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This is an AMAZING little pedal with one BIG problem. The good: it comes with 50 presets, which are not just individual sounds but patches, each made up of several effects. Most of these are surprisingly great. MJ Synth is a killer Herbie Hancock/Chameleon type sound, perfect tracking and poly too. The funk and fretless sounds are some of the best I've heard. Most of these patches are quick usable. Everything is tweakable, and you even have 64 built-in drum patterns and a looper. Metal sounds are basic but there is one really GREAT one. And of course if you just want simple flanger or whatever you can add those to the 50 blank presets; I think there are like 255 individual effects built in (most of which are the same as the B3 or B3n.) All good stuff. The bad: this unit has the same fatal flaw as the B3n, which is to say: even though they say they have a "stompbox mode," they lie. There is no bypass. In other words, there is no way to turn the pedal on and off in a live band scenario. There should be a big hokin' bypass button right in the middle. But there is not, which limits being able to use this pedal in a band situation. The only workaround is to program an empty or neutral preset, and quick-step through all your patches to return to it when you want to turn the pedal "off." Considering you can reorder the patches, you can then make this patch #1, but if your funk P-Bass patch is in slot 17, that means you have to press the pedal a LOT of times to return it to "off." Not practical for live performance at all. A rather spectacular fail by the engineers at Zoom. That said, it sounds REALLY GOOD, and I'm inclined to deal with the hassle regardless, even though I already own a Zoom B1. It is SILENT so perfect to record with. For under $100 you can't go wrong really. Hopefully they'll redesign this pedal down the line. It'd be worth paying an extra 50 bucks to be able to switch presets silently and turn the pedal on and off.Read full review
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not as strong as I would like it but has great sounds and the volume pedal works great.
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Don't buy this
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