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!!

extremely simple. if you can't figure this out without a manual, you've got problems my friend. if you've got problems, the manual is very clear.

i bought this back when it first came out, 3 or 4 years ago. before then, i had always played acoustic or just plain out distorted - this was my first taste of most of the effects. at the time, i loved it but i now find it somewhat lacking. the noise is pretty bad at times if used for recording line-in, but it's ok on an amp. i'd use it for keyboard before guitars, honestly, as the best features are the spacy stuff.

the compresser/wah is weak, but it is noticeable. the distortions are pretty cool as far as multi-effects units go, although that shouldn't be the main focus for this thing. if you want distortion, get a couple of obscure stompboxes and link them together - big name distortions are generally generic and cliched...

the eq isn't amazing, but it works. personally, i love the noisy chorus - it's really nasty and great with distortion. the flanger is ok, i remember being able to nick that kim thayil "fell on black days" sound with it a few years back. the doubler isn't a real doubler, but it's fun to play with..

the reverb isn't real reverb, it's a really fast delay - and that's probably why the actually delay only goes to 42 seconds, too much space bogged down on the other side. this shouldn't be the main delay in your setup, but it works fine and sounds ok.

seems pretty small, but i'd gig with it anyways. i just wouldn't stomp on it that hard...

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overall, this is not a professional unit - but i don't think it's supposed to be. i rarely use it nowadays, but i loved it when i was 16 and thought it was the greatest thing in the world. i used to stay up until all hours of the night programming this thing, then sleep when i got to school. it's a great 'beginners' effect pedal because it won't spoil you and it'll force you to program it yourself because the presets are truly horrendous save a few...

if i was going to change it, i'd add an expression pedal, a few more effects (tremolo, octave, pitch shifter, etc) and make it out of steel, dammit. i wouldn't replace it nowadays, no, but i don't plan on turfing it either...

Sounds good from the box. Presets are lame but fun if you are capable of having fun. Menu system is extremely easy.

Its not that golden tube tone everyone speaks of its a 100-150$ digital pedal, It does what it says no frills. These are the people who cant figure out why they cant beat a ferrari with a yugo.

The only time i had a problem with it is when i plugged my instrument into the amp jack. Felt like a real dork.

Never delt with them

i play with a yamaha, gibson flying v, washburn bt2, or fender strat. All sound good just have to edit the patches for each guitar. All sound great through a nice fender amp.

I've bought it in 1998 and was my first FX, as a guitar rookie I guess this is the most easy-to-use FX in the wolrd.

Its sound great, but the chorus get noisy, really noisy. Good Distortions and Reberbs, kinda good delay too, but the chorus it very noisy.

It will not let you down, ever. (unless you go out of power).

When I bought it, it had not sound, I send it to the store and they don't replace it, they fix it, but it don't sound that bad.

It works for what I need it, but the chorus sometimes make me sick. I'm always feel pain when I heard that noise.

It is very easy to get sound out of it. The patches are simple to edit. I have not upgraded it at all.

I have a peavey studio pro 112 amp and a fender stratocaster guitar. It is sometimes noisy, only with certain distortions or wah. Most of the effects sound great. I use my crybaby wah wah with it. I can easily get the sound of Metallica, or Limp Bizkit, any of those guys. The distortion is great. But the wah on the pedal itself isnt good. Thats why I use a crybaby.

I can depend on it with no problem. I jump on the pedals all the time and ive never had problems. I always use it on gigs, but as I said, i use my crybaby wah wah with it.

Never dealt with them.

I play in my band, Heavy metal and rock. It is an awesome match for my music. Ive played for 2 years. I use a crybaby, zoom 1010, boss metal zone, digitech wammy, and boss reverb. I would buy it again if it were lost. I especially like the distortion on this zoom 1010. I hate the wah on it. Ive compared it to many other pedal boards and I like this one. Not the best, the one I liked most is the digitech pedal board but with zoom, its cheeper, plus ive gotta ton of other pedals to mix. I wish it had good wah, maybe made of metal, and some more controls. It definitly helps me make music. BUY IT IF U DONT HAVE IT!

Never used an FX that is so easy to use. The "patch-menu" couldn't be more simple

The rate of the bluit-in FX are average, delay/reverb is good. Still, the pedal sounds static when in use and not played. Too bad, sound quite annoying

Never let me down before (on gigs and rehearsels). Used without any other FX (Wah, tube screamer) it may sound very narrow.

I play mostly my own songs, so I can create my own sound. The Zoom 1010 is cheap, multi functional and sounds not bad at all. I've got more FX I use, mostly in combination with the 1010. Wouldn't want to miss it when I'm playing!!!

It is really easy to use, editing could be no simpler and the manual is very good. Top marks on this one!

Well I used to use this with my Epiphone SG and My Squire Jagmaster into my Marshall VS100R before I sold the thing. It wasn't particularly noisy on any settings, and if the distortion was getting a bit hissy then the noise reduction usually sorted it out, but it did mess the tone up a bit so you'd have to fiddle with the eq again.
The distortions were top notch-I can't complain about them. Number 4 (can't remember the name of it) was the best one for me cos I play stuff like Smashing Pumpkins and it did sound pretty good for that stuff. The compressor was just cack, I never bothered using it at all. The wah's were ok but not nearly as good as the cry baby I've got now. The Wah number 1 sounded good as a fixed position wah (like the intro to Leech by Limp Bizkit), but when used with the expression pedal it was a bit jumpy-not a smooth sweep at all.
The flanger was excellent though I must say, it went really slow and deep (just like Love by Pumpkins), but it didn't go very fast. It was good at what it did though. The chorus was good if you liked Michael Bolton Ballads (which I didn't!)but you couldn't get the wobbly vibrato sounds out of it that you can with a seperate chorus pedal cos the rate didn't go fast enough and the depth wasn't deep enough. Delay was cool if you like digital delay, but not a very long delay. It sounded good on maximum length, but then you haven't got the option to increase delay time if you need it. Reverb was ok bu I used my amp's reverb normally instead. And lastly, the doubling was pretty good but completely unused on my effect cos it didn't fit my style of playing. EQ was excellent too. The tuner was very accurate, but it only tunes as low as C# so if you want to tune it to low B or something them you have to tune the low string off a 12th fret harmonic-not a major problem, but I'm sure they could have designed it to tune lower in the first place.

I used it at a few gigs without a backup and no problems....it's made of plastic so don't go being a rock star and jumping on it though! Never had any problams with mine, but I looked after it pretty well.

Never dealt with them.

I play mostly alternative rock music, and this pedal is good for what it was made for....which is basically an introduction to the world of effects. I've been playing 5 or 6 years, and I still have the guitars and amp I mentioned earlier, but I've since sold my ZOOM and bought some stomp boxes instead. It lasted me 3 years and I got some good sounds out of it, but I got to a point where I outgrew it and I wanted more flexability and better tone. I didn't like only having 12 presets cos it limits the sounds you can use at a gig I think. Stomp boxes sort this out cos there is practically no limi tof combinations to use. I also like trying new fx routing systems now to see how effects work in different ways depending on how you wire them up.....this is impossible to do on the 1010. Another on of my favourite things about stomp boxes is the ability to get feedback going and bend down and create havoc by messing with the controls! Again, out of the question with the 1010. It's cheap and it does sound good-I'd recommend it to anyone, you've just got to take into consideration it's limitations before you buy it. If you have the money and you want ultimate flexibility then forget it and buy single pedals, but if you're on a budget and you want basic usable sounds then this is very, very hard to fault. It seemed much better to me than the Korg things I compared it to, and so much better than the Dod Multi Fx thingy too. Buy it if it fits what you want it for. Excellent value, but be warned-you will grow out of it after a few years.

If you cant figure this out, put the guitar down and pick up a shotgun you will have better luck with it.

Distortion is workable, flanger is great, chorus great, I agree with the masses the reverb and compresser could have used some work

works, all the time

havent delt with them

been playing for about 10 years, the pedal can only take you so far you have to play, i dont know about everybody else but i can make almost anything work with some tweeking ( make your own expression pedal, just follow a schematic of a volume pedal and send the wet back to the unit on the stereo channel)

for a multi-effect box this one is really easy to use

celan sounds are great and remain clean at higher volume.
chorus is quite ok, but sometimes a bigger rate of it would be needed
(eg. intros). flanger sounds like it would be made by some 80's cheap synth and really sucks. distortions are not much better either. they don't sound pure and at higher rate sounds too electronic.

never used it on a gig and only for practice and experimenting different sounds.

never had a need to

I play sort of funk/grunge/metal stuff, sometimes blues aswell. it matches quite good for some blues and classic rock stuff but not for metal or other styles with more distorion. It's really good for just experimenting different sounds when you write music, but i would not go and make a recording with it.

An untrained monkey could use this. Hit edit, use the aroww keys and the table to quickly find what you want to edit, and use the value key to change it, then hit the store key twice. THATS IT! Also very easy to adjust the volume. Just select the patch use the value keys to change the volume, then hit store twice.

I am Using an Ibanez RG170 through a Yamaha Mini Mixer with Bose fold backs and with this unit the distortions impress me for a digital unit. The reverb is also nice but could be better. Hall is probably the best, the room is a little dry. The Delay is only an echo and isn't perpetual. On top of that it is only 420ms long :-(. The chorus is excellent as long as you dont start turning up everythig past halfway, otherwise it can detune your guitar, this mabey desierable but as a guitarist that playes everything from Nirvana to Blues this is not good. Same with the flanger, it is possibly a little weak but i am comparing with an old dedicated flanger pedal I used to own. Once again dont turn up the settings to high as this can detune your guitar. The doubler is an interesting function and can be a nice addition to the reverb if set right. The Zoom Noise reduction is very effective but has to be turned up all the way to be effective, this eats at the tone slightly, but not much. The Compressor is absolutly useless,you have to turn it right up for it to be noticed, but this eats the tone dramaticaly. The Wah is weak and you have to buy an extra pedal for this, hell, for the $80AUS I could buy a decent second hand dedicated Wah!

Well, it aint let me down yet. It is made out of re-enforced injection moulded plastic that seems strong enough but i wouldn't jump on it (i am gental with my equipment as I am a poor student :-))
The pedals are a little flimsy but they have held on so far and plugs seem to pull out the back much to easy. I would take a distortion pedal to a gig with me but that is it. The reason i dont is because i don't own one and the school dont like me flogging theirs (Boss MT-2).

Well i have never had to deal with zoom, i bought it second hand from my local music shop and the DC in plug had dry solder joints that had to be repaired but the man at the shop fixed it for free before he sold it to me.

Well I am a 15 year old who has been playing guitar for 5 years now and i consider this board as getting past my interests as I move into writing my own songs. I love the distortions, I have got a Metalica, Nirvana, Offspring, Living End and Live Distortion programed into it (there are 8 types of distortion). But it lacks the clean sound that I cherish so much (i play with a delicate balance of both clean and dirty). I compared it against a Zoom 505 and a Boss
ME-30 but i couldn't afford the ME-30 and the zoom 505 was just crap.
If u are like I was, a poor student looking for a cheap board that will absolutly scream out distortion. Buy this. If it were stolen I would trak down the bastard who stole it and beat the $200 dollars out of him and put it towards a Boss GT-5 that will more than sattisfy my weird obseion with using all sorts of effects in songs. This is a good board if you play a lot of covers but if you wish to write songs, you may find it restricting.

It's real easy to get a good sound out of the 1010. Each effect has three or four parameters to adjust to find the sound you're looking for. The full manual is good, but the one page comic book version of the manual is good enough, and you probably won't even need that. The only thing you can't use out of the box is the Wah Wah. It costs $50 or $60 extra for the FP-01 foot pedal to use the Wah Wah. I give it a 9 only because it's kinda hard to use the Wah Wah if you don't have the extra $50 for the FP-01. Which I don't have so I have no idea how good the FP-01 is.

I use a Fender Double Fat Strat through a Silver Face Bassman 70 and an Ampeg V4 4x12 cabinet. The setup sounds great with the 1010. If your setup is too noisy you can set the Noise Reduction to eliminate any unwanted noise. The effects all sound like analog stomp boxes, but you can chain effects together into a single patch so you don't have to stomp six different boxes to get the sound you need. The best way to get a consistent sound is to find the best setting for each effect seperately, then use the same settings on the individual effects each time you mix effects. I hope that makes sense. I'm sure you could duplicate anyone's sound easily since the 1010 has about 10 different Distortions, 4 Wah Wahs, 2 Reverbs, and about six other effects, plus it has a Compressor, EQ, and Tuner (w/ bypass so you can tune silently).

The 1010 is more reliable than any stomp box I've had since it comes with an AC adapter and all the effects are wired together (in the right order) internally. No need for a pedalboard stocked with 2 dozen different stomp boxes that must be chained together in the perfect order (so you don't pick up AM sports radio shows) by working patch cables, not to mention the $15 apiece for most ac adapters. And I've played a countless number of live shows and practices without any problems at all. Just make sure you write down your patch settings just in case.

The band I'm in sounds kinda like a cross between the Melvins, Babes In Toyland, & Fugazi, with spooky melody lines, but the 1010 could fit any sound or style because of it's number of effects. And since most decent stomp boxes cost between $100-$200 anyway, you might as well get a 1010 and get almost every effect you'll need, instead of just one. I also own Distortion, Flanger, and Compression/Sustain pedals, but since I bought the 1010 they've been collecting dust. If anything ever happened to it I would replace it immediately. I started off with a Zoom 4040, but switched to the 1010 because of the ease of use, and the size, the 1010 fits in the compartment thing in my hardshell guitar case, the 4040 was about as long as the body of my guitar. The only thing I would change about the 1010 is that the "optional" FP-01 Wah Wah/Volume pedal would come free. The only other thing I would recommend is to not get too carried away with the effects. My band's set list is 16 songs long, and I've only used 5 patches. Oh and be sure to make the first patch of each bank the same distortion, then use the other two patches for other sounds. And whatever you do, DO NOT USE THE PRESET PATCHES! Make up your own and give them cool names. My set-up is:
A1=Fuzz Box
A2=AM Radio
A3=Distorted Flanger
B1=Fuzz Box
B2=Clean Chorus
B3=Spooky Reverb

I have had mine for 2 years and I would not trade it for something that is ten times more expensive,or heralded as being the best. It's easy to use, sounds great and is easy to transport.

I use my 1010 with a Hamer Standard (Explorer shape mohagany body, humbuckers)with a Marshall half stack. The effects always come out clear and I can get the crunch that I want(METALLICA). Distortions are awesome, but the cleans could use some work.

I have never had a problem with my 1010, and I have used it for two years, at least two to three hours a day.

The only upgrade I would to the 1010 is to make the expression pedal(FP01) sturdier. I broke mine in about two weeks, and a wha-wha-volume pedal is a nessescity for every performing guitar player.

I play mainly heavy metal, but I like like the slow stuff too, and the 1010 is able to handle my stomping from distortion to clean. The 1010is an essential element in my sound and if it where lost or stolen, I would deffinetly buy another one. I played my buddies Digitech RP-7 and I preffed my 1010 over it. The only thing I can complain about is the sturibility of the FP01 expression pedal. The 1010 has opened up many doors of creativity for me, it has been a non-stop sense of release for me in the two years that I have had it.

This unit is pretty easy to use. It took me a couple of days after I first got it to get it working completely, and it's been a long time now that I've had it; I've got working with it down to a science. It is an extremely limited unit, but I can get the sounds that I want out of it most of the time. It would be nice to have more than four banks of three settings, though.

I use an Epiphone les paul special into a small, 65-watt Peavey chorus 200 amp, then into a Woodson 200-watt stack. The chorus on the 1010 is very limited; my Peavey amp has depth and rate knobs that can do much, much more, but usually the 1010 chorus is acceptable. The flanger isn't bad, but it's not what you'd call "studio quality." I've never used the doubling effect; it really doesn't make it sound like two guitars. The reverb is loud and obnoxious. The distortions are quite terrible. I use the metal-T (8) and the fuzz (6) and none of the others, although one time I did put my vocals through the 1010 for a recording and used the rhythm distortion with the flanger and I've treasured that recording ever since. The other distortions are wimpy. I tend to use the metal in conjunction with my amp distortion for some extremely distorted sound, and that works out. The wah is totally not worth it! It barely affects the sound of the guitar at all and produces a lot of feedback. The compressor doesn't do anything (I've never heard any difference in having it on or off). The delay is very noisy and it is way too short, but I have been able to use it to my advantage. Along with the wah, I use the delay and the fuzz as a feedback setting. It sounds wonderful! My amp controls it perfectly. I can play the guitar just by holding my left hand on the frets and sliding up and down, and I get octaves and fifths and thirds and nothing that will explode everyone's ear drums! If you already own this unit, give it a try. But the sound quality overall is poor.

I don't know. I have the FP01 expression pedal along with the unit (big waste!) and it broke the first week I had it. I took it apart and hooked the plastic gear back in place and it worked fine, but recently it broke again. This time I found out that when I switched chords, my new one didn't have a "stereo" jack and it wouldn't work. That was a cruel catch, considering that the chord that came with it is unshielded and will probably stop working soon. I use this unit in a live setting and although I'm pretty sure it will break down on me at some point, it hasn't really shown any signs of that yet.

Never needed it. I wouldn't know.

I play rock. It's the only music that is constantly changing and expanding, whereas pop is terribly stagnant and never changes. I like the unit, but I would never recommend it, especially since I paid way too much for it. I bought it for **I think** $140 + $80 for the expression pedal! Big mistake! Don't laugh-I was young and naive. I had only been playing for a year and didn't yet understand that there's more than just list. If it were stolen, I would definately buy something else. But the sound it makes is unique in its wimpiness. When I created the feedback setting, the guys in my band were amazed. Sure, this unit kills my tone and makes my guitar sound like it isn't even a guitar, but that's not such a bad thing. Anyway, don't buy the unit, but if you have it, don't throw it away!

I thought some of the sounds out of the box were useable, but if you spend some time editing you'll get something better.With 12 user patches on 4 banks of 3 sounds each, you might find it a bit limiting if you need a different setup for EVERY song. And you need to arrange the sounds so they're on the same bank if you need to use more than 1 per song. Editing the sounds quickly during rehearsal is painful to say the least-it's not hard, just tedious, knobs would go a long way towards fixing this, but then it'd be more of a stomp box i guess.The manual is helpful, i just don't use it, but occassionaly i forget about some little feature(like the ability to scroll only thru the user patches) and it reminds me.

First off, it is digital and does sound a bit dry. 2nd that's not always a bad thing.
For those who think the distortion sucks, i say it's a matter of application. For my punk band(where i use either a Gibson Les Paul Classic or a Vantage(model unknown)into a Roland JC-120), the tone is so utterly obnoxious and unique among a sea of boss, dod and ibanez stomp box users, that i love it. someone once commented that my guitar sounded "bitchy"(not "bitchin'").i took it as a compliment.
In my other band (dark experimentaly music, i use both Gibson and a Danelectro U2 into the roland jc120)I've found that the distortion, in combination with other effects, begins to take on a superprocessed 80's sound, and it's not exactly what I'm looking for. The delay IS kind of short and the chorus shallow(the roland jc-120 has such beautiful chorus tho that it's insulting to even run the zoom chorus into it).BUT I've actually used one of 3.1 on a recording(that's right a PRESET) and it does just what i want it to. Of course we tweaked the hell out of it on the mixer with EQ to remove some of the harshness.
Tweaking is very important with this pedal(on the pedal itself or on a mixing board), or you'll be sorely disappointed imho, but if you spend some time with it, it's easily worth the price.

mine has had beer spilled on it, has been dropped from three feet off the ground onto cement, been stepped on when people were rushing the stage to sing along, kicked across the stage,etc. and it keeps on working.

never had a need

i play hardcore-punk in one band, dark experimentaly gothy/industrialy stuff in another, i play all sorts of stuff on my own. I've used the zoom with several dif guitars and amps(the danelectro using the "jazz chorus" sound into a vox pathfinder makes a fine jazz sound, at least for practicing).I actually think the zoom fits the punk band best, since cheap sounds aren't really an issue. And i've never had any problem hearing the zoom over the drums(of course, my amp kicks ass in the volume dept.).I've had the zoom i think for 3 years now, and while i'm finally expanding my effects setup(i've never been big on them until the last year or so)the zoom will stay in the effects chain-even when i get better sounding distortions, or a real delay pedal. I dont think i'd replace it though if it was stolen, unless i could get it used. One thing that i don't see mentioned much, is that the zoom makes a fun little processor for vocals. when i'm recording in my sad little homestudio, and i dont have access to ten thousand reverbs, and running thru an amp isn't practical, the zoom comes in handy.

It is so easy to program this Zoom, altough it is difficult to get excactly the same sound as you hear in your head, but maby I am to critical, but asd said easy to use. When I bought myu Zoom 1010 I didn't even had a manual, and I still don't have one, but to program this motherfucking'thing is so simple

I use two main guitars a Fender stratocaster, and a Gibson Les Paul Studio. For slide I got a Stratocaster model guitar, witch produce the wild sound I want to have for slide, My amps are a fender showman (Twin top), with a 4x10" marshall speakerfor a perfect clean sound, I use a Marshall JTM-45 with a Marshall 2x12"speaker, for crunche, or "harder"claen. And I use a Marshal valvestate 100 watt head with a 4x12"speaker, to produce a heavy distortion in combination with my Boss metalzone and ProCo RAT distortion. Sometimes I use it for the clean chaneel for the real eighties clean sound, in combination with my boss chorus and my boss compressor. I use my Zoom for the delay to get the brain my delay effect in combination with my Boss and DOD delay. The delay is short, but sounds good for what I need. The noise of my Zoom is Afwull, When i record the noise is to loud so I use a carl martin noise killer, with is very good. Compressor on the zoom is shit, so is the (plastic) construction. Distortion sounds quite well, but there's to much trble in it. Chorus and flanger sounds good, but my Boos chorus sounds "deeper". It's fucked up that the zoom isn't stereo, but after all it's good for a extra effect, or when all your other stuff is fucked up.

me zoom always produce sound so it is road tested. A friend of my had also a Zoom 1010 but he had kicked to hard on it and the printplate was broken, so be carefull. When my zoom won't work I can play as well, but something "disappear"in my sound.

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I play all styles of music, reggae, funk, soft and hard metal, rock, but never punk it's to simple to boring and to childisch! But it works when I use my Zoom.
The zoom should have a stereo output!!!
I play guitar 10 or 11 years so I knoew where I talk about!

very simple to use...dont need the manual..editing is a breeze..but getting a good sound is real work..

im using a fernades guitar with active pickups and its quiet to begin with but with the zoom its dead silent through my crate gx65...its hard to get a good sound or impossible the distortion is very thin and horribly digital sounding..its great for practicing or recording..but dont even think of using it in a band situation you'll kick it across the room to damn thin sounding...

i bought it used and it looks a little beat but has worked perfect for close to a year..ive heard from others and theyve never had any problems..they are plastic but seem to be made very well

never dealt with them..no problems so far

this is a great little unit for putting some punch in your home setup if you dont like your sound....nice for recording..but you'll have to come up with your own presets the factorys are useless..just dont even think about using it in a band..its no good for that..but for the money you cant beat it