Sound like a Guitar Hero with this one, CHEAP guitar effect! - Sonicake Black Hammer - Demo / Review
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- čas přidán 27. 03. 2019
- Is this pedal the ultimate guitar-hero-in-a-box pedal? 4 awesome, independently controllable effects in one pedal! Featuring Boost, High-Gain Distortion, Chorus, and Delay, plus a noise reduction circuit built right in! And this thing only costs about $70!!!!??
This pedal is available here: ebay.us/JIYlBH
Amp used is the Blackstar ID100 TVP. Guitar is a modded Squire Active HH Stratocaster. Guitar is available here: amzn.to/2HLCCoj
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great review! i was waiting on this one since you showed it off. the tones sounded killer!
Had been looking at this pedal for a while. Didn't know if was worth the money. Thanks for doing this video. Helped me make up my mind. Just ordered it, thanks Max! You rock! :)
You inspired me to purchase this pedal Max (arrived about 8-10 days ago)- first I've jammed on in YEARS (I'd used the on - amp cleans n overdrive channels & effects) and it's been fun 🤘
Keep up the reviews and congratulations on 100k !
Great video as always, Max.
Great pedal. Thank you very much for introducing this thing. I will definitely get one!
Trying so hard to not to sound like a hard sell. But DEFINITELY get one! LOL... Hi, this is Richard from Sonicake. Nice to meet you. Cheers!
Great pedal and great review! Thanks for the great advise, you have one of the best guitar-related channels and very useful
Perfect combo! Thanks Max...
Wonderful playing, Max. You made me buy one and it is very nice. Like most of what you need without all the cords and cables. The adjustment and range of the effects is outstanding. Switches decent, too. Very nice and a bargain. Thanks, Max.
Well done as always Max added to your playlist
Always very enjoyable, thank you Max.
I bought the Wolf guitar for my son after seeing your video review. He loves it. Now I will have to buy this go along with it. Thank you for your reviews. We are always watching to see what we might like to get next.
Excellent! I'm glad he's enjoying it.
Another great video. Although I can't play guitar but I always watch your videos and enjoy each one of them.
Thanks John!
Never to late to lurn buddy
Thank you so much for emphasizing a good signal chain ... Kudos!
THANKS MAD MAX
FOUND THIS BY ACCIDENT ON AMAZON..AND AFTER YOUR VID..I'M GETTING ONE TO PRACTICE WITH AND KEEP MY MAIN PEDAL BOARD AT MY STUDIO
THANKS BRO
RnR
NIKI
Dude, I love your reviews.
Dude that pedal is crazy sick.. Christmas gift to myself lol
I bought a Black Hammer right after seeing this review. Thanks Max. Now that I've had it for the past 5 months I have been able to get to know it's limits and capabilities. The boost works great. It tends to distort the origional tone. The chorus sounds awesome. The delay sounds awesome. The high gain distortion is okay, but I don't use it. I use my Boss Metal Zone and my DOD 7 band EQ into my sonicake pedal to the front of my amp. I love my rig.
I dig this kinda unit. Might have to look into getting one. Great reviews as always.
Trying so hard to not to sound like a hard sell. But DEFINITELY GET ONE! LOL... It's indeed a nice pedal. By the way, this is Richard from Sonicake. Hi, Jeff, nice to meet you : )
This pedal looks and sounds awesome .another great video .you rule sir
Got to get one of these. Love the vids Max! I hope you decide to go ahead and make the physical merchandise you were asking about.
Hey Rex! thanks! Yep, looks like I'll be doing some CDs, TAB books and picks! Maybe t-shirt eventually too.
Glad you did this pedal ..the rock stage one is great as well .
These are your basic “go to” effects for any rock player! Sure, people will use wah, maybe some flange or phase or tremolo once in awhile, but not as often as those main 4! Perfect!
Great Peddle Max I love it. I realy want one. thanks for showing us. take care from your pal Helcat in Australia.
For those of you interested, that Blackstar ID TVP head is killer. I run it through a closed back 4x12 cab. I've rehearsed and gigged with it for years. It's never let me down. I can create nearly anyone's tone with it. Perfect for cover band guitarist, but get the multi button footswitch for it
Great review as always Max, like many people in the comments I already have these effects on my Boss GT6 pedalboard but it's big / bulky & heavy so this appeals to me due to it's compact nature & light weight & I've just ordered mine through ebay so thanks for the link Max :-)
PS: I hope your arms feeling much better now, that's a horrendous injury for a guitar player...
Ordered this today, it'll be delivered next Friday (4/5/19)!! Can't wait to check it out!! Thank you for the video my friend!! Rock On!! =\//-/=🤘🎸
There it is!!!!
Excellent review thanks.Literally stumbled across these pedals on eBay today.Already thinking of having a black hammer and rockstage on my jam/open mic/rehearsal pedalboard because they just seem so small and convenient.I was looking at a cheapy board of Donner nanos I could just grab and go rather than my main board but these are gamechangers 👍
I have a sonicake Twiggy Blues and it's fantastic. So much so that I sold off my dedicated reverb, delay, and boost pedals, these things are amazing.
Love it! Great review. I need one of those. Essential effects for the rock tone. I use a tube screamer, boss chorus, memory toy and sometimes a tremolo, wah, and volume pedal to get any sound I want. And I'm not a shred style guitarist by any means. But for blues, rock and jazzy type jam stuff those pedals work fine with my Strat run through a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. Thanks for posting another good one.
Excellent video Max!!! The Sonic Cake seems to have the essentials, flange would be the only other essential thing I could think of...lol. Rock on!!!😎
Thanks Charles! Depending on the style of Chorus / Flanger, for my taste they can be somewhat interchangeable. I like the sound of the Chorus in this pedal. Nice, but not to washy sounding, imo. Rock on!!
thats a beautiful guitar you have there Max :D
That reverse headstock is SLAMMIN'
The Dirt At 5:17 sounded fantastic!! Great demo!!
Great review! I have the Sonicake Rockstage which is equally as cool. It’s pure 80’s rock tone in a tight package with a bonus cab simulator switch!! 🤘😎
Brilliant... Thank you. For UK - Just found it on 'The Bay' for £60 Free Postage to UK..
Oh postage ! noyce !
KILLER!!!! Max, I'm going to need a pedal board the size of a mini van soon! Great product. Keep it up man!🖖
My DSL 40 on crunch with my Joyo Vintage overdrive, and my Donner mini reverb gives me a good RnR sound. Cool Music Insane is a go to as well.
Beautiful Strat
Very nice
Great informative review
Sounds very 80s
hey, great review man. my ideal would probably be distortion (preferrably british style), compression, chorus, and octave. but thats just me! i keep it pretty subtle, but i dug what you did in this review, sorta skewed me toward pickin up the black hammer. i just grabbed the shark because i dug the tone, but i might like to also have this. thanks a bunch, cheers. happy new year.
Very cool find.
Lovin that squire btw🤘
Sounds huge! Or it could be that supercharged Squier! Love your channel and always great playing and information.
I own and LOVE that Blackstar TVP. Awesome tones and versatility. I have a few dozen pedals....and now I need this one..LOL
I ordered for x-mas the sonicake rockstage, and it's awesome. Distortion, Chorus, delay and reverb in one tiny and affordable pedal. Very well built and durable. Have to order a booster, but it was $25usd. So I guess I haver an alternative to my boss me-70. All your videos are awesome Max, cheers.
RockStage is my fav! BTW, this is Richard from Sonicake.
Things just get better all the time! Looks like I’m a fool not to get one of these pedals. Those are really my main effects that I use. Unreal. Thanx Max
I really love the overdrive side of the ibanez jemini, pan delay, reverb and a bit of a phaser if I'm feeling adventurous...... Plugged into a crunch channel of an amp.
I purchased one (New) after your intro about it on a previous video. Paid $56 shipped (eBay). I couldn’t wait for your review :D.
Great video as usual !!!
I'm sold. Buying mine next week.
I wish I had this stuff in the mid 80s ! lol. Thanx Max !
Looks like something cool to check out. Cheers.
I have the high 3 in 1 high gain pedal from Donner , delay, chorus,high gain distortion and i love it, i bought an eq to boost the mids its awsome and reliable its on my pedal board and i gig with it !
That is the sexiest Squier I've ever seen and heard, and goddamn if that effects pedal isn't killer. Dig it!
That's a new variant of Squier Contemporary Series strat.
Thanks for this
Real cool combo pedal- really great price!!!!
Awesome review as always! I really like this setup for a fat rock guitar tone as well, I think I would just add a flanger pedal to it, to get some more movement on certain solos.
Oh this looks nice.
Seems like a nice toy. I already have these effects but I'm tempted to try this pedal.
Great vid as always, stellar playing skills.
I got me one of these about a month ago, pretty amazing for the price.
Hi there. New sub here. Dan from guns and guitars sent me by!! Really cool pedal. May have to order one. Hope you have a speedy recovery.
Just wanted to say I have found all your reviews clear, concise and to the point. A big departure from other reviewers who ramble and get mired in minor details. Keep it up! Thank you!
ps: have you checked out Monoprice Guitars and tube amps?
The monoprice amp is a real winner! See Jimmy Stewart channel here on CZcams for great reviews and demos
Sonic cake has a great heavy sound and also a chill sound. I haven't heard a multi pedal that good even if it was short of $100.
Yep, that's what we do, bringing cool sounding stuff under $100. Thanks for the kind words, man. Cheers! : ）
I bought the Ammoon Pockmon. Madness!
Cool new intro!
Easily my favorite guitarist on youtube or even beyond that. This guy is amazing. Upload more videos soon 🤘
Best channel on CZcams 👌😁
I just got mine on ebay directly from the sonicake store around $70 us dollars, free shipping! PERFECT for classic rock, metal and just fooling around! Remember, amp clean settings are a must. Hope you have fun!
wow grea tfind man , had one ordered at 2:20 but then comes with its own power supply AND free shipping ? hell yea . thank you ! you get a sub , a like , a notify for that . hopefully its not a turd but i doubt it . ty :) should i put my phase shifter befor or behind ?
It really is 4 Pedals in one!
This is the best pedal! It makes my clean Bugera Tube amp rock or do metal!!! Not quiet all Dejent, but almost!
It actually is usable across all tones. All dials adjustments are usable to about 93-97% of the dial then it gets clippy choppy but at the very end (last 3%).
Sounds very good, not solid state muted or dead.
Max shows a very small amount of what this pedal does but very accurate!
The pedal can do Blues to Rock To Metal, it doesn't clip out on Punk or D-metal it almost can Djent.
The auto noise reduction makes it clear, Boost, the Chorus, Gain Delay dials are firm and super easy to use.
Hope this helps.
A great guitar to a legacy !!!!
I run ABY to a Peavey Bandit transtube using that at 10% resonance and presence on and the second amp is a CRATE gt212. I footswitch the crate for higher gain stages there because the Peavey can break up nicely on it's own. I'm pretty sure this pedal and the Compressor I already use would be the perfect group for me.
really digging your guitar riffs - creative and really shows off what the pedal can do - I want to also say, your demo was very articulate, great voice and appearance. You should really look into some TV or Movie work ... just saying.
The pedalboard space it frees up is worth it.
Re: the question you asked at the end, I would imagine a flanger could come in handy if you wanted to get an EVH tone. But maybe the flanger would be more useful than the chorus in their RockStage device. It seems to be directed more toward the 70's rock crowd- Reverb, delay, flanger, and Marshall style distortion would work for me.
Max that is close to my setup. I dont have the boost or a noise control. Plus I have the delay before the chorus. Might have to switch them. But for $70 buck that not a bad setup. Its great if that all you need. You gear can fit right in the gig or case. Less to care around. I'll have to check out the links. Thanks for another great gear demo and video.
i need this one
Kick ass video man! Don you ever mess w explorer style guitars?
You make everything sound great. I'd have to try it for myself. I'm skeptical about cheap pedals. Especially ones that do more than one thing at a time. Cheap guitars can sound great through nice pedals and amp, but not the other way around IMO. However, you made it sound appealing.
For those of you guys struggling to find this pedal, I highly recommend checking out some chinese branded pedals because most of the time they use the exact same mold for these pedals and change the effects frequently, one brand I remember seeing is Mosky who does three pedals instead of four but does retain the mold of this pedal as well.
Just got mine from sonicake official on ebay for $55. Its a solid feeling pedal.
WOW! That is literally my entire pedal board in one tiny unit! lol
This pedal would probably match very well to a Boss Katana which has a proprietary clean channel. The Katana is already a very good amp with built in effects and sounds fantastic. I love mine.
Awesome demo Max. Can you tell us a bit more about that Squire? I'd love to know what the pups are?
The pedal is good , but the active pickups in the strat body is what is making it sound so good. Its a formula.
A similar pedal that costs about the same is the Mosky Red Fox or the Amoon DTC which is cheaper rebrand of it. It's a distortion, overdrive, delay, and a looper in one pedal. It even has an FX loop so you can put some effects in between. Another cool one that has a similar concept and is the same price is the Mosky Tone bus. It's a two overdrives, a compressor, and an eight output power supply.
Thanks for that mate. Helpful
That's a nice little pedal except for the distortion. Like almost all of those High Gain distortion pedals this one sounds really sweet on the top end and nasty and Buzzy on the bottom end. Thanks for the demo
Agree, not a pleasant sound for the distortion. Oh well, for 70 bucks, it's a lot better than what I had as a kid.
Max! I have yet to see a review of Fishman Fluence active pickups! Please get around to it! lol
Dude... I just got the Joyo Uzi and now you show me this with my three primary effects built into a single unit! Oh well... lets not worry about that. What about that Strat? I'm digging it! I just got a Squier a couple months back. Upgraded the tuners and wiring, installed a Duncan SH-6 and it's now my favorite guitar.
How's the uzi? Read somewhere it's a copy of the friedman be-od?
Thunder I wanted the BE-0D when I saw Max’s video for the Uzi. I like it. It definitely gets the job done for the money. Gonna stick with the Uzi for now.
WoW! They also have a multi blue's
Pedal sweet find!
TFS bro
Yep, that multi blues sounds a little like Dumble, if you turn on the comp and overdrive at the same time...BTW, this is Richard from Sonicake.
@@SONICAKE thanks for the share!
@@cyb3r3vil30 You are welcome, man!
One thing being a guitar player does so well: makes sure you ALWAYS have something cool to spend ALL your money on!
Kinda like a cheap tech21 but less noisy and way cheaper! Cool video😎!
Interesting brother!!!! Demz80’s My Dude!!!
@guitarmax you can find several of this brand with different effects built in. you should check them out also.
Make a version with an evh style phaser in place of the chorus. Killer review!
Check donner modulation alpha
Could you do a review of the Donner Alpha Cruncher and or Alpha Force? Similar concept, just like to see how they compare.
Sonicake i like their multi effect pedals
Saw 1 of these on another channel a while back. Great thing, just grab 1 pedal n go n it could even fit in at least some guitar cases. Only thing I'd wanna add in there is some reverb n a chromatic tuner.
i have a similar pedal like that but it has a cab simulator switch, fx loop and tuner. Valeton Dapper Dark. it also comes with a power adapter.
Simple but effective. ....great for gigging
I love overdrives, but I really need a "Klon" style OD in my rig, delay, and a Tremolo pedal of some kind personally. That's just a sound/functionality I've been used to for going on 20 years or so (I had an original Silver Klon for closer to 15 years in my rig, and currently use a Mythical OD which I actually prefer to my old original). I think this pedal sounds fantastic however, and I might pick one up for my girlfriend's son (I've been teaching him guitar, and recently gave him my first electric from the 90's, and old Epiphone LP Custom). The OD in this unit reminds me a lot of the old single knob MXR Micro Boosts, which aren't just for shredding, John Davis from Superdrag rocked seriously heavy chords with one as both a singer, and a lead/rhythm player for years and years (the end of this song "Annetichrist" comes to mind, it gets huge sounding czcams.com/video/ldBKAxX6isg/video.html). Anyways John was always fantastic in terms of tasteful tones and melody, and he made one knob work (though his sound is more Dinosaur Jr meets The Foo Fighters than straight metal). Anyway Max, great video!
I´ve been looking for one of those for a while with loop... The thing is the effect selection, I would like something to plug on my existing board... I wish I had something like this instead of my 505II on my early days tho... Killer tones