Zoom GFX-707

It was roughly a plug in and play unit. It was a very user friendly effects box that was very intuitive to tweek the patches. I do have one complaint in that setting the volume to memory for each patch seemed to be impossible. It became cumbersome to adjust the volume level for every effect using the volume control pedal.

Once adjustments were made to the patches or amp modeling to compensate for your own personal sound, I felt the sound quality was pretty good. The distortion sounds were pretty good for the price...

I would say absolutely NOT! I had constant problems with the 1/4" input jacks. After twisting and pulling and jiggling my cables around for a year, I decided to test the units durability... The plastic housing is tougher than expected, however the heel of my boot is harder... I have layed this unit to rest...

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I play all styles of music, and this was a purchase that covered all styles I needed based on having a drum machine, multiple effects, looping (although very short), and expression pedal all in a small gig bag unit... I think the concept was great. A longer loop pattern, and a seperate volume control (not gain control) for tweaking the patches, would greatly improve this unit. BUT FIX THE $#*$#!#"#> INPUT JACKS!!!!! Unfortunately a large portion of my playing through the unit is based on the single MAJOR FLAW!!!!

In terms of patches, ease of use is good. The manual is clear and editing easy. General usability isn't so strong. I don't like the way you have to press both pedals concurrently to enter bypass or mute modes. Very risky - can easily find yourself moving from a clean, low level patch to a full on overdrive just at the wrong moment. I haven't done it live yet, but it's an accident waiting to happen... The expression pedal does not move far enough, so using it for volume control or subtle control of FX mix doesn't really work.
The GFX707 is not good for use outdoors or under bright stagelights. You cannot read the LED display at all. I have constructed a rather sad looking gaffa tape and cardboard housing to shade the display, but it is not really satisfactory. For this reason alone, I will replace the unit as soon as I can. Having given these negatives, the unit is not particularly expensive, so I guess there is an element of "You get what you pay for" here.

Sound quality is excellent for such a low cost unit. I run it through a Mesa/Boogie Subway Rocket with a Mexican Fender Tele. Have recorded a couple of live albums with it. People say they like the sound.

Yes, I rely on it, although with the plastic housing you need to be a little careful. I think the jack sockets are the weakest link. If they broke, the main board would probably be rendered useless. I do gig without a backup as I'd use the amp overdrive and reverb if it failed.

No need to use support so far and it's out of warranty now. If it goes wrong, it goes in the bin :-(

I was pleased with it when I purchased about 3 years ago - good price and sound quality. Reason for purchase was to replace my aging row of BOSS pedals and noisy patch leads. I would recommend it for anyone who wants to home record or play occasional indoor gigs. Main shortcomings:
1. Display unreadable in bright light
2. Bypass/Mute via 2 switches unwieldy
3. expression pedal insufficient travel to permit any real controlled expression.
Providing you plan to use it in the correct environment, this unit is a good buy in my opinion.

The 707 is fairly easy to use, once you've looked at the ol' manual. Editing patches isnt much of a problem either.

The overall sound quality isnt bad, however some pre-set effects are either shite or fucking pointless!
Anyway, you don't really need to use the pre-sets, coz its much more fun writing your own! Then, if it still sounds shite, YOUR to blame!

Its reliable, yes. Mine is second hand and hasn't broken down just yet! Metal would have been better than plasticmind.

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Overall, its pretty good. Ok, so ,aybe an expert player would go for someting more top of the range, but for beginers like me, its fine!
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very easy to use, as long as you know which buttons do what to change effect quickly.

The effects are Ok but not especially brilliant. The Acoustic effects dont sound remotely like an acoustic guitar, just like a guitar with no effects applied.

I've had two of these in the space of 4 months. The first one had a dodgy pedal that either didn't turn the effect off when fully down (like its supposed to) or kept turning the effect on and off when down. This first pedal also had menus that automatically turned themselves off and a Jam Play function that only worked once in a blue moon. So I sent it back, only to find that this model is discontinued, and the store I bought it from had none left, but after about a MONTHS moaning, they bothered to go get one from a store in the other side of the country. Finally got the second one today, hoping it would be fine, and guess what? THE PEDAL DOESNT WORK PROPERLY ON THIS ONE AS WELL! Incredibly dodgy pedal, would never use in a gig unless I had to.

Not the company itself but Exeter Music Shop should never be trusted!

This pedal is especially easy to use. It is great for beginners and people with a low budget. Some of the effects need to be tweaked to sound right through your equipment.

The sound for this item is absolutely amazing for how cheap it can be. Of course buying singular pedals would be better for many reasons the ZOOM GFX-707 offers most of them for an extremely low price.

I would defintely depend on it. It is farely sturdy and I havent had any problems wit it so for.

I havent dealt with the company so i can not answer this.

Well this product i feel is a very supportive beginners effects board and having the 60 beat patterns is a definete yes.

Easy to edit, but a little difficult to synchronize it with the sound of an amp (speaking of a Fender '85 Combo).
Patches are, with a little practice, easy to handle, although you never get exactly what you want, though nice.
The manual is a little confuse at first use, but explains the patterns pretty good. Good for beginners, not recommendable if you try to use more than two effects in one song (during live performance.) I'd recommend a BOSS ME 1.

I was using it with a Fender 85 combo and an Ibanez S-Classic, resp. an Epiphone Les Paul special. The presets are crap, because too crunchy for my taste.
If you are fumbling a little, you might get nearly to your favorite settings, I tried to figure some Sabbath and Maiden sounds, but it was not perfect.
The OD is quite good, the EQ is crap. Distortion can be very crunchy and hard, but the sustain is the last crap and it gets fuzzy after a while. Keep away from flanger, chorus and delay. The pedal is only usefull for the wah effects, although I don't use wahs.

It is reliable, but don't treat it too hard. You might break the interior. It's good for home recording and not too bad for minor gigs, but backup is highly recommended.

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I play Metal Rhythmguitar. I think with some practice you have a very good beginner's effectboard, but I recommend single-effects or a board with more than two pedals. I am playing Metal for 8 years, owning the Zoom for two years, and liked it so far, but I think I wouldn't buy it anymore. I am now playing with a Marshall Thrashmetal Distortion, and that's much more I like it, although I just bought a ZOOM Valve multieffects (9150 DSP I think).

it is quite easy to use.There is only one thing hard about this pedal.To change to the bypass mode is quite difficult because you push on both of the two pedals on it.Most of the time you change the patch when you are trying to bypass it.If you read the manual it gets easier to use.Because manual is easy to understand.

I use Washburn BT3 and Marshall Valvestate 100R.When you play it on low volumes it has cool tones.However when you increase the volume it begins to suck.If you have a good ear I think you can find the tone you are looking for.

It is plastic.It doesn't seem strong enough to work long.

I have no idea.

I play hard rock and metal.I play guitar for 3 years.I am not so good.For now it is enough for me but I like the sounds of single pedals more than GFX 707.If you have money you should buy single pedals instead of GFX 707.

It's very easy to use if u read the menual once.
I started it without reading it, I could do some editings.
Compared to other multy effects such as GT-5, it's a lot easier to
use for beginners. If u think this unit is hard to use, try single
pedal. I recommend DS-1 from boss.

I think this pedal makes pretty good sound. The very first day i
bought this, i was kinda pissed because i thought this thing was
really crappy. But as i started to find how to mix the some distortions and delays included in the product, i found it's very
good. I have some awesome sounds now. I can play any kind of music with this..even though Europa from Santana,,even though i suck
Well, i think it's very good for it's price.

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I will give it 9. As i have said before, it's good for biginners,
and to understand how to use multy effect pedals. Before i bought
this product, i had bought Metal Zone from boss, it's really good, too. I love both of them. I am trying to mix them so i can creat
better sound.
PS. If u want to make variety sounds, look on the internet
There are tones of patches on the internet.

This is my first fx pedal i ever bought but i have been plating for quite a while so i was lookin 4 sumthing that was best for the lower price range. it isn't that easy to use cus the manual doesnt make much sense.

half of them are shit, a third of them are okay and the rest are real good(like trace)

No way! my input doesnt work if its slightly nudged, the output is loose, it looks like it cud break at any second

never tried

overall good for your first one, one to learn from, but abit too confusing and many pointless sounds, however, it is very enjoyable for band practice and playing short gigs, but i couldnt see myself using it in the next 6 months, but it is a hell of alot of fun.

I just bought it and so far I'm impressed with it's ease of use. Although most of the parameters must be changed via menu, there are several param knobs to allow you to tweak in real-time portions of the effect, or drum machine tempos and types.

Considering the last unit I purchased was a Rockman 10 years ago, I'm very impressed with this unit. I'm using this unit "line-in" with a Y-adapter to my multitrack recorder, or simply with head phones while I'm sitting around. I don't find it noisy provided that I balance the output. So far, I haven't tweaked the sounds, but since I'm generally able to find a sound I like, I'm sure that I can tweak them to get even more satifying sounds. I love the flange/chorus effects. Some of the patches are completely unusable for performance, but they will be erased and replaced by my custom patches anyway.

I personally love the combo A amp simulator. I find the stacks to be too mid-range boosted for line-in work.

Since I haven't had this unit very long, I can't say much about it's hardware reliability, but since it's predominately plastic, I'm surely going to keep the warrantee around! I would have to say that I'd keep some pedals around for live shows, just in case.

Overall, I give this unit a thumbs-up. I've heard the some more expensive units and find the gfx707 to be a less expensive equivilent, minus lotsa extra params. I was tempted to buy a Korg portable unit, but found it hard to imagine using live, being there are no pedals to switch to and from. Having heard that the guitarist from Fuel used the gfx707 live gives me hope that it can be tweaked to a respectable sound. I'm suprised that it received such bad comments about it's distortion for it has many styles integrated within itself and from what I hear on the radio, it doesn't sound much different. But, then again, I'm not interested in paying 500 dollars for a sound if I'm only writing songs at home.