My First Pedal | Zoom 505ii 

Best pedal ever. Mine's silver lol. I give it a rating of 31/30 using the Zoom scale

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

thanks, I got one of these and was so overwhelmed with the complexities of it. Your video opened my eyes and brain! Much thanks

This actually sounds better than we remember it :) It was our first pedal too, now we need to get another! Great video Vlad.

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 😊😊

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!

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.

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!

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.

Probably never see this, but I've had one of these sitting around for years. This really helped! Thanks.

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.

This was my first guitar pedal. My dad found it at a thrift store for $10 in mint condition.

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.

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!!!

So nostalgic..Awsom

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.

My first pedal too. Some of sound are good . Thanks for your demo.

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...

First pedal ever ❤️

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.

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

How achhived smoler level of sound out or gain ?

Haha had this one in silver in 2000ish. I used it a lot - can’t even remember what happened to it!

My first pedal and I even got the expression pedal for it. Good times. Fond memories.

My first pedal too, awsome...

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 :((

I found mine it's silver never figured it out thanks for sharing

love u Boss

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 !

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.

Your friend sounds really smart.

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

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.

That was my first pedal too! I never changed any of the parameters; only played with the patches. It had some good sounds.

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... ;)

Love the Sibelius at 30:02 :D

I still got this one.

i still use it!

It Has a amp simulator/noise gate in the same patch. Must try amps sim without noise gate. The sound is diferent

Still have mine from must be at least twenty years ago!!

I just found mine. Do you remember if the transformer came in a different box? It does not fit in the box

does it hace noise gate?

Hey man do you think this would be gigable?

my first pedal was the grey zoom g1. lol same cheap but very useful pedal.

Were I will get sir 505 zoom plz help me I will brought this Zoom

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.

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My first was 505 v1 :D

can it djent??

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.

Only the dumps be brave on motocycle!

This was my first pedal too haha

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

My first pedal as well 😅😅

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 ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6KvBrDdKddE.html There was then an updated version ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4yYPkZqmc1M.html

you can bypass mute it by holding it a few more seconds i guess

Seen a couple of your gear vids lately on RU-vid. For some reason I just thought you could be a Finn.

No equalizer depois do 50 vem o phase e o contour regula a modulação

este pedal lo puedo conectar a traves del Loop Fx del amplif???

@19:47 LOL

It sounds pretty good, dafuq? I remember it was quite bad (15 years ago) :/

50 EQ curves! Each more EQey than the last.

My first pedal and only pedal. 😅

ZNR Zoom Noise Reduction.

Actually, it came out in 2000

It appeared in 1997.