My First Pedal | Zoom 505ii
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2018
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After many many years I finally decided to get the pedal that started it all for me: the Zoom 505ii.
It's super fun to plug this in again after something like 20 years.
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Best pedal ever. Mine's silver lol. I give it a rating of 31/30 using the Zoom scale
Oh yeah, there was a silver version too! It probably sounded even better than this one!
@@CatPickStudios I have the silver one! Black is more official XD
hahahaha the zoom scale xD
@@CatPickStudios I actually just got the silver one and it’s quickly become my favorite pedal
I purchased the 506II Bass a few weeks ago and ai loved it so much I got me the 505II Guitar yesterday and Ill be jamming with it today! ❤nit ease of use compared to my Line 6 Vetta II W/ the FBX Longboard. I play theru a small Fender Frontman 10G or headphones and the tones here with the Zoom pedals is nice!
this was my first pedal ... i was like 12 ... i saved up for it for months ... i finally got my mom to drive me up to a local sam ash to get it ... and i was so young and stupid i didnt realize i would need a second guitar cable to make it work ... i guess i just figured it would come with everything i needed ... i was so bummed when i got home and realized all i could do is look at it for the rest of the night until i could get my mom to drive me to get another cable the next day ... anyway thats my zoom 505 first pedal story ... i loved that thing ... it was my only pedal for quite awhile ... now im 32 and and have a full blown pedal addiction... the 505 was my gateway pedal lol... it stopped working years ago but sometimes i think about picking another up as you can snag them for like 25 bucks
Very clean solo delays. I can't understand why people talk so bad about this great machine!
For the money it's great! I just didn't have the patience as a teenager to learn how to use it...
A lot of people seem to be surprised at how good it sounds but the fact is many people bought this when they were new to guitar and / or had a cheap guitar. Later they get better at guitar and buy better guitars and amps etc and forget about
the zoom left in the cupboard and never use it again.
The fact is, if you give zoom 505 to someone with a decent guitar / amp / headphone and you will get a great sound!!!
It was made pre 2008 (pre economic crash) before everything became cheap shit.
FACT!
I still have mine. Use it occasionally and have let my son play with it when he started his guitar journey. Love Zoom's stuff.
I'm actually considering using this thing as a backup rig. The sounds are decent and if I store few different presets there it should save my butt in most cases.
What you told us about your settings is great, it's how we learn and your a good guy to share that with us. My father was a massive guitar geek and as they say "The Apple never falls far from the tree." and by the age of 7 was well on my way. But what you just described is ptobably the same for 1000's of beginners and if you hadn't have set it that way you may not be playing now, something kept you at it, not saying it's the Zoom 505 ll but the device was a learning tool for you so it's definatelt helped Thanks buddy.
Thanks for a great comment, much appreciated!
thanks, I got one of these and was so overwhelmed with the complexities of it. Your video opened my eyes and brain! Much thanks
Glad I could help!
I've been playing for about 20 years but never owned a multi-effect pedal, just individual analogs up until now. I'm going to begin my multi-effect journey with this one. Thanks for the review and wish me luck!
This actually sounds better than we remember it :) It was our first pedal too, now we need to get another! Great video Vlad.
Thanks dudes!
I watched this video. And I decided to buy this. So this pedal gonna be my first pedal too.
The best demo I've seen of this so far.
I am excited to be picking up one of these next week for only $10!
I plan on using it not for the any of the distortion effects, but all the effects I don't have on this such as all the modulation, slow attack
and such. I've got a good selection of overdrives and distortions that will do a better job.
It will also come in handy for silent practicing at home and for going direct for gigs when required. It would be handy as part of a simple flyrig. A couple ODs/distortions and this.
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated!
My first pedal as well besidesy Big Muff. I've been an acoustic guy and I never learned how to properly use my Zoom. Thanks for the demo man!
Haha sounds like there's a lot of people who had this!
Probably never see this, but I've had one of these sitting around for years. This really helped! Thanks.
Haha it’s a fun pedal even after all these years!
@@CatPickStudios Thanks
That was my first pedal & I didn't know how to use it when I was very young. Maybe ridiculously the user manual has 4 languages but without English. Thanks for your video which teach me know how to use it entirely with such nice songs!
zoomcorp.com/media/documents/E_505II_0.pdf
I had this and then the newer improved silver one. Although that one had this one chorus sound that I kept it for years later until it broke on me.
My first paddle zoom505ii . I bought this second hand rs1500 ....... 6 year ago
Thanks a lot sir
Your video help me a lot
Thanks...love from india 😊😊
So nostalgic..Awsom
Did you also have the gain on full all the time? ;)
@@CatPickStudios honestly I didn't know how to use it .I just tweaked the knobs randomly hoping to get a good sound and yes gain was max 😁 but thank you for reviewing it again.
Haha that's exactly how I used it as well! Gain on max for both pedal and the amp and then I wondered why didn't it sound "heavy". :D
My first pedal too.
Some of sound are good .
Thanks for your demo.
Yep, some are good, some are not... ;D
Someone gave me one a few weeks ago. It works but I haven’t started editing patches yet. Mainly going to use it for delay, tremolo and reverb
My first pedal was not a ZOOM multifx, (it was an Arion SFL-1 stereo flange) but my first ZOOM pedal was the big G7. 1ut, which I STILL don't know how to use properly. I then started collecting smaller pedals to do specific things instead. Now I am trying again with the ZOOM, but I find that playing with the ZOOM actually means I am less focused on the actual experience of just playing. But for the DESIGN of sonic experience, it's very mind expanding.
Thanks for this video.
Haha I know the feeling! I've moved to having separate pedals for one or two things instead of getting these huge multi effects units. I'm having more fun that way.
My first pedal too, awsome...
It sounded best with all the gain!
It amazing
I still got this one.
Love the Sibelius at 30:02 :D
There's always room for a bit of Sibelius!
I found mine it's silver never figured it out thanks for sharing
Glad I could help!
I've had that pedal for 7 years, it was gifted to me by my uncle who is a musician and im pretty sure he had it for 10+ years or something like that, today I just realized it has an amp sim that lets you play just with the pedal and the guitar, I was shocked hahahaha.
Haha I just used mine as a distortion pedal... Never even realised it does so much more!
@@CatPickStudios i know hahaha.
btw that ZNR thingy means Zoom noise reduction.
Hi! Nice vídeo! I have a question for You! I need a reverb pedal (i have a ravo mp10 miltoeffects. I use only the noise gate, distortion, compresor and wah in this pedal) later in my Daisy chain continue a chorus, phaser, delay analógic pedal. Here i need a reverb in my final chain. This pedal probably i can use only flor this funtion? Maybe a delay too. Thanks!!!
The "Control" input can be a bank adavnce with a momentary foot switch & apparently you can control various perimeters with the FPO1 or FPO2 expression pedal. I've tried plugging in a Roland Expression pedal but it didn't work.
love u Boss
love u Zoom?
Awesome dude! I used to have one. It was my first pedal too. Great memories. After that pedal I bought a Nobell Overdrive and I didn´t know how to used it that moment and I sold it almost for nothing, what a shame now
I wonder how much great gear gets sold by beginners who don't know what they have... I think the people who bought few of my first guitars got great deals. :D
@@CatPickStudios You could bet on it! Then life gave my chance and I could take some opportunities from new beginners, hahaha!
@@CatPickStudios People who said: "Who knew this brand... JHS, Keeley, Wampler??? Take all of them, I need Line 6 POD or a BOSS GT" :)
Haha yeah exactly!
My first pedal and I even got the expression pedal for it. Good times. Fond memories.
I didn't even know what an expression pedal is when I had this unit in my teens. But I did use it for 'heavier' sounds at my high school concerts. I'm sure it sounded amazing... ;D
@@CatPickStudios I got the expression pedal because I absolutely HAD to do those Rage Against The Machine wah-wahs lol.
@@EstebanGunn Haha that makes total sense then. I just turned the gain all the way up to sound 'heavier'.
Haha had this one in silver in 2000ish. I used it a lot - can’t even remember what happened to it!
First pedal ever ❤️
Its crazy how many people had this as their first pedal!
That was my first pedal too!
I never changed any of the parameters; only played with the patches. It had some good sounds.
I'm honestly still surprised how decent it sounds. Maybe it was the fact I turned the gain all the way up that made it sound less boutique... ;D
@@CatPickStudios Oh yeah, I think you can get really good sounds with less gain :D
If you have like a Dunlop wah pedal, try hooking it up and tell me how you did it. I don`t know if you use the control or input jack. The wah would be first in the signal chain. The manual didn`t say anything about using other pedals damaging the unit.
I'm curious how you did to drive the clean channel by ajusting the patch level to "30" my pedal is the silver one and it doesnt drive the clean by adjusting patch level to 30...
My amp was set on "edge of breakup" so when you push more signal from the pedal to the amp it starts distorting.
This was my first guitar pedal. My dad found it at a thrift store for $10 in mint condition.
Nice! My dad bought mine as well though I kind of told him to get me this one haha.
A great pedal that does everything, i'm interest most by the effects and less by the dist/od but you can't find anywhere else so much effects in a small pedal like this. Plus they're so cheap. Just one question : is this color the sound of the signal when off ? I know there is no true bypass on it. Great review.
Thanks! I haven't really noticed any signal loss when it's on bypass. Maybe there's an ok buffer to compensate that.
Haha... This was definitely a stroll down memory lane. :D
I never actually owned the 505 but a friend of mine did and the "bigger brother" GFX-707 was the first pedal I ever bought new. It's a more expensive and advanced unit but the look and feel is very similar, 90's Zoom plastic fantastic DNA through and through. ;)
I used my 707 with electric guitar for gigs for years, direct into the PA , and it actually sounded great. I know now that it actually does have amp simulation but I must've lucked out with a default setting or something because I surely never set it up. I had no concept of such sorcery back then I never read manuals, so... ;)
Also, I obviously never learned to use mine either. In retrospect, that was violently stupid of me. xD
It's absolutely amazing how much stuff has gone through my hands that I just don't learn to use. Now with this video thing I can't do that anymore :D
@@CatPickStudios You say that like it's a bad thing. ;)
This was my first pedal, by thw way.
ua-cam.com/video/6nnPOh6qnPE/v-deo.html
Speaking of things I never learned to use properly, this one I didn't even know to appreciate for what it was. In my defense, I was in my teens and it was the 80's. All I wanted was neon colors and mad distortion. This dull, wibbly-wobbly thing really did nothing to make me love it. xD
It sounds pretty good actually! :D
Still have mine from must be at least twenty years ago!!
Haha nice!
Your friend sounds really smart.
He definitely has his moments.
Hey, do you know how to have reverb and delay in your preset at the same time??? Or like generally two setups for the same branch showed on the pedal??? I have struggled a lot to acomplish this and still havent suceeded :((
Sorry but it's been several years since I even plugged this thing in, so I don't know. :)
@@CatPickStudios fair enough, let me know if anything changes, it's been 2 weeks and i still can't figure this out :)) Thank's for the reply, appreciated!
How achhived smoler level of sound out or gain ?
1997-98 these arrived on the market, i had the 505 which came out in 96, 24 years ago that also had an in built tuner.The 505 ll was virtualy the same but for a design reconfiguration, you get folk trying to take the piss, these Positive Grid amps "Spark" are the dogs bollocks at the moment for those learning, the Zoom 505 & 505 ll were also the dogs bollocks in their hay day, ok they were no where near as technologicaly advanced as the Spark but at the time it didn't matter.The 505 is a future classic i am sure about that and the 505 ll that also, but it's the original 505 in it's first guise that will go the way of the Maxon Tube screamer and the like, we talk about effects pedals now but in another few years it will be modeling amps and devices that are going to be as sought after as some of the original pedals from our era, late 60's onwards.
i still use it!
Haha me too!
I have one exatly like yours and i use it with batteries, plug to a 'black star fly" to effect my electric ukulele ...belive me it sounds real great !
Haha sounds like a super fun rig indeed!
Hello, I'm looking to buy a pedal, which one should I buy ? Digitech Rp70 or this one? I want some crazy distortion and a good clean, my favorites music genres are Djent, Prog Metal, Deathcore, Metalcore and heavy stuffs like that
Have a look for a pedal called Zoom 505 II.
It Has a amp simulator/noise gate in the same patch. Must try amps sim without noise gate. The sound is diferent
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This was my first pedal too haha
my first pedal was the grey zoom g1. lol same cheap but very useful pedal.
I'm secretly planning of maybe putting 505 on my studio board...
My first was 505 v1 :D
That must have been even better because we all know vintage gear is the best!
@@CatPickStudios i think it sounded as bad as this one :)
I just found mine. Do you remember if the transformer came in a different box? It does not fit in the box
Well its been somewhere close to 20 years since I got the pedal new, so I'm afraid I don't remember. ;D
(the one in the video was bought used without a transformer)
Hey man do you think this would be gigable?
Probably yes, but the unit is very plasticy. I would be scared to step on it a lot.
Try it with some good impulse responses.Made mine sound ten times better.I love this thing now.Especially considering the price these go for.
Ooh I like that idea, definitely need to check it out. Thanks!
What do you mean? Do you mean adding a seperate reverb to it, or something else?
Were I will get sir 505 zoom plz help me I will brought this Zoom
I don’t think they sell it new anymore but sure you can find one used. Check Reverb, EBay etc.
Please give me this Zoom it so good I think were ever search n bring for me brother
I will brought this Zoom 505 how it coast
Brother any how u find out for me this Zoom brother I will brought this Zoom how coast
Only the dumps be brave on motocycle!
does it hace noise gate?
Yes! Though it's called Noise Reduction (NR) in the pedal.
I still have old silver 505ii. Years ago I uploaded a demo of settings I liked to use together with details for each patch. If it helps anyone ... ua-cam.com/video/6KvBrDdKddE/v-deo.html
There was then an updated version ... ua-cam.com/video/4yYPkZqmc1M/v-deo.html
First pedal I ever had. Have gone back to it later in life, it honestly has some great sounds in it, HOWEVER, it really does suck tone, the bypass is one of the worst on any pedal I have. Probably best to use with a true bypass looper.
Haha yep, totally agree. To me this proves that a lot of the effects haven't necessarily gotten better but it's the hardware that has improved and the pedals don't suck your tone as much on average.
My first pedal as well 😅😅
Welcome to our club! :D
@@CatPickStudios 😂😂😂 thank you ... ❤️❤️
I love my pedal, but I've had to replace the jacks half a dozen times over the years (I bought it new forever ago). It's plastic craptastic. I'm considering installing the guts in a metal project box
Haha I love the idea of putting this thing into a metal housing. I wonder how many people we could trick into thinking this is some new cool lo-fi style pedal by doing that.
@19:47 LOL
Haha
Seen a couple of your gear vids lately on UA-cam. For some reason I just thought you could be a Finn.
Your are 100% right. Terveisiä Nokialta ;D
can it djent??
Don't think sure as djent wasn't invented yet when this pedal came out ;)
No equalizer depois do 50 vem o phase e o contour regula a modulação
you can bypass mute it by holding it a few more seconds i guess
My first pedal and only pedal. 😅
Haha you could do way worse than this! :D
este pedal lo puedo conectar a traves del Loop Fx del amplif???
Sorry not sure what you're saying.
@@CatPickStudios He was asking if it can connect to the FX loop on an amp, which I'm sure it can, but was probably not designed to do. Although it might sound better that way? Still, not a bad pedal.
@@alvinpietzsch1534 Lo prové y suena super bien. very good
@@anibal2723 como lo hiciste ? Yo tengo un Orange amp
It sounds pretty good, dafuq?
I remember it was quite bad (15 years ago) :/
I know! I couldn't believe how ok it actually sounded. Then on the other hand I just used it with gain on max when I was a kid...
@@CatPickStudios same. and that metal preset... haha I'm starting to believe that multi-effect processors are not for the beginners but for more experienced musicians who know what to do and when. Having multi-effect units (Zoom 606 and POD HD) didn't actually inspire me to practice more and learn about modulation effects, pedals did.. But replacing pedalboard with tiny pedal for rehearsals and small gigs would definitely do!
50 EQ curves! Each more EQey than the last.
49 EQ curves is nothing compared to 50!
What I never did like about this pedal is how you only ever have 2 other patches to choose from. So If your A1 is your clean, A2 is your distortion, A3 is a Delay and A4 is "I am the Fly" intro by Wire (google it), and you want to skip from A1 to A3, you've got to awkwardly go through the distortion patch. So for actual practical purposes it's a bit useless. Nevertheless, a fun little noisey toy.
[Edit] - I haven't mentioned my first pedal. It was a Marshall BB2 Bluesbreaker overdrive pedal. Beautiful pedal which I wish I still had. I wish I knew where it went but I replaced it with a DOD Grunge pedal, because the BB2 wasn't distortiony enough for me. The DOD Grunge sounds like a bee orgy in a beer can. It makes the Metalzone sound like a delicate little flower.
ZNR Zoom Noise Reduction.
Haha I guess Zoom wanted to brand their own Noise Reduction differently.
Actually, it came out in 2000
Yeah sounds about right. I would have been 12 at that time.
It appeared in 1997.
It was a brand new thing when I got it. I feel old.
@@CatPickStudios it was a gift from ESP heavy metal guitar models i still have magazines with the announcements...good synthezizer, still works well...after 25 years of use.