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.
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.
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 !
@@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! ua-cam.com/video/_jrfTdQUud8/v-deo.html
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.
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
@@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?
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!
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.
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: ua-cam.com/video/MAuDgLjHZgw/v-deo.html
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.
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
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
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’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!!!!
No no, but don't connect your amp speaker out to the radar! And have always your amp head connect to a load box or a cabinet! I use the radar with preamps and directly to the mixer :)
I'm thinking about getting one of these for live and recording (instead of micing my cab, because of bleed, consistency etc). If I understand correctly, I can go out of my FX send into the radar. Is there a way I can still use my FX loop for effects that reach my actual cab?
Mr Coatsworth go out of the speaker send from your amp into a loadbox. Then from there into the Radar. Don’t go right into the Radar obviously or you’ll fry it. That way you can use the fx send return separately.
@@AaronHallett thanks for your comment! That doesn't really answer my question. If I'm going to buy a loadbox with a cab sim, I'm not really gonna need the radar.
@@mrcoatsworth429 I use a splitter at the end of the chain in the FX loop. one end goes to the radar and to the FOH and the other end goes back to my amps return as usual. the coolest thing is that the master volume of the amp is now independent of what the FOH gets.
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
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?
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🤘😎🤘
Hi Bea. I got a kraken preamp pedal too and how do you manage to not have a volume loss when using it with the torpedo? i have to put the preamp at full master to have a good volume
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!
I know you posted this some time ago but I don't see replies so I'm hoping this helps - but yes, you can do that. If you check out Ola Englund's channel, you'll see multiple examples of him using Boss distortion pedals (I think the Metal Zone or Heavy metal but can't remember offhand) into the effects return of his Satan amp. So: Guitar - Distortion Pedal - Effects Return (so he's basically using only the power amp section of his amp) - Speaker Cab. On that chain, the Mooer Radar would be replacing the Effects Return/Power Amp and the Speaker Cab :) In fact, I think it's the only way to decently use pedals like the Metal Zone and not have your guitar sound like a swarm of angry bees (in my opinion at least).
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!
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.
Igor Zavalnyi It was a pleasure Man ;)
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'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?
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.ua-cam.com/video/t4oR13iZbFk/v-deo.html
These guys from Mooer have really been stepping their game up.
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! ua-cam.com/video/_jrfTdQUud8/v-deo.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.. ua-cam.com/video/_jrfTdQUud8/v-deo.html
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
Sir, you are, in no uncertain terms, a djentleman and a scholar. And, by the way, that is a terrific little pedal. Cheers
😂
OMG !!! Man Rabae your sound is killer as always but now with this magic little box you r sitting on top of the world !!!!
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
ua-cam.com/video/r6y0BNqOUbk/v-deo.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
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.
Buying this for my next pedal trade show - going to run the demo board through this! Thanks for the review dude
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 :-)
Might get one to use with my Laney ironheart irt studio for recording Di !!!!!!!! Best review of this thanks Rabea sounds awesome !!!!!!😎
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.
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
I really like Rabea's sound and skill. The little amp tone in a box is cool too ;)
I like that it doesn’t flub my speakers!!
Hey Rabea I love your videos, keep doing it… all the best.
The kraken pre-amp sounds great too!! btw your album Grinding Gears kicks ass!!!
Wow this little thing sounds amazing!
Cool bridge on that guitar
This video needs wayyy more views!
i just purchased this pedal and its just amazing! Thank you Rabea!
Rabea - great guy, guitarist, host!
I'm sold. Mooer should pay you! haha. Awesome review 👏
I like the custom 24 here
What the actual tiny frick?!? That things a little beast!
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?
Hi Rabea. Sounds great! Would this work with a standard pedal board in front with normal drive pedals and no dedicated pre amp pedal?
I may consider getting this someday for recording purposes.
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!
sick demo, cool riffs
Great review. I bought one a few weeks ago but this vid was, essentially, a user guide. Awesome tones :)
Best demo i've seen
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'd love to hear some clean sounds as well. For the most part it's just crazy fucking awesome! Damn good demo!
That Baritone sounded SIIIIIIIICK!
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.
Thanks for another great review video...what model of PRS is the one you play?
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: ua-cam.com/video/MAuDgLjHZgw/v-deo.html
I wonder what kind of pickups or pedals you could get with the $850 difference to effect the sound more?
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,
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.
All my dream gears there😗
Seems you can't stop playing🤟
I am super interested in the headphone out. How does it sound? Can it power high impedance headphones?
I need one or two of these.
You should do a test of the original Vox Tonelab! The blue one built like a tank
Rabea thanks for sharing , can you do a video comparison of mooer radar and the torpedo live with external ir . Greetings from morocco .
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...
The first 4x10 is actually a guitar cab. The bass cabs are at the end 🤘
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
Great demo Rabea!!! You should check the Nux Solid Studio, it seems to have more organic power amp sim. Wish you the best!
I WILL PAY FOR TABS TO ALL YOUR INTOS SONGS! TAKE MY MONIES!
Also, killer video per usual.
Awesomely (its that word? Lol) one of the best demo of the *Mooer* Radar.
🤗
I bet you'll review Mooer GE 300 as well. 😁
Where can I get that T-shirt, Rabea?
I must also discover the answer to this question!
Great post, as usual.
Btw... need more JP 15
The Superverb 4x10 is a guitar cab, you were indeed okay to use it! ^_^
Besides, it sounded killer! :D
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
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’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
Hi. Is it neccesary a load box if I wanna connect the mooer radar directly to the mixer?
No no, but don't connect your amp speaker out to the radar! And have always your amp head connect to a load box or a cabinet! I use the radar with preamps and directly to the mixer :)
What is the red/orange arrow that flickers on amd off when ypu are playing through the pedal?
I also wouldd like to know....
Dam Im surprised at how good this sounds.
I need one.
Not want. NEED.
Can I plug regular headphones directly into the output of this?
It has power amp emulation too - so you could effectively go from pedal board into this, and into interface?
I'm thinking about getting one of these for live and recording (instead of micing my cab, because of bleed, consistency etc). If I understand correctly, I can go out of my FX send into the radar. Is there a way I can still use my FX loop for effects that reach my actual cab?
Mr Coatsworth go out of the speaker send from your amp into a loadbox. Then from there into the Radar. Don’t go right into the Radar obviously or you’ll fry it. That way you can use the fx send return separately.
@@AaronHallett thanks for your comment! That doesn't really answer my question. If I'm going to buy a loadbox with a cab sim, I'm not really gonna need the radar.
@@mrcoatsworth429 I use a splitter at the end of the chain in the FX loop. one end goes to the radar and to the FOH and the other end goes back to my amps return as usual.
the coolest thing is that the master volume of the amp is now independent of what the FOH gets.
Hi! Thanks for your response! What kind of splitter are you using?
@@mrcoatsworth429 I built it myself but if I were to buy one I'd go with the Lehle P-Split.
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
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?
Hey brother can you show us how to connect the radar for recording. Thanks 😊
I just got one a few days ago. I noticed the pedal gets a little warm after extended use. Are you experiencing this too??
This look like what they said the future devices we gonna look like back in the day, and just for that Imma buy one
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🤘😎🤘
nice sound.this pedal conecting only at fx loop or straight into too??also can i use it straight to my amp and cab without pc softwares??ty
Dude, this pedal replace the sound of your power amp and cab to go direct to the mixer or your interface (even to your headphones)
Five 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 demo you the man!
Best review.
The CHUG is strong with this one yes...🐉
Hi Bea.
I got a kraken preamp pedal too and how do you manage to not have a volume loss when using it with the torpedo? i have to put the preamp at full master to have a good volume
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
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
Came for the gear demo , stayed for the playing ... well and the gear demo
Lmao
Can you please make a video of the mooer ocean machine?
Did you feel any latency? And what was firmware version?
One day I will own one of your baritones, Bea. I need to trip and fall over $2k first, but it will happen.
will this input accept line level? like attenuated from an amp, or does it have to be pedal/hi-z?
What is an alternative to this expensive af pre amp pedal?
Can I just use my standard tube pre amp?
Can I use this instead of micing my cab in a live setting?
Blaze Gulisack thats exactlt the use of it.
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.
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!
Would the Torpedo Captor do the same thing?
Could this help brighten up the tone of my very dark sounding PRS McCarty with P9o's which I'm ready to get rid of????
Get an eq pedal instead
What is that red Arrow that pops up in the screem pointing to the output side when you're playing?
Instead of preamp can we use a distortion or overdrive pedal before this to get a high gain tone ?
I know you posted this some time ago but I don't see replies so I'm hoping this helps - but yes, you can do that. If you check out Ola Englund's channel, you'll see multiple examples of him using Boss distortion pedals (I think the Metal Zone or Heavy metal but can't remember offhand) into the effects return of his Satan amp.
So: Guitar - Distortion Pedal - Effects Return (so he's basically using only the power amp section of his amp) - Speaker Cab. On that chain, the Mooer Radar would be replacing the Effects Return/Power Amp and the Speaker Cab :)
In fact, I think it's the only way to decently use pedals like the Metal Zone and not have your guitar sound like a swarm of angry bees (in my opinion at least).
man this product gonna be a cult classic for the next 30 years from now...
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!
Any reactive load involved here at all or just impulse response? Sounds awesome!
It’s just a preamp pedal into the Radar. No load involved ;)
Oh yeah, forgot it was from a preamp :-) Sounds great!