Hughes & Kettner BassKick 707 Rack-mountable head

Advantages: Cheap, simple to use
Disadvantages: Truely horrible distortion

...I received a Zoom GFX-707 for Christmas several years ago, and thought when I first got it that it was the greatest thing ever. I spent days playing with all the different effects (usually creating the most distortion possible) and loved it. But as the years have drawn by and my playing and ear have improved I have come to realise that it really is quite limited. Lets start with the basics. It is a simple multi-FX guitar pedal with a range of pre-set and user definable patches (combinations of basic amp sounds and effects) and the nice addition of an expression pedal that allows you to easily one attribute of the effects. The actual effects provided cover pretty much all the commonly found effects (wah, chorus, flange, delay, etc...) and some less common effects (filters and the like). The unit itself is nicely sized so that it would... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, Simple to Use
Disadvantages: Quality of effects aren't great

...The Zoom 707 II is the slightly newer version of the 707. It has everything the 707 has plus the ability to insert a smart media card, which you can use to longer record samples, and/or exchange patches (the name given to the setting of the pedal, i.e. distortion, reverb settings etc...) on the internet. I bought the pedal several years ago when I had just started playing the guitar at a price of around 150 pounds. It comes with the unit itself and instruction manuals. If I remember correctly I had to purchase the power unit myself, but this was only around 5 pounds. The pedal can however be powered by 4 AA batteries instead. With 74 different effect ypes I feel this pedal provides more than enough for the beginner guitarist. There is a huge range of things you can do with this little pedal - the guitar signal goes through... Read review

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Advantages: Lots of sounds in one package.
Disadvantages: Not mighty valve produced analogue ones.

...The Zoom GFX-707 is a guitar effects pedal. It has a large range of sounds made up of thirty factory preset ones and thirty user programmable ones. There is a built in tuner, a built in drum machine, and a large integrated foot-pedal for those squawky wah-wah moments. What does all this mean in real life? Well, costs vary. I've seen it for £129.95 at musicianshop.com, £119.00 at regentguitars.co.uk, and a there's a multi-effects version called a GFX-707 II which is available at electrohill.co.uk for £119.95. Years ago, that sort of money used to buy one Boss effects pedal with, say, distortion on it. Then if you wanted other pedals like reverb, delay, chorus and flange, these would have to be daisy-chained together with lots of little cables - a messy solution with lots of things to go wrong. This one pedal can... Read review

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