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The X Man among the stomps.
This is the evolution of the pedalkind. A stomp able to transform itself according your needs. Maybe it's a bit too elaborate to make that in a live gig, but try to imagine at home, or in a studio session, to have somewhat like twenty high quality overdrives or boosters with you. Or strange ambient effects for your acoustic guitar. All that in an astonishing high quality pedal. It isn't a multistomp, again, it's an X Man able to transform itself according to your needs.
Cheap Wonder
It's my cheapest pedal, but you'd never say that. It's a mellow and smooth overdrive, in the Mad Professor Sweet Honey style, that lets pass together with its creamy sound the clean guitar one. Elegance.
Klon, Klon, Klon...
Ok, that's another cheap Klon clone pedal. But it sounds really good boosting the tubes of my Fender amp. I don't know how it works with a transistor amp, because in my opinion it doesn't add really anything to the sound, it just improves the tubes saturation. And, believe me, that's really something.
The Magic Wand
Wherever I take my guitar, I've this great multistomp with me. Due to its small dimensions, a single stomp size, you can put it inside your gig bag, as a Swiss knife that you have always with you at rehearsals, or at any improvised jam. And, moreover, as backup pedalboard in your gigs. And it's great it works with just 2 AA batteries, so you don't need to carry any power adapter.
Great for beginners, amazing practicing tool.
The sounds aren't at the level of the Mooer mini pedals, especially the overdrives. But it's an amazing practicing tool, you can play through it and listen by your headphones, there is an aux in for backing tracks, a looper and a drum machine.
Believe it or not...
Mine is Whale Blue, hand I changed the nut, the tuners (I put the PRS locking type for SE), and I changed the tremolo saddles and the inside block and springs. And believe it or not, it's a completely different guitar, a longer sustain, a sound richer of harmonics... I'm in love with this guitar, it changed my way of playing.
A Dumblish Pedal
To be honest I never meet a real Dumble in all my life, but I've tried a ZenDrive and I liked it a lot. Then I bought this mini pedal and I liked it even more... great with my Fender SuperChamp, a very smooth and bluesy overdrive.
Mesa In A Box
Ok, it's a cheap pedal, one of the cheapest I have. But it's great when you have to go straight into a DAW and make a recording. I use this pedal, or the Joyo American, after the compressor and the overdrive, and then I go into a chorus, a delay and the reverb, all the three pedals in a stereo chain. Then I pass one of the two channels in a cabinet simulator and then into the DAW, and the other channel straight into the DAW. So I have a different signal on the two channels, and more options in the mix.
Great Creamy Overdrive
Very versatile overdrive, with a wide range of distortions. Really full of harmonics, dynamics and expressivity.