NUX Roctary force guitar effects pedal Rotary Speaker Simulator and cabinet polyphonic Octave effect 2 in 1

I got the Nux Roctary this afternoon, and so far, I really like it. The Leslie simulation sounds good and is EQ'd convincingly, the drive section pushes the front end in a pleasing way and has an interesting trick up it's sleeve, and the octave section works quite well. There's some octave latency (especially on the -1 octave section, as you'd expect) but it's not too bad. What makes it less useable as a performance feature is that it is turned on and off with a small slide switch on the top of the panel (or by turning the amount knobs up and down). Since it's going to live on my pedalboard, the prospect of contantly leaning down to enable/disable it was not all that attractive. The lower octave combined with the slow leslie effect makes for some great Chris Squire-sounding bass business that is tremendously fun (Roundabout, anyone?). The drive circuit has a bypass built into the knob...when it's turned all the way down, it's completely switched out of the circuit, and the associated level knob has no effect. Turn the drive knob up a bit, and its circuit kicks in and the level knob becomes active, allowing you to fine tune the level and amount of distortion between the two of them. A pretty clever bit of programming. The quality of distortion is OK, not knock-your-socks-off great but certainly good enough to spice up things and add that lovely grind to the sound that we've all come to love and expect from the Leslie experience. After playing with it (and having a blast) for a few hours, the octave switch thing was really starting to bother me (and I freely admit I can get pretty OCD about these kind of things) so I took the unit to my bench to have a look inside. It's nicely made, DSP based as you would expect, and with a bit of tracing the circuitry, I realized that I could mod the expression jack (allows you to remotely vary the Leslie speed, which I'll never use) and set it up to accept a footswitch to turn the octave section on and off (which I'll probably use a lot). I briefly considered adding another footswitch between the two already on the unit to control this, but this seemed to me like a better and less obtrusive mod. This works great, and makes the octaves much more useable for me. There's a few secondary software features...you can shut off the dry signal and leave just the octaves, change the Leslie ramp-up time to taste, and activate the Leslie Cabinet Simulation, which doesn't seem to do anything that I could notice. Probably an idea that didn't work out, and was shut off in the software of the unit (it happens). The settings for these features seem to be sticky (they stay set even if the unit is powered down, which is nice). I've got a couple other Leslie Sims, the Ventura Vibe (which does other good stuff in addition to Leslie sounds) and the Line 6 Tonecore one, but so far I'm diggin' the Roctary as my go-to Leslie sound, with the POG section being the icing on a delicious cake. It looks like Nux may have already discontinued these, as there are no direct links to it on their website.

Are there better sounding Leslie pedals out there? Absolutely, but not for this price. I own a couple of chorus pedals that have better sound, but the magic of a Leslie effect is in its ramping up and down and this pedal does that well. Lots of options and versatility, best sounding when used in stereo. The poly octave can be fun, useful in some applications and it actually tracks better than my Boss octave. If you love this effect, unless you are willing to spend $300-400 this is the pedal for you.

I was hoping for a greater stereo effect. It accomplishes the rotary sound but it is mostly a mono effect. There are stereo outputs which I used but even with headphones I do not hear a left right rotation effect. For the price it is most likely the best rotary effect on the market. If you are going to use this unit with only one amp it would be perfect. If you are going to use it in stereo mode I would consider the Electro-Harmonix Lester G model for more money.

seriously nut pedal are so amazing! after plugging it in i was disappointed with the ramp speed, i just wish i could make it ramp up slower..... wellllllllll after reading the book you can change that and also add a leis speaker emulation to it! omg the is perfect!!!!!!!! i seriously only wanted it for the rotary effect but the octaves and the drive are some amazing to play with as well. def the best rotary pedal for the money

Interesting and cool pedal...for a single amp configuration. Is not true stereo as i expected it to be. still, had fun on one amp before returning it after using it on my 2 amp set up. sounds good. well built.

It's a nice idea, but I DO think the rotary section needs a much more realistic Leslie timbre. It sounds too much like the VIBRATO section of a cheesy combo organ. More beef/depth is needed IMHO....

I bought this to obtain as much as I'm able the Hendrix sound on Band Of Gypsies or Woodstock. Didn't quite get it just yet, but what I did get was organ sounds like circus organ sounds, carnival or amusement park organ sounds, whimsical sounds. That's fine too. Interesting effect and definitely quality built. The rotating speaker effect isn't as strong and pronounced as I like it or hoping it to be, but with a Danelectro Tuna Melt Tremolo unit connected to it the rotating effect is improved. I'd recommend this as it has octave feature as well.

I bought this when the effects on my Roland VR09 wigged out, and have subsequently repaired the VR09. Tonight I got to A/B the VR09 Leslie versus the Roctary, and I found that they sound quite similar. Both are very solid, but the thing I like about the pedal is the ability to control the rotation rate via expression pedal. I often feel stuck with the fixed rates on the VR09 and it's a menu dive to adjust them. I'm not a big fan over the overdrive, it sounds okay when dialed properly but feels a little hard to tame. It's certainly not a ventilator $$$, and I do think the EHX pedal sounds a little bit sweeter, but for the cost I think this is quite nice sounding and does the job well.

Honestly, this pedal was even better than I expected. The rotary/leslie sound is pretty authentic, the gain circuit sounds pretty good, and the octaves track surprisingly well! The strobing light that shows the speed of the speaker rotation is pretty cool (and useful) too. I haven't used it on guitar yet, but it can make a keyboard sound pretty incredible, and it can really add some nice texture to synthesized organ sounds. Highly recommended!

Sounds good! For the price it's worth it.