Mooer TC1 Guitar Tone Capture Pedal

5 reviews for Mooer TC1 Guitar Tone Capture Pedal

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Mooer TC1 Guitar Tone Capture Pedal

   RVS – 05/08/2020

   Captured guitar profiles are pretty close. Worth the money!
   The Mooer Tone Capture GTR is pretty good for the price. By no means is it perfect. But what guitar profiler is?Captured a strat and an acoustic guitar and played it through an active pickup/humbucker enabled guitar. The sound differences were subtle sometimes and needed a little EQ adjusting. But the sounds are pretty close. I would use this more for home recording vs. a live gig setup. But who knows what the future might bring. This could eventually end up in my live rig. Would be awesome if someday Mooer could make a small upgrade and make the footswitch able to switch through the different guitar profiles saved into the pedal. But no real complaints from me. This pedal does what it’s supposed to. I recommend it to people with only one guitar. They can maybe take it to a friend’s house or (hehe) the music store and profile some guitars that they want into the pedal.

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   Rated 3 out of 5

   Mooer TC1 Guitar Tone Capture Pedal

   letmepicyou – 09/02/2021

   Would be more useful with an available database.
   First, why is there no “pedal standardization” in terms of mounting and power? Most use velcro, some use double sided tape, I’ve seen zip ties to keep pedals on pedal boards. And of course, like most pedals, this doesn’t come with power. Here’s another thing I’ve yet to figure out – why guitar pedals don’t come with power adapters, or why there isn’t once again a “standard” for pedals to adhere to? Of course this is more critical of the industry itself than of this particular pedal. But the fact is, this pedal has foam on the bottom and most people are going to remove this and put something else down to secure this (possibly voiding the warranty). So something to consider.What makes this nice is it’s ability to sample other guitars and reproduce their signature tone.What would make it AMAZING, would be if I could log onto MOOER’s website and download and install any one of hundreds of profiles. Having to do all the legwork for this myself is a bit cumbersome. Not saying it isn’t valuable or useful, it is. But the difference between having hundreds of freely available guitar profiles to choose from, vs ones I sample myself, is the difference between having an outdated set of encyclopedias and a library card for the Library at Alexandria.MOOER could take this useful tool and make it absolutely mind bogglingly invaluable if they put a guitar sampling library behind this. As it is now, it’s a lot of work to get all your profiles stored into this. Some won’t mind it. Me, I dream of what it could be.

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   Rated 2 out of 5

   Mooer TC1 Guitar Tone Capture Pedal

   Mitchell M. – 03/02/2021

   A good tone shaper, but not quite what I expected for sampling.
   I own 22 pedals, loopers, tone modules, 12 electric guitars, two ukuleles, two basses, and three acoustic electric guitars. So, I was hoping for a true ‘sampling’ pedal, i.e., a cloning pedal that would truly capture the characteristics of three or four guitars and one ukulele in order to process things quicker in my recording studio (and while performing), but this little one falls short in that area.It captures some of the tonal character of pickups and overall string tone, but it won’t make a Stratocaster sound like a sampled electric piezo system ukulele or 12-string acoustic. It does a good job at tone shaping, and has some nice midrange parameters, but it has no memory for tone and level once the main switch is turned off. So, that’s a big ‘minus’ for me.As far as setup, it was a bit challenging. The mini-manual is fairly concise, but it was difficult to follow at first.There are numerous button pushes required on this pedal, and they serve their functions well – capture, store, navigate, delete, reset, etc., but I found them difficult to remember, and had to refer to the manual numerous times during the setup and use.I also experienced some glitches with the memory function and sampling, that were a bit frustrating to deal with while trying to capture 4 different instruments.I used a 70’s reissue Stratocaster as the “Source” guitar (i.e., the one controlling the other sampled ones). I sampled my 12-string acoustic electric with a piezo system, a Gibson ES335, and a baritone ukulele with a piezo pickup system.They were properly assigned to slots 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively (as in the video), but I didn’t see much difference in tonal character between the patches.Also of note: the sampled instrument’s overall output affects the quality of the signal taken at the input. So, I experienced some artifacts and volume differences between the samples when scrolling through them while playing the ‘Source’ Stratocaster.The housing is well-made and sturdy, the in/out/power connections are solid, and the potentiometers are smooth. The main on/off switch is fairly quiet, and has no objectionably loud “clack” for studio use.I think this is a decent enough tone shaper when using it ‘on the fly’ for recording, but I wouldn’t consider it being a magic replacement tool to forego having to bring multiple instruments to a gig (or recording session).I gave this two stars for its tonal range, but would have loved to have experienced more versatility and ease-of-use from this one.

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Mooer TC1 Guitar Tone Capture Pedal

   patgarrett – 09/08/2020

   A perfect solution for gigging musicians!!
   This is so convenient to any gigging musician who is looking to it back on hauling multiple guitars to shows. Simply load the profiles from the guitars you need into this mini pedal and you are good to go. No more guitar changes in between songs! This pedal is a great value for the money and does exactly as it claims to do.

5. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Mooer TC1 Guitar Tone Capture Pedal

   Ahmad Haris – 28/09/2019

   Software For Editor
   It would be better if there’s software editor for this pedal, so we can easy manage it on PC/Mac