Mooer Radar vs Nux Solid Studio | Comparison Of Two Popular IR Loaders

The Radar is very dark and bassy

That's odd. I don't find my Radar dark at all. With or without power amp switched in.
I'll have a delve and see if I can make it go dark.
I wonder if your firmware update hurt it somehow ?

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A have the mooer radar and its a great pedal, you need to press and hold the red button before plug the cable into PC to uptate and load custom IR, i never has any problem with the mooer radar program.

I think the Radar has loaded your guitar pickups and reduced treble(+clarity) (Input Impedance is 100k Ω when 500k or 1M Ω is preferred.) While the SS Studio has less loading of your guitar pickups and therefore better treble and clarity. But if the Pure Sky or Revv were on all the time this would not be the case. I have the Radar and don't experience the muddiness heard here. I am using it mostly with a Micro Preamp and other pedals in front of it with great results. Thanks for your video.

Good review, I was considering these two for my new rig. But the Mooer sounds way more realistic than the solid studio. The nux sounds fizzy to me

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PS. Thanks for a good comparison BTW. It helped me a lot.

i bought a mooer Radar, it arrived, i unpacked it, downloaded the latest firmare, plugged my guitar in my pedal board and out in the radar into a p.a. . I played for 20 seconds, put down my guitar and put the Radar back in the box and never touched it again. There's too much digital latency

So were you recording straight in a DAW?

Did You ever try the Blubox? I would like to know how are it compared to NUX.

Keep in mind that while the SS sounded brighter, it can be mellowed out with the mic placement. (Looks like it was set to center) which is the brightest place on a speaker cone. Good review!

I’m wondering if the “thru” on the Solid Studio was having an affect on the Radar. There has to be some sort of internal buffering going on if it’s splitting the signal. Great video though, it’s interesting how all of us favour one sound to the other. Overall I preferred the Radar, but the Solid Studio was great. And I like how you were recording them both at once instead of an A/B. I bet if you combined them into a stereo sound it would’ve sounded excellent. Keep up the great videos!

I'm gonna have to add myself to the pile of people saying that my own Radar doesn't sound dark or muddy at all... I dunno, something weird has to be going on. The power amp sim also seems punchier and more realistic on my unit than what I hear on this video. Like, if I had only heard this review I'd never have bought the Radar, but my own unit sounds very different. I haven't updated the firmware in a while though. Maybe something strange is going on there? My radar sits in the effects loop of an Orange Micro Dark, this way I bypass the poweramp on the Micro Dark completely. Could be some buffering weirdness causing this problem. Coincidentally I also have a Revv G3 feeding the Micro Dark as the core of my distortion tone, so our setups are very comparable :)

Great job man! I personally liked more the solid studio, Would you mind making a video playing more metal stuff with these pedals?

И то, и другое, что-то прям ужоснах...

I like the brightness of the SS & really prefer knobs over navigating a menu , but the Radar sounds way more real. For me I'd say the Radar is the clear winner, just EQ it brighter. Plus it's cheaper.

Похоже, парня затащили в торгово-промоутерскую блудню. Оба прибора могут звучать прекрасно.

Nux sure paid you. Both equalizers should be in 0.

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Any idea how these two compare to the Two Notes Torpedo C.A.B. ??

I believe that you're defeating the NUX IR by running out of the Thru output. That fizzy sound is a dead giveaway. So, really, this comparison shows the Mooer IRs compared with the NUX poweramp and no IR. If you listen to your other NUX video, it's clear that it sounds completely different. Great comparison of the two, otherwise!

On my studion monitors, the Mooer sounds really compressed and muddy while the Nux had all the dynamics but reeeaaaally fizzy. I'm sure the problem with the Nux, you could fix with moving the mic placement more towards the edge and playing with the tube settings. The Mooer I'm sure you could clean it up with the EQ settings but the compression from the Mooer was the deal breaker for me.

Thanks for your detail sharing. The demo really helps me to make the buying decision.

Mooer wins!!!

Thanks for the demo!! Can't say I want either of them now... Can you compare to the hotone?

something wrong with your connections that is why the mooer sound muddy

One thing I don't like about your solid studio videos ia you don't tweak anything like the mic positioning to make it sound better, you just stand there and do nothing while it sounds like crap many times

Thank you for the video... I ordered the NUX

If one looks at other reviews, looks like you did something very wrong

Привет, земляк! Возможно ли использование какой-то из этих примочек без предусилителя?

I realise that sound is an opinion but I thought the SS sounded horrible. The Mooer sounded so much better to me

The mooer sounded better, but I like how tactile the NUX is. Seems like the NUX could have been dialled in a bit better for the stock cabs, but the Ohnhammer cab sounded way better! Interesting comparison.

Im not a big fan of the nux solid studio and the mooer is a great pedal but it clips alot at time, but what I notice if you get any type of preamp sin for example a mooer 004 day tripper and fx chain with a NUX Mini Studio IR Loader with your favorite 3rd party IR it blow the mooer radar out of the world, mini studio does not clip what so ever, and it just better for Cab IR

I'm so confused, I hear the fizz that's present in the NUX pedal, but I can also hear that the Radar sounds very muffled and bassy. However, with the IR that you loaded, the Mooer sounds a little bit fizzier than the Nux.
To my taste, I find some of the NUX tones to be more useful in a mix than the darker sounds the Radar provides, and like many people say, I'd rather be moving knobs than navigating a menu at a rehearsal or a gig. I just wish the NUX unit was less fizzy, though, I'm not convinced yet.
Thanks for your video! The A/B comparison part is how I think these kind of videos should be made.

Cab box vs radar?

Doesn't the thru on the Nux affect impedance? Isn't the sound going to be different by plugging a preamp directly into the Mooer?
Strange, 1) to me the Mooer sounds more realistic here than the Nux, contrary to what you say in the video.
2) The Mooer sounds incredibly different in other videos, and a LOT better.
I'm confused !

nux for me

Who win but i like nux

Nux Solid Studio Win...
Im New User NUX MG30 User

Great video, man!!! Thanks a lot!!! Cheers.

Too much talk

Everyone needs to remember that these are replicating the sound of a mic’d cab, not the natural sound of a cab in the room. Even though that’s what you try to capture with a microphone, it’s not what actually happens
If you listen to the guitars solo’d from a full mix, they’ll most likely have some of that fizz of the Nux. I’d be willing to bet the Mooer in a mix would have no clarity or definition at all because it lacks the same high end

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that tiny radar is a joke

Thanks for the review and detailed comparison!!
I researched both of these and chose the NUX SS. I’m glad I did because the fizziness heard was easily dialed out. In fact there are 24 different eq settings on the front panel alone with 3 mic placements and 8 different microphones. That doesn’t include the Drive and Presence adjustments either which have a large range. This has become my primary practice source for headphones because I can use any of my amplifiers and pedals. The 9v power required is always available from my pedalboard too.
However if I was putting something small together I’d probably opt for my Hotone Nano 5 watt with a Mooer Radar (for its size) as the Hotone has a Terrible speaker simulation but otherwise it’s fine for such a small SS amplifier.

Hey thanks for this. I needed this review. Thanks

Great interview thank you, Was the first song you played a blackberry smoke song?

Hey everyone! Just wanted to mention that there's things in this video I would do differently if I would remake the comparison 3+ years later. There's lot of useful information about this units here as well though, so I'm keeping this one live. Just take everything I say here with a grain of salt. ;)