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I am a musician that has been performing for 30 years on the stage, in the studio and stage on a a professional. I have a degree in guitar performance and I play everything from classical, jazz, bluegrass, rock, pop, etc...I have owned approximately 75 pedals currently and have owned twice as many through the years. Yes, I am addicted to shopping for guitars, pedals, amps....you get the point.I am going to first talk about the build of the pedal. It is in a small 3.5" x 1.5" x 1.5". It is built like a tank in a durable metal casing. It does have 3 plastic knobs that have rubber rings around them. I am guessing this is used for both gripping and turining the knobs comfortably and to protect them. It also has a regular size knob in the center that is common on many pedals on the market. That being said, the hardware is great quality and I believe this pedal could withstand the day to day abuse from a professional performer for years if not a life time. The build is simply very high quality for the price.I first decided to try this pedal using a clean sound. It has the following 4 adjustable functions:1. "Sense" knob - The large knob in the middle. It acts as a tone filter/sentativity for the sound. Turn the knob all the way to the left and you get a really throaty wah sound and as you turn the knob to the Right the tone brightens. As you pick softer you get more of that "Cry" sound. I found a good sweet spot for a wah sound was this knob between 10 to 11 o'clock. This could be different depending on the guitar and amp etc...you are using.2. "Freq" controls the frequency. I like this knob a little before 12 0' clock3. "Decay" I found this knob sounds best turned all the way to the right for a more intense wah sound.4. "Pres" Presence knob - acts just like a presence knob on an amp. Fine tunes and smooths out the sound. I liked this best at 2 o'clock.The above settings for each knob was what worked for me as far as getting a professional wah sound.Now, as I experimented with turning the knobs, I found I could get synth like swelling sounds to actually using the pedal as an equalizer to get more of a muted sound for jazz tones or get more of a "Fuzz" sound running it through disortion. I also found I could use the pedal to "melow" the sound and make my bridge pickup on a Les Paul sound like the neck pickup on a tell or a neck pickup on a Les Paul itself. I could get a lot of different cool tones just from this tiny pedal. The sensativity of each of the knobs used to change each setting are very sensitive and usable unlike other higher end auto wahs or filter pedals I have used in the past where I could not tell whether turning the knobs did anything. This pedal is especially great for funk and syncapated rifts where dynamics are needed to help accent certain notes or making different percussive sounds in between notes or chords. This pedal I will be using for live performances and studio. When I purchased it, I did not plan on using it except as a toy to play with per say and wasn't expecting how professional, clean, and sturdy this pedal is. This pedel is true bypass and there is no drop in the volume when engaged. No popping, no fizzle, and the sound does not manipulate the original signal that can cause the intergrity of your sound to change.Summary: This pedal is as sturdy as it gets. Super versatile as it can be used as a auto wah, equalizer/filter, synth tones, etc... Professional sound quality and sounds better than pedals I spent 4 plus times for. I have owned auto wahs from the popular cock fight pedal (which I returned), to all the major brands and have refused to use any of them for live or studio use. Most I have returned and have just stuck to a wah pedal. This pedal can really free you up to move around on stage and will use it for live and studio performances. I will buy another one so I can have two different settings I can utilize while performing live without adjusting the knobs and since it is so small it does not take up a lot of space on my people board.Note: I will update this with a video when I get a chance to video and record the different uses I found intriging about this pedal.

I have this pedal running into Sonicake's ambience reverb / delay pedal, and the pair is a heck of a lot of fun. The tremolos and chorus on the modulation pedal I really like, and in my peddle board this pedal is almost always on optotremolo. This is almost a five-star pedal, except it really does need truly isolated power or it will inject high frequency clocking noise into your signal. Not so much that I have bothered to upgrade my power supply, but enough to be irritating. The tap tempo on this is good for slow-moving effects like flange or phaser, it's a little difficult to tap quickly enough for faster moving effects like tremolo. This is a buffered pedal, so there is no switching noise, which is nice, though there are some volume jumps and dips depending on which modulation algorithm you are using. Nothing too extreme, but worth noting.If the whine and volume irregularities were corrected, this would be a five-star pedal.

First, I bought the original version of this pedal in 2018. It was my first time to try a micro pedal, and my expectations weren't that high.In fact, you can see the Boss CE-2 pedal that I've had since the late 80s, or early 90s.Yeah, I've been playing awhile. That is my favorite chorus pedal of all time, and I mostly used it as an always on, very subtle effect. It's fantastic at thickening sounds. You might not notice it if it's just on, but If you turn it off, you notice it. That's about the level I prefer.So it looked like the Sonicake was trying to emulate the Boss CE-2, or the Super Chorus, with the 2018 version of this pedal. When I got it, I was underwhelmed, because even in shallow mode, I could not dial in that specific sweet sound.AND THEN...I noticed a clicking in the background, whether the pedal was on or off, and no matter where it was placed in the chain, etc. My best guess to the cause of that was the groovy lighted knobs, which were cool looking.I thought that all the "less expensive" pedals were probably inferior in that way, and I didn't try any other brands until a few months later.Of course, I had boxed up the original Sonicake, meaning to return it. And promptly forgot about it until it was too late.For some reason, I emailed the company out of the blue about this about 2 weeks ago. I didn't expect anything, didn't ask for anything.But they offered to send a new pedal. This is almost 3 years later!Talk about customer service.And as you can see from the pics, they've re-designed the pedal. Gone are the cool lighted knobs and the toggle switch between "shallow" and "lush".This version is MUCH closer to the bucket brigade type chorus of the Boss unit. In fact, it's so close, (and no noise!) it deserves 5 stars.It's a very good digital simulation of a simple analog effect.With customer service this great, I want to help support their dream.And they have a couple of other pedals I'm not afraid to try out now. Thanks, Sonicake.