5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST HAVE, this thing rocks. If you're on the fence, get off its only 200 bucks.

M. · May 15, 2025

(function() { P.when('cr-A', 'ready').execute(function(A) { if(typeof A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel === 'function') { A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel('review_text_read_more', 'Read more of this review', 'Read less of this review'); } }); })(); .review-text-read-more-expander:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid #2162a1; outline-offset: 2px; border-radius: 5px; } The best accessory next to the guitar itself. If nothing else you will be educated on the many styles and sounds out there. This has a ton of presets that are super fun and useful . The loop is perfection. Its super easy and intuitive, although there is SO MUCH ! It still takes some time to process it all. You have so much freedom to experiment and record. For just over 200.00 this is an essential "pedal" It eliminates the need for a few other pedals , i still use my crybaby and my voodoo vibe. I can't wait to use it and i can't stop once i start. My fingers hurt! Love the Arena 2000!the blocks are COMPRESSOR - FX1- DRIVE - AMP - CAB - NG - FX2 -DELAY- REVERB. Each block has a ton of references to Classic amplifiers and cabinets and effects, The combinations of sounds are endless. Sound i never would've tried to get, are easy to get. I uploaded the manual to ChatGPT and it makes settings recommendations for any musician / song i ask it to do. Amazing technology.

5.0 out of 5 stars All better now

J.S. · August 23, 2023

For the amount of amp and speaker cabinet modeling and various sound effects I'd give it a big 10, 2 thumbs up, it's great! Amazing! I love it! For ease of controls use only a 1. For customer service, a negative 10. I bought this to replace a ZOOM G1X FOUR, a decent effects unit, as an upgrade. It's far better for the amount of sounds I can get out of it using my electric guitar as the input and a small Marshall amp as the output. Extremely happy with that. For ease of use on the various unit controls, not so much. It's a fair amount of learning curve involved. Helps a bit using the Android app for it on my smartphone, and that syncs up easily to the unit using bluetooth. The user manual is near worthless for all that, it only provides bare-bones info on what the various controls do and I'm left to figure out all the other complex stuff on my own. My big negative is customer service. I had a simple question about how to turn up drum tracks volume in relation to my guitar volume coming out of my amp. It's so much lower than the guitar I can barely hear it. I would think volume adjustment for drums would be one of the first things I'd see when opening the interface for it, as with my ZOOM unit, but I can't find it. Calling customer service was pure misery. No answer for several attempts, and during hours listed as being open for business, no leave a message option. When I did get someone it was a young-sounding woman, naturally with a sing-song foreign accent, who was obviously "programmed" to get rid of me. When asking about my simple question and her putting me on hold a few times she mentioned tech support but that she would need my email address for that. I asked to be connected to a support rep and she said she could not do that, and repeated that when I asked again. So I gave my email address and am waiting for a contact that will probably never happen. Utterly ridiculous. Can't even talk with someone about a very simple question, that someone familiar with the unit could probably answer in seconds. I also separately emailed their customer service link, zero reply yet. I'll update all this if someone contacts me. FOLLOW-UP EDIT: I got a call back from the sing-song voice girl, saying she had talked to tech support about my question and they needed me to make and send a video of my problem. Beyond ridiculous, I told her to forget about it. The absurdity of making a video for "how do I turn up drum tracks volume" is astounding. EDIT TO THE EDIT: A tech support person finally contacted me with a very simple answer to my volume question. All good now, but it's a shame I could not quickly get to a person that actually knows the product to begin with.

4.0 out of 5 stars Would Probably Be Great For Rock/Metal, Emo, and Maybe Even R&B/Funk/Hip-Hop

C.P. · July 30, 2023

** Update #2: The folks at Donner reached out to me after my initial review and really made it a point to work with me by respectfully asking for a chance to make things right. They sent me another device – and this one sounds and performs much better. I retract my earlier statement about the FVACM technology – although it doesn’t provide a complete tube like feel, it does a great job making the digital platform more organic and warm sounding than one would expect. Also completely remedied is the XLR output issue I experienced. In fact, I got a great acoustic tone with an acoustic amp selection and going XLR direct to a PA. Still very impressed with the smartphone app to modify settings. This really is a great value and I will be gigging with this again very soon.** Update: I did use this on a gig tonight after being encouraged using the Arena 2000 with a different amp of mine. And I feel I had great results. It really cut through the mix and delivered enough grit and bite to cut through the mix and make me satisfied overall. This was previously at a 2/5 rating, but it’s now up to 3/5 after tonight’s success....but I'm a primarily roots rock/blues rock player.I'll give Donner this – they really seem to know how to target prospective buyers. This showed up in my social media feeds and web searches for days – I'm not complaining; that's the world we live in now. And one high profile guitar magazine gave this a 4.0/5.0 rating – and that was enough to get me to start giving this serious consideration. Although the device is digital, it's advertised FVACM technology to reduce the "plastic taste" intrigued me. After all, my amps are analog solid state and technology is advancing in capturing warmer, responsive tones without the need for tubes and such.— Before I go further, allow to share that I purchased this *with my own money*. I went through an affiliate link on a YouTube review of this and used a coupon that was available but I have not been in contact with anyone from Donner.First of all, the footprint of this is ideal. My primary multi effect pedal is probably 2.5x the size as the Arena 2000 – maybe more. And the construction is solid.The interface is impressive and intuitive; while the display may appear a little dated, I didn't have much of a learning curve at all in navigating, changing the order of effects, saving and making presets. The companion smartphone app is also a huge plus; it connects to the unit via Bluetooth and simultaneously adjusts levels, settings, names and more. With my primary rig, I usually have to get on the floor to trust knobs and save patches. It's too bad there's not something like this for my rig; my back and knees would really appreciate it.Well, you've probably already figured out... this has not replaced my primary rig. Although there are some usable tones, it lacks warmth and depth. The advertised FVACM technology doesn't seem to have much impact.The day that I received this, I scored a "pick up" gig that night with my blues rock band and thought it would be a great opportunity to try this in a live setting. The intuitiveness of this device made it a breeze to dial in a tone that I felt was definitely useable. But it wasn't totally convincing. I left the possibility open that maybe I was being too critical.Another big plus of this: Instrument cable in, instrument cable out, power it on and you're ready to go. Although I pointed it out earlier, it bears mentioning that this can feasibly go in a gig bag.Back to the gig: Everything about it is going well, and the tone is fine but lacking warmth and depth. Midway through, I turn to our front man and point out the new Arena 2000 and ask his thoughts on the tone. His response: "It sounds cold." Unfortunately, I had to agree.I've since worked with it more, but just can't get it to go with my style of playing. Those into heavy rock, metal, and even emo, R&B, Funk, and Hip-Hop might find this to be very useable. But to me, the effects their models are based on sound like distant cousins twice removed.Another point, and this is in it's favor: there's practically every kind of connection type available: 1/4", 1/8", XLR, USB, MIDI. However, I encountered a disappointing drawback to this which hopefully may be isolated to this particular unit I received. I ran two XLR cables to my PA and worked with an acoustic-electric. I was getting to the point where I was getting a tone that was encouraging enough to take this on an acoustic duo gig. Unfortunately, a loud 'pop' occurred and a very significant drop in volume came as a result. I thought this might have been a fluke so I went back to this process a couple of days later and... very same result. That really bummed me out because my partner in my acoustic duo will occasion kick in a low overdrive and even a wah and I was hoping to have a similar result.This is also powered by a simple 9V – meaning your pedal power supply is sufficient and doesn't need anything proprietary. (Thank you Donner for this!)More plusses: it's tuner is easy to read and accurate. Adding additional effects to presets on the fly again is very simple – I really did enjoy having my base tone and assigning two of the foot button controls to tremolo, boost, chorus, etc. My multi effects unit isn't this user friendly. Furthermore, the multi-function treadle for wah, volume, parameters is really responsive, practical, and can be engaged without hard pressing – small size notwithstanding.I have used the drum beats that are included – and they are fine, although nothing that made me want to go further or return back to them on a regular basis. The looper I found to be user friendly.At the end of the day, I just can't get around the rather one-dimensional tones for my style of playing. Everything else about this though is smartly designed and efficient – Donner really took a great approach here but the tones and the XLR issue described above have had this largely residing in my gear storage.

Surprisingly good.

V. · February 9, 2023

(function() { P.when('cr-A', 'ready').execute(function(A) { if(typeof A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel === 'function') { A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel('review_text_read_more', 'Read more of this review', 'Read less of this review'); } }); })(); .review-text-read-more-expander:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid #2162a1; outline-offset: 2px; border-radius: 5px; } I'm not usually a fan of multi-fx units, and admittedly I didn't buy this for the FX, but more the amp and cab modelling for some extra recording options.The FX all sound fine, they do what you'd expect, and there's nothing particularly out of the ordinary included. But the amp and cam modelling is seriously impressive, along with the drive pedals, which work really well when put infront of the amp in the FX chain. There's pretty much a sim for every kind of amp you can think of, and the cab modelling allows you to adjust the type of microphone and the placement. The Post-amp EQ is also very effective, from 3 band to 10 band EQ options. There's a bunch of drive, distortions and fuzz boxes which sound great. If you're a high-gain player in particular, this is an impressive piece of gear. The drives will push the amp sims to give you very realistic tube-amp saturation, and incredibly tight bass response. The noise gates are all very good too, and much better than my standalone unit.If you're looking for a multi FX unit, this will do the job fine, but by far the best feature of this unit is the amp and cab modelling, especially when used in tandem with the drives and post-amp EQ.

Excelente producto y de muy buena calidad tanto en materiales como en sonido, gran elección.

E.p.e.e.d.e.c.l.d.r.y.e.m.f.e.m.c.c.l.c. · August 9, 2024

Es un producto de muy alta calidad, tiene un sonido excelente y unos efectos que se pueden modificar y ajustar a cualquier gusto, me pareció excelente en relación precio calidad, es lo mejor que se puede adquirir en este precio con una calidad muy superior a cualquier producto de ese costo.

Multieffekte für E-Gitarre

M.S. · October 27, 2024

Sehr gutes und sauber arbeitenes Multifunktions Effektgerät mit vielen Sonderfunktionen wie Looper + Drumcomputer und Bearbeitungs Programm für PC und Smartphone! Einzige kleine Nachtteil ist an den Gerät das man nur 3 Schalter hat und kompliziert hin und her schalten muß, aber man ja alles programmieren ! Sehr empfehlenswert und sauberer Klang für nicht zu viel Geld

Necessario per suonare

E. · January 30, 2025

Tutto quello che serve ad un chitarrista come effetti e suoni

Muy buena pedalera por el Precio

A. · February 24, 2025

La mejor pedalera que he tenido