new zoom stompbox

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:14 pm

mixtape wrote:Got a Zoom 505 waaaay back in the day, and it was my only pedal for years.

Ah, the memories

I still have a 507 (Reverb), it has delay and chorus as well, great pedal.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 11:35 pm

I never had a zoom multi effects. Mine was a korg ax1000g, thinkmou had one didn't you Fran?

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:05 am

Yeah I still use the Korg a lot, its like an old pair of slippers, I know it inside out.
Zoom was leading the race for a long time, only Korg truly competed to begin with and Boss was the main alternative, then Digitech came along, then Line 6.
Line 6 are n00b pedals with presets like 'the edge', 'morellolz' and whatnot.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 8:57 am

I had a Zoom 2020! My dad was still using it up until a couple of years ago to get his Hank Marvin sound!

Post by **Mike** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:25 am

It has presets you donkeys.

You can change presets easy as pie. You just sort it out ahead of time and change it between songs. Yeah it's not going to be able to do several things within one song but it can do several within a set.

The fact it does several effects at once (unlike 1) makes it actually more powerful than the M5.

Honestly it's like herding cats, is shortscale sometimes.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:20 am

Mike wrote:Honestly it's like herding cats, is shortscale sometimes.

Psss! Easy: just put a newspaper on the ground. In ten seconds they'll all be sat on it.

Thanks for clarifying Mike/All. I can see a decent use for this if the effects sound good. Would love to hear a first hand account and comparison (ROB NUDGE NUDGE WINK WINK)

Post by **Mike** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:55 am

Plenty of videos on youtube you fucking luddite

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:26 pm

Mike wrote:PROGGIE NEEDS TO BUY ONE AND REPORT BACK AND REPORT BACK ON REVERBS

Post by **Mike** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:56 pm

Ordered one today. Will give you the lowdown.

Check out clever things like LineSel - allows you to have a sound on teh Zoom with 3 effects or something and switch one or more of them in or out using the footswitch rather than just bypass/Zoom.

It's a well thought out box.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:33 pm

Yep, that looks fucking class. Loving that. I wouldn't be touching the distortion models when playing through an amp, but I love them for playing on my own with headphones, so pretty much every part of this would get used.

Probably going to order one later.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:35 pm

(Also love those little pictures; very guitargeek. Is that how they look on the pedal itself?)

Post by **Mike** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:07 pm

Yup, it's got a single colour display so that's what they look like

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:09 pm

Chrikey, that is a LOAD of things to play with. The reason Iâ€™m circling this pedal is that I could go buy a Behringer reverb machine, and an EQ pedal and come out about 70 quid â€“ more if I want the MXR 108â€¦. This is a killer price that will do reverb and EQâ€¦and then a million other things too. I can even do octave down for rough and ready basslines when jamming into a looper (which I donâ€™t have yet either).

Mostly though I want the DS-1 sim

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:18 pm

Mike wrote:It has presets you donkeys.

You can change presets easy as pie. You just sort it out ahead of time and change it between songs.

Obviously.

The distortion models on the Digitech RP's are shite imo, I wonder how these fair. Still worth Â£75 anyway. Tempted.

Ben79 · Post by **Ben79** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:20 pm

Is nasty Chinese toy thing I don't like. (This is satirical hyperbole intended to send up the author's own uncompromising politics and takes all anti- cheap import arguments as read so as not to condescend the reader).

Post by **Mike** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:22 pm

Ben79 wrote:Is nasty Chinese toy thing I don't like.

This attitude is outdated, uninformed and racist. You know where the shoddiest stuff is engineered these days? The Western world.

Fran I saw some stuff with the RAT sim and it sounded pretty ace.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:25 pm

Ben79 wrote:Is nasty Chinese toy thing I don't like.

The chinese have made practically everything you've purchased for the last 30 years - this sounds like nonsense to me.
I admit, I'm not hot on the idea of digital multi FX but I'm not really looking at this to chase my ideal WOMANTONE or whatever - just a tool to muck around with that covers a lot of bedroom needs (missus) for not a lot of cash..

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:28 pm

Mike wrote:This attitude is outdated, uninformed and racist. You know where the shoddiest stuff is engineered these days? The Western world.

Agreed on all points. Shit Ben, have you ever even owned a Ford vehicle?

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:34 pm

I think Ben was trolling in the style of a Harmony Central/7stringguitar/The Gear Page/Ultimate Guitar/fuckoffsetguitars noob.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 04, 2012 5:30 pm

ekwatts wrote:I think Ben was trolling in the style of a Harmony Central/7stringguitar/The Gear Page/Ultimate Guitar/fuckoffsetguitars noob.

Ahhh you could be right thar