Zoom B2 Bass Effects Pedal

Advantages: loads of very good effects
Disadvantages: it costs £50

...This guitar pedal is great it is really good. You can get about 70 diferant effects on it. Most guitar pedals give you about 1 or 2 effects and they cost the same amount. You should be able to get it at most good guitar shops. There are other products from Zoom for bass guitar and for other effects but I think the 505 is the best out of the lot. Its effects include digital delay, distortion and many more. Anyone who wants to have a bit of a laugh with there electric guitar or is in a band and wants to get some good effects for there songs then this is a must.... Read review

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Advantages: Great value, good looks, good build quality, large range of effects.
Disadvantages: Fiddly interface, not helped by small buttons.

...The Zoom 505 is a great little multi-effects pedal that offers superb value, coupled with great looks and build quality. The range of effects is astronomical given the price, ranging from the obligatory reverb and echo sounds, to the more interesting step and harmonic effects. Although customizing the 'patches' with your own effects is quite fiddly (especially given the size of the buttons on the pedal), the most inexperienced guitar player will be creating their own sounds in no time at all. This is a must-have for the beginner on a budget!... Read review

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Advantages: simple to use, cheap, good design, sample function
Disadvantages: bad build quality, digitizes sound too much, effect switching sometimes difficult

...after playing guitar for a year i bought my zoom 707 for £99, at first the effects sounded good, many sounds that i never thought could come from a guitar. however after more use, and trying other analogue, single effects pedals, i found that the zoom pedal took too much away from the sound. the guitar became a digital piece of music equipment, fine for electronic style music but not for the heavy hitting screeching type of guitar music i wanted to play. finally to tip the edge, once while on stage i trod on one of the leads as it went into the back of the 707, this somehoe managed to ruin the whole pedal meaning that in order to get any sound out of it i have to tape the unit to the floor and then tape both the input and the output leads to the floor in certain positions so that there is any kind of output, not very useful during stage... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful