Sounds are excellent. I have AB'd my Tubescreamer, MXR Dynacomp, MXR Phase 90, Boss Chorus with this thing and have created excellent simulations of each. This is a wonderful box.

Features are many and extensive. Assignable knobs for different effects, edit on the fly (to an extent), small footprint, website to download new sounds and program updates (if they get it updated) and many others. However, you wonder why they left out stuff like tap tempo and direct access from, say, patch 5 to patch 9 without having to hear 6,7 & 8 along the way.

Appears solid. I gig without a taking a backup, though I have backups.

Excellent "useful sound per buck" value.

Get the website fully functional.

Jazz, Blues, Classic Rock, folk

If you can't get good sound from this its your fault.

create your own what else do you need.

its worth every penny I paid for it

never dealt with them pedal is made well and works well

perfect 10

Rock

This is the first multi-effects pedal I've bought. I have a Fulltone Octiva, Fulltone Blues, Digitech Screamin Blues, Boss DS-1, Ibanez TS-9, and a few other single pedals. I feel the sound coming out of this unit is different but comparable in quality to any of these specialty pedals. We are new to learning guitar but this unit gives good distortion for playing Iron Man. It has a good clean channel for playing Stairway to Heaven. It has a few weird sound effects that are cool to play with but most sounds are very useful and sound very good without having to be an expert. This unit sounds great connected to Ibanez and/or Fender guitars including a semi-hollow body while connected to either a $100 Radio Shack guitar amp or an expensive 65 watt Marshall Chorus. It's very impressive how easy it is go get great sound out of this unit.

This unit has a lot of usable tones. I like that each setting on the unit has up to 3 fine tuning adjustment knobs that can be used to tweak the tone and amount of each effect. It comes with software and a USB cable but we haven't tried this yet. The unit works great alone so we haven't felt the need to install the PC software to see what it can do yet.

It's made of metal, it's solid, and it doesn't have to go on the floor. We set it on the table and push the buttons by hand. Everything feels solid and well made.

I own a Fulltone Octiva, a Fulltone Blues pedal, a Boss DS-1, a Boss 535Q, an Ibanez TS-9, and a Digitech Screamin Blues pedal. I fell this Yamaha effects box gives different sounds but the sound quality is comparible to any of the other pedals I own. It may not make the same sounds as the specialty pedals but and makes many different effects sound very good and it does it all for a lot less money!

Yamaha is a reputable company and we've never needed their support department.

It ain't flashy and won't impress you flashing lights or other things. It's easy to use and easy to read and it gives very good sound without having to be an expert. I believe it has enough capability to keep two of us interested in it for some time to come.

Hobbyist, beginning guitar.

Rock, blues, techno, pop, easy listening, heavy metal,

Noisy and levels are mismatched among patches. You get an incredible amount of noise for any high gain patches.

COmes with sofware to edit patches on computer and a huge, heavy wall wart.

Foot buttons are sketchy at best. Many complaints about buttons failing on box.

Get something else. THis is not worth your trouble. Big disappointment.

hobbyist

metal, rock, blues

its superb,endless edition,great delays and modulation!!!

i wish it had an expression pedal

the best features in a compact pedal