Well hallelujah! At last, someone who explains to the novice how to set the damn thing up. Bought one of these a while back and began to lose the will to live after repeated attempts to use it by following the manual. Aha I thought, there must be lots of internet clips to explain the setup. But what do I find? - oogles of guitarists eager to demonstrate it, but not a hint to the practicalities of using it. It seems they don’t understand that I’m not interested in their ego boosting riffs, or in fact the actual sounds because they are what I want to explore myself. Fortunately I found this just as Ebay was beckoning, so thanks for understanding what first time buyers want.
Amen to your comment. The manual that comes with the pedal is just about useless, as our most of the "demo" videos. But Randy provided exactly what I was looking for--how to start from scratch. Thanks!
I bought the MS70.... Couldn't figure it out... The manual is in micro print... And even with no line bifocals, still had to use a magnifier ...got Frustrated with it and just put it up is up for one of these days... The only thing that I noticed that I really liked about the pedal since I could figure the damn thing out... Was that it ran on 2 Double-A batteries... 1st time seeing that 1... Wish more did... Did not even know this one was out... Before I bought the one I have... I would have bought this instead...
Great video tutorial, I recently purchased one of these, and was having such a hard time understanding the directions that I was almost ready to return it. After watching your video, I am positive this will work for what I am trying to replace (Multi effects processor floor unit) without missing a beat. Thanks again!
AT LAST! a demo of this pedal without screaming distorsion! - i am a jazzmusician by heart, but scince i retired , i do play various, going to hook this up to my keyboards -- i have ordered one used, had to pay 50euros but what i have heard, and seen , its worth it! thanks for a good demo!
I can't say enough good things about this pedal! for a guitarist that likes to experiment, have fun, and all that stuff, lol, it is a great pedal. I always say with less expensive pedals, to balance it out with some good ones, plus a good amp (or 2, I play through 2) and a decent guitar, and most pedals will sound pretty good. this pedal is so great for the delays, reverbs and mods like the MONOSYNTH, and the sequence filter sounds, plus it has the slicer sound. THEN when you use it through a USB, you can get like 40 more effects to add, giving you almost 150 or so sounds on one pedal! you need to use this pedal for a week or two, figure out what sounds you don't like on the pedal, then it makes it easier to take those off and add different ones.
This video helps show off some of its versitality. I know it packs a powerful distortion,but it calms right down to jazz and acoustic. That was a real ear catcher to me. Good demo video.
I own Zoom G5 but I never thought that MS50G is far easier to set up and modify especially when you are in hurry on stage. The Zoom G5 has 4 screens but it does not categorise effects, so you have to painlessly scroll ups and downs. I am gonna have this soon! Thank you for this great tutorial.
When you pick a category on the pedal, it starts with the first type of pedal in that category. As long as you arrow UP you go through that category of pedals. He's right, though, if you keep pressing you'll eventually loop around to the other pedals. The category selection is more of a "jump to that place in the list" rather than "a category all on its own of just those pedals".
hey Randy, Nice video. Does the graphic EQ icon reflect the actual settings or is it just a picture? Like, if you change your EQ does the picture show the new setting? These things are awesome for the cost, especially since they are discontinued- they are dirt cheap. I have 2 in the family - an MS50G and an MS100BT. one in the loop and one in the front of the amp.
nice show of functions! I can't tell from manual but can you turn on/off the full chained patches with your foot for live gigs, or does it just scroll through patches?
Excellent Sir..So this could be a nice ambient blues pedal all in one. ? I was looking at the g3xn, gt1, gt 100 or Mooer Ge 200. I'm lost man. This is much cheaper smaller and sounds lush.
Hey, just a quick question i see that all the settings are back to normal when adding them in a new pedal chain, are they always normal eq or do they once sett stay that way on all the chains a specific pedal is used?
can you switch off more than one effect at the same time in the same patch?? i mean, if i have a patch with 4 effects, lets say, 1 reverb, 1 eq, 1 delay, 1 disto. Can i set it so when i press the foot switch it only turn off the reverb AND the delay at the same time (not only the reverb). Can i do that or you could only turn off the effect is shown on the screen?
Ricci Moon there’s an effect called ‘line selector’... put this in your chain and everything after it can then be toggled on and off simultaneously with foorswitch. That’s one way to do it, assuming that this allows you to place the effects in the order you need. The other way would be to have two different patches (one with and one without the pedals you need ) and use the switch to toggle between them.
Zoom, give Randy a job explaining your products. How many people have discarded their MS50G because the manual is so poor? Mine almost went in the bin. It is a great product but needs explaining properly. I bought a Line 6 M5 because I didn’t know how to operate the MS50G but it isn’t as good as the Zoom. Thanks Randy.
Thanks for that - as a jazzer myself, I love your taste in patch creation - your approach was, simple, logical and organised - you're obviously an experienced teacher.
If you are still around, is there anyway you can share your organ patch? No matter what I do, I can’t get an organ patch to sound like that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Michael.
my primary interest is not the functionalities but the quality of the sounds this is the third demo video I have trued to watch the first was a painful experience of some bloke trying to sound like a cross between Satriani Hendrix and Van Halen and ended up sounding like mashed potatoes on steroids
This is very helpful. I sold mine because the interface (and manual) didn’t make sense. I’m selling my expensive gear to fund new stuff but going back to this pedal. It sounds great. This will no doubt help me in my journey.
I wish to use this as a simple stomp box. Can you show me or tell me how to create a patch (add effects) for the 6 effects that I will use the most. I want to use the cursers to scroll between the 6, but I want to use the middle button as a on/off switch for each effect. I can't make heads or tails out of the manual. I believe the first patch in the chain has to be the "line select" so that leaves me with 5 actual effects that I can use. Thank You
You cannot change the buttons functions. You CAN turn off an individual effect in the chain by using the big silver foot switch. But you have to 'select' the effect with the left/right buttons.
Thanks Yeager, I understand that. I read where it is possible to select 5 or 6 effects of your favorite effects and put them in a patch so you wouldn't have to scroll through the entire list (50) to get to what you want. Then use the curser buttons to move between the 6 and use the center button to turn them on/off.
Have a few yes/no questions... 1. Once you set up your patches with A, B, C, etc., is there any way to skip from A to C, or G -- do you have to scroll through each patch to get back to the beginning (A)? 2. If you modify a programmed patch, should you save it as another name so the programmed patch is unaltered? 3. Seems like to begin with, I will use prgrammed patches and tag only a few -- A, B, C, so that switching time between them while playing is held to a minimum. Is this good direction? thanks for the video -- best one I have found.
1. No. A-> B-> C no jumping the order 2. There is a config setting that, by default, saves any changes as soon as you go back to the main screen. You can turn this off, and then if you want to save the change, press the left button to save the patch. 3. That is your only option to switch.
It's true that there's no jumping A, B, C but after C it then goes back to A,B,C and so on so if you've only got 4 or 5 patches alphabetically labelled you're never too far away. You can always copy a patch further down the line and then label it accordingly - so A can be copied and the copy can then be any alpha letter. Not easy to explain but I hope this makes sense.
If you only have A & B it will go back to A after B but if you have A, B & C it will go to C. It's OK if you use an effect per song because you could just click through C and the next patch is A again, but if you're changing effects mid-song its a problem. It's a great pedal though - I find the effects much better than my Boss GT-8.
Great video. Thanks..superb sounding pedal! Big shame you can't use it live switching between let's say a clean and dirty patch and back when playing songs y know. Missed opportunity from Zoom really. Cheers, well done video really.
musacman57 Yes! Can anyone answer this? The button pressing was offscreen so we didn't see what was pressed to move between A to B to C and so on. Did you press the directional buttons left and right to move between these letters? Does this mean you have to hunch down to the floor and use your hands to switch between your saved patches?
@@marianometalful You can scroll through patches A - ? then they start over again. Or set up a patch with the Line Select 15:58 to instantly select between two effects within one patch. Then again you could get down on your knees and start searching around the effects. ; )
You have to delete the pedals one at a time and then rename the patch. Or you can download ToneLib Zoom and it will connect to the pedal via USB and you can edit from a computer or tablet (android only, I think).
Anybody who ever performed live show should know, it will be used A, B (and maybe C) patch. More than that, is too risky to get lost, if you perform live. But anyway great unit and good video.
