SONICAKE Clean Boost Pedal with Buffer and +12dB Gain, Mini Pure Boost Guitar Bass Effects Pedal - Sonic Super Master

I've owned many Klon style pedals: Tumnus, Archer, Conspiracy Theory, Klon kit pedal, etc. I am def. a fan of the Klon pedal. Anyhow, once I saw this was 3 Klons in one it was an insta-purchase. A no brainer! I have 7 Sonicake pedals. All great quality for the money.This thing sounds absolutely killer. I paired it with my USA Tele and used it as a boost to my Nobels ODR 2. Unreal tone. Anyhow, if you're a tone chaser this is really great bang for the buck. Time will tell as far as durability but these guys make really great stuff. I have had 0 issues with Sonicake. My two bits!

Owner of 70+ guitar pedals here-No BS, this fuzz doesn’t sound like a $30 fuzz. Money well spent.

So far it seems to be a great product, but with a few caveats. I bought 3 - 1 worked great, 1 had trouble, and 1 isn't working. But had I known a few things, I likely could have prevented this scenario... Hope these tips help!1.) I couldn't seem to transfer the new IR's to the device on my Mac running Sonoma OS. But I was able to do it on a Windows machine... but the next point may be why.2.) When I attached to a Windows PC, I quickly found the normal 44.1K 500ms IR .wav files were too large. I could only get three of those on the device. For some reason on my mac, I could only get 1, and after that a perpetual error code that the file couldn't be transferred (but not due to storage... weird).Windows at least showed there wasn't enough space on the drive. So, after searching Sonicake IR Loader and going to their website, I found where I could download the manual, then under that I could download the original IR's, then under that is a link called IR File Converter, and it says it requires Google Chrome to use.You can only convert one file at a time, but it worked flawlessly. Then I was able to load the files on to the device. So, maybe it would have worked on my mac if I had converted the files to a smaller file type? I went through enough frustration to give it a shot. It's working now, so I'm not going to mess with it anymore. :)3.) I bought 3 of these to use at our church. On the attempt to get it working on my mac, I reformatted. It's originally in a FAT12 file format. The reformat didn't seem to help. However, on another unit, the reformat locked up as the built-in storage is crazy slow. It corrupted the built-in storage, so I'll send that one back for an exchange.4.) Lastly, while the stock IR's are actually pretty sweet out of the box, I wanted to load some IR's that I've been using on my Line 6 HX Stomp XL. I dedicated one of these units to bass guitar, and two toward acoustic guitars. My favorite acoustic clone IR's have come from Worship Tutorials - the Taylor 414, and Holy Grail 2 guitars in particular. The bass guitar IR's came from Celestion and are bass cab/speaker profiles BN15-300x and Studio Nord Bremen Ampeg V4b Custom and Ampeg V4b Trace Elliot, and the Orange custom as well. I mention these since the bass and acoustic IR's are a bit harder to locate.But one caveat for acoustic IR's... acoustic IR's by default all come about -18db. I'm not sure why, but they do. So, the only way to use the acoustic IR's on this unit is to crank the volume all the way, and crank the gain on your PA around 20db +/-. But, it's totally worth it if you're plugging in direct to PA. And it bypasses the need for a DI box.I don't have any noise issues when I crank the volume and gain on these. Build quality is great. And the price can't be beat. Even though I had a lot of headache getting these setup, the end result and price point make it worth 4 stars. Now that I know how to work with them, I'd buy it again in a heartbeat. But definitely follow some of these guidelines. The built-in memory is very small, very slow, very temperamental, and easily corrupted. But once it works, it's great!Hope the tips help. It's a super affordable way to have great tone!

Nice clean boost - 0db - 12db range is plenty! I keep the dial turned to about +3db, and leave the pedal at the end of my effects chain (with the buffer turned on). For solos, or other times when you want your sound to cut through, the pedal gives an overall volume boost to the signal without coloring it.The buffer can be turned on and off, as needed, depending on where in the effects chain it is placed.Also, depending on where it's placed, the effect can increase gain being introduced to a pedal or preamp, thus allowing for the amp to be naturally overdriven. To achieve this, place the pedal in front of your distortion/gain pedal. Triggering it will instantly add a distortion boost, giving you another (dirtier) tone that will be "hotter" than your natural guitar tone. Placed after the distortion pedal, you get a volume boost only.

This little pedal punches way above its size and price. Its built like a tank. The most important thing to know is that this is a high gain fuzz pedal, there are neither incense nor pepperments here, it sounds like a muff clone, but seems like with even more gain. If you dial it all the way back you can get some slighly more mellow tones but this thing sounds great playing crushing doom riffs tuned down to C. Which is not what I was expecting, but I've spent hundreds on Black Arts Toneworks pedals that didnt do it as well as this thing. it doesnt have pictures of a dark forest or an evil wizard on it so I guess thats where the extra money goes. I dunno what to say, there it is. Doom on?

Meh. Not a good tap delay but the sounds it makes are not bad