| Reviewer | Mike |
| Experience | 25 |
| thunderthump@yahoo.com | |
| Review date | May 09 2002 |
| Manufacturer | Zoom |
| Model | 506II |
| Price | $50 at Atomic Music, College Park, MD |
| Item owned for | Less than 1 month |
| Size | smaller than a cigar box |
| Controls | 1 knob for selecting effects, 2 buttons to adjust effect parameters |
| , 1 button to save edits. Also has two pedals to scroll through patches. One | |
| instrument input, one phone/amp output, expression pedal input. | |
| Other | Plastic, through and through. |
My most favored patch is one that I've created using nothing more than the compressor and the "Fat" tone setting. The other utlizes a wah effect, and nothing else. For both patches, I have the ZNR (Zoom Noise Reduction) set at "5". The "amp simulator" settings are okay, but tend to add a great deal of hiss. It's realy a good deal for the money. Thanks to all the crappy reviews this thing's been getting, one can be had for about $50. The tuner function is awesome, by the way. Simply press both pedals down for 2 seconds, and it goes into tuner mute mode. Any other questions, please feel free to email me.
| Construction | 50% | 
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| (Cheap plastic construction) | ||
| Sound | 75% |
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| (Nothing special. ) | ||
| Useability | 85% |
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| Value | 85% |
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| (Multi-effect unit for $50/used. Not too shabby.) | ||
| Overall | 75% |
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