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

All in one foot peddle. I added a flanger on the side. Very user friendly and sounds great.

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.

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.

This is a great little effects pedal board. Works well with my set up.I would recommend.