Much love for the Zoom pedal innovations. Gear snobs turn their noses up at these multi units unless they carry a 1k price tag or better. I enjoy my units and the Zoom multi's are fun, simple, and yet very inspiring. Don't let the snobs steal your fun and make a hobby you enjoy be about having to own the rarest, the most expensive, or most boutique gear. Use what you have and be creative so that you don't covet gear. Trying to keep up with the Jones's will kill your joy. ZOOM RULES
Multi's are also great for getting you out of your comfort zone. I've got Zooms G3x and part of my practice routine is to rotate through the pre-set patches, one per day, and just spend 15-20 minutes noodling. When you get to the last one either roll back to the start, or download some new ones.
Zoom G1xon , an inexpensive, fun to use, great sounding little box with an expression pedal. I paid $40 used, but if I had to would pay as much as $100 for a NOS. The looper is maybe good for one riff, but add the variety of awesome sounds you can get with the effects and having the ability to chain them anyway you want, this tool becomes almost priceless. I can create unique sounding rhythm and leads with this often regarded as a "toy" by the "tone snobs" and I won't loose sleep because it doesn't sound exactly like the "original" stomp box. Trent from NIN used ZOOM to establish some of his best and original sounding works. I love using some of the sounds from my 506 BASS to get thick and muffled fuzz noise . The 507 REVERB pedal is another unique jem, sure it is not a Stryman or a Space Echo but it is very useable and unique in its own right. Maybe I am different than the many but is that a bad thing? Jimi Hendrix was let loose from the Isley Bros for being too different and extreme, and I'm sure if he were still hanging on this rock he would have used different ZOOM products to get a job done. Peace out
Amen, Shawn. I often look at other pedalboards and see loads of Strymon’s and Timmy’s and Klon KTR’s and many other expensive pedals. The Zoom MS50 works very well and I use it live regularly.
This is the most underrated pedal ever. Guitarists like to chase words like analog and tubes, when they see an LCD screen and the word 'digital' irrational biases take over.
Right now, I just happen to be messing around with my Line 6 POD X3 (from 2010s) and my DigiTech RP360xp, both through a solid state amp (front and FX return) as well as through my QSC K12 powered speaker... Then I plugged into my pedalboard and tube amp... Man, I'm no snob, and I enjoy modeling technology, but something about feeling the sound, pushing the air, this stuff just can't do it. It's just a completely different deal. But it sure makes recording easier. I wish the zoom worked liked an interface.
Yeah, nothing like a variety of odd voltage and amperage values for power supplies in boutique pedals to make a person feel more manly. I loved it when my tube amp would give me a shit fit in extra humid atmospheres. Totally awesome
My pigtronix evolution pi has a 15v power supply. Great sounding pedal but can be a painful experience if someone loses the dang power cord. I am very appreciative for these Zooms. They are great in their own right and they are 9v. Sure, tube amps, vintage / handcrafted instruments and boutique pedals can deliver the tones of the pros, but what if you found one of these units being used by a pro.? Heck, I use them and I also play my gear through Roland JC and vintage Cube amps. Very durable, dependable, and sound effin great but some gearhead will post" but they don't have the warmth ". Move to Florida is my reply .
@@shawnrurodenm3640 "Warmth' is a coping strategy for people like me who fall for the hype of a pedal built in a shed by a guy who spends the profits on beard oil, because that's OBVIOUSLY going to be more reliable than a trusted production process
I use my multistomp for three things. 1. for lo-fi fx (why does anyone buy "boutique" lo-fi pedals???), 2. to audition fx that I might want to add to my sound, and 3. like you said, for fx I only use once in a while. It's terrific and it'll always have a place on my board.
honestly from what i've heard this thing is 99% up to the mark in comparison to the eventides and strymons. The thing is unless you're a gigging guitarist or someone who's going to for commercial level music production you'll probably never be able to tell the difference. Zoom is doing god's work and bringing the unattainable to us common folks
My only complain about Zoom is that they're a complete bitch to configure, some of them pedals are oddly complex in that department... However, you're quite Right that they sound great.
After watching this vid, I bought this pedal just for the "Drip reverb". After updating and adding more effect via usb, this pedal is a ton of fun and endless combos to try.
I bought mine for £70 in 2013 when I was quite broke. The most I’d spent on a pedal ever. Since then I got a better job and I think I’ve spent about £1200 on pedals and power. I’m not convinced I got much more from all them than I did from this single pedal alone. It’s comparable to my moog trem and delay. The moog drive and flange are nicer. My re20 is better than the tape delay on this, but I prefer all the other delays to my memory boy. The DM2 copy and carbon copy copy are particularly good. Once you plug any of these things into any amp on stage you’ll never know the difference. The only real difference then is in the flexibility of having separate devices under your feet.
I've had an MS-50G and MS-70CDR on my board for several years. Using both together is really fun. If you connect to a computer you can change which effects are stored on the pedal; so you can lose the amp sims and add more weird sounds, if you want.
@@theundergroundcambalache I'm not sure if you can add effects from the MS-50 to the MS-70 with the official tools, but there is another way, which is in this video: th-cam.com/video/Ul-BYkV3PSk/w-d-xo.html. I haven't tried it though.
Hey I have this pedal and find it extremely versatile for the price! When you showed the amp sims, you had the last setting was for "line out" instead of combo amp or stack etc and will make it sound a bit shrill... If you are going direct you'd want to use the line out setting for the amp sims. Also, there are more amp sims and effects available if you update the firmware.... I use this pedal on my board and just revisited the amp sims this week - previously I didn't like them, but now I do. I had to back off the output volume to unity gain (same relative volume when turning the amp sim on or off) and found them to be way more useful!
If ur thinking of buying zoom products..u have to remember, there is a learning curve ;) been using zoom since the 505 days and had the pleasure to hv acquire newer releases. Takes a while..may require lots of nerding. Zoom is awesome, versatile and deadly once u get to understand how it works. Love Zoom R8 too..packed with lots of effects for recording ur own songs.
the Multistomps are a bit fiddly simply because of their size, but pretty intuitive once you grasp it's just a virtual pedal board inside. It's far less fiddly to prepare everything from your computer by USB. With ToneLib software it's all drag and drop and you can effortlessly edit names and settings from the keyboard.
I was working in a guitar shop in late '91 or early '92 when a rep walked in with a Zoom effect box. "This is like all those rack effects here in the palm of your hand." That thing amazed me. Out of my price range at the time, but I definitely wanted one.
I used the zoom effects manager 1.1.0 to shove all kinds of zoom effects onto my ms70cdr (stereo). It's now an all-in-one stereo pedal. Best bang for the buck ever.
I did the same but it was the Zoom Effects Manager 2 - works great, I added some fuzz, drive and a couple amp models to my CDR. It's an outside entity that made the hack, brilliant. Makes the pedal so much more useful.
@@TheFlutecartnot really a hack, all Xoom Multistomp devices are effectively the same hardware with different firmwares. You can just enable any functionality from on any of them on any of them.
Appreciated your going through all the presets. Gave the opportunity to decide whether or not the pedal was something I was after. Thanks for taking the time on the video.
This video reminds me I have to update the firmware on my unit. They've added a bunch more effects since the v2.01 update (now on v3.10) I've had mine since 2014, and it's part of my little couch playing rig with a little Danelectro HoneyTone amp. Yes, the amp sounds are a bit unimpressive, but they allow you to do a little trick: play the pedal direct into the line-in on your audio interface or computer. Each amp has a choice of associated cab sim, and the cab sim offers a choice of what the pedal is connected to (front of combo, effects loop, or line). Use the Zoom clean amp model, set the cab to whatever and line output, plug, play, repeat.... is it the best direct sound ever? NO! But it will get you through in a pinch.
Thank you Ryan. It looks like this pedal can give anyone with a cheap amp most of the stuff that one gets with that Positive Grid Spark amp. For us non musicians, it may be the cat's meow for teaching an old dog new tricks.
11:42 Maybe it's because you have the output of the amp sim set to line... There's a bunch of other options better designed for sending into an amp. Having said that, the amp sims still aren't all that. But as it is you've got completely the wrong settings so of course it sounds bad. :p
I've got the MS-50G with custom firmware and honestly I use it more than my actual pedalboard with a heap of standalone pedals. It can do some very weird thing. For people looking for some "standard" sounds, you just need to spend some time tastefully dialing it in. As with all pedals there are bad settings, but often with so much available it's easy to be less vigilant and stack and stack and stack. Things then get a bit messy quickly. But I've found that with every multifx, you need to spend the time. I'd recommend it for anyone.
Plugged it into my tube amp and did some A/B with my pedalboard. Compressor was better, sweet baby and klon were amazing even comparing it to my OCD, Blues driver, and JHS soulfood, noise reduction was such a breath of fresh air also. Effects sound great. Use it as my acoustic preamp, tuner, eq, compressor a few nights a week. Constantly amazes me :)
The CDR is great! I use it a lot, in my videos as well. I just wish it had things like a mixer, output select or the option to use different effects on the left and right path.
I own 2 Zoom G5's and two G1Xon's. They are older but have about 80% of the same effects. The G1on (without expression pedal) usually goes for about $50. I learned there's a hack to import some of the newer effects into the older units. Can't wait to try that!
Love these things, still use my Zoom G1xon (same effects, + basic drum sounds, looper and tuner, plastic enclosure). Runs for 4 hours on rechargeable batteries and I can sit in the garden with headphones and noodle over the drums, you can make "music". These should be every guitarist's first "pedal", you learn what you like and don't spend a load. The sounds are lower fidelity than most pedals, but I still find myself using a 2k pedalboard to try and get some of the Zoom sounds!
Bend-Cho seems like a chorus effect with time assigned to the loudness of the input, and feedback (resonance) maxed. Chorus effect is the combination of original signal + the delayed one with the delay time cycling between two values, and the delay feedback which causes a wah/filter like sound, may be called depth on some chorus pedals. I did program what şs called Bend-Cho here, 10 years ago on my Adrenalinn unit and used to play with it for some horn-like effect.
So glad you finally did a show on this! I have 2 MS-70’s and couldn’t live without them at this point. Everything from synths to a mini rig in itself to a catch all on my main board, it does it all well. Sometimes I just use it as a noise gate and tuner. Too bad about that little digital noise in the tail of the surf spring, but it actually does sound good otherwise.
im so happy that you get your hands on this. ive been using this pedal for my direct work for almost a year now and its great. the effects and amp simulation is great. i really recommend this pedal for beginer who want to hear the different tone produce by different amp or someone who want to learn how to stack pedals. the design and the UI are easy and intuitive.
also, there should be a tons of amp sim there. you need to patch it in via software. also yeah its actually better if you use it with something with flatt eq like mixer or active speaker.
I just got a perfect used MS70cdr, and not only is it not plasticky, it doesn’t tone suck at all. Throwing my Black Bean POD HD out to CL pasture. I don’t know whether it could replace my main board, but it sounds great through a little Vox ac10 and the compressor sounds fab...the time based and mod stuff is great as a bonus.
I have played music commercially and otherwise for the last 35 years, I challenge any pro level pub goer or so called music lover to differentiate between tone and equipment, between a cheap fx unit in a chain or really expensive gear....any gear is only as capable or competent as the musician who can milk out the tone he wants from it ...I have played with my Digitech GSP's to my Axe fx to my Line 6 M13 to the two Zoom multi stomps on one of my boards...to the same audience....no body knows, notices or gives a shit....back in the day I too showed off how much stage real estate my pedal board could cover having a lot of expensive colourful and complicated pedals on then....these days I take it as a challenge to keep my board as small and effective as possible and thanks to this brilliant Zoom unit I can keep it practical and still have the same wham factor on stage....
I got a MS-60B used, just to check out what effects I might like and use for bass. Usually I don't use effects at all, but sometimes I like to fiddle around and create ambient soundscapes and stuff. Great tool to check out if effects are your cup of tea at all. It doesn't break the bank, opposite to buying tons of single effect pedals "just to try out".
It was doing the drip on our side of the mic, which is pretty neat. You don't have to pay for zoom updates. Some poeple on the internet charge for making patches, which isn't related to Zoom as a company.
When I ordered this, I didn’t realize one could assign more than one effect. I assumed it was like the one-stomp Line 6 box. That was a really nice surprise. How often does one buy a gear bit, and get it home to discover that it does much more than you expected. Zoom are great. Although their mind bending, mental illness-exacerbating efx largely make up for it, one thing L6 do have over Zoom are the several guitar synth efx! They’re not especially deep on parameters, but they’re there, and they’re not bad at all. I think I must be the only one who uses the synths included in L6 gear.
Agreed! The ZOOM G3Xn IS my pedal board and it's the perfect fit to cover everything from Herb Alpert to the Ventures! I have found that it doesn't play nice plugged directly into the Hot Rod Deluxe however. I just plug it into the power amp in and it's good to go!
I buy Zoom gear just for the bizarre efx. I can express the “real me” with them. The Zoom stomp demoed here which I had for over 10 years died, and I splurged on a G6 board. I was surprised to discover that their amp sims sound authentic now. Their amp sims used to sound so digital, I regarded them more as effects rather than amps, lol.
I fell so quickly in love with my Zoom MS70CDR that I recently got the MS50G as well to chain together. 12 effects total, both loaded to the max with almost all the available effects. Mad science experiment!
Did the same thing, was blown away by how good the 70 was, I decided to get the 50. With these 2 pedals I'm covered for anything I could imagine coming my way musically.
@@johnmcnamara6555 Honestly they both do different things better or worse. 70CDR for general effecting... 50G for setting the overall tone (distortion, overdrive, compression/EQ or amp sim)
A lot of these sound like they'd really shine even more on a monosynth . good thing mine showed up in the mail yesterday . I'll have to grab the effects manager and load up some more goodies from their other pedals .
Got one a few weeks ago. I love it! I also Velcro mine to my blackstar fly. You can also load and unload effects that you don’t use or want. The dirt effects are mostly meh. A few standouts though. The patches you can get from Reddit are really cool and easy to load from a web browser.
the dream of the tiny rig enthusiasts! I currently use a zoom G1on, which is the same as the ms50 with some extra buttons, and it's everything I will ever need. And my Behringer Wah. It's the perfect match.
Just bought a used one in near perfect condition, and it's everything I hoped for and lots more, perfect for psychedelic rock, very Tame Impala-ish mods 👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
If you repainted the box and put some interesting design/artwork on it the gear snobs would be fooled into thinking it's a custom unit and pay hundreds for it.
I have, on occasion ran the midi out of my line6 m5 into a raspberry pi and routed the midi to the zoom ms70cdr. One before the amp and one on the loop. Those two cover all the utility pedal needs.
if you're getting into the amp , the amp sim output should be on the combo front or stack front mode. It's beside the cab sim. Too bad you didn't try it.
I just keep on coming back to the Zoom over and over again. I usually play it at home with my practice amp, but it keeps on coming back to my gigging board. I'm not a fan of the interface, but the multi itself is incredibly useful whenever I take my 4W amp with neither tremolo nor reverb to low-volume gigs. I can't haul my silverface everywhere, but I still need the trem and reverb. Sometimes I even prefer the Zoom effects to the real deal. And I also find myself using other non-essential stuff like EQ, noise gate, etc. Might as well, right? Plus it can be used as backup in case the tube amp died. Screw it, I'll just get another one and put it on my main board. It's just good enough.
@@MrSpeed-lt8gr they do great reverb and stereo effects. It is carried through their older devices. I have a PS02 Palmtop Studio and I love the reverb settings. You can really dial those in with precision on time, decay, mix and a few other parameters I'm forgetting.
awesome pedal. Knobs do get in the way, so I personally took them off and trimmed the stems. Great sound quality. Perfect for your one-pedal setup. You can go straight to the front of the house, and set it up to switch between rhythm/lead sound using the one button included. Good construction, and great sound quality. No sound delay when engaging the pedal, unlike some processors.
I’ve been a Zoom FX fan pretty much since the 90s (!), when I used a 4040 for a while. I’ve been using a G1 Four on my pedalboard since 2021, but just bagged a bargain as-new MS-50G off eBay, so I thought I’d try recreating my G1 patches on it in case the MS might save me some board space. Haven’t done much sound-testing yet, but patch-editing on the pedal looks like a real chore. I definitely recommend getting Tonelib Zoom on Mac or PC: plug in the MS via USB, and you can create, edit and manage patches on the pedal far more easily. I should probably learn the MS’ controls anyway, just in case… thanks for a tour of the sonic breadth of this underrated pedal 🙏🏻 (BTW: firmware updates for the MS-50G are free 👍🏻)
Tengo el MS-70CDR, centrado en chorus, reverbs y delays, y cuando lo obtuve por primera vez supe que no necesitaria otros pedales de esos tipos, mi hermano es mas de pedales analogos y siempre, siempre, hacemos comparaciones y por mucho el MS-70CDR tiene todo lo que en todos los genereos se necesite y más. Una joya escondida, este pedal es irreal.
Thinking some more: I’m loving some of the “exotic” delays on the MS-50G. If I’m REALLY nitpicking, I’d say the one feature which would make this box just-about perfect for me: to be able to send it external tempo (tap via a pedal input, or USB MIDI), so I could sync the delays to the Disaster Area Designs micro.clock on my pedalboard. I think this pedal could still be a great addition to the lineup here…
I have this on my board along with standards like boss blues driver. But when I want to get weird, I use this. It doesn't take up room, doesn't cost a lot, sounds good and is EASY to USE!
Be careful if you buy this pedal, it's known to add a high pitched noise (around 5500 Hz apparently), even in bypass. Some people don't have this problem (or can't hear it ?) but most do, so make sure you can send it back if you do, because the noise WILL drive you crazy.
I have had the zoom ms100bt version for years, can be useful for quick and easy rehearsal situations and I played a couple small room gigs with it alone. It works, some decent effects.
bought this a few years back as a flexible fx tool-kit. didnt expect a great deal from overall but it's actually pretty damn incredible. i've AB'd a couple of pedals it has onboard with the genuine article and it really holds its ground. it's far better than it has any right to be and would have been a dream pedal back in the day. recently been enjoying it as an amp sim for DI recording - where it's stupidly flexible and sounds lovely if you do some dialling in. it's not perfect of course. there's some noise issues with certain uses... and i was a little miffed by some high pitch artifacts but those only appeared with some dialled gain patches. think i paid £80 for it new. well worth it just for flexibility alone... but it also does somethings so well its madness.
I love using this pedal to go between traditional reverb and delay and ambient settings. For ambient I use 2 delays set at 300 ms and 550 ms and I use the particle reverb. Very nice sound.
Great pedal and addition to my board...and I have some high end pedals including a Strymon Big Sky... don't dismiss this sleeper. Mine is modded to accommodate 3 button foot switch for scrolling; so easy to use and so compact.
Oh but I must add, this pedal is not durable! At least my experience... The foot switch has failed multiple times and I need to take the pedal apart to repair it... Don't let the footswitch snap back up by itself (like if your foot glances or slides off the switch) because the ring fails and the switch might get a couple feet of air! Then you have to find the spring and fish the snap-ring out of the pedal when you take it apart and put it back together. So be careful when you stomp...but I like this pedal enough to go through the trouble of repairing it several times now if that says anything. It's got s ton of useable effects
I've used a Zoom G3 for years. It's got so many sounds in it you can find useful tones if you work for it. Basically it seems the same as the multi stomp.
Hey, I've watched your video a few times. Thanks for such a through run down of the Zoom. I'm still learning this box...all the sounds you played are pretty stellar in my opinion. Thanks again!
I bought one of these a couple years back when I decided I wanted some sounds my 15-year old Johnson J-Station wasn't delivering. It's kinda the swiss army knife of pedals- it's got pretty much every kind of sound you might want in a pinch, even if some of them aren't the best, they'll get you by. I love the big reverbs it can do, but I don't like its pitch shifting patches. Love the description of it as a chocolates sampler box - you get to try out all sorts of different sounds to find out what you like and what you don't. Do I like Rats? What about Big Muffs? I've probably bought more pedals later after trying them out as patches on this thing....
Even though your j-station is a bit dated I wouldn't just toss it away. I have a friend who used a millennium amp from Johnson and it had some cool and expressive unique quality's. One of my regrets was loosing my ART RULESBREAKER 830 amplifier. Sure it could be noisy at times but it's individual charm made up for what I thought it lacked. Other than that, I'm a fan of the Zoom line of effects and recording gear
@@shawnrurodenm3640 Oh, I'm not giving up the J-Station any time soon... it still has some good sounds, and makes a great stereo headphone amp for playing in the wee hours. I just needed a little more, and the MS-50G was a great start on that!
Youre very straight and positive! cheap or costly gear, youre honest about , and give your opinion, like that a lot! Im a big fan of ZOOM G2s, got 6 of them: for example my tone liking is now more into Jazzy things, so I just changed from a clean patch to a Fender Clean setting( Fender Twin 65...), which I younger thought was too dark or sumthin...! and so didnt have to buy a Fender sounding pedal! and the Fender Combo in this ZOOM 50 sounds just perfect! thinkin about getting this Z50, cause the G2s been discontinued long ago, and this has multiple parameters to EQ my tone: really the Fender Combo sounds soo good in many videos!!! there are whole amps( that use some or other kinda modelling, and fall short of getting it to ones liking..., lately I listened to the Blackstar Debut 50r, but theres sumthin thin and tinny about the voicing, MAYBE a speaker change, but luckily I got 2 good trans amps: Fender Stage 100 and Harley Benton Mosfet Lead 65, so Im covered! at home I just play thru Fender Frontman 10Gs, quite enough on my bookshelf! Ha Ha! sorry bout this rant, Im playing 300€ Yamaha Pacificas, but with right pedals 100€ or less they sound very good to me! Happy Playing evrybooty! Cheers, Kimmo
I had the Zoom B1 Four for bass. Honestly I love it with one major exception. It had no on/off switch. You had to reach down and plug it in to turn it on or off. I know that sounds minor but it annoyed the piss out of me and I sold it.
Very, very few pedals have on/off switches, including the A-listers. In fact, I don't think a single pedal I own has one and I can't think of one I don't own that has one. Even if they did, their power bricks would remain powered up, so you're always better off unplugging or having a switched power extension block.
Cool! It's got some stuff that my PS02 Palmtop Studio has. It sounds less digital than mine, so they did improve the tone. I need one of these. I have the octave shifts and ring modulator on it, too.
Well, I can see why it stayed in the house lol ! My old zoom G1X which I bought from a cash converters store for 5 English pounds has given me a lot of good sounds with careful editing and to be able to store the edits is great tho I am looking at Strymon effects, I hope you can find something useable in that pedal. 😂😂😂 Best wishes to you. 😁👍
I think it's an ingenious pedal. To make it the size it is, it's great! You should build a board where you have like 8 of these, each dedicated to a particular pedal function. Would that many pedals degrade the sound? Hmm...
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0:00 Octave
0:07 Reverse Delay
0:11 Alien
0:14 Stereo Chorus
0:15 Trigger Hold Delay
0:21 Space hole!
0:24 cry
0:28 spring 63 reverb?
05:06 BG Throttle
05:25 smooth delay
07:25 bendcho
07:40 reverse delay
07:58 autowah
08:10 particle reverb
09:27 filter delay
09:52 built in tuner
10:36 centa gold
11:31 tangerine amp
12:07 b breaker amp
12:10 alien amp
12:30 slicer
12:35 phaser
12:40 duophase
12:48 warp phase
12:53 the vibe
13:13 chorus
13:24 detune
13:30 vintage ce
13:40 stereo chorus
14:16 ensemble
14:19 superchoruse
14:22 vin flanger
14:33 flanger
14:35 vibrato
14:46 octave
15:40 pitch shift
15:44 mono pitch
15:51 hps
15:59 bend cho
16:56 mojo roller
17:29 ring mod
18:21 ce cho5
18:24 clone chorus
18:34 stone phaser
18:43 bf flg2
18:47 silky chorus
18:50 mirage chorts
18:55 ana 234 chor
19:00 corona tri
19:09 bitcrush
19:14 bomber
20:21 mono synth
20:58 zorgan
21:03 auto pan
21:57 roto closet
22:15 Delay (Balloons)
22:48 Tape echo
23:15 Mod delay
23:21 Analog delay
23:28 Reverse delay
23:35 Multi tap delay
23:48 Dyna Delay
23:58 filter delay
24:07 pitch delay
24:58 Stereo delay
25:15 phase delay
25:30 Trigger Hold Delay
26:27 stomp delay
26:31 tape echo 3
26:34 dual digital delay
26:41 carbon delay
26:44 drive echo
26:55 slapback delay
27:05 smooth delay
27:13 lodi delay
27:17 slow attack dfelay
27:28 tremolo dela
27:38 filter pp delay
27:54 autopan delay
28:24 ice delay
28:34 hd hall
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Much love for the Zoom pedal innovations. Gear snobs turn their noses up at these multi units unless they carry a 1k price tag or better. I enjoy my units and the Zoom multi's are fun, simple, and yet very inspiring. Don't let the snobs steal your fun and make a hobby you enjoy be about having to own the rarest, the most expensive, or most boutique gear. Use what you have and be creative so that you don't covet gear. Trying to keep up with the Jones's will kill your joy. ZOOM RULES
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Multi's are also great for getting you out of your comfort zone. I've got Zooms G3x and part of my practice routine is to rotate through the pre-set patches, one per day, and just spend 15-20 minutes noodling. When you get to the last one either roll back to the start, or download some new ones.
Zoom G1xon , an inexpensive, fun to use, great sounding little box with an expression pedal. I paid $40 used, but if I had to would pay as much as $100 for a NOS. The looper is maybe good for one riff, but add the variety of awesome sounds you can get with the effects and having the ability to chain them anyway you want, this tool becomes almost priceless.
I can create unique sounding rhythm and leads with this often regarded as a "toy" by the "tone snobs" and I won't loose sleep because it doesn't sound exactly like the "original" stomp box. Trent from NIN used ZOOM to establish some of his best and original sounding works. I love using some of the sounds from my 506 BASS to get thick and muffled fuzz noise . The 507 REVERB pedal is another unique jem, sure it is not a Stryman or a Space Echo but it is very useable and unique in its own right. Maybe I am different than the many but is that a bad thing? Jimi Hendrix was let loose from the Isley Bros for being too different and extreme, and I'm sure if he were still hanging on this rock he would have used different ZOOM products to get a job done. Peace out
My first was a Zoom GFX-707. Had an expression pedal, drum machine and 7sec looper and was a lot of fun! I used it for years until it stopped working
Amen, Shawn. I often look at other pedalboards and see loads of Strymon’s and Timmy’s and Klon KTR’s and many other expensive pedals. The Zoom MS50 works very well and I use it live regularly.
This is the most underrated pedal ever. Guitarists like to chase words like analog and tubes, when they see an LCD screen and the word 'digital' irrational biases take over.
Right now, I just happen to be messing around with my Line 6 POD X3 (from 2010s) and my DigiTech RP360xp, both through a solid state amp (front and FX return) as well as through my QSC K12 powered speaker... Then I plugged into my pedalboard and tube amp... Man, I'm no snob, and I enjoy modeling technology, but something about feeling the sound, pushing the air, this stuff just can't do it. It's just a completely different deal. But it sure makes recording easier. I wish the zoom worked liked an interface.
Yeah, nothing like a variety of odd voltage and amperage values for power supplies in boutique pedals to make a person feel more manly. I loved it when my tube amp would give me a shit fit in extra humid atmospheres. Totally awesome
My pigtronix evolution pi has a 15v power supply. Great sounding pedal but can be a painful experience if someone loses the dang power cord. I am very appreciative for these Zooms. They are great in their own right and they are 9v. Sure, tube amps, vintage / handcrafted instruments and boutique pedals can deliver the tones of the pros, but what if you found one of these units being used by a pro.? Heck, I use them and I also play my gear through Roland JC and vintage Cube amps.
Very durable, dependable, and sound effin great but some gearhead will post" but they don't have the warmth ". Move to Florida is my reply .
Unless the pedal says Strymon on it 😂🤣
@@shawnrurodenm3640 "Warmth' is a coping strategy for people like me who fall for the hype of a pedal built in a shed by a guy who spends the profits on beard oil, because that's OBVIOUSLY going to be more reliable than a trusted production process
I use my multistomp for three things. 1. for lo-fi fx (why does anyone buy "boutique" lo-fi pedals???), 2. to audition fx that I might want to add to my sound, and 3. like you said, for fx I only use once in a while. It's terrific and it'll always have a place on my board.
honestly from what i've heard this thing is 99% up to the mark in comparison to the eventides and strymons. The thing is unless you're a gigging guitarist or someone who's going to for commercial level music production you'll probably never be able to tell the difference. Zoom is doing god's work and bringing the unattainable to us common folks
My only complain about Zoom is that they're a complete bitch to configure, some of them pedals are oddly complex in that department... However, you're quite Right that they sound great.
Updates are free and I LOVE my MS 50G for the reverbs, delays and just to fill gaps in my pedalboard, like a compressor and noise gate.
I’ve had this pedal for years, shoegazers dream honestly
This shoegazer just got one, it's so wild! I want 2! 😂
This or the cdr for gazers?
@@cammac66 only get the cdr if you want stereo inputs.
After watching this vid, I bought this pedal just for the "Drip reverb". After updating and adding more effect via usb, this pedal is a ton of fun and endless combos to try.
I bought mine for £70 in 2013 when I was quite broke. The most I’d spent on a pedal ever. Since then I got a better job and I think I’ve spent about £1200 on pedals and power. I’m not convinced I got much more from all them than I did from this single pedal alone.
It’s comparable to my moog trem and delay. The moog drive and flange are nicer. My re20 is better than the tape delay on this, but I prefer all the other delays to my memory boy. The DM2 copy and carbon copy copy are particularly good.
Once you plug any of these things into any amp on stage you’ll never know the difference. The only real difference then is in the flexibility of having separate devices under your feet.
Just got this for Christmas, and as a guitarist taking his first step towards effects and finding his "tone" this little gadget is wonderful.
Between my Zoom G1xon and the Katana 50's built-in effects, I have everything I need. For tone vs. cost, it's hard to beat Zoom.
I've had an MS-50G and MS-70CDR on my board for several years. Using both together is really fun. If you connect to a computer you can change which effects are stored on the pedal; so you can lose the amp sims and add more weird sounds, if you want.
Can you add to the MS-70CDR all the effects from the 50G that it doesn't have? (Which I think it's just the overdrives?)
@@theundergroundcambalache I'm not sure if you can add effects from the MS-50 to the MS-70 with the official tools, but there is another way, which is in this video:
th-cam.com/video/Ul-BYkV3PSk/w-d-xo.html.
I haven't tried it though.
Hey I have this pedal and find it extremely versatile for the price! When you showed the amp sims, you had the last setting was for "line out" instead of combo amp or stack etc and will make it sound a bit shrill... If you are going direct you'd want to use the line out setting for the amp sims. Also, there are more amp sims and effects available if you update the firmware.... I use this pedal on my board and just revisited the amp sims this week - previously I didn't like them, but now I do. I had to back off the output volume to unity gain (same relative volume when turning the amp sim on or off) and found them to be way more useful!
Stoner i see what you did there
Can you turn off the amp and cabs and only use the fxs? or should i get the zoom pedal that only has fxs ?
If ur thinking of buying zoom products..u have to remember, there is a learning curve ;) been using zoom since the 505 days and had the pleasure to hv acquire newer releases. Takes a while..may require lots of nerding. Zoom is awesome, versatile and deadly once u get to understand how it works. Love Zoom R8 too..packed with lots of effects for recording ur own songs.
the Multistomps are a bit fiddly simply because of their size, but pretty intuitive once you grasp it's just a virtual pedal board inside. It's far less fiddly to prepare everything from your computer by USB.
With ToneLib software it's all drag and drop and you can effortlessly edit names and settings from the keyboard.
I was working in a guitar shop in late '91 or early '92 when a rep walked in with a Zoom effect box. "This is like all those rack effects here in the palm of your hand." That thing amazed me. Out of my price range at the time, but I definitely wanted one.
I used the zoom effects manager 1.1.0 to shove all kinds of zoom effects onto my ms70cdr (stereo). It's now an all-in-one stereo pedal. Best bang for the buck ever.
I did the same but it was the Zoom Effects Manager 2 - works great, I added some fuzz, drive and a couple amp models to my CDR. It's an outside entity that made the hack, brilliant. Makes the pedal so much more useful.
@@TheFlutecartnot really a hack, all Xoom Multistomp devices are effectively the same hardware with different firmwares. You can just enable any functionality from on any of them on any of them.
Appreciated your going through all the presets. Gave the opportunity to decide whether or not the pedal was something I was after. Thanks for taking the time on the video.
This video reminds me I have to update the firmware on my unit. They've added a bunch more effects since the v2.01 update (now on v3.10)
I've had mine since 2014, and it's part of my little couch playing rig with a little Danelectro HoneyTone amp.
Yes, the amp sounds are a bit unimpressive, but they allow you to do a little trick: play the pedal direct into the line-in on your audio interface or computer. Each amp has a choice of associated cab sim, and the cab sim offers a choice of what the pedal is connected to (front of combo, effects loop, or line). Use the Zoom clean amp model, set the cab to whatever and line output, plug, play, repeat.... is it the best direct sound ever? NO! But it will get you through in a pinch.
im using my G3 for preamp, with Seacow cabs IR loader. Make them sound a lot better compare to built in cabs. You can give them a try if u want.
Love my Zoom pedals! An entire board in two pedals 😎
Lovin those surf settings. That's the kind of sounds I like not standard metal. Great sounding pedal for the price.
Thank you Ryan. It looks like this pedal can give anyone with a cheap amp most of the stuff that one gets with that Positive Grid Spark amp. For us non musicians, it may be the cat's meow for teaching an old dog new tricks.
11:42 Maybe it's because you have the output of the amp sim set to line... There's a bunch of other options better designed for sending into an amp. Having said that, the amp sims still aren't all that. But as it is you've got completely the wrong settings so of course it sounds bad. :p
I've got the MS-50G with custom firmware and honestly I use it more than my actual pedalboard with a heap of standalone pedals.
It can do some very weird thing. For people looking for some "standard" sounds, you just need to spend some time tastefully dialing it in. As with all pedals there are bad settings, but often with so much available it's easy to be less vigilant and stack and stack and stack. Things then get a bit messy quickly. But I've found that with every multifx, you need to spend the time.
I'd recommend it for anyone.
Plugged it into my tube amp and did some A/B with my pedalboard.
Compressor was better, sweet baby and klon were amazing even comparing it to my OCD, Blues driver, and JHS soulfood, noise reduction was such a breath of fresh air also. Effects sound great.
Use it as my acoustic preamp, tuner, eq, compressor a few nights a week.
Constantly amazes me :)
I have the ms70 cdr on my main board, great utility pedal.
Same here. Love the CDR!
The CDR is great! I use it a lot, in my videos as well. I just wish it had things like a mixer, output select or the option to use different effects on the left and right path.
@@DIYguitarGuy you CAN get a mixer on it believe it or not and so much more, just search zoom ms hack
@@GabrielC_grv Yeah I didn't knew at the time but I'm well aware now, still have to try it though
Wait, mixer? How does that work?
I own 2 Zoom G5's and two G1Xon's. They are older but have about 80% of the same effects. The G1on (without expression pedal) usually goes for about $50. I learned there's a hack to import some of the newer effects into the older units. Can't wait to try that!
Love these things, still use my Zoom G1xon (same effects, + basic drum sounds, looper and tuner, plastic enclosure). Runs for 4 hours on rechargeable batteries and I can sit in the garden with headphones and noodle over the drums, you can make "music". These should be every guitarist's first "pedal", you learn what you like and don't spend a load. The sounds are lower fidelity than most pedals, but I still find myself using a 2k pedalboard to try and get some of the Zoom sounds!
Bend-Cho seems like a chorus effect with time assigned to the loudness of the input, and feedback (resonance) maxed. Chorus effect is the combination of original signal + the delayed one with the delay time cycling between two values, and the delay feedback which causes a wah/filter like sound, may be called depth on some chorus pedals. I did program what şs called Bend-Cho here, 10 years ago on my Adrenalinn unit and used to play with it for some horn-like effect.
So glad you finally did a show on this! I have 2 MS-70’s and couldn’t live without them at this point. Everything from synths to a mini rig in itself to a catch all on my main board, it does it all well. Sometimes I just use it as a noise gate and tuner. Too bad about that little digital noise in the tail of the surf spring, but it actually does sound good otherwise.
im so happy that you get your hands on this. ive been using this pedal for my direct work for almost a year now and its great. the effects and amp simulation is great. i really recommend this pedal for beginer who want to hear the different tone produce by different amp or someone who want to learn how to stack pedals. the design and the UI are easy and intuitive.
also, there should be a tons of amp sim there. you need to patch it in via software. also yeah its actually better if you use it with something with flatt eq like mixer or active speaker.
I find Zooms amp and cab sims are pretty great actually, and what I use Zooms stuff for mostly.
I just got a perfect used MS70cdr, and not only is it not plasticky, it doesn’t tone suck at all. Throwing my Black Bean POD HD out to CL pasture. I don’t know whether it could replace my main board, but it sounds great through a little Vox ac10 and the compressor sounds fab...the time based and mod stuff is great as a bonus.
I have played music commercially and otherwise for the last 35 years, I challenge any pro level pub goer or so called music lover to differentiate between tone and equipment, between a cheap fx unit in a chain or really expensive gear....any gear is only as capable or competent as the musician who can milk out the tone he wants from it ...I have played with my Digitech GSP's to my Axe fx to my Line 6 M13 to the two Zoom multi stomps on one of my boards...to the same audience....no body knows, notices or gives a shit....back in the day I too showed off how much stage real estate my pedal board could cover having a lot of expensive colourful and complicated pedals on then....these days I take it as a challenge to keep my board as small and effective as possible and thanks to this brilliant Zoom unit I can keep it practical and still have the same wham factor on stage....
I've used this direct to PA and it sounds and works great. Fantastic little pedal from Zoom. I have the Zoom A3 for acoustic guitar, great pedal to.
I use mine into a DI to PA for solo open mic gigs! Great for fattening the tone up!
I've got a MS-60B and I love it. It's great to throw in your gig bag and just always have on you.
I got a MS-60B used, just to check out what effects I might like and use for bass. Usually I don't use effects at all, but sometimes I like to fiddle around and create ambient soundscapes and stuff. Great tool to check out if effects are your cup of tea at all. It doesn't break the bank, opposite to buying tons of single effect pedals "just to try out".
It was doing the drip on our side of the mic, which is pretty neat. You don't have to pay for zoom updates. Some poeple on the internet charge for making patches, which isn't related to Zoom as a company.
When I ordered this, I didn’t realize one could assign more than one effect. I assumed it was like the one-stomp Line 6 box. That was a really nice surprise. How often does one buy a gear bit, and get it home to discover that it does much more than you expected. Zoom are great.
Although their mind bending, mental illness-exacerbating efx largely make up for it, one thing L6 do have over Zoom are the several guitar synth efx! They’re not especially deep on parameters, but they’re there, and they’re not bad at all. I think I must be the only one who uses the synths included in L6 gear.
King. I've seen this on countless cover bands guitarist pedalboard.
Agreed! The ZOOM G3Xn IS my pedal board and it's the perfect fit to cover everything from Herb Alpert to the Ventures! I have found that it doesn't play nice plugged directly into the Hot Rod Deluxe however. I just plug it into the power amp in and it's good to go!
I buy Zoom gear just for the bizarre efx. I can express the “real me” with them. The Zoom stomp demoed here which I had for over 10 years died, and I splurged on a G6 board. I was surprised to discover that their amp sims sound authentic now. Their amp sims used to sound so digital, I regarded them more as effects rather than amps, lol.
I fell so quickly in love with my Zoom MS70CDR that I recently got the MS50G as well to chain together. 12 effects total, both loaded to the max with almost all the available effects. Mad science experiment!
Did the same thing, was blown away by how good the 70 was, I decided to get the 50. With these 2 pedals I'm covered for anything I could imagine coming my way musically.
Which is better in your opinion?
@@johnmcnamara6555 Honestly they both do different things better or worse. 70CDR for general effecting... 50G for setting the overall tone (distortion, overdrive, compression/EQ or amp sim)
@@johnmcnamara6555 ms70, you can load any effect(including ones from the bass version) into either
Of course my first multi effect was the Zoom 505
A lot of these sound like they'd really shine even more on a monosynth . good thing mine showed up in the mail yesterday .
I'll have to grab the effects manager and load up some more goodies from their other pedals .
They're awesome for that. This isn't a regular on my board, but its almost always hooked up to my synth
I got me one of those for Christmas for the reverse reverb but so many other great sounds out of it... very handy!
Hi does that effect have a dry/wet knob?
I have had this pedal for a year and it fills many roles on my pedal board. It is not as great as the pedals it .models but for $75 it is versatile.
That bomb/gun sound could also be used as thunder for Riders on the Storm
Got one a few weeks ago. I love it! I also Velcro mine to my blackstar fly. You can also load and unload effects that you don’t use or want. The dirt effects are mostly meh. A few standouts though. The patches you can get from Reddit are really cool and easy to load from a web browser.
the dream of the tiny rig enthusiasts! I currently use a zoom G1on, which is the same as the ms50 with some extra buttons, and it's everything I will ever need. And my Behringer Wah. It's the perfect match.
That is a great pedal. I have one. I've used it on some records and even used it direct live once.
Just bought a used one in near perfect condition, and it's everything I hoped for and lots more, perfect for psychedelic rock, very Tame Impala-ish mods 👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I have the ms70 cdr, used with the Joyo American, AC Tone or British sound in the front of the Zoom. I get wonderful sounds!
Do you run stereo into two amp-in-a-pedals?
Putting "trigger hold delay" on your drum machine makes it sound like "autechre". I found out!?
If you repainted the box and put some interesting design/artwork on it the gear snobs would be fooled into thinking it's a custom unit and pay hundreds for it.
I have, on occasion ran the midi out of my line6 m5 into a raspberry pi and routed the midi to the zoom ms70cdr. One before the amp and one on the loop. Those two cover all the utility pedal needs.
if you're getting into the amp , the amp sim output should be on the combo front or stack front mode. It's beside the cab sim. Too bad you didn't try it.
The maniacal laugh at 6:29 is exactly what these pedals are about: turning you into a mad scientist.
DMPTY is the sound of the future, my dear boy.
That dirty gate after the reverb and delay makes a really cool sound!
the MS 70 CDR hacked is the best compact pedal EVER
simply, no doubt about it
I just keep on coming back to the Zoom over and over again. I usually play it at home with my practice amp, but it keeps on coming back to my gigging board. I'm not a fan of the interface, but the multi itself is incredibly useful whenever I take my 4W amp with neither tremolo nor reverb to low-volume gigs. I can't haul my silverface everywhere, but I still need the trem and reverb. Sometimes I even prefer the Zoom effects to the real deal. And I also find myself using other non-essential stuff like EQ, noise gate, etc. Might as well, right? Plus it can be used as backup in case the tube amp died. Screw it, I'll just get another one and put it on my main board. It's just good enough.
I have this one for 4 years already, but I still haven't finished exploring the sound it can offer
The spring reverb is amazing and the term as well..
Totally. I love their spring, plate and particle reverb. The trem works really well too and I do like the majority of the delays.
@@MrSpeed-lt8gr I don’t have particle reverb on my brand new zoom, how did you get that effect? Did you update it, is that all I need to do?
@@omarcapaso7156 Omar, you do need to have the most recent update and you also want to download the Zoom effects manager.
@@MrSpeed-lt8gr they do great reverb and stereo effects. It is carried through their older devices. I have a PS02 Palmtop Studio and I love the reverb settings. You can really dial those in with precision on time, decay, mix and a few other parameters I'm forgetting.
awesome pedal. Knobs do get in the way, so I personally took them off and trimmed the stems. Great sound quality. Perfect for your one-pedal setup. You can go straight to the front of the house, and set it up to switch between rhythm/lead sound using the one button included. Good construction, and great sound quality. No sound delay when engaging the pedal, unlike some processors.
I’ve been a Zoom FX fan pretty much since the 90s (!), when I used a 4040 for a while. I’ve been using a G1 Four on my pedalboard since 2021, but just bagged a bargain as-new MS-50G off eBay, so I thought I’d try recreating my G1 patches on it in case the MS might save me some board space. Haven’t done much sound-testing yet, but patch-editing on the pedal looks like a real chore. I definitely recommend getting Tonelib Zoom on Mac or PC: plug in the MS via USB, and you can create, edit and manage patches on the pedal far more easily. I should probably learn the MS’ controls anyway, just in case… thanks for a tour of the sonic breadth of this underrated pedal 🙏🏻 (BTW: firmware updates for the MS-50G are free 👍🏻)
Tengo el MS-70CDR, centrado en chorus, reverbs y delays, y cuando lo obtuve por primera vez supe que no necesitaria otros pedales de esos tipos, mi hermano es mas de pedales analogos y siempre, siempre, hacemos comparaciones y por mucho el MS-70CDR tiene todo lo que en todos los genereos se necesite y más. Una joya escondida, este pedal es irreal.
Thinking some more: I’m loving some of the “exotic” delays on the MS-50G. If I’m REALLY nitpicking, I’d say the one feature which would make this box just-about perfect for me: to be able to send it external tempo (tap via a pedal input, or USB MIDI), so I could sync the delays to the Disaster Area Designs micro.clock on my pedalboard. I think this pedal could still be a great addition to the lineup here…
Although not intended as a review still the best on TH-cam 👌👍
I bought two I like them that much. Most underrated pedal out there for the money and fun factor..👍🇦🇺
Kind of hard to be a plastic toy when it's made of metal! Lol I think Zoom Ms has some awesome sounds, just wish the DSP was a little bit bigger.
I have this on my board along with standards like boss blues driver. But when I want to get weird, I use this. It doesn't take up room, doesn't cost a lot, sounds good and is EASY to USE!
How does this sound so good?? Wow the value for money is out of this world
Its an "afford a board" all by itself. More sure than ever these zoom multistomps are the best dollar value effects out there!
Use it as an amp sim, put an overdrive infront of it and go direct. This pedal shines when used that way.
Be careful if you buy this pedal, it's known to add a high pitched noise (around 5500 Hz apparently), even in bypass. Some people don't have this problem (or can't hear it ?) but most do, so make sure you can send it back if you do, because the noise WILL drive you crazy.
I have had the zoom ms100bt version for years, can be useful for quick and easy rehearsal situations and I played a couple small room gigs with it alone. It works, some decent effects.
bought this a few years back as a flexible fx tool-kit. didnt expect a great deal from overall but it's actually pretty damn incredible. i've AB'd a couple of pedals it has onboard with the genuine article and it really holds its ground. it's far better than it has any right to be and would have been a dream pedal back in the day. recently been enjoying it as an amp sim for DI recording - where it's stupidly flexible and sounds lovely if you do some dialling in. it's not perfect of course. there's some noise issues with certain uses... and i was a little miffed by some high pitch artifacts but those only appeared with some dialled gain patches. think i paid £80 for it new. well worth it just for flexibility alone... but it also does somethings so well its madness.
I love using this pedal to go between traditional reverb and delay and ambient settings. For ambient I use 2 delays set at 300 ms and 550 ms and I use the particle reverb. Very nice sound.
Great pedal and addition to my board...and I have some high end pedals including a Strymon Big Sky... don't dismiss this sleeper. Mine is modded to accommodate 3 button foot switch for scrolling; so easy to use and so compact.
Great demo! I may one of these up for my new board. I've always been a big fan of the Zoom products.
Oh but I must add, this pedal is not durable! At least my experience... The foot switch has failed multiple times and I need to take the pedal apart to repair it... Don't let the footswitch snap back up by itself (like if your foot glances or slides off the switch) because the ring fails and the switch might get a couple feet of air! Then you have to find the spring and fish the snap-ring out of the pedal when you take it apart and put it back together. So be careful when you stomp...but I like this pedal enough to go through the trouble of repairing it several times now if that says anything. It's got s ton of useable effects
So I got one of these specifically for my synth. It's probably the best synth pedal I've ever seen (outside of the Miku)
bro this pedal sounds amazing and your playing is great really shows off the positivies
I've used a Zoom G3 for years. It's got so many sounds in it you can find useful tones if you work for it. Basically it seems the same as the multi stomp.
“I’ll try not to be irresponsible with the wiggle stick” should be a t shirt
Hey, I've watched your video a few times. Thanks for such a through run down of the Zoom. I'm still learning this box...all the sounds you played are pretty stellar in my opinion. Thanks again!
I bought one of these a couple years back when I decided I wanted some sounds my 15-year old Johnson J-Station wasn't delivering. It's kinda the swiss army knife of pedals- it's got pretty much every kind of sound you might want in a pinch, even if some of them aren't the best, they'll get you by. I love the big reverbs it can do, but I don't like its pitch shifting patches.
Love the description of it as a chocolates sampler box - you get to try out all sorts of different sounds to find out what you like and what you don't. Do I like Rats? What about Big Muffs? I've probably bought more pedals later after trying them out as patches on this thing....
Even though your j-station is a bit dated I wouldn't just toss it away. I have a friend who used a millennium amp from Johnson and it had some cool and expressive unique quality's. One of my regrets was loosing my ART RULESBREAKER 830 amplifier.
Sure it could be noisy at times but it's individual charm made up for what I thought it lacked.
Other than that, I'm a fan of the Zoom line of effects and recording gear
@@shawnrurodenm3640 Oh, I'm not giving up the J-Station any time soon... it still has some good sounds, and makes a great stereo headphone amp for playing in the wee hours. I just needed a little more, and the MS-50G was a great start on that!
Youre very straight and positive! cheap or costly gear, youre honest about , and give your opinion, like that a lot! Im a big fan of ZOOM G2s, got 6 of them: for example my tone liking is now more into Jazzy things, so I just changed from a clean patch to a Fender Clean setting( Fender Twin 65...), which I younger thought was too dark or sumthin...! and so didnt have to buy a Fender sounding pedal! and the Fender Combo in this ZOOM 50 sounds just perfect!
thinkin about getting this Z50, cause the G2s been discontinued long ago, and this has multiple parameters to EQ my tone: really the Fender Combo sounds soo good in many videos!!! there are whole amps( that use some or other kinda modelling, and fall short of getting it to ones liking..., lately I listened to the Blackstar Debut 50r, but theres sumthin thin and tinny about the voicing, MAYBE a speaker change, but luckily I got 2 good trans amps: Fender Stage 100 and Harley Benton Mosfet Lead 65, so Im covered! at home I just play thru Fender Frontman 10Gs, quite enough on my bookshelf! Ha Ha!
sorry bout this rant, Im playing 300€ Yamaha Pacificas, but with right pedals 100€ or less they sound very good to me!
Happy Playing evrybooty! Cheers, Kimmo
Gated Reverb: Perfect for dramatic 80's drum rolls whenever you "hear it coming in the air tonight..."
I have one on my pedal board. I love it and use it all the time.
I Got it on my board and it’s a army knife. Love it 👍
I used this pedal for ages on by board to do ambient sounds in church settings, it was pretty good, I bit finicky to use sometimes but pretty good
Does the signal still comes through when it's off?
@@emmanuelmartinez100 I can't remember honestly
LOVE that guitar!
me too
I had the Zoom B1 Four for bass. Honestly I love it with one major exception. It had no on/off switch. You had to reach down and plug it in to turn it on or off. I know that sounds minor but it annoyed the piss out of me and I sold it.
th-cam.com/video/swrr3H4QNIQ/w-d-xo.html
Very, very few pedals have on/off switches, including the A-listers. In fact, I don't think a single pedal I own has one and I can't think of one I don't own that has one. Even if they did, their power bricks would remain powered up, so you're always better off unplugging or having a switched power extension block.
Thanks for doing a demo on this petal. I have one i paid 75 bucks for at Music Go Round. It's a blast!
Cool! It's got some stuff that my PS02 Palmtop Studio has. It sounds less digital than mine, so they did improve the tone. I need one of these. I have the octave shifts and ring modulator on it, too.
Well, I can see why it stayed in the house lol ! My old zoom G1X which I bought from a cash converters store for 5 English pounds has given me a lot of good sounds with careful editing and to be able to store the edits is great tho I am looking at Strymon effects, I hope you can find something useable in that pedal. 😂😂😂 Best wishes to you. 😁👍
This is the only mini multifx pedal i've seen where nobody's had a bad word to say about it.
the drives and amps can be hilariously bad. but theres plenty to love here.
@@60CycleHumcast Mercifully I have a Supro to take care of that!
@@60CycleHumcast it has more usable tones than other multi units. My Zoom PS02 has a lot of the same effects except this pedal you can update.
I think it's an ingenious pedal. To make it the size it is, it's great! You should build a board where you have like 8 of these, each dedicated to a particular pedal function. Would that many pedals degrade the sound? Hmm...
Great that you can now load ALL the Zoom algorithms on it.
IF ya JUST wanted it for ‘DRIP’ are
there better options for cheaper..?
That Bomber patch sounds like something Einsturzende Neubauten might use.