SONICAKEBass Effects Pedals Multieffect Preamp Compressor Boost Fuzz Octave Multi Effects Pedal Boom Ave With FX Loop

I own many good quality, name brand pedals which I am very pleased with. However I wanted to downsize my pedal board. I keep the big one for shows and large venues.However I thought Id take a chance on this since it was so small, so lightweight and inexpensive. I figured even if it only lasted a short while it'd be worth it.well I've been using it right along for many months now. The effects sound fine. You can probably dial in the tone you're looking for. I've found that for the price point, this little pedal gives you the bang for the buck. And it's so light and small it's easy to carry around in its own gig bag. (I bought a separate sipper case that fits it nicely). I'm happy with it and would recommend it to others. Yes there are better, more expensive pedal out there but if you want to downsize and would like to lighten your load I think you'll be happy too. I was happy that it arrived as expected and was packaged in a way that protected the product. I did use a good quality power brick to ensure consistent clean power.Other players ask about it. We look at it and laugh because it sounds so good although it's small and inexpensive.

My first exposure to Sonicake was to purchase their Vol-Wah pedal. I had been using a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe from 2003 which I bought new direct and have used on stage and recording. However, I was not entirely happy with it, and it did not play nice with my other effects like Keely compressor and Cusack Fuzz Screamer. I wanted something new and smaller, so I tried the Vol/Wah even though skeptical. It sounds every bit as good as the Fulltone, and even some better, so that was that.Now, I never understood why pedals are so damn big. The Fuzz Face and Big Muff, and all these pedals—even the standard TS pedals and Boss, etc. With integrated circuits and miniaturization of everything I could never understand why the paltry few components in most pedals still needed a big enclosure. It’s only electrons after all. I have built several BYOC pedals successfully, but honestly, I don’t know why all those few parts had to take up so much empty space. Then these mini pedals started coming out, but I already had tons of older, some vintage stuff, so I let it go. Then I decided to give this Twiggy Blues a try, and I am way beyond impressed. I did try to take it apart to see what’s inside, but it’s a bit more involved than just taking out a few screws, so I will let the secret be kept for now. I don’t know what’s in there, but it does everything I want and does it really really good. I had a Blues trio about 10 years ago, and we gigged quite a bit, but anyone in the biz will tell you fronting a band is great while it’s fun, but inevitably the fun wears off and it’s just not worth the hassle anymore. To me, at least. So I started doing a solo acoustic thing with a dreadnought and a LoudBox Mini to do small bars and house parties, and that works just fine. But I wanted to use a looper and do some electric blues into the LoudBox, but it’s a full range amp, and you need an amp modeler for the electric guitar for which I used a Behringer TM300. But now the pedal board is getting too crowded and heavy to take to a casual party and not appear pretentious. One of the many great things about this Twiggy (besides being crazy small) is that the Cabinet Sim behaves just like an amp modeler running clean, and then you kick on the overdrive, and it sounds fabulous. Now, I have never heard a Dumble Overdrive except on Stevie Ray and Robben Ford records much less ever played through one being a mere mortal, but if this is anything like they are supposed to sound then I am down for that. Having the compressor in front of it makes it ever so much more so, and the creamy sustain is what we all long for. Sonicake seems to have found the sweet spot for all these controls that we tweak forever to accomplish and just goes straight for it. I am not a tweaker and do not enjoy fiddling with knobs endlessly, so if that’s what you like, then this is not for you. But if you want to cut straight to the chase and get great sound immediately this will do it. The Delay sound every bit as good as my new MXR CarbonCopy, and not being a big fan of reverb in general I have found that I really like this one. Again, just right—not to much, not too little—Air.At first I was a bit disappointed in the Tone control of the Drive section in that it seemed voiced very low, and you had to turn up the high end almost all the way, but now that I have used it a while I find it has grown on me, and maybe that is part of the Dumble Thing? Don’t know, but it sure sounds good.This one is a keeper, and I’m looking forward to more of this. Love me some Sonicake.

This is def a working bassists pedal. It easily hangs with my Sans Amp Bass Driver clone as a DI (there are both XLR and 1/4 outs - yay!) plus it has the added feature of having not just a Preamp section but Boost/Comp, Fuzz, and Octave fx on tap as well. It's both a very cool multi-fx unit in front of an amp and great to just grab when I know I'm going to be using an unfamiliar amp on a backline or the beater at the rehearsal space. It's also PERFECT a solid stand-alone DI rig when I want to leave the amp at home if I'm gigging with a band that is using IEM's.I played around with this a bunch and I think the best thing to do with this pedal is to use the Preamp section to set up my general tone profile and then set up the other sections after as they interact with each other in a lot of ways and depending on how the Preamp is set the Boost and Fuzz can get messy if you're being thoughtless with the gain and tone.There's a lot of versatility in the Preamp section and even a fair amount of drive available so I recommend starting with the tone controls on the lower side of the dial because they're pretty responsive even on the lower settings. It's a feature I like but it's easy on this pedal to dial in loads of bass or highs and mids so a heads up not to overlook the sweet spots here!The same goes for the Fuzz section - it's Muffy and wooly and cool, so turn up the sustain and tone knobs up a bit at a time because I found many of the best tones on this are at around 9-12. After I've set up my pre-amp tone then I hit this section so it interacts the way an amp would. I suppose you could treat them as two different pedals in front of an amp but I felt the pedals played better together using this way of going about it because the gain stages played better together like this.Next I set up the Boost/Comp and this effect is exactly that - a big old boost with compression. My fav setting is a boost that has just enough compression to give me the sustain I want to push a line up in the mix a bit without too much distortion. You can actually get loads of compression out of this section and it's WAY quiet even when being pretty aggressive with the comp - plus this section is super fun for chicken picking on guitar lol :)Now the octave section on this is the reason I didn't go with a five-star review. Is it usable? Yes - but it doesn't track well enough on my bass on the low notes to give me the synthy sub octaves I personally want with an octave unit on bass. BUT, you can however get perfectly usable sub octaves that sound great up the neck if the settings aren't dimed and the 2nd lower octave is used sparing (this is two octaves below - no option for a low and high).This leads me to to the other great thing about this pedal that has been mentioned but I'll cover it again...This pedal is a blast on the guitar too! That synth suboctave thing I was talking about? The fuzz and the octave sections are magic on guitar and using them together I can get really close to the Blue MXR box thing with this pedal and it's sooo fun. The comp section can do chicken pickin or it can be set up for a super sustainy boost. You can even use the preamp section as a drive pedal of sorts in front of an amp - it's not gonna give you a fly rig DI vibe but more like a cranked Super Reverb kinda thing.So don't forget that while this pedal is fun and functional for bass it's also equally as useful for guitar!