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$35.00 USD a reasonable priceshould/could be about $150.00 USDa true SBS ...STEAL!!! |
The short story is Donner has never made pedals. Their main supplier
has been Mooer who Re-Brand their own pedals by putting on a different
colour of paint and a differed logo and graphics. Mooer are currently doing this for 14 other companies. The Mooer product is generally entry level pro.
Having said this I tried to find who made it starting with Mooer ...ALL the other mini pedals have a Mooer equivalent.
Other brands always have something different . This looks Mooer as it uses the Mooer knob. ...the LED is in the right position and the input for the adapter is centered. There is a hole in each side for the audio jacks ...others have a scoop starting at the base of the pedal. The corners of the box are very rounded other boxes are nearly squared off.
Still it may be Mooer as they recently have made some boxes that Mooer sell as preamps but sell to Donner as OD's where the pots are on a different board. The Mooer are designed to be viewed horizontally. The Donner are meant to read vertically in the normal fashion. These pedals have 6 knobs.
Still always keep in mind if you like a Mooer re-brand it is well worth seeing which of the companies have the best price. A rule of thumb is it should sell close to $30.00 USD.
OK I digress.
But straight up ...this pedal to my ears is still Mooer ....but Mooer at it's very best.
This pedal is unusually aimed right at the working pro. It gives you 7 simple usable sounds that with tone and decay you can quickly tailor a good sound to fit a specific song when playing in a band.
Most cheaper reverbs are aimed at the hobbyist with Sound Scape sounds
that are very gimmicky and unusable to most players outside of the 'bedroom' crowd.
I have never been a fan of Spring Reverbs to me it is nothing but nostalgia. They sound trashy. But lots of players love them. The sound is complex to copy because they have a mechanical element coming from the springs that is hard to digitize without a complex algorithm and a powerful chip in the pedal to do the job.
The fact that the one in this pedal is quite good says a damn lot about how good the product is.
I am very impressed.
It is usually desirable to have an always on reverb. If you have ...or buy a really good reverb it is great to use it for some of the larger the life sounds. You may want it for a solo. BUT ...when the solo is over turning it off and going back to a dry sound to finish the tune it will probably sound drastic. So having a pedal like this is an amazingly cheap quick fix.
The quality of the over all sound is modest but definitely pro.
CONCLUSION
If money is tight this will certainly do the trick.
ADDITION JULY 2019
If you can scrape together a hundred bucks then the King of the mini reverb is definitely
the Mr Black Mini Reverb. (It came out in late July 2019).
It has one sound ...a plate reverb. It is very easy to use live and sounds equal to anything at any price. What you do not get in choices is more then compensated by the quality of sound.
Note: the biggest selling recording of all time is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It ONLY uses plate reverb for all those amazing guitars sounds.
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