Two tips that help me...1. Turn off autosave, this keeps your favourite chains intact after you've messed about with the parameters. If you like the results of your parameter changes, you can choose to save the chain when desired. 2. Using an empty save slot, create an 'init' chain, without any effects added, (ie a named, but empty chain) and use this one as your go-to chain every time you want to set up a new one-off chain that you don't intend to keep. That way you'll always have a slot free for playtime! :-)

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Great tips, thanks!

@MeneTekelUpharsin

Жыл бұрын

How do you turn autosave off?

@treeface5000

Жыл бұрын

@@MeneTekelUpharsin Go to Menu, (press the first knob down), then choose Settings, and then AutoSave (on/off) should be the last option :-)

Particle Reverb (no movement) with a Stereo Panning Delay (slow tempo) works very well on any sound :)

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

I'll have to give that a shot, thanks!

First thing I did was clear all the effect chains on the device. When you have a completely clean device everything is much easier to understand.

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

That's a great tip if you already have an idea of what you're after :) This was more for folks who just wanted to use it straight away. Thanks!

That's what I was looking for, the device itself is so cool, but rather tricky to save own effect chains as amateur musician, thanks for visualizing this. Will try some own settings soon.👍

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Glad to help, thanks for watching!

Thanks for this tutorial! I borrowed an MS-50G from a friend and was pretty lost when I tried messing around with it. I wasn't having much luck finding something that covered just the basics of getting started using one of these pedals until I found your video.

@FreeBeat

Ай бұрын

Glad to help!

Nice short turorial. Becaus it is an Guitarstomper it has a tuner in it too. I use this to tune samples which i recorded of myself.

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

I can always trust Freebeat to come up with a good tutorial... just the stuff I needed to get going 🙂

I use a MIDI switching pedal - DOREMIDI - to cycle through patches on the fly, rather than reaching down to fiddle the buttons. It also powers the pedal so on a gig I only need the right leads and a USB power supply.

I love this pedal. I have it permanently hooked to the aux outs of my mixer. It's easily hackable to use distortion and most anything else from the guitar- and bass-specific versions of the pedal. Also, despite the form factor, I can't imagine this as anything other than a tabletop unit.

@zachariahpoltergeist4516

Жыл бұрын

Right? It's like it was made to just be hand controlled. I feel like I'll really screw something up if I ever stomped on it!

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

It definitely seems like it was intended to be used by hand haha. Thanks for watching!

@jamisondonald384

Жыл бұрын

@@FreeBeat you would spend all your time squatting down

Thank you for the tutorial. Although it is a short video you have covered almost all the functions 🎉

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank you very much! Well organized information in less than 10 minutes. That was quick and clean (not dirty at all)

@FreeBeat

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

Been looking at one of these for a while, this was quite illustrative of its power

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

It's a beast!

Jezus christ... I was going mad crazy about navigating through the fx chains, etc.. I never realized those were black buttons left and right of the large silver button. FML...I thought those icons here just there for looks. THANK YOU!!!

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Haha glad I could help you out! Have fun and thanks for watching :)

Thanks. Just what I needed. Simple and concise yet comprehensive.

This is on my list, my buying habits are weirs, if I can afford an new module, I look for that, around $600 if I have enough for some pedals I go onto Amazon and get as many different ones as I can, I mostly use them as a starter project, it’s fun to me any, but some these inexpensive pedals sound great all ready! Have a great mini tour! One more thing is like Lore and Fable are more synths than effects, the hologram suite is a must have as well, but I still get inexpensive ones to compare and use as a basis for a mod. I’ve also been known to break em down and make a eurorack of them. When I have a successful mod, I immediately buy it again, I’ve used thr same pedal 3 times doing this! It saves a lot of money compared to buying th parts..Most of mine are didital, IAm not a n analog snob! Great video, and this is one I could make any better, and it’s not exactly price friendly to experiment with it.

@FreeBeat

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, as always!

Thanks for the greatly needed basics!

Great video! Stereo is extremely important! As I posted on yesterday’s, you can run two different effect chains into different sources, in my case amps. I mentioned I can have the left side with a Dreadbox lethargy and the right with the Dreadbox krobli and connect the envelopes so you get both on each side but one is more prominent on each side, an autopingpong if you will! peace! I’d like to point out the effect’s change your synth into something else, it is like buying a whole new synth!

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Thanks awesome, thanks as always!

And I will revisit this later today when my new one arrives from Zzounds!

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, I hope you love it!

Thank you for your vid! Everything is clear now!

@FreeBeat

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Perfect, thanks!

Nicely done.

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Zoom ms series is quite good. I use the ms60b ( for bass ) and yeah that's the problem when you want to adjust or change effects, you'll have to bend and reach for it. But fortunately, we found a solution for it. The power of DIY 😂

Excellent video. I’ve had one of these for over a year and my brain just cannot grasp it… I think you might have finally solved it for me!

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

That was really helpful! Hope to see more of that 👍

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

You definitely will!

Thanx, as a usual - great job! In your taste, which is better for reverb/delay effects for microfreak”s sound - this one or korg nts-1?

BTW if your short of batteries and don't have a 9V adaptor, you can use a USB Mini B cable to power this via a phone charger.

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

That's a great tip, thanks!

That’s a really helpful video. Thanks

@FreeBeat

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Perfect and quick thanks 👍🏻

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

There’s a video how to hack this thing and get more sounds, I’m looking for it, I’ll let you know when I find it. It’s just installing a newer Zoom unit into the firmware. That one’s not stereo though.

Shed load of information here to get people started with this fine pedal. Great video! Thanks.

Great tutorial, man! Tanks!

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Fantastic tutorial :D Don't have one but I feel comfortable that if I had one now, Id manage my way through it :D

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you for the video. This was very helpful.

Perfect. Thank you very much. Helped a lot..

Always love your videos. I own this pedal and learned a few new concepts. Thanks!!!

How to bypass or turn off all the fx in presets? Because the toggle button in the middle is for turning on/off only one fx in a chain?

Thanks!

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Brilliant, thanks

Zoom G1X and G1 Four had less menu diving and scrolling as you can see the full chain on it's display and alter them with knobs right near. I chose G1 as it is more immediate but a bit less functionality for sure.

Nicely done!

My word If thats the basics just what is this thing capable of? Brilliant video and thank you. I will practice with mine now. And now for the sixty four dollar question.. If I am doing Ambient stuff do I need a Strymon Blue or Big Sky or will this thing do it?

I guess I'm not the first to say this but now you need to find the youtube video that tells you how to follow an easy hack so you can load all of the other zoom effects onto it from their other pedals so you can have access to distortion/overdrive and loads of others :)

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

I have the feeling I'm going to be answering this question a lot haha. I have the pedal on loan from zZounds so I won't be doing that on this channel unless I get my own. Thanks for watching!

One thing the Ms70 does have over a standard pedalboard is the ability to rearrange the chain with minimal effort. I was missing that so I got a Patchulator 8000 which is a pedalboard patchbay that gives me back that ability... Only thing missing is patch saving, but that can be a benefit when you occasionally find a completely new sound while trying to dial in something you used before.

@FuZZbaLLbee

Жыл бұрын

I have been eyeing the DF audio minibay for that same purpose. But do really like the way the Patchulator looks 🙂

@SexyNinjaMonkey

Жыл бұрын

​@@FuZZbaLLbee The patchulator is great if you only run one synth at a time through a pedalboard and just want to rearrange the chain, the minibay looks like it would be great if you want to switch which synth is using which pedals.

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I love how easy it is!

Thank you for video, this is the best i found, easy way explanations and really clear! Can i ask u one thing (im beginner so forgive me), for a synth poly so stereo, we need at least 4 cables 6.3 for 1 synth? 2 cables from audiointerface in pedal and 2 cables from synth into pedal, its correct?

Mine keeps infinitely restarting itself when battery is low. Can that be mended?

Thanks 🙏 it did help a lot. It took ur tutorial to realise I had to insert the jack to get power 🤪😜🤪 I now look forward to making my own presets as I have the MF I intend to put two separate inputs for LR L for micro freak R for Volca FM 2 I plan to use both the synths one at a time Will I get a LR out from the MS for each synth Or will I get L in L out R in R out OR L in LR out R in LR out Please assist Thanks 🙏 in advance

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

I believe you'll just get a mono out for each side, but I could be wrong. Thanks for watching!

@grandmasterjo1

Жыл бұрын

@@FreeBeat I did try. I put in the MF and Korg Kaoss as inputs. The LR outs into the speakers. When I clicked the Delay PP on the pedal I did get a ping pong separation If that says anything 😊

Top tip get usb n power off power brick cus this awesome thing eats batteries!

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've noticed haha, thanks!

Hi thanks for breaking it down. I’m a bit confused with my peddle though. I understand how you can use the foot switch to turn an individual effect on an off but I can’t work out how to use the foot switch to turn the *whole* chain off so that the pedal is completely bypassed.

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

I believe you could insert a line selector into your chain and then disable that? Not 100% sure though.

@jamisondonald384

Жыл бұрын

Line selector is how, yeah. You put it in front of whatever pedals you want to switch on and off at the same time. You can have things before it in the chain that will remain active, if you wish

@PedroBrando

7 ай бұрын

I enter presets without effects in order to bypass the pedal quickly. About every third preset of mine will be empty .

How do I get distortion/overdrive out of this pedal?

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!

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

I'm honestly not sure. I Googled it, but all I could find is that the 70 has stereo ins and outs whereas the 50 doesn't, but the 50 has more effects? Sorry I couldn't be more help haha.

@projectvolna

11 ай бұрын

I believe 50G is mono. Also I read somewhere that you can change firmware to 50G on 70MS.

@CedricSatterfield

8 ай бұрын

@@FreeBeatms50 has amps and cabs, those one doesn't

The pedal can also be powered by USB.

there is a way to install more effects on the unit, including amp sims and distortion. I did it to my MS-50G and I'm sure it would work on the 70.

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

Yup, I won't be doing that since I'm just borrowing the pedal from zZounds, but it's great to know the pedal can do so much more!

How to turn off the screen?

@FreeBeat

Ай бұрын

Like power of the pedal?

Hello! In regards to GAS, and me being fascinated with gadgets that bend sound …I have the NTS-1, would this Zoom pedal still be a must have? Thank you so much!

@JeremyForTheWin

Жыл бұрын

IMHO the nts1 effects are just as good if not better than the zoom, and you can buy or download custom effects for it. The zoom has a wider range of effect types though, like overdrive etc.

@kengreen6901

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for that. It helps a lot. I’m on a low budget!

Zoom MS 50G and MS 70 CDR combination.. robust .. effect unit combination..

Great tutorial! Noob question: is there a particular reason chain arrangement goes right to left?

@Digital__rb

10 ай бұрын

Input to output..

@unclemick-synths

5 ай бұрын

It's a convention with stomp boxes. Apparently it's because most guitarists are right-handed so the lead would get in the way if it crossed in front of the player to go into the left side of the pedal.

Great pedal, superb effects. The only really really bad thing about it is that it doesn't have a headphone output. That is, the configuration with it is never complete, it always requires something else. When you're in a studio or recording a video, you don't notice that. But if you just want to use it for effects for some synth, it turns out that synth+this pedal is just not enough - you really need yet another device. That's a real shame.

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if I've ever seen a guitar/bass pedal with a headphone out! That would be pretty neat actually haha.

@marcosrotllan

Жыл бұрын

This is why you need the dude mixer. Great portable 4track mixer

@jw112mail

Жыл бұрын

It does not have an amp sim in it. If it did I could understand the desire to have a headphone jack

@JeremyForTheWin

Жыл бұрын

put a y-splitter on the output?

@SubarmineHorse

8 ай бұрын

​@jw112mail Using Zoom Effect Manager you can load amp simulations from some of the other Zoom pedals to the CDR.

They easiest way to make a tutorial is to RTFM and to go online to teach others... some tutorials are even sound like the manual is read behind the camera.

u should hack your MS70cdr ;)

@FreeBeat

Жыл бұрын

As I've stated in many other comments, I have this pedal on loan from zZounds.com, so I won't be hacking it haha. Thanks for watching!

Perfect timing, i was going to finally understand this blue gem, mainly for reverbs and delays. Still looking a decent compressor, the 1st in my list is the empress compressor mkii bass... Any about?