Zoom 1010

Once you have a bit of a fiddle with it you can get the hang of editing patches and get a reasonable sound from it. The manual is fairly straight forward. As far as I know it can't be upgraded, as with most cheap pedalboards, but an FP01 expression pedal can be added.

Without noise reduction on, the distortions sound quite noisy when you aren't playing, especially on the higher gain types, like fuzz and metal T. The noise reduction works excellently. Overall the distortions are fairly good, but it is all very raw, and not warm like a valve amp. Chorus, flanger, delay and reverb are all great, but the delay length is only 420ms, which can be a little limiting. Compression is OK, not great. but OK.

The unit doesn't look very solid but it is surprisingly strong. I would use it live as it's all I've got and I'm not very rich. Once a little stone got stuck under one of the pedals which stopped it from moving but it was fairly easy to get out.

I bought it second hand but it was still under warranty. I never had to deal with the people so I don't know what they're like.

I would definantly buy it again as it has a whole bunch of good effects for the budding musician on a tight budget. It adds life to cheap equipment. It is small and light, yet solid. It could benifit from an auto-wah function, tremolo, and maybe a phaser but it was great for the money. It improves the sound of a cheap guitar like mine heaps,

excellent value, fairly easy to use

looks very rugged

I'd buy one again, but they are a budget unit. If I had more money...
There is a non commercial site related to this unit at http://www.harely.demon.co.uk/effects.htm, with sound samples

Quite easy! - Just plug and play, really, every beginner or guitarest on a budget should have one. And the patch editing is fairly fool proof compared to some of the higher priced competitive products I've tried.

Veriaty of effects is hard to beat in this size price and compact package.
Fairly quiet operation in almost all patches, unless your using "hotwired" single coiled pickups like an old Stratocaster,...But even then the built in noise gate/suppresor cuts most of it out between notes ,...besides, a few "fret squeeks, slides, and buzz's" adds a more real feel and tone to an otherwise too clean pre-packaged sound.
The only draw back is it is output is mono, where as I perfer sterio, But for plugging directly to normal mono guitar amp it is just fine. but in a recording situation I find mono a little confineing,.... However when I record with it I discovered if you plug it:
Guitar----Zoom.1010----(Sterio effects processor)----Mixer/Recorder (I use an - "ART*FXR")
It sounds really big and powerful.

I've had it for three munths and so far it's always worked perfect, even when just trowing it in the bag and lugging it from place to place, home to jam to gig to where ever and back again,....Yes I would use it most places without a back-up.

I have had no trouble with it yet. so I Don't have an opinion on this one.

Yes I would buy it again, I am sold on it, I've tried other brands, and even higher priced Zoom units as well, and it's sounds can't be beat for such a low price. - I've even talked two of my friends into trying mine,.. thay where so impressed with it, thay each now have one of thair own.

Very easy to use. I was programming my own patches in less than 15min after I took it out of the box.

Sounds really good! It certainly gives all the other more expensive models a run for their money! The distortions are by far the best sounds in the box. Combined with the compressor and eq it's possible to get a range of distorted sounds on just one type of distortion. One gripe though - the chorus and flange is a little too weak for my liking, although it might be good for some people because even if you turn the chorus or flange up to full, it won't eat your guitar sound.

Haven't had it for long....

Never dealt with them....

The 1010 is an excellent budget multi-effects unit that sounds like one you normally pay double for. It sounds great and works well. It's light so it's not a burden to carry around (I haven't got a car). I consider my money well spent on this one. It's too bad it doesn't have a tremolo, though...

This pedal has a range of 32 preset sounds, so its a matter of remembering what sounds are where. But you can always find a sound suitable. The patches are easy to edit, and while complex, the procedure is quite simple after some practice. The manual is a touch on the small side, without detailed explanations on the effects.

The 1010 has pleanty of different effects (23 I think) and any 6 of these can be used at any one time, however I've noticed that many patches seem to sound the same. (Due to the digital processing??) But there are pleanty of effects and every effect can be alterted (timing, feedback etc).

This pedal has never missed a beat while I've been using it.

I found this pedal great value for money (there are new models around with built in speakers and stuff). It has provided great inspiration as well as amazed all my friends with the new cool sounds I can get.

I found it very easy to use and edit, but I don't like the small buttons used to put it into the edit mode and then to change the values in the patches.

The pedal wah isn't very good. After adding the FP01 expression peddal the changes were somewhat choppy where as on a dunlop, the changes are very smooth. The distortion unit is fairly good. Adding the amp simulator seemed to make the distortion smoother. Some of the higher gain types, such as the fuzz and metal cheate large ammounts of hiss, which the noise reduction dosen't help out on. It only makes the overall output level quieter. The only setting that reduced this was lowering the presence setting, which made the overall output dull. The EQ isn't bad and the chouus, delay, reverb, and flanging are all great.

I have had mine for nine months and without a single problem.

I would probably buy it again. Overall it is a very solid unit. The one thing I hate is that the distortion is so compressed that it dosen't even matter how had you play,(your attack style dosen't come through). I wish it had larger edit buttons.

This is very easy to use and simple to edit patches. The manual tells you everything you need to know.

The sound quality is excellent and all 16 distortions are great and the delay is good to the only problem is the chorus and flanger are a little weak.

It is very reliable no problems at all no backup needed

If i had to buy it again i would go with a higher model maybe a 2020

In order to create a patch using all of the effects (or whichever effects you want) you have to first find a preset patch with the effects you're looking for and then edit them, even in the user patches. The manual was no help in explaining how to start from scratch.

All the effects sounded good. Wah was weak. The noise reduction function worked good

There is a slight delay when you switch between patches. It sounds horrible switching between patches during songs.

After sitting down in music stores with various other Korg and Roland processors, I found that the 1010 was just the easiest to program.

I was really let down by the lack of a phaser effect. In addition, the Drive Master and Vintage OD effects are terrible. The amp simulator causes waves in the tone, but that's probably because I'm monitoring it through a crappy amp.

The 1010 is a very reliable processor. I've used it for everything since I got it, and it hasn't failed me once. Not even when lightning struck the electrical lines during band practice...

I had really wanted the Zoom 4040, but I just couldn't afford the extra $200. I found an article in a guitar magazine for it and bought it 2 days later. It was the best thing I ever did for my guitar. It turned cheap, crappy equipment into a beautiful, fully operable unit. I just wish it had some form of rotating speaker effect or pitch modulator on it.

Very easy ,crisp sound, with relatively no practice. Switch overs are a little slow,but it is definitly worth every penny!

Not to noisy with proper use of the noise reduction settings.If you have a shitty guitar like me set it to 5.All effects are as strong as they get,Try a fuzz/chorus combo,it'll blow you away!

So far I have never had a problem. It is not a stomp box however, and it is made of plastic.

I love it! I would buy it again in a second. I recommend it to anyone who does'nt want to throw their money away on like five different pedals when they can get the best of everything for less than the price of two!