Zoom B3n Bass Guitar Multi-Effects Processor Pedal, With 60+ Built-in effects, Amp Modeling, Stereo Effects, Looper, Rhythm Section, Tuner

I had high expectations for this purchase. For how I use it, I'm not disappointed. Not particularly easy learning curve, but, doable. This thing can do A LOT! Messing with the presets achieves such a numerous variety of sounds. Then, making your own is kind of epic, really. So far, so good. Seems tough and well made. I can virtually dial in just about any bass sound I want, or at least pretty dang close. It's a very useable bass tool, as well as a crazy fun bass toy!!! Get the FP02M expression pedal to get just a little more out of the B3N! Yes, I highly recommend!

First the good - This is a very solidly built multi-effects box with a lot of good effects pre-programmed, nice sound with little to no noise, and plenty of space to copy and modify the programmed effects or create your own from scratch. That's probably the B3n's strongest selling point. If you want to create your own special effects, or learn about effects by tweaking various parameters and stringing multiple effects in series, you'll like the B3n. If you don't want to edit or create effects, the B3n has a lot, and they run the gamut from mellow, a little compression, a little echo or chorus... all the way to full blown outer space synthesizer effects. There are YouTube videos where all of the effects are quickly demonstrated. As a student bass player, the effects are a distraction from the fundamentals I need to learn but they're fun, and a little occasional fun keeps the learning interesting. The B3n has some features that are very beneficial to the student. The built-in chromatic tuner is excellent. The B3n can serve as a headphone amp so I can practice at 3AM with open ear headphones and not bother anyone. I can select one of the many drum tracks to help practice rhythm. I'll often learn a lesson without the drum track so I can learn as fast as possible by playing the tougher passages slower, and once both hands know what they're doing I can add the drum track and play it in proper time. I can use the accessory input to mix in an MP3 accompaniment lesson and play along while reading the music and playing the bass part. The accessory input could also be handy for amateurs playing with mixing their own music while using bass pedal effects. The looper allows me to record a bass line, loop it, and then improvise a melody over it which is good for freestyle practice or play. There are some B3n quirks. I hoped I could use it with three effects (Zoom calls these patches) active and switch them on and off as I liked with the three stomp switches, and the B3n does work like that. However, there are so many effects that you'll probably want to make copies in sets of three that you use together and stay within a bank of three, switching banks of three between songs. You can't quickly change between effect #4 and effect #67. Holding down the scroll foot switches quickly jumps to fast scroll mode, but it can take several seconds to locate an effect. You can't stop in the middle of a song and do that. Each effect is created by stringing together up to seven basic modules - compression, delay, amplification, filtering, etc. When in edit mode, each of the three LCDs shows the parameters for a different effects module, and the four knobs under each LCD are used to adjust the module's parameters. Some effects modules are so complex that they need two consecutive LCDs and up to eight parameter knobs. The black scroll pedals at the bottom are used in edit mode to scroll through the effects modules if there are more than three. This approach makes the B3n very powerful and flexible, but also more complicated. If you just want to play with the large array of factory programmed effects, you'll probably be frustrated when you accidentally wander into the complex edit mode. Rhythm (the drum tracks) and the looper are programmed as effects modules that can be added to each of the effects as one of the modules (no more than seven), typically at the end of the string of modules. This makes it more complicated to use the rhythm and looper as you are in edit mode to access these features. I wish Zoom had added these as stand alone features, but the features are implemented digitally with a digital signal processor and a separate drum module and looper would have needed another DSP. This makes these features at best a toy to play with at home or maybe a studio feature. I wouldn't want to try to use rhythm or looping for a live performance. No feature that requires fingers to push buttons and twiddle knobs is stage friendly. For use in a live performance, the looper should have dedicated stomp buttons for RECORD ON/OFF and PLAY ON/OFF, or optional external foot switches. There's a jack on the back for a pedal, but it's an analog expression pedal to control the volume or wah wah or a few other effects that can be programmed to accept pedal parameter adjustment, which is pretty cool. I wish there was a jack for Zoom's external foot switch to operate the looper. Be careful using the processor hungry effects modules together. There's a table that lists the percentage processor power that each module uses. Many combinations of seven modules would use more than 100% of the DSP's mojo and that might be what causes crashes. I've never had a crash, but I mostly stick to factory effects. There is a warning message when the DSP is getting close to its processor limit. A DI output would have been nice, but Zoom managed to pack a lot into the B3n at this price point and the DI apparently didn't make the cut. The USB port is only for firmware updates. It can't feed any form of digital audio to a computer. If you want to record the output, you'll need to record the audio out, with the inherent noise issues and problems getting an acceptable signal level. The firmware updates can only be done with Windows or Mac PCs. I use Linux so I'm out of luck. Apparently, many versions of Windows and Mac aren't compatible either. It'd be nice if the B3n saw the USB connection at power up and jumped into update mode where it was an external USB drive, and the upgrade file could be copied to the B3n, and the next time it powered up without the USB connection and saw the file, it automatically installed it, or there could be a manual Install Firmware option in the Setup menu. I shouldn't need to install PC software to upgrade the B3n's firmware. Overall, the B3n is solidly built which implies a pro would use it on stage, but the drums and looper are not stage friendly, and I'd stick to banks of three effects per song so they could be quickly turned on and off with the stomp switches.

I purchased this about two weeks ago from Amazon after messing around with my buddy's B3. First off I'll say I love it. Really fun to get some different tones out of my Carvin bass. I've only been playing bass for about two years but play every week for my church. The biggest difference I've noticed between by friends B3 and the B3n is the ability to easily switch between patches using the "scroll" foot switches. You also can create patches with up to seven different effects and amp models if you want vs only 3 on the B3. It doesn't have a DI output but for me that hasn't been an issue. I just plug it in to my effects loop. I originally ran it to my line-in before the amp but was getting too much noise out of my GK 550 Fusion amp with one 15" cab and a 4-10" cab. Running it through the effects loop fix the noise issue and I just use my amp's DI out at church to the PA. The other thing I really enjoy with this pedal is the drum machine and looper which allows me to practice at home by myself. I've actually been able to lay down a simple bass line and work on soloing which is something I've never even tried before now. The pedal is actually helping me learn the fretboard better. You can also add the looper to your own patch or any of the pre-made patches for practice. The quality of the tones coming out of this pedal are definitely much better than I was expecting and are very good for live performance.

I really like this pedal. I'm a very experienced pro player, but not an experienced pedal user. I got this mostly for the synth bass and octave. I like the synth sounds and tracking is good, on par with the M**Bas* supersynth. The surprise is that I really like playing through many of the other sounds. I find myself keeping the Sansamp setting on often, and using a slap preset as well. It's a good pedal, built well, comes with power supply, and is actually useful and fun to have.

I love it I read the manual to set it up and this is where I got into a mess. instructions are clear but sectional so it a go back and forth till you get use to the functions. also it doesn't indicate when modes are active not functions but modes. got confused if I was in stomp mode or not. despite this still amazing product as I play I am sure it will become easier.

I wanted to love this thing. I've played Zoom stuff in the past, and they make really good value stuff. So, when I started learning bass more seriously and started looking to gig as a bass player (I've been a guitarist most of my life, but bass is new to me), I went looking for an effects unit that would provide a decent octaver, a decent looper, and a decent compressor. This pedal seemed to tick off all the boxes and the dozens of other effects and the really nice multiple stomp interface looked absolutely perfect. And, there is a lot to love about it: Sturdy box, good stompy pedals, and good scroll navigation pedals. But, and these are some big buts: - The looper is unusable with rhythm mode due to a really stupid misfeature. I mean, it loops, but it stops the rhythm and does a four beat count-in whenever you hit record on the looper! You cannot treat the looper as a live instrument that you play alongside the rhythm feature of this device. There's no technical reason for them to do it this way, and there's no musical reason to do it this way. The rhythm is already counting time! I can't fathom how this made it through the design process. And, the mandatory count-in cannot be disabled. I'd add a star if they'd fix this one really stupid problem. When used without the rhythm feature it works as expected, though I wish I could use two of the stomp buttons for looper controls, or plugin another pedal to augment the looper controls (it's hard to do the double tap stop, etc. when playing complicated stuff). So, this is not a great, or even good, looper. It's merely mediocre. Allowing use of another button for controlling the looper and fixing the stupid count-in problem would make it good. - The synths are cheesily overdone and the parameters I would like to tweak to make them less cheesy aren't tweakable. What I *want* is a subtle enfattening of the tone on the low-end with some sawtooth goodness. What I get is a squelchy mess of resonance and warbles as it tries to follow. This is true of a lot of the effects in this box: They sound like a parody of what a good implementation sounds like when configured at its most extreme settings. Z-Syn (one of the synth effects in the unit) is probably the best of the synths, and can be fun to play with. - The octaver is warblier than I'd like. It tracks almost, but not quite, fast enough. But, the resulting sound is quite splotchy and doesn't provide the smooth rumbles that I really want from an octaver. And, pitch shifting up also warbles. So, all but the most subtle of the pitch effects are mostly unusable. Chorus, phaser, flange, and detune are all pretty good, though. In short, if you want an octaver, a looper, and a compressor, this is probably not the best way to get them. It does the compression job well, anyway, but it looks like I'll be buying a dedicated looper and a dedicated octaver, eventually, to make up for the weakness of these. The price is right, though. This costs a lot less than buying dedicated pedals and it feels well-made. Let me summarize some of the good things, to be fair to Zoom: - Great price! You probably won't find better for less, even from the new super cheap brands (Mooer, Ammoon, etc.). - Great form factor! I love all the stompers. Stomp, stomp, stomp! - Lots of usable effects and a few unusable ones. It's just really unfortunate the unusable ones are the ones I most wanted to use. - The dynamics, fuzz/distortions, and amp/cab models are all good enough for live and maybe even for recording, if the bass won't be front and center in the mix. - Good user interface. It acts like a bunch of stomp boxes, and you organize it like a bunch of stomp boxes in the UI. Very intuitive for guitarists/bassists who've used pedals a lot. Limited routing options (though not compared to other multieffects in this price range), but this is a case where flexibility would be a hindrance. It's super easy to get the right combination of effects and order them how you want. I waffled between giving this 3 and 4 stars for a long time. If the looper were fixed, or if I didn't care about the looper, it's an easy four stars. If the octaver and synths weren't so darned warbly and cheesy, too, it'd be a five star device. But, the price makes it a no-brainer for anyone that doesn't prioritize those features or isn't very picky about how they sound. I pretty much can't use the synths or the octaver; they might as well not be in the device at all, given how poor they sound. So, I got maybe half of what I was expecting from it...but, still, damn good price.

I've had this pedal about a week now. It is outstanding for the$200 I paid for it. As a bass player, you really don't need a bunch of effects and honestly the more crap you have in your signal chain the more noise you will add. Runnin my bass into the B3n and to my amp is dead quite. The modeling for the preamps, amps, and cabs are very good. All of the other effects also sound great though I mostly use the Freeze pedal effect for practicing runs over root notes, the Octaver for some specific songs, and of coarse the compressors, of which there are several and sound great. It also has a looper and drum machine thing that would be very good for practicing if I didn't already has my DAW doing backing tracks. Build quality is very nice and they layout is great. Some parts are plastic but heavy duty (with the possible exception of the sides which are not a bid deal. I may actually add some wood side panels there. I can highly recommend this unit for any bass player that would rather focus on playing that on hauling a ton of gear, messing with a big pedal board, or spending a ton on gear. To be fair, I have done all of these things for decades and I'm sure I will continue to but this pedal is excellent. Way better than multi-effects units I have owned in the past. My grips are few and for the price I guess it is fine but still, this thing could be perfect with a couple of added features which I would have gladly paid for. One is a DI out with ground lift switch. I still have to carry a DI box which seems like a big oversight here. Also, it has a USB connection but so far as I have read and seen in testing, does not operate as an audio interface to the computer. If this could send the audio signal to the computer for recording on my daw straight from the pedal it would be next level. One other small item is the lack of a single button to mute the output. When you press to go to the tuner, if open an optin for mute or with sound and you have to hit a second button to mute. Not a huge deal but not nearly as convenient as just a single tap and walk away.

I compared this to the BOSS units and found the Zoom unit to be a more solid product in construction, design and flexibility of patch setups. I like the sound combinations. Most of the other units are plastic, Zoom units are metal and solid. You can find many good YouTube videos and make your own decision. I'm happy with my decision.

ottimo prodotto, molta varietà di effetti. Qualià non eccellente ma per il prezzo pagato ne vale la pena .Consigliato

This little red powerhouse has completely elevated my bass playing experience. The variety of effects and amp simulations is mind-blowing, and the sound quality is top-notch. The interface is user-friendly, making customization a breeze even for newcomers to multi-effects units. The build is solid and reliable, perfect for gigs and studio work. If you're a bassist looking to take your sound to the next level, the Zoom B3n is an absolute must-have. Best part is I got this at just Rs 3,860.00

De construcción muy sólida y emula de manera muy cercana algunos de los amplificadores más icónicos de la industria.

Un pedal multiefectos, con gran variedad de opciones, muy versátil, a muy buen precio

Simply amazing bass guitar processor in terms of quality sound output, easy to use but I wish if it would have an expression padel attached to it.