In my experience, zoom's delays and reverbs often lack character. However, they pack a lot into their boxes, and some of it is worthwhile. For example, I love their double phaser. Unfortunately, it's not in this box or the regular version, just the BT, which requires an apple device for its additional features.
Got mine in the mail today. Played with it for about 45 minute. Wish I could have played longer but im having bad back pain and leaning over to constanly change parameters was making it worse. Any way, my initial impressions:
Theres not much of a learning curve. Everything is layed out and labled. Screen is nice. I like the pictures of the pedals on the screen. Its like a gameboy. Case is metal. Stereo ins and outs. Usb and 9v. Takes 2 AA batteries (included) which is nice because i always have extras but never have 9volts around the house. Knobs are plastic but seem sturdy. The foot switch is a soft switch, sturdy. There was a point made earlier in the thread about dirt maybe getting into the buttons around the footswitch. I can see myself gigging with it. The control knobs are pretty sensitive. Slow turns and by byyou can dial in perfectly, a quick quarterturn can take you from zero to full. Tap tempo controlled by pushing the top left knob. I wish i could control with foot but its still very useful.
The effects are more than decent. I love the verbs. I find they have plenty of character. Better than my boss rack multifx unit which im going to get rid of now. Chorus...not a big fan but still sounded nice to me. Delays are delays to me but theres plenty of flavors to choose from. I hit it with a boost and heard no clipping which is a problem ive had with reverbs in the past. Takes dirt well. I only tried it before a noise swash and it made alot of noise. Ill place it elsewhere in the chain and see if its as noisy. The presets are neat. But ill prolly be using every one of the 50 user spaces to make my own. I thinks its cool as fuck and all ill need as far as reverb and delay. For $120...its amazing. Cant wait to play with it more.
Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D. wrote:
but i've been running synths and gameboys thru it so your milage or expectations may vary on guitar/bass.
i mean true stereo ins AND outs? battery powered? its like zoom read my diary.
I was thinking of using it with my MicroKorg, can it cope with line level sources?
How many hours use do you tend to get with batteries? I suppose it must depend on the effects used. .
takes line level well. no issues there.
not exactly sure how many hours u get off batteries. i've used it for a couple hours w/o it dying & plenty of juice left it seemed but never went the whole gambit.
Box says 7 hours use with batts. Im 4 hours in, still running strong. I did get alittle clipping with my ms2000 on full volume. I usually never go full volume on the synth. It was just a test.
I really like the CDR but I haven't really used the chorus effects much yet, I know some are based on classic effects but I find it hard to distinguish between them!
penelope tree wrote:I really like the CDR but I haven't really used the chorus effects much yet, I know some are based on classic effects but I find it hard to distinguish between them!
Kind of with you on the 100BT choruses--I'm guessing they modeled the delay path and it's modulation for the behavior of the choruses rather than modeling the BBD distortions and quirks. It's kind of like UAD's first version of their LA-2a limiter plugin--they initially got the compression knee right, dead on really, but missed all the tube and transformer non-linearity and character until a much more recent revision.
I'm guessing that if I tried more multi-effects stacking with the 100 that the choruses would be more distinct in context. So far, tho, I'm going a sound at a time.
D.o.S. wrote:Broadly speaking, if we at ILF are dropping 300 bucks on a pedal it probably sounds like an SNES holocaust.
friendship wrote:death to false bleep-blop
UglyCasanova wrote:brb gonna slap my dick on my stomp boxes
