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Zoom MS-60B announced... at last

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jumblemind said:
I don't know of a published list, either, but you can go right into the chain on the pedal and see what's there. They aren't locked or anything, so you can tweak them all, as well.
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A published list might be nice to have. If you decide you want to use a patch you have overwritten but you don't want to lose your other patches by doing a factory reset a published list would let you do that. If the users here were each willing to take a few and document them it would not be much effort on the part of any individual to compile a complete list. I can't play the game for a couple more days but I'd be willing to help once mine gets here.

Of course I am hoping that a future firmware update will allow connecting to a PC to upload/download/share patches as with the B3 and that would make the published list unnecessary. There is no guarantee that will ever happen.

Ken
 
#367
If people would be interested in that ? :-)

I will kick off with the first one:

Patch01 : Mark+ (from right to left)
Bass Booster - Gain 13 / Bass 0 / Trebl -3 / Level 65
Bass Para EQ - Freq1 350Hz / Q1 1 / Gain1 4 / Freq2 2.0 KHz / Q2 1 / Gain2 2 / Level 90
Bass Cry - Range 5 / Reso 8 / Sense 7 / Bal 100 / Level 100
 
#368
Ordered mine yesterday and it shipped today. Hoping to primarily use the comps, amp sims, eq/preamps, octave and tuner.

From what I've read here it sounds like I could have a patch set up with a comp, amp sim and octave, then use the foot switch to turn the octave on/off and engage the tuner while leaving the comp and amp sim active? Hoping to replace boss lmb-3 if the comps on the zoom are better.

I will probably run this as the last pedal in my chain after a fuzz, phaser and delay, and put my volume pedal after it, all running into an Ampeg PF-500 and two PF115's.

Will post some findings after I have some time with the unit - should be here on Friday!
 
#370
Aceonbass said:
Given what you want to use this pedal for, I think you'd get more out of it before the filters and dirt.
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Thanks for the input, will certainly try that. I've found I like my boss lmb-3 best at the end of my chain, so figured I'd start there with the zoom as well. I understand that comps are usually first in the chain, but for some reason I just didn't like my lmb-3 there. Thanks again and I'll be sure to give feedback.
 
#372
Blue_Whistle88 said:
Someone here mentioned that you can have one pedal run multiple functions; would I be able to have a noise gate permanently activated, with the footswitch turning a tuner/mute on and off? I was tossing up the idea of having one pedal take care of all my "utility" effects, but my compressor needs to be at the beginning of my chain. So, I figure I could have one pedal at the start with the compressor always on, and the switch turning overdrive on/off, then the aforementioned tuner/noisegate combination at the end. I'd fill the space in between with delay, auto-wah, etc.
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What...ya need a hug or somethin' Blue? Anyway, For the tuner function, you hold the button down for a couple seconds which mutes the output, but other than that, sure you can have it just set to be a noise gate all of the time if that's all you want. Even if that's all you use it for (noise gate/tuner), I think it's worth the $99.00.
 
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TwoRivers said:
Thanks for the input, will certainly try that. I've found I like my boss lmb-3 best at the end of my chain, so figured I'd start there with the zoom as well. I understand that comps are usually first in the chain, but for some reason I just didn't like my lmb-3 there. Thanks again and I'll be sure to give feedback.
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I have an LMB-3 and find it works well as a limiter after fuzzes and distortions myself. The comps on the MS-60b will have you covered, for sure. And yeah, what you described in your other post is totally doable...while still leaving you with 49 other setups.
 
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Blue_Whistle88 said:
I've gotta say, as much as I love my GT-10B, I could definitely see myself switching to a board consisting entirely of MS-60B's.

Someone here mentioned that you can have one pedal run multiple functions; would I be able to have a noise gate permanently activated, with the footswitch turning a tuner/mute on and off? I was tossing up the idea of having one pedal take care of all my "utility" effects, but my compressor needs to be at the beginning of my chain. So, I figure I could have one pedal at the start with the compressor always on, and the switch turning overdrive on/off, then the aforementioned tuner/noisegate combination at the end. I'd fill the space in between with delay, auto-wah, etc.
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You can have a gate on all the time. The tuner does not take up one of the spots, and can be engaged at any time by pressing and holding the foot switch down for a few seconds. You can string four FX/amps together on any patch. So for example, compressor first always on, OD next can be switched on/off, filter/delay/whatever next that you can scroll to and turn on or off, and have your gate last, and always on. You can set the pedal so that you can scroll between these patches of four FX patches, hope that's not too confusing.

J!
 
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Number 1299 for me

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#379
TwoRivers said:
jumblemind said:
In "bypass" mode! heh

Did you just assign "Bypass" (effect 34 I guess?) as effect "A" in your patch? Probably a really stupid question...but the more I know when mine arrives the shorter the learning curve will be...hopefully.
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Check out CharlieC's thread, "Zoom B3 as a Preamp" (if you haven't already) for a lot of useful info!
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#380
I've noticed some gold plated Monster cables on some of the pedal boards. Not to go too far off topic, but these are likely the most over rated and hyped cables in history. While gold is a better conductor than nickel, in order to keep it from wearing off the first few times you plug and and unplug them, there is a clearcoat over the gold. Clearcoated gold does not conduct better than nickel. Also, the plugs are made a few thousandths thicker in order to make a supposedly better connection. Since it's the ground that this affects, it's meaningless because there's already more ground contact area than tip. Also, use of these cables actually wears the female socket a bit larger over time, which means that regular cables will be a bit looser, a principal I think some of us can relate to ;)
 
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