When you switch the pitch shifter on the volume doubles. I use it for songs that move up a half or whole step or if I need to drop a song for the singer - works fine on the MS60B.
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New: Zoom B3n Multi-Effects
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Ah, thanks RR. When I was going through setting it up I was connected to an amp and set the volume for each patch to try to be roughly equal when switching between them. I guess I just saved the volume at a level that sounded good to me then and haven't messed with it since.
That's what I do. I try to keep things quiet and simple. The ISO 5 works great for that. Too bad it doesn't have 500mA on 9v though. My board sits on top of my amp anyway, so the Furman strip works perfectly for the Zoom power adapter, the ISO 5, and my amp. The Cali CB comp makes everything after it sound better, and the Polytune 2 is just for easier muting and tuning.
GuitarLab 3.1 works perfectly for me, but I use it on a MAC. I haven't even tried any editing on the B3n itself. I probably won't ever need to. First thing I did when I got the B3n was update the firmware and use the new 3.1 GuitarLab.
GuitarLab works fine for me, but if you're having problems, you might want to give ToneLib a shot. Free editor for Zoom pedals: B1on, B1Xon, MS-60b It also works on the B3n, I understand.
I like foot switches.
I abhor bending down to tweak a parameter and more importantly LCD displays suck in club conditions.
Because I like the device, I might buy one, modify with stand alone auxiliary foot switches, and a direct box added.
I will also be pissed as #ell when Zoom offers that in a year or two.
It's annoying solo but in a mix it is "good enough". I also own a Digitech Drop which has noticeably less latency - but I'd rather not carry a pedalboard ...
I’d love it if they revisited the original 9000 series. It did just what you want. An amp top processor with a remote, passive, mini pedalboard.
Same here, although I just discovered last night my Drop is doing something weird where it's keeping the original note but superimposing it over top of the dropped note. Sounds especially awful when I'm dropped a half step, which is mostly what I use it for. I've got a note in to tech support but until yesterday it's served me well for over 2 years. And it wasn't new to me either - bought it here used on the TB classifieds. Meantime, glad I have the pitch shift available on the B3n even though I agree it's not as good as the Drop.
I had a 9150 back 'in the day', with the same pedal board I think. I wish I'd kept it, even if it was officially for guitar, as I could get a pretty decent and fat sound from it after I stuck a Mullard tube in and pushed it a bit. It was a bit noisy, but the biggest issue (for recording) was the lack of speaker emulator. I ended up with a Marshall DRP1 preamp in the loop to add som emulation when recording, which proved to be a great way of also getting running a guitar through a full range sound bass amp or PA.
New B3N owner here. I'm sure my question is covered elsewhere, but it wasn't something I was finding quickly. Anyways, so how are most people going about bypassing effects in stompbox mode? I was surprised to find out that the unit required that one of the three effect buttons be turned on at all times. Is the easiest thing to have blank effect patches interspersed throughout your patch list? I'd imagine if 1 out of every 3 effects were blank, then a bypassed sound would always be readily available regardless of where you were on your patch list. Although then you are using up 33 percent of your patch list on bypassing. I guess the other thing that comes to mind is using the tuner without the mute function, but that would not be friendly to live use. Am I missing something that would work better?
I think the way you've described is the only solution that doesn't require multiple steps or the addition of external hardware. Yeah, you eat up 1 of every 3 presets with a bypass patch. Not ideal, but it works.
FWIW, you can get out of this on the cheap with an external box like this:
1 Looper (Micro, LED Version)
FWIW, you can get out of this on the cheap with an external box like this:
1 Looper (Micro, LED Version)
You could use the tuner with non muting and and then add a muting tuner ahead of the Zoom for when you need to tune.
Ideally you'd have patches and pedal assignments and map between the two (like you can with MIDI implementations on the B9) but using a librarian allows you to at least map bypass or other patches from your preferred selection across the unit as a whole. It might make sense to take a laptop along to gigs just in case.
