Hello, I'm Ola and this is the Mooer Preamp Live
You have probably seen all those small Mooer micro preamp pedals that I've been trying out for my channel
Excellent small pedals that get you a long way without sacrificing space or budget
This Preamp Live pedal is a pedal containing 12 of these preamp distortion pedals in one unit
You have three banks with four sounds in every bank
So, you have the regular controls here: volume, bass, middle, treble, gain
And here's a boost which is a volume boost either post or pre
Meaning you can apply a boost before or after the preamp section of the distortion you're in
So, either you get a tighter saturated preamp distortion when you use the boost in pre
and a more thick type of solo lead boost in post
It also has a noise gate
That also works in pre and post preamp section of the pedal
The pedal has an FX loop with a dedicated FX Send knob here at the front
And here you have switches deciding if you want to have a cabinet simulation
on the balanced output and the regular output
So there's a lot of options in that range, if you want to go direct to your audio interface
through the clean channel of your amplifier, or if you go into the FX loop return of your amplifier
Just using the power amp section of your amplifier
The pedal is also MIDI controllable as well. So, if you have other MIDI equipment to control ...
That's nice, you have that
Then there's the master section with a master knob and a presence knob
And if you're one of those new types of people that have no idea how to turn analogue tone knobs, like this
Oh, I don't know ... So difficult, so difficult
You can control everything using an application on your computer or you can connect
Where the f*** is my phone?
You can connect through your phone using bluetooth
And edit everything using the Preamp Live app on your phone. Great stuff.
So, with that it's already an exciting product
But I haven't even talked about the tone capture function yet
The tone capture is basically a tool to capture your own real amplifier tone and carry it with you in this pedal
So, just like a modeller you will be able to tone match your own rig
And bring it with you in this unit, very interesting.
And obviously I'm looking forward to trying out that part the most in this demo
So, today's signal chain is brought to you by a ...
Bag of dicks.
I'm using this Solar A1.6 Artist into the Preamp Live
And I have the Preamp Live connected into the FX loop return of my Satan amplifier, and you're like
"Oh, that's not fair, you have the Satan, which is an incredible amplifier"
Shut the f*** up. I have a plan with this. I'm just using the power amp of the Satan at this point. Okay?
Geez.
So, let's try it out a little bit.
Oh, I need to record
So all of these, one-two-three-four and all banks, are different distortion pedals
But there's also a boost on and off for every preset as well, so ...
Here, on the preset 1
When it's green, the boost is not engaged, so when I press it ...
It engages the boost here and it's a post boost now, so it's basically just a volume boost
Okay
Pretty tight as it is, but you can engage the boost here
Yes, sounds good, that's great.
So, if I want to change the noise gate settings for a bit, I just click on the boost knob here.
I can change if it's pre or post
Okay, I was too slow, it goes back into boost mode after a while
All right, let's continue I have no idea which preamp pedals are in the individual presets here
So I'm just gonna go through them all and just ... we'll just see what happens
Okay
Old guy amplifier, okay, good
It's a little tighter
Okay, cool. Bank 2.
I really like how the tone controls are behaving on this one
Okay, I have to save this one. So, to save is "Click" ...
Done.
What the hell am I doing? Shit.
Nice
So, if you want to change the order of all these amp distortions, that's alright
You can either just save, you know, over another preset
Or you can use their PC application to organize everything just like you want it to
So, if you want to, you can have 12 presets of the same preamp pedal
But with different settings, if that's what you fancy
Alright, so that sounds awesome, I must say
Check now
Let's check out the creme de la creme: the tone capture feature.
So, now I have to reroute and connect everything using a 4-cable method here
where the Send of the Preamp Live goes into the input of the amplifier
And the Send of the FX loop of the amplifier goes back into the Preamp Live and ...
It's just just a hassle
Just so the Preamp Live gets the distortion signal of my Satan into it, so it can capture that tone
So, now that everything is hooked up correctly, I go into capture mode like this
And now I can listen to my source tone and my target tone
The source tone is the Preamp Live distortion
The target tone is the distortion of the Randall Satan, so ...
That's the Randall Satan Distortion right there
Source tone of the Preamp Live
Satan tone
So, now it's time to capture this tone. So, I click here and I play ...
So I played a full spectrum of the guitar
Just so the tone capture can feel all the frequencies in the spectrum of this tone.
Now I can audition it, so when I press the source button we have the source
Target, we have the Satan
And capture, we have the source tone of the Preamp Live
but with the tone characteristics of the Randall Satan
It's kind of hard to get your head around this, but you'll get it. Someday you'll get it.
So this is the real amplifier Distortion
And here's the captured tone
It's like I've modeled the Satan tone characteristics with the Preamp Live and I think it sounds pretty close
So now I can unhook my Satan and play with this sound somewhere else
Isn't that cool?
Let me save this, please save
So, now that I've saved this tone capture in this preset, I can continue to tweak the preset a little bit
Mooer is f***ing blowing it out of the park again with this one
Absolutely incredible product and I haven't even checked what it's gonna cost but it's probably not that expensive
If you want more information about the Preamp live, go check out mooeraudio.com
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I'll let you download the tracks of this video as well as the captured tone
To use if you have this unit yourself one day, okay?
Thank you so much for watching and see you next time. Bye.