Zoom MS-50G MultiStomp Guitar Effects Pedal, Single Stompbox Size, 100 Built-in effects, Tuner

All metal enclosure. Pedal feels solid and like it will last a long time. I like the tuner function and tap tempo. To get the most out of this pedal, you need to go to the Zoom website and download the latest firmware. My pedal updated quickly with no issues. There are "extra" effects, but you have to download the effects manager. This took me awhile to figure out. Zoom should really give more detailed instructions. The update alone WILL NOT automatically install the extra effects. Once you have the effects manager downloaded, you simply connect the pedal to your computer and pull up the manager. You will see all 172 effects listed... you simply check the boxes of the effects you want to install on the pedal, then hit the scan button to install on your pedal. You cannot install all 172, there is not enough memory on the pedal. As you go down the list and check the effects boxes, the manager will keep track and let you know when you're reaching the limit. I have 122 effects installed with a little room to spare. I noticed that if I added effects right up to the limit, I'd get an error message and the effects would not load. I'm using a 2015 MacBook Pro running Catalina 10.15.7. I hope this is helpful to someone. It took me a few hours to figure this all out. Once I did, I really enjoyed using this pedal even more. There are limitless pedal combinations and tweaking to be had. You can stack up to six effects... and easily move the effects wherever you want in the chain. Chain reads from right to left. Do yourself a big favor and read the instruction manual that comes with the pedal, or it can be confusing. Once you do, the pedal is a joy to use and actually pretty simple to navigate. If you don't want to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on individual pedals and a pedal board, then GET THIS PEDAL!

I'm so happy with this. I play violin, and there are not a lot of demos on YouTube answering questions like: what does an electric violin sound like through, say, an Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi; or, if a compressor makes a guitar sound more like a violin, is there any point in putting it on a violin? After the firmware upgrade, this stomp box gives you 100 effects that you can arrange six at a time in any order (even doubling up, e.g. choruses). At about $100, that's a buck an effect. Pretty good. So, while of course their simulations of some name brand pedals don't sound exactly like the real thing, for $1 each, you can audition them, use them once on that one thing where you think they need it, or decide that it sounds awful and never use it again. Or maybe, once you hear it, decide that it's worth saving up for the name brand dedicated effects pedal. Up to you. And that said, a lot of the effects sound really good. The pitch shift tracks very fast and preserves a lot of tone. It's my "cello button." The Acoustic Simulator does an amazing job at making the weird, whiny triangle wave sound of an electric violin sound like a fiddle again. (It's a little too trebly, but guess what, there's a graphic EQ plugin too!) There are a lot of different choruses, delays and reverbs (the staples of the electric violin effects chain) so you can create tones of all varieties to sound like artists from Jean-Luc Ponty to B B King. Here's an unexpected bonus for violin: this pedal has no port to add an expression pedal. That's a drawback for guitar. But Zoom compensates by driving parameters that might normally be driven from an expression pedal (wah-wah, resonance, talk box, etc) from the dynamics of the input signal. That means that on the fiddle, you can control these parameters with your bow. It's actually a far more convenient system for electric violin than an expression pedal would be.

I use this mostly to play jazz, country (old, traditional), gospel and occasionally some rock. The majority of the time I use it in front of a Fender Princeton Reverb with a Gibson ES135. The Princeton has excellent reverb and tremolo, but with the Zoom MS50G I can get very different (then spring) reverb, various beautiful sounding vibratos, ect... When I show up to chuch, I have my guitar (in the case) with the MS50G in one hand, and my Princeton Reverb in the other. Load ins/outs have never been much easier. The MS50G you can set up to where it will scroll through patches. LIke say, I'm doing a 70s outlaw country song with a compressor/phaser/reverb then hit the footswitch to go to the next patch where I might be set up for a jazz standard with different reverb/vibe then hit the button again for rock with distortion/delay. Once you get the hang of programming it, it'll do alot more then most folks think it will. I use 2 of these units. Ones on the floor and the other one I usually keep on a music stand with my tablet. Being I play clean the majority of the time I normally only use the one but if I'm doing metal (with a different rig) I run one in the front and the other in a footswitchable effects loop. The majority of the time I use the compressor, reverbs, tremolo/vibrato/vibe, and occasionally the filters and autowah for fun. I like some of the drives, some sound overly digital others sound pretty organic. Really depends on what rig its ran into and how. I like the instant access to the tuner. For what these pedals cost, they're a no brainer. If you don't use a lot of effects these are really great. I was actually looking for a reverb pedal and discovered these. They'd been on the market for years and I avoided them. For a decent low cost reverb and tremolo pedals, it'll easily cost more then the MS50G, probably sound no better (sub $150 pedals) and not have all the features. Like if I find a reverb I like and it sounds to bright (for older jazz for example) I can go to the EQ section and take some of the top end sheen off. Pretty cool stuff. My only real gripe with it is no XLR output like my Zoom G3 has. The amp models (at least the clean Fendery stuff) sounds good enough to run directly in the board (like my G3 will) but I have to use a Whirlwind box to do it. Is it the best pedal going? No. Is it the best all in one single stomp box pedal? From what I've seen, yeah, by a long shot.

I found out about this pedal after watching 60 cycle Hum review this pedal and in the video the reviewer referred to it as the ultimate afford-a-board pedal and I have to agree. For the price it's hard to think of anything at its price point that sounds as good and has as many effects. You can google up some of the video reviews where they compare it against more expensive pedals like the Strymon Blue Sky and it holds it own pretty well. If you are looking for a cheap multi effects pedal that sounds decent I don't think you can any better than the Zoom MS50G!

Fast Delivery and well pack... The Item itself is pretty good. I really like this effect, it helps me in my gig. 👍🤘

Ótimo Pedal!

Zoom is doing god's work, bringing the botique stuff to us poor folks. I use this as my dedicated delay pedal as it sounds incredible and also has tap tempo. The reverbs are great but some settings are near strymon level while some are just okay so definately do your research. The modulations are fantastic. The phaser and flangers rival my small stone and liqua flange respectively. The drive aren't as good but then again nbody buys this for that. A TC flashback and Ehx canyon costs double the price of this little thing and this thing still rivals them in sound quality. The rotary effect is also incredible. All in all more than satisfied with this.

Práctico y versátil es el segundo que tengo, el primero me funcionó por 6 años hasta que cometí el error de alimentarlo por el puerto USB con un cargador de smartfone. Recomiendo usar siempre el eliminador de 9v adecuado.