Mooer Trelicopter

I initally saw a lot of buzz around the Mooer Trelicopter. It's not hard to figure out why, as it is one of the cheapest tremolos around and comes from a somewhat trusted guitar pedals' brand as is the case of Mooer. I soon caved in and had to get my hands on the product so that I could form an opinion myself, and also was looking to expand the type of fx pedals I had, having no tremolo one. I have to say that while I'm not disapointed, I wish I loved this pedal more. As I said, I used it on my guitar alongside my true bypass pedals. What I realised from day one is that the tone suffers somewhat from having this fx pedal turned on, and while I expected some change in this department, sometimes it leads me to removing it from my pedalboard as it gets to much sometimes. On the other hand, I do like to send a clean signal into it and just using it by itself. To me, the sound is never the greatest, and so I would recommend this pedal only to people who are really curious about the tremolo effect and nothing else

I got this and immediately put it on my board. It is a fantastic tremolo. It is inexpensive but don't let that fool you it is a tone machine. Tone is smooth and rich. There isn't much if any apparent volume loss which is very nice. With only three controls it's very easy to get the tremolo effect you want. Depth and rate do exactly what you would expect and the Bias knob changes the wave shape.

Looks and feel wise it is very good, the pedal came well packaged with foam padding to protect the controls and a little Mooer sticker. The controls feel nice and not cheap, when turning each knob there are no sudden jumps which makes getting a tone easy. There is absolutely no chance of accidentally changing the depth or bias settings when engaging the pedal.

If you think you want a tremolo but aren't sure buy the Mooer Trelicopter, it's inexpensive enough that if you don't really like it you won't have burned a hole in your pocket.

I see other people have heard a mild tremolo effect when the pedal is in bypass. I have not had this issue, this may be because I use an isolated power supply.