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Zoom MS-60B announced... at last

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Does look cool. Would this replace the B2? It uses fewer simultaneous effects but would seem to be aimed toward someone who likes a patch with multiple effects as opposed to someone who wants the flexibility of turning effects on and off like the B3.
 
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I think this is aimed at another market altogether. People who already have a pedalboard of stomp boxes but can't justify spending money 2 or 3 extra pedals for maybe just one song in a gig.

for example, I'd quite like the option of having a synth for the couple of muse tracks we do, the occasional octaver (poss two songs in a gig) and even less frequent chorus (sweet child o'mine, and that's about it!). The fact it's also a tuner would end up saving me space on my board.
 
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fenderhutz said:
Considering this is probably going to be 100 bucks and I grabbed a Zoom B3 for 155 new this past week, I would go with the Zoom B3 every time. Easier to switch between settings and patches. Live this thing would be a nightmare if you had to switch patches quickly.
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That's why I was comparing it to the B2. Although, from my brief reading of the release, it looks like you can set up certain patches to cycle through so you can have the ones you want to use available quickly. I agree about the B3. Definitely works better for my uses. I had a B9 previously and always used it in manual mode for the same reason. The limiting factor there was not all types of effects available at the same time (ie: multiple filters or multiple overdirves), which the B3 addresses.
 
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fenderhutz said:
Considering this is probably going to be 100 bucks and I grabbed a Zoom B3 for 155 new this past week, I would go with the Zoom B3 every time. Easier to switch between settings and patches. Live this thing would be a nightmare if you had to switch patches quickly.
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FWIW I don't think the MS60B is meant to be a replacement for a B3, but a replacement for a single stomp. All you have to do is find one of your normal Boss, Digitech, EHX or MXR pedals that can be legitimately replaced by a B3 and BAM, you have a full array of tones at your feet in that spot. Perfect for a PTMini, or perhaps someone with a parallel looping board and not much spare space.
 
#7
Totally getting one of these. I'm on the wait list over at Sweetwater.com (nice people).
I am downsizing my pedalboard even further, from a PT Mini to a PT Nano lol! not a big downsize but my plan is to just have a BDDI, the MS-60B and a G30. I had my Mini pretty full at one time but I don't need as many stomp boxes as I once thought :(
That and I don't want to tap dance while singing and playing :)

Hopefully this thing is as awesome as the G3 is on guitar! Haven't tried the B3.
 
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I'm always taking my B3 back and forth from practice to home, so the MS-60B will be nice to have at home with it's tuner and the few effects I actually use, while I leave the B3 at practice. It will also be nice to add to the chain with the B3 (the only pedal I use) for those few times I want more than 3 effects at once (since Zoom apparently isn't listening to our pleas for the same updates they're giving to the G3).
 
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One thing for people planning on getting a MS-60B to replace several pedals.
I have been using the MS-50G for several months now & it is physically is the same as the 60B (the buttons & switches are the same)

Overall the 50G works very well on bass & I planned on replacing 4 pedals with it. Soundwise the 50G worked as planned but "live" it is clucky at best to use.

I went back to multiple pedals & I only use the MS-50G for reverb mostly & autowah on occasion.

That being said I had planned on getting a MS-60B when they came out & prob still will.... but not to replace multiple pedals.
 
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