gnomethrone wrote:You guys got me curious about those Zooms. I did a little reading and I had no idea how powerful they are these days. Do they work well with loud signals? I run my dirt pedals pretty hot and am wondering if a ms70 or 100 could work at the end of my chain. Also can they do stereo stuff to mono signals? Like could I run my mono signal in and do stereo modulation and delay type stuff splitting to two amps?
No problems at all: I put heavy distorted noise guitars, synths, and whatever I have to make noise into them, and never had headroom problems.
YES: you can enter mono and out stereo!
Once a friend lend me his Eventide Space, so I was able to compare both units (the Zoom MSs have few Eventide based effects in them, and also Strymon revs and delays): the Eventide is more refined of course, but the Zoom emulations are stellar, considering the price of the unit! Also the Strymon delays emulations (having a Timeline myself) are really close to the real thing.
On the MS100 I find also the fuzz/dist/drives to be really good for a digital unit (better than on the Line6 M-series to make an example). I barely use them, but sometimes if I need to experiment of check something, these are really handy indeed.
In a live context nobody will tell if you are using an Eventide, the Zoom or whatever else (only we gear freaks will check... by looking at the pedalboards

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And I like you can save presets (and scroll thru them), which it's like having more pedalboards into one compact pedal (all my reverb presets are chains of more effects, I barely use only one algorithm at the time). I wondered many times to "upgrade" to a Eventide Space/H9 or a Neuenaber reverb, but every time I changed quite instantly mind and got back to my trusty Multistomps: for my needs these are clearly winners!
Swiss army knife pedal!