Well hallelujah! At last, someone who explains to the novice how to set the damn thing up. Bought one of these a while back and began to lose the will to live after repeated attempts to use it by following the manual. Aha I thought, there must be lots of internet clips to explain the setup. But what do I find? - oogles of guitarists eager to demonstrate it, but not a hint to the practicalities of using it. It seems they don’t understand that I’m not interested in their ego boosting riffs, or in fact the actual sounds because they are what I want to explore myself. Fortunately I found this just as Ebay was beckoning, so thanks for understanding what first time buyers want.
Amen to your comment. The manual that comes with the pedal is just about useless, as our most of the "demo" videos. But Randy provided exactly what I was looking for--how to start from scratch. Thanks!
I bought the MS70.... Couldn't figure it out... The manual is in micro print... And even with no line bifocals, still had to use a magnifier ...got Frustrated with it and just put it up is up for one of these days... The only thing that I noticed that I really liked about the pedal since I could figure the damn thing out... Was that it ran on 2 Double-A batteries... 1st time seeing that 1... Wish more did... Did not even know this one was out... Before I bought the one I have... I would have bought this instead...
AT LAST! a demo of this pedal without screaming distorsion! - i am a jazzmusician by heart, but scince i retired , i do play various, going to hook this up to my keyboards -- i have ordered one used, had to pay 50euros but what i have heard, and seen , its worth it! thanks for a good demo!
Great video tutorial, I recently purchased one of these, and was having such a hard time understanding the directions that I was almost ready to return it. After watching your video, I am positive this will work for what I am trying to replace (Multi effects processor floor unit) without missing a beat. Thanks again!
I can't say enough good things about this pedal! for a guitarist that likes to experiment, have fun, and all that stuff, lol, it is a great pedal. I always say with less expensive pedals, to balance it out with some good ones, plus a good amp (or 2, I play through 2) and a decent guitar, and most pedals will sound pretty good. this pedal is so great for the delays, reverbs and mods like the MONOSYNTH, and the sequence filter sounds, plus it has the slicer sound. THEN when you use it through a USB, you can get like 40 more effects to add, giving you almost 150 or so sounds on one pedal! you need to use this pedal for a week or two, figure out what sounds you don't like on the pedal, then it makes it easier to take those off and add different ones.
I own Zoom G5 but I never thought that MS50G is far easier to set up and modify especially when you are in hurry on stage. The Zoom G5 has 4 screens but it does not categorise effects, so you have to painlessly scroll ups and downs. I am gonna have this soon! Thank you for this great tutorial.
This video helps show off some of its versitality. I know it packs a powerful distortion,but it calms right down to jazz and acoustic. That was a real ear catcher to me. Good demo video.
When you pick a category on the pedal, it starts with the first type of pedal in that category. As long as you arrow UP you go through that category of pedals. He's right, though, if you keep pressing you'll eventually loop around to the other pedals. The category selection is more of a "jump to that place in the list" rather than "a category all on its own of just those pedals".
If you are still around, is there anyway you can share your organ patch? No matter what I do, I can’t get an organ patch to sound like that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Michael.
Thanks for that - as a jazzer myself, I love your taste in patch creation - your approach was, simple, logical and organised - you're obviously an experienced teacher.
Excellent Sir..So this could be a nice ambient blues pedal all in one. ? I was looking at the g3xn, gt1, gt 100 or Mooer Ge 200. I'm lost man. This is much cheaper smaller and sounds lush.
Great video. Thanks..superb sounding pedal! Big shame you can't use it live switching between let's say a clean and dirty patch and back when playing songs y know. Missed opportunity from Zoom really. Cheers, well done video really.
Zoom, give Randy a job explaining your products. How many people have discarded their MS50G because the manual is so poor? Mine almost went in the bin. It is a great product but needs explaining properly. I bought a Line 6 M5 because I didn’t know how to operate the MS50G but it isn’t as good as the Zoom. Thanks Randy.
This is very helpful. I sold mine because the interface (and manual) didn’t make sense. I’m selling my expensive gear to fund new stuff but going back to this pedal. It sounds great. This will no doubt help me in my journey.
nice show of functions! I can't tell from manual but can you turn on/off the full chained patches with your foot for live gigs, or does it just scroll through patches?
Hey, just a quick question i see that all the settings are back to normal when adding them in a new pedal chain, are they always normal eq or do they once sett stay that way on all the chains a specific pedal is used?
my primary interest is not the functionalities but the quality of the sounds this is the third demo video I have trued to watch the first was a painful experience of some bloke trying to sound like a cross between Satriani Hendrix and Van Halen and ended up sounding like mashed potatoes on steroids
hey Randy, Nice video. Does the graphic EQ icon reflect the actual settings or is it just a picture? Like, if you change your EQ does the picture show the new setting? These things are awesome for the cost, especially since they are discontinued- they are dirt cheap. I have 2 in the family - an MS50G and an MS100BT. one in the loop and one in the front of the amp.
musacman57 Yes! Can anyone answer this? The button pressing was offscreen so we didn't see what was pressed to move between A to B to C and so on. Did you press the directional buttons left and right to move between these letters? Does this mean you have to hunch down to the floor and use your hands to switch between your saved patches?
@@marianometalful You can scroll through patches A - ? then they start over again. Or set up a patch with the Line Select 15:58 to instantly select between two effects within one patch. Then again you could get down on your knees and start searching around the effects. ; )
Have a few yes/no questions... 1. Once you set up your patches with A, B, C, etc., is there any way to skip from A to C, or G -- do you have to scroll through each patch to get back to the beginning (A)? 2. If you modify a programmed patch, should you save it as another name so the programmed patch is unaltered? 3. Seems like to begin with, I will use prgrammed patches and tag only a few -- A, B, C, so that switching time between them while playing is held to a minimum. Is this good direction? thanks for the video -- best one I have found.
1. No. A-> B-> C no jumping the order 2. There is a config setting that, by default, saves any changes as soon as you go back to the main screen. You can turn this off, and then if you want to save the change, press the left button to save the patch. 3. That is your only option to switch.
It's true that there's no jumping A, B, C but after C it then goes back to A,B,C and so on so if you've only got 4 or 5 patches alphabetically labelled you're never too far away. You can always copy a patch further down the line and then label it accordingly - so A can be copied and the copy can then be any alpha letter. Not easy to explain but I hope this makes sense.
If you only have A & B it will go back to A after B but if you have A, B & C it will go to C. It's OK if you use an effect per song because you could just click through C and the next patch is A again, but if you're changing effects mid-song its a problem. It's a great pedal though - I find the effects much better than my Boss GT-8.
You have to delete the pedals one at a time and then rename the patch. Or you can download ToneLib Zoom and it will connect to the pedal via USB and you can edit from a computer or tablet (android only, I think).
I wish to use this as a simple stomp box. Can you show me or tell me how to create a patch (add effects) for the 6 effects that I will use the most. I want to use the cursers to scroll between the 6, but I want to use the middle button as a on/off switch for each effect. I can't make heads or tails out of the manual. I believe the first patch in the chain has to be the "line select" so that leaves me with 5 actual effects that I can use. Thank You
You cannot change the buttons functions. You CAN turn off an individual effect in the chain by using the big silver foot switch. But you have to 'select' the effect with the left/right buttons.
Thanks Yeager, I understand that. I read where it is possible to select 5 or 6 effects of your favorite effects and put them in a patch so you wouldn't have to scroll through the entire list (50) to get to what you want. Then use the curser buttons to move between the 6 and use the center button to turn them on/off.
can you switch off more than one effect at the same time in the same patch?? i mean, if i have a patch with 4 effects, lets say, 1 reverb, 1 eq, 1 delay, 1 disto. Can i set it so when i press the foot switch it only turn off the reverb AND the delay at the same time (not only the reverb). Can i do that or you could only turn off the effect is shown on the screen?
Ricci Moon there’s an effect called ‘line selector’... put this in your chain and everything after it can then be toggled on and off simultaneously with foorswitch. That’s one way to do it, assuming that this allows you to place the effects in the order you need. The other way would be to have two different patches (one with and one without the pedals you need ) and use the switch to toggle between them.
Anybody who ever performed live show should know, it will be used A, B (and maybe C) patch. More than that, is too risky to get lost, if you perform live. But anyway great unit and good video.
Well hallelujah! At last, someone who explains to the novice how to set the damn thing up. Bought one of these a while back and began to lose the will to live after repeated attempts to use it by following the manual. Aha I thought, there must be lots of internet clips to explain the setup. But what do I find? - oogles of guitarists eager to demonstrate it, but not a hint to the practicalities of using it. It seems they don’t understand that I’m not interested in their ego boosting riffs, or in fact the actual sounds because they are what I want to explore myself. Fortunately I found this just as Ebay was beckoning, so thanks for understanding what first time buyers want.
Fully agree
Amen to your comment. The manual that comes with the pedal is just about useless, as our most of the "demo" videos. But Randy provided exactly what I was looking for--how to start from scratch. Thanks!
I bought the MS70.... Couldn't figure it out... The manual is in micro print... And even with no line bifocals, still had to use a magnifier ...got Frustrated with it and just put it up is up for one of these days... The only thing that I noticed that I really liked about the pedal since I could figure the damn thing out... Was that it ran on 2 Double-A batteries... 1st time seeing that 1... Wish more did... Did not even know this one was out... Before I bought the one I have... I would have bought this instead...
Could not that is...
Absolutely superb video tutorial on this unit.
Great sounds and camera work.
This Pedal is part of my
light/flight/travel rig.
Randy thank you!
Thanks Randy that is the best tutorial on this pedal that I've seen so far!
AT LAST! a demo of this pedal without screaming distorsion! - i am a jazzmusician by heart, but scince i retired , i do play various, going to hook this up to my keyboards -- i have ordered one used, had to pay 50euros but what i have heard, and seen , its worth it! thanks for a good demo!
Thanks for this! Zoom should really have their own videos like this.
Why didn't zoom make a video like this??? Great job.
They don't want to sell
How can i give like 50000 likes for this vid? This answered all my questions about this pedal.
Great video tutorial, I recently purchased one of these, and was having such a hard time understanding the directions that I was almost ready to return it. After watching your video, I am positive this will work for what I am trying to replace (Multi effects processor floor unit) without missing a beat. Thanks again!
Awesome. Thank you so much, Randy. I found the manual hard to understand. You made it seem so easy to use. Thank you. You're a legend brother. :)
Your Strymon effect was something I would like to use.
Are you happy to share the effects list for your Strymon patch?
Many thanks 🎶
I can't say enough good things about this pedal! for a guitarist that likes to experiment, have fun, and all that stuff, lol, it is a great pedal. I always say with less expensive pedals, to balance it out with some good ones, plus a good amp (or 2, I play through 2) and a decent guitar, and most pedals will sound pretty good. this pedal is so great for the delays, reverbs and mods like the MONOSYNTH, and the sequence filter sounds, plus it has the slicer sound. THEN when you use it through a USB, you can get like 40 more effects to add, giving you almost 150 or so sounds on one pedal! you need to use this pedal for a week or two, figure out what sounds you don't like on the pedal, then it makes it easier to take those off and add different ones.
Excellent tutorial! Adding this pedal to my harmonica pedal board.
I own Zoom G5 but I never thought that MS50G is far easier to set up and modify especially when you are in hurry on stage. The Zoom G5 has 4 screens but it does not categorise effects, so you have to painlessly scroll ups and downs. I am gonna have this soon! Thank you for this great tutorial.
I’ve used these pedals extensively live with good results, excellent presentation👍
Just bought mine yesterday. I will turn it on for the first time today. :)
Thanks for the walk through! I like your choice of sounds and playing too!
Thanks man. I bought this as a backup to my pod but never really learned how to program it. I didnt realize how useful this thing is.
Very comprehensive video! There is another useful feature though where you can move effects 1 - 6 around in any order.
At last, I followed this and I had my MS50G working last night.
This video helps show off some of its versitality. I know it packs a powerful distortion,but it calms right down to jazz and acoustic. That was a real ear catcher to me. Good demo video.
I bought all 3 of these. They are the single best multi fx pedals ever made.
Very helpful and articulate explanation, much appreciated and worth at least 2 thumbs up!
When you pick a category on the pedal, it starts with the first type of pedal in that category. As long as you arrow UP you go through that category of pedals. He's right, though, if you keep pressing you'll eventually loop around to the other pedals. The category selection is more of a "jump to that place in the list" rather than "a category all on its own of just those pedals".
I always fond it weird that you have to scroll up after selecting the category. It feels rather unintuitive.
Excellent vid! Really helped, appreciate you doing it.
Thank you sir! Beautiful quick start guide.
If you are still around, is there anyway you can share your organ patch? No matter what I do, I can’t get an organ patch to sound like that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Michael.
Thanks for I had made the mistake of storing mine away, you have inspired me to get it out and tinker.
The demo I was looking for you made a lovely job thanks Randy
Brilliant tutorial. Had my MS50g for about 6 years but never understood it until now. Thanks
How do you jump from D to A directly. ??
Thanks for that - as a jazzer myself, I love your taste in patch creation - your approach was, simple, logical and organised - you're obviously an experienced teacher.
Great demo! And I like the sounds too, especially the Strymon!
Thanks Randy, this was great, and very helpful!
Just bought this lil beast last week. Killer
Excellent Sir..So this could be a nice ambient blues pedal all in one. ? I was looking at the g3xn, gt1, gt 100 or Mooer Ge 200. I'm lost man. This is much cheaper smaller and sounds lush.
Stil good in 2024, just bought this thing to use with an H4N
Your AcousticVB sounds great! I like it so much!
Could you tell me the chian and parameters?Thank you very much!
Exellent job.simple and clear.thank you
Thanks for the demo. Just got one & this video is a great help.
So are you using this with a DAW type setup or are you going straight into the front end of an amplifier?
Great video. Thanks..superb sounding pedal!
Big shame you can't use it live switching between let's say a clean and dirty patch and back when playing songs y know. Missed opportunity from Zoom really.
Cheers, well done video really.
*where are the cables connected? I can see theres cable attached on left and right*
Really appreciate this bro. Just bought one second hand.. How did you get that Strymon 1 sound man?. It's awesome!!!
Zoom, give Randy a job explaining your products. How many people have discarded their MS50G because the manual is so poor? Mine almost went in the bin. It is a great product but needs explaining properly. I bought a Line 6 M5 because I didn’t know how to operate the MS50G but it isn’t as good as the Zoom. Thanks Randy.
This is very helpful. I sold mine because the interface (and manual) didn’t make sense. I’m selling my expensive gear to fund new stuff but going back to this pedal. It sounds great. This will no doubt help me in my journey.
Great and kind explanation
Haaaaa! Duuude, Nice comping at 13:48! I was rocking out lol. Where can I hear more of your funk/bop guitar playing?
This is so helpful! Thank you so much.
nice show of functions! I can't tell from manual but can you turn on/off the full chained patches with your foot for live gigs, or does it just scroll through patches?
Why would my multistomp not be able to send out a voice? Did I push a wrong setting?
Excelente explicacion del pedal.Muchas Gracias!
Could you do a video just like this one, but using the ZOOM MS-70CDR, or is it the same?
Thanks.
yeah it's exactly the same!
Thank you. I needed this.
Hey, just a quick question i see that all the settings are back to normal when adding them in a new pedal chain, are they always normal eq or do they once sett stay that way on all the chains a specific pedal is used?
Thank you for taking the time to do this
my primary interest is not the functionalities but the quality of the sounds
this is the third demo video I have trued to watch
the first was a painful experience of some bloke trying to sound like a cross between Satriani Hendrix and Van Halen and ended up sounding like mashed potatoes on steroids
Awesome instruction!
You defined sharing! its benefits all of us. 👌
hey Randy, Nice video. Does the graphic EQ icon reflect the actual settings or is it just a picture? Like, if you change your EQ does the picture show the new setting? These things are awesome for the cost, especially since they are discontinued- they are dirt cheap. I have 2 in the family - an MS50G and an MS100BT. one in the loop and one in the front of the amp.
does any one know ...how to open the patch list window in latest zoom ms50g plus ...looks like they got rid of this feature ?
Great review. Would never have used Ensemble or ModDelay until I saw your vid as the standard settings don't appeal to me.
Does the other cable inserted on the R output means that it is inserted on the effects return on the back of your amp?
Nice video, a lot of infos, i’m getting this pedal. Only 180$ in Canada, pretty cheap.
Çıkışta tek kablo kullansak olurmu.?
Great demo man. thanks for doing this. Cheers.
So what button do you push to scroll threw A,B,C, etc on stage
musacman57
Yes! Can anyone answer this? The button pressing was offscreen so we didn't see what was pressed to move between A to B to C and so on.
Did you press the directional buttons left and right to move between these letters? Does this mean you have to hunch down to the floor and use your hands to switch between your saved patches?
It was the foot switch
@@theorisoe3630 Can i change to another effect on the fly? in a live situation?
@@marianometalful You can scroll through patches A - ? then they start over again. Or set up a patch with the Line Select 15:58 to instantly select between two effects within one patch. Then again you could get down on your knees and start searching around the effects. ; )
How can I set up the LINE SEL, verb & delay on one, verb on other. Thanks
great review thank you
can you have more than one of the same effect type? like two noise gates or two delays?
Ja ja c'mon cmon! ! So much sodding around eh, my old zoom G1X plays wonderfully lol 😂 best wishes to you 😂👍
Thank you. 🎸🎩
Hi! Can you make a video in making a dotted 8th delay?
Great teacher! :)
Have a few yes/no questions...
1. Once you set up your patches with A, B, C, etc., is there any way to skip from A to C, or G -- do you have to scroll through each patch to get back to the beginning (A)?
2. If you modify a programmed patch, should you save it as another name so the programmed patch is unaltered?
3. Seems like to begin with, I will use prgrammed patches and tag only a few -- A, B, C, so that switching time between them while playing is held to a minimum. Is this good direction?
thanks for the video -- best one I have found.
1. No. A-> B-> C no jumping the order
2. There is a config setting that, by default, saves any changes as soon as you go back to the main screen. You can turn this off, and then if you want to save the change, press the left button to save the patch.
3. That is your only option to switch.
How about from B we want go back to A, is it possible? Thanks.
It's true that there's no jumping A, B, C but after C it then goes back to A,B,C and so on so if you've only got 4 or 5 patches alphabetically labelled you're never too far away. You can always copy a patch further down the line and then label it accordingly - so A can be copied and the copy can then be any alpha letter. Not easy to explain but I hope this makes sense.
If you only have A & B it will go back to A after B but if you have A, B & C it will go to C. It's OK if you use an effect per song because you could just click through C and the next patch is A again, but if you're changing effects mid-song its a problem. It's a great pedal though - I find the effects much better than my Boss GT-8.
Thanks Randy
Great tutorial. Can you tell us how to delete a patch you have created?
Cheers
You have to delete the pedals one at a time and then rename the patch. Or you can download ToneLib Zoom and it will connect to the pedal via USB and you can edit from a computer or tablet (android only, I think).
Cedric Satterfield Thanks Cedric. 👍🇦🇺🐨
I wish to use this as a simple stomp box. Can you show me or tell me how to create a patch (add effects) for the 6 effects that I will use the most. I want to use the cursers to scroll between the 6, but I want to use the middle button as a on/off switch for each effect. I can't make heads or tails out of the manual. I believe the first patch in the chain has to be the "line select" so that leaves me with 5 actual effects that I can use. Thank You
You cannot change the buttons functions. You CAN turn off an individual effect in the chain by using the big silver foot switch. But you have to 'select' the effect with the left/right buttons.
Thanks Yeager, I understand that. I read where it is possible to select 5 or 6 effects of your favorite effects and put them in a patch so you wouldn't have to scroll through the entire list (50) to get to what you want. Then use the curser buttons to move between the 6 and use the center button to turn them on/off.
can you switch off more than one effect at the same time in the same patch?? i mean, if i have a patch with 4 effects, lets say, 1 reverb, 1 eq, 1 delay, 1 disto. Can i set it so when i press the foot switch it only turn off the reverb AND the delay at the same time (not only the reverb). Can i do that or you could only turn off the effect is shown on the screen?
Ricci Moon there’s an effect called ‘line selector’... put this in your chain and everything after it can then be toggled on and off simultaneously with foorswitch. That’s one way to do it, assuming that this allows you to place the effects in the order you need. The other way would be to have two different patches (one with and one without the pedals you need ) and use the switch to toggle between them.
thank you that was a great help
you rock thank you
Best review sir
ZOOM called, .......you’re hired👍🇨🇦🎸
what guitar is that? nice jazzy wooden tone, in your hands anyway.
How to set Octave Down?
Anybody who ever performed live show should know, it will be used A, B (and maybe C) patch. More than that, is too risky to get lost, if you perform live. But anyway great unit and good video.
thank u
This is one great sounding pedal but i had a hard time to fully understand it ..instructions booklet worthless
@Joe Guitar you can download pdfs in the zoom website
Well this confirms my suspicion. I'm stupid.
Hebert? you must be from la :)
is this a demo of sound equipment?
if so why so little sound and so much talking
Super lost!
Play 🎾.....