Black Truck Guitar Multi-Effects Stompbox for Heavy Metal & Hard Rock

Unit seems to be well built and will hopefully last a good while. The effects are exactly what I have been searching for. I am not a gigging musician but I do have a growing collection of guitars and am progressing in my skills. Things are finally clicking and I can pick up a guitar and sound decent. Something was missing though when I would plug into an amp. I tried a number of different pedals and combinations from afford a boards to Boss and Strymon but didn’t know what I was missing. This all in wonder is simple to use but feature rich enough to let you experiment. I found my sweetspot with a little compressor enhancing sustain, a tiny bit of overdrive boost, a little flanger/chorus, and some delay and light reverb. That is the tone I was looking for and now have replicated on my mostly Boss pedal board too. I don’t know why it took having the black truck to find what I needed but I will be keeping it. I do have it set up using a 4 cable method (5 actually because my Roland Jazz Chorus Amp has stereo returns). I think above all else the black truck was an excellent educational tool. I haven’t tried it as DI yet but suspect it will perform admirably when I do. Very happy I snagged one of these and if you are also searching for the sounds your favorite artists make this is a good place to start IMO. Will it take you to the big stage maybe or maybe not but you’ll have a good time on the journey trying to get there and won’t waste all your practice time fiddling with settings. This thing does have a mild buzz when using distortion with my sss strat , but almost none with my HH LP and none with my acoustic equipped with onboard Fishman EQ (it was very feedbacky with the acoustic with distortion and no gate enabled when I got within a foot of the amp). Anyway that is my honest unsponsored review.

The black truck is a really nice piece of equipment. I grabbed one of the first ones in stock. I have not used it in front of an amp yet, but have used the headphone/line out jack with headphones and speakers. So that is where this review stems from. I bought it for travel use with headphones/line out speakers. The negatives: First, you MUST use a 9V – 1A charger. It will not run off your pedal board “brick” power supply as most individual plugs are 9V – 100MA to 300MA. You may get an initial light up but it will immediately shut down. It will work for a short time with a 9 V battery wired into an adapter, like my picture. Most pedal power ‘cable’ plugs that come with a daisy chain are a 9V – 1A power The Second thing is that the headphone/line out jack is pretty sensitive. You can over distort the signal very easy especially with a pair of headphones. If you want to use headphones with it you need to get the gain down and accept the fact that you’re not going to be able to listen to it very loud unless you have a high-quality set of headphones that handles bass response extremely well. Third, the compressor is just meh, This can be one of the critical factors in distorting the signal in the line out/headphone section. This could also be due to the fact that I am not a big user of compressors anyway. It may work fine for some. Now for the good stuff: The overdrive is pretty good. As usual I think tube screamer and it’s in that area. Hi gain section is very good, once you get past about 3 o’clock you don’t see much more gain but you are getting into more saturation and sustain. The EQ section is pretty good. It has a switch to position it setting for pre or post pre-amp positionally. This way if you use this for cable method it runs in the signal going to the amp OR through the effects loop of the amp. It also makes a noticeable difference in the line out when going post. The modulation section is actually quite good. That said, Tremolo has always been a throwaway effect for me, I wish they would have but a Chorus in there instead. This is meant for Rock, most Rock players do not use Tremolo that’s more of a Blues effect. In my opinion, that is a big oversight on the part of the designer. Hey MOOER, it’s not too late to fix that. The Phaser and the Flanger work just fine and are very good for something in a multi effects unit. Time section - I have never been a fan of reverb in the rock setting, it always seems to be muddy to me, I prefer delay. That said, the reverb does work as it should and it’s actually not bad when combined with the delay. The delay itself is very good allowing you to do all of the adjustments as you would on a separate pedal. Overall, it's solid (metal case), the buttons click firmly, the knobs feel solid. So far so good. It can be a standalone product into a board. The gain is really good and is at the edge of the hard rock/metal line. Dump the Tremolo for a chorus and it's a 5 star unit.

I ordered this twice and returned both purchases. One return was recorded as defective or not working, so I can’t comment on long-term use.

At first I was disappointed,and began to regret of my purchase, but then I've spent about 4 hours modeling the tone,and got even more than I wanted. The amount of gain is outstanding. Great for extreme metal. The only thing is the gate can't handle the noise when hi gain is combined with overdrive,and there is no threshold controller. That problem can be solved by Boss ns2 -like additional gate in the loop.

For ME...this is exactly what I want. Clear dials and buttons for the effects I like to use--reverb, flanger, eq, compression and a boost. NO SUBMENUS, relatively compact (fits in my guitar case) I place this on a stand of some sort about waist high and off to one side--enables me to tweek for even a 2-song Open Mic.

I'm not really sure how many stars to give. This is the first Mooer product I've owned and I recently added the Ocean Machine by Mooer. I had very high hopes for this and it's not a bad unit BUT... it certainly has room for improvement. The compressor is really nothing bad or good it's just there. What I REALLY wish they had separately was the Noise gate. using this through pre-amp or 4 cable is a pain because if you want to boost your head through the main input, you can't control the Noise threshold. This also applies to using the 4 cable method. If you want to use it as a Pre-amp via the FX-loop return it doesn't have an independent volume control other than the volume slide on the EQ. So while I was hoping this would be a portable gigging option it really isn't practical. Where it does get used is for plugging into a DAW through the dedicated output. Aside from that my other issue is the delay and reverb effects are lacking a little. they sound very generic. The high gain setting doesn't lie, it is REALLY high gain. This sounds like a cross between a RAT and a Boss DS1 as it has a nice grind sound to it. However it is not nice when used as a pre amp on a hi watt Marshall with no volume control. My experiment in testing as a pre amp resulted in bleeding ear drums. I still haven't really found a setting or application that makes this work for me but I will not give up.

Solid build. Good price point. Many common effects. I play 60 gigs a year so I'm a little more picky. I personally did not like the delay and reverb tones. Otherwise pedal was good

This Black Truck may turn out to be a great product but there is no power supply included & no mention of that in the description. Like- here’s the brand new truck you just bought but the keys aren’t included. Stupid.

400$ well spent, you can get a free power pack with it thru a promotion they offer saving 80$ and will receive them both same time, it is well made easy set up and lots of room to play thru effects. It does well as a stand alone unit or in an effects loop, and brings the crunch when u want it, my favorite is the space module so much room to play thru..it is hard to read in low light but once set I only need to see if a module is active or not no need to read when mid riff clicking thru modules, I use the tuner as a bypass when switching guitars... I recommend this to both beginners and pros as it is one of the best units I have used and don't feel let down by any part of it,,, also comes with a nice case altho I wish they made the case bigger to hold the power pack as well need a separate case for that, my only issue,,, will I buy another? Yes I would, will I buy more mooer products? Hell yes!!