Mooer GE 200 Reviews

Good FX processor for every needs.

I use this almost 2 years.

Plenty of options, amps, drives, effects, suitable for every style of player. The sound is kind of bright and crisp, sounds more digital rathe then analog/tube. The looper is superb bonus, (however the operation of looper with one knob is little confusing). The drum machine is simple, with some strange beat patterns, but enough for every needs.

The devvice is for practice, recording, and overall use. But if used in live gig, it is a little hard to navigate effect/patches, need some preparation...

Perfect processor for this price

I love this processor so much.

Very easy to use, sound is really good. May be used as an audio interface for PC.

I set quality 4/5 only because when I bought it - one extra screw rattled inside the case. It is the only problem I found

Best budget effect pedal

I was looking at a few multi effect pedals and this is probably the best one. I saw it on youtube and it looked realy good. But when it came when i ordered it I was blown away.

It's simple, sounds great and it has many options and you can play with it anything you want. You can modify almost everyrhing you'd like. This is in my opinion the best budget multi effects pedal.

Absolutely worth it for live usage

Very sturdy unit, would highly recommend.

The positives:

- Very good build quality

- Easy to navigate the menus and understand how to tweak whatever can be tweaked

- It's perfect for playing live & plugging in the PA. You'll sound like a guitar, you'll fit in the "mix" perfectly without carrying an amp/cab and artificially raising the volume in the room with an amp.

- It's reliable, I have been using this guy for the past 2-3 years on every rehearsal, stepping on it all the time.

- In your mobility, reliability, ease of use, reproducibility of sound it's a huge upgrade over traditional amps for a fraction of the price.

The negatives:

- Small amount of writeable patches (I think 50 in total), the rest are hard-coded presets. Limiting if you are playing multiple sets. The default patches should be overwritable.

- For each patch 1 element of the effect chain can be toggled by a footswitch. Works in most cases (switching between rhythm and lead), but can be limiting for more complex songs.

- Not amazing if you want to DI record with it (but not impossible).

- No on/off switch, has to be unplugged if you want to unpower it.

- PC software is janky AF.

Just drum-machine and looper are quite weak

As my first processor, it totally satisfies me. Sounds good. Producer released bunch of updates and cabsims available on website for download. Unfortunately, users only sell their presets for money, found only one or two decent settings shared for free. So if you want to simulate famous guitarist's sound -try over and over on your own.

Quality is great, heavy and solid. Except, markers are painted white and hard to see on grey surface. So you have to read like grandma when you try to find any button, e.g. distortion block or amp settings. And the buttons play a bit (shake if you slightly touch them).

If not the drum-machine and looper, I would give 5 stars. You cannot record drums when you plug to the computer. You can record guitar from the looper, but drums only play from the processor itself, which is weird. Some of the drum patters sound bad (especially snares). I would rather replace complicated weird patters with simple drums, e.g. just kick-drum or kick+hi-hat, because they are more universal and you can use those for whatever you play.

Looper doesn't let you remove specific layer (or at least just last one), so if you screwed on third or fourth play -delete everything and start over.

Bonus tip: it is easier to record silence on first loop (use drums/metronome to measure). Then you can start recording in advance and start playing when timline returns to beginning. Stop recording when you are ready. Otherwise it is difficult start/stop in time.

Small and Powerfull

For those who are tired of loading a lot of heavy gear, this is the unit, it´s light and easy to handle. The sounds are great and you can load your own IRs very easily.

Great product 👍

The handling and the delivery was superb, product has great Sounds….

Jack of all trades

Packed with every single function that you will need for your every day jamming, studio purposes or stage playing. (USB-port as an audio interface output; second expression pedal output; rhytm maschine) It has of course a couple of really neat features that regular user will probably not use but it's just okay to have them by your side (Screen brightness adjust, etc.) Build quality is in typicial tank-like indestructible stompbox fashion. Seriously nothing really necessary to add on that, built to be stteped-on roughly and that's it. Speaking of sound quality, the stock IRs are decent but not as refined as they could be. That is not a huge problem considering that an user can easily load up third-party IRs using Mooer Audio Software. Everything else is for me on top-notch level especially considering the price.

My final advice for anyone buying this product would be to consider it a bit more, for somebody who wants to get a nearly perfect tone on stock presets, amp models and IRs, can get a little bit annoying considering that there are a bit better devices on the market for almost the same price, but if you're a person who wanna simply plug'n'play without tweaking your tone too much, than you have just found yourself a perfect device for that.

Excellent for the price

Good features and quality for a phenomenal price

Would happy gig with this

Great piece of kit

A lot of variety available, and very easy to lose days to tweaking and updating! Out of the box settings are great too.

Good for what it is, dont expect too much

Its really good for home practice and okay for light gigging, but dont expect it to rival AxeFx at 240$. I managed to get some pretty nice metal tones with 3rd party IRs. The signal does get too digital when you add to much stuff into the chain, compressors sound bad in particular.

You can record both dry and wet signals through its configurable USB output channels as well as practice to a song as the device acts as an audio interface.

Firmware has been a major problem that dragged the product down with many users reporting bricked/overheating devices. Mine has been ok so far. The editor software sometimes fails to detect the connected device.

I wish it had XLR output too. Overall great, sturdy built quality, all metal and small form factor. I wish i had the money for an AxeFx, but till then, this is a perfectly fine modeler for just about any non/semi-professional scenario.

Great for price!

This is all that a beginner guitarist needs. And a professional will find it entertaining. The compact size of the device is an advantage. Sounds great for the money.

Good value for money overall!

The Mooer GE200 is a great product for beginner to even gigging musicians given that it offers great room for flexibility and experimentation, packed in a small and yet aesthetically pleasing compact unit.

The sounds are good and the ability to load third party preamps, full samples and cabinet simulations makes almost every tone achievable to a certain degree.

For the negative part, some of the effects like Reverb and Pitch shifter could have sounded better.

Also, the pedal can be used with an actual cabinet (making use of a seperate power amp or the effects loop of an amp head) or with FRFR speakers for greater versatility.

Good Bang for the Buck

I've been using this pedal for a year, and it's a blast.

From a beginner guitarist point of view, it's got every thing I need to learn and play my favorite songs, lots of videos with tutorials about how to set it are available online, plus it's fun to play with the sounds and create your own tone.

Good quality overall, though the LEDs are too strong and annoying for playing at home (maybe they were thought to be seen on stage).

Anyway, great product!

Good multi effects pedal.

Some of the stock sounds and amp sims are not amazing but for the price this is a really good pedal, if you spend some time with it you can get some really good sounds, especially if you download some custom IR's.

Wow

As good as it gets! Just when I started getting bored playing the guitar, this changed my whole perspective about the instrument. Super easy to use, really solid and also has space for IR. Amazing product.

Best for it's price!

I'm a GE200 user for over two years and I think it's amazing. I've used it in my home studio, rehearsals and live gigs and it never let me down.

Pros:

- Amount of effects is great, many amps, cabs and own IRs

- Customizable chain of effects

- Two outputs on which you can turn off cab, great for sending one out to amp, second to mixer

- Small size

Cons:

- For some people, pedal could be too small and position hard to feel

- Many amps sound really bad at the default position, most of them need tweaking

Overall, I recommend it for begginers, I think it's great introduction to multi effects with huge amount of features for a very low price

Just received it, having lots of fun

I had some help from the husband update the software as I was a bit lost but everything is working perfectly. Still need to play a lot with it but quite an easy interface after watching some videos. Use pitch shifter just a tone down and sounded great but heard that isn't great to downtune much further. So far true to what is advertized and all honest reviews here.

Great quality and tones

I've had this effects pedal for about two years now and I must say it's rock solid, very easy to use and has quite some great tones for it's price.

Disappointment

I used Mooer GE 200 for about a year and could not recommend it. I jam with friends once a week so I was looking for compact and enjoyable thing. After reading and watching reviews on Youtube I was convinced. However, I didn't manage to like Mooer after using for about a year. I start with cons:

1) It gets lost in a mix. The other guitarist plays acoustics, and my guitar just disappears even with FRFR. Very frustrating. (No such problem with real amp or even my digital Digitech Trio!).

2) Clean tones are very dull even in comparison with my solid state beginner's Marshall. Yes, it always sounds somewhat like the tone your after, but then feels fake. Distortion is ok.

Many people claim to get great tone from it. Maybe, but I believe my own ears: I bought Marshall DLS5 with a Greenback, and (cranked) it immediately sounded unbelievably more musical than Mooer.

I believe all this "digital" hype is just marketing (e.g. guitar vloggers want to sell presets etc.) as margin on these things may be higher than on analogue gear. But I have no desire to not buy any ampsim or Mooer product soon.