Moen GEC9 2nd Edition

Got this to be the 'brain' of my pedal board, and not have to dance around my board pressing a million and one buttons to control my stereo rig. build quality is absolutely phenomenal, solid metal with a lot of weight //you really wouldn't want to drop this on your foot//

feature wise, its pretty excellent, although in future models, id quite like to see Moen add capabilities to change the signal order like the switchblades made by sound sculpture. that aside, the current selection of features, such as channel switching and buffered outs is plenty for my board, it just requires a little more thinking and creativity on my part, putting a Y-box in the first loop for a clean out to my bass amp, and then feeding one output back into the switcher //clever, I know 8)//


sound-wise, there's little to no colour added, or taken away, a very nice clean signal, although at higher gains with certain pedals, there's some slight interference being passed between loops, although that's just probably down to me using slightly cheaper 'isolated' PSU's on my board.


to summarise;

great switcher
worth the money
don't drop it on your foot
get creative

I bought this to tame my rig, and it fits the bill perfectly. Each loop corresponds with a footswitch. You turn on the loops (effects) you want, select a storage bank and that's it. Its programmed. No MIDI control, but it does have some cool advanced routing options, though, with the final three loops having a loop within each, so multiple amps can share effects, or you can route part of your board for preamp and another for the internal loop in your amp for time based effects. A great, tough, well built pedalboard solution.