Zoom GFX-707

The manual is ok ...
editing the patches will take much time .. most of the built in ones sucks ...

I can't believe people are rating this piece of s**t as a 10 ... I doubt if this guys had ever tried any boss , ibanez or marshall effects pedals ... The pitch shifter is ridiculous , very "unreal" (the second guitar sounds like it's with the ring modulator effect - which is also terrible , no use at all) compression , distortion, flanger, phaser etc ... they all suck ... zoom707 make Van Halen sound like Smashing Pumpkins ... Satriani like Kurt cobain ... Zack Wylde like Limp Bizkit ....you got it ....
I woundn't recomend it for any kind of use cause it's really terrible

it's PLASTIC ... like a toy ...
If you wan't to use it on a gig do it with a backup
worked fine at my house for almost two years

Never needed that

I play VHalen, Satriani , Gary Moore, Zack Wylde .. etc ...
When I bought it I was a beginer .. didn't know anything about efects pedals ... I think that's the main reason why so many people are buying zoom pedals. ...
GFX707 is a toy .. just like this drum kits you owned when you were 6 years old ...

Easy. ish.

There is no entry for features- so here is one:
FEATURES: 2
Low rating because they lie. The go on about all these modules, whenm in fact they are just like what you asign the pedal to do, and you only really have 3 genuine ones. It kionda owns up to this in the manual.
The expression pedal is great, but as the wah sounds pants, its useless.
The naff little screen is also impossible to see unless in EXACTLY the right conditions.

OK, I know I dont have a great guitar in the front (Squier strat), but recently I parted with a lot of wonga for an amp with a valve in.
I love the tone the valves gave me, and I decided that for one song, it would be great coupled with a wah. I rigged up the 707 in the fx loop, and imagine the look of disgust on my face when, even in full bypass mode, it made my Ecc-83 sound like a particularly cheap piece of silicon!
The main drawback to its sound is when you dont want it. I obviously dont need drive, and I just wanted a wah, and it mushed up my sound, and spat out a mess with some wah over the top of it. Not good!

The distortions themselves are just miles away from even my cheap stomper (#45 Guvnor+), let alone the nuances of vales which it destroyed. The flange/trmelo stuff is also a bit, well, lacking.

The acou sim is quite good, especially with some chorus dialled over the top.

The compressor is dire! It doesn't compress, it just muches things up.

I have to give it to it that its quiet, even from mains. But its still crap.

Yep, the jacks are shit, I had the problem too. A couple of months after the warranty went it went iffy, then later it gave up.
That was about a year ago. I dug itn back up, and taking a solodering iron and shoving it up trhe back at random did a world of good.

I trashed one of the switches, but now it works better- tip pull out the switch and break it- it makes it work better, providing the jacks havent fucked up already!

Just pants!

1) get a decent guitar.
2) get a decent amp.
3) last of all- get decent stompers/rack mounts.
4) Never buy this.

thats its rather second rate nutshell

Well its pretty easy to figure it out, you might have to take a peek into the manual, i mean there are like 48 effects on it. there's a lot to learn...but i still dont know how to combine effects.

sound is just fine, every effect has its own unique sound, and it's pretty cool

here we go.....TOTAL CRAP, i take this thing to practice, or even when i practice at home...it doesnt move...i have to sit there for about 30 minutes to get the input AND output jacks to co-operate, i thought it was my cords, then i used new cords into it, and it still didnt work. well this is a good pedal if you plan on using it brand new for about 3 months, but longer than that and it will crap out on you before u know it, and you're sitting there kicking the robot piece of garbage all around your basement, makes quite the clean up, but anyways, i WOULD NOT recommend this, i am just now starting to buy seperate pedals, something i should have done a long long time ago.

never dealt with zoom, hmm thats a good idea maybe i should...probably wont tho, its not worth my time, because i see i'm not the only one with the jack problem.

overall i think the pedal has some cool effects built into it, too bad the jacks suck on it, i took it apart and tried to find some wires loose or some crap like that, but i didnt find anything, i didn't wanna mess with it more, and completely total the thing. now a days (after a year of having it) it still kinda works after 30 minutes of kicking it and figeting with the cords, like i said. but i do like about 5 effects on it, they kinda get repetative...i mean theres like 15 types of distortion

I found this unit really simple to use, it didn't take much time to get about. Maybe it's difficult for older guitarists, but it's their problem.

My setup: Cort X-2 ==> GFX 707 ==> Crate GX65 solid-state .
And I'm satisfied with the posibility to change the sound depending on your amplifier. So I use standart delays and heavy self-made sound.
In general quolity is good enough.

The main minus is that it's made of plastic. I don't like using the expression pedal because of that. To a big gig for backup i'd take my old setup: DD-2 ==> MT-2

Never used

Generally my played style is hard rock with some gothic ideas, so this unit is right OK for me. It's already 8 years, I've used LEL, DOD, BOSS pedals. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages, but this one is most comfortable to use - in , out, power, and thats it - you have them all (you just have to make right settings).

It is fairly easy to use, I didn't read the manual (I never do) and got it all pretty much igureds out.

I don't no much about sound quality but it does sound pretty well, sometimes its a real b@(#* to set the volumes right but for a cheap pedal its pretty good.

NO, you cannot depend on its F(&%)#)$ input jacks, unless you open up the peddal, do a good welding and get some glue around the inputs so tey don't move. Of course, the opening of the peddal voids the warranty but it already was expired.

Never tried customer support.

It is pretty good fo r a starter like I was when I bought it, but now I'm thinking of buying a GT-6 like my friend or a GFX-8, but I'm gonna read along for the GFX-8's reliability on the web before spending big bucks.

I purchased my GFX-707 two years ago with limited expectations: I wanted to hear as many effects as possible at the cheapest price and I wanted a portable headphone amp to travel with or practice alone. As a library of sounds, the GFX-707 succeeds, though many of the sounds are better heard through headphones (e.g., stereo chorus). If you want to do much editing, check out the Zoom website where they have posted the whole operation manual in a PDF file. The manual is thorough and the patches are all alterable; be aware that tinkering with the settings is a chore and time taken away from actual music. To the pedal's credit, there are a lot of presets, including the ones for the drum machine (better than a metronome) and the amp simulations, so you can certainly make a lot of different noises.

This is not a foot pedal for public performance. It's too small, too light, and just too cheesy to do to your audience. The pedals, including the wah/volume one, are too tiny, the red LED readout can't be read on stage, and the bypass mode strips tone and volume very badly. What the GFX does do well is provide samples of a lot of sounds you may find a use for in recording and just searching for ideas. Fooling around with just headphones, you'll love the stereo separation and amp simulations; these do not translate well through a regular amp (I use small Fenders). The preset effects can be embarrassing (VHALEN and the Larry Carlton ones are awful), but with my Strat I've actually gotten a usable 12-string Rickenbacker sound, some good compressed Tele riffs, and found songs to use the strange Violin and Reverse presets for.

It's irrelevant to rate this for stage use; this is more of a personal item (like a Walkman)that will last as long as you avoid abusing it. In my two years, the jacks and switches have all hung in there, but I've never dropped it or yanked on the cables.

No need yet to contact Zoom.

The GFX-707 is essentially a toy, fun to play with, made of plastic, not too expensive. I use very few effects when I play (reverb) and depend on the amp for volume and distortion, so doubt I'll ever buy another pedal effect.The comparable Korg, Boss, Digitech, and other multi-effect pedals I tried didn't seem to add anything better. I am happy with the the GFX however for what it does provide: funny sounds, interesting presets, a tuner, a drum machine/metronome, and a headphone amp.

Kinda easy, if you have a) patience, and b) no real desire to get anywhere in a hurry and c) you are sat down on a sofa with 4 gours to spare, i.e. not in a band practice.

The thing costs #99 so you expect the crap it gives you.
For the money its good, but come on, why don't ya just save up for better guitars/amps/rack mounts/stompers whatever.

Its gotta six, purely for value for wonga.

ye, erm, zoom make shit stuff.
They mount everything on one board, solder it on, with what looks like the tail of a chinchilla for a soldering iron.
The jacks are on the circuit boards which means they'll fall off soon enough. Fine if your dads an electrician., but mine aint.
No hope for getting it fixed if anything drops off the bottom, cos taking out the circuit board to fix it means taking everthing (display., switches etc) out with it, and then working out how the hell the got the piece of junk to go together at all. Its a disposable box: play it, watch it break, dispose.

Its shit in a natty plastic case.

uuuhh. they make shit stuff, theyre a cheap as fuck company, so youve no hope.

i lost it down the back of a bookcase, and quite frankly, i have no desire to fetch it. The jacks work about one second out of every hour, and i dont have the patience to work with that that piece of shit, trying to work out if i have pressed a 'shit sound' switch.

It takes forever to figure out how to make the sound you want and then longer to obtain anything close to the sound u were intending to make

I got this pedal by accident (music123.com sent me the 707 instead of the 707II) and i played around with it......... my setup? A junky 20 wat johnson amp and a esp 252 (great guitar....)....... Basically everything sucks......... distortions are week and thin sounding and some just sound like static with metal being dragged down the highway in the background....... the acoustic thing was pretty good, i thought, and some of the effects werent terrible, but also not great.... I hate how you cant turn off the reverb (at least i dont know how).... every patch has it and it gets old....... If you dink with the settings long enough you can get a reletively decent distortion sound using the metal or wild fuzzy, but the dist1 and 2 and od1 and 2 and anything thats compressed doesnt sound very good....... Oh yeah, the compressor and distortion modular is the same, which bothers me........ anyways, if u get it be prepared to work to get any usably patches...... and the van halen thing does kinda suck..... and who is gonna use the jappennese pop patch???? anyways, i give it a 6 cuz you can get some kinda good sounds out of it, but u have to work for it...........

i just wrote this to inform u that ur bnot gonna get any good preset patches. I suggest either the 606 or the 707II........ ill write a reveiw on the 707II as soon as i get it.......

its easy to get a good sound. i just look on the net for patches people have worked out.
editing is easy too (with a manual).

I use an Ibanez GSA 60 through a peavy RAGE or a Tourqe 60w amp.
with Some distortions you cant even hear the melody.
clean sounds real nice.
i also like combo ampdrv and a custom one punk.
punks good for blink and greenday trace is good for system of a down.

sometimes the jacks cut out. So i got my dad (an electritian/technician) to fix them.
Ive had no problems on stage or at practices since.

I play mostly punk and metal + nu metal
Iv'e been playing since i was 9 (thats 6 years in total
if it were stolen id'e get something else.
You cant record for long enough.
some sounds you never use.
Since i got it our band hasn't been the same our music is so much more diverse. I can do things I just couldn,t do before

Once you get the hang of it it's easy to get what may be called a good sound from this pedal. The editing system is useful and easy to use although I think the whole pedal would be a lot better if each module could do everything all the others can so it would actually be possible to have, say chorus and vibrato on the same patch and its also annoying how you have to set the EQ for each patch instead of having a setting for the whole pedal.
The manual is very helpful and clear and especially useful when explaining each module although I still don't know how to use the jam function.

First of all as everyone else has said this pedal is very cheap, probably the cheapest multi fx processor there is, so of course the sound isn't gonna be authentic of any type of sound.
I use this with a valvestate amp which helps cos it puts a bit of life into the sterilised sound the pedal gives. The preset patches are mostly crap INCLUDING the Van halen one which everyone thinks is so great, But that doesn't matter cos you can delete half of them for your own patches. The patches all seem to be different volumes which is very annoying when you switch to an earsplittingly loud patch after have to turn it right up cos of the last quiet patch.
I have only been playing electric for 1yr but I still know that most of the effects on this are pathetic. The distortions are all crap and completely unbelievable, the phaser sounds weak and tinny, the vibrato sounds really dodgy, the compressor is useless and kills the attack of your guitar at most settings, the wah sounds too harsh and i have no idea what you would use the step or ring effect for.
The ampsim is completely unbelievable and makes little difference although it is a plus because some of the amps do actually make the guitar sound better.
The zoom noise reduction is actually quite good at cutting out the hiss but it seems to cut out some of the sound from the guitar so I never put it on.
All this said, the acoustic guitar sim, the chorus and the reverbs all sound alright.

I haven't broken it yet and probably wont if i take care of it but if i stubled onto it onstage I'd probably break it in half.

Not dealt with them.

Most of the people that bought this are probably begginners as anyone playing for more than 3yrs would not be seen dead with this. Because of this most of the reviews for this are better than they should be, If you got several experts to review it the reviews would probably be a lot worse.
Cos the distortions are so bad if your amp doesn't already have a good distortion you should really get a separate pedal for dist maybe from boss or marshal.
You may think this is okay for a begginers pedal but I would disagree cos even begginners will soon get pissed off with this pedal so if you are a begginer I would reccomend saving up a bit longer for a slightly better more expensive pedal.