Most of the times the saturation covers all the details of every device. It's too easy to make people impressed ... Take a Strat direct to the Mooer and play ! Thanks !
I got this pedal a few months ago and it has transformed my practice rig. I'm running it out of the effects loop on my micro dark and it's killer! So many tonal options.
@@AEH2102 Depends on the monitors. It can sound pretty good. I just recently took mine to band practice where we played the thrill is gone for the first time. Directly out of a digitech RP360xp into the radar and to the PA system. The song is a little rough since it's new for us....but check the guitar sound. NO GUITAR AMP! th-cam.com/video/_jrfTdQUud8/w-d-xo.html
Ended up buying a Strymon iridium to replace this. After playing with the Strymon for a bit, I'm giving it back. This is better and has more mojo and has a smaller footprint. The iridium is the only Strymon pedal I couldn't get on with
They played last summer in the Philippines, and I can say that I love their guitar tone. I was looking for their amp head and cab and I couldn't find it. Then the next day I googled their set up then I found that the guitarist used the mooer preamp and radar. Mind blowing
I enjoy these videos even though I'm not a guitar player or in fact any sort of musician. Small correction though, in parametric EQ, the lower the Q-factor, the wider the frequency range it affects.
Honestly the only bad thing I can say about the pedal is that it's so small and expensive that it's gonna be really easy for people to steal. I noticed the pedal actually has a 12v power jack on the back, but I saw some info from mooer saying that it will run fine on 9v but the headroom of the ad/da will be better at 12v. If you're playing really hot signals 12v is probably better.
@@RabeaMassaad Rabea, I don't use a daw or powered speakers or a mixing board. Can I use this pedal with my Marshall dsl tube amp with the Marshall's own speaker to jam out loud? I don't know if I can and how to connect it for that purpose. Where in the effects chain?
Nice demo of the Victory Kraken V4 preamp pedal, which I didn't know, as my old Sansamp PSA-1 red version limited edition is still my favourite preamp. Honestly the Mooer influence in the sound is so subtile that I can"t hear it most of the time or like an EQ setting when it can be heard. The Kraken Victory might be an interesting alternative to my PSA-1 as it is all tubes and sounds maybe more modern and wilder.
Hmm.. it seems like soulhenge simply doesn't know how to use it since he doesn't recommend it. But rabea was able to showcase its full potential. Very intersting!
I’d really like to see and here it in a live setting. No amplifier.. just guitar>pedal board>mooer >PA system. What does it sound like coming from a stage monitor and front of house????? Please!!!!
Hello Rabea, I'm a huge fan of your craft!I have (perhaps a very dumb) question: Can you use an Engl cab simulator pedal and a Friedman amp simulator pedal at the same time with a guitar effects processor on a combo amp? Looking forward at your insight on this. Cheers🤘😎🤘
I can't wait until they do to this what they did with the preamp pedals. Make a bigger cab sim pedal with a DI, easier switching of cab presets, more in depth EQ etc
Using the 4-cable method I´m now able to get 5 different sounds from my amp. But I only use 3 (V4 + Clean channel) or just the Kraken V4 into the power amp - depends on what guitar I use. Rolling off the volume nob, which works very well on the V4, gives you a clean/crunchy tone with the same characteristics of channels 1 and 2. This is why I might not even feel the need to use the clean channel on my amp, since it lacks compression. The feel and playability of the Kraken V4 is just super, and it's a fun pedal to play. The volume nobs and, my favorite feature, the "tight nobs" (Bass cut & Bright cut) on the Peavey JSX still work using the FX-return. I will be replacing the tubes on the JSX as they´ve run their course. So things can only get better! Please, read my full review in the comments here: th-cam.com/video/MAuDgLjHZgw/w-d-xo.html
Hey Rabea! How are you running this in the signal chain? I am guessing you are using your Kraken in amp through mode so is it just after that? I also have a V4 Kraken and really like the idea of this fine-tuning it and adding cab sims etc what you think? Love anyone else's input too! Thanks guys
I have not found any demo's on if you can use this on a pedal board on a stand alone rig... like another stomp box and if so would it go in the front or through the effects loop
Clean is easy to make it sound good, what everyone wants to know is how fizzy, noisy, stock IRs can be, etc. Distortion is the best way to to test an IR.
can this be used in conjunction with the mooer micro d.i. (cabsim turned off)? or would that yield not much benefit? also does the micro d.i.'s cabsim give same quality results, albeit minus the voicing options?
Hi bro ! Looks/sounds like a handy little unit. Wont replace a Two Notes or a UA OX,but... The advantages (EQ tweaking etc.) seem to be at the same time its limitations - for me at least - as I would be quite reluctant to spend too much time in fine tuning all the options rather than playing. I'm the Guitar-Cable-Amp kind of guy - you know, Old School :-)) I've been tweaking a lot in Bias FX and created my own modded amp (based on a Maz 18 from Dr Z) and I basically work with this one for everything. If by any chance it doesn't work out in the mix, I am recording a second dry track simultaneously and there's always a possibility of re-amping ! What do you think ? Keep on rocking Rabea \m/
I hear you! Seems by time you really tweak, volumes are totally disparate. All of these need a master global output leveler, so at the end of the week, after all the tweaking, all patches are same level (if u want) but then I just go back to the couple that I always use, ha! Oh yeah, clean tones are just as important!
Ok but what about custom effects, lead tones, delay/reverb etc? How could you achieve that with the Radar? I have a Fractal FX8. Could I use it before the Radar? There’s no amp modeling in the FX8, would it still work? Or do I need a preamp live pedal? I do not want to carry an amp/cabinet with me. I just want to play through a mixer into a PA
Question??????? Can I run the radar pedal out of the send of my MT-15 and go out of the radar to an interphase? Or do I still need a load box? Cause I’ve heard it’s not good to run a tube amp head without it plugged into a cab. Could you get back to ma asap??? I’m really new to home recording
Great vid Rabea! I didn't quiet understand where you'd put this pedal? Just like a regular pedal in the effects chain? in the fx loop of the amp? after the amp? so many questions :D
You put it right before the FX-Return of your Amplifier :) If you also want to hear your cab-sound and just use this to go to your recording interface or live mixer, you have to buy a splitter too.^^
Do you think it is enough with the distortion power that the MOOER gives or I can add an additional Metal Zone simulator without saturating it. (I currently connect with a PODHD500x + MOOER RADAR on FXLoop + Headrush FRFR 108). --- Excellent video by the way!
It has in recent firmware versions. Compressor, Eq, Gate, Poweramp AND CLEAN PREAMP simulation for running your pedals in front. Nothing beats CP-100 so far in this price range.
I estimated roughly that if you bought all the actual gear this pedal simulates it might cost you at least $20,000 so there is alot of power in such a tiny little $120 pedal....
my brother is a guitarist in his church where he used this. He is now all praise (no pun intended) for this pedal although it can get quite literally semi-hot when its at use.
Another fun use; when using piezo pickups to simulate acoustic tones, you can load in ir's of various acoustic guitars and it'll sound legit.
I mixed a live punk-rock gig last week and one of the bands used DI signal sent through these pedals and used their cabs for stage monitoring only. And they sounded tight and juicy, loved it.
Igor Zavalnyi It was a pleasure Man ;)
Could we see some lower gain tests too, maybe with a Sheriff and a Strat? Sounded awesome but be interested to hear how the more crunchy or clean stuff sounds rather than the gainer side of things.
Thanks dude
1UP for the pushed clean strat+sheriff
Fully agree ! Most of the times the saturation covers all the details of every device. It's too easy to make people impressed ... Take a Strat direct to the Mooer and play ! Thanks !
Some lower gain and clean stuff too. m.th-cam.com/video/t4oR13iZbFk/w-d-xo.html
I'm not a metal guy but when Rabea plays & gets into it, I can't help but get into it as well...
I got this pedal a few months ago and it has transformed my practice rig. I'm running it out of the effects loop on my micro dark and it's killer! So many tonal options.
Óscar García Hinde Are you running the micro dark into a seperate cab or are you just using the cab sim?
These guys from Mooer have really been stepping their game up.
He's using a Victory V4 Kraken preamp pedal in front of the mooer in case anyone forgot or missed the second he said it in the video :p
I need to see people use these mooer rigs with non metal tones. Like with Fuzz and overdrives for breakup, white stripes, Muse etc
To the left are other videos. Choose the Pete Thorn one.
But where does the actual SOUND come from if you don't need a cabinet? Monitors can't be that beastly can they?
@@AEH2102 Depends on the monitors. It can sound pretty good. I just recently took mine to band practice where we played the thrill is gone for the first time. Directly out of a digitech RP360xp into the radar and to the PA system. The song is a little rough since it's new for us....but check the guitar sound. NO GUITAR AMP! th-cam.com/video/_jrfTdQUud8/w-d-xo.html
Mooer themselves have some. When they aren't playing the rectifier or 5150 based preamps, they usually do old school rock or bluesy stuff. Even jazz.
Here you go cave. Forgive the playing...it was our first time playing the song. RP360 XP > radar > P.A.. th-cam.com/video/_jrfTdQUud8/w-d-xo.html
So, one of these and a one of Mooer's pre amps and you've got a pocket sized touring rig.
That is my rig lol
Deadmetal And wahwah
That's all the guys from Cradle Of Filth use when touring nowadays !
That was my rig in a nutshell for a while, worked out great. Now rocking the Preamplive tho' but still.
@@aymericmarchand3472 although they probably put those pedals into a rack but yeah.
Ended up buying a Strymon iridium to replace this. After playing with the Strymon for a bit, I'm giving it back. This is better and has more mojo and has a smaller footprint. The iridium is the only Strymon pedal I couldn't get on with
Cradle of filth tour with the fifty fifty preamp and the radar. That’s it! It’s crazy...
I'm sure they use at least a rack with that board tho
th-cam.com/video/r6y0BNqOUbk/w-d-xo.html
@@TobyBurt I've seen the video many times.
They played last summer in the Philippines, and I can say that I love their guitar tone. I was looking for their amp head and cab and I couldn't find it. Then the next day I googled their set up then I found that the guitarist used the mooer preamp and radar. Mind blowing
I enjoy these videos even though I'm not a guitar player or in fact any sort of musician. Small correction though, in parametric EQ, the lower the Q-factor, the wider the frequency range it affects.
Sir, you are, in no uncertain terms, a djentleman and a scholar. And, by the way, that is a terrific little pedal. Cheers
😂
Buying this for my next pedal trade show - going to run the demo board through this! Thanks for the review dude
OMG !!! Man Rabae your sound is killer as always but now with this magic little box you r sitting on top of the world !!!!
Might get one to use with my Laney ironheart irt studio for recording Di !!!!!!!! Best review of this thanks Rabea sounds awesome !!!!!!😎
Honestly the only bad thing I can say about the pedal is that it's so small and expensive that it's gonna be really easy for people to steal.
I noticed the pedal actually has a 12v power jack on the back, but I saw some info from mooer saying that it will run fine on 9v but the headroom of the ad/da will be better at 12v. If you're playing really hot signals 12v is probably better.
I like that it doesn’t flub my speakers!!
The kraken pre-amp sounds great too!! btw your album Grinding Gears kicks ass!!!
Yeees ! Yesterday I was looking for this video on your channel after discovering this cab sim, and boom ! Here it is. Thank you so much Bea :-)
Wow this little thing sounds amazing!
i just purchased this pedal and its just amazing! Thank you Rabea!
I really like Rabea's sound and skill. The little amp tone in a box is cool too ;)
Hey Rabea I love your videos, keep doing it… all the best.
The radar blip in the intro works super well!
Hahah you can thank John for that!
@@RabeaMassaad Rabea, I don't use a daw or powered speakers or a mixing board. Can I use this pedal with my Marshall dsl tube amp with the Marshall's own speaker to jam out loud? I don't know if I can and how to connect it for that purpose. Where in the effects chain?
This video needs wayyy more views!
I'd love to hear some clean sounds as well. For the most part it's just crazy fucking awesome! Damn good demo!
What the actual tiny frick?!? That things a little beast!
That Baritone sounded SIIIIIIIICK!
I may consider getting this someday for recording purposes.
Rabea - great guy, guitarist, host!
Nice demo of the Victory Kraken V4 preamp pedal, which I didn't know, as my old Sansamp PSA-1 red version limited edition is still my favourite preamp. Honestly the Mooer influence in the sound is so subtile that I can"t hear it most of the time or like an EQ setting when it can be heard. The Kraken Victory might be an interesting alternative to my PSA-1 as it is all tubes and sounds maybe more modern and wilder.
Sounds sick!
Awesome video. If you have it on a pedalboard with chorus, delay and reverb, where would you place it? No amp, no fx loop, just straight into a DAW.
Hmm.. it seems like soulhenge simply doesn't know how to use it since he doesn't recommend it. But rabea was able to showcase its full potential. Very intersting!
I'm sold. Mooer should pay you! haha. Awesome review 👏
This look like what they said the future devices we gonna look like back in the day, and just for that Imma buy one
Best demo i've seen
Cool bridge on that guitar
The first 4x10 is actually a guitar cab. The bass cabs are at the end 🤘
Thanks for another great review video...what model of PRS is the one you play?
All my dream gears there😗
Seems you can't stop playing🤟
I bet you'll review Mooer GE 300 as well. 😁
I am super interested in the headphone out. How does it sound? Can it power high impedance headphones?
Great review. I bought one a few weeks ago but this vid was, essentially, a user guide. Awesome tones :)
I like the custom 24 here
I’d really like to see and here it in a live setting. No amplifier.. just guitar>pedal board>mooer >PA system. What does it sound like coming from a stage monitor and front of house????? Please!!!!
Just watch recent cradle of filth live..thats what they exactly use now
You should do a test of the original Vox Tonelab! The blue one built like a tank
Great demo Rabea!!! You should check the Nux Solid Studio, it seems to have more organic power amp sim. Wish you the best!
Dam Im surprised at how good this sounds.
I need one.
Not want. NEED.
Hello Rabea, I'm a huge fan of your craft!I have (perhaps a very dumb) question: Can you use an Engl cab simulator pedal
and a Friedman amp simulator pedal at the same time with a guitar effects processor on a combo amp? Looking forward at your insight on this. Cheers🤘😎🤘
sick demo, cool riffs
I can't wait until they do to this what they did with the preamp pedals. Make a bigger cab sim pedal with a DI, easier switching of cab presets, more in depth EQ etc
Great little pedal, BUT I just got the Two Notes Torpedo Live to accompany my Kraken V4 Preamp pedal. How do they compare - Mooer vs Two Notes?
How does that combination sound? You use it without amp/power amp anything else?
Using the 4-cable method I´m now able to get 5 different sounds from my amp. But I only use 3 (V4 + Clean channel) or just the Kraken V4 into the power amp - depends on what guitar I use. Rolling off the volume nob, which works very well on the V4, gives you a clean/crunchy tone with the same characteristics of channels 1 and 2. This is why I might not even feel the need to use the clean channel on my amp, since it lacks compression. The feel and playability of the Kraken V4 is just super, and it's a fun pedal to play. The volume nobs and, my favorite feature, the "tight nobs" (Bass cut & Bright cut) on the Peavey JSX still work using the FX-return. I will be replacing the tubes on the JSX as they´ve run their course. So things can only get better! Please, read my full review in the comments here: th-cam.com/video/MAuDgLjHZgw/w-d-xo.html
I wonder what kind of pickups or pedals you could get with the $850 difference to effect the sound more?
I need one or two of these.
Came for the gear demo , stayed for the playing ... well and the gear demo
Lmao
The Superverb 4x10 is a guitar cab, you were indeed okay to use it! ^_^
Besides, it sounded killer! :D
Rabea thanks for sharing , can you do a video comparison of mooer radar and the torpedo live with external ir . Greetings from morocco .
Hi Rabea. Sounds great! Would this work with a standard pedal board in front with normal drive pedals and no dedicated pre amp pedal?
Hey Rabea! How are you running this in the signal chain? I am guessing you are using your Kraken in amp through mode so is it just after that? I also have a V4 Kraken and really like the idea of this fine-tuning it and adding cab sims etc what you think? Love anyone else's input too! Thanks guys
How does it sound through headphones?
Can you run a typical overdrive pedal into this and get the desired sound of an amp, or do you NEED a pre-amp too?
You need an amp in a box type overdrive pedal, like evh 5150, friedman be01 etc...
I have not found any demo's on if you can use this on a pedal board on a stand alone rig... like another stomp box and if so would it go in the front or through the effects loop
I just got one a few days ago. I noticed the pedal gets a little warm after extended use. Are you experiencing this too??
I skimmed through several sections of this video and did not hear one clean example
This is a pretty good overview too with some clean and lower gain stuff. m.th-cam.com/video/t4oR13iZbFk/w-d-xo.html
Clean is easy to make it sound good, what everyone wants to know is how fizzy, noisy, stock IRs can be, etc. Distortion is the best way to to test an IR.
Awesomely (its that word? Lol) one of the best demo of the *Mooer* Radar.
🤗
Hey brother can you show us how to connect the radar for recording. Thanks 😊
man this product gonna be a cult classic for the next 30 years from now...
Realize you uploaded this some time ago, but would this be a good single box solution to replace a POD 2.0? Signal chain would be guitar > pedal > DAW
I WILL PAY FOR TABS TO ALL YOUR INTOS SONGS! TAKE MY MONIES!
Also, killer video per usual.
Great post, as usual.
Btw... need more JP 15
And the Mooer GE300 is on the way...
11:17 You skipped over the UK Citrus Orange amp which is sad I mean it rocks and is quite easily one of my favorites,
One day I will own one of your baritones, Bea. I need to trip and fall over $2k first, but it will happen.
can this be used in conjunction with the mooer micro d.i. (cabsim turned off)? or would that yield not much benefit?
also does the micro d.i.'s cabsim give same quality results, albeit minus the voicing options?
will this input accept line level? like attenuated from an amp, or does it have to be pedal/hi-z?
Hi bro ! Looks/sounds like a handy little unit. Wont replace a Two Notes or a UA OX,but... The advantages (EQ tweaking etc.) seem to be at the same time its limitations - for me at least - as I would be quite reluctant to spend too much time in fine tuning all the options rather than playing. I'm the Guitar-Cable-Amp kind of guy - you know, Old School :-)) I've been tweaking a lot in Bias FX and created my own modded amp (based on a Maz 18 from Dr Z) and I basically work with this one for everything. If by any chance it doesn't work out in the mix, I am recording a second dry track simultaneously and there's always a possibility of re-amping ! What do you think ? Keep on rocking Rabea \m/
I hear you! Seems by time you really tweak, volumes are totally disparate. All of these need a master global output leveler, so at the end of the week, after all the tweaking, all patches are same level (if u want) but then I just go back to the couple that I always use, ha! Oh yeah, clean tones are just as important!
It has power amp emulation too - so you could effectively go from pedal board into this, and into interface?
The CHUG is strong with this one yes...🐉
Does the radar have balanced (stereo jack) output? I saw that in the manual but not sure if it's just marketing thing or fact.
Ok but what about custom effects, lead tones, delay/reverb etc? How could you achieve that with the Radar? I have a Fractal FX8. Could I use it before the Radar? There’s no amp modeling in the FX8, would it still work? Or do I need a preamp live pedal? I do not want to carry an amp/cabinet with me. I just want to play through a mixer into a PA
Question??????? Can I run the radar pedal out of the send of my MT-15 and go out of the radar to an interphase? Or do I still need a load box? Cause I’ve heard it’s not good to run a tube amp head without it plugged into a cab. Could you get back to ma asap??? I’m really new to home recording
Definatly going to use this with my Micro terror
These sound sick, but what's with the audio? It was going very brittle then disappearing then going brittle again.
Great vid Rabea! I didn't quiet understand where you'd put this pedal? Just like a regular pedal in the effects chain? in the fx loop of the amp? after the amp? so many questions :D
You put it right before the FX-Return of your Amplifier :)
If you also want to hear your cab-sound and just use this to go to your recording interface or live mixer, you have to buy a splitter too.^^
What is an alternative to this expensive af pre amp pedal?
Can I just use my standard tube pre amp?
Five 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 demo you the man!
Bea, the "will" should be a with in your description
Do you think it is enough with the distortion power that the MOOER gives or I can add an additional Metal Zone simulator without saturating it. (I currently connect with a PODHD500x + MOOER RADAR on FXLoop + Headrush FRFR 108). --- Excellent video by the way!
Im looking at getting one of these to use with a dsl head, can you use them without using it through the fx loop, coz i run my fx through the loop
It's a great thing. The models are excellent. It needs midi control though. That is too bad.
Did you feel any latency? And what was firmware version?
The AMT Pangea CP100 is similar, but it can be conected everywhere, even right between the amp and cab. It doesn't have the power amp sim though.
It has in recent firmware versions. Compressor, Eq, Gate, Poweramp AND CLEAN PREAMP simulation for running your pedals in front. Nothing beats CP-100 so far in this price range.
What is the red/orange arrow that flickers on amd off when ypu are playing through the pedal?
I also wouldd like to know....
Would that be as good as two notes cab pedal‼️🧐
I estimated roughly that if you bought all the actual gear this pedal simulates it might cost you at least $20,000 so there is alot of power in such a tiny little $120 pedal....
I would buy one... if it only had a thru output so I could put it in the FX lopp of my amp and still be able to play my amp.
you could get a load box with an emulated output thou
Where can I get that T-shirt, Rabea?
I must also discover the answer to this question!
Probably a stupid question, but can I run this into my 4x12 cab with a Kemper as a preamp?