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.

If you are an electric guitar player, you know how it is ... you think you are finished with your pedal board but in a few weeks you are back at it searching for another effect ... but this means trial and error and a busy wallet ... the solution may be this Zoom MS50G ... this unit is like having 50 stompboxes to use on demand without having to change out your board ... here are some the things I like most about this pedal: 1) Small footprint; same size as most single stompboxes of today 2) The digital effects are very, very good .... most have an almost analog quality to them 3) Ability to create and save your own patches, ordering them for stage use 4) Good tuner included; I found it to be very accurate and easy to use (if you already have a tuner, then you can open up another slot!) 5) Great price ... considering 50 effects, this thing costs no more than a single stompbox The unit is pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it; however, I will say it takes some work to get a handle on everything and the manual isn't a great deal of help. But with just a little work and resolve, you'll be dialing in some new sounds. I have been very pleased with the capabilities and the sounds from the MS50G ... Zoom has a reputation of creating quality effects units at very reasonable prices; they've done it again with this pedal ... I highly recommend it if you have one slot on your pedal board but don't know which pedal should fill it ... *one thing to note that was frustrating at first: most of the OD's and Distortion's are preset with the levels way too high for output to a tube amp ... once you put these pedals in your own patches you can permanently save them with appropriate levels ... just be prepared to cut the levels down right away when trying out OD's and Distortions or you will likely get some very unpleasant feedback ...

I bought the Zoom MultiStomp after watching a few reviews on YouTube. The pedal sounded awesome and grabbed my attention, especially when I learned that you can upgrade it and add more amps and effects. What really won me over was the ability to put the effects in any order and to use an effect more than once, meaning I could gainstage overdrives or stack choruses or delays. That was the selling point. This marked my return to using multi-effects after more than a decade away from them and my return to Zoom after almost 20 years away. Actually, my very first effects pedal—a good many years ago now—was a Zoom Player 2020 back in 90s. Later I had the Zoom 9150 Valve DSP, which I really liked, and a friend had the Zoom 9030, which was full of great sounds. Now I've returned to Zoom with the MultiStomp and I also recently picked up a mint used Zoom G3, which I immediately updated online. I can use up to six effects in any order and even use any type (OD, mod, delay, etc.) more than once (or twice!), which gives the unit a ton of flexibility and gives me a ton of possibilities for all kinds of awesome sounds. The options are plentiful. The only thing I'd like to see changed is to have the Zoom Noise Reduction made global to free up one of the slots as long as it could still be inserted anywhere in the chain. But that's not too big a deal because I'm finding the sounds I want and need with what's available. It's really a great unit once you figure it out, which wasn't very hard at all. I upgraded the firmware and started adding and deleting effects while only using the manual as a reference when I needed it and I'd never done anything integrating an effects unit with a computer before. I also started programming my effects patches keeping the manual on-hand for reference until I knew my way around. I found a lot of it was pretty intuitive in both cases. I'm mostly using this for direct recording to a Tascam digital multi-track right now, but I'll also be using it with a Joyo Jam Buddy and a DV Mark Little Jazz. I'm sure it'll play nice with them.

I wanted a smaller multieffects unit and everyone raves about Zoom. There’s even a subreddit. You’ll be hard pressed to find bad reviews, and it does have a lot to offer. Pros: Most clean options are cool. The choruses have a little too much feedback. The crazier effects are useless to me, but they would’ve delighted 14 year old me. I like the compressors and noise gate options. The few drive/distortion/fuzz options I like are the Sweet Honey, RC Booster, Octafuzz, and Boss models. The delays are fine... Some of the reverbs are passable. Cons: So many. Amp models are all a disaster. My 2006 Digitech modeler sounds better. The interface is garbage. I hate that I can’t easily change patches on my PC. A lot of the distortions are far off the mark. I have two EHX Big Muffs and neither version on this pedal comes close. For the most part, it doesn’t emulate analog drive very well. Sounds very digital. A Line 6 Spider sounds less digital. I keep this on my board for the delays, compressors, flanger, and select distortions, but I regret spending money on the Zoom.

Im an true analog guy. But when I grabbed this pedal I was blown away. This little thing packs a lot of serious effects for its size. A lot of which do not sound to digital. I was amazed at the tones I could pull out of it. For $99- it is a steal. I would pay twice that for what this pedal does. Easy to navigate and understand. Small enough to fit on any pedalboard. Easily hooks up to the computer to download custom patches. If you're looking for a multi effects stomp box, look no farther than the Zoom MS-50G. Well worth the $99.00. Can easily set it up for live situations. Of course you're not gonna get all the effects at a drop of a dime. But I set mine up for a few effects I use live. Works flawless. When in the studio, this is where the pedal shines. Also it can't be beat for when you're just jamming alone at home. If you're are gigging, of course this isn't going to be your go to pedal, but it does come in handy for some really nice effects. The review before mine, well they should of known this pedal isn't the greatest for live venues. That's why we have pedalboards with all our different effects we can call up with the drop of a foot. I was on the fence about this pedal for a week or so. Went to a local music store, heard and was sold. No one can touch Amazon's price and service. Get off the fence and buy this pedal. I promise you won't be sorry \m/ CONS: No power supply or USB cable. Besides that, the pedal is a bargain and sounds fantastic!

I got this for practicing and learning new riffs with a small amp. I found out about the MS-50G on a website's list of best multi-effect pedals, this was either the cheapest, or best value, i can't remember. It seemed like a no-brainer once I saw some reviews here, and because really high-grade multi-effect pedals can go for thousands of dollars, and I don't really want to deal a pedal board for just practicing at home. The pedal uses 2 AA batteries instead of 9v, already a huge plus if you're not near an outlet. It can also use a standard stompbox 9v AC adapter, so it can even be daisy chained on a pedal board if you're so inclined. You can customize effects directly from the pedal, which is kindof cumbersome because of the way they had to design it to fit such a small form factor. Alternatively, you should plug into a computer using a Mini USB cable and use the Zoom Effects Manager to create, edit, and manage favorites. (Links probably aren't allowed in these reviews, but a Google search should bring up those community tools pretty easily.) The built-in favorites are mostly pretty good for starting off, but the real value starts once you start customizing your own, or downloading some of the community effects from the internet. I had no idea I could get a $100 guitar to sound practically indistinguishable to SRV, AC/DC, Slash, Santana, and even Slipknot; or I would have bought this much sooner. It may not make you a better player, but it will make practice more fun to help get you there!

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. 👍🤘

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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.