MOOER Prime P1 Multi-Effects Processor Headphone Amp with 126 Guitar/Bass/Acoustic Effects Effects, Tuner, Amp, Metronome for Practice and Performance

As far as a headphone amp goes, this little gadget is FANTASTIC! It's a blast to play with and puts many sounds in the palm of your hand in a VERY portable way. No sticker shock either! A great buy at the price. You can dial in SO many different sounds, giving you complete control over your tone. Very intuitive to use with many effects/tones to choose from. I wouldn't say the tones/effects are necessarily on par with more expensive gear, but it's well-made, and designed for completely portability. It's a great tool to have in your guitar case!

This is a versatile amp and effects modeling processor in a package not unlike an iPod classic. It is smaller than an average guitar pedal, and doesn't really work as a pedal, itself (there is a linkable footswitch, but I don't have that). As far as onboard controls go, there is a button to switch between the first four presets (which can be your presets if you overwrite those slots), and a jog wheel for volume control. You long press the button to turn it on and off. When paired with an app, you get a lot more controls. There are a wide variety of amp and effect emulations, and I appreciate that you can move the order of the models around. In particular, I like the ability to run compressors, delays, and modulations either before or after the amp emulation. It worked well for playing with headphones right out of the box. I tried it through a Marshall half stack, both through the clean channel on the front end, and through the effects loop. It worked better through the effects loop with the amp and cab emulation, but had a lot more bass than I wanted to start with. After poking around the app a bit, I found a setting to run it that way, and it was much better. I am not sure I would use it that way all the time, because I have a lot of pedals. I think I might use it more as either a portable practice tool, or most likely, as a portable effects source for portable synthesizer jams, for which it is very well suited. I appreciate that the initial sound you access by default is a restrained clean tone with some delay, which sounds great on any synth (I mostly tested it with an Arturia Microfreak). When you dig into the app, there are a variety of effects that are rather more suited to synthesizer sounds (in particular, ring modulation and an automated filter sweep), and the touch screen interface works on those better as something you are going to adjust in real time. I find the range that many of the effects rather too large for many classic guitar sounds, but as sound design tools for synthesizers, they are pretty great. The internal battery works well for DAWless jamming, since it doesn't need to be plugged in like other effects pedals, so it's a lot less fiddly for that. With just USB power supplies for synths, you can be ready to go. The app also features onboard features like bluetooth audio streaming, drum patterns, a tuner, and a metronome, which can be handy for both practice and creative routing solutions. I have recently tried some other products like this, and while this one is more app-based with fewer controls on the actual device, but as an all-around solution for creating my own sounds in a variety of situations, I like this one. Other ones designed to plug into guitar jacks provide similar sounds and features, but are a bit fiddlier to use in effects loops and for synthesizers, and I think that is where this one shines.

As someone who took over 15yrs off of guitar for life, family, house, career, etc... this thing has been truly been Indispensable to me. I can practice at any point in time in the day and not disturb anyone. Just bring this, my headphones, a guitar cable and guitar. Connect it up to my phone and done.Pros:Small form factor.Great sound.Lots of possible sound options. Mix and match pre-amps, amp heads, cabinets. Then some decent effects that you can add into your signal chain. I'm a metal head so I love being able to go through and play these replica Mesa, Orange, Dr Z, etc... amps/cabs. It's been a lot of fun.I like the looper feature. Being able to record something and then go back work on harmonies or do a lead (not me so much) or little melody over it.The built in drum beats are pretty limited. You aren't changing to crazy time signatures and mixing up different drum patterns and linking patterns together. Still, if you want to pick your BPM and pick the sound of your drums (genre driven), its fun to play along and create something.The tuner is a nice feature as well. Not needing to drop out of the MOOER P1 app to go to a different app to tune the guitar is nice.I like being able to control the mix level between what I'm trying to play along to on my phone and the output of the MOOER.The "cloud tone" options is nice as well as an option. Being able to create your own and save them and have them dump up to the cloud and be able to try other people's tones. All good things.Negatives, to me:Limited drum pattersBattery lasts about 4hrs before it needs to be charged again - it's advertised as such, but it doesn't change the fact its a negative.You can record yourself along with the drums using the looper, but sometimes this function doesn't work as expected. Sometimes you stop the drums and they keep going and maybe you don't want them in your loop.The volume control is easy to use, but it doesn't seem like you can get to a really fine adjustment where you want it.No real "online help". It kind of just kicks you to a YouTube video that doesn't have any audio to explain and do a deep dive on any of the features. Definitely watch reviews on YouTube to get a good idea of how powerful this device really is. Taylor Danley on YouTube does a decent review (IMO). I've watched at least 5 or 6 different reviews of the device before I bought it and even after owning it for a few months, Taylor's review taught me even more.No clear indicator if there is an update to the device. A software push or some sort of notification saying "hey, we've addressed some bugs or added some features and get your latest update in the Play store or something". ANYTHING, but nothing.The tone cloud or cloud tone or whatever you want to call it, its slow, its cumbersome. No great way to search it. You can download anything you want from there, but you will need to overwrite one of your existing presets that shipped with the unit. You may not care about the presets, but then again you may.No clear way to take those "cloud tones" and mark any as Favorites and quickly revisit your favorites.If you record something on the looper that you want to keep, there is no way to "export" that out as an MP3 or other audio file that you could potentially share or listen to on another device.READ the reviews. Watch Reviews (both sponsored and non sponsored) on YouTube. Find out if it is a good fit for you and what your needs are. It's great for me if I'm traveling and want to bring a guitar to play along. Maybe I want to bring a guitar to the office and play on my lunch break? Put one in a gig bag, toss in a cable, headphones and the MOOER and I'm good. It's nice to be around the family and be able to play with "an amp and effects" without disturbing them at all. Total win. I can't recommend it enough.Lastly - I gave it 4 out of 5 stars, because - sadly, there is always room for improvement. You've seen my negatives listed here. I'd like to be able to use bluetooth headphones instead of wired headphones. I'd like to be completely wireless (sadly, latency) but I can't be. I'd like more drum patterns. Be able to record more than 1 loop of music. Still, it is an amazing product for less than the cost of a decent practice amp. Just buy it.

My quest to find the most compact pedalboard is OVERRRR ILY MOOER! Just wish you can add an expression pedall but this is FIREEE AF

Awesome gadget, great light weight design, very good quality effects, ok value for price, extremely fun to use, battery life could be better yet not bad, lots of customizable effects. Honestly much props to Chris Neko an amazing musician, the way it was explained and the demonstrations in the video was top notch and instantly sold the product to me. The only tricky thing is the firmware update if your computer won't allow you to access another counties website to download files you can't update to newest version and can't even use the prime 1 app and all of its functions. I literally had to try thee different laptops and had to turn of my firewall and take a risk of getting a virus yet after I jumped through some loopholes and updated new firmware I hade to immediately run check ups and security protocols to make sure my laptop was clean. Now that I got it working it's by far my favorite effects processor. Mooer has some amazing products and I'm definitely impressed.