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Disappointment
I used Mooer GE 200 for about a year and could not recommend it. I jam with friends once a week so I was looking for compact and enjoyable thing. After reading and watching reviews on Youtube I was convinced. However, I didn't manage to like Mooer after using for about a year. I start with cons:
1) It gets lost in a mix. The other guitarist plays acoustics, and my guitar just disappears even with FRFR. Very frustrating. (No such problem with real amp or even my digital Digitech Trio!).
2) Clean tones are very dull even in comparison with my solid state beginner's Marshall. Yes, it always sounds somewhat like the tone your after, but then feels fake. Distortion is ok.
Many people claim to get great tone from it. Maybe, but I believe my own ears: I bought Marshall DLS5 with a Greenback, and (cranked) it immediately sounded unbelievably more musical than Mooer.
I believe all this "digital" hype is just marketing (e.g. guitar vloggers want to sell presets etc.) as margin on these things may be higher than on analogue gear. But I have no desire to not buy any ampsim or Mooer product soon.
1) It gets lost in a mix. The other guitarist plays acoustics, and my guitar just disappears even with FRFR. Very frustrating. (No such problem with real amp or even my digital Digitech Trio!).
2) Clean tones are very dull even in comparison with my solid state beginner's Marshall. Yes, it always sounds somewhat like the tone your after, but then feels fake. Distortion is ok.
Many people claim to get great tone from it. Maybe, but I believe my own ears: I bought Marshall DLS5 with a Greenback, and (cranked) it immediately sounded unbelievably more musical than Mooer.
I believe all this "digital" hype is just marketing (e.g. guitar vloggers want to sell presets etc.) as margin on these things may be higher than on analogue gear. But I have no desire to not buy any ampsim or Mooer product soon.
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Decent guitar processor
I bought this for a buddy of mine, to replace his tube amp for a few gigs. Sadly, the GE 200 did not do a great job - through headphones, the presets sound ok at best and through PA, they sound really synthetic, fake and there's tons of bass and treble.
In the band that I play with, I am the second guitarist and I rock a tube amp (120w 6L6 american-voiced amp), along with a 212. We tried using a preset that's supposed to sound close to it, then tried making our own with the software found on their website - there was no way we could make it sound good through PA (headphones were ok at best). The expression pedal feels weird as well, but not as in bad-quality-weird, just weird on a personal-opinion-level.
TL;DR
The effects are nice, there's little to no lag, it handles itself well, but for the love of God are the amps and especially the factory cabs bad.
Sounds good at best through headphones and bad through mixer and PA, both with custom IR and factory cabs. Build quality is good and feels sturdy. It has no on/off button, which is very annoying and confusing.
In the band that I play with, I am the second guitarist and I rock a tube amp (120w 6L6 american-voiced amp), along with a 212. We tried using a preset that's supposed to sound close to it, then tried making our own with the software found on their website - there was no way we could make it sound good through PA (headphones were ok at best). The expression pedal feels weird as well, but not as in bad-quality-weird, just weird on a personal-opinion-level.
TL;DR
The effects are nice, there's little to no lag, it handles itself well, but for the love of God are the amps and especially the factory cabs bad.
Sounds good at best through headphones and bad through mixer and PA, both with custom IR and factory cabs. Build quality is good and feels sturdy. It has no on/off button, which is very annoying and confusing.
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