In 1997, when I was a teen. I had the chance to work a job removing chairs from the United Nations building in New York. I worked for 2, 10-hour shifts.. all of my friends were planning on going to a music festival the next week and they were trying to persuade me to use my earnings to go to the concert. I saw this Zoom in a store right before that and made my desicion. It was an absolute great choice as it would influence me and continued my journey as a musician. All my friends were disappointed with me but this was the first time I chose myself as a musician over going to see others play. This was a turning point in life. 🤘🎸🎶
If your friends didn't understand why you didn't go with them to the Rock shows to see other bands and you want to do something that's good for you play music pick up the guitar drums and bass that's fine I just say this is follow your dream and don't stop👍
Torture Drome I had purchased this device new and five years ago sold it for $40. It was falling apart but I would buy another because it has two presets that are amazing to this day. Long live Zoom 505.
@@DT-vl8xm I'm having trouble remembering.. it was either $99.. Or $199.. but I only made $200 from the work I was doing so I probably paid the lower amount and bought something else as well.. like picks or strings. 🤘🎸🎶
Completely agree. Got it out of storage when I switched back from acoustic to electric and was astounded how good it still sounded. Let’s see my iPad still be just as useful in 24 years time. Unbelievable value.
I used a 505 and a Boss Metal Zone. That's it. These kids and their modeling this and that and all the RUclips guitar tutorials are spoiled. Try learning how to play by rewinding VHS tapes over and over!
I don’t know about it’s appropriate use for serious metal, but guitarists seem to be more interested in judging others for using cheap and obviously compromised equipment than they are in just enjoying making music. Back in the 90s, this was an incredibly affordable way for a kid to approximate the sounds of modern guitar players. I suspect that a significant percentage of people who openly mock the 505 would love some of the sounds it has in a blind test. Clearly many of the sounds are cheesy and sterile, but there are some great sounds available.
im 35 remember this from 90's , just started a 2 ago months to learn guitar with a used squier strat and my first pedal , a boss SD-1 , but i also got a used zoom 505 II just cause i remember it while i was a kid , just to have something. Setup 5 presets with , clean , others with chorus, delay, mixed in diferent ways , perfect to make duo with my overdrive just to start some blues/rock, i only use zoom 505 Metal dist. for metal riff with some boost from my overdrive, and happy that yesterday i got my first delay pedal so im using the 505 for chorus , boost, EQ and tunning , and happy with my new duo of overdrive and delay , also take in mind i live in argentina here every thing cost a lot more example boss metal zone its around 250 usd. and my boss super overdrive sd1 its 200 usd, so Zoom 505 II its been saving me while i get my complete pedal rig next
ANDY OLIVELLA That sounds like a good setup and the limitation will be you, not your gear (as it always is with everybody). At least you Argentinians have tremendous wine! Please tell me that the malbec is cheap for you down there!
@@lomoholga a good wine here dosent have to be expensive, and some good wine bottles cost less than a happy meal, love malbec too, perfect to open just when your friends arrive and start to put some fire on the grill,
its actually a problem , you buy the meat in 5 min, and the you always stand in front of the wines , and waist likE 10/15 min just looking, cause you dont know what to take this time with you , so many diferent wines , of so many types, years, brands , and price dosent help cause more expensive or cheap dont define quality , i got quickly in my mind +5 wines i know around 5 usd very good ones, the worst is 1 usd , in a box not a bottle, my girfriend father buy it to drink every day on lunch and dinner instead of some coke, MOST WINES DONT EVEN PASS 20 usd,
ANDY OLIVELLA Sounds like a great problem to have. Argentina is famous for having fantastic red wines. You guys started to export them heavily to Canada in the late 90s. Now you and Chile make some of the best reds in the world. Argentina- great wine, great beef, tasty food (locro, asada etc etc) and nice looking cities.
OMG, I have this pedal! I've been playing it almost every day for 23 years! I bought in 1997 on my first trip to Miami, I'm from Brazil, actually. It's so nice to know that someone still uses it around the world, haha. Nice video!
Ola: Has anyone ever used this preset on a song? Me : Sounds like some weird Rammstein thing. Ola: They came from outer space with dildos! Me: Definitely Rammstein.
I remember reading that the guys in Scorpions used Zoom on the Face the Heat album, which is why I bought the 505 cause it was a zoom only one i could afford at the time. ha.. I'm sure the guys in Scorps used Zoom's best at the time.. ha
@@ryant3600 I wish I could remember the name of the distortion stompbox a guy I was in a band with had for years. This was prior to the multi craze. It's Zoom, black with orange trim(I thiiiink? Drugs, y'all...), and was absolutely crushing. I thought his Carvin DC-150 through a Hartke bass combo was the greatest sound in the world at age fifteen, haha.
My uncle was a great guitarist and I kinda followed in his footsteps after he passed. He passed down his Zoom505 guitar multieffects pedal to me and it was really all I had. Just a cheap american strat, the Zoom505 and an even cheaper combo amp (I can't even remember what it was, even though it was only like 4 years ago. Fender maybe?). It holds a special place in my heart, and this video has reminded me of it. I think it may be in storage, so next time I go I'll look for it.
The Zoom 505 was kinda life-changing for me back in the day, as a kid playing in his bedroom, the built-in looper function on the Zoom was the first time I ever got to play solos over a backing rhythm guitar!
Funny, this was my FIRST pedal when playing guitar when I was just becoming a teenager. I LOVED it back then, and it actually seems up to par with a multi-FX pedal I have now. I personally think it's a bit heavy on the bass on the presets, but those can be adjusted easily. I think they wanted to be heavy on the bass end because they expected most to play it through a small amp for practice, but that's just a guess/opinion.
Holy Sh!t, i personally loved my ZOOM 505 Pedal, i purchased mine in '98 and it was stolen with the rest of my gear in early 2001!! Seeing this has my brain going back trying to remember how to work the editing and so on! I loved this pedal, from the effects to the simulators! The transitions between the patches were seamless in my book, i was able to match sounds up to alot of the great artist i was jamming along with at that time! This pedal will always have a special place in my heart! Thanks Ola for checking it out!! Peace brother!! Edit: Gear i had at the time!! Pedal: ZOOM 505 Amp: Laney HC50 Hardcore Guitar: Fender Squier my personal Frankenstein model, yes it was cheaper, but i loved this guitar and setup!
Awesome, I just dug out my old Zoom 505 earlier this week and plugged it in for my daughter who is just staring to learn guitar. She loved the steel drum sounds. Keep up the great work Ola!!
I was a pro lead guitarist for over 50 years, now i am eighty, I dont play commercially anymore, but I bought this unit shortly after its introduction, it has served me well after all these years. Not many like that these days. I play my telecaster and Laney through it and it still works fine, never ever let me down question: Why would you expect this item to perform like a modern unit, that's like comparing a morris minor with a Jaguar.? See if any of your modern units last this long you did qualify your comments towards the end. I say 3 cheers to the makers Phil Colter Cose
Back in the day I used to have *( still have but just doesn’t work)* a Zoom *707 II* . Used to play metal/ grunge/all kinds of stuff with it. The *flanger* patch was one of my personal fav. Used to play *come as you are* , would sound exact the same. Oh and it also had a loop function. I would jam alone all day in my room also did a few gigs with it. There’s an inbuilt volume/gain knob behind near the power switch. Comes in handy playing live when the sound guy doesn’t increase the volume on your guitar. Brings back memories!
I love seeing reviews of gear from before computers were a thing. Brings back memories of when I was just starting out. I still have my Digitech RP-1 and it still kicks ass 25 years later. Keep it up Ola!
I played live with the 808 version in the early 2000s. I had a nice tube amp, but it was not high gain, so I just used the clean channel for volume and a little coloration from the preamp. It really didn't sound bad with a decent cabinet and some EQ. Fairly often, for Metal anyway, it translated better than the sound a lot of local bands were getting by just plugging straight into their Marshall or Mesa without an overdrive or EQ. Digital sounding AF, but tight and aggressive, so it worked well for Metal.
I actually still own one of these, tucked away in my "Big Box O' Guitar Crap" it was fun to play around with. I never recorded with it, but for live 80's metal tones, it was OK. I'm gonna dust it off now, play some old Anthrax on it.....
I bought mine in 1997. I still use it. In fact, it's the only effects pedel I have. Saying that I only play acoustic and one Fender Strat. But it serves my purposes. I use it live for gigs and for recording. It's a cool bit of kit even today (2022!) Any of my music videos I'm playing are using the ZOOM 505. I'm not sure what I'll do when it eventually gives up!
Back in 1998, when my pals had no cheap alternatives, this piece of gear did a good job actually. Of course I don't feel nostalgic about it's sound but I'm thankful for my earliest experiences with effects with the help of this little thing.
These devices sound much better when played in a decent amp with an effects loop. Most of us started using these units on 70 - 100 dollar amps and they sounded like $hit.
Yep, that's how I used it at band practice. It sounded like shit because I didn't know how to set it up properly - now I could probably manage with it... Then I upgraded to a Behringer V-amp 2 and it sounded waaaay better, even though I didn't know how to set that up either :D
4:57 Yes, If you were a kid who played rage against the machine on the 90's ... I think this video would be a lot better if you played some 90's song because that was the mision of that pedal ... Cheap gear for 15 years old 90's kids
just took out mine, got it from 96, found this video, still a cool rig, this was my first rig, for the price, you couldn't get any better, I had never used a computer back then. this unit is robust, and still in good nick., love it man jammed with it on a Dynacord amp and a cheap epiphone cherry red guitar
That "effect" is called "Headlong", and Brian may uses a similar sound in the intro of the Queen song, "Headlong". I still have one of these pedals stashed away somewhere. I actually recorded an album back in 2000 with one.
The actual effect is called "step", the preset is called "headlong", a similar effect can be found on some Boss phasers like the Phase Shifter PH-3, and multi effects units such as the GT-3, among others.
I was at a buddies the other night. He has an even older version of this, with an expression pedal. Was blown away at the heaviness of some of the stock presets. Couldn't believe my ears.
I wanted a zoom. Had no real distortion for years, just a practice amp with one (clean) channel. Eventually got a korg ax30g (which was terrible for high gain, but whatever).
There were forums dedicated to patch setting that were pretty amazing back in the day. Could just search for a sound you wanted and people that spent days tuning their sound would upsload the patch settings for you to copy.
Ahhh maaan!! I remember this so well 😁 first pedal and was awesome to run mic through with the phase and delays. Nostalgia indeed...when my knees were a mic stand
@@ericbitzer5247 likewise I was just yesterday thinking how I could use as multi fx in my interface. I know I could find something FAR better but the nostalgia appeals here. To use equipment from way back at start, alongside what have and learnt since. Great little boxes these, wish now I hadn’t stabbed mic stand through mine
Same. I actually had the 505II which wasn’t bad for the time. It was either this pedal for $89 with multiple effects (great value) or 1 Boss Metal Zone for $99, which apparently in the rock community is a crappy pedal too. SMH
Ola almost unlocked one of the biggest keys to my sound there. The lead gain channel is low key the best gain pedal on the market! Just a few changes and it's literally my favorite overdrive pedal.
In Ola's hand EVERYTHING and all pedals chugg in different ways: just mini-chugg, super-chugg, uber-chugg or mega-chugg or Ola-chugg, . . . 2 Cheers from Canada !
That's the problem with modern guitar players today. They want that perfect sound with one click and no time to make it! If you take the time and put in the effort, you can literally make anything sound great. Besides, why do you want to sound like someone else? I want to sound like me and that is the idea of all those controls and options in gear! Love your show!!!!
I don't think that's the problem. You can spend hours setting up a good tone in a modern Amp Modeler / Multi-Effects. But now you have more options to make it sound great
I remember when I was young and have a Zoom 707 II. Everybody tells me that BOSS is a much better choice, because ZOOM is too noizy!! So I buy a BOSS ME-33!! (we need to understand that I was a broken guitar player kkkk) I really prefered the ZOOM sound and missed so much my old guitar pedal! lol!! Just like 4:34 !!! Some sounds nobody dares to make because everyone desire to do what another one have already done!! A band with old instruments and equipment shurely can make a lot of money because even this ZOOM 505 sounds good!! You only need to "open your ears" the hear things without prejudice!! Thank you so much for this videoo!!!
I had or actually still have somewhere the 506 which was the bass guitar version. It had an octave down effect that tracked flawlessly. If you played guitar chords it would octave only the lowest note like a bass guitar following along. I'm curious, could the 505 do that or did it lose it with chords?
"Has anyone ever used this preset on a song?" As I know, Tom Morello on Audioslave's "Shom me how to live". Thanks for the video, I had one of these for short time, but bought 2nd version and I still have it, but not using it...
This and the 9030 are so rad. I’ve heard that the guitar tone for Broken/Downward Spiral era nine inch nails used the 9030 (with marshal jmp1 preamp) extensively.
There is a song of brazilian band Angra that uses this same effect, but I don't remember the name now. Mega Death's guitarrist Kiko Loureiro was sponsored by Zoom back in that days.
I recall that D3 step arpeggiator being linked to Brian May at the time. The intro to "Headlong" used it. I loved my 505 in the 90s and 2000s, especially for its chorus and flanger. Only really retired it when the components became noisy with age.
I still have one. A roommate in college was going to toss it out. I kept it. I love it. I don't use it much. I had to solder the jacks a couple of months ago. Its a kick ass little thing. First one of it's kind. I've kept it for memories. It still works great. I have completely forgotten what presets I had set and will sit programming it one day. My old RUclips channel got deleted but I had a few metal covers on there. Used to connect it after the wah straight into the crate 60w half stack. The combo used to give great 90s tones. Sorry for the long post. I just love this thing. I used to use a esp m50 painted in Van Halen bumblebee theme n a Jackson Rhoads V with gold pinstripes. I painted the guitars at home. Used flat gold coz I found the paint can in the basement at a friend's place. It truly sounds good if the amp and guitars are decent. I had a zoom 8080 around the same time. That thing was amazing.
The weird fx is the "stepper" and zoom claimed to be the inventor of this midulation fx, it sounds like a reso filter with a sequenced frequency. It can be heard in the bridge of queen song headlong! Anyway This was my 1st multifx, it was a good product to experiment with fx, and actually the manual was wery well made because it also explained very good all the fx and how they fxs do to the sound
This was hilarious. I literally took mine out of a box a few days before you shot this. It was formerly not working, must have been corrosion on the contact surfaces. I cleaned it up plugged it in and it brought back a lot of memories. I use to put mine into an Ampeg V4 half stack and it sure chugged and surprised a lot of peeps. Thx bro, a real shocker.
I used to play with one of these for church on sundays, i used to plug in into a direct box, mixer then to two spekaers "acoustic panasonic" models. I remember jamming the shit out of this pedal when sunday services were over and no one was around
The other guitarist in my first band used one of these. I had a DOD FX7 featuring the legendary Grunge distortion. We sounded like turds in an ashtray, but we sure made lots of noise!
I started playing seriously using a Zoom pedal like this, but mine had preset drum beats to play along with, and a used Schecter Omen 6, through a pair of headphones. I squeezed every drop of tone out of that thing, and it served me well until I could afford to upgrade. It also helped me to appreciate how a really good tone can influence your playing. It's kinda like learning to play on an old Acoustic with insanely high, stiff action, and still able to ring out some clean full chords, and then picking up a PRS with action like butter, and seeing your hands fly across the fingerboard.
For what it was, especially during its time, it was great for the musician on a budget, especially for practice. I can’t remember if line 6 was out when these were out or if Line 6 debuted its Pod after, but pods were anywhere from $300-$350, you could get a zoom multi fx pedal for less than $200.00, I even remember the digitech BP100 (for bass) however they made them for guitar and vocals as well and they range from a VP 50 of BP 100 and the BP is 300 I could be mistaken but there may have been a 200 model as well but they were around 50 or 100 200 or possibly even 150 and then 300 for the 300 series and they were good for what they were at the time they were around. Speaking of hey Ola why don’t you try one of the GP 200 is the one that had two petals like that soon 505 but it had an expression pedal as well the GP 100 I think was set up just like that to petals no expression pedal or that may have been the GP 50 it’s been so long I can’t remember and I’m surprised I remembered what I wrote here LOL
I still have the “newer” silver version of this. Never thought to use it without headphones... 🤣 You can hear that trademark “Zoom” tone in some of Prince’s live recordings.
I have the 505 and that effect is called something like steps or stepping and it's also used in Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day, although it's a lot stronger
I still have this pedal! It was $99 before taxes at the time, and an amazing investment! The flanger setting (D1) was a huge selling point for me. The only major gripe I've always had about this pedal is that the effects are so "hodgepodge-ly" organized. I wish they would have put the effects banked together according to likeness rather than being so scattered. The E3 setting with both a higher and lower octave is pretty cool. The F4 acoustic guitar simulator is actually very close to an acoustic-electric. A nice feature is that you can hold the edit button for "at least 1 second" (as the manual says) and this activates or deactivates the bank hold function, which means that when you switch banks up or down, you then have to press both up and down pedals at the same time in order to switch to that bank. Although this pedal uses 4 AA batteries, they last surprisingly long before they die out. I recently started playing accordion, and I hooked a microphone into this pedal, and I can get some awesome electrified accordion sounds! I'm sure an electric violin or mic'd saxophone would be cool through it as well. I'm glad I still have this pedal after all these years.
Here's how mine was usually set up. I had the Zoom FP01 expression pedal plugged into it. A1 was lead with wah, A2 metal with FP01 as a whammy pedal, A3 lead with FP01 as a harmonizer, A4 lead with chorus & delay with FP01 as volume pedal. I generally kept all the other patches as is but did experiment with them in terms of what I could use the sounds for. F6 was supposed to be an acoustic tone but it didn't really sound like an acoustic to me so I used it as a warmer clean tone when I wanted something nicer than bypassing to the amp by pressing the 2 pedals at the same time. The tuner in bypass was very handy.
I love that "step" effect that makes the "old school outer space sci-fi" sound, I have a 506 somewhere in a closet, bought it around 14 years ago, played with it, couldn't set it up properly because I was fiddling too much, but those effetcs were fun to play with, I should find it back and plug it in again and screw around again, it was a bit impractical but fun.
In 1997, when I was a teen. I had the chance to work a job removing chairs from the United Nations building in New York. I worked for 2, 10-hour shifts.. all of my friends were planning on going to a music festival the next week and they were trying to persuade me to use my earnings to go to the concert.
I saw this Zoom in a store right before that and made my desicion.
It was an absolute great choice as it would influence me and continued my journey as a musician. All my friends were disappointed with me but this was the first time I chose myself as a musician over going to see others play. This was a turning point in life. 🤘🎸🎶
If your friends didn't understand why you didn't go with them to the Rock shows to see other bands and you want to do something that's good for you play music pick up the guitar drums and bass that's fine I just say this is follow your dream and don't stop👍
Torture Drome I had purchased this device new and five years ago sold it for $40. It was falling apart but I would buy another because it has two presets that are amazing to this day.
Long live Zoom 505.
You actually deserve 1k likes at least
How much did you end up dropping on it?
@@DT-vl8xm I'm having trouble remembering.. it was either $99..
Or $199.. but I only made $200 from the work I was doing so I probably paid the lower amount and bought something else as well.. like picks or strings. 🤘🎸🎶
Everyone here is talking about the “good old times” But this is my only pedal i have had for years till this day🤣
I bought the ii model today, lol.
Completely agree. Got it out of storage when I switched back from acoustic to electric and was astounded how good it still sounded. Let’s see my iPad still be just as useful in 24 years time. Unbelievable value.
Same!
Still have more my original and have used it for live shows to this day
I used a 505 and a Boss Metal Zone. That's it. These kids and their modeling this and that and all the RUclips guitar tutorials are spoiled. Try learning how to play by rewinding VHS tapes over and over!
This pedal stood by me for years, I played gigs with it, I recorded at home & in studios with it, I love this pedal 🤘🏻
I still have this pedal hahaha. And it is cool to play with it :)
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Loved my 505, I had the 505II and the first one seemed to sound better.
I don’t know about it’s appropriate use for serious metal, but guitarists seem to be more interested in judging others for using cheap and obviously compromised equipment than they are in just enjoying making music.
Back in the 90s, this was an incredibly affordable way for a kid to approximate the sounds of modern guitar players.
I suspect that a significant percentage of people who openly mock the 505 would love some of the sounds it has in a blind test.
Clearly many of the sounds are cheesy and sterile, but there are some great sounds available.
im 35 remember this from 90's , just started a 2 ago months to learn guitar with a used squier strat and my first pedal , a boss SD-1 , but i also got a used zoom 505 II just cause i remember it while i was a kid , just to have something. Setup 5 presets with , clean , others with chorus, delay, mixed in diferent ways , perfect to make duo with my overdrive just to start some blues/rock, i only use zoom 505 Metal dist. for metal riff with some boost from my overdrive, and happy that yesterday i got my first delay pedal so im using the 505 for chorus , boost, EQ and tunning , and happy with my new duo of overdrive and delay , also take in mind i live in argentina here every thing cost a lot more example boss metal zone its around 250 usd. and my boss super overdrive sd1 its 200 usd, so Zoom 505 II its been saving me while i get my complete pedal rig next
ANDY OLIVELLA
That sounds like a good setup and the limitation will be you, not your gear (as it always is with everybody). At least you Argentinians have tremendous wine! Please tell me that the malbec is cheap for you down there!
@@lomoholga a good wine here dosent have to be expensive, and some good wine bottles cost less than a happy meal, love malbec too, perfect to open just when your friends arrive and start to put some fire on the grill,
its actually a problem , you buy the meat in 5 min, and the you always stand in front of the wines , and waist likE 10/15 min just looking, cause you dont know what to take this time with you , so many diferent wines , of so many types, years, brands , and price dosent help cause more expensive or cheap dont define quality , i got quickly in my mind +5 wines i know around 5 usd very good ones, the worst is 1 usd , in a box not a bottle, my girfriend father buy it to drink every day on lunch and dinner instead of some coke, MOST WINES DONT EVEN PASS 20 usd,
ANDY OLIVELLA
Sounds like a great problem to have. Argentina is famous for having fantastic red wines.
You guys started to export them heavily to Canada in the late 90s.
Now you and Chile make some of the best reds in the world.
Argentina- great wine, great beef, tasty food (locro, asada etc etc) and nice looking cities.
OMG, I have this pedal! I've been playing it almost every day for 23 years! I bought in 1997 on my first trip to Miami, I'm from Brazil, actually. It's so nice to know that someone still uses it around the world, haha. Nice video!
I've actually been to Autowah Canada, its a beautiful place.
Hilarious!! Great comment 👌
This is an underrated gem, u have opened the pandora box,
Nice dude 😂🤘
my first pedal was a Boss T-Wah, does that count?
Ola: Has anyone ever used this preset on a song?
Me : Sounds like some weird Rammstein thing.
Ola: They came from outer space with dildos!
Me: Definitely Rammstein.
I think also In Flames are running this type of FX in some songs! :D
Yes, I use this effect for one of our songs (rehearsal) ruclips.net/video/o72xgNrG_KM/видео.html
Deftones in Digital Bath
😂😂😂
Yes.brian may used it for the song headlong.
No one in the history of anywhere ever hooked any Zoom product up to a Fortin anything.
Horray for Ola!!
And an oversized mesa cab..... Double hooray
I remember reading that the guys in Scorpions used Zoom on the Face the Heat album, which is why I bought the 505 cause it was a zoom only one i could afford at the time. ha.. I'm sure the guys in Scorps used Zoom's best at the time.. ha
@@ryant3600 my broke ass has owned 3 different ones over the years.
I used to plug mine into a 1973 Marshall superbass head and cab.
@@ryant3600 I wish I could remember the name of the distortion stompbox a guy I was in a band with had for years. This was prior to the multi craze. It's Zoom, black with orange trim(I thiiiink? Drugs, y'all...), and was absolutely crushing. I thought his Carvin DC-150 through a Hartke bass combo was the greatest sound in the world at age fifteen, haha.
My uncle was a great guitarist and I kinda followed in his footsteps after he passed. He passed down his Zoom505 guitar multieffects pedal to me and it was really all I had. Just a cheap american strat, the Zoom505 and an even cheaper combo amp (I can't even remember what it was, even though it was only like 4 years ago. Fender maybe?). It holds a special place in my heart, and this video has reminded me of it. I think it may be in storage, so next time I go I'll look for it.
Back in the day when you didn’t have a thousand bucks to buy a decent amp this helped a lot. Most affordable amps in the 90’s sounded terrible.
Truth. The 200 modeling amp that sounds great wasnt a thing. I started with a Peavey Rage158. Sounded terrible.
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The strange effect, at 4:33, that you're wondering about if it's ever used? Sounds a lot like the Rainbow machine by EQD, if you'd ask me! haha
somewhere from outer-space, they came with dildos..and they were ready...lmfao, spit my beer out on that one ha ha!!
with an external eq and a noise gate you could still utilize it!!
Korg G1... I can loan you one!
About your question at 4:40 , check out this solo! ruclips.net/video/7-hHW-cLNVg/видео.html
The Zoom 505 was kinda life-changing for me back in the day, as a kid playing in his bedroom, the built-in looper function on the Zoom was the first time I ever got to play solos over a backing rhythm guitar!
It. Has. A. Looper? Goddamnit!
This doesn’t have looper. I own one.
There's no looper in the Zoom 505. Link to manual see for yourself. zoom.co.jp/sites/default/files/products/downloads/pdfs/E_505.pdf
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4:45 effect was used by John Frusciante in Throw Away You Television.
Ink My Mind Ink My Mind you r right 🙌
Tom Morello and Dweezil Zappa
John is love. John is life.
I was just about to comment this and thought I'd scroll down a bit more to see if someone had already said it and here you are haha
The D3 effect was used by Tom Morello in Audioslave's "Show me how to live".
I just realized that! Lol
Intro to 311's "Flowing" from the Soundsystem album.
Also at Headlong beginning by Brian May of Queen
@@leonardosalarolli For Sure!!!
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Funny, this was my FIRST pedal when playing guitar when I was just becoming a teenager. I LOVED it back then, and it actually seems up to par with a multi-FX pedal I have now. I personally think it's a bit heavy on the bass on the presets, but those can be adjusted easily. I think they wanted to be heavy on the bass end because they expected most to play it through a small amp for practice, but that's just a guess/opinion.
"Somewhere from outer space, they came with dildos" inspiring stuff.
First thing I thought of was the Dr Who Theme ... but ... dildos will do too
This must be a track title for the next Ola solo album. :)
Classic 🤣
And they were ready
First I misheard as "the king with dildos"... I am not sure if that's for the better or for the worse though
Holy Sh!t, i personally loved my ZOOM 505 Pedal, i purchased mine in '98 and it was stolen with the rest of my gear in early 2001!! Seeing this has my brain going back trying to remember how to work the editing and so on! I loved this pedal, from the effects to the simulators! The transitions between the patches were seamless in my book, i was able to match sounds up to alot of the great artist i was jamming along with at that time! This pedal will always have a special place in my heart! Thanks Ola for checking it out!! Peace brother!!
Edit: Gear i had at the time!!
Pedal: ZOOM 505
Amp: Laney HC50 Hardcore
Guitar: Fender Squier my personal Frankenstein model, yes it was cheaper, but i loved this guitar and setup!
Awesome, I just dug out my old Zoom 505 earlier this week and plugged it in for my daughter who is just staring to learn guitar.
She loved the steel drum sounds.
Keep up the great work Ola!!
I was a pro lead guitarist for over 50 years, now i am eighty, I dont play commercially anymore, but I bought this unit shortly after its introduction, it has served me well after all these years. Not many like that these days. I play my telecaster and Laney through it and it still works fine, never ever let me down
question: Why would you expect this item to perform like a modern unit, that's like comparing a morris minor with a Jaguar.? See if any of your modern units last this long
you did qualify your comments towards the end. I say 3 cheers to the makers
Phil Colter Cose
Back in the day I used to have *( still have but just doesn’t work)* a Zoom *707 II* . Used to play metal/ grunge/all kinds of stuff with it. The *flanger* patch was one of my personal fav. Used to play *come as you are* , would sound exact the same. Oh and it also had a loop function. I would jam alone all day in my room also did a few gigs with it. There’s an inbuilt volume/gain knob behind near the power switch. Comes in handy playing live when the sound guy doesn’t increase the volume on your guitar. Brings back memories!
This.. 707 II is also my favourite..
You should use chorus on "Come as you are". Not flanger.
nice, mine was zoom 707
4:40 "Has any guitar player ever use this effect?" Yes, Brian May in the solo of "Headlong". Check it out : )
John Frusciante on throw away your television
I think the presets name is Headlong as well.
pedro garrao
John is love. John is life.
It's the "why did i buy a modeling amp" effect
pedro garrao i was gonna say John Frush 🙂👍🏼
Seeing this again actually warms my heart.
Duuude, damn, lol. Zoom 505. Childhood memories. I played it through those pc speakers on the headphone jacks, that was my amp, lol.
that was my travel amp setup.used to take it to school because i had a couple hours free period between lessons.
Me too lol, and I couldn’t even stop playing my shitty “rig”
Makin’ it happen 👍
I love seeing reviews of gear from before computers were a thing. Brings back memories of when I was just starting out. I still have my Digitech RP-1 and it still kicks ass 25 years later. Keep it up Ola!
I can't adequately express how much this pedal blew my mind when I bought one in 1996. It unlocked an entire world for me, as trite as that sounds.
When I was young, my friend had this pedal, but the amplifier sucked and sounded like a hell's door
I had a lot of fun at the time
Actualy I was at a Vader gig back in 2000 and the guitarist used this pedal lol
Whoa!
@@salottin Yeah I remember in 2003 I saw Deicide with their original lineup use Metal Zones, sounded good to me lol
@@witheredmedia Metal Zones are great, when used right
Júlio Salotti yep, people that bash the metal zone just dont have enough patience to dial in a good tone... theyre in there
Brad Schmidt exactly!!! Too many lazy people who don’t want to take the time to create an awesome tone.
Damn, i literally played live shows with this thing back in the late 90's ))) And it kinda sounded not bad after some "deep" tweaking :)
I played live with the 808 version in the early 2000s. I had a nice tube amp, but it was not high gain, so I just used the clean channel for volume and a little coloration from the preamp. It really didn't sound bad with a decent cabinet and some EQ. Fairly often, for Metal anyway, it translated better than the sound a lot of local bands were getting by just plugging straight into their Marshall or Mesa without an overdrive or EQ. Digital sounding AF, but tight and aggressive, so it worked well for Metal.
@@BrianOfAteionas Yeah, i did it the same way and reason. For a young metalhead it was enough for thrash metal ))
I actually still own one of these, tucked away in my "Big Box O' Guitar Crap" it was fun to play around with. I never recorded with it, but for live 80's metal tones, it was OK. I'm gonna dust it off now, play some old Anthrax on it.....
I bought mine in 1997. I still use it. In fact, it's the only effects pedel I have. Saying that I only play acoustic and one Fender Strat. But it serves my purposes. I use it live for gigs and for recording. It's a cool bit of kit even today (2022!) Any of my music videos I'm playing are using the ZOOM 505. I'm not sure what I'll do when it eventually gives up!
Back in 1998, when my pals had no cheap alternatives, this piece of gear did a good job actually. Of course I don't feel nostalgic about it's sound but I'm thankful for my earliest experiences with effects with the help of this little thing.
If I remember correctly, the first preset you played was called "Steel China." I used to use it with my bass to annoy my bandmates between songs.
Wow, metal tone hasn't changed in 24 years! Sounds like everything else! Still love Ola, and solar
These devices sound much better when played in a decent amp with an effects loop. Most of us started using these units on 70 - 100 dollar amps and they sounded like $hit.
Yeah, it was shit going into the input of my Peavey Rage 158. I realized later that it sounds better plugged into the CD input!
most of us used this direct connected to interface or mixing console
Yep, that's how I used it at band practice. It sounded like shit because I didn't know how to set it up properly - now I could probably manage with it... Then I upgraded to a Behringer V-amp 2 and it sounded waaaay better, even though I didn't know how to set that up either :D
Gain staging
4:57 Yes, If you were a kid who played rage against the machine on the 90's ... I think this video would be a lot better if you played some 90's song because that was the mision of that pedal ... Cheap gear for 15 years old 90's kids
just took out mine, got it from 96, found this video, still a cool rig, this was my first rig, for the price, you couldn't get any better, I had never used a computer back then. this unit is robust, and still in good nick., love it man
jammed with it on a Dynacord amp and a cheap epiphone cherry red guitar
That "effect" is called "Headlong", and Brian may uses a similar sound in the intro of the Queen song, "Headlong". I still have one of these pedals stashed away somewhere. I actually recorded an album back in 2000 with one.
That is correct, although Brian May used a Zoom 9002 when he recorded Headlong in '91.
I was going to say the same.
The actual effect is called "step", the preset is called "headlong", a similar effect can be found on some Boss phasers like the Phase Shifter PH-3, and multi effects units such as the GT-3, among others.
It sounds a lot like the effect Frank Zappa used on "Black Napkins." But I think I read somewhere that that was a modded wah pedal or something.
4:43 Muse - Map Of The Problematique
One of my personal favourites.
Diegosaurio came here to comment this. This is not nearly how he actually got that tone but it’s very similar
Headlong intro as well by Brian May Innuendo album!
I was at a buddies the other night. He has an even older version of this, with an expression pedal. Was blown away at the heaviness of some of the stock presets. Couldn't believe my ears.
Zoom 707.
Yes you guys are correct. Still though, it aged surprisingly well!
This is my first multi-effect pedal that I used in junior High School🤣
For Asian kids yeahh a guitarist's first gear to start with electric guitar
Lol same here... my first ever multieffects!
OMG I were playing this when I was a teenager. I remember each sound of this processor. thanks for good memories :-)
Good to see Ola vindicating a product almost everyone deemed trash back in the days.
Thats because most people cant go past the factory presets and those were crap on almost all devices back then.
I wanted a zoom. Had no real distortion for years, just a practice amp with one (clean) channel. Eventually got a korg ax30g (which was terrible for high gain, but whatever).
I think this pedal did the job for its day. You couldn't get a pedal cheaper that did as much as what zoom offered. Japanese made too.
I used a borrowed one to practice. You can use headphones straight out of it!
He has a knack for it. I am still surprised how he has basically reversed much of the metal zone hate.
4:43 Olaaaa, Tom morello is ur man, he used something similar on "Show me how to live"
Came to see this
Wish I had seen this before commenting the same 😂
I was writing a comment stating this. You were faster. Thanks, pal.
There were forums dedicated to patch setting that were pretty amazing back in the day. Could just search for a sound you wanted and people that spent days tuning their sound would upsload the patch settings for you to copy.
Nostalgia, I had one of those haha
Me too :)
Ahhh maaan!! I remember this so well 😁 first pedal and was awesome to run mic through with the phase and delays.
Nostalgia indeed...when my knees were a mic stand
I had one too. It broke somehow. Wish I still had it. It was actually fun to mess around with.
@@ericbitzer5247 likewise I was just yesterday thinking how I could use as multi fx in my interface. I know I could find something FAR better but the nostalgia appeals here. To use equipment from way back at start, alongside what have and learnt since. Great little boxes these, wish now I hadn’t stabbed mic stand through mine
Same. I actually had the 505II which wasn’t bad for the time. It was either this pedal for $89 with multiple effects (great value) or 1 Boss Metal Zone for $99, which apparently in the rock community is a crappy pedal too. SMH
Ola almost unlocked one of the biggest keys to my sound there. The lead gain channel is low key the best gain pedal on the market! Just a few changes and it's literally my favorite overdrive pedal.
In Ola's hand EVERYTHING and all pedals chugg in different ways: just mini-chugg, super-chugg, uber-chugg or mega-chugg or Ola-chugg, . . . 2 Cheers from Canada !
That's the problem with modern guitar players today. They want that perfect sound with one click and no time to make it! If you take the time and put in the effort, you can literally make anything sound great. Besides, why do you want to sound like someone else? I want to sound like me and that is the idea of all those controls and options in gear! Love your show!!!!
I attribute my lack of tonal skill partially to my Zoom 505 II. The eq on that thing is completely unusable.
I don't think that's the problem. You can spend hours setting up a good tone in a modern Amp Modeler / Multi-Effects. But now you have more options to make it sound great
you brought back lots of memories of my childhood with this, of my school times...great video...
I remember when I was young and have a Zoom 707 II. Everybody tells me that BOSS is a much better choice, because ZOOM is too noizy!! So I buy a BOSS ME-33!! (we need to understand that I was a broken guitar player kkkk) I really prefered the ZOOM sound and missed so much my old guitar pedal! lol!! Just like 4:34 !!! Some sounds nobody dares to make because everyone desire to do what another one have already done!! A band with old instruments and equipment shurely can make a lot of money because even this ZOOM 505 sounds good!! You only need to "open your ears" the hear things without prejudice!! Thank you so much for this videoo!!!
Hell yea that zoom 707 is awesome still own it but the new ones g3n are very good all metal and great sounds
it's 2022, this is the first pedal i own. hell yeah.
The pitch shifter is solid and still holds up in my opinion.
I had or actually still have somewhere the 506 which was the bass guitar version.
It had an octave down effect that tracked flawlessly.
If you played guitar chords it would octave only the lowest note like a bass guitar following along.
I'm curious, could the 505 do that or did it lose it with chords?
"Has anyone ever used this preset on a song?" As I know, Tom Morello on Audioslave's "Shom me how to live". Thanks for the video, I had one of these for short time, but bought 2nd version and I still have it, but not using it...
When I first heard this I remember thinking "really?" Is it the one pedal/effect he hasn't used and it's still terrible
Tom Morelo was my first tough too hahahaha
You can hear Brian May use it on Queen's song Headlong from a Zoom 9002. It's low in the mix but you can hear it.
I was about to awnser that hahahaahahha
4:40 yes Brian May on Headlong from the album Innuendo by Queen :)
This and the 9030 are so rad.
I’ve heard that the guitar tone for Broken/Downward Spiral era nine inch nails used the 9030 (with marshal jmp1 preamp) extensively.
Had one of these for over 20 years. Hadn't played with it in a few years but plugged it back in today. Still love it 🤘
24 years? Thank you for pointing out how old Im getting. LOL!
Exactly my thoughts, f**k! 😂
"Has any guitar player ever used this effect ever?"
That 311 song Flowing starts with it
I knew I'd heard it but couldn't remember. Now I remember. Thanks. Thanks a whole lot! 🖕
nice call
There is a song of brazilian band Angra that uses this same effect, but I don't remember the name now. Mega Death's guitarrist Kiko Loureiro was sponsored by Zoom back in that days.
In fact, i believe that in Audioslave's "Show me how to live", Morello uses it on the solo
Headlong by Queen uses that effect too
Maaaaaan. The Zoom 505. Takes me back to 97 with my
Buddy Ed
Me and my buddy Jason \,,/
Are you still in your parents basement?
@debaser lol
I recall that D3 step arpeggiator being linked to Brian May at the time. The intro to "Headlong" used it. I loved my 505 in the 90s and 2000s, especially for its chorus and flanger. Only really retired it when the components became noisy with age.
Brought one in the early 90s and still have it! Good to practice with! If you push both pedals together it becomes a guitar tuner!
4:40... yes Tom Morello did. “Show Me How to Live” after the 2 minute mark of the song (2:45)
Joe Satriani recorded the song 'Crying' With a zoom pedal
Yeah he sounds great ........ AHAHAHAHAAA
I can’t believe that
Who's Joe satriani?
Dave Bell 😱
@@dannywalls8439 who are you ?
1:00 sound brings back so much memories 😂
I still have one. A roommate in college was going to toss it out. I kept it. I love it. I don't use it much. I had to solder the jacks a couple of months ago. Its a kick ass little thing. First one of it's kind. I've kept it for memories. It still works great. I have completely forgotten what presets I had set and will sit programming it one day. My old RUclips channel got deleted but I had a few metal covers on there. Used to connect it after the wah straight into the crate 60w half stack. The combo used to give great 90s tones. Sorry for the long post. I just love this thing. I used to use a esp m50 painted in Van Halen bumblebee theme n a Jackson Rhoads V with gold pinstripes. I painted the guitars at home. Used flat gold coz I found the paint can in the basement at a friend's place. It truly sounds good if the amp and guitars are decent. I had a zoom 8080 around the same time. That thing was amazing.
I owned it.
And I used that preset for a song. I was 16. Good times. Hearing it took me right back.
Thanks, Ola
I've got one of those and I'm going to look for it right now
lol that was my FIRST pedal ever!
and i sold it for a Death Metal DOD! LMAO
i did the EXACT same thing! lmao
@@deeboweb GOLDEN AGES bro!
me too! :)
I also had both!!!
Very bad trade.
The weird fx is the "stepper" and zoom claimed to be the inventor of this midulation fx, it sounds like a reso filter with a sequenced frequency. It can be heard in the bridge of queen song headlong! Anyway This was my 1st multifx, it was a good product to experiment with fx, and actually the manual was wery well made because it also explained very good all the fx and how they fxs do to the sound
what a blast from the past! I used to have one of those in 1996! brilliant for beginners
This was hilarious. I literally took mine out of a box a few days before you shot this. It was formerly not working, must have been corrosion on the contact surfaces. I cleaned it up plugged it in and it brought back a lot of memories. I use to put mine into an Ampeg V4 half stack and it sure chugged and surprised a lot of peeps. Thx bro, a real shocker.
Damn, this brings back some memories. As a teenager these things sounded amazing. As an adult, not so much. LOL
The nostalgia is pretty sweet though.
5:00 reminded me of Ross performing with his synth at the cafe Central Perk lol
I used to play with one of these for church on sundays, i used to plug in into a direct box, mixer then to two spekaers "acoustic panasonic" models.
I remember jamming the shit out of this pedal when sunday services were over and no one was around
Jonathan Ponce I also played a church service or two with this thing
The sound bring me back into studio session when i was high school early 00's
This video really took me back - I used to love my 505. I think I still have it around here somewhere.
The other guitarist in my first band used one of these. I had a DOD FX7 featuring the legendary Grunge distortion. We sounded like turds in an ashtray, but we sure made lots of noise!
Ah, I can perfectly imagine your rehearsals... you turn up a bit, other guitarist turns up a bit, you turn up a bit ....
Turds in an ashtray- awesome name!!!
@@richardkey4289 Lol agreed,. It was unfortunately not our name.
The D3 preset sounds like what you’d get if Peter Frampton banged ‘Stone Henge’ by Spinal Tap. If you know, you know.
The reason Ola can make anything sound half decent...
That god damn right arm
1997 i have zoom 4040, with volume and wah pedals and i loved this thing the distortion from this pedal back in the days was pretty warm and powerful
I started playing seriously using a Zoom pedal like this, but mine had preset drum beats to play along with, and a used Schecter Omen 6, through a pair of headphones. I squeezed every drop of tone out of that thing, and it served me well until I could afford to upgrade. It also helped me to appreciate how a really good tone can influence your playing.
It's kinda like learning to play on an old Acoustic with insanely high, stiff action, and still able to ring out some clean full chords, and then picking up a PRS with action like butter, and seeing your hands fly across the fingerboard.
For what it was, especially during its time, it was great for the musician on a budget, especially for practice. I can’t remember if line 6 was out when these were out or if Line 6 debuted its Pod after, but pods were anywhere from $300-$350, you could get a zoom multi fx pedal for less than $200.00, I even remember the digitech BP100 (for bass) however they made them for guitar and vocals as well and they range from a VP 50 of BP 100 and the BP is 300 I could be mistaken but there may have been a 200 model as well but they were around 50 or 100 200 or possibly even 150 and then 300 for the 300 series and they were good for what they were at the time they were around. Speaking of hey Ola why don’t you try one of the GP 200 is the one that had two petals like that soon 505 but it had an expression pedal as well the GP 100 I think was set up just like that to petals no expression pedal or that may have been the GP 50 it’s been so long I can’t remember and I’m surprised I remembered what I wrote here LOL
The end of the solo of "Show me how to live" by Audioslave always reminded me to that weird "space dildo" effect.
Yes! That has been driving me nuts.
Me too. I knew it was familiar and I remember reading about it. Just could not remember who it was
Actually a good name for a pedal, I will ask EHX to make a Space Dildo.
"Has any guitar player ever used this effect ever?"
Frank Zappa - Ship Ahoy
I remember this pedal, it was the first guitar pedal I ever bought when I was in high school! Great memories. Thanks Ola!
Almost crying watching this video... Many memories with it...Regrets from Chile
I still have the “newer” silver version of this. Never thought to use it without headphones... 🤣
You can hear that trademark “Zoom” tone in some of Prince’s live recordings.
Silver version is Zoom 505 II. But, have translucid or green translucid version this Zoom 505 I
Ola: * plays incredibly specific and spacey sound effect *
“Honestly, has anyone ever used this effect in a song before?”
Muse: * Breathes heavily *
sublimemymind23 my cousin is married to the singer of that band lol
@@datboibaz What an a-musing tale ^^
Tom Morello used it too on an Audioslave tune
I have the 505 and that effect is called something like steps or stepping and it's also used in Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day, although it's a lot stronger
@@datboibaz you mean guitar player?
4:40 Audioslave - Show Me How To Live, end of interlude mr. Morello used it
Just dug mine out of storage, still works so might have to have another play with it 26 years later :) Rock on!! 🤘 🤟💥🇦🇺🇬🇧
Wow, this brings back memories. My first ever effe ts pedal. My parents bought it for me and the batteries died within minutes.
i honestly feel like this sounds better than the pod hd i once had
Luxo do gaúcho era ter um dessas em 1998. Cheguei a ter a 506 para usar no baixo.
Caiu lágrima aqui. 😪
The guitarist in my old band used that thing for every show we did. He sounded like he was playing a kazoo.
Guitarist in my band also used one and I wanted to smash that thing to pieces, I hated it.
I still have this pedal! It was $99 before taxes at the time, and an amazing investment! The flanger setting (D1) was a huge selling point for me. The only major gripe I've always had about this pedal is that the effects are so "hodgepodge-ly" organized. I wish they would have put the effects banked together according to likeness rather than being so scattered. The E3 setting with both a higher and lower octave is pretty cool. The F4 acoustic guitar simulator is actually very close to an acoustic-electric. A nice feature is that you can hold the edit button for "at least 1 second" (as the manual says) and this activates or deactivates the bank hold function, which means that when you switch banks up or down, you then have to press both up and down pedals at the same time in order to switch to that bank. Although this pedal uses 4 AA batteries, they last surprisingly long before they die out. I recently started playing accordion, and I hooked a microphone into this pedal, and I can get some awesome electrified accordion sounds! I'm sure an electric violin or mic'd saxophone would be cool through it as well. I'm glad I still have this pedal after all these years.
Here's how mine was usually set up. I had the Zoom FP01 expression pedal plugged into it. A1 was lead with wah, A2 metal with FP01 as a whammy pedal, A3 lead with FP01 as a harmonizer, A4 lead with chorus & delay with FP01 as volume pedal. I generally kept all the other patches as is but did experiment with them in terms of what I could use the sounds for. F6 was supposed to be an acoustic tone but it didn't really sound like an acoustic to me so I used it as a warmer clean tone when I wanted something nicer than bypassing to the amp by pressing the 2 pedals at the same time. The tuner in bypass was very handy.
4:41 Actually, yes... check out John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) on "Throw away your television".
Fuckin very well observed
I was looking for this reply!
Van Halen "Why can't this be love?"
Audioslave "Show me how to live"...
Gadiel Alicano me too🤣
You should make a segment called “dumbest questions and statements with Ola”
Damm man thats the best metal sound you have had in your life you should record you next solo album exclusively with the Zoom
I love that "step" effect that makes the "old school outer space sci-fi" sound, I have a 506 somewhere in a closet, bought it around 14 years ago, played with it, couldn't set it up properly because I was fiddling too much, but those effetcs were fun to play with, I should find it back and plug it in again and screw around again, it was a bit impractical but fun.
MY first ever unit i used in my guitar life held up well for years for me. was gifted to me by my uncle still love it till this day
Awesome
I bet a lot of first guitar pedals are inherited