Zoom G5n Guitar Effects Console

An excellent tool for rehearsing, home practice, gigging, recording and more. The G5n from zoom is a whole lot more then just an effects unit.

Put thousands of guitar tones at your fingertips

The G5n comes loaded with 68 beautifully-crafted and newly assembled DSP effects, plus 10 of the most faithful and realistic amp/cabinet emulators we've ever created. The G5n comes equipped with freshly-developed takes on not only the most-essential guitar sounds like overdrive, distortion, compression, EQ, delay, reverb, flanging, phasing, vibrato, and chorusing, but also unique multi-effects such as Seq Filter, Gold Drive, Reverse Delay, HD Hall, and OSC Echo.

Easy editing

Editing is simple and intuitive thanks to a unique, large overview display that allows you to quickly add, delete, or change the order of effects something not easily accomplished with the average pedalboard. There are also four independent editing displays for zeroing in on the perfect sound, each bank providing the responsiveness and hands-on feel of a stompbox. Store up to 200 of your custom effects-chains as patches in memory, each instantly accessible at the touch of a footswitch.

Powerful pedals

The G5n's expression pedal gives you smooth real-time control over volume, tone, or selected effects parameters, with four stompbox-style footswitches to kick effects in and out on the fly. When you're ready to take a solo, get the bump you need with the G5n's output booster. And to synchronize rhythm patterns and delay times to the beat, just hit the G5n's dedicated Tap tempo footswitch to bring your sound in line.

Complex tonalities

It would take an arsenal of stompboxes, amplifiers, and speakers to duplicate everything you can do with a single G5n. Use up to nine effects and amp/cabinet models simultaneously, chained together in any order you like. It's like having hundreds of fully loaded pedalboards in one compact, easy to use device.

July 2017 Software Update

As of July 2017 Zoom have released a patch featuring four new stompboxes and four new preset patches, available for download via the Guitar Lab software app.

The new stompboxes available are as follows:

• Dist 1 - modelled around the famous DS-1 distortion pedal
• Squeak - an emulation of the classic RAT distortion
• LoopRoll - allows you to use the footswitch to sample and hold what you play
• PDL RESO - a wah pedal with plenty of character

The patches are:

• JB Block - makes use of the Squeak pedal to help re-create Jeff Beck's "Big Block" sound
• JS Boogie - uses the DIST 1 pedal to create a lead sound inspired heavily by Joe Satriani
• PDL RESO - as well as a new pedal, there's also a wah patch using this pedal, with an extreme resonance filter that can't be achieved with an ordinary wah pedal
• Stomp Roll - generates a rolling sound that edits the wave form in real time, this can be synced with your song's BPM via tap tempo

The patches are available directly from the Zoom website's download page, which can be found HERE.  

Features:

• 68 onboard high-quality digital effects, including distortion, overdrive,
• EQ, compression, delay, reverb, flanging, phasing, and chorusing
• 5 new amp emulators plus 5 cabinet emulators
• 100 custom-designed factory patches
• Free ZOOM Guitar Lab Mac/Windows software allows downloading
• of additional effects and patches
• Use up to 9 effects simultaneously, chained together in any order
• 4 stompbox switches allow effects to instantly be brought in and out
• Built-in expression pedal for real-time control over volume, tone, or
• selected effect parameters
• High output booster circuit for added volume and overdrive
• Intuitive user interface
• 200 memory locations for storage of factory and/or user-created patches
• 4 independent editing displays, plus large overview display
• Auto Save function for automatic saving of all patch parameters
• Onboard chromatic tuner with dedicated footswitch supports all standard
• guitar tunings, including open and drop tunings
• Tuner range of 435 - 445 Hz
• Stereo/mono Looper allows recording of up to 80 seconds of phrase recording
• 68 built-in rhythm patterns that can be used in conjunction with the Looper
• Tap Tempo with dedicated footswitch
• Input jack accepts standard guitar cable
• Auxiliary stereo input jack for connection of smartphones and music players
• Dual output jacks for connection to guitar amps and mono or stereo PA systems
• Dedicated stereo headphone output
• Control input for external footpedal
• USB port for firmware updating and patch/effects downloading
• Use as a USB audio interface for Mac/Windows computers, with direct
• zero-latency monitoring of input signal
• Included AC adapter