Zoom 1010

Out of the box great sounds! Took me 5 minutes to work out every function!

Sounds like what it cost. Distortion is a joke though, surely! Noise isn't too bad, although if D.I.ing for recording, buy a better pedal. Every other effect is pretty good, with excellent, simple EQ.

Had mine for years with no problems at all. Watch the weak adaptor cord though!

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Good pedal for the price. You can make lots of nice twangy chorusy type sounds, with reverb and delay as you please. But forget the distortion!

Ease of use? Hmmm...very easy and simple to use. Instructions explain everything well.

Sound quality....geez let me thing here. This thing is horrendous! 130 bucks for a unit that bites hard. It's noisy on all settings. I can't find one clean-cut , good sounding effect. They are all gross. Acoustic sounds trashy, all the heavier effects sound the same. I don't know why I bought this. I'm hoping to sell mine for 50 bucks!

It is dependable and you wouldn't need a back-up for a gig...but who'd wanna bring this waste of plastic to a gig?

Never called for support.

I play everything from Pearl Jam to Metallica to KISS to some really soft stuff. I have a Carvin LB-70 bass and a Jackson Performer. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PEDAL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. The best feature is that when you unplug it, you don't have to hear the dreadful thing! This is good for nothing, and that should just about cover everything you need to know about it.

I only found that the highest gain distortions are really good, the other kind of fall short

I've had one for 3 years now, and some of the foot pedal are definitely starting to go.

It's a pretty good pedal for those who want a bunch of "essential" effects all in one unit... the distortions could be better... also a true noise gate would be nice, instead of just "Zoom noise reduction" with a 0-5 variable.

took a while for me to get sounds i like
the volume control steps up in rather large increments
it was pretty hard to get a good volume for soft and heavy sounds whilst switching during a song

haha i have most likely an el cheapo- status guitar, boss mg-10 sounds pretty nice but it's small
the chorus just doesn't seem as good as other pedals
and the treble in the equalizer seems pretty horible to me
the pedal still manages to make good sounds at loud volumes with a big amp
there's always a slight delay switching patches, especially distortion to clean

well i got mine second hand
some buttons (the small ones) are getting insensitive
and for a while plugging in the dc adaptor thingy into the pedal wouldn't turn on
a soldering job fixed that up
the copper on the board aroudn the power thingy was gone for some reason
i guess i'd trust it at a gig after a soldering job
(i'd check inside my pedal if i were yous)
(unless it voids your warranty which i never had anyway)
but i guess it wouldn't be fair to have an opinion considering i got mine second hand and the person before could have run it over with a train

nah never dealt with them so i dunno
apparently it seems pretty bad

bahhhhh only 12 patches to save to?
that's crazy
if it had more i wouldn't be thinking of getting a gfx-8
it's long term value is pretty short because of the lack of writable patches and it's much better to invest in something beter
and
the delay between switching patches gets pretty annoying
u need to change a bit earlier to comphensate for it
anyway i loved the thing when i first got it
but at that point i knew nothing about anything
that's why i have a status guitar
i have an excel chart with the way i've made my patches if anyone wants it
also where is the cheapest place to get a gfx-8?

If you can't figure out how to use this thing, you're stupid. If you are stupid, it comes with two instruction manuals. One is basic and the other is a bit more technical.

I run this pedal directly into a Peavey 4 channel powered mixer plugged into a Crate 412 cab. Only two of the distortions are useful, but those two are awesome. I use the Metal T distortion for all of my heavy sh*t and the Fuzz distortion for my lead solo style. Just keep the gain setting cranked and it won't get weak on you. The only problem I have with it is that the Metal T distortion kicks so much a*s that my 412 cab won't handle it when it's pushed to it's full potential. The compression effect is pretty weak, but I don't use it much anyway. The wah on this thing sucks. It is really weak and doesn't flow smoothly at all. I personally hate using any type of wah effect, but certain songs I play with my band require it and the wah in this pedal just doesn't cut it. The ZNR noise reduction is excellent. I always keep it cranked and I never get any extra noise coming through. The amp simulator is pretty lame. It seems like all it really does is add a little extra bass to your sound. The EQ is very powerful. Mids suck. Keep that sh*tty-a*s stuff set to 0 and you'll be fine. The chorus and flanger effects are great too. They can be set to be very subtle or extremely loud. The doubling effect is pretty crappy. It doesn't sound like two guitars at all, but it is great if you want to sound exactly Metallica did on the Kill Em All album. (like sh*t) The reverb sounds really good on the clean tones, but it kills your tone when you're trying to get a good heavy metal distortion going. The delay is really short, but can be carried out for days by cranking up the feedback setting. Certain effects are really shi*ty and certain effects are awesome.

I have never had this unit malfunction in any way and it seems to be very durable. It is made out of plastic, but I have accidentally stepped on it several times with my big steel-toed boots and it has never broken.

I have never had any reason to contact them, so I couldn't tell you.

Like I said, certain effects are really shi*ty and certain ones are awesome. I play heavy sh*t, so if that's what you're looking for, this thing kicks a*s. I would like to have a few more effects to mess with, but that's why Zoom makes the 3030, 4040, 8080, so on and so forth. You want more, you pay more. I think these are going for about a hundred bucks in catalogs now, so you really can't beat it for the price.

theres nothing to it. every adjustment can be learned in 10 minutes.

i'm almost embarassed that my best tones come out of my cheapest effects processor. the chorus and delay are great, although i wish they were stereo, but i can't ask for a better mono sound. there aer several distortions, but i found that only one overdrive effect was really useable. this overdrive sounds really good. i play through Marshall and Musicman amps, and with the Zoom 1010 i can get that warm violin lead tone easily through these amps. i do wish that it came with an expression pedal for the WAH and volume, that would really finish it off nicely. all in all it sounds great, and most people are surprised by the sounds i get from this little device.

i've had it for nearly 4 years now and its worked great. i was playing once and and it kept blinking off and resetting to the default patch you get when you first plug it in. i was really mad at it for failing right in the middle of a song, but then i found out it was cause by low voltage and not the ZOOM. i wish it were made in a metal case instead of a plastic one, but i've never broken it so i suppose the plastic works just fine.

never needed it.

i recently paid $360 for a BOSS GT-3 processor thinking it would be a major upgrade from the ZOOM. it has 10 times as many features and is built tougher than the ZOOM, but i still think i prefer my overdrive effects from the ZOOM. go figure.

It is easy to set up sounds but there are limits in its capabilities.

I usually use the 1010 with my Floyd Rose Strat and a Laney TF800 half stack. It doesn't seem to make much line noise. The effects sometimes need tweaking when changing playing environments. I can get good tones for players like Kurt Cobain, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, SRV, Kirk Hammett, and many more, but with only 12 user patches, I have to be very selective of patches I want to store.

I have used the 1010 at many gigs, and it hasn't let me down yet. I also use it in conjunction with the Zoom FP01 expression pedal. The only gripe with it is the fact that it can't take batteries, and it is sometimes hard to find a free powerpoint for the adaptor. I have heard that Zoom now produce a battery pack for the Player series, so I may have pick one up.

I haven't been required to deal with Zoom directly, as my processor hasn't had any problems

The 1010 copes with what I make it do, but I does limit my tone at times. I have had it about a year and have already pushed it to its limits. If I had to buy one new, I wouldn't. The main reason I bought it was because I got it cheap (second hand). I wish it had more modulation effects eg. phaser. I will probably update it with something better within the next 12 months.

Piss easy

I use this pedel with a holdon 50 and it sounds great. I Play heavy Rock and the distortion sounds F*CKING awesome.

I brought this pedel 2nd hand so I don't know what has happened to it but I havent had any problems. I would not stand on it to hard.

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All in all its a good pedel but I had to build one I would put some more effects in it

this is very easy to use, once you get used to the patch editing features, it is just like having a compressor, auto-wah (or wah pedal with the optional controller), pre-amp, volume pedal, EQ, chorus, flanger, doubler, two reverbs and digital delay pedals at your disposal.effects from 5 groups can be chosen at one time
group 1-compressor/wah (can both be used at once)
group 2-pre amp/with a GREAT!!!! noise filter(not a noise gate)
group 3-4 band EQ(presence,high,mid,low), all very active
group 4-is chorus/flanger/doubler(only one of these at once)
group 5-reverb(hall and room)/digital delay(with feedback and mix)
all effects have adjustable parameters comparable to standard effect pedals

i use this mainly for 4-track recording, learning new songs by hooking it up to the 4-tracker and adjusting the tape speed to my tuning, and also i use this with a squire champ practice amp to get rid of buzzing in the amp and also to and some effects for practice

i dont use this in my guitar rig, because i use my fender stage 185 with an effect rack and dont want to lose the amp's pre-amp sound by running two pre-amps together

my rythme guitar player uses a diditech rp7 and cant get as clear of a sound out of it as i get with this pedal(though he routes it through his amplifiers pre-amp, a deffinate no-no)

i sometimes bring this as a back-up unit but have never needed it
i would however be reluctant to use this through a direct box or PA system because i'm more used to a driving amp behind me -(that's just my personal preference)
i've never had any trouble with this unit yet and i dont anticipate any in the future

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i really like the zoom products nad would highly recomend this unit to anybody interested in a jump-off point into guitar multi-effect units
anybody will get hours and hours of enjoyment out of this unit

Piss easy

Pretty damn good for beginners to advance, experts may find this limiting.

no probs ever

I play everything does the job for $200 you can't go far wrong!!