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Zoom 505II Guitar Multi-Effects Pedal

36 patch locations. Large rotary selector. Easy-to-read red LED display. Foot switches.

Overall User Ratings

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          8 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          8 out of 10
Support:
          8 out of 10
 
 

"I like this pedal 505-II I would recomend it to my fellow guitarist. Zoom ROCKS!!!"

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from aol.com
Submitted: 10/21/2007
Style of Music: Rock-soul-Blues
Musical Experience: Played 15 years,,have my 3rd band now
Location: Gilbert Arizona USA

 

 
Quality:
Great quality product

Value:
This is well worth the price to me..

Desirability:
Love the color and the design

Sound:
I am happy with this Zoom 505 II . once I read the manual and learned to program the pedal I invented so many sounds that emulate many other Guitar effects pedals that I decided to keep this one in my kit as one of my main effects processors. Charles,,, Gilbert az.

Ease of Use:
Im loving it !!!

Support:
so far I havent had any issues ..

Overall:
I would only buy an updated model of zoom 505-II

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"I love this pedal Zoom 505-II and I highly recommend… Its awesome and its light weight and very compact.""

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          9 out of 10
Support:
          8 out of 10
User: a customer from aol.com
Submitted: 3/23/2008
Style of Music: Rock - Alternative - Gospel - Jazz
Musical Experience: Recording Engineer - Active Musician
Location: Miami, Florida

 

 
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Feature:
You get it all in a small sleek design, what more can you ask!

Quality:
Quality -- VERY Impressive mostly since its inexpensive.

Value:
This is well worth the price to me...

Desirability:
True Sex appeal - in a small package!

Sound:
I am pleased with this Zoom 505 II . Once I read the manual and learned to program the pedal I invented so many sounds that imitate many other Guitar effects pedals.

Ease of Use:
I needed to read the manuel, but its not hard to figure out.

Support:
Hard to find item.

Overall:
Damn GOOD!

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"Great product for the price."

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Support:
          9 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 8/22/2005
Style of Music: Rock, Country
Musical Experience: Guitarist for many years
Location: Texas

 

 
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Feature:
I really don't get into all the features of the electronic gear I buy. Life is too short. In general, this is a stomp box with a digital processor in it. . .it's very nice.

Quality:
This is a fantastic plastic stomp box that will cost you less than 100 bucks . . . if you weigh less than 300 pounds and you aren't on tour, this little box should last you for years.

Value:
For the money . . . it's a 10!

Desirability:
I bought this pedal because I needed a tuner . . . it just happened to have a tuner PLUS a load of sweet digital effects. It may be the best 100.00 bucks I ever spent on musical gear.

Sound:
All the effects are very good. Tremelo is very realistic. Reverbs and chorus excellent. Distortions . . . really they all sound good. Sometimes it breaks up a little, but I may be overdriving it.

Support:
I asked Zoom a question via email. They responded very promptly and courteously . . . they really didn't read my question so I got an off the wall answer, but the prompt, courteous part counts for a lot, I think!

Overall:
For the money, it's a great value. It is an effects pedal/tuner that does lots of neat stuff. It takes up no more space on my pedal board than my Rat distortion unit plus it cost me less to purchase. I rate it a 10.

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"This thing does it all- TONAL VARIETY - good quality for how much it packs!"

Overall:
          8 out of 10
Features:
          9 out of 10
Quality:
          9 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          8 out of 10
User: a customer from hotmail.com
Submitted: 1/24/2006
Style of Music: Alternative, Jazz, Classic Rock, Ambient
Musical Experience: Hobbyist
Location: Ventura, California

 

 
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Feature:
BUILT IN TUNER, which can be fine tuned +/- 50Hz!! Once you know how and when to use all of the features, they are all awesome and really useful. All four types of reverbs have their charms. The EQ and phase settings can give you some great tones, with phase you can get some nice backround or ambience style playing. All of the mod effects are great other than the RING MOD. The only thing it's good for is making your voice sound like a robot through the computer haha. The product is very sturdy as well, It's just as good as it was when i bought it 9 months ago

Quality:
This product is durable considering it's only made of plastic. The shell has held up well, and the pedals/buttons hold up just fine.

Value:
This is definitely worth the dough. It's sooooooo much better than just going through a basic amp, you cannot get bored with the variety of things you can do with this pedal.

Desirability:
What's better than a small, compact, Wonder-Pedal? 5 or 6 pedals? well that could be argued...

Sound:
There's a lot of things you can do with this unit. You can achieve a lot of awesome tones. The acoustic and fender settings are my favorite, because they're meant to sound clean. The distortions aren't as smooth or as warm as you'd want them to be, but they're better than a small non-tube amp like mine. The reverb effects add a great touch to picking and rythym guitar. As far as sound quality, it just depends on what settings you put into effect. The multitude of features aren't high quality features, but I can easily assume that it's better to use this unit than to use multiple pedals that end up to be pretty darn expensive. I suggest making or finding a stereo output cord to use with this unit. The output is stereo, so by using two amps you get a very very beautiful, fuller sound than you do with one amp alone. The reverb effects are different as well.

Overall:
I don't see myself throwing this aside any time soon. When I get better amps for lead guitar and a better guitar, I could still use this baby.

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"Compact, easy to travel with, adequate sound."

Overall:
          9 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          8 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          7 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from ctc.net
Submitted: 6/29/2005
Style of Music: Rock, Hard Alternative
Musical Experience: Musician
Location: Albemarle, NC USA

 

 
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Feature:
Has nice variety of effects. I wouldn't use it for gigging, but it is great for practice while traveling.

Quality:
Has held up well for me.

Value:
Great value. Adequate features and low price.

Desirability:
Perfect for traveling light.

Sound:
This pedal does not sound like my Marshall, nor did I expect it to. However, I trasvel frequently and find it gives me adequate effects, using a small amount of space, is easy to get through airports, and fits on my Harley.

Support:
Great website. Was able to download lost manual.

Overall:
Indefinitely. I have other pedals and tube amps for playing with the band.

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"Very nice pedal. Unbeatable for the price."

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          6 out of 10
I Want It:
          9 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
          8 out of 10
Submitted: 2/21/2006
Style of Music: Hard Rock
Musical Experience: Active Musician
Location: Saucier MS

 

 
Feature:
Has some nice extra features, like an external volume pedal/wah pedal jack that goes with the internal wah setting. There's a nice compresser/limiter function to really sharpen your sound, but the internal eq is a bit odd.

Quality:
Not the sturdiest thing ever made. Should have been amde of metal. Keep the unit clean otherwise it can start making an ungodly hummmmmmm.

Desirability:
If you can't afford an amp modeler, or if you are looking for a cheap way to spice up your current rig, this is the sure way to go.

Sound:
If you take the time to read the manual you can get some pretty nice sounds out of this thing. The distortion is bright and crisp, but be careful with the amount or you can easily over do it. Nu Metal players may find the distortion a bit bright for your tastes. I can get any style of sound I want out of my Crate stack with this pedal. From thick and fat distortion like Dimebag or EVH, to this really nice crunchy tonal seventies sound I discovered. Clean sounds are sweet and creamy. There's even an acoustic setting to make your axe sound like an acoustic. This pedal even made my son's little $100 First Act guitar sound like a top-of-the-line Jackson.

Ease of Use:
It takes a while to get used to, but once you do it's a breeze to use.

Overall:
I plan to use this pedal until there's only the shadow left of it. Far and away the best pedal for the price. Period.

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"THIS IS THE BEST OF THE BEST"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          7 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          7 out of 10
Sound:
          9 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from hotmail.com
Submitted: 12/30/2003
Style of Music: Alternative
Location: Leeds, England

 

 
Feature:
This area wasn't as good. The pedal came with only an adapter and no extra lead which I then had to go out and buy before use of the product. BUT it does have some great features looking at them in the great and imaginative sounds that it has. For instance there is a robot sound on it that sounds quite funny i guess and also a great echoing sound. There aren't actuallya any features that aren't useful in ANY way. I also can't think of any features that it doesn't have which is a good thing.

Value:
I think that the product is definetely worth the price because of all the settings and sounds on the product. It is also quite strong as well so again is worth the money.

Sound:
This pedal has great sound in almost all of the many great effects that it has. The only bad thing about the whole effects pedal in my eyes is that a couple of the sounds have a bit too much distortion for my liking. Some of the sounds are absolutely great and make lead guitaring a sound a whole lot better and just makes it more fun. The product does help to get the sounds that you would want. Since it has so many sounds on it, it is quite hard to find something that has a different effect than on the product. It is true that some sounds are better than others, but that is only my opinion and I like to say that for all of the sounds, because I like to use different sounds for different music that I play on my guitar. In a recording studio I think that this product with the right equipment to go with it would sound very good. For instance you couldn't use a bad amplifier with the pedal in a recording studio and would have to use a good amplifier like a marshall stage amplifier. Then it would sound great in recording. Finally I would like to say that unlike me who is english, if you have 1 cent, you can use it to play the lead guitar with this pedal and it sounds great. So try it.

Support:
NOTHING HAS GONE WRONG!

Overall:
I think I will be using this product for years to come as it is one of the best parts to my set up so far.

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"Oh Yea...!!!"

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Features:
          10 out of 10
Quality:
          10 out of 10
Value:
          10 out of 10
I Want It:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Support:
          10 out of 10
User: a customer from yahoo.com
Submitted: 11/16/2004
Style of Music: Metal-Hard Rock
Musical Experience: Metal Band(guitarist)
Location: Cincinnati,Ohio,USA

 

 
Feature:
I purchased a BOSS AC adapter to go along with it

Quality:
Itz made perfect,itz not a stomp box,but i use it like one and it has lasted me forever and is still goin strong!!!

Value:
Yea,i think it started around $150.00 and it would have been worth that price and now they are selling it for only like $60.00,which is a steal....it'z all u need and u might just wanna get a WAH pedal to go along with it!!!

Sound:
Everything soundz awesome,just make sure you use quality cords and you'll get the best sound.

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Zoom 505 II Effects Customer Review

Overall:
          10 out of 10
Sound:
          10 out of 10
Submitted: 2/17/2004

 

 
Feature:
Its plastic but i treat all my equipment with care. As far a features I thinks its perfect.

Quality:
The sound quality is superb.

Value:
great value

Sound:
Ive owned a POD an RP300 and various others so i feel i have a lot to compare this too and ive got to say that for the price this is one great pedal. I can get all the tone i need for live and recording. This weekend i used it with a polytone amp using just my guitar volume to go from clean to smooth solo distortion and it sounded just as good as my zentera amp. Thats quite a feat considering the zentera cost around $3500 and the 505 2 was only 70 bucks! Last night I recorded some jazz tracks on my computer. I was able to get tones just as nice as my POd and Digitech pedals. This thing is as good as you want i to be. Its a permanent fixture in my guitar case. I use it to warm up with headphones. When i do other gigs i dont have to carry anything but my guitar and the 505 2. Ive found that no matter what i play through i can find great tone because it comes from the heart and playing technique. This is one great effect pedal and it will alway be a part of my arsenal.

Overall:
Well this is one element of my guitar rig and i does excellent for what i need it for. If lost id run out and by another fast.

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Zoom 505 II Effects Customer Review

Overall:
          8 out of 10
Features:
          8 out of 10
Quality:
          7 out of 10
Value:
          9 out of 10
I Want It:
          8 out of 10
Sound:
          8 out of 10
Support:
          8 out of 10
User: a customer from rangeweb.net
Submitted: 8/19/2005
Style of Music: a little of everything
Musical Experience: hobbyist
Location: Lame Deer, MT

 

 
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Feature:
I like being able to use it with a pair of headphones right out of the box. It is user friendly and has many options.

Quality:
It has an ok look to it and the plastic does seam a little cheap, but it seams to be made ok. Haven't used it for a long time so haven't had the chance to put it though all it paces.

Value:
This is a very good value and works great for in a practice setup.

Desirability:
?????

Sound:
This is an awesome little effects box. The sounds are very good....maybe a little too digital, but hey its still very good for the price and it has many various options.

Support:
Just got it and working just fine no need to call.

Overall:
I like this very much and you will not be disappointed in this.

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