Zoom 8080 Super Player

Love this unit! The presets were good starting points and gave a good range of basic sounds that you could then edit and store in the user patches easily. I play in a covers band and we play everything from Green Day to the Beatles and the 8080 has been a great workhorse for me for a few years now. Did not find the manual so easy to use but after a bit of playing about I found out how to edit and move stuff around quickly, plus the 2 footpedals are a great idea, especially for me as a left footer! So many newer units only have a pedal on the right hand side but the 8080 lets you have what you want, where you want it.

I use this mainly with my Les Paul Slash and a Marshall and it always sounds great, so much so that I prefer the 8080 distortions to the Marshall's, which I tend to keep on the clean channel. Can't say that I've noticed any weak points in the sound. I just bought a POD XT Live but I never use it as the 8080 has better sounds and features and I can't be bothered to reprogram all of my sounds into the POD. The only effect I don't use much is the wah as I prefer my cry-baby, but otherwise it's unbeatable and so simple to get great patches.

The unit is great but I keep imagining how fantastic it would have been in a metal case. I had a drunk stamp on my output socket at my last gig and he's done some damage so I am seriously thinking about trying to buy another one as a backup as I would be lost without mine. The only other reliability issue I had was that the power supply kept overheating and packed up and I had real trouble finding a replacement until I found a power supply from an old HP 710C printer which works a treat as is miles better than the original!

Never used them.

This is the best multi-FX I ever had. It is simple to use, packed with great features and sounds and has more than enough flexibility for just about any player. If Zoom made these again today with the same guts and a metal case, I'd buy one tomorrow! In fact, I'll be looking on e-bay for a backup now.

I use this unit primarily for gigging, so the most important thing for me is to get to the right sound quickly. For that I would probably give it a 10.
For actually finding the right sounds in first place, that takes a lot more work, and the manuals are very technical - they don't really tell you what some of the settings really do for you.

Lots of trial and error got me to my current setup, which I am very happy with and never change any more!

More trial and error, and I finally got to a setup I am really happy with.

I don't use the internal distortion or gain, instead I use the Zoom in the effects loop of my amp (Fender deluxe 112) - the manual never suggested that, I just guessed it might work and hey presto.

Delays are great, and with high compression and the right settings can give you infinite sustain.

Some effects can really exaggerate string "clatter" at high volumes.

I've gigged with this regularly for 10 years without a glitch or a hitch.

Never used a backup - but at a pinch I could get by at a gig without it.

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My pland plays really diverse stuff from Depeche Mode through to Van Halen, via U2, so versatility is key and the Zoom delivers that, no question, with the ability to switch really quickly between radically different sounds.

I've been playing live for 20 years, and mostly use a Fender Strat Plus Deluxe live.

I am in fact moving to a Lin6 PodXT Pro, but I am letting the other guitarist in the band have my Zoom and Amp, cos it sounds wicked with his SG - even better than with my Fender.

I thought about the Boss GT5, but chose the zoom based on the #120 price difference.

My favourite feature is the ability to control and store the amp channel settings. This gives complete control. Putting the zoom into the fx loop also means I can control volume without affecting the gain sound.

I wish it had PC based editing and a sound library (the presets were no good with my amp).

Considering this has served me well for 10 years, AND I am getting some money for it by selling it on, it has cost me about #25 per year to own - fantastic value

Not so difficult. The factory presets are a good start to create your own sound. Just read the manual, and it's ok

Delay mods are beautiful! Great chorus and honest reverb. I used this for years in a crap 100w amp and sounded great. Overdrives and distortions are good, but nothing amazing... INCREDIBLE Eq flexbility! The best I've seen... Even better than Lexicon. Harmonizer is one of the best things here, for a pedalboard. What a great sound! I hated the wha's, it's too artificial. Resuming, clean sounds = 10, dirty sounds = 7

WEAK! SO POOR.... honestly. If you play more than 2 times in a week on a gig, you're in trouble. It's just plastic!!!! The input and output jacks are terrible!!! You can't keep this working without a HARD case.

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Extreme versatility. Honest dirty sounds and beautiful clean sounds. My unit was stolen 2 years ago, in a car jack (DIE BASTARDS!)... The Ext. Dist. in the Dist. module is incredible... I hate so much the fact of this unity is so fragile. The edit mode, based on pages, is intelligent and almost intuitive to use. Delay modes, up to 4 seconds it's great too. In general aspects, it's a good deal for any guitar player of any style.

If you have used Zoom products before you will not have a problem with this. I used it for a month before i had to look at the manual. You can figure everything out just by reading your buttons. The only thing i had to use the manual for is to use the amp "sim". If you haven't worked with processors I suggest you start with Zoom's 505 or something easy. It can be difficult if your not familar with zoom train of thought.

I will have to divide it up.
The distortions are ok, nothing brutal or really great. But Zoom make up for it becuase they have the external distortion effects loop. It allows you to use your fav. stopbox as your preamp and allows you to leave it on and store it with a patch. (this is the reason i bought it in the first place)
As always the clean is great with the the effects. The effects are killer and the control you have over them is the best. It has 2 foot controlers which i find kick ass becuase i always got tired of only having my foot pedal only control one volume,wha, effects. Now you can have one set as volume so you can do swells, and have the other one for wah! It also let's you control the amount of effects with 2 other pedals so you don't have to use the footpedal like other models.
If that ain't enough it also will let you switch channel's on you amp at the same time. The only complaint i have is the wah isn't as good as the rest of the unit.

It scares me a little because its plastic. I bought it used and have beat'n it pretty good. I don't know what it went through before i got it, but i know i have ran it hard and it still works

They are the worst. There web site suck's too

Don't waste your money on "New gear" The technolgy might be better but the more tech that's in the product the less amount of features are in it. I think all multi effects pedals should have starndard things like the external distortion. If you don't like the preamp in the pedal then your stuck! I think the zoom 8080 is better than my zoom gfx-8. The distortions are better in the gfx-8 and construction, but the 8080 has more features that I will use.

Confusing abbreviations on the menu screens at first, but once you're past that it's very, very well designed for easy editing and the manual provides a nice guide through the features. You're up and editing pretty quickly.

I have a strat, and use a variety of different amps, including some higer-end valve ones.

It always goes without saying that the individual effects in a multi-fx unit are never likely to be good as the #50+ stand-alone equivalent. The whole point with this kind of unit is the variety of sounds you can get to quickly without having to tapdance on fifteen pedals.

The reverbs, delays and modulations are very, very good by anybody's standards. The distortions less so - I don't think they're as bad as some people make out, but they're not great and distinctly over-compressed (bit of a zoom trait). Compression pretty good. The wah isn't great, but again it's a good, usable effect and that's the point.

If you want the perfect tone, you won't get it, because the perfect tone is probably lying somewhere inside a beast of a high-performance tube amp and a series of standalone effects. But you get a whole bunch of quality gigging tones in a box here, and the unit has one or two things going for it over some of the competition. . . .

1) Seamless patch changing. Godsend if you ever need to switch from any sound with delay to one without.

2) The external distortion send & receive. As long as you get your levels right you can keep your favourite distortion pedal (or even amp, though I haven't tried the set-up suggested previously yet) sound intact and just add all of the top-class effects around it. The only complaint I have there is that it still seems to compress the sound too much.

NB: Ignore the presets. Ignore them. Always ignore the presets on a multi-fx. 'Programmed by top-class pros!!!!!' Really? Pro what? Pro Deaf Bastards? Yes, I can just see Joe Santriani getting together with Eric Clapton, BB King and the guys and saying, 'We've done OK out of the guitar, but I now know what we REALLY need . . . let's make ourselves sound like R2D2 after a night out on the piss!' You can get some good sounds, but the presets are really, really not them.

I'd say it's pretty sturdy. Haven't broken it yet, anyway. The power supply looks weedy, but that seems to go for every unit out there.

zoom customer support definitely take the company motto to heart.

"catch us if you can"

I got it for #110. For what it cost new at the time . . . no. Couldn't rate it higher than 6 or 7, not with those distortions. But if you can get one second hand now, it's great value as a standalone unit for small/medium gigs and practice. A bit dated now, but worth picking up.

It's very easy to use this effect board. Menu's are useful so you can easyly edit patches and use them.Swtiching between patches is very easy.

I am using Ibanez Rg370 with Active EMG pickups and I have a 30watt Marshall amp . Sounds are amazing. This product doesnt even look like boss gt-6 or digitech gnx series. The sound is better than digitech and boss. Amp sims are nearly the same as real amps. It has many distortion types from Heavy Metal to Blues.Distortions are really good. tones are smooth. Wah is OK ;not good as CryBabys.

Its made of plastic but it still works=)

If you want an Effect Board with good amp sims and really good distortions Zoom 8080 is what you want. Price/Performance is very good. If its broken or stolen I'd buy it again.

This multieffect is very easy to use but.. the bastards at the store wouldnt give me any manual i think but you get hooked pretty soon

the sound is good but far from very good. it sounds very eigthies and that sucks cuz i play shit like korn and deftones and this sounds is very gigital like. but.. sounds good if you have a good preamp

NOT GOOD AT ALL. the case is plastic so, figure it out for your self... i take good care of my zoom 8080 but if i let drop an amp, the zoom 8080 will be over.

never had to deal with those guys

It its a good effect processor but yet not that good for live shows and recording, but this zoom lets you discover new shit about your playing TRUST ME. there are more good pedals out there but this zoom works fair enough for metal.

It's definitely very easy to use it. Once you are through the manuals it becomes a "A-B-C"

I use a custom Ernie ball guitar but my amp is a fender 20 watt amp but the sound i got was better than most other processors in that price range (32,000 INR)
It's not at all noisy the effects great amp the three amp models are real good to deliver vintage 70's and modern 90's. I could exactly make a patch which sounds like Jon Petrucci's "Erotomania"

Its a dependable processor even in open air or closed auditoriums te only bad thing is control pedal 2 there's a high chance of the patch no 5 to get pressed while using it

Oh that's what i like! I never had a prob so i didn't have to call them.

Bad thing that it went out of production, I had otherwise asked all my students and friends to get it . The Boss GT6 and Korg AX 1500g are hopeless these days

I found it very easy to use after i sat down with it for about 15 minutes or so. Its not reallt all that complicated, just pay attention to what your doing.

I have a not so great guitar are a mediocre amp. With all of this on the bad side, the 8080 really gave it a great professional sound.

I would say it's pretty dependable. The only problem i've had with it was the power supply jack inside the unit cracked and i had to resodder it, which wasn't very hard at all. Also the power supply says it should be running 9v, but when i checked it, it was running 13.6v. That can't be too good on the unit.

I've never had to call them.

I have been in a lot of different types of bands and it seems to just fall right into place with whatever i'm trying to do. I also experimented with it once and it also makes a great vocal processor.

Easy to use straight out of the box but it will benefit greatly from a bit of manual-reading. Patches very tweakable and the layout can be personalised nicely to suit.

I use it straight into the mixing desk on stage and find the amp-sims handy for this reason, noise is minimal. I've been happy with all the effects except the Wah-Wah, which is, of course, digital sounding. A big plus is the ability to set the patches so they run on a bit after changing to a new one, so your sound doesn't get chopped off.

I've gigged this extensively without a back up, the only time I had a bummer was when one of the expression pedals jumped a thread so I couldn't zero it. I fixed it easy but it was tricky at the time. The power supply was crap though, replace it before you need to.

N/A I never needed to contact them.

I've played this on stage for years and never regretted my choice. One thing I really like is the User-defined switch which can be set to put you in manual mode. This turns your set up into something more like a board of stomp boxes, handy for hitting distortion or delays in and out, for example.

the zoom 8080 is very easy to use i never had to look at the manual, well I got it second hand so I didnt have a manual! Its is easy to edit patches but only cool effects on some patches which sucks.

I think it was really good quality personally some of the distortion effects are really good especially if u like a bit of the old metal! There are some realy nice clean sounds onthere aswell and if u dont like them u can change them (to an extent. I run the zoom through my crate 120 GFX on clean and it sounds good. some effects are a bit tame but on the whole its good.

The reliability of this pedal is pretty crap really thats the main fault. As i bought it second hand it wasnt in great condition but after about 3 months i had taken it back to the shop at least twice to get it fixed its been fine for a while now though. I have never tried gigging with it I wouldnt because it sometimes freezes.

Never contacted zoom, but shop that fixed it were nice enough!!!!!

Its a good pedal for me because of the metal distortion patches there is a really good mrshall wah on there but its really tame on the high 'E' . Ive been playing about a year and a half and hopefully going to buy a BOSS GT6 soon as i have been saving up but i will be using the zoom to piss about on. Im annoyed because the zoom had a very good phaser on it but had to be taken off when being fixed for some reason. It (like every other effects pedal) makes u play more guitar because uve got lots of different things to experiment with. Good for your first foot pedalbut needs to be upgraded.

Perfect

I use this effect module just for additional effects on my JCM 2000 distortion. I like it that way. Just works perfect 4 me

This is my big problem
The zoom 8080 is the perfect module for musicians wich don't have to play to often. Otherwise, It's crap.
Broke like 4 of 5 times now. It's all plastic and lowbudget material....

If you bother yourself to read a bit of the manual ,it is surprisingly easy to get into! Like most things , once you know how ..all is revealed ! I have used it on recordings and at gigs and both scenarios get a 10/10. I found some very inspiring sounds on the presets , though I tend to enjoy messing about with particular tonal/effect adjustments to suit my needs . If you are looking for an all-encompassing unit to satisfy all your whims ,then this is most probably the effects unit for you! I commend the dual pedals for their versatility(allowing you to for eg. use one as a volume pedal and the other as a wahwah etc.) Perfect for live gigs in that the seamless patch crossover function allows you to bleed sounds into each other(ie. you don't get that abrupt "cut" sound between two different sounds so typical of separate pedals!) All in all a classic effects unit to stand the test of time ...And I am sure it will !!!!!

I use it with a Marshall tsl122 and although the amp is more than adequate on it's own (!), I find that I can tweek new dimensions through the 8080! I play a Fender Telecaster (custom)/ Fender strat (standard) and a Danelectro( u2) and all sound fantastic with this combination. Enjoy !

Yeh why not ...I have gigged with it and never needed backup!

I haven't had to deal with the company ! As far as I am concerned, if you look after your gear, there should be no reason to contact a company that makes dependable products!

All styles , from rock to reggae to classical.I have been playing for 20 years. If it were stolen I would buy it again! I compared it extensively with other products and found the others "cheap" in comparison. Korg etc.. It helps you make music in that there are that many different sounds you wouldn't dream of..........".when you actually hear them "..........you feel inspired ( not all of them of course !) The ones that count make it worth while!! A1 product.

Editing Patches is simple once you have read the Instruction Manual. I have created some effects that I never thought possible. You won't get them on any other Guitar Effects Processor.

I use a Marshall Valvestate AVT2000 100W amp with an Ibanez GRX720 (7 string) and an Ibanez RG270. Both guitars sound great using this pedal and I have no problems with hissing or anything like that. I can get many different sounding Distortion effects and some great clean sounds too.

I think the 8080 is very dependable. The original mains adaptor packed in on mine so now I use a different one. Now and again the pedal turns itself off when i change effects but I belive that is nothing to do with the pedal but the mains supply. I shall get another one and see if I still have the same problem. I would use it in a gig without backup no problem.

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I think that this product is easy to use, once you have got the hang of it. It is important, however to make sure, if you are buying one second hand, tht it ha the instruction manual. Good sounds are easy to get and use, but I find that they are often very simalar.

I am using a cheap 25 watt amp with my pedals, and I am actually using them on a violin, not a guitar. A friend had done this before, so I knew it would work, and I find them grate for making strange sounds. Some effects aren't so good, however I havn't used them a huge amount yet, as I have only recently bought it. I think it is grate to be able to get such a huge amount of differnt sounds, even if I have to edit them extensively.

So far it is extremely reliable, and I would definately depend on it for a gig without backup.

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i play a cross between the Cause, and normal irish folk music, and I find this is a good macth, 'though I would like to see some very different patches. I have only had it a month. I have been playing the violin since I was 6 (9 years), but I don't own much other gear. I am also a bit of a hifi enthousiast. If it were stolen or lost, I would probably buy a simalar one, if it is at the right price. i have found that it gives me a headache, so I wouldn't like to use it for hours on end. And yes, i really did get it for only #126, from ebay.

It's pretty easy to use, though editing effects is not that straight forward

It's cool, though there seems to be loads of noise with the distortion patch i use

mmm, i had my 8080 for a while now (bout 5 years), though now i'm having some problems. The power lead is now tempermental, and the left/mono output is now very loose an un-usuable :( I need to get it fixed.. But it did fall out my car at 30mph and it hjad no damage done to it

Never used them

I don't know if i'd get another one, maybee look at other products about

After sitting down and mucking around with it for a while, I realised just how easy it was to use.

After only having it for a week and a half, I'm not going to upgrade my guitar anymor due to the fact that there is no need with the amount of affects on there. The sound quality is second to none. I've had a lot of professionals tell me that the hissing in the background of the effects is terrible but i honestly can't hear it at all.

I've only had it for a week and a half but from I've seen so far, it's a very reliable effects pedal and I'm not getting rid of it in a hurry.

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I overall rate the ZOOM 8080 as a great pedal that was a great release and has a lot of things happening with it. Well done the people at ZOOM, you should be proud of such a production.

It is hard to understand the complex parameters first but when you got the system in your mind it is pretty simple to use.There are so many fx and param. to control that it becomes an disadvantage instead of advantage :) joking!It has a varius fx types that you can get any tone from any guitar.Great for live performance.9 banks and 5 presets for each.two controlers for wah or volume or fx.a guitar and 8080 is enough for any gig.

Absolutely perfect.Any fx you want.I'm using it with a floyd-rose strat with dimarzios and no amp (use it in my stereo) !!! did you get it! NO AMP cause it has brilliant amp modeler inside.I can chose from a combo or stact, modern or vintage.The sonud is warm and singing.I would buy it again.

I can use it anywhere without any backup.The amp modeler really works well and the fx are pro-sounding.Maybe it shouldn't be plastic for more strength for travel(If you want to say sth. bad for it - it is plactic - should be metal cased)

Never needed any repair.

I play varius types of music.From jazz sounds to hard rock.I use Fender floyd rose strat with dimarzios.If it is stolen I would find the thief and kick his ass hard and get my prossesor back :) What I love about it is its flexibity.It is hard to carry but can't be less heavy, it has lots of controllers on it.It makes meking music easier for me.I don't have to worry about tone or etc., plug and play :) Easy

If you want a whole lotta effects, buy this thing! There are so many (mostly cool) effects, you could spend week testing them out.
Editing is quite simple, even though i don't do it too often. Always found an effect that pleased me in the preconfigured Patches.
The Manual is O.K., but a little confusing sometimes 'cause of the four different languages on every page.

I play it along with my Samick Les Paul Copy and my Trace Elliot Super Tramp half-stack. The Sound of the Distortions hits ya like a wall!
But on some other effects, like "acoustic guitar" there ist too much niose in the background. If you play Metal or Hard Rock, you'll probably find enough Patches to sound like your idols. If you are more into Blues... why do you need an effect board ? The Wah is O.K.

I woul'd use it on a Gig whithout backup. But well, i haven't played any gigs till now, so maybe i'm wrong here.
Bought it used on ebay and one of the Pedals got broken during the transport. Well, it was quite new, so i got it fixed by the shop, wehre the other guy bought it.

Never had to deal with ZOOM themself. Until now.
Didn't hear anything good about those guys...

I play Pop-Rock to Funk and it's a nice addition to my setup. I could get along with much less effects, but why not have more than u need ?
I think i would by some stand alone effects if it would be stolen.
It definetly helps you to find new styles. The Patches are somehow inspiring. (There are so many indicating a style you never thought of!)

Just to update on my review earlier, I have emailed Zoom about my adaptor because it broke very quickly - the lead came out of the power pack, and I took good care of it. But Zoom never got back to me.

The pedals great, the support isn't.

It's easy to use (didn't use the manual)

distortion: Boss : Heavy metal,hyper metal super distortion ???????
Bye!! bye!!(need to say more)in the rate of 0 to 30 the distortion is set on 5!!(ultra metal mode).
Warm Chorus real ,sounding delay's (only a little short sustain).
I use it in combination with a marshall 9000 pre-amp and a 8008(?)
end amp (both 19")and 2 marshall 1912 cabinets (1*12",150 watts).
The sound is full,rich almost synth like,it puts up a wall of guitar
And in metal(that what is try to play)it sounds great
I play for over 17 years now and finnaly found my sound.

It still works never had a problem with it>

I've got the manual from internet (very easy)though i've never read it thouroughly

I play a combination of power metal,speed/thrash and groovy stuff like korn
I play 17 years,i have(you really want to know this)ok then
7 electric guitars,3 acoustic 1 bass(5-string) 2 guitar amps (peavey,marshall) and a complete( 24 digital tracks / 8 analog tracks)
recording studio With a lot of mic's and processors (no zoom though). I have also a 505.When it is stolen i buy a new one.I love the distortion of the 8080.

Hey, I started playing with it without even looking at the manual, and I got almost everything. It's all pretty much self explainatory.

The sound quality is great, but the only problem is the "hum" that comes along with most ZOOM products. Depending on how much distortion or highs you edit, it makes a bad fuzzy sound.The only way to have all the perfect sounds is to buy the specific pedals, or amps. But considering that would cost thousands of US dollars, this is much better.

It's reliable till someone jumps on it, or drops an amp on it.

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Definetly it's NOT an easy to use device. Most of the presets suck (except for some curious patches that won't work with your band but will allow you to impress some people). The manual helps but it won't give you the sounds you expect unless you spend some months with it.

The good news: after tens of hours working with the device you can finally get what you want. Clean and distorted sounds are available if you find the right combination. Having two EQ's (they can work at the same time) is the most beautiful thing, since I've always looked for tremendous bottom ends. It has a lot of distortions, but I like just a couple of them that give what I need.

It's very reliable. The only thing that I don't like is the need of an external power supply. The Boss units are superior in that sense.

Never had to use it.

It's a great unit for every kind of music, even for the most demanding musicians. I'd buy it again.

this is so easy to get a good sound out of it because everything i=on it sounds good. editing patches is very easy, jus use 2 buttons to switch the effect, and 4 knobs to change the parts of the efect. mine didnt come with a manual, but i got it from the zoom homepage. its 71 pages, but is very helpful for learning how to do everything on it.

my setup is a fender mexican deluxe fat strat floyd rose >> brownsville thug amp, with this on the effects loop. most effects are silent, but with the ones that are a little noisy just find the right level of noise reduction, then its silent. all the effects are great, but i really love the fuzz distortions and wah. i have never seen anything before that sounds this good, even the gfx-8 sounds worse.

it is built solid. i got it used and it is in perfect shape. i would definatly gig with it without a backup just for the reason that nothing sounds this good. my only problem is that it came with the wrong ac adapter and my adapter gets too hot and stops working after 30mins.

never dealt with them

i love this pedal. i play metal, hard rock, and some acoustic stuff. it matches all of it. ive been playing for 3 years and ive had a zoom 505, and tryed out a digitech rp6, zoom 3030, dod-8, zoom 707, zoom gfx-8, korg ax1000g, and a couple other multi effect processors, this thing blows them all away. the only one that compares to it is the gfx-8, but it doesnt sound quite as good. if it were stolen i'd kill the person that stole it. i'd buy it again if i couldnt find him.

Manual is easiest to read I've ever seen... loved the illustrations! It's easier than my old 9002 to edit patches, and there's more variability in the ability to edit... you can make really fine changes. It's great!

I've used this to record 2 CD's now, over 30 tracks on ADAT through a Mackie digital board... absolutely great sounding! The ZNR noise reduction is wonderful, very effective at quieting distortion humms. Typically I used the 8080 patched directly into the PA system, bypassing any need for a cumbersome amp. Perfect portability! Sometimes I'll plug it into my Peavey 212Classic Chorus for kicks, but that thing weighs too much to lug around, so most of the time it's direct-in. I've had no trouble replicating any Van Halen sound you can name, plenty of early 80's modern rock... the variety you can come up with is unlimited.

I don't know how all these other people are having problems with the power cord coming out during gigs, mine came with a little cleat right above the plug that you're supposed to wrap the cord around before you plug it into the back of the 8080... if you DO THAT, it CAN'T COME UNPLUGGED. (geniuses). The only problem I've had is the potentiometer for the 2nd expression pedal gets dirty and you have to take it all apart to clean it, or else it stops working. Just like a temperamental old Crybaby wah. Other than that, this unit has served me nonstop for over a year now without a prob.

Customer support is clueless. They need to learn that the customer is someone who *might* repeat business with them *if* they're treated well. Having no respect for someone who dropped hundreds of dollars for their product is unprofessional. Fortunately I've never had a serious need for service, I've only called with general questions and been disappointed with the lack of product knowledge.

I play a wide range, from 80's pop to postmodern rock, big-hair glam metal, country, blues, gospel, rockabilly, fusion, classic goth, emo, and experimental noise. My main guitars are a Musicman EVH, Steinberger GL7T, 58 Les Paul, 57 Strat, Ovation 6 and 12 string Balladeers, and several Kramer customs. This machine makes each of them sound incredible, and the mute function makes it really easy to switch during a set without loud pops and clicks. Every guitarist I know compares his rig to this unit, and so far nothing else has come close as far as the sound quality, versatility, and just plain utility of the 8080. Everyone is always trying to find an amp it can't sound like, a distortion it can't match, and all it takes is a little editing and BAM! there's the sound matching it! I love it. The only thing I wish it had is a matched foamfilled hardcase for carrying it around! No one makes a case that fits it! DUH! You need to make a case for serious touring equipment like this!