Zoom 1010

a little confudeing at first but once you ger the hang of it real easy

The sound is amazing. it would go so fare as to say it is at the heart of my sound. I play a Gibson SG and a Fender Stat. I will tell you that if one guitar cant get the sound the other can. The amp's this sounds best with are 1X12 combos and such not big 4X12. The only complant i have is not enuff user banks.

i never had a problem with it and io kick around all the time.

dont know never needed it

Well it is a good pedal if you work with it. But if you think you can just plug it in and kick butt. your dreaming good tone is labor of love or luck!

As far as multi FX go the Zoom 1010 is not very user friendly if you are just starting out. I bought mine about 4 years ago. The presets were decent but not very creative. the manual was helpful but not extensive.

I used this two different setup. My first was a crappy Kustom amp with a Squier Strat. It sounded decent to me at the time. Then I ran an Epiphone Les Paul Studio Pearl through it to a Roland GC408x Stack. IT slaughters the Pauls tone and made the stack sound very thin. The effect were terrible. The only reason I give it a 2 is because the distortion was at least usable to some extent. The wah is unusable with the $70 wah pedal and sure as hell isnt worth it, the compressor is weak. The corus is thin and choppy. The delay is so digitaly cheesy you can recognize your original tone. The flanger is somewhat usable but not as good as other multi FX in this price range. I compared this with a less expensive KORG AX1G and the KORG blew it away in tone and quality. I have tried several Zoom pedals and they are all JUNK. Toneless, and painfully digital. Save your money and buy the Korg.

Dont put your eggs in this basket at all. After 3 1/2 years the unit went stone dead on me. I never used it in a gig setting either, just easy practice use. Of course no guitarist would be caught dead gigging with this thing. It did last 3 1/2 years though. So I give it a 2

When the unit broke Zoom was very helpful. I never sent it in to get fixed though. I just sold it as BROKEN on Ebay. And I got $70 out of the stupid thing, and the people I sold it too Knew it was broke. Well Thank god there are uneducated shoppers out there.

This was the biggest peicce of junk I have ever bought for the guitar. It is not suitable for any music at all. if it had been stolen I would not have sought to find it because the criminal would get his punishment by having to use the thing.

Piece of cake... can learn to use it in a few minutes. Just stick to the manual; but I believe that you can learn to use it even without the manual.

Comp - (4) Even to the trained ear, the compressor doesn't seem noticeable. Wah - (2) I bought a separate FP01 pedal and I tell you, if you long for Kirk Hammet wah sounds or Cry baby-ish tones then you'll be frustrated. Tip: Don't buy the separate foot pedal. Distortion - (6) Eight Different Distortions + eight of the same kind, except that they are amp simulated... Good for blues but if you long for crunchy or shredding distortion then this is not for you. EQ - (7) This may be the product's redeeming factor... Maybe a bad preset can somewhat be enhanced by this feature. Chorus - (9) Very clean and versatile-sounding, if you manipulate the parameters. Flange (8) Good for the "jet scream" and flange settings of other sorts. Doubler - (8) - simulates 2 guitars playing at the same time. Sounds close to Room Reverb. Reverb - (7) - Has Hall reverb. Just hall reverb. No Plate reverb, no church or garage or stage reverb. Has Room reverb though. Delay - (4) Good for Eric Johnson-ish delay (short and decays quickly) but not recommended for Steve Vai-ish delay (long and decays slowly) because the maximum time is only 420 ms.

Not dependable. One day you might be shocked that your bank pedal would not work anymore. I had the 3 patch pedals repaired by replacing the tact switches on the PCB. Buttons eventually malfunction, in as short as a year or a year and a half, for a brand new set.

Hmmm. Well? They charge a lot. Maybe 20 times as much as the cost of labor and materials. I chose fixing it on my own.

My repertoire ranges from Cannibal Corpse to Metallica to Pearl Jam to Steve Vai to Joe Satriani to Eric Johnson. The bottom line is, the unit can't suit my needs. If you play blues or simple hard rock or grunge then maybe this would be enough. But eventually, you'll consider a better alternative, like a Digitech RP-7 or a Zoom 8080. But to come to think of its price, it's better having one than buying several stompboxes.

the distortions suck, as do the rest of the effects.

Seems rather shoddy, the pedals are very little and i had a constant fear of breaking the whole thing by stomping on it too hard.

Had it for 6 weeks, sold it, bought a BOSS ME-8. Don't even consider buying this product. Thank you. Goodbye.

Uh.. well yah, it took me about 2 minutes to cycle through all the effects and controls and figure 'em out, though i've never used a pedal before, I thought it was pretty damn simple. What, 2 buttons and an up/down.. sheesh. Overall, getting what you want from it is simple, even though I had no manual (bought second hand).

I'm using this pedal with a $150 Legend bass, and a sound city 30b amp. I *think* it's a guitar amp, but then again the fact that the bass response is sweeet and the "b" on it... Anyhow, the zoom adds no noise to the chain, if anything, the compressor cuts it down a little. I must say, the compressor sens5, attack10, gets an awesome sound, like tom araya (slayer), and is good for slap/poping, whereas 10/10 will get a metallica feel. It's also good for general rock/blues and jazz playing. Though, the reverb is ghastly sometimes, and the flanger is iffy too. Not good, as my amp is quite noisy, though on something decent, the zoom would be ok.

Jesus, it works fine, does what it's meant to. I don't know its history, but I think it's newish, and used a bit. So far, the footswitches are ok.

The website is crap, as far as I remember. Though it should be fine.

I play thrash (bass), metal, rock, blues, country - damn near everything, and I mainly use the compressor, and the chorus and/or reverb. It improves my sound tremendously, as my amp has no inbuilt fx. There's a distortion/amp simulator, a guitar effect, but I use it sometimes, and it's very crisp. The OD Valve amp is nice for bass. The flanger is okay, but only just.
The zoom 1010 is a good effect to have, if it's all you can afford. I don't think I'd get anything else even if I had the money. It's good for what I need, and if I need a punk bass sound, or a nirvana sound, or a metallica sound or a flea sound, it's all in there and easy to get. I'd recommend it to anyone, though admittedly, I've never used anything else by way of effects. (I'd use the reverb on a marshall rather than the reverb on this thing, but it does okay.)

The good thing is it is compact, cheap, a lot of effects. I like the reverb and chorus making a nice sound with the amp simulator and i like some of the distortions. The bad thing is the buttons worns out and the fpo1 pedal (for the wah) is i think 1/3 the price of the zoom 1010 ( which i think is expnesive so i got the zoom 4040 cause it has the pedal already.

id rather use a korg sound module or a set of boss effects

takes practice. buttons (inc. footswithces) small and inconsistent in terms of pressure needed to trigger. common occurence to step on several footswithces at same time, and time consuming to cycle through many banks.

pre-programmed effects are really cheesy attempts at traditional sounds, but user programmed effects can be good. i created an amazing distortion: very crunchy, full, controlled, the anti-fuzz; then made other weird noisy stuff. i liked the noise reduction option, and the tuner function.

i have had my pedal for two years, played a few shows with it. 2 main problems: bank selector switch broke, adaptor (mandatory i think) too easily unpluggable.

i liked the numerous options and sounds. good for the price and size.

VERY VERY easy... no secrets, the manual fill all the needs... 10 minutes editing patchs is enough to learn all about it.

I use an Ibanez RG60 and a regular transistor-amp. Flanger and the reverbs are cool, delay is too short (46ms), compressor and wah are terrible, and the distorcions... god, I don't have words, is the WORST thing I've ever heard. Without the Amp Simulator, the guitar sounds like a chain saw or something like that. But, even with the Amp Sim, the distorcion is crap. I'll give 7 for clean sound and -1 for distorcions... -1 + 7 / 2 = 4....

Well, I droped it many times, and nothing happened. But sometimes the + and - buttons don't work. Well, I wont use it in gig, it sucks when the buttons dont work.

Sorry, no opinion

I play blues, vintage stuff (Deep purple, Led Zeppelin), heavy metal (Metallica, sepultura), and the 1010 is terrible in all of these styles. When I use clean sound it's pretty OK, but the distorcions, urgh. I'll never buy it again. Anyway I liked the EQ, its pretty simple and works fine. Digital distortions are crap, but 1010 is more than crap. But hey

sounds good notse gate bette than on my art ecc dont cut youre signal off and lets you sustain editing patches is good and can scroll thru user or preset patches.

withe strat by applause art ecc and laney with carvin cab.

yes i would depend on it for the money you pay you get all those effects and a tuner like it better in some ways than my art ecc and the art is more money?

good and sites on the internet with patches cant find any sites for the art ecc,dont think this unit is able to upgrade?

good value for the money and found mine used on the net here?

easy to use cant go up and down editing patches easy sound of patches bad sound edit patches you can get good metal sound no limiter you get manual wich is good unit is bad any zoom product is very good for one sound only metal digital sound if you ask me the effects are good.

strat and laney amp carvin 4&12 cab noisy dist settings nr helps not enough effects good you can get srv sound dist is digital sounding not like others i have tryd with same setup not as noisey as zoom 5000 more than 505 thas sad this is more money better than thetube works pedal i bought should have called it the bee hive real tube too?

yes i do give this unit a 10 zoom prouduts are the best.

never had to use it replaced thre weeks after i got it with art ecc use the zoom for effects only no comp no eq no dist ,sad 165.00 for unit that only uses 3 effects at once thinking of getting zoom 500 series les money better price

hope to sell or trade away not my type of unit sell for 75.00i ship