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#48: BryanSwift
#49: Bassman7PM
#48: BryanSwift
#49: Bassman7PM
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Recently picked up a 9.1ut after ditching my GT10B.... great decision. I LOVE the Zoom in comparison. It's a little harder to program but I the tones I get are much richer to my ears.
Love it!!
Love it!!
The DI is working great for my recording needs. On a few tracks, I added just a touch of grit and those sound great too.
I don't think I'll ever get rid of this this for 3 reasons:
1. The DI
2. The Eq
3. The hundreds of gritty sounds I can get. (just a touch though)
I don't think I'll ever get rid of this this for 3 reasons:
1. The DI
2. The Eq
3. The hundreds of gritty sounds I can get. (just a touch though)
I've got the Zoom G2.1u.
I use the JC Clean setting ("Clean sound of a Roland JC series with built-in chorus which gives a wide, clear tone). It'll give me that extra bit of grit to my sound.
I've also found 'the sound' with it. I'll use the JC setting, and then I'll also go through my Ibanez tube screamer, full distortion, somewhere between the treble tone and the lower tone....My god, it's amazing. When I use my father's 1980 Schecter precision with it...It sounds like John Entwistle himself is playing. And all through a medium sized Peavey amp. The thought of playing through Ampeg's classic SVT's with that makes me drool.
I use the JC Clean setting ("Clean sound of a Roland JC series with built-in chorus which gives a wide, clear tone). It'll give me that extra bit of grit to my sound.
I've also found 'the sound' with it. I'll use the JC setting, and then I'll also go through my Ibanez tube screamer, full distortion, somewhere between the treble tone and the lower tone....My god, it's amazing. When I use my father's 1980 Schecter precision with it...It sounds like John Entwistle himself is playing. And all through a medium sized Peavey amp. The thought of playing through Ampeg's classic SVT's with that makes me drool.
Just got the B9.1ut in the mail yesterday. After spending new years eve plugged in and pushing buttons.
Pros:
It's beautiful. Almost too pretty to step on. The red and chrome remind me of a classic Chevy hot rod.
Built like a tank. All the knobs and switches all feel like they mean it, and the expression pedal has a good, solid, feel.
Tube input. This was a big seller for me. At 1st I thought it was rather silly to provide both a tube and solid state gain, and then I remembered that the tube will pop about 10 seconds before I'm supposed to take the stage. So it's nice to have it there, I guess.
Lots of ins and outs. MIDI, balanced XLR, headphone, USB, and aux in. I can wire this thing up in a lot of ways.
The Z-Pedal. Two dimensional control of effect parameters. That's pretty cool. I can also assign targets for effects to both pedal axis. Really nice.
Effect quality, like most multi effect boards range from junk to really nice. Most of the effects were on the nice side, with only a couple that I wouldn't use. The chorus, wah, and flange are very high quality.
Cons:
Patch management via MIDI interface only. This was annoying. I don't know why they didn't just enable this via the USB interface.
Default pedal assignments. Most of the effects have the vertical axis assigned to volume, and the horizontal axis assigned to some other effect parameter. This is counter intuitive. I spent a bunch of time going through the effects library and reversing this, using the horizontal axis for volume. Fortunately, I could also reverse the min and max parameters so that when the z-pedal was fully left, the effect was on. This kind of flexibility is great to have.
Fixed effect chain. One of the things I like about the BOSS units is the ability to add or remove effects anywhere within the chain you like. The Zoom doesn't have that flexibility. You can add or remove effects in a chain, but you can't control the order, and you can't add them to separate parts of the signal. For example, the splitter module lets you divide the signal into high and low frequency parts, but doesn't let you do anything other than adjust the mix for each part. I'd like to be able to apply separate effects to each part. The BOSS lets you do this. To me, this is the biggest weakness of the Zoom unit.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with it, and will keep it in the house. I'll update more as I get to know it.
As an aside, I plugged my guitar into it, too, and it sounded great. Even some of the effects that were muddy with the bass sounded good.
Pros:
It's beautiful. Almost too pretty to step on. The red and chrome remind me of a classic Chevy hot rod.
Built like a tank. All the knobs and switches all feel like they mean it, and the expression pedal has a good, solid, feel.
Tube input. This was a big seller for me. At 1st I thought it was rather silly to provide both a tube and solid state gain, and then I remembered that the tube will pop about 10 seconds before I'm supposed to take the stage. So it's nice to have it there, I guess.
Lots of ins and outs. MIDI, balanced XLR, headphone, USB, and aux in. I can wire this thing up in a lot of ways.
The Z-Pedal. Two dimensional control of effect parameters. That's pretty cool. I can also assign targets for effects to both pedal axis. Really nice.
Effect quality, like most multi effect boards range from junk to really nice. Most of the effects were on the nice side, with only a couple that I wouldn't use. The chorus, wah, and flange are very high quality.
Cons:
Patch management via MIDI interface only. This was annoying. I don't know why they didn't just enable this via the USB interface.
Default pedal assignments. Most of the effects have the vertical axis assigned to volume, and the horizontal axis assigned to some other effect parameter. This is counter intuitive. I spent a bunch of time going through the effects library and reversing this, using the horizontal axis for volume. Fortunately, I could also reverse the min and max parameters so that when the z-pedal was fully left, the effect was on. This kind of flexibility is great to have.
Fixed effect chain. One of the things I like about the BOSS units is the ability to add or remove effects anywhere within the chain you like. The Zoom doesn't have that flexibility. You can add or remove effects in a chain, but you can't control the order, and you can't add them to separate parts of the signal. For example, the splitter module lets you divide the signal into high and low frequency parts, but doesn't let you do anything other than adjust the mix for each part. I'd like to be able to apply separate effects to each part. The BOSS lets you do this. To me, this is the biggest weakness of the Zoom unit.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with it, and will keep it in the house. I'll update more as I get to know it.
As an aside, I plugged my guitar into it, too, and it sounded great. Even some of the effects that were muddy with the bass sounded good.
Add me to the list! I have a b2.1u on the way! My first bass fx! Pretty new to TB, but am luvvin it!
Still waiting for my Zoom Next week I hope. I was reading some of the posts today and some say the GT10b is the way to go. I had a GT6B and hated it! I went to Zoom because I Tried Boss, and Digitech and for my taste didn't care for either. So that's way I'll try Zoom next. Hoping to get a nice reverb, chorus, and delay that doesn't change the classic sound of my G&L2500. Antone out there used the GT10b and switch to a Zoom?
Thanks
Thanks
Hah hah. Read my post earlier in the the thread, I'm 34 and have one of the first ever 506's that I've used at some very big gigs! With some very nice kit
I'm now running my zoom b9.1ut into two berg ae210's with a shuttle 9, all custom cables and a gramma pad. And just bought a B1x for my 'portable rig with the shuttle and a Barefaced midget t.
Be proud of knowing something many people dont
Zoom kick ass!!
I have a Zoom B9.1ut as well. I'm a newb and have no idea how to create a patch so I pretty much use it for a tuner atm, lol. I have seen patch sites for the B2 and others but is there a site that offers patches for the B9?
Do you have access to a computer near the zoom? The manuals are online, and software is available to create patches via MIDI (cable required).
I downloaded the software and manual and I'm gonna give it a shot. Thanks. 
Is there a way or a place for people to share the patches that they've created? I haven't found any for the B9.
Is there a way or a place for people to share the patches that they've created? I haven't found any for the B9.
I downloaded the software and manual and I'm gonna give it a shot. Thanks.
I wish I knew of one! Though I think the patches would sound different on different basses....
I never thought of that. Good point.
