Zoom GFX-707

Excuse for my english...I'm Italian! But now I speak about GFX. It's too easy to use, there are no problems to program patches and to create your best sound.

With the zoom I use a Fender Roc Pro 700 amp with an Ibanez GIO. There is a patch programmed that have a great distorsion! His name is VHALEN, like the artist name. I can't get the sound of my favourite artist, that are Marlene Kuntz ( an italian group), because they use a very crazy distorsion with a clean sound fantastic!

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I have any problem with GFX, so I can't say nothing about this question!

I playied hard core (NOFX, MILLENCOLIN...) and his soun is perfect. I don't like wha wha, and flanger, and all clean sound are no satisfactly. That is my opinion.

Very Easy just like 505

My Setup, Les Paul into 707 into Marshall Valvestate produces sound that a #500+ Unit would be proud of

Metal would of been better than plastic but the plastic is okay, during gigs i use the 707 and a Big Muff for extreme Distorions no problems.

No Problems yet i've only had it 2 months!

I would recommend the 707 to any from the pro's to begginners i've been playing 4 years and owned mny multi-FX but this is the best yet.

Ease of use??? Well I sure expected something better. My 505 is much easier to use. Although in general terms it is good, I would expect an external expression pedal connector (the on-board is somewhat crappy), as well as bigger edit/store/sampler/etc buttons. Finally, the white knobs would be better if they rotated freely. Most of the times, you have to turn it all the way to the beginning and then readjust the value. On the other hand, you can get used to it pretty fast and is much more user friendly than the a Korg shit for example.

The sound quality is really great for such a low budget multieffect pedal. The noise reduction system does a really good job, without significatly affecting the overall sound - a must have in all distorsion effects! The amp simulator is pretty good (not as good as a POD though). I only wished that the guys at ZOOM had done a somewhat better job at making the DSP of the 707. The MOD effects group is not as good as expected and the distorsion could have been a bit better.

I trust ZOOM for what they make more than anyone else. I have worked with many different ZOOM pedals (505, 506, 707, 708) and they were more reliable than anything else. Although its made of plastic, it can survive hard use. I would neve use it on stage though - only in small gigs.

I don't have a clue about support, since I never had to contact them. I guess they must be pretty good though.

If you're looking for an under $200 multieffect pedal, The GFX-707 is one of the best out there. It is most suitable for group rehersals (the preamp can drive even a 20-30 W solid state amp to the limits) and for off-home practicing. The sound quality is good enough, in case you need it for a small gig or an amateurish recording (the amp simulator does a really good job when you're directly connected to a mixer). Just remember not to have too many effects at the same time, cause the sound becomes too crappy.

easy to use good manual great sound i didnt think it would sound that good!

perfect sound van halen dist.good wah other wahs take away your sound i was very suprised

i would use this at a gig without backup any day good very reliable!

one of the best pedal boards that i have ever used i use it at all of my gigs everywhere if you dont have one get one!!!!!

For some reason I didn't receive the manual with the unit which would have been helpful, but after a few hours of tinkering it soon became pretty clear how to use it. The combination of the buttons and knobs to alter aspects of the patches is pretty nifty and makes the thing easy to understand. I imagine it would be a useful item for a beginner cos you can pretty much just plug in and get experimenting.

I'm using an Epiphone Les Paul Studio along with a Marshall JCM900 half stack and to be honest some of the effects are letting the team down. The wah is quite good but some of the others such as the flange just seem lost in my setup. The std chorus on patch A3 is really good but there is a surplus of dodgy distortion sounds. Having said that, there are plenty of other patches which offer less common sounds (such as "Talk" and "60's") which, even with their factory settings, give you a great sound. It also has to be said that while the drum machine is very useful indeed, the sampler really is a piece of unmitigated crap.

Now we come to the less reedeming feature of the unit. I am very wary about putting too much of my weight on it whilst operating the pedal as it is of a reasonably light-weight construction. This doesn't stop me using it live but it is surely a concern you can do without in a gig situation. Also, the input area for the AC adaptor could do with being a bit more robust as I have occasionally lost power when the unit has moved while practising.

Haven't needed it yet.

As a songwriter in a band I have found the unit very helpful in writing new material cos of the cool sounds you can create through it. As for other music I am into stuff like My Vitriol and REM and can certainly recreate some of their sounds through it. However I would have reservations about its durability and quality in the long-term. At the moment its a smart product and great value for (relatively little) money. But in later years it will need replacing with a more expensive, better quality FX pedal.

The sound is awesome. when I bought it, I wasn`t expecting it to be as good as it is. good presets distortions and compressors. the manual is really easy to use (friendly manual) I just had a hard time playing with the edit mode, but I solved that in a couple of days.

i am using a jackson ps4 through a marshal mg-15 amp. not big thing. a set for myself in my room. it kick ass. the sound of it is unbealiveable. most of the effects are good. of course, its weakness is some of the presets effects, that are not very usefull. but you can edit 30 of them and set your own. i play a lot of santana stuff, blues, jazz, and latin music. there is a patch that i edited that gives the sound of black magic woman exactly as you hear it on the record. i would recommend that you read the manual first, and then edit your own patches to get real good effects.

i would use it for live performance without a problem.

never had a problem with it.

I play latin jazz in my band mixed with a little bit of distortion. the sound i get from it is acceptable. i`ve been playing for 9 years and this is a good pedal, of course with more money you could get something better allways. i own a washburn bt2 and a rythm track machine plus a track recorder. i do have a lot of fun when i am playing and editing at home with all the gear. if the pedal were lost i would replace it (if i had the same budget when i bought it)i love the fuzz-comp wha effect. this effect gives a real close effect to hendrix voodo chile slight return wah pedal. i got no complaints. i am very happy with it.

Pretty easy to use when you first get it. Radio Shack had an AC adapter that cost me $8. Zoom wants $20+. The manual seems pretty complete. If you just want to bump around in some of the 60 preset patches, it's very quick to get underway.

If you want to do a lot of modifications, you're much better off reading the manual first. RTFM!

Here's where it gets good. I'm running an Ibanez Acoustic Amp (Troubadour TA25) and a Epi Les Paul Classic Ltd Edition. The LP was a late addition, prior to that I was only using 2 Ovations and playing through the acoustic amp. The Les Paul sounded pretty good thru that amp with it's fully adjustable chorus and reverb. But I wanted to play around with some distortion and FX (metal to jazz/blues). This 707 does a nice job of that. I'm very happy so far. It's the best of both worlds.

I haven't had it long enough to comment.

Ditto

I'm having a blast playing around with this thing. True what others have said about some useless patches, but you can modify 30 of them if you choose.

It sounds great through my high quality Sony headphones as well. The sound I get out of the Zoom in by-pass mode is nearly the exact sound I get out of my acoustic amp with no reverb or chorus. I'm hearing the Les Paul's "true" sound.

The Zoom and the Ibanez Acoustic Amp are great together. Not a bad combo for less than $350.

THe sound I get out of this Pedal is badass i dont know what your all talking about its sound great. EAsy to use after ounce you mess with it for a while i figured it all out after 2 days of having it.

I use a Ibanez AX120. Not noisy at all with the block on that gets rid of the Hum sound. I use the distortion on the pedal its very nice for my type of music It gives out a good low sound witch i like. I use a G100rcd Marhsall head with a 4'12 cabnet.

I dont know i think ill break it some day cause its plastic so im carefull with it.

I got it off of ZZsounds.

ITS BADASS PEDAL GO BUY IT!.

Le GFX-707 est plutot facile a utiliser. Certains effets se reglent tres rapidement, sans complications. Mais la plupart du temps, il faut suivre le manuel pour bien faire les ajustements. Par contre, l'ajustement de l'EQ est plutot compliquee a maitriser.

La qualite des sons est plutot moyenne. Pour le prix de l'appareil, on ne peut pas souhaiter les sons des pedales Roland. Les sons "presets" sont bon en general. J'aime bien le son "Van Halen". Aussi le son "emulation d'une guitare 12 cordes" est tres bien. Je suis par contre decu des distortions et surtout de l'overdrive. Les sons ne sont pas "clean". Quand on joue avec les controles pour se faire un son, on dirait que ce n'est jamais satisfaisant. Les "presets" sonnent toujours mieux.

J'aime bien la pedale en generale, surtout que c'est mon premier multi-effet. Je crois qu'on peut s'y fier. Les 30 "patchs user" sont suffisants pour preparer d'avance tous les sons necessaires a un spectacle pour les acceder en sequence.

Pas eu besoin de support.

Pedale honnete pour un prix plus que resonnable.
Je la recommenderais.
Par contre, si joulais investir plus $, je penserais au VG-8 de Roland.

Easy, read the manual, play a few of the patches, edit them to see how they work, ditch the presets and make your own noises, work from the bottom up.

Setup: Yamaha 1511ms -> GFX-707 -> Award-Session Sessionette 75.
No noise - great humbuckers on guitar, good cables, remember to play around with the ZNR noise reduction level, it's like dolby, gets rid of the hiss, but muffles the sound a bit, so must be used in conjunction with the EQ.
Effects mainly useful, too many distortions which sound the same.
I don't try to emulate artists - too specific, remember there are millions of pedal/rack combinations which the real guitarists use, so I don't get hung up on trying to sound exactly like them.
I like the chorus, compression, delay, (hate digital reverb), Jam play is unusable.
REMEMBER, BEFORE YOU BLINDLY TRASH THIS UNIT - THE PRESET PATCHES NEED TO BE EDITED TO SUIT YOUR OWN SET UP

Seems fine, it is plastic, but that tough ABS plastic, strong enough for me. Had it 3 months, no worries. Oh yeah, invest in the mains adapter.

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I play a very eclectic mix of folk, alternative, and like alternifying pop songs... so this set up suits me well, lots of things to play with. I won't use 70% of the settings, but I don't care, the settings I create and use will be used all of the time.
I would buy another one, it's so cheap and cheerful.
Loves and Hates? I love the wide range of sounds to experiment with, and hate the ill informed trashings given by some of the other reviewers, sorry guys but did you actually try to use it properly?
I didn't need to compare this with other units, this had the features and the price - enough said.
Anything I wish it had? Less distortions and some synth modes like the Bass version.