It can be none more black, has lots of buttons, and appears to be built to withstand a building dropping on it.Īs noted, this Zoom G5N is built to be sturdy, to last… not necessarily to be abused, but it would probably be fine with that.Ĭhassis material aside, the G5n “guitar lab” comes with five little pedals on the front, a footswitch for each of its tone banks, six additional buttons for each of those banks, and a few other knobs on its top panel, just for good measure, and a full foot-size expression pedal.

At the time of writing, I’m opting for something from the Batcave. I’m still trying to decide what the overall pedal looks like. The FP02 kind of makes sense, if you feel you need both a wah pedal and a volume pedal. “Control in”? What’s that? Well, in case you don’t have enough buttons or switches on the G5n, the control in is where you can plug in the Zoom FP01 footswitch, or the FP02 expression pedal. Jack plugs for an input and a stereo output a mini-jack plug for attaching headphones a mini jack plug input for attaching an MP3 player, phone or tablet, for jamming along to your mains connection your USB connection and a control in. If this breaks on you, you were doing it wrong, and you’ll need to seriously reevaluate your guitar pedal use. It’s a weird thing to consider – multi-effects are supposed to do it all! Let’s take a look at the parts first.

I’d suggest this would be best for someone playing the corporate covers scene, who’ll need to cover a lot of ground in terms of the effects they’ll need, and need something that’ll survive the occasionally spilled chianti. This means we’ll be drawing a line to join this up with professional music players who don’t have the time, patience, or storage space for a full set of individual stompboxes. The music players who are most likely to part with this amount of money for kit like this, are ones who are sure they’ll be getting their money’s worth out of it. There’s nothing really shouting at me as being groundbreaking, but we review things to look at them more closely! This will work well for… There are plenty of additional effects at your disposal here. At this price, you’d expect something all-singing and all-dancing, and Zoom has pretty much brought that to the table for some great additional effects.Ī solid, rugged design – probably not as bulletproof as other manufacturers, but you won’t have to play too nice with it.

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