Monkey FX Badger Baiter

Quite easy to use bot not perfect, instructions are very vague however.

Very Noisy, this product appears to have been cobbled up in a hurry, just my opinion though, I'd much prefer BOSS products.

Broke down on first day, could not contact manufacturer easily.

Non Existant customer services, possible company has gone bust, I don't know ?

I quite like the product when it works, but would not buy again.

send, return, in and out, power socket, thats it 5 sockets and an on/off switch with led

true bypass, no effect on coluring the sound, ive A/B tested it ie. guitar in to amp vs guitar to badger baiter (off and on) to amp and there is no noticeable change in sound. no noise at all, no bleeding through of the effects when it is bypassing them.
good value for #50 with postage included. the boss pedal -line selector i think costs more and is not true bypass and colours the sound but has more routing options, but for me true transparencey was much more important so thats why i went with true bypass

seems very reliable, i would use without backup, require no power supply, but a 9volt battery powers the led to tell u when its on or off, it has a main supply socket also to do this but the pedel will work without it. solders and interior components seem to be solid and finished well and cleanly.

you get a personal service, he managed to get mine out to me in a very short space of time at my request. he took time to answer alot of my questions before hand (the information wasn't on the website, and maybe should have been) that really ment alot to me when making my choice of pedals.

after about 4 months of use so far my only complaints are to do with the design of the pedal, theres no quick way to get the battery out to replace it- you have to unscrew 4 screws with a screwdriver to get in to the pedal chassis to replace the battery, the screws dont screw in and out easily either theres no dedicated place for them to screw in to just grooves on the inside of the box.
the biggest fault however is that the in/out, send return sockets are on the side of the box not all aligned along the top of it, so when you plug the guitar cables in they stick out about 2 inches either side which means it takes up alot more floor space than neccessary and it makes it a bit more difficult to plug in the cables, all this could have been avoided by just putting all the sockets along one edge of the box, preferably the top. the battery to power the led doesnt last to long either- about 1-2 weeks but it is a nice big led.
as a true bypass pedal though it works fine, no sound colouration or bleeding through of the effects it is bypassing, i will be using this for as long as i use effects built by companies that are too cheap to use their own true bypass and degrade the sound tremendously (digitech gnx3).

Totally easy to use. It's a true bypass loop which you just switch on or off. Stops your lengthy pedal chain and cheapo pedals killing your tone.

no sound as such, but the absence of sound is what we're after and it does that very well. no clicks or pops that I could here

sturdy as a rock. With this level of service you can discuss what kind of enclosure you want before you buy. This is in a standard MXR style aluminium box with good quality footswitch, jacks and LED. He offered me various options on this.

Superb. What you're dealign with here is a guy making these in his free time, so it's one on one custom service. We discussed colours (LED and finish), switches, jacks, enclosure size, whether or not I needed a battery etc.

Most importanly, when the unit came I asked if it was possible to make a slight modification to the standard spec. He did this free of charge by return post.

Excellent. i shopped around for True Bypass boxes for a while, but this was the cheapest, especially given that it included post. The Loooper in the States is a little cheaper but once you factor in post and customs it's a different story. Also I would have had a long wait if I had tried sending one of those back for mods.

It is a single channel true bypass loop. One switch one led and four jack sockets, a monkey could use it.

Obviously there is no inherant sound. What it does do is stop my Boss pedals killing my signal.

Strat-FD2-Fuzz Factory-BB-AC15ri
with a DS1 DD3 and CE2 in the BB loop

Musicman or Warwick bass-BB-TE amp-Hartke cab

DD3 and CE2 in the loop

I'm going to mark it down as the paint is chipping. Andi does market the pedals with this quality. I took a peek inside and the thing is handwired and looks clean.

I'm going to mark this down as well. Andi is a one man band 'company'. He doesn't have a dealer network. He will warrant his products and it's ok for me cos I can drive to his flat and get it sorted.

Andi is a very nice guy and is starting to produce pedals starting with various true bypass loop variations. I'm not keen on the product names but they are a talking point with my band mates.

He keeps threatening to make a tremolo which I'm very interested in. He frequents the HC forum as is worth supporting as there is the potential for some very different pedals coming from this small company. I wish him the best and although I marked him down in some sections give the overall a 10. It's my review-bite me.