Zoom Multistomp MS50G Pedal

Let me start by saying that my full pedalboard is a Boss TU3W >(All Strymon midnight series pedals) compadre> riverside> deco> Mobius> timeline> Bigsky> iridium… so I have a decent idea about good tone… I am a professional musician, playing a minimum of two times a week. I play live often times using just an MS50G. I have a set of patches that I use depending on which guitar I use and am very happy with the tone. I love how light it is and how it runs off of batteries. This is a perfect backup rig, or a quick solution if you just need to grab and go. It's also a great Swiss Army knife. I don't care that it's 10 years old, it still has great reverb, delay and better modulation than the helix. Additionally with the 3.1 update you have access to dozens of other drives, amps, and mods/delays/reverbs that weren't stock with the pedal. I love the Two Rock amp model and the Sweet Drive. The Dual Reverb is amazing as well. There isn't really a better deal in the guitar world than this pedal. It covers every base.

This is a cool little unit! As a I've heard others say, this is like a Swiss army knife to have around. Could come in really handy, & can be whatever you need it to be. From a full signal chain, to a single delay, chorus, flanger, reverb, or distortion. Or any combination of these, & the price doesn't suck either. Surprisingly good quality effects!

I got the Zoom MS-50G on a trade for some equipment that I had. I actually got two of them and have already recommended them to some friends. I saw the Zoom MS-70CDR on youtube videos. A few people were using them for ambient guitar music and a few people were using it with their synth. The Zoom MS-50G and the Zoom-70CDR are almost the same. The latter has a stereo input and both have a stereo output. The version that came in the mail had updated firmware. The 50 effects became more. These can be linked into a chain of six effects. There are some limits. They are digital effects and the more complex effects if chained together in a row of six could overwhelm the processor and have latency issues. But this is rare. The main reason why I got that units is because they can emulate some expensive ambient synths that can be $300. One video I watched compared them and I could not hear any difference. I am still learning right now and have not verified everything that I have seen in the videos. I am looking forward to trying out the software editor so that I can download patches for use and also one video has posted the patches used with a synth so that others can use them. I am using them with analog synths and with a Tanpura rather than a guitar. A cautionary note is that the unit is really a small computer dedicated to effects and has limited dials. You either get used to working within this small GUI or learn to use their editor software. The dedicated pedals have dials are easier to use. But the advantage is that this one emulates about 100 of those pedals and in combinations of six modules. The patches can be shared. You just need to hang out with the learning curve. I consider this an okay since once you find your effect then you can keep using them. I do not plan to need more than a few. Right now I am experimenting with them one effect at a time without combining them in a chain and liking the choices and how much change they produce.

Review date. 08/24/2018 Zoom Multistomp MS-50G. Excellent. Kicks the Line 6 M5 out the door. I had the Line 6 M5 for a few weeks and although the sounds and functions were great it only did one effect at a time. The Zoom Multistomp MS-50G can have up to 6 FX in a patch and you can line up patches in a toggle through order A-B-C-D-E, ... etc. Then back to A again. The sounds and functions are very good. I use it for my acoustic electric. The 2 band parametric EQ and 6 Band pedal EQ allow me to get a very nice tone. After that the Z-Clean PreAmp adds some depth, then compression if needed, then time based FX like chorus/reverb/delay. Up to 6 in a patch. I really like the Particle Reverb for a really nice ambient light organ chordal effect with slow intimate songs. Once you get used to it yo can use the FX Manager to simply remove a bunch of the not-so-useful stuff so yo don't have to waste time scrolling through to get to what you actually use. That's what I did. Since I don't use this for distortion and wacky weird FX I simply removed them with the FX Manager. They can be reinstalled at any time just as easily.

This is the second one I purchased I love all the effects it gives you which saves money and space the first one I bought from another company was perfect and very quiet the one I got from gc squealed when I turned it on i had to reboot it and change some of the settings now it works great so I give the pedal a five and gc a two cause I think they sent me one that someone sent back and charged me full price

Great overdrive, exceeded expectations, good price.