tc electronic Mimiq Doubler

I heard that the pedal shines for stereo setup but I only used it for the mono amp. Therefore this might be a one-sided review.

When I put the volume of dry output to a minimum and have the effect left only (to hear only the sound that the pedal generates not the original guitar sound), every 1~2 seconds it is shifting a different tone. I believe that they used this trick to create the feeling of "another guitar recording" but to me, it is a quite cheap trick to create the illusion.

It jumps from one random tone to another every 1~2 second which I find quite distracting and not reliable.

It has quite a good build quality with a really useless sound on my side.

I will soon try with a stereo setup, maybe my vote will change after (hopefully).

I mostly bought this for splitting a lead tone out to two separate signal chain with the promise of having a distinctive double-tracked sound when playing live.

In terms of the intended effect... 'double track' is a gross exaggeration. I've tried this with everything from fingerpicked acoustic to heavy overdriven leads. Even with the effect maxed out, at best it can be described as a very underwhelming delay effect... and that's when it actually works.

If you were excited about the stereo options like me, forget about it. That's where this pedal is at its least reliable. Sometimes it works fine, but often the sound is ping-ponging between stereo and mono output for some reason.

An exciting idea but the execution is woeful. If you're willing to run it strictly in mono then it's not entirely useless, but even then you might as well get the cheaper and more space-efficient mini pedal version.