Bass Guitar Player, Get Ready For This!

Thomas says: It's easy to use! All you need to do is read the manual and... viola - you're ready for good sound. This thing is pretty straight foward. This bass effects pedal is decent, providing some basic distortion. Editing patches is confusing at first, but pays off once you figure out what to do. The manual explains things vaugely, but things just fall into place once you play around with it for a while.

One thing that annoyed me is that the AC adapter did not come supplied with it, I had to buy this seperately. If you're on a budget and you want some real good sound I would suggest this pedal but if your budget is big enough then may I suggest go for others.

Sean says: I play metal and rock. I've been playing for just over 2 years, using this pedal, an Ibanez PD7 and a Vintage EST96AF 5 string into a Laney RB3 + 15" cab. I didn't read any reviews efore buying it, it was just going for an affordable price. If I lost this pedal, I would find it again coz I've spent precious time editing patches, I know how to do the setting well again - no problem about that! I love the fact it has 3 outputs (USB, Stereo Jack and XLR), where I can record using the USB and monitor from the XLR or Jack. The control input is useful for turning on and off certain things (delay hold/the drum machine etc). The only thing I hate is the cheek of Zoom and GAK in stating that it comes with the adaptor, yet all I got in the box was a cardboard shape saying 'adaptor not included'! Aaaarghh!!!

Zoom B2 Bass Effects Unit Details; Zoom unleashes its most powerful compact bass pedal yet with the B2. It features 24 bit, 96K audio quality and 32 bit floating point effects (thanks to the ZFX-3 DSP chip) for studio quality sound. Effects range from the subtle to the twisted to accomodate any style of music, with 45 in all (7 of them simultaneous), even including a bass synth! Set a delay time of up to a whopping 5 seconds with the tap button. Features ZNR noise reduction for a clean tone thoughout. As if that wasn't enough, it also has a full drum machine inside, complete with pro-quality PCM samples and 40 preset patterns to practice or jam along with. Also has an onboard chromatic tuner. It's all housed in a rugged metal chassis with an anti-skid rubber bottom.

40 preset bass effects patches, 40 programmable memory patches
7 effect modules with 45 effect types
32-bit processing, 96kHz sampling rate
24-Bit A/D, D/A converters
Built-in drum machine with 40 rhythm variations
Integrated chromatic tuner
Sturdy metal chassis
Operates on 4 AA batteries