Zoom GFX-707

The use of pot style knobs for digital patch editing was a great idea. They packed a lot of functionality into the buttons, which can be confusing. I think the mappings make sense, but it will take a little while to grok it all. This was clearly a design decision to keep cost down. Nothing wrong with that. The large LED display is a real plus. Again, not a cool expensive LCD but functional and well used.

When evaluating this unit, you've got to remember the price range that it sits in. Personally, I've added some more expensive equipment since purcahsing it, but still use some functions on the 707 anyway because they work so well.

There are a huge variety of distortion sounds which vary in quality. Overall, there seems to be some 'similarness' of tone across all of them. You can definitely tell they're 'digital' but many of them sound good for digital distortions. You can tweak them to get some pretty good fuzz and aggressive industrial sounds. If you're used to a tube amp or POD or serious amp modeller they are not going to sound great even with tweaking because they just are not in that league (in fact they will probably sound terrible, if you're really a purist :). But overall, for a cheap digital multifx this unit probably has the best distortions I've heard in that class.

One distortion that deserves special note is the 'Power Drive'. It is basically a tube screamer rip off and can be used like a tube screamer. If you're purist, this probably won't cut it (but if you're a purist you're not interested in this unit anyway) but if you don't mind it sounding kind of unique (a plus IMHO), this module can be used as a TS replacement. I still use the Power Drive as a Cheapass tube screamer and it works very well for me in this way. That alone makes the unit worthwhile considering the cost!

The cabinet/amp sims are really not on par with POD or V-AMP, but are good enough that you could do demos and direct recording without additional equipment. They're also useful when using the 707 as a headphone amp so they are a definite plus even if they're not high end tonewise.

Modulation stuff is fantastic. In spite of owning more expensive gear, the 707 Phaser still sounds amazing. IMHO, it alone is worth the price of admission, it smokes my more expensive Boss' phaser. The chorus can also be made to sound very good. These FX can hold a candle to more expensive units. A very pleasant surprise for a box this cheap.

Delay effects are very good. I like digital delays and this one works well. Reverb is servicable.

Acoustic Sim is surprisingly good.

Pitch shifting, etc, are usable in a pinch but sound 'cheap'. I personally don't care much for these FX anyway. They are useful for messing with to understand these FX if you later go for a more pricey unit but you will definitely not want to base your main tone on the 707 shifter. :)

The compressor is useless.

I'm not a huge wah fan, so I think this wah sounds fine. Some people insist on comparing it to dedicated wahs that cost as much or more than this entire unit (again, think multifx). I still use the Wah on it even though I have more expensive gear now for most of the other functions of the 707 but I don't have a dedicated wah and am not expecting to anytime soon. So IMHO, the wah is a real plus. The travel of the foot pedal is very short so, if you're into wah you will defnitely buy a separate one eventually.

As many have mentioned with the Noise Reduction it is *DEAD* quiet. I have a POD, ADA MP-1, Digitech GSP5, BOSS VF-1, and Behringer UltraFex II. This is literally the quietest unit of the bunch in spite of being the least expensive. Amazingly low noise output.

It seems transparent enough to me and the spec on the D/A converters are very good for an inexpensive unit. I've seen other reviews here complaining about this, but the unit I have is definitely not a tone sucker.

Overall, for a unit this cheap, I think the sound quality is really very good when compared to other units in this price range (that's waht my numeric rating is based on, compared to my VF1 or POD, this unit would be like a 5 or 6). Like I said, the Power Drive and Phaser are enough to make me want to keep the unit indefinitely in spite of owning more expensive stuff now.

I've had it several years and it has been very reliable. I'd never even consider gigging with it, though. It's plastic. I'm giving it a 7 for that reason. Considering the cost I understand why they did this.

Never Needed. They do have a PDF manual on-line which I think is a great thing. I wish Roland would do this.

I think this unit is fantastic for what it is: A sweet, compact multi-fx unit with tons of practical features geared toward practice.
You could really use this on the road as a private guitar workstation (even more so, the 707II with it's smart card ability).

If you're looking for a cheap supertone box, the low end of the amp modeller market is probably more worthwhile: Behringer VAMP2, Genesis1, JStation.

The 707 really is an all-in-one box for the beginner. Even after several years on the market, there still is no other unit (except for the newly released 707II) that is so well suited toward covering every base for private play/practice:

MultiFX
Headphone Amp
Speaker/Direct Recording Device
Drum Machine
Chromatic Tuner
Aux IN Capability
Sampler/Phrase Trainer

And it even sounds good! :)

When you move on to more expensive gear the 707 will likely still provide a few tones so great you'll want to keep it to play around with or for private practice.

I really genuinely wish there had been something like this available when I was truly a beginner. The FX are good enough that you can learn all the ins and outs of the different FX types, the tone is good enough for beginner recording or making a cheap practice amp sound much better, the sampler can be used for copping licks, it's a headphone amp, and it can tune you up. Oh yeah and there's a drum machine!! I would have killed for a drum machine as a beginner, parcticing with a solid rhythm will really improve your playing and timing.

Anyway this unit is highly recommended and an excellent value considering the inexpensive price tag. If you need something that can do it all and really have limited means, this thing is just the best.

Needs working at to set up the sounds your after , very limited to changing at pace though you can swap around to align the effects , not good for daylight playing due to LED display and sunlight not getting on too well together. On saying that for what it is it dose the job for recording or silent practice.
7 for ease use as it needs to worked on .

I cant believ how many people have slagged this unit off for sound quality ? Its a multi effect pedal for gods sake you just dont plug it in and hey presto thats the sound you want , it is very adjustable you can get all sorts of sounds out of it from utter crap to realy nice ,why the hell do people fork out to buy it if they didnt like it ???? I have an idea they are probably new to guitar playing and have to buy all the toys thinking they will sound like "Gary guitar god". Well take a reality check and play it before you buy it, dont just walk in to the shop and say "duh give me that one dude " and walk out if you are new to playing and too shy to play it in the shop ask the sales man to demo it for you these are not penny things to buy then not like ,dont listen to these guys who say it sounds crap try it your self first , it sounds good for what it is and considering the ammount of effects and mixing at that it is a bargain ( only if you can use it of course )overall for home recording , practice it well up to the job. it is worthy 8 sound quality

I personaly would not use this on the road its not what it is for keep it in the house or in the van for when your bored or want to record to tape direct.
its never died on me in a good few years so 10

what for it still works?

this should be able to cover any style sound your after . If it cant you dont know what your doing. its cheaper than nearly all the other multi fx around and dose what it dose very well . I didnt compare it to others there was no need too this is one unit that is not for gigging with. it is what it is and it is a good thing , even if you use just 2 effects out of it such as reverb and echo it works out at good value

with a large LED display and three knobs for the settings of the effects, it's relatively easy to use. oh! and the effects you're tweaking with flashes on the display. neat.

well, for my distorted tone... i use distortion 2 always, with compression to add sustain. the modulation effects are cool too. i always use chorus (standard) for my clean tones. makes my guitar sound like a keyboard. :)

the delay is pretty nice too.

this is my only rig. nuf said.

my input jacks have constantly bugged me. but there's nothing like some personal touch to make them work again.

very good gfx if u ask me.

Pretty easy to set up actually...didnt take me long and the manual was good.

Ok...sound quality is crap like most people will say. I mainly only like this thing anymore to give me a cheap alternative to more expensive stomp boxes. The ring modulation is good and i do like its ping pong delay. Its terrible when it comes to the guitar signal. It truly degrades it to absoulte crap sound. Set to bypass its ok...doesnt sound as crappy. I will go along with the noise reduction...not half bad.

The things jacks break left and right. It really wasnt a problem for me to go in and solder the loose connections though. I really spend more time kicking it around so that it will work then i do using it.

never used it

Like before mentioned, the zoom 707 is now my backup for any effect that i may need that i dont have in a stomp box. It dinky plastic and the jacks suck. It did have a good variety of effects to choose from. I've never used the distortion...it plain sucks. This pedal is good if you ant your music to sound digitally harsh...otherwise search elsewhere or buy used and at your own risk.

This machine did take me a while to get to grips with. It was my first ever fx pedal and was recommended to me by my guitar teacher. The preset fx are good and bad. Some of them are absolutely dire. There are a couple of good ones, i like the Step effect a lot, and wind is good for an atmospheric kinda sound. The manual is good, it does show you what to do, easily, but not condescendingly. My unit has never been upgraded, though I did try to run it with a Boss OD1..... never again.

I use this with an epiphone nighthawk into a Marshall 80 watt transistor amp. The distortion thing on this machine is CRAP. ABSOLUTELY AWFUL! don't rely on this distortion cos you cannot make out notes, its just one big horrific noise. The ZNR on this baby does work for me, I dont have any problems with noise unless I use some of my custom fx involving heavy distoriton and their wah.

One thing you must hear about this product is that it sounds different with different amps. Marshall sounds ok with it, but Peavey is dodgy as hell.

I am influenced by radiohead massively. Now if you have ever seen jonny greenwoods and ed o briens setups you will know that the gfx 707 is laughable compared to it.

i play lead guitar in my band, and i like to think that lead guitar adds atmosphere and counter melodies... i dont use the distortion much, but thats because its SHIT! i cant bring that home to ya more!

also its very dodgy if u try to combine it with stomp boxes. Five second sampler?!?!? hardly even f**king worth it

This is the dodgiest machine in the world. Do not depend on this. It is temperamental, at times I play live with it and i like the sound. I practiced last nite with my band and it sounded pretty reasonable! but tehn i played a gig a week ago and it sounded shite! The output jack is dodgy, but then i have had it for about two years, so wear and tear on an initially cheap thing is bound to take its toll


I do, but shouldn't play with this and no backup at gigs. it has backfired dramatically on me before. The bypass thing is ridiculous to try and get both pedals down simultaneously.

nope

i play indie rock /alternative music similar to radiohead coldplay, muse.

i have been playing guitar for 3 years, adn this is my first guitar fx pedal. Its great as a starter, but if ur gonna be giging then dont get it!

If it were stolen, I may actually consider getting it again as its so expensive to get all of the little fx which it offers at no significantly greater quality.

there was nothing to love about it, but i hated the distortion! and the presets!

It does, however, certainly help me to make muisic and does not hinder at all.

A bit fiddly at first but u can get about any half assed effect out of it and thats the problem!!

Crap

No the input sockets loose after 3mths and it basically sucks because i have to tape the lead at an angle on the floor! and if isnt bad enough i have to tape the whole thing as well in case it moves so i have a large heap of black tape which looks and sounds like shit dont buy it......!!!!

could be bothered in lerning how to use a phone the pedal took so long to master that i forgotton how to dial

its black cheap as pedals go and of course it sucks! You do not want this! im off now for some therapy

Quite tricky to use at first - you have to invest a couple of hours learning how all the features work. Editing patches is ok, there are so many sounds and options that if you work at it you can get the sound you want. Because of all the stuff you can do with it you tend to come up with what you think are really clever things to do live (like at the end of a gig I would use the foot pedal to record the last phrase of a song and then walk off stage with it on endless repeat next to the amp feeding back) This worked a couple of times but generally trying to do clever things with it live is pretty tricky. Manual was complicated but then I think this pedal is complicated. The expession pedal is also a waste of time live - again its clever what you can do with it but its not practical, I tried using it as a volume control but it weakened the sound when not on full volume. In my opinion, the best thing going for multi-effects is the built in tuner, unfortunately the one on this board isn't that great - its really difficult to get the note to sit in the middle light, no matter how minute you adjust your guitar it seems to tell you the note is either flat or sharp.

95% of the preset sounds are bad - there's always too much reverb and other 1980's effects which you could never use straight off live - you'd look really bad. I play a telecaster through a 1982 Fender Concert. Basically my set up at the moment is as follows: I have a foot switch for my amp for either clean or distorted, then I've got this pedal - to set up a patch I basically went through all the parameters so that there was nothing on the patch and then built a patch up for the effect I wanted. At the moment I've got a patch with just a bit of compression on it and some tone changes to add to my basic clean sound when I want it; then I've got another patch with a tiny bit of chorus and other stuff really subtely; my next patch is a standard flanger - I think this is very good indeed (once you fix it to how you like it); and finally I use the auto wah - I think the auto wah is extremely good - we've used it in a couple of songs and it really stands out and makes the songs, I don't know if you can get an auto wah on its own??? so this is a really good effect. These are all the effects I use. I've tried creating a distortion effect to give my amp a bit more edge than it comes with on its own, but i just can't find anything classy enough to have confidence using. Another problem with this pedal is that there is a slight delay switching to some of the effects - depending on the type of music you play this can be deadly!!! Those extra milliseconds can make you look like a real amateur if people notice the delay on something. The other major problem is that I wanted to set up some empty patches which would just work as a bypass to my amp (ie. you tap the switch to go to the patch as another way of bypassing to the amp) the problem with this is that even though you try to put all the effects to zero the resulting patch doesn't sound like bypass, there's still something there. I thought there must be of way of doing this but I just couldn't find it. Regarding the amp simulators, I flirted with the idea of doing away with an amp and just relying on these because they seem quite good (no more heavy equipment!!!) however, again I couldn't get the thing to work in practice and sound good enough for me to put faith in this live. So, overall some good sounds but some real problems as well.

Ok this is my real gripe with this pedal - its stopped working on me!! At my last gig it just turned itself off and on again in the middle of a song!!! unbelievable - i thought it might be the adapter I was using but I changed this at last rehearsal and its still happening. I've got another gig at the weekend and have no idea what I'm gonna do.

I've had this pedal for almost 2 years and now its broke. Even if yours works though there are still other issues - the thing doesn't come with an adapter so you have to go and buy one. The adapter itself plugs in right next to your guitar lead - I had quite a bulky multi headed adapter and the other ends which weren't in use made contact with the metal of the guitar lead so I had to cover them all in insulation tap to stop interference! Also, a baby hamster could pull the adapter out the back of the board, if you're jumping around the stage slamming your foot on the pedals you better be careful it doesn't unplug itself. The other BIG problem I have faced is the bypass issue I mentioned above - the only effective way I found of bypassing the pedal was to press both switches at the same time - this is extremely difficult in a live setting (you have to make sure you press both at exactly the same time or you switch up or down an effect) when I first started using this board I was really worried about doing this - a couple of times I would go into one of the ridiculous effect patches instead of clean from my amp (some of our live recordings are actually hilarious because of this mistake) My solution was to copy the same patch in 5 positons in a row so that at least I would switch to the same patch my mistake - how naff is that?!

i took the back of the board to fix it myself.... then put it straight back on - I can't be bothered to have it fixed, i am going back to single effect pedals

This pedal is only really good for cramming just about everything there is into one cheap box. If you're new to effects its a good way to learn how to use and create them. The problem is that it is basically an entry level pedal which thinks its a grown up. On paper you'd think it was all you ever needed when in practice you just can't rely on it. Instead of putting so much into one pedal the designers should have concentrated more on fixing the little glitches which all of a sudden become really big when your're on stage. I'd say it would make a useful addition when recording and messing about at home (it has got some good sounds on it and does allow for lots of experimentation of effects) The only reason I've used it for so long really is because of the auto wah sound which I'm not sure how I can replicate without it.

The presets are easy to browse through and ajustment is pretty easy. If the screen was a bit more advanced (more lines of text etc instead of looking like a calculatr) it would be easier to understand some of it. The maual is pretty basic, and sometimes a bit hard to understand, but ok really.

Ok I should say that this is very much entry level stuff. It's not at all bac though. I have been using it with my dad's Marshall Park 50watt amp. It sounds ok with my Washburn Maverick.
Within the next few days, I'm upgrading myself to a Gibson Les Paul and a Roland VGA-7, so this is behind me to an extent, but if you're starting out this is good- especially if you're into metal/grunge.
Most of the sounds are metal/grunge orientated, which ain't my thing really. They are all pretty good quality though. The auto wah is too quiet really, the compressed clean sound is way too loud, as is the overdrive. Otherwise, no real complaints.

It's relaible- had no problems with it at all. It's pretty solid build-wise too.

Never had to go there

I'm into rock, nothing heavy (think Manics/James/Delirious?/Turin Brakes) so this doesn't match me too well, although some of the "softer" distortions are ok for me (crunch, solid).
I've been playing guitar for about 4/5 years. I'm also a pianist, and have a Kurzweil PC-88, plus a Yamaha RM1x. Also a Roland VS1680-based home studio setup.

If you can't figure this thing out without the manual then you don't deserve to be alive. That said, a quick read of the manual does help... Editing patches is a learning curve but once you get to grips with all the parameters you can start taking your sound apart. Manual is ok, translated and helpful enough.

I use this with a Dean EVO DN76 Doubleneck, Standard tele through the Zoom 707 into Marshall amps. ZNR does actually work sometimes, gets noisy when low on battery power! Effects are variable but there are some great ones. The Van Halen, when tweaked correctly is awesome, chorus is pretty good too and i like the overdrive, Auto-Pan is an interesting one to play with. Factory presets are pretty rubbish to be honest but hey, its a multi effects, what do u expect?? That's why they have built in custom features to make your own. Even the P-Wah can be hashed into a respectable even good sounding Wah wah. Just be patient! I play mostly rock>metal but anything from foofighters, grunge, to heavy as f*k metal can be achieved once you take the time to sit down with this baby.

Hasn't done anything bad to me yet. Not sure about gigging- there's no way of turning it off so if you play through a loop then you'll get what ever patch you're on in with your sound. I created a clean patch as my opener so I could use other boxes without screwing up my sound. Would gig if it had a power pack!

Never had to but sure they're good

Suits many kinds of music especially classic, 70's, 80's, 90's rock/metal. I've been playing for about two years. If it were to bust, spontaneously combust, melt etc. I would probably buy something like the Boss GT's- but this does me fine at the mo. I love the variety of sounds and the endless changes u can make. I wish you could turn it off but overall it is pretty darn good for begginner up to live performing.

not bad.....could be better. it took me a long time to finally get a really good distortion sound out of it but other than that its fairly easy to use if u know a bit about making sounds and stuff

most of the preset sounds really suck. when i listen to the distorion from the pedal it just doesnt seem very deep sounding, just kinda crappy. if u want a good sounds you have to really mess around with it for a while to get something worth playing with

havn't had a problem yet and i even go really hard on it. ive had it for a while and my friends all stomp around on it (wearing commando boots) and its fine. i got it about 6 months ago and nothin yet

nothin

i play a lot of styles ranging from punk and ska to metal and the beatles. overall not a bad pedal although make sure you've tried every other pedal in the store before u settle with this one.

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.

Couldn't be easier to use while playing - whack the big tough ABS plastic buttons to scroll left and right through the effects, put your foot on the expression pedal and play away. Creating new effects is not simple due to the minimalist button combinations, however editing and personalising any of the 40 effects is simple and fast. Big easy to use LCD display and great battery life.

I run a Squire Stagemaster through Venom cables into the GFX-707 and straight out into a 30watt Marshall combo, during gigs this is run through a phonic PA system. The guitar tone setting is usually about 1/2 way, the amp bass control is at two o clock and the treble is at nine o clock, this gives incredible sounds from the zoom, the wah is clean and has a good variation level (although nothing beats a true crybaby pedal) and all the distortions sounds gorgeous, the retro sounds are lush and full, the heavy metal rings and screams and the solo channels give an excellent tone.

The 17 hour battery life and durable ABS plastic with metal base make this a tough unit, not as tough as say a boss single effect pedal but good none the less. I use it regularly at gigs with no back-up required.

No problems with the unit, so no contact with the company has been needed.

This unit works well with all styles from retro to heavy metal, from soft rock to funk the sound, if set up correctly caters for all needs.

When simply switching between pre-set effects, this pedal is a breeze. However when trying to set your own effects or edit the e.q's of the old ones it gets very tricky. The non-position sensitive knobs really piss you off after awhile, because everytime you touch them they start at zero setting. The lack of buttons (requiring a comnibation of two or more to select a function makes editing also tough. Dont wait till the day of practice to set some new tones, you'll definitely be sitting out.

I use a Old Squier (pre-shitty construction) through a Fender 25 watt JAM amp. The distortion and lead channels kick ass, good for everything from SRV to Metallica to Merl Haggard. There are, in addition, a wealth of crazy-ass tones and synthezsizer modes that will entertain you for a long time. If you hear a song on the radio, and play with this amp for awhile, you will get very close to the exact tone.

I have had serious jack problems (completely internal jacks, not fixable external) and Would never gig with this thing unless I intended to keep the audience guessing on when I would start and stop playing.

Never consulted the company. Got ripped off from Brook Mays - piano guys suck ass anyways.

For my very widespread music base (being raised on Eddie and Def Leppard and Graduating toward the fine style of Monte Montgomery and Sir Tom Delonge, this thing rocks. But, if I could tell you to do anything effects wise, buy the separate pedals, and keep them simple. All one needs is distortion and wah anyway, trilly shit is for geezers.

It requires time and patience to adjust the effects. And most of the effects require adjustment.
Well 'cause the manual tells it all that no problem!

Presets are crappy .. nearly all of them! BUT, if you make some tweaking, you'll find for example distortions that you wouldn't exept to get at this price. Phaser, Flanger, Chorus, Octaver and Delays are good. But loss in price is a loss in tone. Sound is not so warm or real. But some of it is adjustable...

I bought mine used and there has been no problems what so ever.
I've gigged with it, recorded with it (sound still wasn't so great).
Maybe I've just been careful 'cause it is cheap plastic.

Never dealt with them..

No matter what style of music you play 'cause this concludes almost all the basic sounds. Beginner and practise pedal. If it were stolen I would continue buying more separate effects, not a multieffect.
This pedal is great for someone who has time and patience and don't need superquality effects

Using the presets is a no-brainer. Customizing your sound requires some time with the user manual (no big deal). Would like to be able to bounce back and forth between effects that aren't in the preprogrammed sequence with greater ease (again, 5 minutes with the user manual).

Look people, it's a cheap but clever little pedal for jamming rock and metal riffs. If you're looking for sweet tone and bought this pedal, it's you're own fault if your unhappy (see previous review) - that's not what it's for... hook up a gibson to a tube screamer and a nice tube amp if that's what you want. If you want a distortion pedal with a built in drum machine to jam 80's and 90's rock riffs on - look no further. It's got some really great distortion sounds - like having a fuzz pedal, metal, grunge, rock, VanHalenesque all in one. The distortion settings are excellent and you can switch between different amp sounds - cool! The other settings are essentially useless, so, again... if you want jazz/blues/rockabilly - look elsewhere. Not versatile, but does a few things very well.

Haven't has a problem with it after 2 years of abuse.

Haven't used it.

If you want a distortion pedal with a built in drum machine to jam 80's and 90's rock riffs on - look no further. The distortion settings are excellent and you can switch between different amp sounds - cool! The other settings are essentially useless, so, again... if you want jazz/blues/rockabilly - look elsewhere. Not versatile, but does a few things very well - a good value, I think.

Not hard, but a little messy. Could be a lot easier to navigate through.

Most people here are real amateurs, morons, bigenners, and deaf people. I can sure tell that. If you want to use this thing to record with you can't get worse tones. This is by far the most worthless pieace of shit I have *ever* heard. No warmth what so ever. It doesn't even SOUND like a guitar once plugged in. Imagine applying cold digital distortion in a VST plug to your guitar. THAT is how it sounds. Nobody who ever played with an amp or ever heard how a guitar should sound will like it. You can not, in any way possible, record a song with this crap. Do NOT buy it! I am not kidding! The only thing that is cool is the delay... but then again, you can easily make a similar delay on another unit or in VST!

Probably resists alot, but it's very plastic so i give it an 8.

I play most styles of music, and none of them can benefit from this idiot pedal. The only thing i could imagine it being good for is to mutate some intro/outro/bridge sounds for a song.. Like little "dwaaaaiing woing.. boing" sounds. But i doubt it's even good for that really.

Very Easy To use - except for jamplay ....WTF is that all about.

Its ok for the price. I play Hohner Professional ST Scorpion Into A Laney k100R and it can do the job. Some of the effects are pretty good, but beware most are very digital and dont even bother with the wah its a load of crap. Best used as a distortion / chorus / delay and reverb pedal.

Lets Be straight - This aint a pedal you gig with. for a start its plastic and not solid thick plastic. You'll be worried about going through the damn thing. ALso patch changing is a pain in the arse. YOu either have direct load which means you have to scroll and activate every patch till you get the right one or you scroll through without activation and then through a feit of amazing skill and precision you simultaneously press both patch buttons at the same time. Now if your playing a complex riff and r coming up to a challenging solo u will want a quick change not perform a miracle. In case you haven't realised it totally throws your concentration

Bottomline

Great for practice

Dont gig with it although its a worthy backup ( at best ).

Never had contact with them

For Practice 9 for giggin 4. do wat i did and but a gfx-8. A totally kick ass effects pedal. It has almost all functions of the 707 (no drumbeat but for gigs thats not important) but with increased sound quality. Basically it does more and it does it alot better.

Zoom are a great company so if your lookin for a great practice pedal go for this.

My first multi FX pedal, and well, Im chuffed with it to be honest, its got a wide range of sounds. As with most theres a few wierd ones but hell the main ones i use (about 20ish out of 60) are kick ass. The manual is shite, and what I know about the pedal is self taught

I play a Epiphone SG through a crapy Marshal amp but it still sounds great. Noise is no real poblem, oviously higher volumes tend to be a bit touchy.
Cant help feeling that a lot of the patches are VERY simular, the range of distortion for example. The chorus is great fun and the Van Halen setting is great. The thing that lets this pedal down most is the Wah, its a load of toss basicly, I dont go near it!
My Strat sounds crap though

Well for platic its ok, holds up well and stays looking nice. I would gig with out a backup deffinatly

Never needed anything from them

I play a wide range of music, Im keen on Nirvana and the Pumpkins. Though ive only been playing about a year and half i feel i am progressing very well. theres is really something for everyone here, a big step up from the 505

This pedal is really easy to use. You can easily get the hang of it without the manual but there is a good, straight forward manual just in case. As I said it is simple to use and editing patches is no exception - and the manual explains clearly if you're unsure and need help.

I use a
Washburn > Zoom GFX707 > BOSS RC20 loopstation >into> Marshall combo or a PA for live/ Band stuff.
I don't find it noisy but if you have a problem with noise it will be easy to stop as there is the zoom noise reduction thing.
The distortion is really good quality for the price. I can get really good boogie-metal sounds to marshall-like blues and rock tones with a few tweaks and turns!
The clean effects are also pretty amazing. I can get a decent fender type clean tone out of it.
There are loads of really annoyingly pointless patches on this that make you wonder why in the hell they were put there in the first place but you might be able to use them!

If I had the money I'd buy a backup just in case because it is plastic and it isn't the most bullit proof of designs!
Having said that I have gigged with it and I haven't had any problems with it yet so there we go!
My friend has had his for about 2 years and he used his shoes to operate it like you would a normal stomp box. BIG mistake! the two foot pedals have both broken off and now it doesn't work for some reason. If you buy this don't use shoes on it it - trust me!!!

Over a year without a problem!!!

I have been playing for about 3 years and I play stuff like Metallica, Guns n Roses, Led zeppelin, rock, blues and anything else that I hear and like basically. The Zoom suits my playing style very well and it is a really good practise tool as it has a built in drum machine and sampler.
I bought this pedal because my friend has one and I thought it was really amazing and really cheap.
I wish was slightly bigger so some of its features could be used to their full potential, for instance, the drum pedal can only be activated by a tiny button and the buttons are all really close.

This is a very easy pedal to use IF YOU READ THE MANUAL! I have had this pedal for about 2 years and only recently read the manual and make my own patches. Some of the preset patches are kinda stupid and pointless like the auto wah. But it also has some other patches that are pretty cool and very easy to edit.

You can get some pretty loud shit out of this. The preset distortion, VHALEN, is my favorite distortion but is quite bassy(nothing that a little editting can't fix). The Style I play is thrash/
heavy metal,(Metallica, Pantera, Black Sabbath, Iron maiden)this pedal has a great sound for that style. It also has a preset
12-string patch which sound nothing like it on an electric, but sounds pretty good on my semi-acoustic. You can also get a good acoustic sound for electric.

i have had this pedal for about 2 years and in that time the pedal has snapped, the power supply has packed up, the two patch pedals have come off and the jack sockets have snapped. But now it doesn't work at all. I have used this for a couple of gigs, on the first it screwed up(very embarassing), and the second was at a gig in school and it was fine, but packed up later! It's a very fragile little thing which pisses me off but if i used it for a gig again i would kepp an eye on it for at least 5 days in advanced just to make sure it won't fuck up.

I have been playing for about 5 and a half years and this is the best sounding pedal i have used, it's just a shame it's made of plastic. If it was lost i would definately buy one of these again.

I'll have to admit when I first got this thing almost 2 years ago, I had no clue how to edit patches for several months. Stupidly, I thought that the presets were the only sounds I was gonna get. When I finally stopped being lazy and read the manual, it made things a heck of a lot easier. Editing patches now is a cinch for me, yet the interface is going to be kinda confusing for some people. It not as self-explanatory as say the DigiTech RP200. You really need to mess around with the settings and explore what sounds right to you. It takes a little while to dial in a good sound because you have to keep in mind the sound of your guitar and amp and balance it with the pedal sound. Overall editing patches will be easy if you take time to read the manual and practice doing it.

I use a Standard Mexican-made Fender Strat with Duncan Performer Scorcher Rails in the bridge and neck, and a Fender Princeton 65. The thing is slightly noisy. Its not as bad since there's a noise gate, but you can hear a distinct hissing sound when your not playing. That was disappointing, because my friend doesn't even have a noise gate on his amp and its still quieter than when i'm using pedal. The effects are good. I especially liked both the choruses, which have a nice clear, ringy, high-quality sound. Tremolo is pretty good, only that you gotta make sure you set it so it doesn't overclip. Pedal wah was not spectacular and if you set it to bf, it makes this annoying volume swell that hurts the ears. The reverbs and clean compressor were awesome, and i can get these nice, big clean sounds that fill the room. Flanger is good, but not as thick as my friends Ibanez Chorus/Flanger pedal. I find that it didn't have enough attack and the harmonics were spudgy.

The best sounds from this pedal were the distortions. For my main distortion I use the OD2 setting plus the Combo A amp sim for massive bass (I don't recommend using the bright settings if you have an openback amp). I can get a good punk sound (ala Green Day, Offspring) from this. I find the noise gate however, takes away pretty much all feedback, so i can't really end a song in a barrage of squeals and noise. Yet I don't want to turn the noise gate off because of the above noise problem. I also use the acoustic simulator for acoustic-type passages, the Power Dirve to closely simulate the new Green Day, Warning album sound, and metal to go to a Randy Rhoads/Metallica scooped thrash sound.

Overall I am pleased with most of the sounds, but its not perfect.

Reliable, though one time it did stop working during a performance. It probably was the adapter though, because i checked the inside of the pedal and everything was AOK. I changed the adapter and it works perfectly now. However, I'm giving it a 9 since its only plastic and has a higher tendency to break.

never dealt with them

I play mostly punk-pop (Green Day, Offspring, Blink-182, MxPx), some metal (Metallica, Black Sabbath), and write my own songs with my band. I've been playing for about 3 years and I also own a Yahamaha EC-10 classical guitar. If this was stolen, I'd be pissed for a while, but then I'd probably set my sights on a DigiTech RP200 or a Boss ME-33. Dont get me wrong, I love the way this pedal sounds now. I made the patches according to my needs and it sounds great. Though I am still trying to find the holy grail of the multi-effects.

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.

editing takes a bit of getting used to. this is quite surprising to me since i've had a zoom 2020 for quite some time before i bought this product. you'd think that the 707 would be as simple if not easier to edit than the older 2020. the knobs do make it easier to scroll through parameters though

pretty good. i use a variety of guitars, none of which are really expensive, and i can manage to get almost any sound i want

i wouldn't bring this to a rowdy gig. it'll probably last a long time if i just keep it at home

n/a

sounds good for most musical styles, i play almost any type of music,
it would probably be better if it had more foot pedals

Easy to use, but only once you know what your doing. The very good manual helps you on your way to programming it nicely. READ THE MANUAL, it makes things a lot easier. All the bits and buttons can be a bit daunting at first.

Most people in this forum are saying that the effects arent very good.
I have to agree, but they are definitlty good enough for any beginner.
Also, everyone is saying the distortions are horrible - NOT ENTIRLY TRUE. The people who say this have obviously not tweaked there machines enough. Some very nice, though noisy, distortions can be created.

There are also lots of other little effect: none which are great, some which are useless, but some which can be a bit of fun.

I give this 7 but only for the distortions (which I personnaly tweaked). If it wasnt for them I'd give it 5.

It plastic with lots of buttons.....

What more can I say?

Sorry, but Ive never had to deal with them.

If you are a beginner as I was when I bought it, I suggest you at least take a look. I believe it is easily (from what i've seen) the best multi effects pedal on the market for its price, though I would suggest trying it out first. If your not into lots of strange little effects and want a great sound get singular pedals. The Gfx707 is not really a serious multi effects pedal but it gave me and my friend hours of fun when we were both beginners.

Try before you buy.

PS. The better amp you have the better this sounds.

For profesionals change this score to 5..

It takes a while to get a good sound from the 707, a lot of twaeking is required for the distortion/equaliser to get decent distorted FX.
easy to edit patches, the manual is helpful and clear except for the bit about the expression pedal envelopes, they use some daftarse diagrams that mean nuttn.

I use epiphone SG custom (3 humbuckers) i usually use it with all 3 to get a fat sound when using just amp distortion and FX from the 707, but when i use the distortion on the GFX it is best to use a trebly sound. I use a peavy 100w. I would give it a 9 for all effects except for the distortion which isnt good at all.
the zoom noise reduction is useful but sometimes it causes a big loss in sustain.

i would rely on this but i would only use it in an FX loop and use it for only clean fx, taking the distortion from the amp. this means if it suddenly goes tits up i can flick back quickly to the amp totally so it doest make much diffrence. I have used it for about a year and it seems to me pretty solid even though it is only made of plastic. The expression pedal, surprisingly, id solid too.

never dealt with them

i play a wide variety of music. its handy because of the variety, the accoustic sound is one of the best ive heard and the phasing effect is good if used with amp distortion.
i been playing about 2 1/2 yrs.
i would buy a GFX-8 if it got stolen or snapped, its a little more money but more pro.

This thing is pretty easy to use. You should really read the manual first for creating your own patches but the manual is helpful.

Ok i use a cheap strat copy worth #140 and some cheap ass amp. And I reckon my zoom gfx 707 stills sounds pretty kool. My fav sound is the V Halen one. I use that for playing the solo for 'One' by Metallica. Sounds quite like it to me. Autowah sucks. The pedal wah sounds ok. The unit does for what i need it for.

Well i dont know, ive only had it a week or so. like many people say it is plastic and ive never tried it with shoes on. Also the expression pedal sometimes stops working when I'm in the middle of a solo or something which would really suck on stage so Id use it but id only use effects where the expression pedal aint needed.

Never needed it although I feel i mite at some point.

ok i play metal/grunge/indie. i have been playing a year. it is the only effects thingy that i own. id probably buy something else first or at least try a few similarly priced products first. i like some of the sounds, like echos and stuff. the sampler thing sucks rectum. i wish it had better wah and a better smooth distortion noise to sound like slash (guns n roses) or kirk hammett (metallica). well it helps me make music i guess, in some ways. I'd recommend it to a beginner like me but if u have more cash either buy separate pedals or a better fx unit.

It's easy to use, just read the manual, you will have it down in a few hours.

As far sound goes overall it's total crap, the amp models are terrible, the distortion is terrible, auto wah is useless. I will say that the delay is ok though, not great just ok. I ran it through a line 6 2x10 spider on the clean channel only.

It's reliable in my bedroom, that's about as far as I would take it though. This thing isn't made to gig with, it's made for beginner players that don't know what good tone sounds like.

I don't know, don't care, I will never buy zoom again.

I play metal, classical, blues. I've been playing for 13 years on and off. I didn't play for a few years and only bought this thing because I needed something basic to get me back into playing. I wouldn't reccomend this to anyone thinking about becoming a serious musician. Since I started playing again I have fallen in love with the guitar all over again and have purchased a mesa triple rectifer a Jackson USA select soloist and a les paul studio gem with P-90's I learned that if you want to find a truly great tone you have to spend some money, but good tone is everthing.

It is rather easy to use. I bought it off a friend so I didn't get an instuction manuel. Patches-well, if I knew what a patch was and how to edit them, I would review those. The knobs turn easily and you can get some rather interesting effects. I think it is pretty good.

Personally, I really think the distortion is pretty crappy. I have another pedal for dist. so I use that. I noted interesting effects. I have found that the acoustic 12 string effect is a lot better than say a Boss acoustic simulator. If I really tried, I could get the sound of some of the good artists. Other than the distortion, I think the effects are really good.

It is dependable but since I can't edit it yet so it will take a while to change between effects. Since effects tend to get expensive, gigging without a backup is really a matter of weather you think you can do it or not. Personlly, I'd say yes.

Never dealt with them.

For the style of music I play (metal, hard rock) I'd say yes. If lost or stolen, I would pay for a new one. This pedal has a lot of cool effects so you can really get some awesome sounds out of it. I do wish it had a better wah sound. This is the only effects that is worse than the distortion. Luckly for me, I have a wah pedal that compensates for the other. Like I said, overall, I'd say a decent pedal. By the way, if anyone has a copy of the instruction manuel, please e-mail me. I would like a copy so I can figure it out fully.

this product is the easist piece of equipment i have ever used. it is very esey to edit patches and the manual is easy to use.

this has a very ggod sound running through my marshall. i would have given it higher but i have heard some pedals that are better.

very reliable.
except that it is made of plastic

i love this pedal.

What can i say, it's really easy to get the sounds you want. Editing patches are easy...really easy. The manual ? I never read the manual. It's so easy, by trial and error you will get the sounds u really want.

I play mostly fusion, jazz and funk, little rock and rarely metal, i would say the sounds work fine, even for jamming with friends or hell i use it for performances as well. Though the clean sounds are a little crappy i would say, even a 505 can give me better clean sounds. Others are great, with a few adjustments, of course.

I have no complains about it. Because i don't really kick the pedals hard, maybe because i play soft music and all. I can't afford a back-up just yet, but it works well for me.

NO comment on this one

Like i said earlier, i play fusion, funk, some jazz, rock and things like that and been playing for 4 years and owned this pedal quite recently. Stolen ? erm, GFX4 is my next choice. This pedal offers me very good tones and sounds, but i hate the clean tones really ! And the expression pedal is not up to my expectations. It did help me to produce some nice tones and was surprised myself that there is quite a smiliarity. :-) . I think it has a good price tag, and would recommend it for practice use or some small performances on decent music. If u play metal and all, you'll break it !

In a word it's ok. Not more not less. After a while you get into it and creating effects that you want is no problem.
At first it's a bit confusing though.

First i thought it sounds like shit but when you tweak a bit you'll get quite nice sounds.
But you it has not been made for professional use.
I mean you can use it to jam with some friends but in a studio you gotta find something else

My zoom gfx707 worked correctly for about 2 weeks.
Then the output jack broke and i wasn't able to fix it.
Now i have to kick it every once a while to make it work.
That's quite annoying and of course now i can't use it for a gig.

If it wouldn't be made out of plastic and if it hadn't this output jack problem it would probably be something useful.
But it's a POS!

To get this pedal up and running the way you want it to, you absolutely MUST look through the manual once or twice. Due to the small amount of controls it has, tweaking effects gets kind of messy at times.

You can get some pretty good sound outof this thing. Butonly if you tweak the shit out of it! All the factory presets, like most pedals, suck a bit. But like I said, the right amount of tweaking and you're fine! Auto wah is garbage, and the fading effects aren't great. delay isn't bad. There are some pretty cool effects on the unit. It's not great for recording! a lot of hiss and stuff, even while on record mode. The amp models are crap! I play with an Ibanez RG270 with modified bridge and pickups, my practice amp is a Peavey Audition 110, on stage Peavey 5150 II. Through the practice amp... It sounds like shit for the most part... and well just about anything sounds good through the 5150II but this pedal still doesn't give professional sounding effects. The Zoom Noise Reducer (ZNR) (noise gate) works well. Expression pedal isa bit stiff but I think that's adjustable.

I haven't had any problems... Keeping in mind it's maximum capablities/limits, it's well reliable forwhat it does.

Ichecked out the zoom site... They didn't give an excessive amount of imformation to help me out with some function questions. They do have downloads of the manuals though. I've never had any big problems to need costumer support for though.

I play mostly Vai, Petrucci, Satch style stuff. This pedal is not too horrobly bad at mocking their sounds but for the most part this pedal is only good for all the basic stuff... If you want good sounding/crazy effects and hard ass ripping distortions and sweet and beautiful clean sounds.... Sorry my friend... This isn't what you're looking for!