Zoom 707 II

This was my first FX pedal, which I bought from the guitarist of my brothers band at the time, when he replaced it with a Boss GT-10. This pedal served me for 2-3 years before it broke, but was a terrific pedal. One of the reasons for this is because it was so easy to use, unlike my current pedal, the Boss GT-10. The preset tones aren't bad, to be honest, unlike a lot of pedals nowadays, where it is almost impossible to make a tone first time, such as the Boss GT series. I play a lot of metal, and found it very easy to make good metal sounds quickly, because it is easy to get distinct sounds etc, and get exactly the sound you want (if the pedal can do it) and is very easy to add effects to tones and switch between sounds.

The sound quality is very much a hit-and-miss issue. I play metal 99.9% of the time, and the metal tone that I made was probably the best I would ever have. There's no two ways about it, even with my ****ty Shine Sharkfin V guitar (which costs about ??100 :S), and my even ****tier Fender Frontman 15G amp (which I got from Argos in a guitar pack- that tells you how good it is!), I managed to get a tone which would rival Arch Enemy, Sanctorum, Machine Head, Children of Bodom etc. Plus it wasn't exactly an imitating sound, it was a nice, original metal tone. It was also easy to play on, unlike the not-so-good tone I currently use on my Boss GT-10. At the minute I'm looking for a new amp, and a new guitar to try and improve the tone, but still, I know for a fact that it will never match the tone I had with my old Zoom pedal :(. However, all the other tones on the pedal, such as Distortion, Fuzz, Overdrive, Clean and Acoustic completely suck dogs bollocks, so it's not all good for the sound. I would have given this a 3, but if you're a metal player...then this is probably the pedal for you. Also the Wah mode isn't bad, so this is in my opinion definitely a "metal player" pedal.

This is the most unreliable pedal. At least mine was. I needed so many different adaptors because they just kept on breaking. Plus if the pedal got the slightest touch, it turned itself off! The batteries didn't stay in if I decided to use them, so it wasn't exactly the best thing. It maybe doesn't help that I'm used to my Boss GT-10, which is frankly built like a tank and about as hard to break as a Jew if you're torturing them to try and find out where they've hidden all their gold! (No offence to any Jewish readers :P) But as the pedal lasted me 2-3 years, I can't exactly give it a 1...so I'll give it a 2 instead! NEVER gig with this baby without a backup!

I didn't deal with them. The pedal pretty much was in the latter stages of electronic cancer, it's too late to try and cure it, just make it as comfortable as possible before it dies basically. Which actually I didn't, I beat it harder then a black guy beats his wife! No offence again, it's just a metaphor :P

Overall...if you play metal, then get this pedal. If not...then get yourself a Boss GT-8 or a GT-10. It's good for a first pedal, incidently, or if you're very Jewish with your money, then this would be a good option again. I don't think there's anything left to say...except I'm sorry if I may have offended anyone with my metaphors earlier. Now there's nothing left to say. Party on dudes!

at first it can be really tricky but once you know where the effects in the chain are and how to tweeak the its pretty easy

the manual its good but there are some terms that can be improved

dean playmate, washburn(cheap line) and a Sg clone->dunlop crybaby-> zoom gfx 707II-> 40w generic amp with the EQ Knobs turned to 12 o clock(colorless)

its is noiseless unless you turn up the volume knob all the way up also has a noise gate(called ZNR zoom noise reduction)

most of the presets sound like **** but some are fair enough. also i like to tweek and the only whing i use in the presets are the names

the weak effects are . wha (when distorted sound good but oddly when i used in clean mode whit the isolator mode and no amp simulator the volume turned half down and stay that way until i change patches) the solution use a preamp model and no isolator but affect some of my sound and because of that i bought my crybaby , also some clean amps/distortion are borderline overdrive so i have to be very picky when handling the gain, the acoustic simulator really sucks, as the compresor i hat that it has 2 presets fast and slow and sometimes makes my guitar crunchy so i have to use it very wisely or use the isolator instead, the pitch shifter its good but not as good as the whammy or the boss ps-5 also has a lot of effects like the step or the ring modulator, the filter (really weak) the time-trip(what the hell is this) that i dont like but thats my personal taste , also i dont like the cabinet simulator the only thing to do its add or remove certain frequencies(also maybe in studio or directly to mix/pa it can be usefull

now the good stuff the distortions 10 types , 30 variations possible so you can get a good sound, this unit its not a pre amp so carefull and the amps are modeled so dont expecto to sound like you mesa boogie triple rectifier, but its not a pro unit so it can do the job that its making nice distortion sounds

also the chorus, flanger, delays, reverbs, phaser and other modulation fx's are good except the aforemetioned

i like the reverb and the delay the only fault its that they are in the same module you can use both but you will lose some parameters when tweaking

and the expression pedal it can turn on/off and modify some of the modules ( i use the expression pedal to have 2 chanels in one patch so that was good )

i like to create my personal sound but also to emulate sounds of some artist, however unless you have some of the artist rig you cant get the exact sound but with some tweaking you can get close maybe a 75% and you can fool some amateurs

my first real good gigs was with this unit so i used wihtout backup and do the job pretty well still alive,

the down fall was that my input plug started to fail but the solution was to add a lot of soldering iron and voila no problems anymore

dont be fooled because its plastic it can handle a lot of pressure

uh... im in mexico if it dies it dies...

but if the input fail as most of these units do anyone with some soldering skills and electric knowledge are near he can do the job

i play mainly rock and all of the variants (grunge, heavy metal, hairmetal ,glam, classic rock ) and the little thing do the job very well

ive been playing since 2003 and ive owned a lot of multi fx 1 digitech rp50 my first multi effect but this baby beat it very well, a zoom 606( in fact the 707II was the upgrade from the 606 because i needed more parameteres to play with and the 606 can offer) a korg Ax100G pretty good unit i own both and i used both at the time, but then i bought my first boss unit (a me-10) and i just have to store the poor zoom because the boss just blew it away and now im selling it ( i think someone will find it more useful than just being stored in their box at my house)

This is my second review of this product; I originally reviewed the unit when I bought it new about 5 or 6 years ago. I've used it live for hundreds of gigs since then and now have more insight into it. As far as ease of use is concerned, the 707II is manageable, but is a pain in the ass live. Arranging patches for optimum use is very difficult and many times during the night I find myself doing the stomp-the-cockroach to rapidly change from one patch another six stomps down the line, even after carefully arranging them for my needs. Very frustrating, overall.

As many here have stated, if you take the time to twiddle, you can produce very good sounds from this unit. I have some wonderful chorusing, phasing and delay patches going and quite often get compliments on them from other musicians, so the unit is very capable of producing good tones. The initial presets are crappy, ugly "12-year-old-with-anger-management issues" tones and are overblown with too much reverb, gain, compression, etc. If they work for you so be it, but my advice is to erase them! My main gigging setup consists of usually strats into a blackface Bandmaster running into a 4-10 cab with Jensens, along with either a Blues Junior or a Blackheart Little Giant into a 1-12 cab. Along with the 707II, I usually have a Bad Monkey or an 808 reissue, a Marshall Shredmaster and a boost, currently an AC Boost (wonderful boost!). Although I am not ecstatic about the 707II, I use it because the tones are as good as I've heard from Korg and Boss units I've heard.

Well, plastic and durability don't go hand in hand, but I've stomped on this thing thousands and thousands of times, had drunk chicks fall on it and spilled a drink or two on it, and it still lives. All jacks had to be replaced, they went bad fairly quickly, and one must remember to keep the footswitches clean and lubed or they will stick. I transport my unit in a laptop bag and it is protected very well. So far so good.

Have never dealt with them.

I have been playing over 25 years now, play at least two gigs a month these days, usually two-nighters. I have a couple dozen effects pedals, but use the Zoom for practicality purposes. It helps keep the space in front of my mike stand clean and makes things fairly easy to handle as I sing at least 25 songs a night and am the only guitarist in a three-piece band. I don't have a lot of time to be stomping on 10 pedals, playing and singing at the same time. I'm just a dumb guitar-player! If lost or stolen, I don't know if I'd buy another, I'd try out some other units and look for a system that featured easier patch switching and routing.

Forget it. If your a bedroom music person, it may work. For live, throw it in the trash. I would rather spend my time learning new songs that trying to setup this cluster f.

I use the tuner. Again, toss it in the garbage. Guess you get what you pay for. I had the thing for about 4 months. With all the live gigs, amps, etc, no time to spend on it. And what little I did was a waste. If I wanted to program something, I'll do it on my laptop, NOT on my guitar pedals. JUNK for live performances.

Pwr connecter will not stay attached. Poorly designed and does not play well with others.

I would not waste my time calling anyone at Zoom for the POS.

Its got the trash can blues.

I don't know if it's me, but I have a hard time working with this unit. I've had it for four or five years and still have not been able to get really good sound out of it. The knobs are small and sensitive to the touch. When trying to change a drum pattern or beat for example, it is easy to zip past the one you are looking for. It's just a little too finicky for my taste. Getting good custom patches out of it is difficult at best. The instruction manual is not the best laid out, so figuring out how to do things takes a while. A few examples of how to get certain sounds would really help the manual.

Sound quality? Well, the quality of the effects leaves a little to be desired. The sounds are weak and tinny. The acoustic modeling has a nasty hiss to it. If you have a small practice amp, it can improve the sound of it, but it doesn't do anything positive to the sound from my Laney Tube Fusion and Epiphone G400. My 9 year old son likes it, though.

I can depend on this thing giving me trouble. All the inputs/outputs are flaky and constantly need jiggling to get them to work. Actually, I lied. The guitar input has been reliable. The others, not so much.

Never dealt with their customer support.

I play everything except Grunge, Heavy Metal and Country & Western and this pedal just doesn't fit with any of my musical preferences. Maybe it'll work for you metal heads, but not for blues, rock, jazz, or anything else out there. All I use this pedal for now is for the drum machine for when I'm practicing alone and for the tuner (I just keep it on BYPASS). I received this as a gift, so I can't really complain too much or I'll be sleeping on the couch, but I certainly would not buy another one.

It's as good as plug and play. I use it for my yamaha DX7 synthesizer so I can't comment on the presets as they were intended for guitar. Editing is very simple and easy, you can do it by trial and error. Effect modules are laid out clearly and the module indicators are very informative - during play mode it shows which modules are active, in edit mode, it tells you what module is being edited. Some effects have two pages which you can access by pressing a button so it helps reading the manual which is very straightforward and easy to understand.

Sound quality is very good. Very quiet. Effects are very good. I've created chorus, flanger, delay, phaser, into hall and room reverbs, they just sound so amazing. The 707 adds another dimension to my DX7 which lack effects. Others say their sound is muddy, thin, etc. I think they may have just phase cancellations in their sound - the 707's sound interferes with other effects gadgets or the amplifiers characteristics. I use a solid state hifi amplifier for my keyboard at home and it works with that. Still to test my DX7 into zoom into guitar amp/cabinets. One thing for sure, my keyboard doesn't sound good in guitar amps so I use solid state amplifiers instead.

It's fairly dependable. I might place a rubber padding on it's footswitches and expression peadal however because it seems slippery.

You will never need one (I hope). And I'll never expect one.

Good pedal, at least it worked for my DX7, and it sounds pretty good.

Super easy to use! expression pedal works in an instant. Patch editing/restoring and patch up/down is easier to use than the older model (707). Drive mode (OD,metal,clean,etc..) very easy to change,no need to go thru the editing mode at all. Manual book and patches table sheet available and easy to use.

I play alot of Tom Morello's (RATM @ Audioslave) effect. Almost got it all. But trying to get his Digitech Whammy's effect, only achieved 85% accuracy of its sound. I also combine this effect with other analog pedals,it sounds ok. For high sustain, just disable the ZNR (noise reducer) mode.

Works just fine for Morello's changing sounds play style,but could get messy sometimes. Better inspect everything before go live. Zoom's products know to have 1 flaw : input/output jack tend to loosen up, thus effect changing in mid of a song could lead to no-sound. Expression pedal is OK,but lack of control in Wah mode,compared to analog WAH.

The patch up/down is easier to step on,compared to the older model. SmartCard (MMC) slot could come in handy, to save a backup for those precious customized patches u've made. Choosing a drive & pedal modes is at a push of a button,every easy to use! For the price i paid, it's a must bargain!

The 707II is very simple to use, making patches or slightly altering a preset is really easy. But in order to actually make good patches (better then the presets) its good if you have some sort of tone knowledge. Some parameters in the effects may not be named or shown the same as they would on the real pedal version of the effect. eg; the delay doesnt have a delay time (400mls,100mls etc) knob, but other knobs like mix, which will kind of give the same effect. reading the manual once or using the pedal for 2 hours and you'll know everything.

Sound quality... well it isnt the best. However there is a MAJOR difference between the presets' quality and patches you make yourself. The presets pretty much all lack tone, warmth, sustain and overall balls. I use a Jackson king V of the x series (not the high end one) and a fender vibro champ tube amp. I mainly play metal or neo-classical shred but also some black metal and ofcourse I like a nice clean channel, although i dont need one. The distortion tends to be very weak, low output for pinch harmonics for example or sustaining notes. however ive made some patches which are definetly decent for what i play, combined with some delay and/or reverb i made a pretty nice lead guitar sound with good output but sustain is still weak. The effects are ok, mainly because you have so many its cool, but the wah is no good (compared to a real one)
all in all its ok, you have big variety in sound, but no sound is really great. Good for beginners

Reliability might just be worse then the sound quality, after a couple of months my input broke and couldnt fix it, however i own my second now, and no i didnt buy another one because of my satisfaction, but a friend gave me his cause he didnt need it anymore. Anyway, on the second one, a few months later the left pedal broke, so this meant i couldnt switch down patches, and i couldnt use the record and play mode anymore, which sucked cause it was kind of fun. And the tuning mode stopped working as a consequence. some other buttons also stopped working.

no idea, havent tried to contact them.

Like i said i play different kinds of metal, through a jackson and a tube amp. for the first 2 years of my guitar playing i owned this and it was good enough, for beginners its cheap and gives a wide variety of sounds, which you can make sound relatively good with some tweaking.
i then had a metal zone pedal which i borrowed of a friend for a long time together with the fx in the pedal.ive been playing for 4 years now amd i will be buying another pedal soon, probably a boss me-50, because i need more authenticity.


its good for beginners but for more experienced players it lacks alot, especially in tone and overall sound quality.

Lots of potential sounds, but you have to tweak it.Considering the amount of sounds possible, not bad.

Overall, it sounds killer.Charvel, Gibson Flying V through 2X el-84 tube amp.I like all music except cuntry.Effects are very good.All kinds of whacked out sounds possible, as well as regular rock/ whatever sounds.Not noisy.

I bought it used, but seems like it will last.Made of plastic, but designed well. I don't cringe when I use the pedal like I do when I use my Behringer X- V amp pedal.

Surprised by the ratings here.They've been nothing but helpful with all my dealings with them.I treat them with respect so that probably helps.Even sent me a battery cover for free.

I play ABC. Been playing 25 years.Doesn't sound as good as my Voodu Valve, but it didn't cost a grand, either.Definitely would buy it again.Don't buy this if you have no patience or imagination.If you have both, it's well worth the price new.Totally kicks ass.

I would like to start my saying that this is the second 707 II I ahve owned. I sold my first one a year ago to help pay rent. So the fact I went back for another one (second hand this time) shows that I beleive in the product.

I also play an Epiphone Les Paul Standard, with Seymour Duncan JB bridge and Jazz neck pickups fitted. This is channeled in a Fender FM212 amp. So I am playing a pretty intermediate setup, probably not too different to yours.

The whole thing is pretty strait forward. Use the left and right foot pads to naviagte the menus with, then use the three knobs to dial in the various settings such as gane, tone, volume, mix ect. The expression pedal again is pretty simple, with the function selectable by the side of the product.

One thing I will say is that navigating through all the patches (and there are allot of them) can take a while, so get to know the layout and use the fast skip buttons.

Also, to get the best tone out of the effects, its best to play around allot and get to know them well. Tweeking is a little more complex then may meet the eye, especially when your combining different effects in chains.

Overall, its very easy to use, and the large navigation screen is a BIG bonus!

Well, here is the thing. If you own a PRS ?10,000 hand made guitar with a Messa Boogy head and cab, and are used to Electro Harmonics effects, you will always be disapointed with this.

However, if you like most people dont have ?30k to blow, this thing is perfect! The tones you get are not as good as the real thing, but yout 80% there. And lets face it, why spend ?70 on a ping-pong delay your not going to use.

So buy the 707 II as your multi effects, then if there is a pedal you just love, go out and buy that. Put it in series with the 707 II and you have a pretty amazing rig.

I play allot of Smashing Pumpkins and Devin Townsend stuff, and the 707 II can 80% nail the tone. The versitility of the 707 II also means you can get all those weird little bits here and there that would mean buying 5 custom pedals normally.

There is no buzz from the 707 II, unless you turn it up to the top, then you will get a mall amount, but then the volume you get out is very very very loud, so in a venue, you wouldnt notice that. in fact. my amp mankes more noise than then pedal.

One critisism is that there does appear to be some tone sucking when you use the pedal, but this is few and far between, and avoidable when you use the amps effects loop.

Firstly, I am a product designer, so i know what im talking about.

People will talk to you about how the plastic case is crap. Well, its not. plastic is not inately crap in that it can be made more resilient than metal. Using a plastic casing reduces posible background electro meagnetism interfearing with the electronics (causing buzz). When you think about it, why are so many pickups (not covers, the actual pickups) encased in plastic? reduced interearence. The plastic used (assumably ABS) is very resiliant and wont fail you any more than metal.

Here are the floors though. The input jacks on my first one did start to have problems after the first few months. This is easily fixed with soldering, but it isnt good. Its all down to the way the 1/4" jacks are held to the case, in a very flimsy way, so this will go first.

Also, changing patches using the foot pedals is a bit 'wet'. On new Zoom pedals they have gone back to the old stomp box switches (like on most small single effects). The padels dont give that satisfying 'click', so you dont feel like your relaly there. Also, the padels make it easier to skip through patches, but also harder to reach your real patch. This can be overcome by using the 'special selection mode' , but this again makes it harder to select patches.

This pedal wont last a lifetime, but then its cheaper than other, which does suggest a lower life expectancy on the product. Just look after it, dont jump on it or through it out of the window and you will be fine.

This is reliable for a rooky, but if your planning a UK tour, bring some backup Boss pedals that can survive a nuclear winter.

Never used them. However the website for the Zoom pedals is a subsisary of another company, and in Japan. So dont get your hopes up for perfect 1-1 support. Then again, i may be wrong.

This is an excellent product for any guitarist who is a beginner to intermediate. Expert players probably will find allot of fault in the sound quality, and get annoyed o long touring gig. Then again, experts hate everything and have enough money for 30 boss stomp boxes.

As i said at the start, this is my 2nd 707 II, and I am very happy to have it. I can plug my headphones into it and play at night. When I move into my new (small small) room in a rented flat, the 707 II and my headphones will be my amplifier.

The sounds you get are very customisable to about 80% perfection. Its not the real thing, but then it loads and loads of effects for a relatively small price.

AMAZING value for money, so go anf get one today. eBay is a good place.

having not had much other experience with fx pedals i would say that it is relativly easy to use, although not the easiest thing in the world. certainly not as easy as turning some dials on the amp.

weak. The distortion (any kind) on this amp is weak and very artificial. I don't own a valve amp (yet), i have a MARSHALL MG50DFX and i can tell you that that sounds better on it's own than with this fx pedal. I used to use it with a PEAVEY RAGE 15W amp (this is where the zoom comes into it's own) until i upgraded and noticed that. The only thing you can use this pedal with is a beginners amp like the one stated. It will make the sound better on one of these, but when you get further up the (price) spectrum for amps, i wouldn't recommend it.
I use it for tuning now, thats it.

i think it's reliable enough. i've never had a problem with it, and mines been dropped a couple of times.
very robust for a plastic pedal.

never delt with them

beginners fx pedal = YES, VERY MUCH SO

someone who knows a little more, with more experience = NOT RECOMMENDED

Well when i first saw it looked pretty confusing.But i got used to the functions.there are manuals in different languages.editing patches is quite easy.

i am using it with an ibanez SA 260 FM and stranger 40W.The effects are good,but some of them are the same.It is not at all noisy(noise reduction system).I play creed,metallica,rhcp,also punk and many other artists.Great for punk and metal.not good for heavy metal.Also not good for soft rock and overdrive sound.WAH WAH pedal is really good.

Yes i can certainly use it on stage.and yes i can count on it.

who are they?hehe

very good for rock and punk rock,good for metal but not that heavy metal sound.i have been playing for 2 yrs.this is a good "first processor" for a start.shifting between patches is tedious.great for gigs and practise.for BEGGINERS it is a really good processor,also cheap.but for paying a little extra you can get the zoom gfx series which is better.50% of the patches are 'kind of' similar.but a good buy

The Effects are self-explanatory, and with threeknobs, one pedal (w/ selector) and two food peds, it couldn't get less complicated

Setup: Vintage '57 Strat (I've added humbuckers and a Floyd Rose), Marshall Amp, and the 707
Sound quality is pretty good. Some of the effects sound digitised when you crank it up, but I'll give it Full Marks for its "Clean Wah". Brilliant.

Sturdy as a rock (it's Jap man), Very good for live gigs.

Not had any probs so far....

I play Hendrix and Dead music, so I love the more subtle effects and of course the monster wah. Great for someone who plays classic rock. Of course, ya can try out its spacy Pink Floyd-ish effects (airplanes etc) but progressive rocks not really my cup of tea.
Also, its great value for money.

Whe you first turn it on it starts up in "Play Mode" - beginners won't even need to bother going beyond this. All the effects are readily available so pick one and play away. Editing patches is very straight forward if you've bothered to read the first few pages of the manual. Could do with a bit more of a range in the editing function. The manual is small and concise with easy to understand instructions. One or two of the more Zoom specific terms could do with a bit more explanation. Inclusion of a glossary would have been handy at first.

Mexican Strat, Vox Cambridge. Some of the clean effects can be a bit too bassy when switching from distortion to clean whilst keeping the same settings on the vox (i.e. if you're switching mid-song). This seems to happen with all the amps I've used it with (Peavey, Fender, Vantage 10watt transistor amp). There are ways round this though if you can be bothered figuring them out (the expression pedal comes in handy for resolving this). The "clean wah" factory setting is good for some steve vai rhythm work with my strat set to the middle/bridge pickups. With a bit of creativity, there are also ways of getting close to SRV's thick tone (using heavy strings 11+ and using the neck/middle pickups helps immensely). As for other artists, all you need is to listen to em carefully and play with the settings a bit and all the effects will get pretty close to what you'll want. Never expect it to be perfect though! There are 2 preset fuzz effects, one is good, the other is bad. As for the others, personal taste will govern whether they are good or not.

I would depend on it for the first 2/3 years. Then you can expect the jack sockets at the back to get very wobbly! I've never gigged without it but I've always used fresh batteries and been very careful about where I put it on stage. Too close to amps can cause you problems when the stage starts vibrating! Don't expect it to last forever.

Never needed to deal with customer support.

I play rock and blues mostly with a smattering of heavy metal and jazz. It's served me well for all styles. I've been playing for 10 years - I've had a zoom 707II for around the last 30 months (used every day) and before that I had a zoom 707 for about 3 years. I think the fact that I decided to stay with zoom says a lot.

I love the fact that it can do 99% of the things you would ever want it to do for stage performance and practicing (not the greatest for recording purposes). I hate the fact that effects units when put through an amp rather than a PA/keyboard speaker don't sound like they do through your headphones!

When I decided to get a new effects unit after wearing out my old zoom 707 I looked at Pod, other zoom products and the possibility of simply using effects pedals in relay to my amp. In terms of value for money, the Zoom707II is the Daddy. If you want to hear the true sound of your expensive guitar and amp, don't expect ANY effects unit to do that. Be prepared to fork out for a different pedal for each effect you want.

I chose the Zoom 707II because I was, and still am extremely unwealthy and it's one of the most underrated effects units on the market.

It's helped my style a fair amount due to be able to replicate sounds for all different musical styles from funk guitar to Brazilian Death Metal. It's also a teeny weeny unit compared to various others (except the Pod which is very small but also pretty expensive).


If you're strapped for cash, or simply don't want a big chogging girder on the stage with you get the 707II. Unless you have a mind of your own that is...then go try it out and decide for yourself. Ba-a-a-aaah.


Hope you find "Guitar Effects Nirvana".

well i bought this with my first shitty amp and my first shitty guitar.Not great. You have to mess your head around with all the buttons and valves.

I use it with my ibanez copy and an unknown rare belcat amp (ever heard of any?)The noise reduction feature is VERY good but you might loose a lot of your guitar's original sound and sustain with it. But it makes it noiseless, loads. Effects are pretty cool and are many. Not all are good you have to mess with them and make your customs. I spend most of the time on my custom D feel. When i bought it i was a beginner and i loved it. Now i completely hate it. It won't give you ANY famous rock artist's sound.

it might be. I never used it live

who are they???

Definately not for those who are serious about their music. But it is fun enough to make your kids happy

Hey, just updating a review again. I've used this unit almost two years now in my stage rig and have worked things out with it for the most part; however, ease of use is an issue. You must line up your patches in a manner that works for you, or expect to be doing a lot of stomping..clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick...ah...B6. As many have said, this is a Zoom, so editing is not a super-easy thing to do. I make sure to assign critical paramters to each patch to the pedal, so I can use the pedal to control the amount of reverb, compression, etc. Otherwise I would spend half of each set bent over playing with knobs.

There isn't a one single patch that I use that has not been altered. The distortions were clearly designed for 12-year-olds with anger management issues, so a lot of frequencies had to be twiddled. I have come up with some really nice stuff, though, so don't think that you can't get this unit to sound good, take your time and it will shine. I've heard guys with units costing three times the price of this sound like rodent droppings, so just take your time, the sounds are in there. Also, the ZNR noise reduction is fantastic, with it on my rig is as quiet as a duct-taped mime.

Had a drunk chick fall on top of the Zoom a few months back, which jerked one of the jacks pretty bad, now the jack occasionally makes noise. Don't let drunk gals on stage, no matter how little clothing they have on! It's a plastic unit, folks, not exactly heckler-beating material.

No contact with them yet, hopefully my call wouldn't be answered by Beena on the Indian subcontinent.

So many great multi-effects units out there today, you should be able to get good tones out of anyone's mid-line product. Heck, a friend of mine still uses his ART ECC (you know the one, it's 15 years old and about the size of some full-size pedal boards) and he gets a few really good tones out of it, especially the chorus and tremolo. While I still have a dozen or so pedals at home, I bring a couple overdrives and an EQ with the ZOOM to each gig. My '65 Bandmaster is a bit sensitive to the ZOOM, but I just tweak things at each gig...oh yeah, new complaint I forgot about; how hard would it have been to put a clipping light on the unit so you could tell when you have the gain set too high, instead of just using your ear and guessing? That's a big pain to me. Okay, I'm whining...

Firstly, it is quite easy to get along with it if you just fiddle around with it for half an hour. However, incase you need manuals for extra knowledge and understanding of the equipment you can refer to on the 10 manuals it comes with after you've selected in which language you really want to read. However if you've borrowed it from friend, etc, there's a fair good chance that you wouldn't have either of the 10 manuals. Here's the one in English http://www.samsontech.com/products/relatedDocs/707ii.pdf .

It really helped me as I borrowed this thing from my friend. Don't get me wrong. I'm not posting a review after using it for just a couple of hours. This review is the result of the huge patience and auditory training that went into configuring, using, recording, etc. etc. for more than 8 months using this one.

Editing patches are easy. If you can't edit them, then ask someone with a better knowledge of sound, gears, etc. He can help.

There is a sticker with a 6 digit number but I'm more than sure that it's not the firmware revision number and guess what? you'll never find it. (Just the tag "Made in China" on mine).

Overall 707 II scores well in this category.

Forget the presets. 80% of them are crappy and another 15% so-so. What you'll really need to do is sit infront of the amp with your guitar and this 707 II. That way you'll be able to create workable patches for your stuff.

I said workable in the last paragraph, and it's true. The effects are not that great but will work. I'm happy that 707 II showed significant improvement from 505 and 606 in terms of the overdrive sound. However, if you've never used a real overdrive before, this thing is going to give you a wrong conception of overdrive.

The good thing about it is that the pedal is configurable. But personally, I hate the wah. This is not how a wah should sound like. The cleaner effects like reverb and delay are good, ok I change my mind, very good.

These guys put a question "What amp are you using it with?". I'd say, "It doesn't matter". You'll have to sit infront of your amp with the guitar and this thingy to make *workable* patches.

Not that good. Just workable

Can you depend on it?
NO! NO! NO! And that's not at all because it's made of plastic. Infact the plastic is quite durable and I bet, it'll be hard to break it unless you try to tread the footprints of Nirvana.
Lesser mark on dependency is due to the fact that the knobs aren't good, neither are the small switches. They'll get stuck if dust accumulates around them. Infact two of the knobs of the one I own does.

Would you use it on a gig without a backup?
Never even think of doing it unless you are really poor like me.

My few cents worth of knowledge and advice :
Please prepare your tracklist way earlier and then arrange the patches for easy switching. There's a quick switch option available but beleive me, DO NOT even try that on stage.

The company logo says "ZOOM : Catch Us If You Can"...

You can't catch them. Better rely on the good old friend of yours who has better knowledge of electronics equipments.

I play Metal, Soft Rock and Pro.. It is a 5/10 match but the effects are cheesy. However that's what I'll have to use for now. (As I already said that I'm poor). I post process the sound after I record it. That way it sounds a lot better. But believe me, you'll have to spend a minimum of 3 days to get that perfect "not so perfect" sound which can be easily converted to a post-processed "perfect" sound"

If you are a beginner then this is your toy. Else you have two other options. a) If you are a tube amp freak then go buy Boss effects + a Crybaby wah pedal and assemble them and plug them in. They're more sturdy and will give you exactly what you need. (Will be around $ 500) b) If you play neo metal, new age like me, save money and later invest in a POD Xt Live ($ 400).

Overall, its not even value for money.

Plain simple to hit some pre-sets; need for handbook to sink into patch programming and to take full advantage of features. But overall rating is very good; names for patches help and not too many buttons sports multi-functions.

I have just bought it. I tried it via a mixing desk, headphone and a G-K combo. Very quiet unless you select hard dist models (in line with the real things and not quite!). Clean and acoustics models shine. Nice zoom distorded classics, not very greasy the match/mesa/etc... high gain and the like. Fair -on an absolute scale, would be great for the price- reverbes and echo. Nice modulations. Unusefull wha and the like. Would be 9 if it did not try too daring distortions. wall-mart adapter much better tha batteries, which rapidly fail to give enough voltage and reduce dynamic headroom.

undependable pedal. First impression: rather good if you take it for home woodshed, coffe-house gigs, rehearsal. Not the stage horse to abuse.

I am playing bass -and guitar- for some 25 years now and I tried/owned most of the pieces of gear you read and dream about. Multifx-wise I am currently using digitech (large pedalboard) and korg Pandora, Pod tires you in few weeks, beheringer is not making the mix, Boss is as good as usual (too usual to me). Though not my main, this is a very good piece of an instrument if you take into account the price and some. Acoustics and fenders models are as good as they come, no matter the price band of the tool, provided you feed in good sound dough. My Gibsons and Yamahas appreciate. More complex models lack of ... complexity! May be too digital. For the sake of self-training, ok the jamalong jack, nice sampling feature with smart media (though no mod/rev is a real pity!) and fair drums (with very nice real time chain option viafootswitch: intro, patterns...). Sound wise, properly used can fit many situations, from recording ones (but then the compact size is not very critical and you could go for dedicated modules on the effect you need for the song)to live one(if you are not stage stomping too hard). You just need to be able to put to use you tools ...

I didn't buy this for playing out, but mainly as a practice tool. I don't really care about having 40 kinds of distortion and 12 flangers. Although the fat clean tone is good. Like my digitech 200, you have to sit down with the manual and tweak things to get it right.

Where this box shines is in the sampler. I bought a 32mg smartmedia card for $20 and I can lay down all kinds of rhythm tracks on my electric, acoustic, and bass guitars, then loop them and play lead forever and ever, without pissing off the band. Great practice tool. I also hook up a CD player and sample riffs and slow them down. The sound isn't good but you can pick things apart and figure out what Tony Rice is actually playing.

Some of the drawbacks of the sampler: You can't switch between affects during the loop play back. You have to exit from the loop then change patches. Also, the pedal will only control volume during loop play and can't be used as an expression or wah pedal. Wah! Also, you can't feed the drum machine into the sampler. And, there's a niffty option to cut out the beginning and end of the sample, but you can't store it that way. So, maybe Zoom will come out with a 707-III and fix these problems, or if anyone knows how please let me know in your own review.

I have tweaked it much, but the fat clean is pretty cool.

I've only had it a few weeks, but it seems sturdy enough. I'm okay with it being plastic.

Haven't had the need. I bought it on line with a 60 day return policy. I think they phasing out smartmedia because of the 128mg limit. But there is plenty of room for samples.

I've been playing for 30 years. I play blues, rock, and bluegrass, and bass guitar. You may be better off going with individual pedals. It's a step up from the digitech RP200 because of the sample/loop fuction. I'm happy with it and am not returning it or selling yet. Buy the memory card for a great practice tool! Enjoy.

a bit fiddly at first but nothing too complicated

set it up correctly and it can rock, set it up bad and you will suck. simple as that

a bit plasticy but definately gigable as long as you dont intend leaping on it from the balcony

never needed assistance

I play mainly punk and rock. and have been on lead guitar for about 6 years. This pedal may not be the pros choice for gigging but you will not find a better pedal for the price ANYWHERE!! plugged in between My PRS Soap Bar and Vox amp makes practising and small gigs a hell of a lot more fun, and that is what it should be about right?

Don't listen to all the bitching from these wannabe musicians. if you're any good you will sound good on a shitty #100 guitar amp package. This will help you add a bit of variety to your music and bring a smile to your face when you remember how much it cost.

like all music tools, this pedal is only as good as the person opperating it. setup correctly it can be excellent!!

gets my vote

It is not fun, intuitive or easy to program, but you MUST unless you want to make yourself ear-sick listening to it. I sat on my couch with a headset and painstakingly reprogrammed nealy two dozen patches.
After I had the tone I wanted on each patch to my disgust the patches all sounded TOTALLY different through an amp. I don't mean a little off.. I mean the whole feel. But read on..

Here is why the patches sounded to bad after taking hours to perfect each of them. The battery voltage is different than the voltage suggested for the add on voltage adapter (wall wart)! So being curious and mad as hell that this pawn shop leftover was about to go into the trash, I bought one. May sound like good money after bad, but it wasn't. After I plugged the adapter in and provided the extra voltage this thing needed.. the original sounds I had programmed before WERE THERE! In fact even the preset patches sounded much fuller!
I must say puzzles piss me off and buying poorly designed and engineered equipment does to. But if you DO spend hours setting custom sounds and DO apply the needed voltage. It sounds pretty freakin' good.

No I would be looking for something in a more professional catagory.

The web was OK.

Take hours and tediously program it and it wails... if you have the power adapter!!!! Battery users throw this $%^^ away.

Recording works well. Get the 128 card and the conversion software from the web.
Drums sound good. Real good actually.
How stupid to have the delay and wah capabilities disabled while recording! Have to record with a mike then feed back into this thing through the Media card. Stupid time consuming fix of the day.
They could have had a winner, but WAY off. So.. if you enjoy reinventing the wheel on patches... maybe you could sell them back to Zoom! Fire the engineer and the lame patch programmer, put it in a metal case, allow delay into the recording, and then what? Good pedal.

I have struggled for 2 yrs. now tryin to get any type of good tone out of this thing. i have tried every possible combination of amplification that i can think of. The editing software isnt to difficult to figure out, and i do mean figure out. Mine didnt come with any Manuals that were printed in English...

I have used it with a Washburn Maverick, Fender Strat., and other guitars, with all types of different amplifiers from vintage tube to modern digital.. The thing sounds like bacon frying, SOOO noisy.. The Pitch Shifter cant track at all.. The wah is pointless, i can do more wit my tone knob.. I did think that the V-Chorus was decent..

Can I depend on it?? Yup, depend on it to switch on and sound like ass.. I dont even let my friend know that i own the damn thing..

Never had to call.. Why would I though.. The day this thing breaks will be the day that I rejoice..

This thing os HORRIBLE... cant belive i wasted the money to buy it.. If anyone should want it, plz e-mail me, i still ahve the box, and all 10 different lang. manuals..

its relatively easy to programme apart from the shit part about having to make sure that each patch is about the same volume...

well i usually play rock and metal, so the some of the distortion sounds here are really good if u add some eq and the stack modulation but overall the effects are too digital and most of the types of distortions offered are really useless

i would never take it for a gig because its really hard to control the patch volume levels(eg. patch A1 and A2 may be set to patch lvl 25 but both vary in loudness) furthermore if u step too hard u end up jumping forward by more than one patch (eg. instead of from A1 to A2 you end up at A5)

Forget it... It may seem a good buy to amateurs but don't be fooled... This pedal ain't gonna see u through any gigs...

I've own the 70711 for probably 4 years now. It's very easy to get great tones. The first bank of patches are great. I personally did not need to tweak any patches except to set the drive to clean. The manual was simple to understand and all the Patches are listed on the back page for reference.

In the beginning I used my Fender Strat into the Zoom and then to a Fender Champ with DSP. Now I use my Telecaster with the Zoom and the same Amp. Playing the Fatclean setting makes my Amp shine. I use the Bark for heavy metal, the hyper for downtuned riffs and the pedwah for Hendrix style playing. My favorite patch is the GaryBD, perfect for my style.

Using it at home I've no problems except for inputs for guitar and amp are getting loose since its made of plastic. Used it for Jam sessions and other musicians were impress with all the effects for such a small modeler. Played two gigs with it but had to careful not to step on the cables and break the unit at the inputs. It now has been retired to the house as a practice tool, this is where it shines!

Never needed customer support, but one day I will need to.

My style of music is a mixture of Eric Johnson meets Gary Hoey with a little ZZTop thrown in. I've been playing for 30 plus years. Can get all the Tones I need from this modeler. I would replace it for one thing that doesn't get mentioned much is the sampling feature. I upgraded to a 128mb smartmedia card which gave it like 32 minutes of recording time. Perfect for laying down chord progressions and then playing lead over them. It is great for practice this way! Works easy with just the press of a button and operating the two foot switches (play/Rec}. The only fault that could be corrected is having the Wah effect work when playing with the recorded samples. Also another plus with this unit is you can record from CD/Radio and slow down the playback for learning.

IT is a zoom. They are cheap and nasty pieces of work. Every thing takes to long to do. Editing patches is a pain in the ass and it takes ages to surf the menue

I run a custom jackson loaded with seymors through a matamp and a hand built cab so the zoom didn't sound to bad. But really in the end it is just not on par with any other effects units. The distortions are lacking and the wah is usless.

I would never gig with it unless I had about 20 backups.

It's cheap plastic that would not stand up to a gig.

I play Steve vai to martin talyor to my own stuff. I need a versitle sound and amp. I have that with the matamp. I brought this as an expermient. I wanted to get some different tones. It failded misserably at that. Pathetic in every way.

Sounds bad
Built like a stack of cards

IT dosen't do it for me. IF you are a beginner then it may be not so bad. Try the digitech range instead.

You do need to look at the book, but considering what this pedal is capable of, you do need to bring a little something to the party.

If you set the Zoom Noise Reduction filter (znr), there is virtually no noise. I use it through a small Marshall amp. Sounds great no matter what I play it through. It sounds as good (or bad) as I want it to.

Batteries will run out eventually.

Good website provides everything I've needed.

In the presets you can find some decent sounding settings. But the great thing about this pedal is that it gives you complete control over all the parameters for each of the nine modules - so you can create virtually any sound you want. But to do this, you do have to read the booklet and experiment with the settings. I bought this because I was looking for a wah-wah. When I saw what this could do, plus a drum machine, plus a "slow downer" - for this money? Great bargain! Maybe it's not "professional quality", but my ears can't tell what is cost!

Using it is very easy. There are about 40 presets, you press the pedal to get to the next one. Editing patches: read the manual, after about 1/2 hour you should get the basics down. 40 places for saving a patch (one side is read-only, the other is user area, eg read/write). I have a Boss GT-6, the same principals apply. the real pain is moving a patch. You may want to save the patch at the target location before stomping on it with the new patch. So there's a lot of shuffling, and it's really a pain scrolling thru with the foot pedals. There are 2 "move to bank X" switches - they are tiny and really hard to get to. I ended up putting all the patches, mine and
theirs, into an excel spreadsheet.
Summary: editing a patch to add, delete of modify an effect is easy;
"patch location maintenance" is a chore.

I have 2 Ibanez's (Iceman & JS1000); also a Marshall 100W. Most people knock the quality of the sound produced - I think they are good over-all. The Boss has some superior sounds, but also costs 3x more. I didn't really notice excess noise from this box. The overdrives are OK - not great. There are some interesting effects: "step", "violin" (really good). Zoom underutilizes digital delay in their settings, I usually take theirs, like MT Zone, and add some delay, renaming it "MT Zond". They could have done a lot of variations with delay - you'll have to come up with your own, manually.
The presets.. blah, there are too many uninteresting ones (I focus on heavy metal), so there's a lot of clutter. I went thru each one and ranked them, to know what to avoid.

HERE's WHERE THIS BOX SUCKS.
First, it's real cheap plastic. The [wah-wah] pedal squeaks, probably because it too is all plastic. I use the pedal only for wah-wah. It's programmable, but setting it up for something else was too much work for me. There is some reinforcement for outdoor use - the pedal has a rough finish to it, so you can use hiking boots on it, and the pads underneath provide some protection. I've used it playing on sidewalks and stuff. It's OK, could be worse, definitely could be better. Not sure what they intended it for. Steel would be more suitable for me.

The input and output jacks started shorting out one day. I'd have to jiggle them endlessly to make a connection. Started bending the cords to extreme angles, if they moved a millimeter, the connection was broken. I took the unit apart twice trying to repair the endpoints, but they are pretty inaccessible. SUCKS. I threw it across the room and stomped on it insanely one day. Now I'm shopping for another effects box.

N/A (never used it)

The plusses: it's small and very portable. The 4 AA batteries are a major advantage. I have a hog-20 amp, so with this, i'm fully battery powered and portable. They should have bundled an adapter with it, I had to go to Radio Shack to find something, or better yet, have a cord built in to it. Since the input jack ports are so flimsy, I have to give it a thumbs down. I'm looking for something that won't break after a couple of years, like this did.
If they: a) added a cord/adapter; b) reinforced the exterior and connections; had a USB port to upload/download settings to a computer; c) had a better set of default preset sounds; d) had ~5 foot buttons to select sounds
...then this would be a great unit. But then I guess it would be a GFX.

Editing is easy although finding a very good sound is quite tough. The manual has a few useful tips...thats about it. Controls are fairly straight forward, I had it up and playing right away.

I use a cheap yamaha guitar with a fender 212. It sounds good enough for my small town band, and hopefully will sound better when I upgrade guitars. The effects are quite cool, although some are boring and must be modified. I like the metal distorion on this, because thats what I play.

Yes, its plastic, but i trust it. Yes I gig with it cause I can't afford better.

I play metal and this is a pretty good match. I have been playing for a few years. I would definatly buy somthing it for the price I got it at. It definatly helps me make music. Its a good pedal, and would recommend it for beginner to intermidiate players.

Not a very user friendly start if you are unfamiliar with multi effects pedal but as you go along, you'll be accustomed with it. The presets are useless, there were only a noticable few (Acoustic, 12 String, Clean Wah). Editing the patches would be a difficult task if you dont read the manual (The How tos part). The first time I saw the pedal, I thought the three knobs were Equalizer knobs until later I found out that they were actually parameter changer knobs. The manual is pretty useless when it comes to explaining the specific effects.

This was my first Multi FX guitar pedal and I can say that its not really that bad. I could even get certain difficult sounds in a jiffy (*coughEinzigercough*). Forget the distortions, they are quite choosy when it comes to amps. The cabinet modelling module, on the other hand, rocks. You can get good sounds through it. The ZNR module is also good when it comes to suppressing hums; just avoid overhauling it to 8, your guitar will sound like an impotent d!*k. The whammy/Pitch pedal seem to produce pinch harmonics when I dont want it to (Like A stone Solo). The Wah is a killer one if you know how to set it up. The autowah on the other hand sucks big time

My setup is RJ 7 - String Guitar -> BOSS MT-2 -> Zoom 707II -> Marshall 15CD and it doesn't sound bad enough to be called crap nor good enough to be praised by many.

I'm very delicate when it comes to preserving my materials but I tend to go high during gigs so I really dont know if I could depend on this machine. The adaptor port is kinda loose already. I use energizer batteries on this machine and it lasted for about a month of constant use. I had the input jack loose and I resoldered it myself. Its not that difficult to do though

I dont know if there exists such customer support for zoom on the philippines. Base from other's opinion, I guess zoom has a bad rating on this part.

I play mostly Pop, Rock, Progressive, Metal, Trance, Old School Rock, Hip Hop and I can say that this pedal is very versatile when it comes to style. I just recently bought a Boss MT-2 Pedal and I can say that it literally kicks zoom's drive module's ass. I'm currently in a band and I use this for gigs without backup. If it was stolen or lost, I'm not gonna buy this pedal again (unless of course someone willgive it for Free) because I'm planning on setting up my own pedal board of individual pedals.

This is your basic entry-level-to-moderate guitarist's effects processor- easy to use, set and carry. Parameters are easy to understand and the manual is comprehensive and well-written.
Setting and editing patches is quite easy, even for last minute on-stage tweaking.
The pre-sets could be better arranged; there are some good ones but most of the clean tones, for example are pure crap. For first-time users, may be better to sit with someone who knows his patches while first setting them up.

I have an Indian-made Rs. 2500/- ($60) guitar with surprisingly sweet tone. It sounds good when played through the 707II and 80-100W Stranger amps.
Played it once through a concert set-up (largely Bose/Peavey) and it sounded lousy. This was probably because the patches sounded wildly different through the big boxes. Too trebly. I recently heard a friend play his Yamaha Pacifica through a similar set-up, and while he sounded a lot better than me, the patch sound DID seem different. It's frustrating esp. in a situation where you don't have too much time to soundcheck.
Having said that, the distortions are nice, much better than a Korg (have not tried Digitech). Clean tones, once you set them are very pleasant and you can get a variety of effects; though my lead guitarist who uses a GFX-8 says there are certain combinations that the 707II does not permit. Still, it's nice enough for the price.
Nothing sounds "very bad" on this; I get the feeling the more you work with it, the better sounds you can produce with it.

It's a plastic box, but quite strong, though I hate stomping on it because it's so dainty! I bought this over the 505 because of the expression pedal, which is quite nice. I like it because I can carry it around without fuss and don't have to worry about it acting funny---always starts promptly, the way it's supposed to,and hasn't displayed any funny bugs or peculiarities.
This is my only processor and I have no qualms about using it without a back-up. All it takes are 4 AA batteries to run on; I still haven't bothered getting an AC adaptor for it.

No problems so far. Anyway, that's for the best cuz there's no local support for Zoom in India that I know of.

I use it mostly for jams/ an occasional show with my office band and my old alumni band. We play mostly classic rock- Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons---plus some newer stuff--- mostly rock and metal inspired. This gives a good set of sounds, but I'm lazy---usually I just set 3-4 patches and use the one that sounds the most like any particular number. If you're one for getting the EXACT tone and quality of of your processor, perhaps the 707II isn't for you!
I have been playing since I was about 13, but never ventured too much into fast solos or shredding and that kinda stuff. Since I have never aspired to any level of competence approaching professional, my gear reflects that mentality!
Givson guitar (2 single coils)
Stranger 10W for home practice; Stranger 80 and 100 amps for jams.
my consideration set was the Digitech RP100, Korg AX100G and this one. I was told the Korg's distortions sucked and Digitech was rather "plasticky". Can't say I regret the decision.
If it were lost/stolen, I would probably buy the same or a slightly higher variant. I like Zoom, but the GFX-8 is a little too much for me, so I'd probably stick with this baby!
I love the (low) weight, the nice big red display, the price and the distortions. I hate the presets, the trouble it takes me to get a decent clean tone out of it and the fact that it looks fairly unsexy on stage. Favourite feature is its versatility in terms of the sounds it produces- for a cheap entry-level pedal, it offers quite a bit!
Wish it had a set of recomended patch settings---to get the first time user going!
I'd highly recommend the Zoom 707II to guitarists who aren't THAT serious about their playing and mostly do so for their own pleasure and for the occasional gig. It's no hassle at all, and has a nice personality!

I would say easy to use if you are already experienced in music but a bit tricky if you are not.
To edit and save different patches is simple. It's a matter of selecting a patch, pressing edit and doing the rest. The manual is quite helpful, but you must read it carefully. The manual doesn't help much when explaining each effect and feature and what it does.

I'm using a Washburn Strat through some crappy Kustom 20 watt amp. For the crappy setup i have, i must say the sound is impressive. Is is quite difficult to get exact sounds of other bands though, unless u have the right amp and guitar. Even then you have to fiddle alot. Fuzz is bad and acoustic sounds are horrific. Acoustic sounds like a retarded, deep banjo. Distortions and amp simulators are a quite impressive though and it can generate quite a bit of power. The rest of the effects are good but better can be achieved with other products.

I would say pretty reliable. It's only giving me a bit of a problem with the input jack but i am pretty happy to use it without a backup at all. It is also very strong.

Never dealt with support, so no comment, but heard it's crap.

Overall i would say it is definitely good for small gigs and playing for friends and stuff, and it's a great multi effects pedal for the price you pay. But there definitely is better out there i must say. I would definitely upgrade if i could. It only seems to sound good when really good equipment is used (guitar especially). My best feature is the wah effects, although i haven't really tried any other wah pedals. I like the drum machine, as it helps mostly when practicing.

Overall not bad. Easy enough to change between patches, while the stompbox effect is very useful. The expression pedal is supremely bad though. The range is far too limited and the sensitivity is annoying. Press down too hard (which isn't even that hard) and the thing turns off. Although the pedal can be customised to your personal setting it still remains shit afterwards. The recording facilty is very easy to use though on otherhand, and the ability to loop tracks is very useful.

This pedal is an absolute joke. The sound is almost unusable. The distortion are poor, falling into two categories... Extremely treble heavy with obsene hiss or an attempt at classic rock but thin and hollow sounding. The general effects are pretty useless, the wah is unusable, distortions are poor, chorus sounds far too manufactured you can actually hear the fakeness of it. The few bright points are the delay is pretty good and some of the amp modules are usuable that are preprogrammed patches. Reverb is ok, but makes lil difference to sound.

Overall if you wanna sound good on stage avoid this!!!!!!!!!

Has never broke down on me. Not the best built piece of kit, made mostly outta plastic and there is no lighting on the foot pedals so you need to take night vision goggles with you to dark gigs.

Never used them

I'm a aspiring musician, and when writing songs require a diverse range of effects. I don't want to have to use the same distortion on all my songs, the same acoustic patch for others and same lead patches for soloing but the limits of the effects on this unit mean i often do. The pre set patches are UNBELIEVABLY SHIT! Im amazed at who programmed it because he obviously didn't have ears. The preset patch BARK is the best, i think they forgot to put in the "id rather listen to a _ _ _ _ than this patch...."

In summary absolute shit. Avoid like the plague, is absolute poo.

This is an update to my earlier post, in which I was a bit critcal of the ZOOM 7072, just a bit harsh on the distortions, I was impressed with the unit otherwise.

After a week's work of patch editing, I gigged this last weekend and was excited to try out some of the patches I had worked on at home through my son's practice amp. I was fired up to see how the 707 would sound through my stage rig now that I had begun to finally get serious about really using the editing to its fullest extent.

I didn't create instant sonic heaven, but I had succeeded in solving some of the issues I had with the unit. A couple of patches I created worked well through my rig, especially a TubeScreamer-on-steroids style patch that really sang with beautiful, full mids. Real nice. I used to be very wary of modeling units, but I think I may be a convert. I still like to use a couple OD pedals with this, just for fun, but I am finding that a user can create any Overdrive/Distortion tone you wish, it just takes a few sit-down sessions of editing.

So, I guess that what I am saying is that I would advise anyone buying this pedal to be patient. I realize that I have at least a handful of gigs worth of live usage and bedroom editing before I get these patches to mesh with my rig and sound their best, but I know that with now they sound pretty good. Again, ALL the modulation effects sound great, compression/isolator are good, amp simulation is fine, best in the Marshall area, reverbs and delays are very good, very nice stuff, all in all. I know some have been highly critical of the editing, saying that you can't do this or that, but aside from some effect-combining issues, I haven't found any important editing limitations. Bottom line: I like this device quite a bit. It sure beats stringing out eight pedals!

Well, folks, this is my first multi-effects unit; until now I always had 6 or 7 pedals strung out across the stage. I wanted to emilinate a few pedals to regain some of my signal and tone. I used to be a keyboard player many years ago when DX7s and Juno 106s ruled the earth, so, even though I am essentially just your average stomp-box-lovin' guitar player, I have had much experience fiddling and editing. The Zoom is not that hard to understand once you've read through the manual five or ten times (har), and figure out some of the things left out of the manual.

I am using this with Strats or a Schecter with humbuckers, through a Peavey Classic 50-410 and a Peavey Bandit. I originally thought that perhaps I could get rid of most of my effects, but, alas, after six months of owning this unit I still use my dostortion pedals after the 707. I need to tweak some of the distortions, most of them sound awful, way to gained up and every nasty frequency you can think of. Old Marshall sounds good, pretty close. Van Halen? Ha! If Ed played through an old Peavey Mace, maybe...the modulation effects are very good, chorus is beautiful, compressor is helpful, delays are very good, all in all a pretty good unit...except those darn distortions.

Mama always told me, "Plastic is as plastic does, Forrest." It's plastic, that worries me quite a bit. One drunk biker fall down go boom and it's all over for the Zoom, methinks. Is it too darn expensive to make these boxes out of carbon fiber? Come on, guys, no more plastic!

I've been playing over 20 years, and have played more gigs than I'll ever remember(blame it on the weed)..I've been using the Zoom onstage now for about four or five months, but have just been digging into it in the last month. It works just fine for me. I had a bit of trouble setting unity gain at first, but now it sounds pretty darn good. Right now I use it for primarily modulation effects(chorus, delay, reverbs) and the compressor/limiter. Acoustic guitar simulator sounds very good through the PA. I still throw a Tubescreamer and a Shredmaster after the unit though for my overdrive/distortion, I just don't like very many of the Zoom's distortions.

This unit is really easy to use if you are familiar with other mult-processors. Editing is easy and when the user pushes the edit button the editing sequence defaults to "patch volume" so even live; some editing is possible on the fly. I bought this unit used and never had a manual.

The effects on this unit are pretty nice but as with ALL of these type units; the factory patches are not very useable. Usually the intensity of the effects is simply too extreme. (Kinda like when we were kids and didn't really know that there was an overdrive setting other than "10") 25 years on the road and we almost all learn that less is more. I've used this unit with all kinds of amplification from a small Kerns hybrid tubeman jr. to an old Lab series "L" like B.B. King's and a few Fenders; big and small.
Its a quiet unit. Quieter than my early series Line 6 POD, for sure. I'm a big Line 6 fan but my POD is too noisy for live gigs, especially if the stage and club are full of neon beer sighns.
This unit has some very nice tube overdrive patches. Sure it will do some super-saturated "Rivera" ninja tones as well but how often does a REAL working musician really use a "Spinal Tap" kinda tone? It actually re-creates some very nice overdriven Fender delux type tones. Nice useable time and modulation effects too.

Well built unit. The knobs are nicely recessed. And I've had no problems.

No knowledge of Zoom's customer support

Overall; this is a great "bang for your buck" processor and the drum patches are a great alternative to a clicking metronome. The amp simulation is fairly good and the real time knobs; especially for output volume make this a good live performance processor. I've been playing and touring professionally for over 20 years and its a shame to go out and hear just how AWFUL an un-knowledgeable player can make these sound. I would recommend that beginners buy an "un-programmable" "stomp box" type effect instead of a programmable multi effect like the 707. There's just too many options with a unit like this. If you are a novice and you are having trouble programming useable patches; try spending 20 or 30 bucks with a professional guitarist that can help you aquire a good basic knowledge of tone and effects. There's really nothing worse to listen to than some kid that has spent a million hours practicing modes and scales and still has no clue about TONE! Speed without good musical sense....kills... (it kills you chances of making a living playing guitar.

Well, I might be a smartass, but it took 15 minutes to get it right. Both playing, editing and drum machine, sampler and everything. 9 of 10 only because of the manual, which is a little frustrating.

I use Yamaha ERG 121 through the ZOOM and into a Marshall 15 W practice amp. The ZNR module works really great. There is no noise even at the hi-gain patches (guitar volume - max, amp - clean, volume 80%). The Metal effects are great. I play rock, heavy metal and blues, and it suits me fine. It's great! My fav band is Judas Priest and hopefully I can get these glenn solos sound with some twickin'. Blues are fine as so are all the overdrive, funk and jet patches. Echo and acoustic based are well made too. There are some frustrating effects with a lot of phase modulation and flanger in them but I guess it's fine - I'm not into that kind of music.

It looks fragile. But it's not. Firstly I was afraid to step on the expression pedal. It looks so weak and little. Though it's plastic the material is very durable. No problems at all. It should have been metal but...Oh never mind...

Never dealt with them.

As I said I play mostly rock, hard rock and heavy metal (with some blues somewhere around). I own Marshall JH-1 Dist. pedal (great gear but a little noisy), Ibanez Death Metal Dist. pedal (awful), Digitech RP200A.
If stolen or lost? Maybe try and find another one. Cause if I had the money I would defenetely buy a Rocktron Prophecy preamp/effect and a valve marshall amp and a BC Rich guitar or maybe a Hamer. :) But I don't.

How easy is it to get a good sound out of it?

It's not easy, cause its not possible. This product gives the words "plastic fantastic" a new meaning:( I mean..these sounds has no punch..i was very dissapointed.

Other: I read the entire manual and that didnt help me in making better sounds cause this shit sucks ass. Believe me I take these things serious and now in time ive become pretty familiar with effect products. After delivering this back i bought POD xt which fitted my uses much better:)

But it is easy to use, cause it has few possibililtys and it suxors.

I wont say anything more than this: Please dont buy this product. In doubtful more than 1 month ull get tired of it when u realize it has very little to give you.

The effects ARE WEAK! POOR SOUND.

Ive been trying it on many different amps, everything from marshall 50 watt standard to studios. It sucked, but sucked less in studioproducing.

I didnt have any problems with it, but it has lot of plastic..if one buy this product one should be careful with the pedal for instance. I dont think that pedal with last for ever if u treat it in the "street musician way".

THEY SUCKED! Asked questions, never got answered. suckedsucked

Metal
Playing for 8 years
My gear: Yamaha RGX 420S, PODxt + FBV4, Marshall 50 w transistor

I'd say fairly easy to use. The hold-delay thing boxed my brain for a while, but found it funky when i finally got it to go. Getting patches in the right order is a bit tricky, as theres only 2 things to press you have to get your patches lined up one after another if you want to switch between them during songs, which can be quite hard to work out. Though, this should be obvious when you look at it, as, indeed, it only has 2 pressy things.

Well. I did use this with my crappy practice amp, where it sounded fine. Anything would make that amp better. Then i got a decent marshall amp. The clean sound on the amp is great, and the distortion is everything i'd want. Then i plugged the Zoom pedal in, and turned up the efects loop. Instantly theres a notable lack of quality in the zoom's clean tones, it becoming dull and just generally not nice to listen to. This distorted isnt as nice, either.

The distortions, I've found, are way metal, or way crap. Not really anything in between. They just sound mangy.

Having said all that, it has been used for a few more gigs than it probably should have, and eventually sounds ok if i fiddle around with it for a while before every gig.

Not really a question of would i use it without back up, I have. Unfortunately. Midway during the first song of a gig, the press on the pedal to bring in some distortion was met by a dredening crackle. Then silence. Rest of the band; fine. They played. I tried. There was something between my guitar and amp sabbotaging my sound. Zooooom. Bastard. Dodgy output jack. After scurried re-plugging i managed to play without the pedal, but those few mortified seconds of "." have put me off this thing big time. It's now fixed, but now nother problem has appeared.

Maybe its just mine, but it seems to be going 'slow' now, as in theres a delay between pressing the pedal and the patch name changing on the screen. Even the tuners response time has went way up, taking a good second or 2 before registering theres a note to be analysed.

Not liking this as it gets older...

Not tried. Just went back to the shop to get it fixed. They were nice.

I suppose it was alright when it was new and i didnt need much out of it, but now i am beginning to need a decent sound from my guitar at gigs, recording etc., i think this is on the road out. I cant think of who i'd reccommend this to now, so i'd have to say nobody. Its not totally crap, though, but i just cant stand it any more.

N?o e muito facil de se usar, devido a grande diversidade de controles e selec?es. Os sons de fabrica s?o bons, mas merecem modificac?es. Os patches s?o razoavelmente faceis de se editar, desde que n?o se queira mudancas muito radicais. O manual e peca fundamental para operar esta pedaleira.

Esta pedaleira realmente me surpreendeu, principalmente pela faixa de preco que se paga. Por R$600,00 esta pedaleira e mais do que se espera. Os sons n?o s?o profissionais, mas o que vc esperava por R$600,00. As pedaleiras profissionais custam mais de R$1.500,00. Para montar um set de pedaizinhos, vc gastaria mais de R$3.000,00 em pedaizinhos da Boss. Da pra chegar muito perto de sons muito profissionais. Da pra simular muito perto dos amps famosos.

Ainda n?o usei em shows, e acho que nem usarei, devido a carcaca ser de plastico e n?o acreditar que seja muito resistente. Em casa ela e show, sem problemas e defeitos.

Nunca tive problema.

Vou repetir o que ja falei antes. Se vc comparar esta pedaleira com uma GNX da Digitech, ou uma ME-5 da Boss, ou uma JMP-1 da Marshall, n?o da pra ser feliz. Se vc e profissional e pretende ganhar dinheiro em estudios ou ao vivo, esta peddaleira ainda n?o e a soluc?o. Agora, pra tocar naquele sarau, no estudio do seu amigo, pra ensaiar sua banda, para compor em casa, esta pedaleira e perfeita. Tem tudo que se precisa em uma pedaleira, por um preco acessivel. Considerando o custo-beneficio eu dou uma nota 10, por que vale cada centavo.

This was a bit of a pain to get a good sound out of, the manual i didn't find too helpful, but spending a weekend adjusting it's settings with it plugged into my amp (Carlsbro GLX 100), and plugged into my pc, i've managed to get some good patches i'm very happy with. (Modified MTZONE, violin, and PATM i think). the other sounds i haven't played around with the settings much yet, because it's a bit awkward having to use the combination of buttons/knobs to setup each effect to suit the equipment it's used with. The manual is fairly clear, but to be honest i get fed up reading it, as ive found several hours mucking around with the settings on the zoom and my amp is the only way to easily achieve good patches, and work out how it works. Never bothered checking for pgrades, never had a problem with it.
But, the price is very reasonable, even wwhat i paid for it, so this is some compensation.

I use a Gould (Les Paul copy) with ernie ball 10's, a Washburn KC40v with ernie ball 10's, & a Jackson PS37 King V with ernie ball 9's, through the zoom to either my pc or my Carlsbro GLX100. The reason i run 10's on two of the guitars is that i thought the zoom sounded a bit shitty to be honest, but realising thinner strings affect the output from the guitars pickups, i changed the strings, which completely cured the "weak" sound. Completely. Sometimes i guess obvious things like using thicker strings aren't so obvious. I haven't really tried to emulate any of my favourite artists sonuds, but i'm very happy with the sounds i have. Trying to produce favourite bands sounds would involve too much fiddling with the somewhat awkward settings... plus i find it really clear sounding.. having changed the strings...

Never had a problem, never gigged it. thrown it around quite a bit, the plastic is very solid. Never lost my settings. always treat it with respect electricly though - plug psu into zoom before plugging psu into mains etc.

Never needed to.

I play metal (metallica/megadeth), rock (darkness), Industrial (NIN, ministry), old goth (The Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the nephilim), and even occassionally light hearded bonjovi/bryan adams kinda stuff, no real prob;ems. I've been playing guitar since 94, and this is my fave fx pedal so far. Definitly helps me play more music, better. The stereo output is a definite bonus, ability to use headfones / plug straight into pc is good. I strongly dislike most of the default patches however... Currently im comparing it to a digitech rp100 im playing with... so far the zoom wins hands down.
Love my modified patches. Hate the wah/volume/mod pedal. it doesnt have enough range, and feels fragile. Dislike the closeness of the pedals to each other another 5mm to 1cm of plastic width on each pedal, and a gap between the wah pedal and the other pedals would be a big improvement. Don't like the fact that when im trying to sample using the pedal, it seems to disable the fancier parts of effects i've configured. but then, i hardly use that function anyway.
If it was stolen, I'd happily replace it with the same pedal, but if zoom fetched out a pedal that was 1cm wider on each pedal, and had a wah/mod pedal with a physically better range and more solid feel, and when sampling all the effects worked correctly, and it could take a vastly bigger memory card, for #20 more, i'd buy that instead. Probably would upgrade to something more expensive, but for the money you can get this for now (under #100) i'd definitly have another as a backup. Excellent value for money.

Just to stomp and play different effects, it's simple. To go into the other areas of editing patches, recording or much anything else, you HAVE to read the manual. It's so bad I keep a copy in my gig bag.

You can find an effect that soots you if you look long enough. I use this with a Peavey Bandit II and a Fender Strat. No problem with noises or hums. The distortions are not bad. But the clean sounds get muddy when you turn up the volume. Main problem is creating a new patch. Nothing simple about where to find different effects. You have to know amp modles and different playing styles to select an effect! Where are the chorus, flang, compresion, distortions located???

I have 3 of these. One of the power supply hookups broke and I had to epoxy it together. Also one of them cut out because the input jack became loose.

Even though it has some problems. It is definetly the best bang for the buck!

this thing i pretty damn complicated ive had it for a year and a half and i still cant work out what half the stuff does. i have managed to customise some ok patches but that was just luck

i play this with a Dean Stylist Deulux of a squier (bright pink with lots of modificatios) Strat into a Laney GC 80 amp. many of the effects are completely useless and unusable and often very weak sounding. the distortions are cheesy and alot of the clean effects are much to bassy. the best effect is definetly FZFace once you tweak it a bit. i also love the lovely crackle that ANADLY makes sometimes(does anyone else get this) but otherwise this digital spawn of the devil sounds pretty crap to be honest.

THIS THING LET ME DOWN BIG TIME. so its my bands first london gig and we played leicester square. the guitar repeatedly cut out after changing all the leads and guitars. the output jack has a very dodgy loose connection. the power input socket has stopped working so i have to run off batteries all the time. and when i first got it the expression pedal on off switch under the pedal was snapped. i have only had this for about a year and a half and these things realy shouldnt happen.

no dealings with them

this pedal realy doesnt fit with my lo-fi indie two piece. the destortions dont have enough substance to make up for our lack of a bass player. it is also a big blott on my indie d.i.y immange damn it! if this bugger was stolen i would send the bastard the manual and see if he can work this thing out. this year i am planning on replacing the few effects i use with better quality analouge stomp boxes and i advise anyone planning to get this pedal to do the same and STEAR WELL CLEAR.

THE BEST THING ON THIS PEDAL IS THE OFFSWITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Like the fact that you can edit 3 parameters of the effects especially in the modulation and delay sections, although I would have liked it if you can push just 1 button to edit the section you want, instead of scrolling to the section you want to change. Some parameters are of little use though especially in the mod section.

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I mainly use my Ibanez GAX 70, but also own a Fernandez Tele with active electronics and a harmony strat copy. I use Peavey SPecial and Bandit during rehearsals but usually use headphones or a samick mini amp with a 25 watt Panasonic speaker tapping the mini amp's output.
Some factory settings are really not that good but they can be a good starting point for creating your own sounds.

DISTORTION/"MODELED AMP"
The Vox and Tube Screamer are disappointing, they sound brittle and harsh. I use the PD 1 instead to get slightly overdriven sounds. I use the old marshall sound as starting point for making my own sounds, before selecting the appropriate distortion sound. I have little use for the Boogie Section, they are way too compressed and bottom heavy for me. I use the hyper model instead and scoop the mids from the EQ to better approximate a "recto" sound for nu-metallish tones.
MODULATION
I hate the fact that you cannot use the wah together with another mod effect such as chorus or flanger. The flange and phaser sounds from my Zoom 509 are better than those found on the 707II. The mod sounds are not quite good as is, you have to tweak it to get good modulated sounds.
DELAY
I'm a big fan of U2, and my favorite patch is one I created on my own, a slightly compressed PD 1 with combo cab modeling and 420 ms delay, that pretty much covers about most of The Edge's sound circa `80s and early `90s. The delays are not as crystalline as can be but that's fine. The Spring reverb sounds good too.

You can't get violent with these thing, but nor do I get to worried about chipping the plastic on it, it looks reasonably sturdy enough.

The pedal is totally unreliable when using it for whammy pitch bends, you have to really lean on the pedal to get pitch that you need. It works fine for the wah and for blending in the delay mix.

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I play alt rock, blues, and a bit of glam. The 707II is perfect for anybody playing in a cover band who likes to use a variety of sounds in their arsenal but is not too finicky about the sound quality. You can get pretty goods sounds if you spend some time fiddling with the knobs you will be rewarded with better sounds as some of the factory settings are not very good as is. The drum machine and sampler are very good features that really helps me when I practice alone. (That is why I am reluctant to replace it with stand alone effects or stompboxes) For P6,500(approximately US$117)on a Christmas Sale, this is one amazing BARGAIN!I have owned it for almost 2 years but i'm still having fun using it.

Muy facil de usar, aunque si necesitas primero hecharle una hojeada al manual para poder sacarle provecho al 100%.

Lo uso con una iba?ez RG370DX y un amp Iba?ez ToneBlaster; la calidad de los efectos en general no son muy "profesionales" que digamos pero son lo suficientemente buenas para practicar o componer; puedes conectar directamente el pedal a la PC y grabar con buena calidad, muy poco ruido; los ritmos de bateria y el metronomo son un extra muy util; trae 10x3 (30) tipos de distorsion, mas 3 acusticas, la mayoria suenan muy digitales, a mi gusto 6 de ellas son muy buenas para heavy y metal en gral. muchos se quejan del delay y del wah, pero por el precio no te puedes quejar, suenan bien. supera a la 505II y a la 606II, y a algunas Boss y digitech (mas caras) que andan en el mercado.

Es casi por completo de plastico, definitivamente no la usaria en escenario, solo para ensayos y practicas; para tocar en vivo definitivamente la Zoom GFX 8 es la indicada.

Dudo que halla soporte de Zoom en Mexico; si compras una asegurate que te den garantia de por lo menos un a?o, y mas si son pedaleras hechas en china.

Es una buena inversion para practicar y grabar en la PC (o en cinta), tiene buenas caracteristicas y precio, salvo su fabricacion en plastico me parece muy buena pedalera, mucho mejor ke otras marcas con caracteristicas similares; si buscas algo mas "profesional" recomiendo la Zoom GFX8, pero si buscas algo intermedio la 707II es buena opcion, de preferencia busca las pedaleras que esten hechas en Japon y no en China (los chinos nos mandan pura mierda!).

the zoom is very user friendly compared to others like korg.u can chill within 3 days and understand most of the important effects.u can change drive in an instant-cool.manual is good.

CONSIDERING i'm using a korean samick guitar and my aiwa stereo as an amp,i'm getting a sexy sound!!!the zoom gets pretty noisy with the booster and high gain.the effects are fantastic for the kind of music i play(metal,joe sat,melodic rock).the echo,delay and reverb are superb.also the range of dists offered-METAL,SLDRV,ZLEAD,HPDIST STAND OUT-is a lot.the BGDRV MODULE SUCKS!!it makes so much noise.THE FACTORY PATCHES SUCK!!i managed to program some great patches and they sound kikass!steve vai("loveofgod),metallica,maiden,joesat,slash-all of them sound great.when u learn which drives to avoid,u can play really crying leads.however,the isolator is useless,it make no difference in the sound.EQ is good.if u like,i can give u the settings on how to make some great sounding patches.IN THE 707,U CANT COMBINE EFFECTS-CANT MIX WAH WITH CHORUS OR ANYTHING!with time and patience,u can program some killer patches.it's far more capable than meets the eye.

IT HAD A MANUFACTURING DEFECT-A SMALL ONE-THE HOLD-DELAY FUNCTION DOESNT WORK.it sounds decent enuff in a gig

NA

for the price i paid,and compared to others companies in its range,707ii is superb!!the korg is tuff to use and digitech,in spite if its quality is much costlier!!it suits my style of music-rock,metal,instrumental melodic rock,bluesrock,psychedelic.i've been playing for 4 years now.i also play a lot of flamenco on my acoustic.i use the reverb and echo a lot and i love the SLDRV drive to death.the wah is okay-coulda been a bit more powerful.overall,its good value for money and offers a lot IN ITS PRICE RANGE.

it was easy to use once u got the hang of it and provided a very good variety of sounds which were pretty good

i use this with a marshal 50 watt amp and it made the amp a lot louder still with a good sound quality. some of the effects sound a bit dodgey but others were good at mimicking artists especially heavier sounds like van halen and black sabbath sounds.

I could depend on this but would probably use backup at a gig its ok 95% of the time.

n.a

i play heavy rock/metal and i found it suited my style well i've been playing for 6 years and obtained this 1 year ago. If it was stolen or lost i would probably buy the next one up from it. i love the pedal on it and find it very useful in gigs. i chose this one because it had everything i needed and a good price. I dislike that it is hard to set up for gigs and is hard to change settings during playing. good luck i would reccomend it to anyone.

very easy to use...

yamaha 312 rgz series and hot cabs 15 watts amp. zoom 707 sounds good enough, as long as i can get the sounds that i want its good enough ( 80s glam rock)...just try to combine some of the effects for sure you can get a very good sound out of it...

i will use it in a gig without backup....its plastic so take good care of it....

i think zoom 707II can handle any type of music with all the kinds of effects onboard.........ZNR, i love it.its a big help...i bought it bec. of the price ( mura eh). the only thing that i dont like about this product is, there is a horrible delay of sound when your switching to one patch to the other...i guess zoom 707II cant have it all...but still its good enough...

Easy to use. Straight out the box I had this baby jamming away in like 5 minutes. The beauty of it is when you start playing around with the patches - you get some killer sounds! they could have more information about the patches though

Pretty good. You're not gonna get stompbox quality out of it but you will get some nice sounds, especially distortion! A little disappointed with the filter effect and I want to buy an external wah pedal cos the one in the unit is just not expressive enough.

Here's the catch and I MUST ANYONE CONSIDERING BUYING ONE. I've read other reviews here and spoken to friends as well who own them and the unit itself is ok build but the jack plugs are terrible!! Both input and output have gone on mine and the same has happened to a mate's as well. I lent mine to a friend who gigged it twice and was very careful with it (his band are mellow so it wouldn't have got damaged at the gigs)and it was fine after then. It simply just got to a point and gave up. As its my main effects unit I will ae to pay for the jacks to be mended which blows!

I've tried e-mailing and had nothing back - pretty shitty if you ask me. And NO UK CONTACT DETAILS!!!!! What the hell are they doing?!!!!

Until the jacks went i loved this little beasty so much - it was a lt of fun. Now its as useful as a masturbating monkey!!!

Spent a little time with the manual, and online getting patches, and had it down in no time. Anyone who cant figure it out is a dumbass, the layout is easy if you take the time to study it.

Get a little noise if I push it past unity, but as long as I keep it subdued and let the amp do its job, it sounds great. I play it through a Hughes&Kettner 80W Atax combo, and a 15W little Marshall mini amp. Sounds great on both. This is with several guitars. I will admit the distortion is a bit weak for the heavier sounds, but a little gain on the amp comensates nicely.

What the fuck is all this crap about it being plastic? You want to talk reliability? I have dropped mine from a balcony, had it totally immersed in water for a few seconds, had my dog cover it with mud, and each time it came back up without a hitch. I stomp on the pedals like they were the floor, and it still holds up. Maybe I got a magical one, I dunno......mine is 2+ years old now and has seen abuse a Boss BE-5M just couldnt handle (Not to mention the Boss sounded like someone hummed the distortion out of it....)

YMMV

Bought it thru Sam Ash, the first one was Dead in the box, had it replaced that day. I have never needed to talk to Zoom ever about it since. Never any need to. 2+ years.

Sure, its not going to give you the sound quality of a good rack unit, but for it's price you cant touch the value. BTW, for direct recording into my computer, I have found this to be excellent as well...with a very clean output to the PC. It's all good to me.

Getting the sound what u want in this is very easy!

<Killer Pirates Guitar-707II-Laney amp>
I have played Boss GT-3,5,6, Digitech GNX1,2,3/ RP200,2000 and Zoom 505II,606II.707II's distortion and dirve are pretty good!You can get the tone what u want from country to metal(IF u know how to control the gain and EQ,707II will provide good metal sound)but the delay is really sounds suck!Wah has some problem too.
The Modulation is fine and many funny effects included.The sound of drum is not as afwul as other cheap effectors.

Alought it's made by plastic but it still works good now.

Using it in the small performance is not a bad idea-It's small,light,and incuding pedal(But the switcher is too small for me,I always get the bypass instead of changing program).Alought the rhythm can not be programed,it still useful when u are practicing guitar.In this priece,u cant not find any effector better than this!

its very easy to use once u get ure head around the different buttons

i use this with a seymour duncan equipped les paul and it slaughters my marshall valvestate for distortion and thats before u even play around with it.please whatever u do try out the cabinet simulator i use the marshall drive module with gain on 25 with the cabinet module set to stack(not to stack and ev) and sum light delay and occaisionally chorus it sounds awsome for rehearsals i run it through fender hotrod tube and its awesome .i mean AWESOME
ignore thos bloody idiots who say "it doesnt sound like my triple rectifier" bcos believ it or not a triple recti cost about 30 times the price and doesnt sound massively better.play around with the patches and if u cant get a good sound out of it ure shit stupid and should consider quitting guitar

never had ne trouble with it even tho my bro dropped my les paul (which weighs as much as three large bull elephants ) on it

u can get ne sound u like out of it just buy it and thank me later

Getting a good sound out of a multi-effect is always hard work, and depends on your other equipment A LOT. Remember that your home-settings don't apply anywhere else. Getting a good sound out of a Zoom is hard work, as they can't seem to do any decent effects. Still, the interface is easy once you get into it, and I'm not an ass who gives 0 points just because I don't personally like the thing. The manual gives the answers to everything, but patience is the key. It might take a while to get a decent sound out of this one, though...

I'm using Cort CL200 and Yamaha RGX420S -> Zoom 707II -> Fender Champion 110. The quality of the factory presets are horrible and you simply can't get a good sound out of this piece of crap. At first I felt like doing a good purchase, but after a week or so I got disappointed with it. The wah in particular is total crap. Seriously, I mostly bought this one for wah-wah, and I made a mistake. Don't tell me to get a different wah, 'cuz then I would've had to renew everything else, too. Getting a good clean is hard work, and after 6 months or so I managed to get ONE good clean preset out of it, and after tuning the distortion I got a couple of good solo sounds. Besides them, it's crap. All the od's are shite.
My recommendation: if you're buying multi-effects, DON'T buy Zoom. Get yourself a decent Boss GT-6 or something, 'cuz this crap ain't worth the money. Still, some effects are ok, thus 3 points.

Mine broke off in about 5 months. The input makes noise and doesn't take contact. You must've had problems with plugs before? This is like it, except my plugs are fine.

Can't say anything about this.

Just steer clear of this crap, you'll be doing yourself a favour. Buy a decent distortion pedal and particular effects you need. Don't bother with this one, the effects are horrible, the presets are useless and the amp-simulations are a bad joke. Getting a good sound is behind too lot of work.
Really, don't buy anything off this shitty company.

Zoom - Catch us if you can! (because we moved over to the Bahamas due to angry customers)

Alright, this thing is plain and simple. You plug it in and its already got 60 great sounding patches. I myself have ordered the entire set of user patches(30) for live gigs, and editing the patches to sound how i want to was like playing smoke on the water, ridiculously easy. The manual is great! Its to the point and made so you can find out exactly what you want quikly and easily.

I dont understand why people have rated the sound quality poor!!! Its mind boggling. I have a Godin SDXT (hot rodded ofcoarse:D) and two amps, a 15 watt crate and a marshall valvestate 2000. It doesnt matter which of these units I use, this pedal gives me a GREAT sound out of both. I have never gotten any noise from this pedal when set up properly and its all due to "zoom noise reduction", a truly great feature. With this pedal, since it is literally multi effects I can program in ANY, absolutely ANY of my favorite guitar sounds and effects. (CHili Peppers, Metallica, Blink 182, AC DC, Rolling Stones etc.) I also dont find any effects weak. This little rig is totally versatile and the distortion it can put out when set just right will blow your mind.

I have always been able to depend on this little baby. I gig with it every time and it has never failed. The only thing that scares me is it is made out of plastic, and we all know plastic doesnt last as long as metal like on your more expensive single effect pedals. If this thing was made of metal, well, id never but another pedal, EVER.

Never had a problem... so as far as I see it customer support is useless anyways, haha

I play ALL music, and this thing plays well to ALL music. Ive been playing for 2 years.. sounds a little low but trust me, I know my stuff. If my zoom 707ii was stolen, i would cry... than buy a new one cause its cost friendly!!(compared to others atleast) My favorite feature is the amp modulator (little knob that makes your amp sound like any other amp, stacks, tubes, digitals, whatever, and i LOVE this for recording. This thing helps me make music and without it, i dont think i could. THANKYOU ZOOM!

You just have to read the manual and you're set for life. The manual is complete and precise.

Very good sound Quality! Although some of the effects are not usable. Maybe they added some of those effects to appeal to those techno geeks. Aside from that, I dunno? hehe... :D

This is a digital effects and it's not as tough as any analog effects. So I Guess I have my stompbox ready as a back-up in case something happens. (Crossing my fingers!).

They kinda SUCK! Maybe they don't understand English!!! Maybe I have to try Learning some japanese and then try to E-mail them again! I E-mailed them before but they didn't reply!!! Now, That SUCKS!!! Don't have to worry about repairs, Coz I have a background in Electronics. I once have a dead Zoom 3030 and w/ the help of some wires, a tester and a soldering gun. I just bypassed and changed some resistors and Voila! It's alive again!!! I called the local shop from w/c I bought the unit (my former Zoom 3030 from w/c I sold very cheap afterwards) and then told me that I have to wait 4 to 6 months or maybe longer for them to repair it! Because of the long line of pending repair works!!! THAT IS A MAJOR PAIN IN THE BE-HIND and it SUCKS BIG TIME!!! So I took the courage to check the back panel and do the repair myself rather than to wait 4 to 6 months! Luckily, I know a few things about electronic stuff!

When I downloaded the pdf manual n specs of the GFX-5 and I found out that it was a complete duplicate or just an upgrade of the 707ii? The only difference is the energize and the edge button, a bank patch and including the 3rd effects patch ( from w/c the 707ii has only 2 patches). By the way, I can't believe that the people here gave this a very low rating. This is a very good unit! I'm just starting to find that one out...If you just know the real value of this thing! ( only have this thing for 3 weeks). w/ a smartmedia card you can almost do anything w/ this unit! you can synchronize the effects+patches+drum patterns altogether!!! This thing is a very good practice tool! If you're going to buy a good sampler, you need to spend more or less than a hundred dollars... Plus you have to buy a decent rhythm box ( for drum patterns!) from w/c is less than a hundred bucks. And last but not the least a good guitar effects. All in all is roughly estimated to be more than $300.00. And this thing is less than half the price ($120.00 Brand new)! And this thing is mobile... This thing is not a pain in the ass to carry around. W/ a guitar+batteries+earphones and your all set! And in my opinion the effects in this thing is awesome, I mean very good. This is not suppose to replace your rig of high quality effects but this thing is kinda close enough. Considering the price! ( maybe thats why the Zoom people remodelled this thing in order to come up w/ a clone or an upgraded version of the 707ii in the embodiement of the GFX-5?). I use this thing as a part of my effects chain and it works just the way I want it... This thing works wonder if you just give sometime tweaking it! Overall this is a very good unit!

Getting good sounds out of these zoom units is fairly easy once you get used to them. The editing is almost exactly like my ps-02 recording device. I don't see how it could get any easier, unless of course it was voice-activated. Taking into account that this is a multi-effects processor, and not a one-knob stomp box, it gets a 9. I knocked one point off because you can't go straight from patch to patch easily. You have to place your gig patches in order because you can't just scroll through. You have to step once on the pedal for each preset. If this is a problem then you might want to get the newer GFX-5 which allows direct patch selection with a "bank" pedal.

I currently use this with either an Ibanez RG470 or a Carvin Bolt with Hot Rails into the 707II and out to a 1965 Blackface Pro Reverb on the right and a Mesa F30 on the left. I have thiele-ported 1X12 extension cabs on both amps. Late at night I use headphones for practice. I originally bought this because I own a Zoom ps-02 portable studio and I like the distortion models so much I wanted a floor unit that sounded the same. The 707II does that and more.
I've read a lot of reviews here comparing this to digitech rp50's and rp100's, etc. This is not an accurate comparison. Those low-end digitechs do not have the same tweaking capability or features as the 707II. For instance, the digitechs force you to use a single adjustment for both the speed and intensity of the modulations like phaser and flanger. That means if you want a strong but slow phase you are out of luck with the Digitech. Also you can disable the amp models with the zoom, for those ultra-clean sounds. Try THAT with the digitech Rp models! A more accurate comparison would be the Digitech GNX1, which costs $100 more than the zoom. The zoom gives you much better control over your effects, and the effects are much more usable IMHO. The phase is excellent, and one of my favorites. The Zoom has 30 amp models, the digitechs have around 12. The digitech models are the typical same-old-stuff like AC30, Rectifier... The Zoom has these but also has some unique and excellent models such as the Boss Metal Zone pedal, the 808 Tube Screamer, and one I have never seen modeled before: The ADA MP-1 preamp! Break out your spandex and moccasin boots guys, because it sounds great for those eighties hair-metal sounds (which I like). The reverbs and delays may be a little limited compared to the digitech, but they are excellent sounding none the less. I tried numerous digitechs and they all have this heavily-processed tone to them. The processing is not as apparent in the tone of the zoom. The wah is MUCH better than any I have heard on a multi-effects unit. For those guys complaining about noise, with all zoom units you will want to keep the output level knob as low as possible and the noise level is no higher than the other guys, who DON'T HAVE THIS KNOB! It gets a TEN, a CAPITAL 10!.

Haven't had it long enough to rate the reliability, but the other zooms I have owned have actually performed better than you would think considering the plastic casings. I have a different zoom unit that is over ten years old and is still on its original battery for the presets!

I called Samson, who is the american distributor for Zoom, and requested a manual for an out-of-production unit (9150 preamp). They sent it free of charge and even paid shipping! Again, I don't understand the previous posters complaints...just call 1-800-3samson

If you are reading this then you are probably considering purchasing one. Please don't let the low scores on this site scare you. I think most of the negative posters are either new to effects processors or "kewl doods". I even read one bashing it because the sampling rate was lower than digitechs (31.25k vs 44.1k). I DARE you to tell a difference between the two, especially with the limited frequency of a guitar. One word for you sampling rate nit-pickers: OVERSAMPLING. 64 times oversampling more than compensates for a lower frequency. Anyway, as to the detractors: Take their opinions, and mine, with a grain of salt. Buy one from a store with a good return policy and give yourself a few weeks with it to get a good feel. I've owned a TON of effects processors over the years and this one has the best ultra high-gain of any of them. Don't waste your time with the Yamaha Magicstomp (not enough hair) or the Boss GT-6 (very Harsh and digital). Zoom uses analog distortion in their modeling and it makes a huge difference in the tone and feel of the models. If your into metal or heavy Satriani-grade distortion then this is definitely the one for you! BTW, he recorded one of his more popular albums with a Zoom unit, if that tells you something! I'd give it a 9.5 if they allowed that (due to the limited patch switching) but since they don't I'll round it up to 10

This is very easy tu use. Plug it into the amp, plug your guitar and turn it on! ( Yes, it has a on/off switch AND an knob for output level control !!! )
Editing patches is a peace of cake, I have red the manual once and it's enough to start using all the things this unit has.
There are some features that deserve to be highlighted:
1 - As I've already said, it has a on/off switch and an knob for output level. A lot of models doesn't have theese basic controls.
2 - It has an internal drum machine and a sampler ( you will need a smart media card )
3 - It has a aux input, that you can use to connect a cd player

Theese features makes this a really good practicing tool! You only need to plug guitar and good headphones!

My setup is as following: Cort G260 Bk -> Zoom 707 II -> Computer (line in) or Headphones.
I play alone and have recently changed my way of studing guitar.
I used to have a practicing amp and a V-amp II, but I sold them out and bought a computer and the Zoom 707 II. I use the PC as a home studio. I have a couple of cheep softwares ( jammer professional and total recoder ) that are awsome for home recording. They are not professinal software, but my playing is getting better everyday since I started to make my own bases ( with jammer and/or zoom 707's drum machine + a bass patch ) and record myself playin along with them.

It is a very quiet unit. I have experienced no noise with my guitar in front of the computer monitor. ( Its quieter than v-amp II )

This is not a replacing unit for tube amps and traditional stomp boxes! This kind of gear costs 10 times zoom 707II.

The thing about sound quality is PATIENCE!!! The preset patches are bad ( al least with headphones or computer line in ) but you can get there if you spend some time with it.

Some reviewers are complaining about it, but in my opinion, they should give it another try. Its all there! The secret is in the correct configuration of eq, boost and cab modules, I think. They make all the diference to me.

I can get really good tones such as SRV, Metheny, Scofield , Mike Stern, Slash, Rober Cray, etc.

Don't get busy, you can't use the drum machine and the sampler at the same time. It means that you can sample and playback only the sound of the guitar. But I use my computer for recording and with the drum machine and a bass patch that i've programed I can record drum and bass and start up my creative engine.
I can send some mp3 files I've recorded as an example of it's potencial.My e-mail : gui_rizzo@ig.com.br

I can totally depend on it for home use.
I don't gig...

I have dealt with zoom before buying this unit and they were very kind sending me a complete manual and other promotional stuff from a out of line Zoom Fire 7010 I had a long ago.

I play jazz rock and fusion and I started when I was 14. I can get the sound I need from it. I live in an apartment so my gear is a quiet Guitar, Zoom and PC combination. I don't like to be bothered, so I try not to bother my neigbors :).
I love this unit because it has all I need for quiet and effective practicing in anywhere.
I really wish it had bass and drum patterns instead of just drum patterns. But I can play bass lines using the pitch shifter.
IT HELPS ME TO MAKE MUSIC!!!!!!!!
Together with my PC this unit is the core of my recent musical development. It's the perfect practinig toy!

The GFX707II is about the same in learning to get sounds, edit patches, etc. as the old 707. Only thing they added(or taken away) is the ability to add more sampling memory and they took out the JAM function.

The same exact sound quality as the 707. Zoom just isn't ready to take the next step to beat out Digitech. Both the 707 and 707II sample at about 31khz. Digitech is PRO at world standard 44khz. You may not hear the difference if your just messing around, but when you record in digital format, you hear the difference. I use exclusively my Yamaha T50C Soldano. It is the ultimate poor mans amp and takes just about any sound and gives it character. Again, the sounds on the 707 and 707II are about the same, plus the "violin" effect which is just a ramp or auto-swell effect. Very nice sound that Korg was already doing in the PX4 pandora. Except Korg always does it better. The PX4 is testament to this. All but the crummy sampling rate, as it always is, if you are laying out less than $1000 for something. But, that's the musicians life. If you're rich, you can afford just what the doctor ordered, if you're struggling, you have to take whatever you can get. right?

A durable and reliable as all the ZOOM pedals ever made. And to disolve the myth... the kind of plastic that these pedals are made of is often stronger and more forgiving than metal. So don't get too caught up in the Digitech advertisement snow job. I would and have done live performances with ZOOM products, but the studio or digital recording is another story.. you have to tweek to get what you want and sometimes ZOOM effects just don't give you what you need, like impedance matching inputs and outputs.. every try to couple two ZOOM in linear or go direct from the output to your Roland interface? You get a surprise that makes you want to give up.

They have great support online in my opinion, but they have the same problems that all the big companies have in support. They are unorganized, they hire people that don't know the products, and they are under staffed. You get the picture.

Here it is kids in a nutshell from a long term recording professional... The ZOOM GFX707II will excite you for the first few hours maybe... but even faithful ZOOM fans will be very disappointed because of the failed insight to just take care of a few minor details on what could have been the "Ultimate" ZOOM pedal. IF...they correct the sampling to world standard 44khz, allow all effect modules and drum patterns to operate while sampling, and have impedance matching inputs and outputs. If ZOOM does this...then they have finally hit the Holy Grail and everyone else, including Digitech, might as well buy into ZOOM stock or merge with them. Enough said. Wait, save your money, and hope. Until then, just make do with your old ZOOM pedals and give this one a pass.

As with all ZOOM products, it is easy to get a good sound, but very hard to find a great sound. I found editing patches quite easy, however I also own the original 707, so I had a slight advantage. Basically, you start at one end of the fx chain, and go though it till you get to the other. Use lefty-righty buttons to change what module you're editing, upy-downy buttons to change what the module actually is, and 3 turny knobs to change the parameters. The manual is very detailed and written for dumbasses. It is essentially the same as the manual for the original, but it doesn't have any mistakes in it this time :) The unit does not have upgradable firmware.

I use an ESP F-200 (EMG-60 in neck, EMG-81 in bridge) and an Aria MAC-50Q (stock stuff). My amp is a Peavy Bandit 112 with a Marshall MG120S cab.
My pedal board is a Crybaby Wah to a Boss Noise Surpressor with a Boss Compresson Sustainer in the noise surpressors effects loop. This lot goes into a Boss Line Selector, where I get two effects loops. In the first, I have the 707II (for clean channel stuff). In the second loop, I have a ZOOM Tri-Metal and a ZOOM 707 (original). Its not your pro setup, but it sounds fantastic when you set it right.

The pedalboard itself is completely silent, and the 707II matches this in most occasions. When you turn the gain up on the drive modules too high and dont have the onboard noise reduction on, you get some noise, but I dont use the gain modules, so it doesnt affect me.

I aint out to model other peoples sounds, so I ain't gonna do that whole "SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE" shite that others do. It gives me the sound I'm after.

Where this unit excels is the sensible modulations (chorus, flange, phaser, etc etc), delays (can do two at once :D ) and reverbs (got many). They all sound very smooth and slik (when you want them to be) and have the adjustability to sound stupid for those moments of instanity. It also has numerous stupid effects, like step filters, volume envelope thingers, ring modulators, which make for interesting giggles for silly songs.

The distortions (which I don't use) are OK I guess, I hate digital distortions, but if my distortion pedal died (TriMetal) then I'd use this as a backup. The overdrives are surprisingly nice sounding, but I gonna get a real overdrive at some point. However, for the beginner and bedroom player, these drive modules are very useable.

I've used ZOOM pedals for many years now, and I know many other people who have also used ZOOM pedals for many years. The multifx pedals may be plastic, but the plastic is very strong. My pedalboard has fallen off stages, down flights of stairs, had people jump and land on it, and it all works perfectly fine. I happily gig without backups, cos ZOOMs and Bosses are damn tough (tested personally). So don't give me this "ITS PLASTIC WONT LAST 2 SECONDS" shite.

Never dealt with them on this product, but they are very helpful and useful when I enquired about other products. They even have the manuals online if you cant find yours :)

I play any kind of music, so I ain't gonna bother listing it. If you check the music section of my website (http://www.guff.tk) it'll give you a rough indication. I've played for 3 and a bit years, have many gigs and recordings to my name, and also have a few guitar pupils. If it was lost or stolen, I may explore other multifx things, but will probably just end up buying this one again.

It is basically a good pedal, and a great pedal for clean tone stuff. However, on mine the expression pedal is a bit sticky, but nothing a bit of lubricating cant solve, just cant be bothered.

Compared this to a Digitech RFX-300, a Boss GT-6, and a ZOOM 505II. Chose the 707II because it was more what I was after than the others.

One thing I would like on it would be an fx loop so you can insert other pedals as modules anywhere in the fx chain.

This pedal is very useful for my music, it helps add texture to the songs. All in all, recommend it unless you're a hardcore pro, want a single "Does-it-all" multifx, or don't need multifx at all.

The manual sucks but after messing around with it for a while you kind of just get the hang of things.

Ive got an Epiphone Les Paul Classic Plus, a Fender Telecaster, and a B.C. Rich warlock with a Vox Pathfinder 15 R...and it pretty much sounds like crap. It's very easy to get an OK tone...but this thing really doesnt sound GOOD. Good for practice or fun and the sound is worth the money...I just dont recomend playing in front of anyone with it.

Hm...piece of crap. The left footswitch is all messed up and keeps squeeking and making wierd noises...and sticking alot...I've only had it for about 6 months and I'm pretty gentle with it.

Never dealt with them but I hear from...um...EVERYONE...that they suck.

It's more than worth the price but I would consider this thing to be just a toy. If youve never heard any other pedal before, this thing sounds beutifull...but in comparison its crap.

This unit is very easy to use but referal to the manual is necessary to fully control it's function. The manual itself is comprehensive altough the translation from Japanese is rather strange at times!
Editing patches is simple once you are used to the effects available in each module (which CAN be turned off individually at the push of a switch).

I'm playing a Gordon Smith Graduate 60 H/H through a Marshall DFX30 solid state amp - although I've been using the headphones straight from the 707 during practice.
There is little noise from the 707 and only when the noise reduction module is off - so why switch it off?
It's been said before - why spend thousands on a triple rectifier and expect a #150 effects pedal to modify it's sound? Lets face it - if you wish to record or play to a large audience then this probably isn't for you but if you merely wish to have fun with your guitar then the 707 II is a fantastic buy.
The Amp modeller will be limited by the tone of your own amp but each model is really different and has a use. The compressor/isolator, boost and especially the noise reduction modules work well with no glitches. The cab module is ok but - like I said - it's not going to make your 15 watt combo sound like a 4x12 with EV speakers - let's just say it alters the character of your sound.
The effects modules - Modulation and Reverb are where this unit excels - it's got everything you would expect - a couple of chorus, flange, phaser, tremolo etc - and a number of things you wouldn't - step filter, ring modulator, slow attack. The delay/reverb effects are numerous and at best sound great, at worst they are slightly cold. 'Hold Delay' which samples up to two seconds of the dry sound is great fun.
The preset patches again are fun to use - slow attack 'violin' patch is superb and sounds just like Steve Howe's solo 'Soon' from Yes's 'Gates of Delerium' (I'm showing my age there!). Now to get anywhere near this using stand-alone effects you'd have to buy an e-bow and a digital delay - these alone would set you back at least the cost of the 707. I also really like the acoustic simulations - the 12-string patch, which uses the acoustic amp model and the pitch modulator is really useful when I'm too lazy to change my guitars.
The drum machine is fine - don't be put off by the names of the rhythms - there may be only one 'thrash' setting, for example, but if you turn 'country' upto 200 bpm... (I've just had a mental image of Garth Brookes playing 'Master of Puppets'!)
The sampler again great fun and a useful tuition tool - although you'd need to get a bigger memory card.

It IS plastic and rather small, again this reflected in the price but no problems so far...

Heard bad things - my only advice is to get it from a good shop that'll replace it for you if need be, rather than from the net. Shop around as well - there are some vastly different prices for these things.

I try to play all sorts of stuff and this pedal has got me trying music I've never bothered with before - the wah (and auto-wah) is great for funk, for example.

The range of sounds available is exceptional. If you are a budding Dave Navarro or Tom Morello thrashing away in your bedroom (erm..so to speak), you'll love this. If you ARE Dave or Tom - go and spend your millions on something else.

The key word to this product is FUN and should be bought with that in mind - how else are you going to get what the 707 has to offer at this price?

I'm only not giving this a 10 because of the retentive muso's out there complaining about the lack of tone, which is only partially true - for every other normal (i.e not terribly rich) guitarist we can just accept this fact and get on with playing it with a smile on our faces rather than a stick up our backside.

Like anything you have to take time to figure out stuff to get a good sound. It's easy to do with tones of effects to choose from, it just take TIME!

I'm useing a Epiphone Les Paul so i know there's no problem there. Certain effects are very cheap sounding like the fuzz but you just stay away from them. I've got an awsome sound on mine with beats the sound of standard marshall amps (not valve state). I dig Blink, sum 41, limp bizkit, greenday etc. I manage to get a sound pretty close considering i'm not useing mesa and marshall equiptment which costs a fortune!

I've only had one problem but it was the jack which i easily replaced.

Never had to complain.

I play punk, hardcore, metal etc. I noticed alot of reviews that are very wrong done by people who odviously don't know what they're talking about. There are good sounds in this unit you just got to take the time to find them! My only complaint is the fact that the patches don't change in real time which means you can't change effects live, very disapointing cause i love the sound. Basically this is just a cheap substitute untill i can get a mesa boogie.

I had it down after maybe half an hour or so good enough to have fun with it. Editing patches is simple. Basically all you have to be able to do is read a manual and this thing is easy as pie.

I have a Yngwie Malmsteen Strat and a 1995 Fender 360 watt Ultimate Chorus and the effects come through this amp noise free from what I can tell. My amp already has a slight hiss but with any of the effects the hiss isn't increased any at all that I can tell. The drum machine sounds are great for helping with composing to an extent. Their isn't a whole lot of change-ups in the drumbeats though so it is just kind of one long continuous beat. But all in all the sound quality of them are pretty good. The delay is decent enough to say you have a delay but you can't adjust the delay repeats which is kind of shitty. The wah is reasonably good. It won't make your guitar wail like Kirk Hammett's wah does but it's alright. I can get a pretty decent Vai sound out of this and Malmsteen's tone is fairly easy to recreate but it isn't perfect. I love the effect that makes it sound like a violin, I think it is the slow attack, but it is really cool because I play Malmsteen stuff more than anything else and he inspires alot of the things I create so it is great for the classical stuff.

I can depend on it for what I do but all that is is set around the house playing after school so no worries there. I'm not lucky enough to join a band and perform although I did get offered a job by some talent scout lady at Guitar Center to play at a new club opening in Dallas but since I'm only 16 I can't. If I was to do a show of some sort I would rather have something else because there is a slight pause when you switch between effects. The pedal is fairly sturdy but I don't know that I would use it to perform because I stand kinda hard on my Morley sometimes doing my Zakk Wylde solos and shit but this little Zoom pedal couldn't take a punishing that's for sure. All in all the reliability is decent.

I haven't dealt with these guys yet but from what I have heard the customer service sucks a fat dick at Zoom.

I play neoclassical, shred, blues, and classic rock. This pedal does a decent job of covering the sounds necessary for these types of music. I have been playing for 3 years. I also own a Roland Cube 30 guitar amp which is good for taking to school to show off with. If I were to lose this I would probably buy something else like a Toneworks PRX4 because I want to get into recording my own stuff and putting it onto computer so I can burn it off on CD's. I have played with one of those and they have some great effects as well as a better drum machine. That would be cool to have because I could do better recording than I do now with my Fostex 4-track. I love that it has a drum machine but what does suck is if you want to sample a kick-ass riff you have going on with the drum machine going it will only record the guitar part. It won't record the drum machine sounds. That really chaps my ass. It helps me make music better than I did before without drums.

CRAP.
- The bypass pedal? You have to step on both "UP" and "DOWN" pedals to bypass the thing. HALF the time, you end up switching to another effect. SO, if you're trying to go to a clean tone, half the time, you go to death metal instead. CRAP.
- Modifying sounds? Madness. The interface makes little sense, even with the manual. Trying to turn OFF an effect in the chain is close to impossible.
- The pedal? SLOW. It is NOT a real-time change when you push down or up... so, forget using this as a wah pedal.
What a let down. All the reviews in here are obviously from folks that don't plan to ever use this live.

Let's start with how it sounds in BYPASS:
- tone is greatly diminished. The highs and lows are gone. Which means, when it IS being colored by some effect, you're diddling with only a portion of the original tone. If you're trying for anything SUBTLE, forget it.
However, I DID like some of the effects - the leslie is good enough, the auto-wah does good. The distortion is good enough. If you're going for heavy metal, it will cut the mustard, until you try to go into bypass mode... which is a crap-shoot in and of itself.

It's worked great the 8 times I used it, before I gave up on it.

no clue.

Great intro toy. DO NOT use this live if you've played guitar for more than 4 years. Honestly, I'd done my research, and from the reviews on THIS site, I decided to get this pedal. MAN what a let down. I don't use this at all now.

this zoom effect pedal is rather easy to handle.. u get the hang of it after a couple of hours. in fact, u can easily just play around with the pedal and u'll know how to use it eventually.. the manual is quite useful too.. at least it provides the neccessary instructions and tips to get u started.. needs some experience in order to handle it properly and confidently. the editing options are great for its price.. delay effects are just so cool.. it's extremely value for money.. need a pedal but got a tight budget? get this man.. u wont regret it.. well, at least for me. =p well, it could be better if the pedal was abit bigger.. cuz i keep missing it at times.. haha..

i'm using this pedal together with my cort-x2 guitar and sometimes with my ibanez ibz-10 practise amp as well as a LANEY 65-watt gig amp.. 4got the model. sort of a 'hardcore-max' series type. the pedal sounded good especially on my LANEY amp, u need impact in order to hear the true sound that the pedal can create. the effects are average in my opinion.. some of them are just great, while some others, i dun feel i've got any use for them.. probably because of the genre of music that i play. it has got some decent clean guitar effects like acoustic and fusion.. yeap they sure are cool. the distortion effects could be improved.. but if u know how to edit em, it'll sound even better. most of its distortion effects were too 'trebby' so i will actually edit it to create a more 'bassy' effect which has more impact. on the whole, this pedal has got some pretty good effects.. nothing is perfect, so i'm contented with this.

zoom 707II has been very reliable for me. i got this like 3+ months ago, and it didnt give me any problems til now. brought it for 2 performances so far, and it didnt fail me at all.

nvr needed them.. it's reliable =D

i play metal/rock types of music.. and this pedal is ok for it. it needs a couple of self-editing to get the right sound out. it's also damn cool to create your own effects. it sure is fun~

easy to navigate around on.

bought this unit and thought the presets were pretty good. I did not like the sampler section because it would not let you sample in the drums with the guitar, also when you tried to play along with it it would cut out on you. I took it back and exchanged it for the Digtech RP300A. After one night of trying it out, the next day I took it back and asked for the Zoom 707II back!! I thought it sounded alot better and was easier to use than the Digtech RP300A. As for as the sampler, I record onto a Boss BR532 digital recorder so I really didn't need that feature anyhow.

I bought this unit after my Zoom 1266cd Recorder was stolen.
I loved the Guitar patches in the Zoom 1266 and thought that all the VAMS technology would have the same sounds per Zoom Units.
WRONG.
The Zoom 1266's guitar presets and Tweekability are totally different in Sound, Quality, and control from the 707II.
Apparantly different Zoom VAMS products use completely diffrent Processors.
The Zoom 1266cd recorder's guitars sound processed but in a realistic way, with the distortions sounding AMP-LIKE and not Buzzy and overly Digital sounding and had Great Editing Capability on the Effects....The 707's distortions are very buzzy and digital sounding....
Harsh, steril, and Trebly would be the best way to describe the 707's Distortions.
Delay repeats are not controlible so that makes the delay perameters useless.
The effects sound decent.....just dont try to deep edit the Delay.
NOW here is something that no other reviewer has told you...Had they told me on this Forum i would have never bought this unit...Now, you are interested in the 707II because it has a drum machine, and sampling .....RIGHT?
Thats why i bought it...But the problem is, you can't sample the drum machine INTERNALLY.....You got that?.....This means that if you have a Jamming riff happening with a drum pattern playing and you want to quick sample all of it.....YOU CAN'T.... as you cant sample the internal drum machine patterns ......IS THIS STUPID OR WHAT.!!!!.....all you can do is sample the guitar riff MINUS the drum pattern.....JEEZ.
You can play along with the drums, but if you get a great riff and drum going, you can't sample them both.........USELESS.
The Zoom 707II's manual is resonably understandable.

Sound quality is Buzzy, Harsh, and digital sounding.
Very quiet unit and works fine driving an amp.
Amp models don't sound anything like their real counterparts.

I would say that the unit is dependable, though you must buy the adapter as the unit eats 4AA battery's in about 4 days of average use.
Safe to gig with, but be sure your battery's are fresh.

Sometimes Zoom returns your e-mails sometimes they dont.

Bottom line is this.
Buzzy distortions, Effects are decent, can't edit the Delay very much, and can't sample the Internal drums.
Only one LINE OUT that is also the Headphone out.
This can be a problem unless you enjoy sending the 707II's stereo out signal to a single channel MONO amplifier imput.
Effects loop is the only way to go, so be sure your amp has an effects loop.

Just got it, but it seems fairly simple. probably take a week or two to really get used to the settings and get the sound you want. the manual is very straightforward, quick and compact.

best effects pedal i've used for the price range. i play a few differnt guitars thru it, a gibson sg,fender strat,epiphone les paul,mako vanhalen knock off,ibanez rg->zoom707II->metalzone->randall rg80ph head with a behringer cab. it sounds nice, but i haven't really cranked it yet. the effects are really good as far as i can tell. there are a few crummy effects which i would find no use for, but its really fun editing and such. i play alot of finch, and i pretty much mimic-ed the lead guitar in letters to you within 15 minutes, most of which was fine tuning.

now, everyone complains about this being plastic and unreliable. this pedal feels pretty strong, it's not guna break unless you drop something heavy on it, or throw it down stairs (which i dont suggest..). i havn't had a show yet since i got this, but i had another one (606) which i used, and it was fine. i can only imagine this will be much better...

i had to return the 606 cuz i broke the input. that's the only problem i've had. i'm still unsure whether they sent me a new one or just repaired the old one...but that one didnt work either, so i sent it back and they gave me a 707 loaner (although that was the store i purchased it from) which didnt work. so when i complained about the loaner, they gave me a free 707II...and this one works fine.

i play a variety of rock... hardcore, a lil metal, punk and all that good stuff. i've been playing for around 8 years, but only seriously for 3 or so. i have a strat, epiphone les paul, mako knockoff, i'm buying a gibson sg, and a few other guitars. i have a lot of amps: a half stack, a fender princeston 65, peavey rage, and 2 other small ones. if this was stolen, i probably wouldnt buy a new one on account that i didnt buy it...i really duno what i'd do...i don't really care anyway. its just fun having so many effects at my disposal. muahhahahaha! i think it enhances my music, most of the time i use my metal zone and put the pedal on clean with some noise reduction, but i use a multitude of effects during differnt songs.

Just a quick comment- there's 2 different people who claim to be using this pedal along with a Mesa Boogie amp, and who slag off the sound. What sort of simpleton uses a #100 multi FX with a Rectifier? Either they're fantasists claiming to have better gear than they have, or they're idiots, and either way you don't want to put too much faith in their reviews. I've happily used this pedal for 2 years, and it does the job at the price. You can't expect #1000 of tone for #100. Use your brains :) I'm finally selling it on now that I have a Trace Elliot all-valve head, and half a dozen freestanding boxes, but you need to spend a lot of money to cover this much ground in seperate units. This is the budget alternative, and as long as you bear that in mind, you'll be happy.

One thing that annoys me with Multi-Fx units is messing about with banks etc. This isnt too bad. On the day i brought it, i played with it for hours. Within 30 mins i was changing sounds and stuff fairly easily. Ok, it could be better but it isnt bad as far as multi-fx units go.

I like my distortions really beefy. This unit didnt really do it for me, but im very, very fussy. Most of the other effects were really nice. Some nice echo/ delay effects. You can get some really good sounds for playing lighter music.

I used this for a few gigs before getting my stand alone distirtion pedal. It never let me down. If the sound was right I would always use it. All good appart from the plastic casing, but its not like your constantly jumping up and down on it!

Never had to. I guess thats a sign of reliability.

A very good pedal after a little play around and if you don't want to play anything too brutal. If it was lost i would probably buy another one buy only if i could get it second hand as i mainly use it as a back up for my other set-up. Its has some nice features which can work well lined up with a few stomp boxes. (e.g. simple drum machine) I use this to write a lot of songs.

Very easy to use. You just need about an hour or two, and you get it.
The manual was also very helpful, but you mostly learn about it by yourself - by playing with the effects.

Great sound for a small multi-effect. There many effects, and you can get almost whatever you want. I use an Ibanez 25W amp, and the sound is really good. I liked the wah, it was preety good here comparing to other multi-effects.

I didn't try it outside, or on a gig, so I can't know about it.

This is a really great multi-effect for home playing, or for playing with friends. For its price, its very good, comparing to others on this level. If I lost it, I would have bought it again, its really great for me, and fits my type of playing (blues, rock, jazz).

Editing seems pretty easy after pratting around for a while.

OK Here's the thing. Distortions. Why do these effect manufacturers have to put so many bloody fuzz box variations on these things at the expense of other features. Most of you rock types slag off stompers like this cos they can't sound like your Mesa or JCM800. If you've got this kind of kit what the @*`! made you buy one of these?
I got one because I wanted something to use at small pub gigs to save on gear lugging, but what especially took my fancy was the sampler function. Yes, the reverb, echo, ZNR, and EQ stuff is really good for the price as is the amp/clip stuff but the chance of sampling on the fly for live overdubs, saving to smartmedia AB looping, even storing pads for the odd slow mooody bit - thats what made me put up the dosh.

So what do I think now - this box has been newtered by its own firmware. Losing delay effects when sampling is completely bollox. You get one of these things as an all-in-one fix but find that it's not quite right. I can see that zoom have a price/hardware point to stick to but I would have payed more if the delay section was always available.

The realy shit thing is the lack of thought that has gone into the firmware. If you want to store a sound in one of the 60 allocated places you should be prompted to do so. In the same way you should be forced to delete any sound you have previousely chosen to save to smartmedia - otherwise whata the point in having so many pidgeon holes. It's far too easy to hit the right footswitch and record over the sample you got just right.

AB looping. great stuff from zoom but sod you if you want to save this as the new sample (crop). Want to get that sound again - then you will have to fuck around again and again and.....oh bugger ,pressed the wrong switch and wiped the noise. Get the picture?

Oh yes, if you want to play back a sample in loop mode you have to select loop mode every time. What a crock.

Want to edit the sound on the PC? Tuff shit! Zoom want to make this impossible for you by having non standard file formats and not a sniff of any editing/convertion software on the near horizon.

Zoom got this side of the pedal totally wrong. They should release a ne firmware NOW!! but knowing them bet you can't up the firmware even though there's a card slot which could do it. They have released a supergun of a pedal............and shot themselves in the foot.

If you're carefull itll be OK but if the roady drops a bin on it you ca run for many many tubes of bostik.

sent them an e-mail of customer gripes. Guess what the reply was?

Too fed up to write any more as I've just got in from a gig but for gods sake Zoom, the above whinges are things you could have got right, and this is the second attempt at this pedal

Took me about two hours to get the hang of it, but generally very easy to use.

I use an "Ibanez - Artstar" (1/4 capacity) and most of the effects - except the FUZZ and some of the ones with heavy reverb sound really good.
- I was very dissapointed from the "acoustic" modulator, then again,
I use a crappy amp.
- I really like the sampler option!

I used it on a gig THE DAY I BOUGHT IT. Had 4 effects already set at the store, distortion kicked ass, pedal worked like a charm.

I play blues, rock, punk rock and some irish music.
I've been playing acoustic guitar for 6 years and electric for 2.
If it were stolen I would probably build up a multi-effect of my own with boss pedals.
I love the fact that you can records samples and play them at a gig, and the fact that they've added beats for you to practice on.
I bought it because at the time I was at the store and after hearing some other effects, this one was quite a bargin.
I wish it had a better lcd, other than that it's good and it helps me develop my band's music.

Final note - Try combining the old distortion sounds with a gate and some wah pedal.. works like a charm :)

Its verry easy to use, no manual needed

Well here's the piont for only 215 euro's you cannon have a multiFX whit that much effects sounds good.
Realy its total crap I spend hours of work on it but I cauld not find good sounds.
And where I laugd the moste about ik the "van Halen" sound.
I be shure that Eddie goes to cry if he heard that sound!

You cannot depend on it because its plastic! and you step it away when you want to chanche banks.

Never dealth whit them

Well its a good thing for multiFX newbees but not good for live performance its sounds crap, take my advise and buy something better like boss if you want to have good sound.

Ive had it for less than two weeks and ive figured most things out...
at first it was difficult and i was scared that it was total crap... but it's far from it.... really, once you've figured it out its really easy tou use.

The manual has everything...

The sound its self can be made pretty good, but i havn't tried many other pedals...

I have an old crappy Squier (strat immitation) with rusty pickups and a craaaap amp, so i do get alot of noise, but i wont blame the pedal....

The preset paches are mostly pretty crap, but when you make your own you can get some pretty good sounds out of it. Oh and you can have up to ten effects at the same time, but they include distortion, sound gate, mod, etc, and so you con't have, for example, wah and tremolo at the same time...

it is hard to get exactly the sound you want (ie: the exact sound from a song) but not impossible.... i can get most of the Morello effects...

Its my only pedal, i sold my old wah...

i dont play in gigs yet, but i dont thing i'll need backup as i'm not plannig on jumpig around on it, i've got the stage for that... But i guess the fact that it's plastick does make me be carefull...

But it's small and lite, wich is great for people like me travel alot, but i'd put it in a very thick paded bag...

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a play everything exept nu metal (in wich case you wouldn't need a pedal... considering you need a guitar) and its great for any kind of music... i had a wah that i sold, wich i regret because the wah on the 707 ii isn't great...
when i bought this i was looking for the Digitech GNX3, but it wasn;t avalable, and this seemed to be the next best thing... for about a quater of the price.
It's a shame it only was 6 seconds of onboard memory for sampling... gotta get me a SmartMedia card...
The Drum Machine is GREAT if you can't afford a drummer :) ... its great for practicing...

A little confusing at first, but a piece of cake once you get the hang of it. There may actually be too many choices available. Manual gives the basics but you really need to spend some time with it to check out everything included (over 70 different effects, cabinet simulators, drum machine, etc). Everything you would ever need is here.

Epiphone Les Paul Standard/Schecter Scorpion (tuned to standard pitch) into a Marshall 15 watt Micro Stack. The effects sound great once you dial the sound you want, which is a snap once you get the hang of it. Built in noise suppressor eliminates just about all unwanted noise. In only a couple of weeks of messing around with the 707II, I have already set up patches to faithfully emulate some of the bands I listen to. The effects sound "real" not processed as some multi-effects processors sound to me.

The 707II has a plastic chasis so I wouldn't recommend stomping on it too hard. The pedal for wah/volume/gain/etc looks like it's kind of cheap. I play for fun so I really can't say that I'd gig without a backup. If you play what I play (hard rock, alternative, punk, any thing that's fun) you probably could get by on your amp's distortion if that's all you're using. It seems like it would do the job pretty well as long as it wasn't abused.

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Overall, this is absolutely the most fun piece of gear I have ever purchased in my 10 years of playing. The drum machine alone makes this worth the price I paid for it. Considering all the money I've spent on other effects over the years, I wish this had been available ten years ago - it absolutely has everything you would ever need to emulate just about any band's sound. The only downside about the 707II would have to be the plastic construction. It probably would be okay, buy I'm afraid that I might break it if I step on it too hard. If it were stolen, I would definitely buy another one. I'm finally very pleased with an effects processor! I can't wait to hear what kinds of sounds I come up with in the future.

Just the perfect easy thing, using analog feel knobs and realtime editing it will be easy to make your thing with this unit,
many lights and exactly in their place,
the manual is good , not complete but compact and less time consuming.

fender strato stansard is used to test this unit and home stereo amp,
very low noise but in FUZZ sound REALY BAD sound cut will be heared
if you use D GATE on it,
sampling freq. of system isn't high (31khz) but overal sound quality with this low price will be 8.

no
it's very week, pedal is plastic made!!!, inputs are very week too.
i don't use this on a gig at all, i'm not so fool.

I play hard rock and metal, blues for some. I have 5 year of experience
in playing electric guitar, 2 on classic guitar and 12 on violin.
if it were stolen or lost, I will not do anything , it wasn't mine ,
I have a GFX-8, it was my friend's.
but i like it, it is good and low price, The best for a beginner to
intermediate player, " professionals don't like this , they are meticulous with sound and they pay a lots of $ for it ,
not only 130$"
it makes very good distortions, as a voilin player you know i like smooth dist. it has one but you should make a patch yourself, presets are not good and are lifeless,
smart media is good opinion but just works good for storing patches because the MOD and REV modules will go OFF when you are in sampler,
and it is a big disadvantage,
in compare with digitech rp200 and coresponding model of korg it is
a realy Powerful stuff.
the rhytms are good too,

anyway, if you can't play with this unit's preset patches it means that you have major problems with your playing technique beacuse the presets are DRY and make your mistakes flashing, haha!
I like this type of sound because it forces me to improve.

It is fairly easy to use, once you play with it a while. The manual is extremely helpful if you read it carfully, but who does? I owned one of the previous versions "the ZOOM-505, limited edition 2000" few years ago and it was very good, if you take the price in mind.

OK...it is not the best sound you will hear, but if you are 'sort of' short of funds. This fx is the life saver. I did not like the distortion very much, but if I compare it with the Boss Metal-zone I have got (which is supposed to be top of the range), Zoom is OK.

I have not tried it yet on a gig to be honest, but I don't see why not. I heard people saying it would break on stage if you stomb on it, but performers usually break something, don't they?

Never tried them yet?

I have been play for almost 8 years (I play everything, well... mainly soft rock, bluesy stuff) so most of the effects I get from it are OK. If stolen, I will definitly buy it again..or maybe the next generation (808, or 909!! if present). I recomend it for people short of money. I have not tried the expensive ones, but I'm satisfied with this one. What you play and how you play it is the most important thing. Stop blaming the effects, maybe the problem is with your ability to play the Guitar!!!!

very easy to learn how to use. getting a good sound is very difficult however, ive had it for 3 months and i havent found a sound that really pleases my ears.

the distortion effects are terrible. the flange is TERRIBLE but the delay is suprisingly good. it takes a long time to get any remotely good sounds out of it.

its plastic but seems to be pretty well built

i use an OLP Music Man, a JSH 50w reverb and a marshall jackhammer. i always use the jackhammer overdrive with the effects to give it an extra kick, and the noise reduction comes in quite handy to filter out any crap feedback that my jackhammer loves to create

Fairly easy to use, but impossible to get a good sound out of.

This is pure digital trash at its worst. Aside from the generic, toneless effects, it's a "nice pedal", if you don't mind its incompatability with any other effects. No matter where it's placed in a chain (I run a cheap Fender Fat Strat through two MXR BlueBoxes, two EH BigMuffs [One Russian, one US], a Boss Metal Zone, and a Boss Phase Shifter into a Sunn Alpha Combo.), it sucks any life or tone out of the signal, replacing it with noise. Not nice-sounding Earth feedback noise; more like a "Pro Tools with a glitch" noise. Even with just a BigMuff running into one of the preset reverb effects, it sounded terribly muddy and unuseable. Despite all this, it makes a nice little toy to run a keyboard or mic through.

Well, it's a chunk of low-grade plastic, with plastic inputs, knobs, and expression pedal. I personally just lightly press down on it with my fingers, for fear of cracking it open. My main hatred for this pedal stems from the horrible construction of the inputs. I used the original 707 for my first gig at a school talent show, figuring that if I set it away from everything else and only ran a mic through it, it would be fine. After about two seconds into our first song, it just died. I was across the stage from it, so there was nothing I could do, and the drummer sure as hell couldn't have fixed it. The most humiliating three minutes of my life, compliments of the lovely people at Zoom.

I've tried my hand at a few styles of music, and none of them sound even close to decent when used with this pedal. I've been playing for about three years, and even for a stupid teenager, I can tell this sounds bad. If it were stolen or lost, I'd be pretty pissed, because the on-board tuner is the only one I have. If you're looking for a faulty, unreliable tuner, and would rather spend $150 on this than a Korg, this is THE pedal for you. I think the best description of this pedal comes from my "metal-hed" cousin: "Dude, this is THE pedal, 'cause it has SO many awsome effects, 'cause I play everything. Staind, Limp Bizkit; you name it!" Great for young, eager players who want to make noise, and nothing more.

Possibly the highest point of this machine is how easy it is to use,not really hard any one could do it and the manual is actually quite decent

you get some very gd distortions and weird effects out of this,but thats where it stops,although u can alter them,u can only alter them to somethin much more shite than what u had in the first place,and the wah/tremelo arm thing is aboslutly pointless unless ur really accruate

its plastic and its cheap,what more can u expect,havnt had a problem with it yet but i know someone whos had one for a while now and he hasnt had a problem for it

Ive had quite a few single boss distortions and while there good,u dont get a very wide array of distortions like u get on this,but the tone is better on the boss ones,but then yet again the boss ones cost roughly 50-100 each time and this was only 139,for a cheap effects unit its great,but if i had the money this wud not be my choice

well this is my first effect pedal i have use so it was kind of difficult to create the desired sound at first but right now is a little easy to get the sound i want. edit a patch is very simple actually it took me a couple of ours to edit one. the manual is perfect lets you knoww everything and shows you to use your pedal with just reading 2 pages or less

i have an epiphone stratocaster wich have a decent tone and an old crate wich is 15 watts. i must say that this pedal is the best part of my equipment. the amps sonds fine but the overdrive chanel is very bad and the pedal arranges very good the sound of my guitar because is a little noisy. so this unit eliminates all noises coming from the guitar and cables. the distortions on this thing are very useful, this thing had no rectifier or some other distortions but with some arrangments you can get very similar sounds you want, and with a very good tone. but the best about this is the modulation and reverb effects almost all of them sound exelent. it has some patches of other analog pedals and they are ok. the wah is very good but with lack of dept and the pitch shifter is not what i spected but still can be controlled to work fine. i like to play grunge like stone temple pilots, pearl jam i also like to play metallica dream theater ratm, steve vai, incubus, heroes del silencio and for pearl jam incubus, stp.. this is exelent but with ther songs that require more complex distortions this have still some problems to make that exact sound. some distortions are very good but they are not similar to other more famous distors.

i trust totally on this thing and i would use it live or wherever.
its plastic so you have to be careful

never deal with them

if you are looking for something with tons of distortions and amp modeling you must go for a digitech but this thing can be killer for modulation effects and the rithm machine is very helpful. The drive module has very good distortions but they are new character distortions. so if you like to improvise o create your own stye this can be an exelent option at very low price i think this is very good but i must get a better amp and maybe a whammy pedal or a morley wah the overdrives are ok for me. if this was lost i would maybe buy a boss multieffect pedal but they cost 3 times what this did. i love that i can choose almost any drive effect and invent something that sound very good. also some modulation and reverb efects combinations are killer. this works exelent for solos. i am 15 and this is my first year of playing guitar and for my sound this thing helps a lot.
i would like the expresion pedal was biger or strnger to push it all the way down without taking care of it and i would like it had rectifier and whammy but i can live without them. i think once i would learn more how to get sounds out of it i would love it. and it deserves to try
another thing
once i will be rich and famous and greater than steve vai and i will say that my first pedal was a zoom 707 II and people will pay millions for the pedal i used. and much of you will be asking for money at streets and sleeping under bridges and playing guitar as i did when i started to play guitar.
contact me if you want

It took me about 2 days to understand everything. Moreover the manual is really good and many languages are available ! (French 4 me!)

I'm using a Fender stratocaster american standard and a 30W Marshall amp and it sounds pretty good ! You just have to edit the patches a little bit to have a really good sound.
The effects sounds great but I can't exactly find that nirvana's sound...
THE MP1 distortion ROCKS !!!!!

PLASTIC SUCKS of course... but don't be nuts : you won't break the box if you push on the pedals normally !!
I used it on a gig and everythings worked although we play pop-punk and we jump a lot like dumbs... I didn't have any problems !

I don't know !!

Finally, i really love this box because it sounds good and the drums are really cool for jamming for hours !
Of course it's not a BOSS GT-6 but the price are not comparable !
Believe me you won't be disapointed !
PUNK ROCK RULES !!!!

as easy to use as the boss me-33, fiddly buttons though.. editing patches is very easy. got the sound i wanted in about 10 mintues at the shop...

ok first off, this is a half decent amp simulator with some bolt on effects. its absolutly great running into headphones or a clean amp channel.

if youve allready got a tube amp and a decent guitar, youd probrably be better off getting a stand alone delay or chorus pedal and a stand alone wha... if youve got a crappy transitor amp with a semi decent clean channel, this will probrably get you by until you can afford a new tube amp :)

the pitch shifter sounds really crap and very very cold. the wha sounds great but the expression pedal has a smallish amount of travel. the delay is nice, the choruses are ok and the ring mod is sounds very good :)

the noise reduction is flawless.

the amp simulators are quite good, with some usable sounds. i suppose it depends on what your into as to what youll get out of the pedal. clean tones are a little weak though with only one or two usable settings. the cabinet settings are pretty cool, but who'd seriously use the "box" setting? (yes i want to sound like im using a 4" speaker)

this is one of those great little units that you can whack headphones on and practice without peeing off the neighbours, its not a gt-6, but at a quarter of the price, who's complaning.

dont expect it to replace say a line 6 delay or a digitech whammy pedal or a decent tube amp, but for practicing in your bedroom with some headphones on its great.

its plastic, i think itd break if you looked at it the wrong way... still you get what you pay for right :) sounds = good, construction = just dont drop it ok :)

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if you dont have a decent amp or just want to practice with headphones on, then this will rock your world. its cheap, it has some good sounds, its portable, just dont stand on it too hard

if you already own a tube amp and have a decent sound, go buy the stomp boxes you really want instead.

for me, with my really bad 20 watt tranistor amp, its a godsend. well until i buy that valvestate marshal anyway, then ill probrably just use it for its brilliant noise reduction and a delay

This is the 3rd Zoom box I've owned so I'm now familiar with how these can be adjusted. However, if you're new to it, read the manual. It's not all that hard once you know how things are laid out. It's just like learning Windows or something on your PC. If you're a hardcore "gigger" who uses stompboxes, this probably isn't for your. If you're a wannabe guitar stud who plays in his basement and wants to get a million sounds for $129.00, then this is for you.

You can tweak this thing all day long and get an endless array of sounds. And I mean endless. Add distortion, reverb, take away reverb, make it sound like a stack amp. Tons of choices.

It's plastic, but don't abuse it and it will last you.

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This a very versatile unit. I like the rhythm and sampling function. Using the rhythm function has actually made me a little more creative as I find myself starting to play and learn my own riffs. It's also a little more fun than playing along to a CD. The sampler is cool in that you can record a second guitar part (rhythm), and then play it back while you play lead. Very versatile.

I found the unit very easy to use. Although I only use a few of the pre-programmed patches, I had no problem tweaking my own.

I've used this pedal with a Gibson Les Paul Classic and Fender Strat with a SD Hot Rail, through a Fender Twin. Sound quality is good for the distortion and delay effects. The expression pedal does not give a good range for wah, so I still need to use my Crybaby. The best part of the sound, though, is the noise reduction.

Here's the problem: the jacks are totally unreliable. After having the unit cut out on me in two consecutive gigs, I'll never take it onstage again. Too bad, because I really like the sound.

Never tried.

This is a great unit for jamming and practice. I like the tuner, the sound, the price, and the built-in rhythm--any tempo, lots of patterns--great as a metronome for practice or as a fill-in drummer when jamming with friends. Just never rely on it for a performance, or it will probably let you down. If I had to buy this over, I'd probably just get the 505 since the expression pedal is worthless to me.

The ease of this is great. Either you can read the manual, or you can learn it yourself. Either way, you'll figure out how to use it. The system it has flows nicely, and can be used by anyone. The manual is simple, and is ok.

The sounds are great. The selection of the different guitar sounds awesome, and no flaw was to see (or hear...)The drive sounds are awesome, and the chorus, wah etc. are good. Two thumbs up!

Well, it didn't break, so I rely on it. Simple. It would be great to perform with it, unless you trash it with your guitar or step on it brutally. If you're gentle, it's gentle. Would be cooler if it were something else than plastic...like metal or something.

Get it. It's a great piece of equipment, worth every cent. It works great about everywhere. The effects sound great, almost as if you had a special guitar specified in each sound. Perform with it in a concert, play in your room; HAVE FUN. The drum sounds are great to play with, and as I have said earlier, are easy to use.

It's an experience of guitar-playing you'll never forget. Take my word. (or don't...)

I think that its takes some getting use to, but its really easy to use. ther are a lot effects, and after using the 505, it is really easy to figure out.

It sounds awsome. like i readin some other reviews, its not as good as a $500 unit, but NO CRAP. for the $150 i paied for it, its amazing. the ZNR is a life saver. it takes out every little extra sound. i am using it with my 100 watt marshall tube amp. ive had the thing fortwo days, and i already got the sound of Zach Whyld and Van Halen.

Its an awomse unit!

It took a little to get used to, but i think that is only because i am new to fx processors. The knob based editing makes it a lot easier. The sampling function is easy as well. The drum machine and metronome are easy to get to grips with. Making your own effects is a little confusing but running with the manual helps, and once you have learned how using it and tweaking everything is great.

I run through a fender m-80 and a samick SG. The clean sounds such as the fender twin and the roland jc are brilliant, really making my amp and guitar sound pro. The acoustic effects are a bit weak, but a bit of a pump up with the overall gain on that effect fixes that up. i like the drive channels a lot, plenty to choose from and a lot of great sounding variety. The delays and modulation sounds are really good. They suprised me actually, altough the pedal wah and auto wah are a bit weak, lack of depth. Slowing down recorded samples really diminishes the quality, i dont think i will be using that function much. There are no real noises coming from the actual machine. The ZNR is absolutely brilliant, very very helpful. But it is funny when your guitar crackles on a delay. I am able to recreate most of my fav bands sounds, i.e. metalluca, gn'r ect. i really like the pedal pitch effect, you can make it sound like a real whammy pedal.

I would depend on it, the fact that it is plastic doesnt mean anything except for fact dont take to it with a hammer. there are some special functions which are great for live performance i.e. different toggle options and the ZNR.

I was actually going to get the digitech RP200 but came out with this. It has a lot more functions than the digitech one and was a lot cheaper. I am in a band that plays a lot of metallica and guns n roses and it does the job ok. It is especially fun for just fooling around with. It would be a great tool for recording with as it is very quite and very versatile.

Ok I'll Keep This Review Simple. Its very Easy to Use.

The Sounds Are COOL. This Is NOT a replacement for a $500. Tube Amp nor will it take the place Of pedals Costing hundreds of dollars. SOUNDS AWSOME FOR 140.

140. Worth of Fun Highly Recomended For 140. People Try to compare it to tube amps and tube screamers and marshall stacks. These people have absolutly no "Common Sense" people are out of their minds. Plug it in get some headphones take it over a friends house, take it to school,whatever but stop compareing it to thousands of dollars worth of equipment that shows no logic. Buy It Have Fun. Its the best for the price.

this is an update to my former reveiw. Iv played with just about everything and found that the more you play with it, the better it sounds..... try some of the clean effects on the drive section.... mach and the fender clean can sound incredible....... made my amp sound better than ever before...... Im looking at buying a better amp............ it'll be interesting to see how it sounds with other amps, but as for now, im sticking with thinking this thing is well worth the money.

Very easy to use. Intuitive UI.

The built-in drum machine is crap. No bass in the drum patterns whatsoever. As far as guitar effects go, hits and misses. Certain effects are decent, certain are sub-standard.

You wouldn't want to take this thing to a gig. It's made of plastic, and I feel like walking on ice everytime I step on the expression pedal. The jack thing is true! The input on my is totally not working, I have to wiggle the jack for like five minutes just to get some sound out of it. The output gets cutoff on one channel often, and sometimes quits working all together.

My input/output jacks are totally screwed up. Couldn't find any services in my area (San Diego, CA) whatsoever. No authorized repair centers, no one to call... If you have a zoom that is broken, you're left on your own.

Has some attractive features. But poorly designed and poorly manufactured. I guess you get what you paid for. Very disappointing.

Very esay to use! edit patches is very simple!
Manual is good, very esay!
but you must to work to have exactly the sound you want.
Excuse me, my english is poor, I'm french!

I have "whale" guitar with a amp fender (15w), this zoom sounds good!
But i think you must edit patches to hace the sound you want because, the patches in memory are not excellent, they are quiete good.But if you spend time to edit patches, you can have all sound you want (metallica,offspring, nirvana,rock'n'roll, blues,.........)
But for professional, i think it"s not enough good, for a newbie it's excellent!
Drum machine is cool! very good sound! but to my mind you can't use it for live..........or recording.......
its very cool for personnal training alone in your room.....

AH! its plastic but good plastic...........
So not problem with it........

I have not dealt with them.......so i dont know..

I play rock ,metal, blues, rock'n'roll,and i can say it's a very good pedal, the patches "mt zone" sounds like the real MT ZONE by boss! fantastic!
i play for 2 years agoand i think for newbie, its really good!
But for a pro, its not enough good.......if you play for 15 years, its not for you.......
but compare to digitehc rp 200, its less expensive and too good.
707 2 is really better than 505,606 etc.....
dont forget to buy the adaptor 9v dc..........

This is pretty easy to operate especially if you have some synth programing experience

I use an older Ensoniq MR61 with crunch guitar sounds and it's very interesting.Some patches are just too dirty sounding.Going thru a PA your keyboard can scare you it sounds so guitar-like

I had it warp out once but I did the old shut & restart and it was fine.However I have hit the prog change while using the wha pedal-kind of close for my big feet

Use it on a digital keyboard-amazing results with some patches.I play funk & jazz This is great for keyboard players who were always a little jealous of the guy with the guitar

Easy as heck... i owned a Zoom 505 before this and thats what made me want to buy this... I have been playing 10 years and I'm pretty much the most sought after guitarist in my area. I know what good tone is like this other fellow on here who said he played 15 years claimed he did... I also like blues and classic rock. I find this to be one of the most useful pedals ever..... Sure came in handy when our drummer got kicked out...A bit of a pain in the arse to program... but for me thats half the skill of being a musician. How are you supposed to learn anything if you have everything ready made for you?

Not fantstic.. I own a Vox tube amp. I like the Vox's distortion better for blues and classic rock. And rhythm like.. But this has great chrous and the extra boost i need for zeppelin type stuff. It's definately better then these buttholes on here say it is. I use a Vox wah as well.. its better in every way then this wah... So overall i give it a 7.. only brought down from 9 cause of the poopy wah.

I got it when it came out, and I use it pretty much every day... No problems. This jack thing u guys are talking about... this is the first time "I" ever heard about it... Certainly doesnt give me any lip.

No idea. If somthing breaks, im sure i could fix it myself.

Awesome. I got it for the drum machine... so for that much alone id just give it a 7.. Get stuff in a small package. Oh big deal its plastic.. it wont break as long as you dont jump on it like a moron.

second easiest and user friendly MFX processor than 505 II

I spend lots of my time to program this crap as soon as i received it.. but it doesn't worth the effort i did. this Damn b*tch don't know how to thank you

i baby my gear alot, i stomp on it barefoot. so it will last quite a while

Dunno, it's made in Japanese. i heard they quite pros enuff

I Play A gibson SG 61 reissue thru Marshall JCM 2000 tsl head with 1960B 4x12 Cabs. i play mainly Rock n roll, Blues, classic rock and alternative. Eventhough trough good tube amp this MFX sounds like crap. my Crybaby - TS9 - DS1 - GE7 - CE5 - DD3 sounds 100x better than this Harsh-digital sounding crap.


MY ADVICE ; TRY BEFORE U BUY, DON'T GET TRAPPED. THERE ARE SOOOOO MNANY BETTER MFX OUT THERE. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND BUY BETTER MFX LIKE GFX-8 OR BUNCH OF BOSS STOMPBOXES.

this is a follow-up!
just bought a smart media card to go along with my ZOOM 707II.
come to think of it: a multi-effects pedal and a loop station all-in-one, at this price!
you guys just don't know how to appreciate.

with almost about 30 types of drive and you could even control the tone, you say it's toneless!!!!! come on spare some time...

you don't have to stomp it too hard to look cool up there!
you know what it's made of so you know what you should do...

haven't tried yet. i hope they come up with a program that you can use for your computer and record it on your smart media card.

with the smart media card and a little time and effort. you will definitely like it!

This stuff is not a set of Thermodynamics Exam, programmin is damn easy of all MFX i heve used.

well.. i use a bc rich guitar through Washburnbad dog amps..

the sound....sad, pretty sad for drive section the sound are all almost the same, but don't get me wrong, the chorus and delay is killer. also the drum machine. For drive i use Boss OD-20 Drive Zone and this made this baby get 10 with OD-20, but since i review for the 707 II it self it got 5

no it's a plastic... for bed room only. one thing for sure i'll gig with my OD-20 and GFX-8

as i said, i use it mainly in bedroom combine with OD-20. this baby quite satisfied me in deliver chorus and delay i want, and do freaky drum stuff. but since i often do gig. i will rely on my GFX-8 and my OD-20

As with all multi-effects, you have to work to get the sound u want, but u can get it, so i give it a 7

Come on! you guys are nuts........ After reading the reveiws below this one i am lead to believe that this is the most worthless peice of crap to ever excist in this temporal universe, but thats a bunch of crap! Compared to other products within the price range, this thing whoops the pants off the competition! Look at the digitec rp 200 and 300.... everyone has said the drive channel stinks on the zoom 707 II, but the digitec products dont even have a drive channel..... they have amp simulation with overdrive...... Its pathetic! It sounds like crap! With all the distortion options and the boost and the eq and everything else you can make any sound u want...... unless your looking for the 300 dollar tube pedal into an all tube amp sounds.... comparing it to boss pedals is like comparing..... uhh..... junk to good stuff........ you can get boss distortions out of this pedal..... metal zone especially........ If the distortion is "weak" as some have said, then turn on the boost and make it unweak, its not hard to figure out........ and then if it gets noisy with the boost, turn on the ZNR and its not very noisy anymore...... anyways, you can get good rock, metal, hard rock, punk, or any other distortion like that that u want...... i dunno about the jazz or blues distortions though, i dont play either, so im not sure

Modulation is good, i have no problem with it...... the ring modulator is useless, but still, the rest are pretty good....... i like the chorus...........

drum thingy is cool, but i find it hard to believe anyone would actually be able to use it live w/ the whole drum pattern attached to the patch thing...... it just doesnt seem like it would work well........

acoustic setting is pretty nice, though you really have to work to get it to sound nice...... dink with it for a while, i promise it will eventially work........

Basically, for the price, its a lot more than i expected and alot more than other brands have to offer........

it is plastic....... so, ya know... i havent had any trouble with it, but i havent had it very long

never dealt with em......

I think its great, dispite the other reveiws........ if your looking for the tube warmth, don't buy this and expect to be able to get that sound out of it, but for people that arnt made of money and have no source of income dispite watering the lawn for their parents once in a while.... this pedal looks pretty good....... I mean, if 2 of the effects are good enough to keep then its good enough for the price.... think about it..... you could buy a boss chorus and a boss MT2 and pay 160, or u could get this and pay 150 and get a bunch of other crud to play around with too..... anyways, i like it and it sounds great, so i give it a 9

this is my update at 04/12/2002

since i happy owned it after few weeks, i bought a Rocktron Prophesy and a Mesa Boogie tri axis along with Cry baby 535Q wah.... since that day...

i found what real definition of Tone is which i cannot find in 707II .. i realized how fool i am to buy this piece of crap. it only match only with a rocktek distortion (Sorry Zoom; you guys truly have lack of knowledge of what musician needs).

Adapter cord in has broken and loose ... so what would you expect ?

i emailed them but they ignored me ... :(

sorry zoom you've dissapointed me

Pretty good.. for the simple reason they had the kindess to put rotary knobs on for editing the patch data. This makes all the difference.. expecially when u wanna key in a quick patch name. You can pay a lot more monry for a lot more features which prolly sound better too.. but for me its all about playing, so I quickly loose interest if I cant actually find hwat I want to change.. or it's just too much hassle.

I'be had many pedals and amps.. I play a Fender tele and a Gibbo LP standard (when I can be bothered to carry the weight of it) so I know I'm putting in a good range of signel from mellow tones and harsh bite of the tele to the fat, ritch resonating.. sustain u get with the paf's and a glued neck..

I've only got two things to say.. you get what you pay for here (and at this price.. it aint a lot being asked).. so on that score alone.. it does the job. I doubt I'd ever use it for performing.. cos I'd rather hire a decent front end / pre-amp and go straight into a PA.. but for being creative.. and jamming out ideas.. i find the sound quality and prodution less important. As long as it's good enuff to hold the jist of the idea together.. then I favour small, cheesy and simple.. cos u dont forget that great passage by the time u've screwed around with all the kit.

A point about these things.. which you may have noticed.. there is no point in plugging them into your clasic.. seasoned.. or very expensive tube tube/hybrid preamps.. or combos. I plug mine into a laptop.. or a Hi-Fi amp like a bog standard dennon etc.. These cheap digital boxes will allways sound better that way because all the filtering has been done for you.. if you go into high amp stages that have their own authentic characterisation.. they will round off harmonics that may actually be necessary as parts of other fundamentals that keep the OP of the zoom as digitally fat as these things can be. Hi-Fi.. is what you want. Besides.. why would put something of lower spec in front of something better.

I dunno.. havn't had it long enough. I hear what u all say about jacks with this stuff.. I've disregarded a few perfectly good boxes due to bad jack connections and the stress they cause. I am so paranoid about this with cheap stuff that used soldred onto the board connectors.. with pass the shock and stress on connecting and disconnecting that I'm tempted to get a couple of 1 inch extentions and leave em in.. and wear the other ends out instead.

No experience of this yet.. and I hope I never have to either.

With everything taken into account.. mainly cost.. and what the unit is actually claiming to be.. I think it's a damn fine piece of kit. For plastic.. it's not bad.. but it's plastic all the same. It's a far cry from my Peavy MAX 100 which btw died on me, hence me gettin this zoom as an interim thing. I doubt youd wanna stand on this thing with much more than a sock.. in your shag-pile studio.. but all I wanted it for was a portable and small composing aid.. and boy is it that. I didnt even know about the drum machine, sampler and smart card expandability when I got it.. but I love the built in drum machine.. it's basic and sounds a bit naff.. but it's got the basic outline of any groove u want.. which is cool.. cos that's what u want if ur jamming.. Even if you consider it to be just a fancy metronome.

I'm gonna give it a high score.. not because it's the best sounding.. most robust.. easiest to use etc.. but because it's got a good usability in each of these camps.. but it's all tied into one small and lightweight box that does away with a whole stack of other boxes.. and for home use.. that's just EXACTLY what I want.

However, if it dies on me in the near future I reserve the right knock these marks back on their ass, pending the quality of customer service :)