Zoom 606

I suppose its easy to use, I only use the distortion sounds (I think all the other efects are quite poor to be honest) so it can be a bit of a pain having to skip through all the other sounds.

I use an epiphone les paul (with EMGs) through a vintage marshall JCM800 head and a relatively new 1960b cab.
The distortion sounds are very good indeed, in fact I have tried lots of other stomp boxes (boss mega-distortion, boss MD2, digitech death metal) and I have to say it was better that all of them.
Only problem is that the clarity gets lost a bit when I play live with a band.
I never use the other sounds so i cant comment on them.
I play mostly power metal (gamma ray, helloween etc.) and it does the job nicely, not quite the same sound, but I have pretty much given up on trying to replicate that exact sound.
The great thing is that its not too noisy.

Its currently broken because the input is jack is dodgy, so no, not all that great.

never dealt with them

If it were stolen I might get another but only if I couldnt find another decent distortion pedal.
been playing for about five years (bass for another five)
still on the look out for a better distortion sound, but for its price this blows the competition away.

here's the only good thing about this pedal...

its very easy to use, just plug it in and step on it...

when i had this pedal i used it trought a peavey bandit and a fender mexico fat strat with a humbucker and a floyd rose.

i thougt it sounded good, until i played trought a "real" amp and "real" effects, then i learned that i sounds awful... all effect are really crappy and the distortion models are just bad!

I haven't really had any problems with it but i wouldn't gig with it, even if I had a backup...

haven't dealt with them...

I play every kind of music you could think of on a guitar...

but i wouldn't use it with any of it.

now a days i still have The Bandit, but now i use Stomp boxes istead, i use a modified japan strat and a edwars les paul.
been playing for about 7 years.

Very easy, I've had the 505II before, you can setup with your eyes closed.

Setup: Epi Paula 100 into a Peavy Bandit 112.
AMAZING for a Multi in this price class, does a very good job in every way. I don't like Distortions I'm a OD-fan, but the Distortions are pretty good sounding. You'll get Accept-like sounds of it. Overall you can do any sound from Clapton to Kiss over to Maiden and Metallica or harder stuff. Nice funky sounds, too...

The 505II is also made of plastic and never dissapointed me. I think it'll be the same, so it's a 9.

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I play (rhythm guitar)in a 70's 80's Hardrock coverband.
Sure, there are better Multi's, but in this league (Behringer X-V-Amp, V-Amp / Digitechs RP50/80 -I tried or had them all-) it's the best of all, especially if you want to play multiple built in Dist's and OD's. In this league it's a 9.

I have a Zoom 606, and I'm tickled to death with it. The pedal is very simple to use. Everything is pretty much spelled out for you on the face of the pedal. However, the book tells you anything else you need to know to make major sound changes, switch effects from bank-to-bank, etc.

I use a lot of different guitars with this pedal. What I find great is that you can take a crappy guitar and it will sound good with this pedal....and I ain't kiddin'. The unit is not noisy at all. The effects are strong....I'm able to get Van Halen sounds, Jimmy Page sounds, Clapton....you name it. I'm using the pedal with a Peavey 150 watt special amp. The only reason I'm not giving it a "10" is because nothing is perfect.

I've gigged with this pedal and had absolutely NO problems. I would indeed use it on a gig without backup.

Never had to deal with the company, so I've go no opinion on this one.

This pedal is a good match for ANY style of music. I've been playing for about 20 years. If it were stolen, I would cry and go buy another Zoom 606 or maybe a more deluxe model, but it would still be Zoom. I love the way this pedal actually improves my playing by improving my sound. The pedals are a wee bit small, but it is nothing that can't be worked around. Hey, though, the size of the unit overall is one of its selling points. This unit definitely helps me make music. Again, only reason I'm not giving it "10" is because nothing is perfect.

Pretty easy to use, though you have to keep in mind not to max out on the gain since it can get pretty noisy.

Here's my set-up: Strat copy (S-S-S) -> 606 -> Digitech Bad Monkey -> Washburn Bad Dog. I can get a pretty decent sound here though it leaves me wanting on the dynamics since I can't make it scream and wail on pinched harmonics as compared to when I use an analog distortion. The Metal distortion can sound pretty good if combined with the simulation of a stack amp, but I have not much use for it since I mainly play blues and hard rock. I like the Zero Noise Reduction because it is really effective especially that I'm using a guitar with single-coil pickups. I use the 606 with the Bad Monkey to fatten up the sound and to make the distortion from the 606 sound more "analog".

It rates pretty poorly here. The 606 was actually loaned to me by my bandmate since I have no distortion pedal when I joined the band. The input and output jacks are really unreliable since they aren't as sturdy as analog I/O jacks. Now I put a thick sheet of newspaper under them to have something to support my 1/4" jacks, otherwise, the sound just gets cut off. Oh well. I have to bear with it until I save enough money for a pedal of my own.

Another thing is its casing. It's made of plastic which can be pretty unrealiable if you're gigging as I am. The I/O jacks acted up during more than 5 gigs already. Now that's pretty bad since our band put an emphasis on setting our gear up quickly so we can start our set immediately.

Never dealt with them.

I mainly play blues and hard rock and I can pretty much get the sounds that I want from this effects pedal, although, as I said earlier, it leaves me wanting on the dynamics.

If this were stolen or lost, my bandmate would kick my ass. LOL But if this were my pedal, nah, I wouldn't think about buying another 606. I'd rather buy me an analog one.

The pedal can help inspire you though to get some weird and cool sounds when you experiment with the other effects like the pitch shifter. On the economic side, you can save a lot if you buy this instead of buying loads of analog pedals. Aside from that, you can get a new sound by simply stepping on the footswitch. But soundwise, if you like to do pinch harmonics on your guitar or if you're a tone freak as I am, you'd be left wanting on the distortion side of this pedal.

Lastly, you might want to consider buying an effects pedal that's "built like a tank". This one isn't. Always bring a back up when gigging with this. As I mentioned earlier, this pedal has acted on me in several gigs already. You don't to look stupid on stage do you?

Very easy to use and edit. Online manual is great and the book came in a few lauguages. The only thing I wish they made bigger was the button to swith the expression pedal mode, I find I need to play with a tip on my shoe to hit it and switch to wah-volume mode. Other than that I like the layout of the controls and the two knob controls are nice to use. Dual foot pedal switches and one expression pedal to control stuff from wah, drive, mod/pith, delay and volume.. Lotsa stuff you can control

I use my vantage strat copy with this unit and it sounds really good. Some effects sound really processed and I can hear that they could sound better but I like the really cool synth like sounds and noise gate that really makes the guitar sound weird, definitely needs a digital processed sound for that. I find that it takes me a while to get a really good distortion sound but it's easy to play around with so it doesn't take too long to play around and get it right. No amp, straight thru my computer and 5 watt speakers or headphones, sometiems I've used Revalver program with it and can get some more neat sounds out of it. For the money it was a good investment in what I play at the moment and not have a million little pedals and power cords going everywhere. I find the expression pedal to be okay, I haven't yet tried out 'just' a volume pedal for swells to Xanadu but this unit seems to be okay for the expression pedal touchy/feely wise.

So far I've used this unit for less than a year and it's been great. Some paint chips I've noticed, very small. I've only taken it out once and it it was to a college party, beer nearly got spilt on it, but it survived the abuse and is still playing.

Have not had to deal with them yet.

For my first every effects pedal I purchased, it's great value for the money.. I was thinking of just getting the lower one, but I've always wanted one with a pedal to do wah and volume swells, etc.. so it was definitely worth the extra money to go for this one. Not much I can change about this unit and its great value for your money, definitely a great first guitar effects unit. Wish I could download/upload patches on the computer and then I could save & call up even more patches, but it's not hard to right stuff down on a pad of paper. I play mostly Rush and hard rock style music to just jamming out stuff, and this covers it all from their begginings to their 80's period up to their current Vapor Trais & Feedback album so this pedal can do quite a bit.

this pedal is VERY easy to use, no problem here. i rated it a 5 becouse it is not easy to get a good sound out of it. the manual is allright, if u understand how to use the a processor its not really necessary though.

i have a gibson epiphone les paul, and a fender princeton 650 65 watts. the problem i have with the processor is that if i have the eq one in both the processor and the amp, the sound is really ugly. i always turn the eq off in the pedal. i HATE having to do that. that eq really sucks.

no problems here

never delt with them

i play power, progressive, rock, blues, jazz and really almost anything.ive been playing for 2 years, one of then with the pedal. if it was stolen, well i would probabbly buy another pedal. FOR ALL OF THE BEGGINERS OUT THERE, dont scare off with this review, i really liked it at first, but its not the processor that u might have for many years. its a good first pedal to have. if u want a really good one, save a little more and buy a boss gt8 or a digitech gnx4. this is the second review i post for this pedal, i wrote the first one when i just bought it.

If you got your PC to show this page in your browser you'll get your 606 to work in no time. The equalizer is a pain however.

As much as you can expect from a digital device..
Distortion effects are nice, some are even close to realistic (Metal7th), given a good input sound (do not even try it with cheapjack pickups, you'll be sorry).
Everything else is of acceptable quality.

Looks sturdy. Had it for 2 months now and didn't fail so far.

Nope, never had to.

I'm playing rock&hard-rock stuff and this gizmo does nicely for that. I suppose it'll do for anything just as well.
Functionality is great; it's sound is not exactly analog-like, a little artificial, but for such a nice price that seems more than enough.
So, overall.. it's not something you wish on a professional stage, but go ahead and conquer your neighborhood (or school.. or whatever) with your sound.

Fairly easy to use once you get the hang of it. Manual is OK.

Editing patches is easy but requires the manual.

Some of the presets are OK I guess, but many of them are very loud!
I have tried to create my own patches. The problem is a considerable loss of dynamics as compared with regular stompboxes.
Some of the effects sound too "plastic".

It sometimes seems erratic (e.g. the guitar tuner). Don't know if it is starting to go south.
I would not use it on gig, more for practical reasons than reliability reasons. I will use stompboxs instead.

I mostly play 60:s rock using clean sound with delay/reverb/chorus and slight overdrive on solos. The 606 doesn't give me the sound I want, so I'll use stompboxes instead.

Been playing for over 40 years and have a Squier Tele and an Epi Les Paul that I play through a JJLabs 100 W SS amp. I also use an Aria digital delay pedal and an old Ibanez 3 effect pedalboard with compressor (that I don't use), "tube screamer" and chorus.

If it were stolen I wouldn't buy the same again.

This is my first experience of a multi effect and I haven't really tried any similar products.

well there are many sounds in it, so you may like at least one or two, editing patches is easy if you read the manual, that is the key tool to understand the unit,pretty good manual, basic knobs and buttons that allow you to experiment and t get great sounds from it.

I use this with a Jackson KE-3 and a laney hcm15, since the jackson came with really hot pickups any distortion available will sound like a demon just released. No problem at all, just reduce the gain until you like it. the unit is not noisy at all, if you use good cables adapters, and don't use it with anythng broken(a broken pickup made mine scream like a banshee when compressor engaged).

To all the people standing here to compare this pedal with other units, if you were expecting to sound like pros, or like using a huge analog pedalboard, you maybe are a bunch of idiots, obviously this pedal was made to experiment practice and maybe play local gigs, not to clone steve vai tone or to do huge arena gigging.This is adigital and cheap unit, all what you need to begin and to experiment, not to take you to the rockstar levels.

the distortions are really good, the marshall drive gives a decent sound and the fender clean sounds really nice. however, wah sucks, since it doesn't have much range. the pitch sound a little synth-like, but the other effects work really well with the adequate tweaking. The ZNR is great since it destroys all the noise produced by the use of many effects, or hi-gain distortions-

I shoot this directly to the amp, however, I recommend to try it also with some stereo headphones, since they give the real unit sound, or put it through the clean channel of your amp.

This thing has got artist distortions from EVH(good),Randy RHoads(good), Jeff Beck(cool, with pitch), Steve Vai(awesome with whammy effects), Korn(good if you like such a thing),Led Zep(very good), Hendrix(not so good, not that bad),and clapton(sucks totally), you can get also sounds from iron maiden, metallica, megadeth, nirvana, and even, blink 182. very versatile

Distortions work great, and so does chorus and delay, the expression pedal is great since it allows you to control the presence of some effects(dist, or delay for example)in a more "gradual" way than a stompbox.

I take a lot of care of my gear, it is not made of metal, but it won't break unless you make an elphant stomp on it, or something like that.

i can gig without a backup, but try to keep an eye on it, since the bass player of other band, almost plug it,and...well is not the best thing that can happen...

I've been using it for two ears, no prob's at all

There is no dealer here, these is Colombia so I can't get much customer support different from the shop where I bought it, but since I haven't faced a problem and no need of an upgrade, I cannot say much...

I play from blues to heavy metal and everything in between, as a digital beginner's unit, this is the best thing you can get, if you want better sounds, save your money and go analog, but if you don't know already how do you want your tone to be like, this effects will help you to know better sounds, textures and things like that...
it's better than a 505(expression pedal, more amp simulations, better voiced distortions), and doesn't have stupid features like the other zoom and boss digital units(no offense, but why would you spend more money in something with a sampler, or more effects if it still sounds digital?)so it's a very good Quality/price processor.
Som sounds of this unit can surprise you always, and this will always be a good idea bank, and even an inspiration since the sounds are so many that maybe you could be finding the new and ultimate guitar tone.

If it was stolen, I would probably buy it again, o buy something similar since is easier to set up than my chain of analog effects, plus my analog effects arent so many.

If you are beginning or need a portable emergency device this is your thing, if you can't find your tone and don't wanna spend your money in buying lots of analogs, try this, is the most powerful leatn-from-yourself device that i've ever met...

If you don't believe that this is versatile enough for you, remeber this number 136 540 695 107 520 000, cause thats the number of combinations you can get from this thing...if that's not versatility, hten what is it?

you can try http://dlugo.host.sk/index.php to view some cool 606 patches, this is a page some other user created as a tool for using the pedal, so what else can you ask, if I can use it Here In Colombia, what the hell are you waiting for?...