Mooer Black Secret 5-stars Reviews

Its awesome. What everyone says is true!

This pedal is basically a ProCo RAT and Turbo RAT in the same package. To my ears, it sounds identical to the originals. It even does the RAT thing of wiring the tone potentiometer backwards, so that all the way counterclockwise is full and all the way clockwise is zero. The construction is fantastic and mine has been fully reliable for several years now. My only complaint is with the form factor. In my experience mini-pedals like to fall over or slide around, and on a pedal board they are hard to place because they want to fall through the cable gaps. A small complaint, considering this little guy very faithfully replicates the greatest distortion pedal in history!

It's awesomeness isn't exactly a secret

The Mooer Black Secret is an awesome RAT clone that's widely recognized for it's awesome sound and tiny size. The vintage vs turbo switch offers a world of extra tonal options not available on most other similar pedals. It's a great addition to any guitarists' pedal board providing anything from gritty distortion to scorching fuzz.

I love this one. The filter included makes the whole difference when playing and wanting a different sound out of the same distortion. Makes like way easier. And sounds great. For the small device it is makes the whole difference.

My new love!

Somehow it happened, that only at 38 I tried RAT type pedal (this great copy from Mooer) for the first time, and I found it to be perfect match with my Laney Cub 12R and celestion vintage 30 speaker. My favorite pedal for lead and solo sound now. But too fat for tight heavy riffs.

Here I recorded sound test at different gain levels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3bMFu7THbo

Great tones, nice build quality

Not sure how it compares to a real Rat but I quite like the tones I'm getting! The small knobs are a bit of a pain but it comes with the small size.

Great pedal at amazing value

Love this pedal, massive distortion and easily adjusted to find your ideal sound with two tone options along with filter. For the price it?s top class

Rat clone with vintage + turbo mode

A good Rat clone in mini format. It's good to have the 2 modes: strangely, I found the Turbo mode better on lower gain settings... and you can see the led glowing underneath the knobx ahah...

Nothing not to like if you are a Rat fan except maybe the mini knobs. However, I find them okay as there is a white line indicator.

I cannot direct compare the sound to an actual Rat but it's versatile with the 2 modes. I find that the sound compress a little too much at higher gain but that's a Rat thing apparently.

Great sounding pedal!

Look no further, if you are looking for a mini pedal this one comes packing big fat distortion. Need to listen to this pedal plugged in a tube amp to really appreciate it!

Great pedal for the price

This is my second Mooer pedal, and I find them to be a great budget alternative for my pedalboard. It's really small, so it doesn't take up much space on the pedalboard.

I play only at home, and this pedal fits my needs just fine. No need to spend lots of money on expensive pedals in the situation I'm using it.

It does the trick pretty well

As far as I can tell, the Mooer Black Secret is a clone of the RAT distortion pedal made by ProCo.

In addition to the standard RAT functionality, the Black Secret has a switch to change the distortion type. The label on the pedal indicates "Vintage" and "Turbo". Presumably, the switch allow the selection between standard RAT and Turbo RAT.

Overall, the pedal performs well. To my ears, it is indistinguishable from the RAT.

It also has a very small footprint compared to the ProCo RAT but it doesn't allow internal battery power. Moreover, compared to the RAT, the Black Secret uses a standard/Boss power socket. The RAT uses a 3.5mm jack.

If you look for a distortion pedal that uses a RAT (or RAT-like) distortion circuit, the Black Secret is a good choice. It's cheaper than the RAT, it uses a standard power socket and it has a switch to select standard/turbo clipping. If you can live without the internal battery supply, it's a no-brainer.

A cheap, dirty distortion pedal

This is a copy of the Proco Rat and gives a similar, fuzzy, dirty distortion. Can do lighter distortion (which sounds really good) along with heavier tones. I bought it to replace my Big Muff because i was getting lost in the mix and while this does not that the thickness of the Muff I'm definitely heard better now.

It takes a bit of a while to find a perfect tone and to be honest I'm still looking. With both the turbo and the vintage mode possibilities are endless. The filter knob is also really good, providing a lot of different tone, either doing dark and fuzzy or brighter, with more clarity.

It is very well build and is solid. My only complaint is that while turning it on I sometimes hit the distortion knob.

Sounds great

RATs are kindof a love it or hate it thing. I feel like I often find myself in both camps. The black secret actually sounds better than the current production RAT, and also offers a turbo RAT at the flick of a switch. Very cool!

Amazing little thing

This is a Proco Rat clone in a tiny tiny box. It sounds just like my friend's actual proco rat. However, it takes up hardly any space on my board, which is brilliant.

The two small pots are a bugger to see on a dark stage, so don't try to adjust it too much between songs. Also, the big white one (which you can see) is all too easy to knock with your foot if you're not paying attention when you stomp it (especially if like me you like to play in bare feet). Luckily it's easy enough to poke back with your toe, so not a major problem.

It sounds sublime, huge compressed heavy metal tones, like Motly Crue, Metallica, and all the other guys who used the Rat back in the day. If you don't have space for a real Rat, then get this one, it even switches between vintage and turbo modes.