Sonicake Sonicbar Twiggy Blues Guitar Effects Pedal Demo & Review
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- čas přidán 12. 02. 2018
- I'm back with a review and demo of the Sonicake Sonicbar Twiggy Blues Guitar Effects pedal! This is a multi-effect unit that is not only well made and sounds great, but also crazy inexpensive at $80 here in the U.S.!
In this demo I'll take you through all 4 effects that the Sonicake Twiggy Blues has built-in (compressor, overdrive, delay and reverb) and let you hear it with a variety of tones and styles.
You be the judge -- is the $80 cost of the Sonicake Twiggy Blues guitar pedal a good deal, or should you look for a different option? I personally think this little multi-effects pedal is VERY hard to beat!
Demo recorded using a Gibson ES-335 through a Fender '65 Deluxe Reverb Reissue Amplifier, and miked with a Shure SM57. No other processing or EQ involved.
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I got the Sonic Wood for acoustic, and it surpassed my expectations how well its built and sound
Clear, helpful, detailed review with well-chosen examples. Thanks for posting.
Nice playing - rather than a 5 second example, you made this video a pleasure to sit thorough. And seriously, this pedal, especially the reverb sounded great thorough my monitors. Will need to check this out in person. Many thanks.
What an excellent demo and a pretty nice pedal...worth every penny. You Rock Matt! Thanks.
Great review with enjoyable guitar technique, thoughtful settings checks and comments, well done!
Matt: Thank you for the demo. BTW, extremely tasteful playing. You are very talented.
Thanks, Matt. Very thorough review. Stellar playing as well.
I have the Sonicake Rockstage and I couldn't be happier. I have put my GT-8 in the storage locker and I run my Sonicake through the effects loop of my Bugera. I am still in disbelief at how good these pedals are for the price.
Definitely loved your playing when taking to the reverb! Interesting pedal as well!
Just bought one a week after watching your vid, thanks for the advice, great little unit, by the way love your guitar playing..
Wow amazing tones for such a small unit with HUGE pretty tones. Im a country player both modern hot country and old school this can cover everything I need! Great video thanks !
I like it so much that I'm going to add it to my collection!!! Awesome stuff my friend!!!
This pedal is damn awesome!!! Damn good demo my friend and love it!!!!
Thanks for the review and demo! That's a lot of tones for a little money! Seems well worth it!👍😎🎸🎶
Excellent review! I am going to Amazon now to buy one. Thanks for doing this.
Also wanted to mention that this is my first time on your channel and your video and audio are top notch. Good job on that.
Thanks for the great and very useful demo.
thanks...I had trouble finding this ...first the heavy metal unit appeared...curious about elusive other 2 and you showed me...so metal, rocker , blues models...cool
great demo, buddy. thank you.
I have the rock stage and my son has the heavy metal version both are great , I will be putting this pedal on my Christmas list for sure . Thank you.
Clear Delay WOW!!!!, I have the "SC Hammer" and the this has a little better delay sound. The Air sounds like u are in a big hall, sound like when I put it thru my Sony receiver. Very nice!
Great review, ordered.
I have one of these and I love it. I put the comp at 12 for both knobs, the gain/tone at full and volume like 25%. Reverb at 25% and delay wherever. I really like this thing for its simplicity and it sounds just as good as any $$$ pedals I've ever used. Using the comp as just a pure volume boost works great too if you don't want to use the compression as intended. Couldn't be happier with this thing; 1 power cord, 4 pedals, you don't get overwhelmed with 50,000 effects like you might with a full pedalboard or modeling unit. If you need more than these 4 effects you should definitely have a purpose but this will take you verrrry far. I have this with a Ditto looper and at home I can make some awesome soundscapes. I have a deluxe reverb 65 as well and play in the normal channel because the reverb on this sounds just as good as the huge spring reverb tank in the amp.
Cracking unit, some nice playing, iv'e just bought the Mooer PE100 , just for messing around with, may need to add this to my arsenal though, great value, some nice playing sir, very enjoyable review
wow, thank you for the demo...
I bought this last year. It’s great, as it’s several great effects in one package and a comparatively small pedalboard footprint. Never played a Dumble, so I don’t know how accurate that is, but the effects are great, and put together they sound fantastic. I’ve used it to play everything from Smashing Pumpkins to Pink Floyd to the Clash. It’s versatile, and a great value. SoniCake makes, IMHO, some of the best micro pedals on the market. I know this sounds like I’m advertising for them, but this is a seriously great little multi- effects pedal, and it’s a great value for the money, whether your an amateur, bedroom player like me, or a gigging musician.
I have one and I LOVE IT!
Just found this review. I immediately subscribed because of your approach and how you knew just what to play for each demo. And yes, SoniCake rules!
Thank you for your demo. I'm in the market for a pedal of this kind, cause I dont want to bring my pedal board for that Jam and drink Sessions ^^ Your demo is really useful, thanx a lot.
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Great revue.
Thanks Matt! Love the cheap gear review. I was kind of bummed that you didn't do a DI cab-sim out demo. Could you please do a follow up? I appreciate it either way.
Liked and subscribed, just on the strength of this one video. Thank you.
Well done. This is what I'm looking for in great reviews. The goofy banter that I see elsewhere is pretty lame. Subscribed!
Just ordered this for $63 on their site!!
Just subbed great video
An excellent review - very thorough with lovely tones. I bought their Black Hammer model and it's excellent so I think I'll be on safe ground with this one too.
SOLD !
I use this thing for bass and it’s great
Excellent review, good job. One more subscriber. 👍🎸
For small gigs or small stages where my normal pedal board takes up too much space this looks and sounds great. And a wah and a xtomp and your set. Do the expensive pedal on my board sound better. Yes to me. But your audience might never know.(or care unless thier guitar players.) I'm getting one
You didn’t use the cabinet simulator that’s a big feature on these pedals. I have the classic rock sonicake and I don’t hate it I don’t love it either. My son has the heavy medal version and it’s good for metal or rock even blues for that matter.
you know the rock afire explosion you recorded years ago, it was completely restored by it's creator maybe you could go and check it out this summer once more?
I don't know why but I'm thinking of getting all three and just making a pedal board with them and aharmonics and a wahwah. everything in one case right there.
Im doin the same thing
@@Anthony-rf9tn Mine pooped already but could be a one off and for the price it's work a replacement once a year I guess.
$65 for four paddles is worth it if it last me a year you’re correct just get another one
For $20, the Donner Yellow Fall delay does sound this good ;) I didn't dig the distortion section, if it were more on an OD I'd probably be grabbing one of those.
Try their "rockstage" effects pedal
I wonder if I could use an overdrive after or before this and gain some metal type tones when needed? Or a fuzz? Or wah pedal,-Sonicbar,-overdrive,-fuzz,-and then put a reverb and tremolo and chorus in the effects loop I should have about everything anybody would ever need.
Yes, it totally works! I have this pedal and I run the OD as a "broken up amp" sound and it handles pedals really well. Firstly you can push it with the compressor as a gain stage for more saturation which sounds amazing for slide guitar; I also run pedals in front of it 2 ways: a tube screamer style OD to get SRV tones, and a higher gain pedal to get into really saturated rock/metal lead tones. Just picked up the Sonicake Shark pedal and it sounds amazing run in this way.
The cab sim works really well for recording DI!
How does this sound with high volumes?
can i run through my MG marshall 30FX with the effects on or off
Alright now has a little different chord, which is missing here. It is a Dadd4, with a g and an f# in it...
This is just one pedal board Sonic Cake makes. They make several types of small boards tailored to a specific styles and types of music. I've got a boss Katana which lets you configure it to whatever you want using the Boss Tone Studio, downloading any effect Boss makes straight into the amp. And the Katana sounds superb. This pedal may supplement the effects in the Katana allowing for the use of two delays, a phaser, a touch wah, you get the idea. By the way, if you want a Tap Tempo delay in one of these, Valeton (same company, different name) makes one.
Great info. Thanks from Joe's Garage!
Not your typical review for a piece like this. When you said you were playing a 335 assumed you were going to show us how close to a dumble tone this thing says is possible. I was waiting for some robben ford,Larry Carlton licks.nonetheless great finger picking style. That style works so well with jazz .Good job
I bought one of these( because of the price!) I have a 335 and adore mid heavy Dumble sounds. It doesn't really get very close. If you don't want to spend a huge amount on something like The Dude or the Zendrive(which I also have) the Rowin Dumbler for about £25 will get you pretty close----it's much better than the Sonicake.
I do not know if I should get this one or the Rockstage. I would do a demo once I decide.
Of the two, I liked the Rockstage more. I felt like the overall tones were better sounding than the Twiggy Blues.
You can get booth of them and put them on your pedalboard, like me, it sounds spectacular.
im shocked at how well that thing sounds for the price.
It works great in a cover band situation for me to get lots of tones in a small footprint
Love the sound. Now what about the build of it. Is it durable? Built well? Where to I get it.
All metal and built like a tank. Got mine on eBay. £38 including the 9v power supply. Can't honestly say the sound knocks me out though.
Definitely durable. I think to make the most of it you use several of the effects at once. When I throw a Big Muff on and have all the effects going, I get the damn close to a solid Gilmour sound (you just need a flange/chorus or an Electric Lady or copy to finish the job).
This reminds me very much of my old 1989 Boss BE-5 multi pedal board with all the boss stomp box circuits in it together ! The only difference is with the boss I can't get a bad sound out of it, but it almost always nails pink Floyd and led Zeppelin stones tones are in there.
There seems to be a ton of these FlyRig clones out now. While the dirty sounds aren't blowing up my skirt, having that cab sim defeat switch is HUGE and not an option I see on the competitors. Going into a good IR can take an ok direct tone and make it amazing. Have you tried that yet? Usually the cab sim is the weak point on cheaper modellers, just like the actual speaker is the weak point on low end practice amps.
I purchased this pedal due to this review. It should arrive in a few days. The Dumble association shouldn’t have been made IMO as this is not D-style tone. I needed a small roots rock style pedal. This should do the trick. I’ll use it with a NuX Soild Studio.
You can get in the "dumble" realm by pushing the OD with the compressor. (Low comp, higher vol) It's not exact but the alternative would be buying a boutique pedal.
Why this doest have an boost switch?
you can get different bars with other selections, I got the sonicake black hammer bar for $64. off E-Bay
can i run my synths through these pedels
You sure can...... then watch out!! Jan Hammer city!!
OOOO you know how to do a review....which is not always what we get from reviewers.
I only have my phone, which has a terrible speaker at the moment so I can't fully hear the differences between this and the Rockstage. Would it be worth getting both the Twiggy Blues, and the Rockstage?
I am wondering the same thing
The blues is more versatile and has more useful voicings in my opinion
Plenty of room left on your board with this one. Tone all the way on the overdrive? Hm, sounds like a Marshall Bluesbreaker clone to me. I have an original, and it's just the same!
Is true bypass?
No, it has FET switching.
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Anybody else having this problem?
When I push the delay button if I have any other effect engaged it makes this terrible “whoosh“ sound.
Basically renders it impossible to use delay with distortion.
I’m happens on mine and my friends pedal, (mine is brand new) so what gives?
Anybody?
I hated this pedal, sent it back.
Why did you hate it?
Be good for you to describe why you didn't like it.
Guessing that just means he isn't a good enough player to use it properly
Why bother young guys? For $100 to $200 buy a used Roland Rack unit. Gp8 or Gp16 killer pro tones and effects for just a little bit more and at any volume. Quality not junk. Remember you get what you paid for. Better to invest your 80 towards Roland or Alesis quadraverb.
tangentz0007 have you tried one of these , if not how do you know it's junk? Same can be said for "young guys" who haven't tried a Roland how do they know it isn't junk. Everything is based on your opinion, and who are you again?
Your Roland unit looks to be a nightmare. This unit (as long as it works) sounds killer, will fit in the back of my Deluxe Reverb and is a no brainer to use. Surely Tangentz0007 you could afford one as a backup for your cumbersome used Roland. Try one out. You will be amazed.
Hey old timers i would say that anyone in the market for digital effects is not going to be interested in 1989 technology. That would be like buying an iPhone 6 for $200 when you can have a new Motorola with 2018 technology for the same price. Yes that is an apples to apples comparison when discussing digital technology. I can't even see myself buying 10 year old Line 6 technology. The speed that this stuff is developing...if you want the best rendition of classic pedals, spring reverbs, etc., you'd best purchase the newest gear that you can afford.
@@davidbray7998 53 bucks on eBay!