Nux Cerberus

Brilliant.

I use this for travelling mainly and rehearsals sometimes. Sound men love it, does everything I need and more. Sounds great!

Perfect sound

Used with a couple of drive pedals before and timebased effects in effects loop into marshall Origin 50.

Sound quality is great. Very happy overall.

Only minus points are its a bit tricky to use one of the paired effects. E.G you want reverb but not delay then you want Chorus but not phaser. The far right switch can be set to control the selection of these but only one and then you have to bend down to toggle through to the next one.

Very minor point. The drive and distortion having dedicated switches are perfect. I guess it saves having another two switches………

You could program setting and save but thats time consuming then you are paging through patches…….

But please don't be put off. This is a great, natural sounding pedal. Overall easy to use because of simple rotary controls.

Only use through an amp but fairly confident straight to pa would work well too.

I have a Boss GT1. This is better sounding and easier to use and I love my Boss GT1.

Constant whine with gain, poor build quality.

Appears to be bad shielding. With gain you can hear the movement of knobs through the amp. Today the 1 button broke and is now stuck in a "pressed" state. This is after a year of moderate use. Could be great, as it has a nice range of FX and cab simulation, but let down by the problems mentioned.

Great fot the price

A good multi-effect, especially considering the price. Great delay and reverb and the modulation options as well, but for my taste distortion and drive sounds could be much better, however the sound probably also depends on the amp... A very robust build, lots of options to play around with.

FX under your feet

All good incl. possibility of different setup of connection. Only problem was at the beginning with kind of noise appeared, but after few switch on/off it gone away.

value for money

I have this little beast for several months now and its really practical! You wont get an amzing metal chug BUT the audio that comes out of this thing is superb! Only problem I faced so far is the TAPs accuracy when I try to adjust the bpm. Other than that its so good for its price and a must have!

This is good

The is quite robust considering the price. The feature set is impressive and I really can't find anything I don't like. Well, maybe the distortion, but I am not a really big fan of the Angry Charlie to begin with which I also have. Other than that, this thing rocks whether as a standalone pedal or through 4CM with an amp.

Awesome sound, fits right with my playing style!

Great small multieffect / fly rig

Since I am not a professional or gigging musician, did not want invest a lot in a pedalboard with individual pedals for all the effects I want. On the other hand, most of the multi-effects are rather complicated, with too many options, and when you want to change the parameters you need to enter mutiple menues - and I do not like that. I wanted something simple, with almost all the effects I want/need and with possibility to quickly change parameters in an analog way - via knobs.

And this is it - no-nonsense, easy to use, but again flexible multieffect which includes the most often used effects. You can change parameters of each effect easily, in a matter of seconds, but you can also make and store your own presets (combinations of effects). You have an "extra" footswitch which can be assigned to the effect or can be used as boost. What I really like is the possibility to change the order of overdrive and distortion - you can put drive before or after distortion or in parallel.

Not that I use it, but you can also put time/modulation based effects in effects loop (after the amp - but I just plug Cerberus directly before the amp).

PROs:

- compact size for multi-effect

- analog, easy and quick change/adjustment of parameters

- flexibility (presets or single effects, time based effect before or after the amp, order of overdrive and distortion)

- headphone output with cab simulation

- all the main/most often used effects by guitarists are here

- lots of connection options

CONs

- none really, especially at this price

- but one smaller remark - I really like the overdrive, but distortion sound just a bit muddy for my taste, lacking a bit of mid frequencies - so I often combine it with overdrive and then it just sounds great!

In total, a great buy, definitely a keeper for anyone that wants a simple, but powerful multi-effect.

All you ever need!

Before this, I was using a Boss ME80 as a multi-effects unit. Although also offering a multitude of effects, I found it very heavy to carry to band rehearsal. This is where the Cerberus caught my eye.

All effects I ever use in a compact and especially lightweight package was a no doubt choice for me, along with its preset storage capability, a built-in tuner, cab simulation and the ability to both run your OD and DS in front of the amp and the modulation effects through the effects loop, the list goes on and on. It baffles.

Yet to discover any disadvantages, I heartily recommend the Nux Cerberus to any guitarist (and bassist, it works great for bass too) who is looking for a down-to-earth, versatile and lightweight multi-effect.