Mooer GE 200 5-stars 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.

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….

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.

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!

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.

Very practical

In short, I love it - it has all the features I need.

I use this processor for practice and gigs with my band.

Pros:

- Everything I need in one box: amp, cab sim, effects, pedal, tuner, metronome/drum rhythms.

- The expression pedal can be assigned to change multiple characteristics of multiple effects simultaneously.

- The sound. My tube preamp/combo clean tones are better IMHO, but it is still nice.

Cons:

- Cannot put both overdrive effect and a booster in a virtual chain. So I have to use the amp overdrive sound.

- When I switch the presets, it picks not the current expression pedal position, but the saved one. I use the pedal for a gain level of the overdriven preset. So it is either I need to save the presets with the required gain level for each song, or I have to change the gain level and save the precet before each song. It occurs when I switch between clean and overdriven sounds during the songs.

- The built-in pedal is quite small.

- The tuner quality. I ended up using the external tuner - TC electronics polytune. It allows for more accurate tuning.

I love this thing

If you are buying this multi fx, update the firmware straight away. The update will give you a backup feature, trails for reverb and delay, and a few more fixes. Updating will remove any new presets you created.

My old multi fx started malfunctioning so I had to look for a new one. I came across this and I was pretty much convinced to buy this as soon as I learned that I can load my own IRs (Impulse Responses) onto the unit.

Pros:

Sounds great

Very flexible

Easy to use (both on computer and on the unit itself)

You can upload your own IRs

Build quality is solid

Expression pedal is fully programmable

Cons:

Option paralysis if you don't know what you are doing

Switching between presets takes about 10ms which is noticable in certain situations. (Not a big deal though) ((EDIT:Updating it made it pretty much unnoticable))

Flexibility

I was surprised by how flexible this thing is. You can even adjust the screen brightness! So how it works is that there are different blocks such as amp, cab, distortion, delay, eq, etc... and in those there are multiple options. There are a lot of amps you can choose from, many different sounding distortion effects and so much more. You can then move these blocks anywhere in the signal chain. You want the echo to be before the amp and you want the wah to be last? Can be done. The only limit is that you can only have one thing from the block activated, so you can't have 2 distortion pedals or two amps on at the same time. Not too big of an issue. The ONLY time where this bothered me is when I tried to have a wah and a compressor on at the same time. That cannot be done because the wahs and the compressors (yes there are multiple different wahs and compressors) are in the same block so I can only have one of them selected. Not the end of the world really.

CTRL and Expression pedal

My favorite thing about this unit is how programmable it is. You have this footswitch called CTRL which allows you to toggle on or off any of the effect blocks (amp, reverb, modulation etc...) as you want. I use it to toggle delay and distortion on or off most of the time.

Now the expression pedal is magical. You can use it for its standard functions such as volume pedal or wah... but you can program it to adjust any parameter! You can use it to control the gain on the distortion, the speed on the tremolo, the room size in the reverb. ANYTHING. You can even program it to control multiple things at the same time! Control any parameter with your foot, it is so much fun. And you can also add a second expression pedal. I have not tried that though so I cannot comment on that.

Impulse Responses

So if you don't know what IRs are, a short summary would be a sound signature that computers can use to recreate the timbre or sound of an instrument.

One of the effect blocks in this unit is dedicated to cabs, and that is where you find the Impulse Responses. Their stock ones are really good. You can adjust the mic distance, and the type of mic is well. BUT if you want to experiment then you can upload any other impulse response you please. I uploaded a few Metallica patches and I managed to get a pretty decent Black Album tone that I love using. The possibilities are endless, you can get any sound you want as long as you can get your hands on an impulse response.

Overall Sound

This little multi fx is as good as you make it. There are so many different options that you can build any kind of tone that you desire. If you know what you are doing then you should have no trouble recognising amps, cabs and such and easily selecting just the parts that you need to make up your tone. However if you don't really know what you are looking for then it might take a bit of experimenting to get a tone you are happy with. Its the downside to having so many possible combination of amps, cabs, mics, and such.

It took me about 5 minutes to learn the controls and make a patch that I was happy with. Now it is not a Kemper, keep that in mind, this won't sound 100% just like your favorite tube amp, but it will do a pretty good job at replicating most amps and such. And even if you are unhappy with those, you can upload your own IR, even apply some programmable EQ to it to make it even more accurate... Basically if you cannot get a good sound out of it then you are doing something wrong.

Other

There are 200 preset slots, that's about 180 more than I think I will ever need. Can't complain though... Might be handy for some people

There is no off switch. If you want to turn it off you will have to unplug it. OR if you are smart you will get one of those extension chords with the switch on it. Makes life so much easier.

The acoustic guitar simulation is pretty good on this. It's not 100% realistic, it depends on your pickups. It sounds great with my Harley Benton Dynamic but not as good with my Epiphone Les Paul Studio. I think lower output pickups are the best but results may vary.

The looper is pretty good but you need to do some serious dancing to use the stop function. I feel like it would have been soooo much more intuitive to replace the Half Speed or Reverse options with a dedicated Stop and Resume playback functions. To stop the loop you need to double press the CTRL switch which is just tricky when you are trying to play guitar the same time. I practically never use the Half Speed and Reverse anyways, but the Stop/Resume are pretty important in my opinion. Not a big deal, the function is still there, I just feel like it could have been made much better.

Overall

I can highly recommend the Mooer GE 200. It is easy and fun to use. Well built and it is feature packed. It beats all of its competitors in this price range.

Exactly what I need

This pedal is simply amazing. It fits right inside my gigbag so all I need to play a show is simply pack my guitars and go. Switching between banks is seamless with no latency. The software itself is a bit clunky and doing quick tweaks isn't as fast as on a real amp and pedalboard, but for the size of this thing, it's a small price to pay.

The only thing missing is in my opinion a balanced XLR out, but that can be solved easily with a DI box so I wouldn't say it's an issue.

Fantastic for its size

I bought the GE200 a few months ago for doing small jam nights and a two piece gig I do. It’s been used every week since I got it. I use acoustic and electric guitars so I thought this would be perfect.

Well I wasn’t wrong! The built in effects and drives were very good.

It’s sturdy built quality and small size makes it perfect for fitting in the pocket of decent gig bags for when I am using public transport.

I can’t find much wrong with this except for:

1- the lack of an Fx loop (for adding in some of my favorite pedals)

2- you can only have one of any effect on, no stacking drives or delay etc...

I’m really enjoying this unit not only for gigs bu for home use too. The Amp and cab IRs are very realistic and fun to play.

I really recommend this to anyone who is looking at doing a similar setup.

Multi effects pedal

The best of this price range.

great

i was thinking a lot of my chose and i took a good one the sound that you can make it's great for the size and for the price of it i'm really happy