Zoom 606

Very easy everything described in the manual a pretty self explaiitory stomp box, but i do think it could describe what the effects actualy are and do a bit better,i can see why that may cause some confusion to a amatuer.

I thought very good for what it is i have many pedal boards and many effects but i still use some of the zooms stuff, its pretty much an amp control system and the actual amp you use it through is more just a speaker.

mine wasnt too reliable it broke after about a year and a half of intense use is sent it too get fix and they didnt do a brilliant job as it didnt last long then it broke after the warrenty ended

not brilliant as it broke again

if i didnt happen to have a dud pedal it would be 9 but i still very much suggest buy one, and i suspect i probly gave it more of a beating then most people would

Pretty easy ONCE you read the manual. If you can operate your average mobile phone, you'll get the hang of this in no time.

Using a MK4 Mesa Boogie and an Ibanez. ZNR (zoom noise reuction works surprisingly well), all effects work well, even thought the unit is on the cheap side, which I was surprised to find. Distortion is fine but irrelevant since I prefer the the main lead channel on the boogie for rythym and lead. Have tested it straight into a PA and it would seem that any cabinet sound your after is possible within reason, Many diff options for distortion, EQ'ing etc.

No probs so far

Thrash, Hardcore, Punk. Been playing about 15 years on and off. Not a massive effects fan as i think they have limited use but for getting an original sound that combines technique and effect they can be handy for certain song passages. Choose because it was reccomended by a mtae who said simply "It's an effects pedal, it works well, it's cheap and it hasn't broken." That's pretty much what I want, the rest is icing. btw, the sci-fi and trippy effects can work great when thrown in bridge sections or to trip out more basic riffs.

Well this has to be one of the easiest units i've used. I got it and learnt how to use it within the hour. :-P

If you are having trouble with it, just download the manual off their site.

Well i havn't been playing for that long. It sounds great through my little fender strat 10W practice amp, and the ZNR seems to work. But can get a bit noisey on the higher gain effects (understandable though) when using my 600W. It has a lot of wierd and sometimes wonderful effects, but then some of them can be rather naff aswell. All sounds are a bit digitised, but then what do you expect from and #80 unit! Im quite happy with it.

Well i've had it for a day now, and it hasn't broken or caused me any trouble yet. But then i havn't gigged with it or flushed it down the bog as yet.

Nope, havn;t needed to yet.

It's good for practice and you can create some good effects. But if you were looking for a non-digital sounding unit, then this isn't for you. Also it is an active bypass unit which can be a pain when the battery goes :-)

This one is pretty easy to use.Ok, I've never seen a processor this easy to operate.I even don't have the manual, but it took me about 20 minutes to figure out everything.

Great for beginners like me, and so it is for professionals, but if you have enough bucks, go and buy a Boss GT-8!
Each effect sounds just f***ing good, and please, if the distortion is harsh, just get the gain a little lower!And it also has the mystic ZNR thing(Zoom Noise Reduction, !!!NOISE REDUCTION!!!), just use it!

They say it's plasic. But if you don't jump on it or use it as a ball or whatever, it won't get destructed. And just use it carefully, that isn't a hard work, I think.
I'd surely use this pedal for a gig, but jus CAREFULLY!

Never dealt with the company, 606 will be used even on your funeral!

I play progressive metal, especially Dream Theater, and they use every tone that exist in our small universe, but I can reproduce them quite easily, of course a bit lower quality appears, I use it with HI-FI. :-( The only thing that bothers me that the expression pedal could be a lot better. I mean it's not bad, but the wah feature is really sucks for solos around th 20th fret. I just don't hear the difference, otherwise the it's good.
And, please, those, who write that this pedal is a shit, and then write they have a gear like Mesa Boogie or Marshall + a Fender Stratocaster, why don't you buy something else insted of using Zoom, this is a company producing effect pedals for beginners.
I play for 2 years, really feeling like a beginner, but that processor sonds so great for me, even with my 7 string Squier Stagemaster. A Digitech distortion dies under the weight of the Seventh, but at Zoom even the blues drive keeps working under playing The Mirror(howevever it sounds really funny).
This pedal really rules especially for such a low amount of bucks, I offer it for everyone playing guitar for a short time yet or having an underweighted wallet.

It is pretty easy to use, very basic, but still good. It gets a bit confusing with the patches and stuff but otherwise it's very simple to turn the nobs and adjust the level etc. The instruction manul isn't very explanitory.

The sound quality is good enough for a begginer. you have enough choice the sound is good, but there's this static in the backround when you plug it through your amp, and use distortion.

I've only had it for a couple of days, and even though it's plastic it looks indestructable.

Never delt yet.

I play metal, but i'm learning blues and stuff, it's very good for a begginer, with the number of sounds, and i'm very happy with it. It's cheaper to buy this with 35 effects, than to buy 1 pedal with like to effects. I compared it to lots of other pedals but this was best for value. If it were stolen, i'd claim on insurance, and get a better one.

Damn easy, i have 1 year with that effect and i know by head all parametters and stuff
Easy, just turn knobs and listen good
Exelent for reading, but it doesnt create patches, is the player
:s, iok i'm lost

Hmm, yamaha eg112, Squier 15w amp, whirlwind cables
Noisy not, perhaps a bit on the Metal 7th drive
They have worked for me, but i feel they need more reality
Squier 15w
Yes: Incubus, Slipknot, Linkin, Limp, Metallica, Toque Profundo, JLS, Altus Mortem, .... a lot

Yes i can, and i have used it for gigs, like 6 times. But is true what tehy say bout the input/output, they are fragile, though i was able to repare mine.
Thats the only i have, though this Xmas i'm buying the GFX 5, i've had a great xperience with zoom

havent

Rock (alternative, power, pop, ....) Metal, all that sound heavy and cool
-2 ? years.
Hm, at this point stolen or lost i would buy something different, but deffinitely zoom, and im gettin the GFX 5!!.
Love, the dist, size, weight, help it has given me; hate, the expression pedal, just good for volume.
Nope i just saw it and i said, hell, i have the money, and an electric guitar
hmm. whammy, yahyah, cool pitch shifter
It deffinitely helps, my whole band.
Zoom, hell, way ahead

Anyone interested in good patches for the 606: http://dlugo.host.sk

it's relatively easy to edit the patches on this, but does take a while to figure it out if you don't have the manual

very digital sounding, i didn't like it and when it broke i didn't bother to get it fixed cos i've moved to single effects now. there were some useful effects on it such as some of the modulations and delays were ok, but the distortion was horrible. no noise at all and i really like the ZNR noise reduction thing.

mine broke with-in the week that i got it. totally randomly, what it does is it turns on and then goes off straight away and you can't change anything on it. i thought it might be because the adapter i had had too many milliamps going thru it or something, so i used batteries and different power supplies to no avail. absolutely shocking

didn't even try cos it was too crap to warrant me spending any cash to fix it. i didn't have a warranty anyway

a bit crap really

Except for the equalizer, everything else is pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it. Equalizer really sucks, though. Painful to get your desired setting. Manual is adequate.

I've upgraded to a much more elaborate setup now, but when I used the Zoom, my setup used to be: Ibanez RG570 -> Zoom 606 -> Marshall MG15CD. I've used a couple of other guitars (Kramer Focus, Fender Mexican Strat) and amps (Classic 30, AVT100) on it.

Here's the gist: the 606 is a toy, but a very nice toy. The distortions are actually better than toy-quality, but the mod/pitch effects are just for you to get familiar with effects and decide which ones you want if and when you upgrade to stompboxes. You will *not* be using any of these in any sort of playing situation, other than experimenting.

The distortions are quite varied and interesting, and are actually quite playable, if you're a beginner guitarist. However, you'll soon begin to realize that they are pretty weak, thin, and distant. You'll understand what people mean when they say that it sounds "digital". It sort of "disconnects" your guitar from your amp, you just don't have any dynamics. Even when the thing is on bypass, you'll see a noticeable difference when you're playing clean thru it versus when your guitar is directly connected to your amp. It just sucks your tone and playing dynamics, bypass or no bypass. When I bought my first set of stompboxes, I was shocked at the difference... the pedals were alive, organic, responsive and warm and full-sounding, even when I was playing through the same 15W Marshall.

If you're reading this, you're probably looking for your first effects processor, and for that purpose, I would definitely recommend the 606. Frankly it's worth the money. Don't go after things like the GT6. I've played that one, and yeah, although its phenomenally better than the Zoom (both in and sound quality and bells-and-whistles), it's still a digital processor. For serious gigging or studio work, you *will* want analog stompboxes and a very good amp, so save your money. You may want to try out the Digitech processors, I haven't played them myself but I've heard their sound is slightly better than the Zoom's.

Normally, I'd give the sound quality a 3 or 4, but for its purposes and price, it does fine enough to earn a 7.

Never had any problems. Wouldn't use it on a gig at all. Maybe as a backup.

Never interacted with them.

If it were lost/stolen, I'd be unhappy for sentimental reasons -- this is the box on which I learned to play the guitar. Otherwise I wound't really care. That doesn't negate the usefulness of the processor as a beginner's device, of course.

Well, it depends on what you consider a good sound. I am an American living in the Philippines and I kind of bought this pedal just because you don't have a lot of choice as far as pedals and effects are concerned. I have 2 amps that I bought over here, a VOX Pathfinder 15R and a Peavey Studio Pro 112. Both are footswitchable, however, I can't get the footswitches for the amps here. It would cost me more than the footswitch itself to have it shipped here, so I just went ahead and bought this ZOOM 606. It's pretty cool. I don't consider it all that great, but it is fun to mess with. The only thing I use it for in gigging is overdrive, although I would rather have the footswitch for the VOX and the Peavey because I like the distortion of those amps personally. But, this thing does have a lot of useful effects, especially with the echo, tremelo and chorus. There are a lot of good distortion sounds you can get and it does a fairly good job of mimicking the Marshall, VOX and Peavey Tube amp sounds on distortion and the Fender tube amps on the Fender Clean mode. It also has effects used by various artists, like Eddie Van Halen, Santana, Steve Vai, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Randy Rhoades and Joe Satriani. Overall this thing is good, but the only drawback is that it is a pain in the ass to stomp your foot several times going between modes to get the effects you want. I also have trouble using it on the effects loop part of my Peavey amp. I will give it a 7.

I have nothing fancy as far as guitars are concerned. I have two made in Mexico Fenders, one a strat and the other a Tele and a made in Korea Epiphone Les Paul, then a couple of strat and tele clones. This has a noise reduction mode that helps cut down the noise quite a bit, however, my VOX Pathfinder and Peavey Studio Pro are not noisy amps, so not really a problem with noise. You can get some good electric folk on this thing, for example Steve Earle type stuff as well as good Creed. The Eric Clapton setting seems a little crappy, but on B2, it is a distorted Fat Strat sound that does wonderfully well for Hendrix. The Jimmy Page (G1) is right on and the Eddie Van Halen is close, but not perfect, but then again, I'm not using one of those Peavey Guitars or a Kramer. Nothing is very bad and some of the distortion sounds are very good.

I've had it a year, it's the only pedal I have and I gig with it without a backup.

Never dealt with ZOOM.

I have my moods for every kind of music except rap and shit like that. I like classir rock, blues, blues rock, electric folk, acoustic rock and am getting more and more into country, especially alternative country with some distortion as I get older. I've been playing for about 30 years. I'd get another one if it were lost or stolen because it is about all you can find here.

I really like system of effect-creation, it's great! And manual is perfect (well, Japanese precision)

I use stratocaster-clone quitar and small 20W combo. The sound is really good and suitable for everything from folk to metal! There are also some really crazy sounds, just for fun. I made a perfect sound for playing Nightwish, it's like copy.

Japanese precision, no problems.

I did't need to deal with them

I play everything from folk and classical to metal or rock, it fits to any style. I play for a year and half. I would really buy it again but if I had more money I would try zoom707, I really like this company:)