XTOMP 4+

The Xtomp reverbs are not that good. They sound thin, brittle, dull, not the soy of a quality pedal. The distortions can work, but seems lacking something. The modulation sound are a hit and miss. The same issues their reverbs have. The phasers aren’t bad.

I bought this pedal when it first came out, with high hopes, my $250 could have purchased a bunch of inexpensive pedals, with much better sound.

Pretty cool app/pedal. Love that I can experiment with different sounds without buying new pedals.

Suggested improvements, in order of importance (to me):

1. Increase the size of the knob labels. I'm on an iPhone SE and can barely read them. Maybe increase the contrast of the font as well.

2. Whenever you show a specific xtomp in the app (at the load to device screen or on the My Xtomp screen), you show a graphic of the pedal's current loaded effect and the device's name in small font. I think it would be less confusing to show some generic (or user-chosen) graphic instead of the current-loaded effect graphic. Maybe just write out the current loaded effect name so I know what's on there, but showing the actual effect pedal image throws me off for some reason.

This is mostly a review of the app, not the actual XTOMP device. The XTOMP device I think it’s pretty cool and I think it does a great job with distortions chorus and digital delays among other things not such a great job on others (octave is model is pretty bad for example ). The app in general does a terrific job.

The app easily loads pedal models one at a time via Bluetooth onto the XTOMP pedal pretty seamlessly. The only issue I really have with the app, is the search feature doesn’t really work well at all. For example there are several Chorus pedals in the library but if you search chorus only one pedal comes up. The search is pretty useless.

My app has updated with several new models recently within the past few weeks, including some good bass DI models.

It seems like it one point they may have fallen off on the support for this pedal, but it seems to be back online and be supported and updated regularly. Again you may or may not like the models on the pedal but as an app goes this is pretty good they just need to work on the search feature but overall a very impressive application that goes hand-in-hand very nicely with the XTOMP panel.

In my opinion the pedal does the best job with dirt pedals like distortions. For example the TS9 model is excellent. Also the tremolo petals are very useful as are the choruses and digital delay models, plus some of the amp models are excellent. The other models are hit or miss. Recommend you hit YouTube and see what you like or don’t like of the pedal models, but the app works pretty great.