Thank you for your exact electric violin string player's pro analysis I need. Your content is not found elsewhere. Appreciatively, Daniel

These effects units are also good for synths and voice. I bought all three types without the pedal for some added spice. The best part of these pedals is that you have full control over tempo/bpm and can adjust on the fly on the computer. These units are great!

Now this is a legitimately useful review! Thank you very much, this tells me everything I need to know as an electric violin player. Appreciate it man!

Great review, thanks for the effort you put into it

Very informative! Thanks for your guys effort

Thanks so much for the likes and comments everyone! Hope you dig the video!

I liked all the knob twisting, in combinations, to show the range of dimension in each effect. For the price, this box is amazing. I paid almost as much for a good pre-amp. I see an A1X four in my future.

I just got mine and I am very pleased. I think this is an amazing value for the money. I attended this primarily for use with my harmonica when I play either acoustic or electric gigs. But it’s great to sing through also.The stock sound bank is excellent, there are extra slots to record your own presets, and you can modify the stock ones. I already have a Zoom 24 track digital recorder and the built-in delays and reverbs and choruses and distortions are all great. On this pedal, I especially love the rotary effect, the chorus effect,and an effect called Sax My Lady, that sounds like a stacked harmony.

Excellent video thanks

great review ❤️

Thank you VERY MUCH for this violin-specific review. Partially based on your review, I just purchased. I perform on both violin and guitar, increasingly playing in different ensembles - ranging from classical, blues/jazz, country and singer-songwriter. I am primarily interested in having excellent acoustic / close-to-natural instrument sound with relatively minimal adjustment setup and gig friendly (predictable, minimal sound check and features that make instrument swap fast and audience friendly). I also hate spending a lot of time mucking with gear and the tonal tedium of over-the-top unnatural effects. (note - K&K and Fishman pickups in my guitars; Fishman piezo and soon a Realist on violins - if I use an AMP rather go direct to board it's Fishman SA-220 which I think sounds pretty excellent for both piezo and/or mic'd guitar and violin without any other signal processing)

It truly is a breath of fresh air to see an honest review without all the BS. I think you 3 hit the nail on the head when you said it wasn't the same as using your favorite gear, but it does have it's uses. I have found that it really doesn't matter how much a person spends on effects, somewhere along the line it will have it's faults for different applications. Take for example a guitarist. If they are trying to play Hendrix, using a classical or flamenco guitar will not produce the desired effect. Even though the classical/flamenco guitar cost 10 times more than Hendrix's guitar, it will never sound like Hendrix. Same thing goes for trying to emulate Yo Yo Ma with a viola. Some of the multi effect units do some things great and other things not so great. It's just the nature of the beast. The Zoom pedal does however offer a beginner a starting point and maybe even a few useful bits and pieces for advanced players. Far from perfect, but the thought was there. My apologies for the rambling diatribe.

Great review...New to amplified strings and JUST bought a helix lt. Its pretty complicated. I may pick up this zoom just to plink around on and travel with.

What’s interesting for me is that having bought the Zoom 9030 30 years ago, things haven’t really progressed that much really. The 9030 had a pretty grainy reverb, but the other effects especially the delays were very good. As you would expect I turned all the controls on the distortion to10!

Great review-VERY useful. How was the acoustic violin hooked up to this unit?

Great review ! Any experience with using the Microcosm to use with electric violin 🎻?

I love the pedals and screen. So good for ancient clumsy big footed players like me. The looper is so easy! Love it.

Hello Sir, i just want to ask about the pedal on A1X Four, is it usefull for violin or just for adjust volume? Thank you.

QUESTION: Zoom advertises this unit as being designed for acoustic instruments. Do these same effects work equally well with an electric guitar (i.e. a guitar with magnetic pickups)? Please answer only if you've tried this. Thanks!

QUESTION: Zoom claims that the Output jack can be used for both "line out" and headphones. I cannot find a "headphones" setting in the manual that would allow the unit to know which output level I want. Does this unit properly support headphones with a correct volume level [as opposed to simply claiming that you can just plug a headphone into a "line out"], and if so how does it know that headphones are connected? Please answer only if you've tried this. Thanks!