Zoom 1010

very easy to use. I've bought mine without the manual and it was fine.
You press EDIT, change the patterns and then press STORE. How hard can this be?

I did not expect great sound quality from it and I was right. The reason why I bought this is just to have something to write songs with some workable sounds at a low volume. I live in a small apartment so I don't want to play my tube stack when I'm writing songs or just jamming. I leave that for real gigs, rehearsals or recording.. so when I am at home I have this plugged into my stereo or my practice amp or even the computer. It's ok. The only useable overdrive is the Vintage Overdrive, which is not a vintage sound at all, it is more like a high gain transistor sound, like a crate or peavey amp. Like I said, it is ok for practice, but not really good.

Now the clean sounds are good, especially for acoustic guitar. I am able to get a real nice tone using this unit with my acoustic and going straight into the board. The chorus sounds nice and the reverb sound ok too if you don't over use it.

My ratings for the sound quality would be:
w/ electric guitar - 3
w/ acoustic guitar - 8
So I'll give it a 5.

Yeah, it is dependable I've been using it at home and on stage (with my acoustic) for a while and haven't had any problems yet. It looks very fragile so don't bang it around, but as long as you take normal care of it, you should be fine.

never dealt with them

Well, I really don't take this unit seriously. It's just something that I bought for cheap just so I had something to play with at home. My other gear is a custom strat, Ibanez Les Paul, a Carvin all-tube stack and several effect pedals. I can't evern compare my main rig with this little pedal, it would not be fair. But it serves it purpose well..
It is actually a really good acoustic guitar processor. For less than you would buy a single effects pedal you can have several affects/ patches that are more than enough for acoustic guitar.
If it was stolen I would probably buy it again if I could find it for $50 or I would get something better.

it's not too hard to create your own presets if you can get a manual. i downloaded one for free. not that it makes too much difference, all the effect sound ugly and low-resolution.

like i said, it's low-res all the way. i used this thing with a band that required a different effect on every tune, so i got this off a friend for $70 bucks. i didn't wanna carry a shitload of stompboxes to the gigs, so there you go.
it gathered dust for 2 years, but i pulled it off the reject shelf the other day and started messing with it. i hooked it up 'tween my strat and twin. i left it off 90% of the time, but when i wanted a ugly sounding glob of fake distortion, i stomped on factory preset a-1

i gigged with it 6 times, it still works today

beats me

it served it's purpose. it's an interesting noise in small doses.

the zoom 1010 is really easy to use. even a 4 year old kid can operate it. you also don't need the manual use it. you really need to take extra care of it coz its very sensitive.

i use a local amp, the brand is rage amp. the distortions really sucks, you could only use the metal distortion. it really has a very weak distortion effects. but the chorus, flangers, delays sounds good. the auto wah sucks, if you have one dont even try to use the auto wah. if you really are looking for a heavy metal sound my advise is setting the equalizer. set the low freq. to the highest(10), the midle set it to number 2 and the high freq. to 3. it only has good sound in small amps. but if you try it on the big amps it really sucks.

for me the zoom 1010 is only for small amps and you can only use it for practice. but if you are using it for a concert or a relly long gig don't use it coz it really sucks.

i play alternative music, mostly incubus. you can get the sound of incubus using a small amp. i've been using this for 2 years now. it really has very good sound in a small amp. its is not ment to be use for gigs or concert. if this is stolen it will be the happiest day of my life coz it is really crapy effects. if you are planning to buy a zoom product don't buy this one, try Zoom 505 or 707 or 3030 they sound better. or better yet buy digitech products.

En una unidad muy facil de usar, quizas la mas facil de programar que yo conozco. Los patches que viene de fabrica son malos, aunque dan una impresion de las posibilidades del efecto. No hace falta usar un manual

Este pedal lo uso solo para improvisar con amigo. No me animaria a tocar con este efecto profesionalmente. Lo uso junto a una Epiphone SG , una Fender Telecaster japonesa y anda bien. No me atreveria a usarlo con mis guitarras de mejor calidad.
Las distorsiones por lo general son muy metalicas, y suenan muy digital, el chorus, flanger y delay son mejores, aunque el delay es corto (solo 420ms), y no reproduce fielmente lo que se presetea.
Con cualquier ampli suen igual, asi que lo uso con el ampli de practica

No podria tocar en serio y depender de este efecto. Es todo plastico, y ya tuve problemas con un pedal en el pasado. En recitales el equipamento debe ser resistente, y este no lo es tanto

Very Easy to use

Distortions are not Great
Flanger Chorus and Delay are better

after about a year of use (some gigging but mainly home use)it started to falkl apart i.e one of the peddles no longer works and some of the effect select buttons no longer work.
needs something better than plastic casing if you want it to last

good for a beginner learning to use effects
not recomended for gigging or advancing your sound

Very easy to use , to edit , a simple but good manual .
To be easy to edit and to have or not a good sound are opposite things , I'd say , and some would agree . I'd pay 10 bucks for another .

I sold it , bought other one . No noise , but the drive is weak , the strongest ones sound good for Maiden . Every unit has good drives , but the question is : the good ones have quality ???? I used it with a Marshall , and the amp doesn't help the sound . Zoom is not good .
And I just hope they put my submit in the site . I'm saying some bad and True things about it ! ( I had 7 floor processors ) .
But it's perfect for beginners !!!

You can depend on it , no prob . The prob is to make it sound good . If you did it , okay ! I used it at the beach , 1999 , in a 220 volts outlet , but with a 110 adapter . The adapter exploded , but the Zoom was ok ! And , believe or not , when I went out to buy a 110 220 converter , I dropped it on water ! Even so , that was working !!!

No .

The drive is almost strong , but at very low levels . In higher levels , it makes a lot of noise when you make a bend ...

Editing is easy i agree that even a chimp could use it

the distortions are shit no way u can get a good sound!! but the rest of the sounds are ok it souns way too digital and at best corny

you can depend on it,(if u wuold have the guts to use it on a stage and scare all the people away with that horrible raket) but be carefull with the power cord it's kinda short and gets loose if u tape it or something u could use it with no backup. unless u are very clumsy it won't break

bought it used

don't buy it!!!!
the 505 is better!!!!
if it had an auto wah and better distortions no problem(i guess it's the bits)
it sucks for metal or hard rock but if u play clean and u ain't got no cash buy it.
i would never ever buy the stinking shit again!!!
but if by some miracale u found a way to get a great sound (overdrive) contact me

This pedel is great it simple enough for anyone to use and has a lot of fetures for advace players

The sound quality is great does not efect your sound of the amp when it in bypass mode

I have had mine for almost 9 years never had a promblem with it just take care of it and keep it clean

Never had to call

I play country and Old Time Rock N Roll this pedal does every thing i need it to do I bought my sons the zoom 505 and zoom 506 for bass because i was happy wit my pedal

Easy to use, easy to edit. You will certainly store your own patches so that you can easily get the sound that you want without having to surf through the various patches that are pre-set.

I have a jap Strat with diMarzio x2n humbucker , I also have a strat copy with EMG pickups, I also use a duosonic to fiddle around with and it's noisy plugged into anything. I use a Sears Silvertone 25 watt tube amp from the 60's, or a Peavey 60 watt tube head and Eminence 12" speaker. The sound quality is quite good, really. The output is high, so you don't get too much noise. The modulation effects are the best part of this pedal especially the chorus/flanger/delay. The distortion isn't as bad as other people are saying, but it doesn't have the smooth warm quality as you would get from a cranked up tube amp. It reminds me of the distortion of a solid state 50 watt marshall amp that I used to have, or the solid state Peavey Bandit that I had a long time ago. What you can do is use the distortion of your tube amp if it has that feature and then just use this pedal for the time modulation. I went and bought 5 reputable pedals to replace this unit, expecting to get better tone, but it didn't work out right. I bought a DOD overdrive, an Ibanez flanger, Ibanez phaser, Morley Wah , and a Rockman . It didn't work out because I got too much noise and lost the tone of the guitar pickups and the amp's natural tone. The people in my band like the sound of the zoom better.

Yeah, it's OK for dependability. I've had it for 3 or 4 years now. You can gig with it, but it looks a bit dorky because it's so small and plastic. I have played it on a couple of gigs and I'll try to make a point of doing it a bit more. You can forget what patch you stored a particular sound in, and then start tapping your foot all around the patches searching for the right one.

Never had to get any help with it.

It's great for a new guitarist who wants a pile of effects and cant afford something else. It's really not that bad. I've tried a lot of different pedals in about 10 years, and you can't complain about it especially if you pick one up used for a hundred bucks or less. It would be nice if it had analog dials that you could spin while you're playing , like some of the newer models. It can help you make music , if you wander through the patches - it can put you in the right frame of mind for a certain type of song that you want to make

This unit is very easy to figure out. It was my first multi-effects and it took me a few minutes to figure out the bank-patch concept, but it was very intuitive. I got this as a gift (without the manual), but it was still easy to figure out. On another point, I have size 13 feet and it is easy to hit the wrong button on this compact unit. Minus points because there is no LCD display to help out with patch programming.

I play this thing with my Fender Duo-Sonic Reissue (hot rodded pickups) and a crappy Peavey practice amp. It gives the amp a lot more life and oomph. There are limited options with the modulation and delay effects. Chorus, Flanger, or doubler can be used. The chorus is nice and swirly, but the flanger is too harsh. It is hard to get a subtle chorus or flanger. I can't hear any change when the doubler is in use, I'm not sure what it's supposed to do. The delay and reverb are OK but do not have a wide range of options. I couldn't duplicate The Edge's funky delay sounds with this unit.

Distortion gives a choice of 8 sounds, with or without amp simulator. The distortion is good for an arena rock/metal sound, but it is too smooth and metallic for me. I can't get a good rough grunge sound or a convincing overdrive. It sounds way too digital for my tastes.

This thing has never gone out on me, but I think there may be a problem with the input jack (but probably just my cable). It seems tough, it is heavy for its size. I would gig without backup, it seems durable.

Never had to. Solid unit.

I use this unit mostly for distortion, as I don't really like a heavily produced sound. It comes a little short, it sounds sterile and "hi-fi". Not a lot of grit or character in the distortions. It was a gift, and I guess I can't complain. This unit is just enough to make my sound acceptable: my sound straight into the amp is unspeakable. It's a good pedal but definitely not the end-all, beat-all multi effects.

If u cant figure how to use this, shoot yourself now. Easy switching between patches. Editing is only good until a certain extent. After a while of messing around you still wont end up with the perfect sound desired.

THIS PEDAL IS GREAT if it is your first pedal. I only play my no-name guitar to my 50watt peavy amp. I us this guitar because it makes the distortions sound ok. But truthfully, this guitar is the best sounding guitar ive ever played with using heavy to light distortion. The other effects are managable, but can use some fine tuning. The distortions are messy. They are noisy and sound pretty bad. Nice when playing Metallica.

Ive stepped on it getting out of bed in many ocassions. I thought it was history a few times, but it hold up for being plastic, very surprising. When switching between patches there is a slight delay. Never use when in the middle of a song, but great for practice.

never dealt with

This is a great thing to use for practice and beginners. I get by with it just fine, but for the best effects you should try using individual pedals for each effect you are looking for. Get it for the time being, once you get good enough and think it sounds like shit, buy seperate pedals for each effect, its the only way to get a good sound.

I bought this pedal with no manual easy to use

door stop pedal, this pedal sucks,what the hell was zoom thinking
the distortion sounds like shit I use the preset d.1 for my vocals
DONOT USE THE DISTORTION,I built a little p.a system and all my good gear is back in canada.I did'nt want to go out and buy another rackmount effects so I use the zoom reverb,delay,chours,the best thing I found about the zoom 1010 the guitar tuner works ok

mine still works

well what can I say I traded one piece of shit for another.I got this pedal at a pawn,now I know why it was at the pawn junkyard.all I have to say is don't buy this pedal you'll be sorry.

The interface is really simple, once you read the manual and get the hang of it. It's basically just a row/column set-up that lets you dial in what you want.

The distortion colors are pretty wide in variety, and the effects are good. The flange, the hall reverb and the delay are really good. Unfortunately, there are about 30 preset sounds that are useless. If all of that space was for user set-ups, this pedal would be perfect.

Well, not very dependable. I bought this pedal used from a friend of mine of was unloading it, so I can't really complain. He supposedly had the thing forever. But the power cord keeps blinking in and out, which sends the pedal back the first user set-up. So if you're in the middle of a song...look out. I don't think I'd use this on a gig. It seems too plastic. I still like using just the amp with a good foot-switch. Maybe have a pedal or two set up to augment your sound.

I have never dealt with Zoom, but they have a really great website. They have all the manuals for their pedals archived. When I bought the pedal, my friend didn't have a manual, so I downloaded it from their website.

I'd have to say that for practicing, this pedal fits the bill. It doesn't seem to travel very well, and the construction seems a little flimsy. I've never thrown my gear around, but this pedal doesn't seem too "workhorsish." The sounds also get a little trite when you turn them up on a real amp. So as a practice pedal, bought used, it's fit the bill.

the zoom 1010 has user friendly features that enables me come up with the tone i want

i use an amp which i bought locally and it really sounds great either i'm on a gig or just at home practicing

you can really depend on the zoom 1010. i've used it for at least 5 years and it has never let me down yet.

haven't tries this before

i play a wide variety of tunes and even if i change from heavy metal to mellow music, zoom 1010 still does the job.
i've been playing for at least 8 years now i have a zoom 505 which allows me to try more guitar flavors.
if my zoom 1010 was lost i'd buy another one.
i simply love it's manageability and ease of use. what i hate is ihave to repaire it 'coz the pedals are stuck. my favorite feature is the different distortion flavors.

Yeah, this thing is very easy to use, editing patches is very easy, you can do with only one button. It's very intuitive too.

I'am using a Epiphone LP-100 and a S470 Ibanez with this. I's using a Cicloton amplifier too. Well, when i was 18 i thought that Zoom 1010 was the best... but now(I'm 22), what diference... I'm see.. this thing SUCKS...!
Especially the distortions, only two types that you can play... It's very, very noise and the only thing you can do is use metal distortion, set the gain to maximum e play some punk musics...
The other effects? Compressor is OK, Wah sucks, Equalizator kill the sound of the guitar even if put bypass mode, Chorus, flanger and double are ridicolous and, finally, the Delays, at least, are very good...
And what to do with it? Well, if you have a good overdrive on your amp, than you are safe or, like me, you will have to buy an overdrive pedal and put it on

This thing is very cheap, so it's made of plastic...
I wouldn't use this on a gig without a backup.

I have never deal with Zoom

I would like to play some songs that uses valve amplificator. Like old rocks (Led Zeppelin)
Well, listen me, that's NO WAY that can do with this thing to sound next to a valvulated amp, even a tube combo.
With a overdrive/distortion pedal and with compressor/equalizer/reverb and very good guitar it not too bad for the price... If it was stolen, i would buy anything, except this thing again...
Begginer only, definitivly.

really f**kin easy to use. this is probably one of the best user interfaces that i've used.

right this is what i had the problem with - the distortions are absolute SHIT. i mean terrible. totally unusable in a band situation, they totally suck. luckily i use a peavey 5150 so i have no use for the distortions on this pedal anyway. the other effects are average - compressor is just about unoticable, the wah is ok for interesting textures, chorus and flange are not deep or fast enough and the chorus is noisy as fuck. the delay is useable enough but doesn't go on for long enough, i use the reverb sometimes for a weird kinda overtexture - sounds a hell of a lot more distintive, but it's not really an amazing verb.

it's plastic. i would never use a plastic pedal onstage, i'm just too heavy handed (or footed as the case maybe). if u like the idea of holding on by the seat of your pants the this is for u. otherwise forget about it.

i bought this pedal at the start of my guitar playing career. i don't use it now because i think it's a piece of shit - i really have no time for something that so fragile, noisy and un-interesting. this pedal is too subtle for any real experimentation. i really like to have the option of going into a mad world of sound if i want to. this pedal is just a let down

Its kind of easy to find sounds, theres not a great deal of options, so you wont have a problem messing up with it like for a day or two.
The manual is pretty handy though...

I now play a custom ibanez S type through a triple rectifier and a 4 x 12 mesa cab. Let me tell you, i bought this baby like 4 years ago, and i never got the sound I wanted. I was looking for a raw distortion that i never found. This thing is just for beginners that are just entering to the world of pedals and effects, you have to realize this.

I would definately use it with a backup (Im not using it anymore though. Its made of plastic!! If you drop it form 3 feet high, it would break

never dealt with'em

I`m giving it a 3 cause I have matured over the years, and no pro guitar player would ever use this pedal. Its a good pedal to introduce you into the effects pedal, but thats it...
If you are 14 an getting in a band, this is a good choice for you, but if you're 24 and playing big gigs, get a big head or good processor!!!

It was pretty easy to use.The editing was fairly simple.

This is the the worsat effects pedal I have ever used.I'm glad somebody gave it to me.Cause I wouldn't spend 10 bucks on it.

The plug in for the ac adaptor has a short and I've only played on it 10 times at the most.

I never tried to call them.

Sorry Zoom...but this pedal stunk.

Easy. Editing patches is simple, arrows choose which one, plus and minus change the value. TA DAAAA! It's self explanatory and you can get all sorts of funky noise without trying too hard.

You get what you pay for. I use it mostly as a reverb unit more than anything else. I use my DD3 on the hold function so I need this for other delay/reverb effects. I only use one flange effect and the rest are just different tones and echos etc. It's part of an ever increasing chain of effects and this does nothing detrimental my sound when I go through it. The effect 'double' seems somewhat pointless though. It's just a chorus effect with more limits on it, and being as how chorus is already included I wonder what it's purpose is. Sometimes the reverb can sound really processed though, but I don't mind it that much. Distortion and overdrive? Yukky, I hate digital distortions. They don't agree with me. They sound like nasty accidents. Overall, sounds good if you want the right things from it and don't expect too much.

Pretty good. Mine's a bit old and sometimes when i press a button to edit a patch it takes a few goes but performance wise, the foot switches still work fine. It's plastic but sturdy.

Don't know.... I haven't even heard what ZOOM are like with their cutomers.

It's got three effects, one of which is fairly useless, sounds good, and it's cheap. It's really useful for me because it gives me the effects that I can get with my other units but that I don't have room for anywhere else. It helps me to get that really massive reverb sound with lots of distortion that sounds like I'm playing in a really big cave. I wouldn't use the distortion patches on this unless you wanted to overload your sound and get some inhuman noise. It's handy, not essential, but handy. If it were stolen I'd get a more recent model of multi effects, but it's small and convenient to fit in my board. It was the first effect I bought and I love it dearly.

The "menus" are quite clear and easy to use.

It's very silent, which is good. The effects are great, but the distortions, however, are not that good. But if you plug the Zoom 1010 to you amp (in my case a Marshall 80 watt) through the fx loop and adjusting the level to 5 and use the amps distortion the sound's quite spectacular.

The "bank" -switch on mine's broken, so much for reliabity

Very easy to use, you cam learn to use it in 5 minutes

I bought it 2 years ago , the distortions are worthless. Actualy most of the effect are weak, but it might please begginers. Good thing I got a Marshall so I don't have to worry about distortion anymore

Never used on a gig, but it seems like you won't have problems with it

I wouldn't buy it if I were you. I play lots of Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, and if that's the sound you like you should use Marshall amps, gibson guitars, dunlop cry baby and boss chorus and compressor.

It was very easy to use, and for being my third pedal that I owned, I was impressed with at the time. There is a manual for it, I did not get one with it, but I got for $60.00 at a pawn shop. There was only 12 user editing patches, whitch I did not like cuz I wanted all my own sounds, and not factory presets.

At the time I was using my Fender stratocaster to the ZOOM 1010, and that went to some no name amp head, then to my old PEAVEY Basic 60. I liked the Chorus effects on it, but It's nothing compared to the Small Clone I am using now. I only liked the one vintige distortion; all the others sounded like shit.

I used to, but now the 3rd pedal is busted and the the AC adapter is a wuss!!! But it lasted for a while, plus I have big feet so the pedals are too small and way too close together!!

Never called anyone.

I play basically NIRVANA, APHASIA, METALLICA. It was really good for the Seek & Destroy Distortion.

Manual makes it easy to get some initial settings, but tweaking can be a bit of a pain in the *ss as there are no knobs but buttons to input your settings.

I agree with those who said that few of the distortion effects are usable, but those that are are pretty good. Setup: Samick LP or a Danelectro DC-2 into a Tech 21 Trademark 60, and for a while I got disenchanted with the sound of the 1010, and bought a bunch of individual effects pedals. Now I'm back to the 1010, because I can't get the compressed, slightly overdriven with lots of sustain sound as easily, or as smoothly, from the pedals.

I have used it to gig with, no problems, but always worried that if I dropped it it would easily crack wide open.

Not applicable, never had to deal with them

I'm rating this higher than I would have just a couple months ago. I had picked up a Boss Blues Driver, Boss Chorus Ensemble and a couple of the Danelectro mini-pedals, thinking that these would give me better, cleaner sounds than the 1010... but it just ain't so. Having a hard time getting the exact overdrive sound I'm looking for anywhere BUT the 1010. Just wished I had waited to buy it until after the price plummeted.

very easy to use, no problem with that

The equalizer is ok, distortion/metalizer isn't. If you put some effort in it you can get a very decent sound. No metal though.

You can depend on the pedal. The adapter is a bit of a problem, because the cable is pretty weak.

N/A

I like metal. Like to play it too. But because I wanted more effects than just a metalizer (me like delay!) I didn't buy a metal zone2 (love this thingy). Best choice for me was the 1010. Affordable. Very good in price/quality. It's nice to start with, or when you just don't have the money for better gear.

it was veryy good compared to most pedals

i like the sound.....but the output is too low.....the amp cant handle it sometimes

it's a pretty good pedal