Zoom 504 Acoustic

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 basically do... Read review

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Advantages: Lots of sounds, smartmedia
Disadvantages: made entirely of plastic, complicated interface

...I recently purchased this for £99 including p&p as I have been wanting a new pedal for ages, and rather than getting one which could only do one thing I decided to get one which could do a lot. A picture of the unit can be found at this site: http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/ --------------------------- So far I have been very happy with the unit which has a great range of features: 74 different effects including: distortion, modulation (e.g. chorus and flanger), reverb and delay effects, cabinet simulator, acoustic simulator. 60 built in 'patches' and the ability to program 60 of your own. These are combinations of the effects listed above. Runs for 11 hours on one set of AA batteries, or can be run from the main with an adaptor (which is rather annoyingly not included as standard). Using a 16MB SmartMedia card (sold seperately) you... Read review

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Advantages: fun to use, really nice sounds
Disadvantages: so many things... can be confusing sometimes...

...competitors. MY OPINION ****************** I love this unit. I purely love it. I play in a band, but as a bassist; I therefore doesn't get to use it on stage, but I purchased the bass version of the new Zoom effects, and I use it on stage. I always get a good sound, and I am waiting at the moment for Zoom to release the bass equivalent to the Zoom G9. I would definitely use it on stage if I was to play guitar as the sounds are really good. However, I believe that the Zoom G7.1U would have been sufficient for me, as I am not using the G9 to its full potential (far from it). The Z-pedal is a fun addition, but I didn't find a use to it just yet. Me, who is crap at finding nice sounds for myself, I have actually managed to get really nice sounds… Sounds I do not get bored of over time… I played with the acoustic simulator to get nice clean sounds… I... Read review

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