MOOER Drum Machine Guitar Pedal with 121 Drum Grooves 11 Music Styles 7 Rhythm Slots Fill Function Tap Tempo Knob for Electric Guitar Bass (X2)

This is my second looper, an upgrade from the lekato one with 3 memory banks and auto sync. I'm not the most advanced player and I don't play live, I use them for scales practice and messing around with layering parts. This looper goes for a little more than twice the price of the lekato, and I'd actually say that's pretty fair value for the money.It shares common features with other loopers at around this price point (stereo/mixed/seperate out, tap tempo, autosync, count-in etc), missing some (no midi, no ext. pedal input) but adding some unique others (adjustable threshold auto sync, automatic quantizing, the auto drum matching).It took me a little while to learn the controls, but ultimately they seem pretty intuitive. The touch screen is fairly useful, though I thought it was a little gimmicky at first. It can display quite a bit of information but can be a little hard to see/press quickly. The buttons are useful and well placed.As a "standard" looper, this device is solid, but all in all I think this requires some firmware tweaking to really realize the full value of it's more advanced features and iron out some annoying things. Firstly, the drum match is pretty hit or miss. Sometimes it does a good job of identifying the tempo and applying a drum loop, but most times it requires some adjustment. The adjustments range from "it's in the ballpark" to "this ballpark is enormous", so I've found a lot of times its better just to do it yourself. Thankfully the drums are adjusted separately from the loop, so making those adjustments is pretty easy. Secondly, if you mess up your first loop you need to delete the whole memory bank to get rid of it and this means having to enter your bpm again as it defaults to the bpm in the main drum menu. And third...perhaps the most annoying...when you dub a layer, you can undo it by long pressing the play switch. But if you want to undo the next layer down in the loop, you can't...long pressing again performs a "redo" of the dub you just "undid". This means that you need to be sure that you like/want all previous layers before dubbing another one, because if something doesn't work, you can't just change it once you record another dub on top, you have to delete the whole loop and start over.The good thing is that all these issues can be solved if Mooer issues some good updates, maybe repurposes one of the buttons/switches in certain contexts, or utilizes the functionality that the touch screen offers a little better, but of course that doesn't mean they will.The only other issue I can see arising is that the enclosure is all plastic. It doesn't feel cheap, and for my purposes I don't see it ever failing in terms of durability (so long as the switches stay solid) but I can see that being a bit of a deal breaker if you beat the brakes off your gear in a live context or whatever.As a creative/practice tool it offers plenty of drum loops to fit whatever you want to play, and most are actually pretty usable. The sound quality is good. 100 memory banks is great. The automatic quantizing does a great job at erasing some mistimed stops, and in combo with the autosync really seems to smooth over the most annoying thing about loopers in general: stopping and starting in time. It's small compared to a lot of the other double switch loopers on the market, and isn't super power hungry either.If you can deal with the issues (or if updates improve them), I think this thing is a great device and I've had a lot of fun with it so far. I'm rating it 5 stars only because I hope that the annoying issues that exist within it's programming will be fixed soon. The drum match is pretty ambitious, so I expect some kinks there, but the inability to undo multiple layers of a loop is silly. If I could do 4.5 I would because I think its that close to being perfect for me, regardless of it's annoyances. But yeah, solid little pedal.

First the Reverb: The sound quality of this pedal exceeded my expectations big time. The ambient reverb sounds are so cool, probably rivaling Earthquaker and the like. The pre delay and mix knobs allow for a complete wet signal, so it can pretty much be a synth pedal. The standard reverbs are nice as well, as good as TC Electronic for sure. And the sounds couldn't be more tweakable, and then you can easily save your tweaks, and retrieve all presets with your foot. And that infinite button is super cool, sustaining the wet signal for as long as you hold it. I suspect they can do it for such a low price because it's made in China, but the build quality is superb, so nothing to complain about there. I'll be getting the delay next. The Drummer is really cool too, sounds like a real drummer, with some nice features and relatively easy to use for a drum machine pedal. But after using it in a jam session, I'll say it's not easy to navigate the 7 patterns with your foot. The biggest problem is on-the-fly preset switching. You have to first get it into preset more by stepping on both buttons at once. Then, it only gives you about 5 seconds to scroll through presets, then you have to select the one you want, all while you are playing! I kept turning it off by mistake trying to step on both buttons at once and also scrolling down when I meant to go up. I imagine though that with practice, one could get the hang of it pretty good. Although it has over 100 beats, not many accent the weak beats in the measure. This makes it difficult to dial in a certain song's drum pattern, and you have to settle for something more generic. One of the biggest complaints I hear about this pedal is that the beats are too busy. This is mostly the Rock and Fusion styles. Some of the Pop beats are a bit over the top too, especially the fills at the end of the 4 or 2 bar patterns. It becomes too repetitive after several times through and gets annoying. And there's really no need for built in fills, since it has a fill button. So, depending on what you need, it may not be awesome. But as something to easily just keep a beat that sounds like real drums, it's very useful. One last thing to know, it sounds WAY better out of almost any speakers other than a guitar amp. And it doesn't need to be in your signal chain to work.

I ended up returning this guy, but read on.pros: it's all knobs (as opposed to scrolling down a screen, like the beat buddy) so it's easy to find a beat quick. pick a new beat, change the tempo, volume all really quick on the fly. saving beats is really easy (you get seven slots), which means you can do a lot without bending down at all if you find the beats you like and save them. you can also go from one beat to another without stopping the rhythm, which is big. it also looks pretty cool down there, which we all care about even tho we pretend not to. there are a handful of beats that sound very professional and real compared to the beat buddy.cons: the beats are really busy, i think about 2/3 of them are distracting and unusable. worse, almost all the beats have a automatic fill at the end of 8 bars making them even busier. it's weird this is built-in as one of the buttons is a fill option. this is of course based on preference of sound. maybe your sound calls for complicated beats all the time. there's a host of videos on youtube highlighting each beat, and while i watched them all, you don't realize how busy they are until you're messing with it on your own. lastly, the knobs don't quite line up with the numbers and i could see choosing the wrong beat while live.it's built very solid, and i could see this working for lots of people whose style melds more with the beats. i ended up going with a beat buddy two, i like the screen so you know which beat you're on and the beats are more varied and simpler. i will say the really solid rhythms of Mooer are more mature sounding that the beat buddy. it's all what you're looking for.