Mooer Radar 5-stars Reviews

Tiny but mighty

An amazing product, my first cabsim device. The ability to use any IR is a must and Radar has it. Navigating with 1 knob is shockingly well executed, it's intuitive and easy, but still a biiit tedious. Also XLR out would be nice but oh well. With a such tiny sized pedal it's no big deal. METAL! 🤘🤘🤘

Amazing for headphone use!

I bought it to use with my Marshall DSL40CR, to replace its bad sounding headphone out.

I use it only to practice with headphones late in the night. I connect it in the effects send of the amp, to use only the preamp of the Marshall, and it does an amazing job! Great sounding, really easy to use, great amount of IR already installed and the possibility to load your own IR's is a nice feature.

The only con in my opinion is the connection with the Mooer software if you have a Mac, which is my case. The software has a MacOS version, but I didn't manage to make it work in 2 different Macs that I have. It worked only on the PC version. I'm in contact with Mooer to try to solve this issue, and although it's not a dealbreaker, it's very annoying if you want to load your own IR's

Overall a very recommended pedal if you want to have killer tones for your guitar headphone sessions!

REALLY UNDERRATED

LOad your favorite iR's and do anything you want!!

.... personally I am loading my iR's from GGD STUDIO CABS and I am ready to rock.

Very good and simple pedal

Very useful for loading IR's and even using the default ones which come with the pedal. It's small, light, compact and simple to use.

Useful in different circumstances, whether loading AMP Cabinet simulation type IR's or even Acoustic simulation IR's. This is a mainstay on my pedal board and great quality.

Software is slightly clunky, but for a single knob/button pedal, there's not too much to complain about. Keep in mind it does require 12V when planning a pedal board and power

Awesome!

After trying the Iridium by Strymon and not liking that at all I looked for something similar and thought I'd give this Mooer Radar a go. I love it! I just add it after my pedalboard and go direct and the sound is very realistic and amp like. The built in presets give me more than enough options ranging from small Fender combos to bigger 4x12's. A very handy, good sounding, well priced solution with a small footprint.

Jack of all trades

Amazing tech by Mooer. A pedal which is easy to use with your amp or pedals. Very nice and usable interface . you can use the third party irs easily

Great pedal, just great

I bought this to plug my guitar straight to the mixer. Because I tour a lot and I started to search how to get away without an amp. This pedal does the job perfectly. Combined with Tc electronic gravity compression pedal and tc electronic Cinders overdrive, it just makes an excellent pedal team.

I purchased this unit in order to use analog pedals without the need for a power amp or speaker cabinet. The pre-loaded impulse responses on the unit are not good by any means, but the unit allows its user to load their own custom impulse responses. This allows me to make an impulse of my own power amp and speaker cabinet, so I can get my own sound without having to carry heavy gear for every show.

My only complaint about the unit is it's terrible user manual, took me an eternity to figure out how to update the firmware.

I wish the unit had an XLR out, that would make it better suited for live use, instead I have to use a DI box to connect it to the FOH.

Magic box!

I use it with Laney IRT studio that have direct output from the whole tube chain (preamp and poweramp), and I use Radar to record without latency or to play with headphones (excellent feature!). Great collection of cabs! Love it! The only thing that I wish it had - global turn off for power amp. I had to turn it off for every model separately. Here is an example of the radar with Laney IRT in the mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3QbPghg0nI&ab_channel=SergeiVlassov

Huge upgrade for a decent price

Bought the Radar specifically to upgrade the sound my POD HD500X, instead of upgrading to a Helix or Axe FX. Although I still have a lot of experimenting to do, I can already say that the Radar meets (or beats) my expectations and breaths new life into my HD500X. Sofar I have only used it as the final component in the signal chain (1/4 out into the Radar to mixer to headphones/monitors) and the difference in sound is substantial. Used the Radar with my own IR's (replaced the stock ones with the free downloadable editor) and the improvement is well worth the 129 euro's I paid for the device. To my ears it brings to HD500X very close to a Helix.

Tips/Pro's/Con's;

1) Rename your own IR wav's to meet the length limitations of the Radar, prior to uploading.

2) Think about the sequence of your presets, as you cannot move them around after you've saved them.

3) The Radar is NOT a loadbox, so don't connect your head to the radar without a speaker or loadbox attached to your amp.

Pro's

1) Great value for money

2) Poweramp model's and EQ's available allow for finetuning or varying your presets.

3) Great sound

4) Store upto 30 third party IR's into the unit.

5) Well build, small footprint

Con's

1) External unit, so apart from changing presets on your POD, you need to also change the preset on the Radar that you've designated for the POD preset.

2) Seperate adapter (12V DC) required, however appearantly the Mooer should also function on 9V DC).

3) Limited functionality in the editor.

In all, great device, highly recommende.

Great and affordable

I mostly play modern metal and I was looking for a way to use my pod hd directly to the PA when playing live shows. Due to the fact that I'm not satisfied with the pod's guitar cabinets, I was looking for a way to load 3rd party cabinet IRs, so that I could get a nice, thick, modern metal guitar tone. I was on a tight budget, and I find that this unit delivers what I was looking for. Even the stock IRs sound very good for the price range. It's really nice that you can tweak the IRs (it has poweramp features, eq features etc.) and you can achieve lots of different tones. I've used it for 2 live shows so far, and I didn't have any issues with it. I found it easy to load 3rd party IRs. I can't find any major flaws in this unit, other than the fact that I noticed occational humming when I use it at home (however, I didn't notice any humming in the venues I played). In terms of build quality, I haven't encountered any problems with it so far. All in all I found it to be a worthwhile and pretty decent purchase.

Surprisingly great!

This pedal will surprise you. It's easy to use, sounds good right out of the box, but can sound great with good amount to tweaking.

the missing piece in my practice-at-appartment-with-thin-walls setup

I am sold. This is a masterpiece.

I was a tube amp man for almost 20 years. As I'm getting older I need a more compact solution for gigs, so I was looking for a small pedalboard - direct to - PA solution. As I use a Mooer 005 as amp simulator I ordered the Radar. I was shocked by the sound I got on FRFR monitor. Studio and live ready sound even with the built-in IRs, but as I can load 3rd party IRs as well, the OH IRs instantly gave me the required sound. Easy to use, very user friendly, very good sound. I am more than happy.

Very good cab sim

Very good utility is u don't want to depend on venues rack...

A friend of mine suggested this speaker simulator to me. I was astonished by its sound. It is very small, does not take much space on the pedalboard and the sound is very convincing. The only negative is software which I was not able to make work. Anyway, I am happy with the model simulations it has.

Amazing

combine it with brown sound mooer and get one of the best sounds in your pocket

For what it is, unbeatable

I got one these based on the reviews I saw from Ola Englund and Pete Thorn. In essence, it's a convolution processor in a compact pedal form factor that's for modelling a guitar power amps and speaker stacks.

It's as deep as Kemper or AxeFX? No. But it is a very usable 3-stage convolution processor that can completely transform a DI'ed preamped pedal tone (e.g. MXR 5150 overdrive) into a "omg that sounds massive" tone - and for very little money.

Latency is sub-2ms so you aren't really aware of it. Impulses are limited to 23ms, which is 1024 samples at 44.1kHz samplerate. This is enough for power amps, speaker cones and close-mic'ed microphone modelling, but not for reverb.

You can also upload your own impulses with the same length limitation, and this will bypass part of the on-board signal chain. Pete Thorn demonstrates that you can use this with add body resonances to contact-mic'ed instruments such as guitar. Very interesting stuff.

The USB connection to editing software seems a bit a flaky to me, but that's the only negative I've found so far.

cool & easy

very useful pedal ! You can upload your custom IR cabinets high resolution and these sound fantastic with pedalboard, amp, preamp or Axe Fx ! Very easy control and simple software :) Great

I waited for such thing more than 10 years.

Small, cheap with everything what IR fan needs.

note for pedalboarders - it can run with 9V without problems too. (confirmed from Mooer support and succesfully tested)