More info can be found on Mooer's website. Price-wise, a handful of early retail listings place the Hornet 15i around the $165 mark – not bad, considering the spec sheet. Positive Grid’s one-knob, 5-watt Spark Go – something Mooer imitated with its Hornet 05i – is wholly dictated by the Spark app, and offers the options of 33 amp models and 43 effects. It’s not the first time we’ve seen an approach like this, either. 52 amps and 49 effects certainly is nothing to turn a nose up at – more can be obtained on the Mooer Cloud – and that drum machine would be a very handy practice companion. Having said all that, the aim of the game for Mooer’s Hornet 15i is quantity and minimalism, both of which are present in spades here. Granted, you can still do that here in spirit, but only after you’ve connected your phone, opened up iAMP, and loaded up your model and effects. Technology in the music world is the future, after all, but there’s just something timeless about the tangibility of cranking up the gain – or tweaking an EQ – on a guitar amp and getting hands on with the controls. Sure, we imagine it would do the job if needed, but this looks particularly like it would excel as a smart practice amp.Īs for just how far it would excel remains to be seen. Other notable specs include its 15-watt output and 6.5” speaker, which Mooer says is enough to take the control-less Hornet 15i for small gigs. Oh, and thanks to the Bluetooth, the Hornet 15i can also be linked to a wireless footswitch control, which can help switch between presets and effects. There’s no definitive list of what amps and effects are specifically available, but our eagle eyes definitely spy the words “Marshall” and “Plexi” in the demo vid, so it's safe to assume some well-known units will make the cut.

A range of reverbs, delays, modulations can also be accessed, with Mooer promising both “classic and experimental effects”.

It’s here that the various amps and parameters can be selected and sculpted, with each model arriving from Mooer’s MNRS technology. The rest of the action takes place inside Mooer’s iAMP app, which connects to the Hornet 15i via Bluetooth. As you probably already know, that lone wolf dial isn’t responsible for all the above, and looks to be merely a master output volume.

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