MOOER Black Truck Guitar Combined Effects Pedal for Metal with Compressor, Overdrive, Distortion, EQ, modulation, Delay, Reverb

Unit seems to be well built and will hopefully last a good while. The effects are exactly what I have been searching for. I am not a gigging musician but I do have a growing collection of guitars and am progressing in my skills. Things are finally clicking and I can pick up a guitar and sound decent. Something was missing though when I would plug into an amp. I tried a number of different pedals and combinations from afford a boards to Boss and Strymon but didn’t know what I was missing. This all in wonder is simple to use but feature rich enough to let you experiment. I found my sweetspot with a little compressor enhancing sustain, a tiny bit of overdrive boost, a little flanger/chorus, and some delay and light reverb. That is the tone I was looking for and now have replicated on my mostly Boss pedal board too. I don’t know why it took having the black truck to find what I needed but I will be keeping it. I do have it set up using a 4 cable method (5 actually because my Roland Jazz Chorus Amp has stereo returns). I think above all else the black truck was an excellent educational tool. I haven’t tried it as DI yet but suspect it will perform admirably when I do. Very happy I snagged one of these and if you are also searching for the sounds your favorite artists make this is a good place to start IMO. Will it take you to the big stage maybe or maybe not but you’ll have a good time on the journey trying to get there and won’t waste all your practice time fiddling with settings. This thing does have a mild buzz when using distortion with my sss strat , but almost none with my HH LP and none with my acoustic equipped with onboard Fishman EQ (it was very feedbacky with the acoustic with distortion and no gate enabled when I got within a foot of the amp). Anyway that is my honest unsponsored review.

The black truck is a really nice piece of equipment. I grabbed one of the first ones in stock.I have not used it in front of an amp yet, but have used the headphone/line out jack with headphones and speakers. So that is where this review stems from. I bought it for travel use with headphones/line out speakers.The negatives:First, you MUST use a 9V – 1A charger. It will not run off your pedal board “brick” power supply as most individual plugs are 9V – 100MA to 300MA. You may get an initial light up but it will immediately shut down. It will work for a short time with a 9 V battery wired into an adapter, like my picture. Most pedal power ‘cable’ plugs that come with a daisy chain are a 9V – 1A powerThe Second thing is that the headphone/line out jack is pretty sensitive. You can over distort the signal very easy especially with a pair of headphones. If you want to use headphones with it you need to get the gain down and accept the fact that you’re not going to be able to listen to it very loud unless you have a high-quality set of headphones that handles bass response extremely well.Third, the compressor is just meh, This can be one of the critical factors in distorting the signal in the line out/headphone section. This could also be due to the fact that I am not a big user of compressors anyway. It may work fine for some.Now for the good stuff:The overdrive is pretty good. As usual I think tube screamer and it’s in that area.Hi gain section is very good, once you get past about 3 o’clock you don’t see much more gain but you are getting into more saturation and sustain.The EQ section is pretty good. It has a switch to position it setting for pre or post pre-amp positionally. This way if you use this for cable method it runs in the signal going to the amp OR through the effects loop of the amp. It also makes a noticeable difference in the line out when going post.The modulation section is actually quite good.That said, Tremolo has always been a throwaway effect for me, I wish they would have but a Chorus in there instead. This is meant for Rock, most Rock players do not use Tremolo that’s more of a Blues effect. In my opinion, that is a big oversight on the part of the designer.Hey MOOER, it’s not too late to fix that.The Phaser and the Flanger work just fine and are very good for something in a multi effects unit.Time section - I have never been a fan of reverb in the rock setting, it always seems to be muddy to me, I prefer delay. That said, the reverb does work as it should and it’s actually not bad when combined with the delay. The delay itself is very good allowing you to do all of the adjustments as you would on a separate pedal.Overall, it's solid (metal case), the buttons click firmly, the knobs feel solid. So far so good. It can be a standalone product into a board. The gain is really good and is at the edge of the hard rock/metal line.Dump the Tremolo for a chorus and it's a 5 star unit.

I was getting very tired of many different boxes, many different wires. This does it all. Very light, many different sounds and effects. Each individual effect is quite good- reverb, delay, chorus, phaser, flanger, tremolo, boost, distortion, Why did they take so long to make this!

I THOUGHT THE DAYS OF "BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED" WERE IN THE REARVIW MIRRORLo and behold Mooer has decided to NOT include the adapter with purchaseHard to believe!!

Mooer has done it again!!.. this unit has all the basics, everything you really need and I love how easy it is to set up. I would recommend this to anyone looking at a fly rig type setup.