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 power The 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!

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.

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

This is an outstanding pedal. The combination of effects is perfect and the sound quality is amazingly good. From the stereo outputs to the effects loop and the cab emulated headphone out, Mooer has proven itself to be a cutting-edge pedal manufacturer.

I bought this Red Truck multi-pedal recently and have used it extensively. I have to say the effects for the most part are very useful, very user friendly! The Pure Boost, Overdrive and distortion section are all pretty righteous! The reverb and the delay are quite versatile and sound really pretty good. The Mod section is an “ ok “ effect, not useless but just not as lush as I’d like to hear. One thing to note, the tempo tap button affects the reverb, delay and mod time so you need to find a happy medium for those three pedals so as to not go into some bizarre sonic landscape. Having been playing professionally for a long time, and played tru practically every pedal out there, this is a cool alternative. Rock On !

I really love this pedal. Compared to carrying around a full-size pedalboard with multiple pedals, connecting them up, then hoping that most of your guitar tone isn't sucked away, it's a no-brainer! It will take some time to set this pedal up the way that you want, but once you do, you will love it! One of the best features is that you can connect this to your amplifier send and return as well as connect other pedal in the mix. The rest of the pedal can go into the front of you amp. This will definitely be an asset to your guitar playing!

400$ well spent, you can get a free power pack with it thru a promotion they offer saving 80$ and will receive them both same time, it is well made easy set up and lots of room to play thru effects. It does well as a stand alone unit or in an effects loop, and brings the crunch when u want it, my favorite is the space module so much room to play thru..it is hard to read in low light but once set I only need to see if a module is active or not no need to read when mid riff clicking thru modules, I use the tuner as a bypass when switching guitars... I recommend this to both beginners and pros as it is one of the best units I have used and don't feel let down by any part of it,,, also comes with a nice case altho I wish they made the case bigger to hold the power pack as well need a separate case for that, my only issue,,, will I buy another? Yes I would, will I buy more mooer products? Hell yes!!