Zoom B1on  Bass Effects Pedal

Great for a gigging bass player IMHO I am a gigging musician that plays about 60 shows/year across a variety of genres in cover bands – rock, disco, RnB, pop – dance music mostly. I had been using a Line6 Basspod Pro rack unit. When the floor pedal died I figured it was time to look around. The B1On sounds too good to be true, but really offers almost exactly what I need in a pedal – amp sim, EQ, compression, and the ability to create a half-dozen presets for the different genres described above. On the theory that less is more, I…

Amazing practice tool, modeler, and FX suite for bass guitar I have to preface this glowing review for the Zoom B1on with an admission – I’m not a “real” bass player. I have about 20 years of guitar experience and really enjoy playing, researching, and reviewing every guitar-related gadget imaginable, but my bass experience is limited to a single Squier P-Bass and as much knowledge/ability as I might need to lay down a bass track for something I’m recording at home. So I can’t represent that I understand the nuances between this bass effects…

Overall, I Am Very Pleased With This This pedal has a lot of features for the price. On that basis I give it a high rating. The presets are very easy to edit. I just tinkered around with it for a bit and was able to figure a lot of it out. Some of the presets are ones I don’t intend to use, so I will edit them to be more along the lines of what I prefer.I do like the ability to put the effects in whatever order you prefer. That is a big plus. I am not too impressed by the amp simulation though. Look, when you have a…