The Mooer MVP1 Autuner, part of Mooer's Vocal Series, ensures a clean vocal sound along with two essential effects - reverb and echo - and comes in a user-friendly foot pedal format. In addition to its primary function of correcting off-pitch notes, the MVP1 features an additional vocal synthesizer to spark creativity and enhance performance, which offers three modes (Flat, Warm, and Bright) for shaping the vocal sound, and the speed of the delay effects can be adjusted via footswitch. Although the pedal is primarily designed for vocals, Mooer hasn't overlooked its guitar-playing customers either, so alongside a balanced input and output on the rear panel, the MVP1 also includes jack sockets, making it suitable for use on a pedalboard.
During the development of the Vocal Series, Mooer primarily focused on practical usability and on avoiding the need for time-consuming menu navigation. The MVP1 Autuner accordingly operates without a display, so every step in its operation is straightforward and logical. The "Delay" knob selects from three different delay types - Tape, Digital, and Slap - with delay duration set via footswitch. The reverb section features three reverb types that have been specifically optimised for vocals (Room, Hall, and Plate), and the "Correction" knob, the MVP1's central feature, controls the intensity of the pitch correction. Microphone connection, activation of the phantom power supply, and adjustment of the input gain level all take place via the pedal's rear panel, while the jack output socket on the pedal's left side means that an instrument output signal can be tapped separately.
With its clean and unobtrusive pitch correction, three voice presets, and studio-quality reverb and echo effects, the Mooer MVP1 Autuner can seamlessly integrate between a microphone and an amplifier or mixing desk. The pedal's effects are also suitable for use with a guitar, making it a compact setup ideal for solo artists preparing for their next gig. The option to separately output vocal and instrument signals provides additional flexibility, allowing creative use with a guitar amp, mixer, or other line-level amplifiers.
Mooer is based in the Chinese city of Shenzhen and has been making products for guitarists since 2010, which include compact single pedals through to multi-effects units and compact amplifiers. The company initially produced a range of mini pedals before making perhaps its most significant breakthrough in 2016 with the sophisticated Ocean Machine delay pedal, which was designed in collaboration with Devin Townsend. Mooer's product range now also includes solutions that feature amp modelling, IR-based speaker simulation, and matching equalisers, and the company's focus remains firmly on the use of digital technology.
The Mooer MVP1 Autuner provides discreet assistance with the challenges of the human voice - after all, no singer is perfect and always hits the right note at the right time - offering not only effective pitch correction but also reverb and delay effects, and its features make it a highly recommendable tool for anyone looking to consistently enhance their vocal or guitar performance. With both balanced and unbalanced inputs and outputs, the pedal is versatile and suitable for integration into guitar pedalboards, for use in front of a mixing desk, or for recording vocal tracks directly to a computer. The Mooer MVP1 Autuner comes with a suitable 9V power adapter; battery operation is not supported, however.