SONICAKE RockStage Guitar Multi Effects Pedal With Cab Sim

This is an excellent small multieffects unit. It's made of metal, the footswitches feel sturdy and work flawlessly, the knobs turn very smoothly yet stay in place, they include rubber around the knobs so they're easy to grip, the 9v power adapter is actually included and there are simple instructions. Please check out my amateur video (iPhone quality) for my comments and usability. Features: Reverb: The single knob reverb goes from mild to very springy suitable for surf. Delay: The 500ms delay sounds great and the controls are easy to operate. I like that the repeat level can go high enough to self oscillate which is a cool effect. You can hear it in the video. Chorus: I'm particular about my chorus sound. Picky really. Give me a vintage analog Boss CE1 chorus and I'm happy. I liked this one right away and later read in the ad that it's voiced like an old bucket brigade chorus. Love it! It can get quite warbly too. Check out the video. Distortion/Amp: I was really surprised how good this sounds. From low gain to 80s high gain, this thing rocks. Does it Djent? No, you'll have to get the heavy metal version for that. But it will handle everything from Tom Petty to Poison. Check out the video. Cab Sim: This is a very cool feature. With cab sim on, you can plug directly into a PA with no amp at all. I tried this at an open mic this past week and it really sounded great through a Bose L1MII. I typically gig with a Helix or a Kemper, so this will make a great backup or even main rig for a too small stage or a fill in gig or open mic. It worked great. Cons: The delay does not have tap tempo. Overall 2 thumbs up from me. A good value as well. Free returns makes it a no brainer to check out too.

This thing packs hellacious bang for the buck in a tiny box you can throw in your guitar case or backpack to use as a fantastic fly rig. It has all of the basic time-based FX you need to play most styles of rock and pop, and they all sound great. Not a lot of parameters to play with, but again, enough for what you need 95% of the time, and the layout is extremely familiar to anyone who has used FX stompboxes over the past several decades. I thought the tonal options would be very limited with it, but if you take the time to tweak parameters to match your axe's electronics, you will find you can create many different and very useable tones. The palette of tones you can get out of it using an HH axe like a Les Paul versus one with single coils like a Strat or Tele is huge. I'm very impressed with the build quality. The RockStage is built like a tank, in a very sturdy metal case with quality footswitches. The parameter knobs are small but work fine, and they light up with colored internal LEDs when the FX is engaged: blue for reverb, green for delay, red for the amp model distortion/OD, and yellow for chorus. The cab/speaker sim is fantastic; you can really hear the difference as you switch it on and off when running it through an FRFR, which I did through one of my Headrush 112s. The amp model sounds like a hot rodded 80s head such as a JCM 800 or Soldano; very much hair metal, but you can also back it off to get lighter breakup OD sounds and even some very nice cleans. The amp sim is also very responsive to your guitar volume and playing dynamics/pick attack, and you can clean up a raging overdriven tone effectively by rolling off on the guitar volume knob. The reverb only has one flavor and one knob to control the amount, but it's a very useable large room ambience that really opens up and thickens up the sound and is also perfect for 80's hard rock. The chorus sounds like a sweet vintage bucket brigade unit and so does the delay, though the max delay time is pretty short; I don't think above 300 ms. I don't think that is a big loss; again, very usable for a wide variety of applications. This unit is marketed as an 80s hair metal machine and it does do that extremely well, but it can also tackle 80s' new wave and pop single coil sounds with lots of sparkle and shimmer amazingly, and you can even set it up to crank out some very convincing earthy blues "edge of breakup" sounds and chicken pickin' country twang with a Tele. I spent a few hours having a ton of fun creating lots of different tones with different axes and I have no doubt it would be great to use live in a situation where you don't need a lot of presets and space is at a premium, or you don't want to haul a pile of gear to a gig. All in all, for well under a hundred bucks, this is a terrific value and a great tool to add to your bag of tricks. It won't replace my Helix Floor, but it sure makes a fantastic emergency backup rig and could easily serve as a main rig in a wide variety of situations. This would also be a great first rig for someone just starting out on guitar FX since it's so simple and intuitive to use versus a pro unit like a Helix that requires extensive knowledge/experience to operate fully. 5 stars and kudos to Sonicake; I highly recommend the RockStage.

I got this because I'm a Worship Leader at a church and lead while playing guitar. Been using an older Line6 Flextone but we're all on ears and have no stage volume so my amp was literally behind a wall with the volume off, just going direct. Since I'm leading worship, rarely do any solos and am concentrating on singing and lyrics at the same time, I just wanted something simple with a few buttons and just a couple sounds. This does the trick with just a few negatives. Let me get into it: The overall quality of this is excellent. All metal, switches that feel good and knobs that are lit up and easy to maneuver. The cab sim is actually really good and works well when going direct. Button by button, here is my take on it: Reverb: This is actually a really good reverb and sounds to me like an old spring reverb. I just like a little so my knob is almost to the "off" position but this effect sounds really good! Delay: While the delay sounds really good, the adjustment of such is not very user friendly. The "time" for the delay is set with the same turn knob as everything else. It is very sensitive and I think hard to find exactly what you want. If you were trying to match with a certain rhythm or speed, it would be very labor intensive to get it perfect. What would have made this perfect is if the footswitch was also a tap tempo. While the effect sounds good and knobs are sensitive, this is very much not user friendly. I will probably find an eighth note delay I'm happy with and just leave it. Rock Amp: If anyone is playing metal or anything with lots of gain/distortion, this is not for you. While there is plenty of gain, it doesn't "chug". This is more like a Boss Distortion pedal or a Tube Screamer. It might sound nice as a boost or additional distortion to your existing amp but is a little lack-luster on it's own. For me, I'm just using it mainly for chords in this worship setting so I have the gain really low just to add some dirt to my sound. This will work for my purpose but I wouldn't see me playing out with that distortion sound. Chorus: I think this is were this pedal shines. The chorus effect sounds great and the adjustments again while very sensitive go from just a little to crazy. This to me sounds as good as any chorus pedal I've owned. While it may not rival $500-1000 pedals, the effect is great sounding and does the job. Final thoughts: Construction is good and for maybe a beginner that wants some effects, a practice solution or someone like me that just needs a couple cheap effects at your feet with easy setup, this is a winner in my book. This will NOT be the same as buying say a Headrush, Helix etc by a long shot, but I'm pleased with what you get for under $100. While this isn't exactly what I'd want and some of the sounds are just decent, I believe this will work well for what I'm planning to do.

I just got this pedal and I have to say I placed the order in yesterday afternoon and deliver was lightening fast! Opened the box and the thing is tiny. Fits into my gig bag. The fit an finish was great. Delays and chorus tones were high quality and the dirty channel great for sculpting bite to gobs and gobs of gain. Lots of versatility in this little thing. Love it!

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Just before the review. I've been a professional for many many years. I'm a veteran of literally thousands of gigs and hundreds of recording hours. My current rig is Markbass, Musicman, Warwick, ESP and Ibanez Premium. I have a fully cased pedalboard but a hankering to travel light. Some of the reviews of this are unflattering and might lead me to question just how much experience the writers have with kit and the real world. From my perspective I was really bowled over. I expected a flyrig to sit in my case for rehearsals where there was a studio amp available, as a backup for short festival slots where I could just DI out and possibly for pit band work. I'm now looking at some of the pedals on my main board with fresh eyes just because of the quality coming from this TINY box. The compressor is really transparent and sounds natural, the boost is a useful option (P'raps for the above DI as an "always on" option?), but not needed. It knocks spots off the Ashdown dual band compressor that's in a cupboard somewhere. Fuzz on bass isn't really my thing, but at a pinch with the sustain backed right off it hits nasty overdrive well. One thing that it does do is to nail the old Big Muff sound. The preamp is a diamond. Again the DI gig would be happy with the tone-shaping which really does sound like an amp. On a more real-world situation it's great to be able to add a driven Ampeg sound on the songs that need it. One great thing is that both the fuzz and the preamp react really well to volume changes from the bass so cleaning up is always an option. I habitually run the bass on half volume to preserve dynamics later down the chain and a pristine to grind transformation is really easy to achieve which just adds versatility. The Octave section is, in my opinion, really good. It tracks down to the B on a five string without glitching. Turn up the direct, octaves on half and the compressor keeping things tidy and the tracking and sound is better than my OC3 (which cost double what the whole soundbar costs). Noise floor is very low unless you dime the drives, construction solid and just too cute for words. If I could suggest anything for the mark II it would be a 9v output to drive a pedal in the loop and some sort of tuner, especially since that's going to be the essential either in the loop or in the front end. But that is that. On the whole I'm more than delighted and am thinking of buying a second to sit on my main board and run the other pedals in the loop. Great bit of kit.

This unit is very well built and gets you a very usable tone both into an amp as well as direct. The cab sim is a simple EQ but does the job well enough. As other reviews have noted, the only issue with this pedal is the tone control on the drive - to get usable articulation this needs to be all the way up (max) any lower, and your sound will be muddy. The compressor is great as a boost (turn sustain down and level up) into the drive. The drive is great on minimum as well as dialed up a bit (you will need to ride the level to get several really usable tones here). The reverb and delay are great and don't intrude on your tone. Overall, I could gig with this straight into the board in a pinch without issue and this unit also takes pedals reasonably well. If you like the articulation from playing direct into an amp, you can get very close with this pedal at a very reasonable price.

I got tired of old multi pedals giving it up. Didnt want to throw down for a new one. Tried this. 4 old school stomp boxes in one. $125 at my door. Sounds great straight through an amp or in the PA. Perfect for jamming. Better than I expected.