MOOER Audiofile Guitar Headphone Amp Analog, Access to Effects Circuits, Buffer/Clean Boost for Electric Guitar/Bass

The photos do not do justice to how small this pedal is. It's teeny tiny, yet still feels solid.This pedal does exactly what it's supposed to, but make sure you understand its purpose before you buy. Unlike the popular headphone amps that are meant to plug directly into your guitar (and usually don't have the headroom to accommodate other pedals well), this pedal is meant to sit at the end of your chain and amplify the signal to headphone levels. Also unlike those pedals, it's not meant to simulate a guitar amp - it just cleanly boosts the signal.Now, legendary guitar amps didn't earn their fame by amplifying the sound of the guitar as cleanly as possible. They heavily color the sound. This means that if you run through this instead of an amp, it's going to sound quite sterile. That's not something the cab sim fixes.That's a problem, right? Not really. First, if you just need to silently practice with some effects, you may not be too worried about the tonal qualities, it's probably fine. If you play with a lot of distortion from pedals, it may not be a big deal either. However, if you use an overdrive pedal to push your amp into distortion, that won't really work with this headphone amp.You can still get great tone. All you need is a preamp, ampsim, amp in a box, etc pedal before it to add that color or gain to your tone. Think of this pedal like a cab (where your headphones are the speakers) and the preamp pedal is the head. I use a pretty cheap joyo amp emulation pedal, and it works great!

I struggled a bit with the interface on this pedal at first. After reading the manual, I thought it would work one way, but that wasn't quite right. This pedal has eight different loops in six different styles, and each of those styles has at least one loop that is not in 4/4 time, which is quite interesting. One of the most interesting features on this pedal is that you can activate a fill via the footswitch. That is the feature I had the most trouble figuring out. You have to single press the fill button to toggle that feature on or off. Once on, it works quite well, adding cool and useful fills at a button press. My only issue is that you have to toggle the feature off to stop the drums. You might be able to touch it with your toe if you are very careful, but this is a mini pedal, so you might hit something else. Unfortunately, that limits how much you can use this for live performance. It could still be quite useful for jamming alone or with friends, or for entering complex drum sequences into a looper, for which the inline interface could be quite useful. I tested this out both inline and with an aux input on my looper, and generally prefer using a separate input, personally, but placed late in your effects chain, this could work quite well. The samples sound quite good, and the EQ is helpful for adjusting the drum sound for different styles. It still sounds good through some light overdrive, but would generally be a bit better in a clean amp or through an effects loop. A little bit of reverb is quite nice, and the ability to add some modulation to the drums opens up some interesting possibilities. It is important to realize this is a mini pedal with no MIDI connections or anything, so it will be hard to match this to other things besides live playing, since your tempo controls are either a tempo dial or tap tempo. When switching patterns, your tempo setting is generally kept, though some loops are in half or double time, and it gets more complicated with those loops that are not in 4/4. I like that when switching patterns, the pedal generally waits until the bar is finished to switch to the new pattern, which makes it easier to stay in the groove. Overall, this pedal is a really good way to have some useful, great-sounding drum patterns for jamming or looping in a very small package.

To whom it may concern, if you’re planning to use this right out of the box, you will be slightly disappointed. There is no 9 V DC power cord for this unit provided in the package. So therefore trying to use it right out of the box isn’t going to happen unless you have your own power cord. Fortunately, because I have so many petals, I do have extra 9 V DC power cords. It would be a little bit different if it also had batteries like a lot of other paddles too but this one does not use batteries. The pedal is awesome though. I especially for the money what you get is incredible love the item. Thanks.

Wasn't totally sure how the Audiofile pedal would work out but it's actually great. The primary function I was looking for is the headphone line out, just for silent guitar practice. And yes, some other pedals, have headphone outs, but having it in a separate pedal which can always live at the very end of the signal chain is huge. For example, if you have a looper, you would want it after any drive or effects, so a headphone jack on the drive would be too early and wouldn't capture anything from the looper. Furthermore, the cab sim toggle works really well. It's actually crazy how much better of a sound you get when you hit the cab sim. Without it, the signal is sort of tinny and abrasive but cleans up really well with the cab sim on. Finally, just having the master volume control helps a ton. A lot of times you don't want to fiddle with all the effects, you just want to turn the volume up or down. One final thing I didn't see in the documentation but is really helpful is, you can have the headphones connected at the same time as an amp connected. Not that you would use both at the same time, but you can leave the cables in place and then just turn the amp on or off when you want. Great product.

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