SONICAKE Overdrive Guitar Pedal, Mini Centaur Classic Overdrive Effects Pedal Analog for Electric Guitar and Bass, 3 Legendary Sounds, Buffer Bypass - Trio Rider

This thing is really cool. It's not what I expected, but still very cool. I was expecting a big expansive reverb, but the reverb is kind of weak and sounds very tinny. However, what I didn't expect was how good the delay is. The delay is kind of insane. You can put the time down to minimum and get a sort of robotic sound, or play with that knob and get all sorts of cool glitchy sounds. It's great to use with a drum machine in particular. I was hoping to use it with my synths to get more expansive pad sounds but it turned out to be more of a drum glitch machine. It's tiny yet super well made. It feels heavy and the knobs, although small, are satisfying to use. It doesn't come with a power supply but uses standard guitar pedal 9v. So don't forget to pick one of those up if you don't already have one.

$30 for a functional A/B pedal is great. This one does almost everything right and is a great value. It even does A/B switching in a mini-sized enclosure, which is impressive. My unit doesn't have any noticeable popping, and so far as I can tell doesn't degrade the signal. I was also happy to see that despite the description saying that A+B mode only works with Y as the input, mine did it just fine with Y as the output. In my case there was no change in volume when joining the signals, either (which can be a problem sometimes with stuff like this), which is awesome. So what could be better? I was a little surprised to see that the A+B mode basically disengaged the pedal button completely. Normally what you see in a 2-button footswitch is an A/B button and an A or B button. One of them normally switches between A and B. the other (A or B) will add or subtract the remaining channel. I had expected that Sonicake's unit would do something similar with the mode switch changed. Instead, it just ignores the pedal switch and everything is on all the time. I get why they did that, since with only one button available you couldn't get the full functionality easily. But I would have liked it better if I could get some form of A / A+B accessible via the footswitch in the second mode. The small size is both a strength and a minor drawback - with an enclosure this small there's no room for a battery. This isn't a huge deal since the pedal works without the battery (it only powers the LED), and many pedals of this kind don't have an LED anyway. Still, if I could choose between this and a version of the same thing in a bigger enclosure to hold a battery, I might have chosen the larger one. That's more feedback than criticism, but it's something to consider. I usually prefer batteries in pedals which only need them for the LED in order to avoid ground loop issues and save space on my board. Speaking of which, when I first plugged this pedal in, there was a significant ground hum introduced into my signal chain. I was a little puzzled by this since the power shouldn't even be connected to the sound. This probably means I was producing a ground loop that was showing up elsewhere. I ended up swapping out what was connecting to what (and what was daisy-chained) for other reasons before troubleshooting this and the issue happened to go away, so I didn't pay a lot of attention to it. It probably wasn't this pedal's fault anyway, but it is something to watch out for (again, this is why I might have preferred a battery for this). 5 stars for price and accomplishing what it set out to do. It might be a little unfair but if I could I'd take half a star for not handling the A+B issue differently. I guess their answer to the design issue at hand was valid but I think that part could be improved upon. But if you look at that as just a bonus feature anyway and look at this as an A/B pedal, this is a great unit and an outstanding value.

I bought this because the Spark Mini Booster was out of stock. It was half the price but when I plugged it in it was full power! Plenty of gain and both the buffer and unbuffered settings sound great. It gives a great clean boost. I use it at the end of my effects chain for a solo boost and it works great. Plus, it adds some meat as an 'always on' pedal, if you want, as well. Why wait for Spark? Get this one and save some cash! You'll be glad you did.

So far it seems to be a great product, but with a few caveats. I bought 3 - 1 worked great, 1 had trouble, and 1 isn't working. But had I known a few things, I likely could have prevented this scenario... Hope these tips help! 1.) I couldn't seem to transfer the new IR's to the device on my Mac running Sonoma OS. But I was able to do it on a Windows machine... but the next point may be why. 2.) When I attached to a Windows PC, I quickly found the normal 44.1K 500ms IR .wav files were too large. I could only get three of those on the device. For some reason on my mac, I could only get 1, and after that a perpetual error code that the file couldn't be transferred (but not due to storage... weird). Windows at least showed there wasn't enough space on the drive. So, after searching Sonicake IR Loader and going to their website, I found where I could download the manual, then under that I could download the original IR's, then under that is a link called IR File Converter, and it says it requires Google Chrome to use. You can only convert one file at a time, but it worked flawlessly. Then I was able to load the files on to the device. So, maybe it would have worked on my mac if I had converted the files to a smaller file type? I went through enough frustration to give it a shot. It's working now, so I'm not going to mess with it anymore. :) 3.) I bought 3 of these to use at our church. On the attempt to get it working on my mac, I reformatted. It's originally in a FAT12 file format. The reformat didn't seem to help. However, on another unit, the reformat locked up as the built-in storage is crazy slow. It corrupted the built-in storage, so I'll send that one back for an exchange. 4.) Lastly, while the stock IR's are actually pretty sweet out of the box, I wanted to load some IR's that I've been using on my Line 6 HX Stomp XL. I dedicated one of these units to bass guitar, and two toward acoustic guitars. My favorite acoustic clone IR's have come from Worship Tutorials - the Taylor 414, and Holy Grail 2 guitars in particular. The bass guitar IR's came from Celestion and are bass cab/speaker profiles BN15-300x and Studio Nord Bremen Ampeg V4b Custom and Ampeg V4b Trace Elliot, and the Orange custom as well. I mention these since the bass and acoustic IR's are a bit harder to locate. But one caveat for acoustic IR's... acoustic IR's by default all come about -18db. I'm not sure why, but they do. So, the only way to use the acoustic IR's on this unit is to crank the volume all the way, and crank the gain on your PA around 20db +/-. But, it's totally worth it if you're plugging in direct to PA. And it bypasses the need for a DI box. I don't have any noise issues when I crank the volume and gain on these. Build quality is great. And the price can't be beat. Even though I had a lot of headache getting these setup, the end result and price point make it worth 4 stars. Now that I know how to work with them, I'd buy it again in a heartbeat. But definitely follow some of these guidelines. The built-in memory is very small, very slow, very temperamental, and easily corrupted. But once it works, it's great! Hope the tips help. It's a super affordable way to have great tone!

I bought the Fazy Cream pedal because I wanted to add a fuzz type pedal to my sound. Since I have been very impressed with my previous Sonicake purchases I always come to them first when I want to try something new, and they continue to help me dial in my perfect sound. The pedal arrives brilliantly packaged. The box is just the right size to hold the pedal, a couple of business card sized instruction sheets, a perfectly die cut 3M Velcro strip for attaching to your pedal board, (remove the rubber backing on the pedal first it it doesn't stay stuck) and a foam insert that protects the knobs. These pedals are compact but not so compact as to be un-usable which lets me add more of them to my compact pedalboard set-up and I just can't be happier with these products. The Fazy Cream Pedal is advertised as a true bypass, as are all the sonicake pedals, and in my testing that is true. There is no signal loss or alteration in tone when the pedals are switched off. These pedals don't have space for a battery so you will need a 9 volt center negative power supply. I am mounting them to a powered pedal board set-up so that is not an issue for me. I have this pedal in the middle of my signal chain and curently have the level set at about 9:00, the tone set at 1:15, and fuzz set at about 10:00, and this gives me the warm fuzz I was looking for from this pedal but you can get some much more intense sounds out of it as well and I may play with some other settings in the future. The sturdy construction of these pedals will more than stand up to my use. I am a home guitarist and dabbling bass player and don't make my living at it, so I can not speak to it's durability in that kind of environment, but I would think that if you don't abuse your gear it should be fine. This is now my fourth Sonicake pedal, all of them are still going strong and I am still happy with the choices I made. I am 100% certain that I will be looking to Sonicake again when I decide what I want next If you are on the fence about ordering this pedal, just do it, you can't go wrong. Play it loud!!

Nothing fancy, but inexpensive, and functional.

I was looking for a "Pico" sized replacement for a JCM pedal. I've had good experience with other Sonicale pedals. The name "Cowboy" seems a bit strange for a HGD, but whatever.. it's a nice pedal. Has one of the better JCM sounds for a pedal this size and in this proce range. My reference is my Amp sim, and this sounds just about as good as that. Also, the "stars" are acting strange.. This is a 5 star pedal

I like the aesthetic of the Sonicake pedals. I have four of their pedals currently, with a fifth one on order. This pedal I use for a simple room reverb and a slap-back analog tape echo. It can do a lot more, but I just needed something to just give my rig a little atmosphere. It looks great next to the 5th dimension that I use for chorus and the rude mouse pedal. I also have the vol-wah pedal, and I am waiting on the octaver. Edit: I now have several Sonicake pedals: The Sonic Ambience, 5th Dimension, Octaver, Vol-wah, Rude Mouse, Source Compressor, and Trio-Rider. The only one I don't love is the Octaver, but that isn't the pedal's fault; it is the type of pedal that it is. It isn't polyphonic, and it performs exactly as advertised. I love the Trio-Rider. I wanted a Klon-style pedal but never felt the need to pay a lot of money for one, and this hits exactly in the sweet spot of price for performance and features for me. I think it sounds great. The quality feels great, and the price, while a little bit more than some of the other pedals, was still very affordable for essentially three different Klon-style circuits. Edit: after buying the Trio Rider I bought the Fazy Sandwich. Disclaimer: I hate Fuzz pedals, but I feel like it’s the kind of effect everyone should have. The Fazy Sandwich is 3 different circuits. The Classic and Modern are nice and react well to controls. I was able to get sounds I enjoyed out of them. The “JF” big muff style sound I didn’t love but that is more because it is my least favorite style of fuzz.