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!