ZOOM MS-50G The "KING" of the Afford-a-Board or a plastic toy? - Weird sounds found nowhere else. 

0:00 Octave 0:07 Reverse Delay 0:11 Alien 0:14 Stereo Chorus 0:15 Trigger Hold Delay 0:21 Space hole! 0:24 cry 0:28 spring 63 reverb? 05:06 BG Throttle 05:25 smooth delay 07:25 bendcho 07:40 reverse delay 07:58 autowah 08:10 particle reverb 09:27 filter delay 09:52 built in tuner 10:36 centa gold 11:31 tangerine amp 12:07 b breaker amp 12:10 alien amp 12:30 slicer 12:35 phaser 12:40 duophase 12:48 warp phase 12:53 the vibe 13:13 chorus 13:24 detune 13:30 vintage ce 13:40 stereo chorus 14:16 ensemble 14:19 superchoruse 14:22 vin flanger 14:33 flanger 14:35 vibrato 14:46 octave 15:40 pitch shift 15:44 mono pitch 15:51 hps 15:59 bend cho 16:56 mojo roller 17:29 ring mod 18:21 ce cho5 18:24 clone chorus 18:34 stone phaser 18:43 bf flg2 18:47 silky chorus 18:50 mirage chorts 18:55 ana 234 chor 19:00 corona tri 19:09 bitcrush 19:14 bomber 20:21 mono synth 20:58 zorgan 21:03 auto pan 21:57 roto closet 22:15 Delay (Balloons) 22:48 Tape echo 23:15 Mod delay 23:21 Analog delay 23:28 Reverse delay 23:35 Multi tap delay 23:48 Dyna Delay 23:58 filter delay 24:07 pitch delay 24:58 Stereo delay 25:15 phase delay 25:30 Trigger Hold Delay 26:27 stomp delay 26:31 tape echo 3 26:34 dual digital delay 26:41 carbon delay 26:44 drive echo 26:55 slapback delay 27:05 smooth delay 27:13 lodi delay 27:17 slow attack dfelay 27:28 tremolo dela 27:38 filter pp delay 27:54 autopan delay 28:24 ice delay 28:34 hd hall

Much love for the Zoom pedal innovations. Gear snobs turn their noses up at these multi units unless they carry a 1k price tag or better. I enjoy my units and the Zoom multi's are fun, simple, and yet very inspiring. Don't let the snobs steal your fun and make a hobby you enjoy be about having to own the rarest, the most expensive, or most boutique gear. Use what you have and be creative so that you don't covet gear. Trying to keep up with the Jones's will kill your joy. ZOOM RULES

This is the most underrated pedal ever. Guitarists like to chase words like analog and tubes, when they see an LCD screen and the word 'digital' irrational biases take over.

Appreciated your going through all the presets. Gave the opportunity to decide whether or not the pedal was something I was after. Thanks for taking the time on the video.

Updates are free and I LOVE my MS 50G for the reverbs, delays and just to fill gaps in my pedalboard, like a compressor and noise gate.

So glad you finally did a show on this! I have 2 MS-70’s and couldn’t live without them at this point. Everything from synths to a mini rig in itself to a catch all on my main board, it does it all well. Sometimes I just use it as a noise gate and tuner. Too bad about that little digital noise in the tail of the surf spring, but it actually does sound good otherwise.

I use my multistomp for three things. 1. for lo-fi fx (why does anyone buy "boutique" lo-fi pedals???), 2. to audition fx that I might want to add to my sound, and 3. like you said, for fx I only use once in a while. It's terrific and it'll always have a place on my board.

After watching this vid, I bought this pedal just for the "Drip reverb". After updating and adding more effect via usb, this pedal is a ton of fun and endless combos to try.

im so happy that you get your hands on this. ive been using this pedal for my direct work for almost a year now and its great. the effects and amp simulation is great. i really recommend this pedal for beginer who want to hear the different tone produce by different amp or someone who want to learn how to stack pedals. the design and the UI are easy and intuitive.

Just got this for Christmas, and as a guitarist taking his first step towards effects and finding his "tone" this little gadget is wonderful.

I fell so quickly in love with my Zoom MS70CDR that I recently got the MS50G as well to chain together. 12 effects total, both loaded to the max with almost all the available effects. Mad science experiment!

awesome pedal. Knobs do get in the way, so I personally took them off and trimmed the stems. Great sound quality. Perfect for your one-pedal setup. You can go straight to the front of the house, and set it up to switch between rhythm/lead sound using the one button included. Good construction, and great sound quality. No sound delay when engaging the pedal, unlike some processors.

I’ve had this pedal for years, shoegazers dream honestly

Hey, I've watched your video a few times. Thanks for such a through run down of the Zoom. I'm still learning this box...all the sounds you played are pretty stellar in my opinion. Thanks again!

Lovin those surf settings. That's the kind of sounds I like not standard metal. Great sounding pedal for the price.

I've got a MS-60B and I love it. It's great to throw in your gig bag and just always have on you.

Love my Zoom pedals! An entire board in two pedals 😎

Hey I have this pedal and find it extremely versatile for the price! When you showed the amp sims, you had the last setting was for "line out" instead of combo amp or stack etc and will make it sound a bit shrill... If you are going direct you'd want to use the line out setting for the amp sims. Also, there are more amp sims and effects available if you update the firmware.... I use this pedal on my board and just revisited the amp sims this week - previously I didn't like them, but now I do. I had to back off the output volume to unity gain (same relative volume when turning the amp sim on or off) and found them to be way more useful!

I love using this pedal to go between traditional reverb and delay and ambient settings. For ambient I use 2 delays set at 300 ms and 550 ms and I use the particle reverb. Very nice sound.

I have had the zoom ms100bt version for years, can be useful for quick and easy rehearsal situations and I played a couple small room gigs with it alone. It works, some decent effects.

Thank you Ryan. It looks like this pedal can give anyone with a cheap amp most of the stuff that one gets with that Positive Grid Spark amp. For us non musicians, it may be the cat's meow for teaching an old dog new tricks.

bro this pedal sounds amazing and your playing is great really shows off the positivies

honestly from what i've heard this thing is 99% up to the mark in comparison to the eventides and strymons. The thing is unless you're a gigging guitarist or someone who's going to for commercial level music production you'll probably never be able to tell the difference. Zoom is doing god's work and bringing the unattainable to us common folks

I own 2 Zoom G5's and two G1Xon's. They are older but have about 80% of the same effects. The G1on (without expression pedal) usually goes for about $50. I learned there's a hack to import some of the newer effects into the older units. Can't wait to try that!

the dream of the tiny rig enthusiasts! I currently use a zoom G1on, which is the same as the ms50 with some extra buttons, and it's everything I will ever need. And my Behringer Wah. It's the perfect match.

I bought mine for £70 in 2013 when I was quite broke. The most I’d spent on a pedal ever. Since then I got a better job and I think I’ve spent about £1200 on pedals and power. I’m not convinced I got much more from all them than I did from this single pedal alone. It’s comparable to my moog trem and delay. The moog drive and flange are nicer. My re20 is better than the tape delay on this, but I prefer all the other delays to my memory boy. The DM2 copy and carbon copy copy are particularly good. Once you plug any of these things into any amp on stage you’ll never know the difference. The only real difference then is in the flexibility of having separate devices under your feet.

Thanks for this one as well, your videos have been growing on me man! You seem cool and play killer surf, rock on!

Got one a few weeks ago. I love it! I also Velcro mine to my blackstar fly. You can also load and unload effects that you don’t use or want. The dirt effects are mostly meh. A few standouts though. The patches you can get from Reddit are really cool and easy to load from a web browser.

I was working in a guitar shop in late '91 or early '92 when a rep walked in with a Zoom effect box. "This is like all those rack effects here in the palm of your hand." That thing amazed me. Out of my price range at the time, but I definitely wanted one.

Love these things, still use my Zoom G1xon (same effects, + basic drum sounds, looper and tuner, plastic enclosure). Runs for 4 hours on rechargeable batteries and I can sit in the garden with headphones and noodle over the drums, you can make "music". These should be every guitarist's first "pedal", you learn what you like and don't spend a load. The sounds are lower fidelity than most pedals, but I still find myself using a 2k pedalboard to try and get some of the Zoom sounds!

I've had an MS-50G and MS-70CDR on my board for several years. Using both together is really fun. If you connect to a computer you can change which effects are stored on the pedal; so you can lose the amp sims and add more weird sounds, if you want.

Plugged it into my tube amp and did some A/B with my pedalboard. Compressor was better, sweet baby and klon were amazing even comparing it to my OCD, Blues driver, and JHS soulfood, noise reduction was such a breath of fresh air also. Effects sound great. Use it as my acoustic preamp, tuner, eq, compressor a few nights a week. Constantly amazes me :)

I got me one of those for Christmas for the reverse reverb but so many other great sounds out of it... very handy!

That is a great pedal. I have one. I've used it on some records and even used it direct live once.

I've used this direct to PA and it sounds and works great. Fantastic little pedal from Zoom. I have the Zoom A3 for acoustic guitar, great pedal to.

Bend-Cho seems like a chorus effect with time assigned to the loudness of the input, and feedback (resonance) maxed. Chorus effect is the combination of original signal + the delayed one with the delay time cycling between two values, and the delay feedback which causes a wah/filter like sound, may be called depth on some chorus pedals. I did program what şs called Bend-Cho here, 10 years ago on my Adrenalinn unit and used to play with it for some horn-like effect.

11:42 Maybe it's because you have the output of the amp sim set to line... There's a bunch of other options better designed for sending into an amp. Having said that, the amp sims still aren't all that. But as it is you've got completely the wrong settings so of course it sounds bad. :p

Great demo! I may one of these up for my new board. I've always been a big fan of the Zoom products.

I just got a perfect used MS70cdr, and not only is it not plasticky, it doesn’t tone suck at all. Throwing my Black Bean POD HD out to CL pasture. I don’t know whether it could replace my main board, but it sounds great through a little Vox ac10 and the compressor sounds fab...the time based and mod stuff is great as a bonus.

This video reminds me I have to update the firmware on my unit. They've added a bunch more effects since the v2.01 update (now on v3.10) I've had mine since 2014, and it's part of my little couch playing rig with a little Danelectro HoneyTone amp. Yes, the amp sounds are a bit unimpressive, but they allow you to do a little trick: play the pedal direct into the line-in on your audio interface or computer. Each amp has a choice of associated cab sim, and the cab sim offers a choice of what the pedal is connected to (front of combo, effects loop, or line). Use the Zoom clean amp model, set the cab to whatever and line output, plug, play, repeat.... is it the best direct sound ever? NO! But it will get you through in a pinch.

Putting "trigger hold delay" on your drum machine makes it sound like "autechre". I found out!?

A lot of these sound like they'd really shine even more on a monosynth . good thing mine showed up in the mail yesterday . I'll have to grab the effects manager and load up some more goodies from their other pedals .

I've used a Zoom G3 for years. It's got so many sounds in it you can find useful tones if you work for it. Basically it seems the same as the multi stomp.

Just bought a used one in near perfect condition, and it's everything I hoped for and lots more, perfect for psychedelic rock, very Tame Impala-ish mods 👍👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I have, on occasion ran the midi out of my line6 m5 into a raspberry pi and routed the midi to the zoom ms70cdr. One before the amp and one on the loop. Those two cover all the utility pedal needs.

I have one in my live rig having used the Zoom G5 for my live rig int he past. I use the noise gate if rocking my Tele and the CRY covers a few songs like Man In The Box and Hair Of The Dog (guitar solo) and used the acoustic simulator (before I got a Variax)

I have this one for 4 years already, but I still haven't finished exploring the sound it can offer

I have the ms70 cdr on my main board, great utility pedal.

Hello tks for this video, please someone let me know if the modulation effect added with the last update 3.10 for the ms50 got all the modulation effect of 70 CD-R? Tks a lot

The maniacal laugh at 6:29 is exactly what these pedals are about: turning you into a mad scientist.

bought this a few years back as a flexible fx tool-kit. didnt expect a great deal from overall but it's actually pretty damn incredible. i've AB'd a couple of pedals it has onboard with the genuine article and it really holds its ground. it's far better than it has any right to be and would have been a dream pedal back in the day. recently been enjoying it as an amp sim for DI recording - where it's stupidly flexible and sounds lovely if you do some dialling in. it's not perfect of course. there's some noise issues with certain uses... and i was a little miffed by some high pitch artifacts but those only appeared with some dialled gain patches. think i paid £80 for it new. well worth it just for flexibility alone... but it also does somethings so well its madness.

Cool! It's got some stuff that my PS02 Palmtop Studio has. It sounds less digital than mine, so they did improve the tone. I need one of these. I have the octave shifts and ring modulator on it, too.

Great pedal and addition to my board...and I have some high end pedals including a Strymon Big Sky... don't dismiss this sleeper. Mine is modded to accommodate 3 button foot switch for scrolling; so easy to use and so compact.

Thanks for doing a demo on this petal. I have one i paid 75 bucks for at Music Go Round. It's a blast!

I have the ms70 cdr, used with the Joyo American, AC Tone or British sound in the front of the Zoom. I get wonderful sounds!

I have had this pedal for a year and it fills many roles on my pedal board. It is not as great as the pedals it .models but for $75 it is versatile.

That dirty gate after the reverb and delay makes a really cool sound!

It was doing the drip on our side of the mic, which is pretty neat. You don't have to pay for zoom updates. Some poeple on the internet charge for making patches, which isn't related to Zoom as a company.

That was sick. Why have I slept on these? Thanks man!! :)

60 Cycle Hum Does the other cable inserted on the R output means that it is inserted on the effects return on the back of your amp?

Between my Zoom G1xon and the Katana 50's built-in effects, I have everything I need. For tone vs. cost, it's hard to beat Zoom.

Imma buy it ASAP thanks a lot for the video i was looking for a multistomp like this one tho i'd have loved timestamps and annotations haha, i had to skip a lot until i found the effects i was looking for.

i love your energy and very useful videos thank you

If ur thinking of buying zoom products..u have to remember, there is a learning curve ;) been using zoom since the 505 days and had the pleasure to hv acquire newer releases. Takes a while..may require lots of nerding. Zoom is awesome, versatile and deadly once u get to understand how it works. Love Zoom R8 too..packed with lots of effects for recording ur own songs.

That bend-cho setting seems like it would work great on keys for a mellotron kinda effect

I've got one of these coming from Amazon today mainly for synth use, I think it's going to be awesome.

DMPTY is the sound of the future, my dear boy.

That bomb/gun sound could also be used as thunder for Riders on the Storm

Of course my first multi effect was the Zoom 505

I think it's an ingenious pedal. To make it the size it is, it's great! You should build a board where you have like 8 of these, each dedicated to a particular pedal function. Would that many pedals degrade the sound? Hmm...

I Got it on my board and it’s a army knife. Love it 👍

Although not intended as a review still the best on RU-vid 👌👍

IF ya JUST wanted it for ‘DRIP’ are there better options for cheaper..?

King. I've seen this on countless cover bands guitarist pedalboard.

you tapping while the bomber was on made me laugh :D

Well, I can see why it stayed in the house lol ! My old zoom G1X which I bought from a cash converters store for 5 English pounds has given me a lot of good sounds with careful editing and to be able to store the edits is great tho I am looking at Strymon effects, I hope you can find something useable in that pedal. 😂😂😂 Best wishes to you. 😁👍

LOVE that guitar!

Do you know whether these have analog dry through signal? For wet/dry setups? Great demo, been curious about these

I just keep on coming back to the Zoom over and over again. I usually play it at home with my practice amp, but it keeps on coming back to my gigging board. I'm not a fan of the interface, but the multi itself is incredibly useful whenever I take my 4W amp with neither tremolo nor reverb to low-volume gigs. I can't haul my silverface everywhere, but I still need the trem and reverb. Sometimes I even prefer the Zoom effects to the real deal. And I also find myself using other non-essential stuff like EQ, noise gate, etc. Might as well, right? Plus it can be used as backup in case the tube amp died. Screw it, I'll just get another one and put it on my main board. It's just good enough.

The spring reverb is amazing and the term as well..

I have played music commercially and otherwise for the last 35 years, I challenge any pro level pub goer or so called music lover to differentiate between tone and equipment, between a cheap fx unit in a chain or really expensive gear....any gear is only as capable or competent as the musician who can milk out the tone he wants from it ...I have played with my Digitech GSP's to my Axe fx to my Line 6 M13 to the two Zoom multi stomps on one of my boards...to the same audience....no body knows, notices or gives a shit....back in the day I too showed off how much stage real estate my pedal board could cover having a lot of expensive colourful and complicated pedals on then....these days I take it as a challenge to keep my board as small and effective as possible and thanks to this brilliant Zoom unit I can keep it practical and still have the same wham factor on stage....

If you repainted the box and put some interesting design/artwork on it the gear snobs would be fooled into thinking it's a custom unit and pay hundreds for it.

I bought two I like them that much. Most underrated pedal out there for the money and fun factor..👍🇦🇺

I had the Zoom B1 Four for bass. Honestly I love it with one major exception. It had no on/off switch. You had to reach down and plug it in to turn it on or off. I know that sounds minor but it annoyed the piss out of me and I sold it.

Thinking some more: I’m loving some of the “exotic” delays on the MS-50G. If I’m REALLY nitpicking, I’d say the one feature which would make this box just-about perfect for me: to be able to send it external tempo (tap via a pedal input, or USB MIDI), so I could sync the delays to the Disaster Area Designs micro.clock on my pedalboard. I think this pedal could still be a great addition to the lineup here…

When I ordered this, I didn’t realize one could assign more than one effect. I assumed it was like the one-stomp Line 6 box. That was a really nice surprise. How often does one buy a gear bit, and get it home to discover that it does much more than you expected. Zoom are great. Although their mind bending, mental illness-exacerbating efx largely make up for it, one thing L6 do have over Zoom are the several guitar synth efx! They’re not especially deep on parameters, but they’re there, and they’re not bad at all. I think I must be the only one who uses the synths included in L6 gear.

So I got one of these specifically for my synth. It's probably the best synth pedal I've ever seen (outside of the Miku)

if you're getting into the amp , the amp sim output should be on the combo front or stack front mode. It's beside the cab sim. Too bad you didn't try it.

Use it as an amp sim, put an overdrive infront of it and go direct. This pedal shines when used that way.

Tengo el MS-70CDR, centrado en chorus, reverbs y delays, y cuando lo obtuve por primera vez supe que no necesitaria otros pedales de esos tipos, mi hermano es mas de pedales analogos y siempre, siempre, hacemos comparaciones y por mucho el MS-70CDR tiene todo lo que en todos los genereos se necesite y más. Una joya escondida, este pedal es irreal.

Can you use this pedal for Akai Ewi and iPad? Thanks

Great demo 😊 What are the differences b/w zoom ms-70cdr vs ms-50g? Which one should we buy if our budget is enough for only one zoom pedal? Thanks!

I have Marshall 15 watt amp. Will it sound good with that? Or I have get more high end amps for better sound?

I have one on my pedal board. I love it and use it all the time.

How does this sound so good?? Wow the value for money is out of this world

Youre very straight and positive! cheap or costly gear, youre honest about , and give your opinion, like that a lot! Im a big fan of ZOOM G2s, got 6 of them: for example my tone liking is now more into Jazzy things, so I just changed from a clean patch to a Fender Clean setting( Fender Twin 65...), which I younger thought was too dark or sumthin...! and so didnt have to buy a Fender sounding pedal! and the Fender Combo in this ZOOM 50 sounds just perfect! thinkin about getting this Z50, cause the G2s been discontinued long ago, and this has multiple parameters to EQ my tone: really the Fender Combo sounds soo good in many videos!!! there are whole amps( that use some or other kinda modelling, and fall short of getting it to ones liking..., lately I listened to the Blackstar Debut 50r, but theres sumthin thin and tinny about the voicing, MAYBE a speaker change, but luckily I got 2 good trans amps: Fender Stage 100 and Harley Benton Mosfet Lead 65, so Im covered! at home I just play thru Fender Frontman 10Gs, quite enough on my bookshelf! Ha Ha! sorry bout this rant, Im playing 300€ Yamaha Pacificas, but with right pedals 100€ or less they sound very good to me! Happy Playing evrybooty! Cheers, Kimmo

Great pedal and runs off 9V! Does anyone know if Zoom do something like this with exactly the same effects but with extra footswitches for changing preset and bypassing? And no, not the new multistomp- something in a bigger format.

love this i just bought one i love it what a fun lil pedal

Hi Ryan, a superfan here. Do you think is there a huge difference concerning Spring 63:reverb with EHX Oceans 11? I compared both side by side and sounded quite similar to my ears. Thanks a lot!!

These software pedals sound great but how do they sound in a large hall through a large amp that is mic'ed to a PA system?