SONICAKE Sonic Aby Box Line Selector Ab Switch Aby Pedal Mini Guitar Effect Pedal True Bypass

Ho scelto questo ABY di piccole dimensioni, per farlo stare in una pedaliera ormai satura di spazio. Lo uso per usare due chitarre in unico ampli ma è possibile anche utilizzarlo al contrario, cioè una chitarra su più ampli o perché no, magari usarlo per attivare un circuito di effetti. Zero rumori e ronzii, molto solido e ben costruito, mi ha davvero convinto la Sonicake, che poco fa ho ordinato anche l'octaver....dove lo metterò non lo so. Nella mia pedaliera con marchi ben più blasonati, sa starci e alla grande!!!

Perfecto, compacto, buen precio, robusto y no un ruido. Calidad precio excelente. Viene hasta con el velcro adhesivo. Tiene lo q necesito era para salir por dos amplificadores de bajo al mismo tiempo desde un único previo. Cumple su cometido perfectamente y aún precio genial. Además viene bien presentando y protegido. En casa con dos previos para grabar directo a la tarjeta va genial. La corriente solo sirve para la iluminación y como digo enchufado ruido cero, no se experimenta bajada de tono ni nada, probado con guitarra y bajo.

The ABY switch functions as expected and the overall quality seems to be very good.

Pédale de très bonne facture, très robuste avec un footswitch solide, elle dégage un air de qualité. Il n'y a pas de bruit quand on actionne le switch et pas de buzz ou bruit parasite en générale. Il est intéressant de noter que la pédale peut fonctionner sans alimentation, dans ce cas il y a juste le led qui ne fonctionne pas. Aussi si on ne branche rien dans une des prises A/B il n'y a pas de bruit et donc la pédale peut servir pour muter une guitare tout simplement. Donc pas mal de fonctionnalité possible dans un gabarit minimale pour un tarif très intéressant.

$30 for a functional A/B pedal is great. This one does almost everything right and is a great value. It even does A/B switching in a mini-sized enclosure, which is impressive. My unit doesn't have any noticeable popping, and so far as I can tell doesn't degrade the signal. I was also happy to see that despite the description saying that A+B mode only works with Y as the input, mine did it just fine with Y as the output. In my case there was no change in volume when joining the signals, either (which can be a problem sometimes with stuff like this), which is awesome. So what could be better? I was a little surprised to see that the A+B mode basically disengaged the pedal button completely. Normally what you see in a 2-button footswitch is an A/B button and an A or B button. One of them normally switches between A and B. the other (A or B) will add or subtract the remaining channel. I had expected that Sonicake's unit would do something similar with the mode switch changed. Instead, it just ignores the pedal switch and everything is on all the time. I get why they did that, since with only one button available you couldn't get the full functionality easily. But I would have liked it better if I could get some form of A / A+B accessible via the footswitch in the second mode. The small size is both a strength and a minor drawback - with an enclosure this small there's no room for a battery. This isn't a huge deal since the pedal works without the battery (it only powers the LED), and many pedals of this kind don't have an LED anyway. Still, if I could choose between this and a version of the same thing in a bigger enclosure to hold a battery, I might have chosen the larger one. That's more feedback than criticism, but it's something to consider. I usually prefer batteries in pedals which only need them for the LED in order to avoid ground loop issues and save space on my board. Speaking of which, when I first plugged this pedal in, there was a significant ground hum introduced into my signal chain. I was a little puzzled by this since the power shouldn't even be connected to the sound. This probably means I was producing a ground loop that was showing up elsewhere. I ended up swapping out what was connecting to what (and what was daisy-chained) for other reasons before troubleshooting this and the issue happened to go away, so I didn't pay a lot of attention to it. It probably wasn't this pedal's fault anyway, but it is something to watch out for (again, this is why I might have preferred a battery for this). 5 stars for price and accomplishing what it set out to do. It might be a little unfair but if I could I'd take half a star for not handling the A+B issue differently. I guess their answer to the design issue at hand was valid but I think that part could be improved upon. But if you look at that as just a bonus feature anyway and look at this as an A/B pedal, this is a great unit and an outstanding value.