Zoom G1Four - into an Amp 

I got one of these beauties about two years ago or so now at my Guitar Center. I have various decent modeling amps now, including my premier amp, a newer Vox VX50 50 watt amp. Well, I never bothered that much playing at home by myself, for fun, over the years, with tons of pedals or FX. But, since my playing has vastly improved the past several years at least, I realized I needed better amps and FX. Amps I've got, modeling I've got, even have a Blues Driver and 90s Tubescreamer, which is great. But one finds that the FX even on something like the Vox VX50 (or even their Valvetronix amps) are a bit limited. They're ok. That's where the Zoom G1X4 comes in. It's taken me some study to finally come to grips with programming it, doing my own pedal racks, patches, etc., but now I'm off and running. I've been able the past few months, to dial in A. a spot-on Flock of Seagulls sound (absolutely spot-on with the Digital Delay), B. a Love and Rockets "No Big Deal" fuzztone buzzsaw overdrive sound and C. a decent enough Gilmour Pink Floyd lead sound. For me, just being a home player, that means the box has already paid for itself! And it sounds pretty darned good. It sounds best through the Vox amp, but, I also recently did a Flock demo. for my family on the Roland Micro Cube amp, and it still sounded great. It runs on batteries for F's sake! It's also very portable. I sat here today and played Gilmour's "Until We Sleep" via the Vox amp, and F. me if it didn't sound just like the album track! It's very exciting to be finally be able to get that kind of tone. You can even bang out something like Floyd's "On the Turning Away" switching between an "acoustic" setting or patch, and your "Floyd" Gilmour one, whatever that might be. It also helped that I recently picked up a lefty "metal" Ibanez type guitar for more high gain stuff, with a whammy bar. Otherwise I use a Telecaster, and/or a 12-string ac. electric. Once you master editing, saving, and how to do a a pedal chain, this thing is phenomenal. The only thing better would maybe be the higher level pro. type BOSS or Zoom processors. But they're around $400-1000 or so. Even Billy Corgan said recently on here that he doesn't lug around 1000 pedals anymore for live, he just uses some high end processors for the most part, either Line 6 Helix or whatever that is. If that's true, and I guess it is, that shows you how good some of the tech. has come in recent years. I don't think Billy would rely on the G1X4, but for having fun at home or recording at home, or jamming, this is the dog's bollocks! Even just for headphone practice or study, this is the shit.

The dog snout killed me! :-) "Can I eat this? Can I play Black Dog with this?"

I love this processor pedal so much!!! So easy to get creative. Hours go by and I don't even realize it

This is the best singular pedal that encompasses so much creative ability that I think I have ever heard, and I have played a long time! Bought it, will try it out as soon as I get my hands on it.

Best demo for this piece Ive seen on youtube till date . Showed great patience and enthusiasm .Good knowledge of the settings and good playing. You don't get snobby like some of the other channels I won't mention .you guys had a lot of fun and did a great demo . Kudos!! new subscriber here

The experimental effects included on Zoom gear are great to have.

I'm a big Zoom fan. I got a G1Xon for my birthday a couple of years ago. I was pretty skeptical, but it sounded great, plus you get a 30-second looper, a simple drum machine, and some pretty decent cab and amp sims. For the price, it's absolutely amazing.

Fantastic review. I just bought mine yesterday and got to play with it for a little while.Keep up the good work!

For some reason, Gold Drive works like magic compared to the TS type that Zoom has. Loved it!

awesome video, super helpful, thank you!! -also loved the dog feature

That was so much fun watching you guys run through the effects! I have one on the way to replace my old Zoom 505 which still works, but doesn’t have a fraction of the features this one does. I’m a bit overwhelmed thinking of all the programmable variables this pedal has!

Sold! I picked one up today.

this was a super entertaining and informative video!

I've recently sold most of my other pedals since I got this.

I think you guys had more fun with this than any other pedal I've seen you review- awesome. That's what it's really about for most of us- I'm not a rockstar after all, it's not the end of the world if I don't quiet nail the exact tone I was going for, but I am financially challenged, so when I spend money, I want to have fun. There's nothing like connecting a pedal, playing and getting that feeling of "Damn, I actually sound like I know what I'm doing..." so cool. I'm considering one of these- or one of the Mooer GE200 I think it's called. They're both older tech but- I don't need a big fancy, high end modeler really- I'm putting it in a tube amp's fx loop with other analogue pedals. I just want few cool presets to play around with and since the GE200 is older tech you can find them used really reasonable.

Excellent video guys! I was on the fence about a few of the entry level multi-effects unit. Your vid convinced me to buy the G1. Thank you! ALATY2 MELTED MY FACE!

Finally someone playing individual strings w the effect. Now where can i get one?

great pedal for the home jamming amateur like myself...i think the fuzz and tape echo just sealed the deal for me...

19:44 im just gonna leave it here for tutorials later. U guys rock!

The dog steals the show. Here I am, very studiously following along, I’ve got my G1X FOUR ZOOM handy, following along, very academic by nature, I see a finger pointing out one thing and this other part being pointed out, ... SETTING button? No, that’s a dog. Born again musician, originally a sax player, started guitar eight months ago, this is my first effects pedal of any kind, and I don’t think I could have done better. Now I just need to learn how to use it.

I loved when the dog was checking out the Zoom! Rover tested and Rover approved!

TIP: Put a cheap pre amp in front of it and you’ll get the semi-pro tones you are looking for. Indistinguishable from boutique gear in live settings.

So peaceful and amazing you are wowwwww❤

Imagine being in jr high, 20 years ago with this in your guitar arsenal! Better yet, how about Hendrix having one of these growing up!? Nice job guy's, this little booger has a lot going on. It can be quite confusing.

Excellent tour through this pedal! I know this is an older video, but THANK YOU!!! Convinced.

have this with batteries and a zoom recorder and you've got a portable guitar sketchpad awesome for ideas.

cheers lads, very helpful ,all the best from glasgow scotland

Sérieux c'est la première fois que je vois des mecs vraiment cool. Et franchement ce que vous faites avec c'est top ! Chapeaux bas messieurs !

This thing is awesome. The only thing I dont like about it are the tube screamer pedals. I still use a ts9 in front and it sounds amazing

Boots and cats lmao the drums. He was right!

Just to let you know guys... You can mod that mini buttons to external footswitch.

Great video.Thanks.

idk if i should retire my g2, cause the knobs buttons don't function many a times but it still sounds as good as it was more than a decade ago. the g1 four have been on my wish list for a while now.

I got one of these with the expression pedal as I wanted something portable to play with headphones etc it’s perfect and it has guitar lab to edit and add effects on the computer, can be powered by a usb!!! Wish it had an on off switch instead of just unplugging it tho lol. It is a bit over whelming I’ve had it for months and haven’t even made a patch yet I just tweak the tweed and zep effect

Very good production, excelent sound, very cool people; this demo deserve a decent guitar player that give us the idea of the correct interaction with gear

awesome i just get my last week is a Killer for that Price ver;y nice video thks guys.

14:06 would unironically listen to an album of this

It's amazing what Zoom is doing lately. I'm curious to see how can I connect this little guy to the Livetrak L20...

Wished that the distortion would shut up occasionally.

Awesome processor. Too bad these were not more experienced with using it

awesome video tks think ill get it now..wondering if i connect to my spark amp 40 ill put my amp on clear tone should i turn all my bass,treble and mid to 0..to get the right tone from the zoom..thks

It could have done with a song bank where you can list 5 effects presets and be able to switch between them during a performance, of course more memory would be required and probably more storage. Are there any budget to mid range units that have this function? I know you can achieve this by putting effects presets in order as I have done this on my own multi FX unit.

24:20 retro porn music intro. Great review! i'm about to getting the G1X four soon

Great review guys , good to see people having fun :) Is the sound quality the same as in g3-g5-ms50g? Thanks

When people say it's just 65 euros and it's almost half of your salary in Turkey. I'm going to buy this though. It seems like such a performance/price product.

The loop from 17.50 was going groovy..

awesome nice .do you know how i can delete some patches i dont want??? cant find info anywhere

I have just bought one to use live instead of my nova system that has died. I only use delay, chorus and phaser so this is a bargain at £65

Marijuana and this pedal will be a trip

That’s very creative guys!

lol was he going for a whammy bar @5:35?? Nevermind he switch pick ups.

❤

Nice gear, thought the looper could have been largeur, two minutes at least.

I own this and it always feels “plastic” and the demos I’ve seen, this guy blows the OPs out of the water and makes others sound obsolete. I think it was Taylor Danleys demo. Something feels missing IRL 0laying with it. A plastic tool.But I’m using headphones???? That’s not a Rectifier channel 2 orange)with Dynamic Drive (ocd)and Ts. Not even close even with My IRs. Thank You for this demo I have learned a lot. So now I’m looking at Mvave Blackbox or another Mooer revamp by Harley Benton DNA “core”. The form factor guitarists need but I’m still skeptical. Hotone Ampero mini think Might saves the day too (lol). I’ve even went backwards to see if it compares to old units. Is this VAMS software fix? Tech like Korgs REMS? Or Boss Cosm? Pandora anyone? It is better than those units so TSAC or CDMC blah rant! Reel tube technology You can fish out. Happy Shopping and I thought the original G1on beats this with brighter display and stronger ABS lol. Okay I’m done! Excellent demo I forgot My adderall

Zoom g1 four and Cuvave baby, works well??

How to go for clean sound to distrotion... by one touch?

I've only just got into this 'looping' stuff. Yeah, so I'm a 'Newbie'...lol Just purchased a Boss RC3 and not really impressed by it. Having watched DJ Funk, I noticed that what you actually play is louder than the actual sample when playing back. Correct me if i'm incorrect when mentioning this observation? After having watched a considerable Zoom vidz, I noticed it does not have this 'limited' implication. (Feedback Willkommen) ;)

Puppy!!! 😍😍😍

I just purchased one but the hear lot of buzzing ,i dont know, maybe is something wrong with my guitar ,epiphone les paul special 2 ...........but when i connect my electro acustic guitar is working much better but still some buzzing sound......any idea ?

Which cable you used from the G1 out to the amp in? A TS cable would lose signals to me (i.e. ping pong delay) and a TRS sounds very low. Thanks!

Zoom G14 or zoom G1x4 ? Who's better?

How loud can u get it through a 4 by 12?

Thanks for this. Please let me know which amp you are using for this Demo? Can i connect this to a direct mixing board to a PA speaker? Please help

This is me for about 6 straight hours after I bought the G1X Four. GREAT little pedal. I'm wondering though ; Is it possible to save an actual Loop recording in one of the patches ? That would be handy.

Hi! I was wondering about the amp sims on this unit. You have the cabinets off obviously when running into an amp, but in the video you seemed to keep the actual amp sims on while plugged into the all. Can you tell me how all of that works?

I'd like to have my effects chains controlled with the expression pedal as a volume control but most chains don't contain the volume control. Can you tell me how to change the effect in position #5 in any of the chains to a Volume control...or is that even possible? Thanks.

does it have harmonizer ?

No true bypass btw

Rythm loops are quality one or not ?? Pls clarify

Please please please for the love of all that's holy. If you're considering a software solution like amplitude, waves, or another of those, save a fortune and buy one of these instead. The amp/cabs are infinitely better than any software and the effects are wildly better. The waves full package is over $200 and doesn't come within a million miles of this beast.

Should I be using a cab sim on my effects if I'm going into an amp or is it only for DI?

is it true-bypass? thanks

What do you recommend me to buy first because I have an electric guitar but I dont have an amp and a multi fx. What should I buy first an amp or a zoom g1 Four?

Hey! I’m currently looking at this pedal, I mainly listen to indie/alternative, do you think this pedal can handle these two genres of music? And can you pick just 1 or 2 effects instead of all 5? like just reverb and delay for example, and turning everything else off. Sorry for my bad English, it’s not my native language, thanks!!

WD-40?

Which is better? input amp front or send return loop?

My question would (As I haven't seen to all tutorials) can you use both pedals, like pedal 1 - grunge muff and pedal 2 - clone chorus? Does The G1 four have that capability?

since it supports 5v power option, can we use use powerbanks to power ?

Hi. Thanks for your video. One question - only the 10 free empty slots are for creating and saving my own presets, or can I also delete the factory preset to replace them with more of my own?

sorry for bad english, I really2 need your help, i buy second g1 four. the problems example in bank number 01 , 10 MS Higain sound is very very different from your review. when i open stomp mode i realized that the setting has been changed . MS Higain in your device the chain is " gold drive-ms800-ms4x12-ZNR-PLATE" in my device "MISSING EFFECT-ms800-ms4x12-ZNR-PLATE", missing effect (gold drive) cannot found in my device . i have been try to reset factory and still nothing happen.

can you run this direct into a computer and use the computer speakers as the amp

Que diferencia con el a1 four?

If running this through a amp with 2x12 cab is it better to turn off The cab In the preset? Thanks

any good patches site you can recommend?

I know it's been a while since you uploaded this, but i was wondering how to just delete the last overdub without losing everything on the looper. doesn't seem to be anything obvious in the instructions.

I recently bought this pedal, do I need to do any software update, has anything new been added that I need to upgrade?

waw and its just 65 euros and you can do lots of different things ... nice

Can it be connect directly to the computer for recording?

Is it possible to use this pedal with any amp or maybe even a speaker?

Hi what is the model Epiphone ?

Can I use a mobile charger to use this device?

Which amp would compliment this device? Looking for a 10w amp. Thanks!

TRANS POSE g1 four

Can you help me a lot of my presets aren’t working when I listen to them using my headphones is that because you need to use a amp to get all the presets to work

Mooer ge150 or this zoom g1x four?

No

That thing is a piece of trash.

Too long

Don’t watch waste of time - these guys are so stoned and not professional at all

Say you messed up the presets, is there a factory restore?