You are fast becoming my go to for 3D printing hardware reviews. I have been waiting for an unbiased review of the Sonic Pad and you delivered.

@winstonsmith478

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"You are fast becoming my go to for 3D printing hardware reviews." For me, they already are.

@dawn9340

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Honestly ever since the CNC reviews and upgrades I’ve been watching. Might want to check out the MPCNC (mostly printed CNC) that’s under $700 to build and can mill aluminum or cut steel if you add a laser cutter.

@sparks-tech

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That would be great. I have an MPCNC and would love to hear your thoughts on that vs something like the Root 4 or PrintNC CNC machines.

@dawn9340

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@@sparks-tech exactly! How’s your MPCNC? Ever use it for aluminum? 😏

@sparks-tech

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@@dawn9340 I really enjoy it and the fact I built it myself is pretty cool. I used it to cut some 6mm APC board for my 3D printer build and it worked out great but thats pretty soft and thin Aluminum. I have some 8mm sheet stock but I am not sure what to make from it yet. lol

You are without a doubt one of the most professional reviewers regarding anything 3d printing online. I often forget that you are no older than my youngest grand-daughter but infinitely more informed and professional than many of the reviewers I follow. Well done. Keep up the good work.

This channel is like Project Farm. Right to the subject without extra chatter. You move at a moderately fast, smooth pace and give us a lot of useful information. I really appreciate the time you put into this video.

Creality has hit upon a product that many of us might try to build from parts only to realize that cleaver minds can sort that for us. I add this review as one of your most helpful ever as it saved me from trying to "klipper-ize" a 3D printer; just slap down a credit card. Your (plural) work is clearly a must for me; no wonder you are offered products to review as the vendors and us completely believe what you find out and serve up to us in a very concise manner. Your work is exemplary.

Young lady, your parents are doing a great job raising you and your brother. I learn so much watching your videos. They are unbiased and quick and to the point. Keep up the great work.

You're so good at making the right videos at the right time and such a incredible quality too. A little genius you are!

I'm glad you specifically mentioned the V2 Neo. A couple months ago I got one as my first 3D printer specifically because it came with the upgrades that I felt I would end up adding anyway, but then I came to find out how new the printer was and that if I wanted to add anything to it I needed to take a chance that it shared V2 part similarities or compatibility. Nothing is listed for the new printers yet.

Yet another great video and your walk thru has made up my mind. I will be picking up this Sonic Pad. Keep up the incredible work and look forward to your next video, next Monday.

Good timing Aurora. I just got my Sonic Pad today. Great review video.

You did the Sonic Pad! Thank you for responding to your viewers 👍 Your expertise and problem solving is epic. Please could you do either of these three videos before the end of 2022 or in early 2023: 1) A summary of the top consumer printers 2022. 2) A summary of the top innovations/improvements seen across consumer 3D Printers 2022. 3) Your wishlist of features and components on a consumer printer for 2023 (Aurora TopTech 2023).

Another great video. You are the best reviewer of 3D printing stuff. The way you do the reviews is perfect and very professional. If you decide to become an engineer you are going to be great at it, based on your videos it's obvious you are super intelligent (genius) and have all the skills required. 😎

Hi Aurora, yet another super informative video, I have been wanting to know more about Creality's Sonic Pad and your video was excellent. Not sure it is for me at this time but at least now, thanks to you, I know a little more about the product. Keep up the great video reviews😊

I love your reviews. I did also find the z offset issue with my sonic pad. I feel like a fool since I haven't found a way to direct send the print to the pad or printer from my laptop with moonraker. Thanks for the great efforts you put into this keep the info flowing 😎

This girl is amazing!

Thank you. You were the only one who showed if the Sonic Pad was compatible with the Ender 3 V1 and showed how it is done. In several places there was only speculation that it would work, but never real proof. Just because of that, I subscribed to your channel. I will order a Sonic Pad for myself now that I am sure it works on the original Ender 3

thank you you and your brother helped me a lot picking my first printer that ive been waiting for 35 years to get. ending up getting the ender 3 s1 plus for 3d rc planes was up and printing in less than a hour from unboxing with your help could not be happer for first printer. all ready thinking about next one thank you thank you

I couldn’t agree more with the positive things people are saying here! Clear, calm dictation. Knowledgeable and helpful. Straightforward and to the point. Keep up the good work!

Great video, fast, concise and clear with a summary at the end. By far better than any other tutorial or review I've watched on 3d printers.

This is by far the best intro video to klipper on YT. It gets to the heart of doing useful things with it but without going into hours and hours of minutia. 10/10 review

I have no idea what you are talking about, but your video eases my mind. Thanks.

great new option 😄 great video as always Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍👍

I really appreciate the benchy at various speeds and the standard setup and sonic pad setups. Great and thorough review and setup.

First: you are sweet, second: your videos topics are very informative , third: great Information and in great order. Thanks

You have no idea how much i want to high five you for saving my sanity! Thank you soooooo much

I heard that if you can teach a 6 year old how to do something then your a master at it but what if the 6 year old is teaching you what dose that say lol!!!! Excellent review!!!! Thanks!!! I just ordered my first printer got the V2 pro and been looking at videos to study how to use it this popped up and I'm glad I ran into your channel it's very helpful for the tech illiterate like myself....

Watching this channel is like watching my daughter grow into a fine knowledgeable lady, so cute When will you build a voron?

It seems you've got Creality's ear! A single Sonic Pad can now handle up to four printers. Apparently they've also made it easier to use with pretty much any FDM printer. I've got an Ender 5 S1 and Sonic Pad arriving Thursday and I'm looking forward to seeing what this pairing can do.

As many times as I've seen people raving about the benefits of Klipper, I've completely avoided making that switch myself because I'm wigged about the idea of messing around with the firmware. Knowing that I could take my Ender 3, swap out that 1.1.5 silent board for a 32-bit board, and plug it into an external device to do the job with relatively little fuss is really something. Great review!

@chonkat

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I have the 1.1.5 and from what I understand, it should work. I recently got the sonic pad and I´m havin a tough time setting it up, though.

I received mine a couple of days ago after (im)patiently waiting for it to arrive. It’s not like I was stalking it I mean it’s mine just because I logged in to track it every couple of hours once it said shipped. And finally I greet the delivery guy on the porch arms outstretched like a giddy child on Christmas morning ((53y/o here) only to discover that since I have an ender 3 pro it is not so plug and play and I am too ignorant to fix it on my own and until now had found no one online Reddit, KZread etc., and I have been patiently waiting for her to release this very video. This channel is my first stop for reviews even if I know I’m not interested I end up learning something.

Very informative video! Those of us with the v2 neo dont be disheartened. Ive had the v2 neo for a few weeks now and got it tuned up with the sonic pad and added a dual z screw for about thirty dollars. I Just printed a near perfect benchy in 1 hour 11 minutes.

Thanks for your reviews and printing advice. I used your advice to upgrade my lk5 to a dual z printer.

Legitimately the best review of the sonic pad Thanks Aurora

The Biqu CB1 with their 4b adapter board has been a great deal for replacing the need for an official raspberry pi. For about 60 dollars US you can get a pi3 equivalent for running klipper.

Hi Aurora, I love watching all your videos. They have been very informative and helpful to me in my journey with 3D printing. Anyways I was just wondering if you could also do a follow up video on how to add other Creality printers that are currently not supported in the Sonic Pad. I think that would be super helpful for users. Thanks a heap and keep up the awesome work. 👏👏🙏

Excellent and very thorough review, very nice work. This video has greatly helped in my decision to purchase the Sonic Pad, keep up the solid work.

I love this. So precise and so informative. I so much look forward to seeing your review of the new fast Creality printers.

Hi Aurora. Like everyone here, we all really appreciate anther excellent and detailed review for which we're grateful. One point if I may - you tend to 'speed' over some of the more important technical issues as to why by example, some of the changes you make are needed and for those of us who are not technical - it quickly becomes confusing in trying to understand what the change is, why it is needed and I would ask that you just take a moment to better explain and 'walk' us through the issue and what you're doing to resolve it.

I am fine with my stock Ender 3 and Ender5plus and I am not in a hurry. Using Marlin and well tested profiles for my preferred Ideamaker guarantees perfect prints, no ringing, no surface artefacts. My Enders are running 24/7 since 3 years without any issues. Never touch a running system.

Watched two of your videos about a month ago. Hit the subscribe button and been watching ever since. Very nice work, thank you

"It's still a bed-slinger with rubber wheels" Lmao, Aurora Tech telling it exactly how it is. Well done. I'm very excited to see where Creality takes this hardware, it has a lot of potential and looks like a hell of a good start. The results are disappointing however. Hopefully they'll be able to take full advantage of it's potential in the future and we'll see better results. I completely agree that adding custom printers would be a huge improvement to the few profiles they currently have. Damn good review.

Well done. Just what I was looking for in a review for the Sonic pad.

Perfect timing. Just ordered mine last night and will try to run on my Ender 5 Pro

@TheKurfer

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You still kept it after seeing the results in this video? Prevented me from buying one. :)

I have klipper on my ender 3v2 and was able to get a 15 minute benchy with no drop in print quality. You need to set min layer time and min feature size in cura so it slows down on the smaller features. You can also go way higher on acceleration with has a big impact on speed on smaller prints

@Nici619

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What is your "min layer time" for pla?

@paultrautner1941

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@@Nici619 I had a 10 second min with a 85mm/sec min speed. For small feature it was 6mm diameter with a 85% reduction in speed. 150 was max print speed with a max acceleration of 8500

@circleofowls

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@@paultrautner1941 Damn...now I know what I'm going to be working on tomorrow. Thanks for the details.

@redline3036

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Any vids of this because I doubt it.

@paultrautner1941

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@@redline3036 I will take a video after I finish printing my ikea lack enclosure parts. My ender is also not stock, I am using a dragon hotend with cht nozzle, stealthburner cooling with 5015 fan. I also ditched the glass bed and went to pei spring steel. I just set up my work printer with klipper on a ender 3 s1 and 35 minutes was the fastest I could get due to cooling issues on the haul.

Real quality information that helped me setup my own sonic pad. Well done

Thanks i used this video to calibrate pressure advance since it is my first time with klipper dint know i just needed to add it in print.config. Im running now Ender 3 V2 hemera extruder with 5015 blower at 100mm/s with 2000 accel on perimeters and 150mm/s at 2500 accel.

UPDATE: Yesterday Creality released an update to SonicPad that allows 4 printers to be controlled from one pad! I tested this today by adding a second printer to the SonicPad controlling the Ender 3 S1 Pro (My Ender 5 Plus has is own as it is located elsewhere). Easy peasy setup and operational just as the first one was. What a great value! I am going to sell my two PI's and screens...I like this better..all supported, minutes to install, less expensive. what is not to like? My onlystrange issue is that in Cura 5.2.1 the Build Plate temperature disappears with the provided Cura profiles. It is checked off in Cura settings, but is somehow surpressed- this forces me to adjust when I go to print- although easy, you shouldn't have to--looking in to this now.

Great video. If only my experience was as smooth as yours. My sonic pad didn't even have the same steps loaded on it as yours did. I never saw anything about loading a usb into the pad.

I'll get the Sonic Pad now that they added CR-10 smart! Thanks for posting!

Amazing work again!!!! Love your reviews!

I just received my sonic pad and it’s super hard to find videos on it because not a lot of people have them but I need to calibrate my e steps and you please make a video explaining how to do that and other tuning on the sp

At higher speeds, you need a high flow hotend and a solid platform to place your printer. You'll have to upgrade your nozzle to a CHT, upgrade your heater block to copper, the heatbreak to bimetal, and upgrade your fans. You also have to get rid of the bed springs, higher speeds make the bed unstable, with all the vibration and it will most likely cause ghosting.

"Agree with whatever it says" - I think everybody does that. Gotta get to printing, don't care if I signed away my first-born child!

Very accurate tests and review. Congratulations 😊

Great review! Well structured and with all the info I needed.

one of the best videos on this topic. thank you!

I have a question and sorry for my not so good English if you could convert a normal Ender 3 or Ender 3 Pro with an Ender 3 S1 extruder head it would be really interesting if there were a video about ?🤔

A clear and easy to understand review however, you lost me with pressure advance setup

I'd be very interested to see a review on the FLSUN version of this device, the speeder pad. It would be instructive to compare them.

Heck, I'd be thrilled with 100mm a second. I think I need one of these.

This kid is smart! Amazing review!

Thanks for the helpful and informative video.

please keep up these good videos , they are great and easy to understand

I was going to get one then i see your video, and Boy i have got a headache , But thank you for spending the time to give such information. Oh i will stick with my Jyres Firmware on my ender 3 v2 at 120ms

Hello, please help, is it possible to create instructions for installing a clipper on a sonic pad of various models, such as kingroon or artillery or mks mini board for Ender priners.

In the lastest firmware update for the Sonic Pad, they added several printer profiles, including one for the "CR10 Smart". However they do NOT have the "CR10 Smart PRO" on there that I've seen. As they have different boards in them, I am assuming that this is not a usable profile for the Smart PRO. Why would they add the older, less updated Smart, and leave out the Smart Pro??? Anyway, I'd love for you to do a video of adding the Sonic Pad to the CR10 Smart Pro, and show the results. Also, I'd love to know where you got the 5015 blower for your 5 S1 Pro, as I can't find it anywhere. Thanks for all the well rounded and professionally done vids by you and your brother. I hope to get an answer to these questions, as I have a lot riding on it. Lastly, if you have time, I'd love to see a compare/contrast between the Ender 5 S1 Pro, and the Smart Pro. Thanks. Cheers!

not really interested but what another great review, it would be awesome to have you around for software and firmware issues. your a very smart cookie.

Fascinating, thank you!

Is there anyway you could do a video on how to set up the sonic pad on a cr 10 smart. There is a lack of information/documentation on the proper way to do it. The steps you have provided for the printers in your video are spot on and I was just wondering with the amount of knowledge you have, if you could provide some insight that creality has not provided on the proper way to use the sonic pad with the cr 10 smart. Thank you in advance and I hope you consider my request. Rich

I watched another video to find what the purpose of the resonance test is for. He said it’s similar to what noise cancelling headphones do. Although obvious, they sample the noise at your ears and not your feet. So the resonance test needs to measure the frequencies as the print head sees them. By putting the sensor on the bed during the Y-axis readings, you are taking the vibrations that travel through the z-axis lead screws and through the rollers the print head rides on out of the equation. I suggest running the test both ways and print something tall to see if there are any noticeable differences. Maybe that is why you are not able to get faster speeds on some of your tests Aurora.

@TinkeringJohn

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Another analogy of this is the large mass dampers near the top of tall skyscrapers. They dampen the sway of the building they feel at the top especially during earthquakes, not what is happening at the base. If the bed of the printer is reading higher vibration levels than what the print head sees, it will overcompensate for it in the software. Since I'm going to install the Sonic Pad on an S1 Plus that has a bigger bed (hence, more mass), I may see a more noticeable difference between compensation and no compensation on it. The printer overall is more massive so there could be less vibration going to the printhead compared to a standard size printer.

New version of firmware tells you to tighten all bed knobs, then it has you do Z, then you go back to level four corners- I didn't do level four corners, instead used the auto bed leveling and made a few tweaks, then re-ran and saved the auto bed config. It prints fabulously. I also pushed a few test models to 200% which was around 250mm/sed and got useable prints. For example, was able to print the bunny at this speed and it looked great. I should note I did do the vibration calibration on X and Y axis and the rest of my machine was already tuned, but for good measure, I did the PID on hotend and Bed as well.. After messing around with two raspberry PI's and following instructions in other maker posts, I had lots of issues- if you are starting with no PI's, it isn't worth it. With this solution you get a 7" screen, basically effortless installation and great results- I paid $149 for SonicPad on Black Friday...

@jraiello

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UPDATE: I tested this on the newer Sonic Pad firmware and if you follow the instructions on bed leveling exactly it all works. They fixed the errors that was mentioned in this video.

Nice to see 👀 your big smile 😀 you have brighten my day with review and smile 😃 😊

I too would like to see usability with non-creality printers. Like the mini printers (TIna2) and so on. It would be nice it it supported profiles from different printers. At least that way you’d be closer to a viable setup.

Really enjoy your videos, so thank you very much. Your video on the S1 Plus was my deciding factor to get one, so thank you. My question is, how hard/easy would it be to set it up for an S1 then modify the build volume area? Or set up as S1 Pro and change build area? I have already ordered my sonic pad, but until I have a better idea of how to be able to adjust the build volume I won’t use it.

@SeanSR

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Curious about this myself

External stepper motor driver TMC2225 with Input Shaping GH Smart Shaper Due to the shortage of electronic components (Raspberry boards are practically unavailable) and to the required skills, Klipper is not yet a solution within everyone’s reach. GH Enterprise has therefore found a solution that allows you to add Input Shaping to 3D printers in a simple and immediate way, avoiding the use of external host cards such as RPI4. Just replace the X and Y axis drivers with the GH Smart Shaper drivers, add some configuration commands to your g-code and you are ready to print with input shaping.

Thank you! Great review

great video!! I have been looking at this with great interest. I believe it would work well on my Ender 3 so long as I can get it to work with the EZABL type magnetic bed leveling sensor that I already have installed on the unit.

Do you know if you can disconnect the existing screen once sonic pad is installed? I don't see the purpose of keeping the screen that is not functional.

Do you have to insert the G29 Command into the gcode in your slicer for the sonic pad to use the mesh data? If not, how can i turn off bed mesh?

This was a great video. You helped me further justify my step up to the Bambu Labs X1 Carbon from my Ender 3 Pro. I'll always love and will still use my (heavily modded) E3, but without being a CoreXY, even with Klipper, the E3 is clearly best left as a slow, higher print quality printer.

great video, thanks. If I have run the calibration once initially, what do I have to do to rerun it? does the routine overwrite previous procedures or do I have to change any settings before rerunning it? Thanks

Does the pressure advance with klipper and sonic pad work with the tmc2208 stepper drivers on the 4.2.2 board as I couldn't get it to work with Marlin and would like to be able to use pressure advance

Hi, what does 120mm/s mean? the default speed in cura with about 60mm/s outer wall speed? or is this true 120mm/s outer Wall speed?

Hello. Is there any way you might make a video showing how to set up a CR-10 SMART with the Sonic Pad? Nobody has done one with the Bowden Extruder!

Very helpful. Thanks for posting.

Great Video, I really appreciate that you showed the difference in quality between speed and acceleration. Can you please elaborate, how are you making these changes to your test? I am looking to do the same. For speed is that done in cura? and for acceleration is that purely in klipper (print.cfg file). I am on a Ender 3S1, and have set Velocity to 300m,/s, 6000 mm/s2 (per input/pressure advance test). However on sharp 90 degree corners i see some gaps on some layers.

While I have two printers with a Raspberry Pi setup, I have a PC with Windows 10 running Octoprint connected to three printers. Can Klipper can be configured the same way?

so what if I have an upgraded Ender 3 V2 with a Sprite Hotend / Extruder. Can the profile be adapted for that?

How can I add my Ender 3 standard to the sonic pad? I have replaced the main board with a 4.2.7 silent board

ive been having problems with the pad for last week straight. cant seem to figure out why the print is stoping mid print on all prints... very frustrating

How do you connect the ender 3 pro to the sonic pad? It's a super simple process but on the final step I can't connect the screen while the printer is powered on with USB or the serial cable. I'm using a 4.2.7 board with sprite extruder and cr touch. Been trying to get support from creality but it's quickly turning into a nightmare. Anyone else having issues with this? Seems fine for the ender 3 V2 and up but with this specific one it's hard to get going.

If / when the CR-200B / Pro is supported by the Sonic Pad, would you consider doing a review? I’m considering adding a CR-Touch and Sonic Pad, but not sure if I wouldn’t better spend my money on a new K1.

You seem to know what you're doing and I really need help. I have a CR touch and the Sprite Extruder pro on my ender 3 v2 . I'm also using a sonic pad. I came across a problem where when I try to do the auto leveling, the probe does the first 5 points then misses the bed completely on the 6th and the extruder pushes against the bed. I guess it's not aligned or something but I don't understand what's wrong. I also don't know how to edit the klipper config either so I can't really experiment with changing things. Please help!

If I upgrade my ender3 v2 or s1 pro to the sonic pad and don't like it can I flash back to marlin, unified, professional(s1 with display change)or other custom firmware?

Will you guys be doing a FL Sun Speeder Pad review and set up video by any chance? I love you and your brother's hard work putting these excellent videos together. Thanks

Your printer screen doesn't become useless, only in some models where the screen is not supported. If you have a supported screen like the one from Ender 3 you can use it

Very straight forward, wunderbar ;) Do you know where I can put in the command into der printer config to present the print after finish to y 235, as in the gcode of cura it does not do it? (I need it to switch of the printer so the bad must go to the very front) Thanks for a hint

Would you do that test. The sonic pad with an ender 7.

@AuroraTech

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I don't have an Ender-7, but seems it's not using the same Creality v4.2.2 motherboard as the Ender-3 V2 and many other Creality printers. You need to wait for their new firmware to support the Ender-7.

Is the original ender 3 have an upgraded hotend? Can it print that fast on stock extruder and hotend?

What mainboard is in the Ender 3 V2 Neo - is it RET6 or RCT6? Could explain the bad prints you got on the Neo.

Hi! Can you please do a Klipper install on an android tv box, including adding a screen interface and utilize the completed install on an Ender 3 V2? Thank you in advance! Keep up the great work, guys!