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I'd forgotten I was in this.... I'm out now, a Zoom B3n "appeared" at the beginning of last week.

I can't help an open ended headline! I'm looking to get one of the bodies from the Rosser guy that @AngelDeVille uses, but he doesn't seem to ship to Germany. TBF, I haven't asked him either. If he won't, would one of you chaps/chapesses be willing to be a mule to receive my package of Plaster Jamas* and forward it on to me? *See DoI thread for context. If you dare 😉

Oh you swine! I'm thinking about how I can do mine again to have an always on layer. I don't think I can, it's only the compressor, unless I dump the tuner. Thinks.... Remove the tuner, put the PSU on top of the 3U Plate and put it below the two 1U plates. It may look a bit odd though. 🤔

That lasted 30 hours before it got tweaked! A very subtle difference, the top plate has been pushed up a bit to allow the Zoom to go up and to the right a bit. If, as @stewblack has intimated, anyone else is considering the same sort of thing for their boards I wouldn't mount the power/jack panel at an angle again. It looks cool but means that the top isn't as deep as it could be. If you don't have a case, or a deeper case, then it may not be an issue for you. Equally, if you have multiple Boss format boxes rather than a huge multi-fx then the top space is less of an issue.

Should Not Go Shopping, Should Not Go Shopping... A bit of remodeling after the new purchase. New wooden triangles with a socket mounted under as the Ciocks, which you can't see, won't power the B3n. The clock is fine as is, but the footswitch for the GK amp needs some support. The lid is a bit stiff to get on as well, but that's only for transport anyway.

This. Just don't tell yourself, how hard can it be? 😜

I took it into the rehearsal room this morning so I could play with it with my "proper" amp and cab, rather than the practice amp at home. I really rather like it. The bulk of the programming is done for the songs it needs to be done for, but I can see it needed fine tuning with the band in situ.

No idea what topic name to give this... Comes under the stupid question heading I suspect, but can you get an accurate idea of how your rig will sound through a headphone out? I don't want to drag it all home and wait until MDW is out to fire it up at band volume, but not do I particularly want to schlep into the practice room just to muck about with effects anfle buttons if I don't have to. If I can just bring the head home and play with it there with a sofa and a mug of tea that's much preferable.

Put a brick in the box at the other end from the neck?

I made another thing. If I was going to make another I'd make a planing depth jig first so that they're all the same thickness and square. I quite like the rustic cobbled together look, but I can do better.

Cheerz Ricksta 😉

Pants. I can see why, after all it's only got a certain amount of CPU and memory, if you filled a patch with patches the poor thing would stop working. It's why it's £150 and not £400. I think it'll still work for me though, I'm not giving up yet

What I want is to be able to add patches into patches. So I can have patch 100 to have patch 007, Darkglass OD and Delay. I select it, click stomp mode and the three FS buttons become 007 on/off, OD on/off and Delay on/off. If you can't add patches to patches then I think they've missed a trick really.

I've found the foot switch on off in patches. What I could do, if I can't get it to do what I want, is to copy the patch to a blank one, add my always on effect to each one so that the underlying things don't change but the over layers do. Then repeat for all sections of the song. It means that I can only have three effects per song, but that will be sufficient.

I'll have a crack at tonelib, it may do things that Guitar Lab can't, or won't.

I want add patch 7 as an effect in a patch I'm programming. So that it appears as an on-off effect in stomp mode. I think it's called Guitar Lab on the Zoom website? But yes I have. It's been really helpful to be able to copy the patches and see what's in them.

Is there a way of adding a patch effect into a user defined patch? As far as I can see there isn't but I may have missed it.

He did say it was going to be lined.

The B3n definitely has a master volume, I've found it, but I'm not sure I could tell you how to find it again right now. Global EQ, no idea. Yet. Of course, now you've suggested it I'm reading the manual for the B1-4. Fickle? Moi?

Power wise it's not the end of the world, my board lives in a flight case on top of a tray, so I've got the depth to mount a socket under there. I like the three stomp boxes in a row, is the B1-4 similar? TBF, the Zoom website will tell me, but that doesn't make for much of a conversation!

Catastrophe! It neither fits on the pedal board, nor does the PSU provide enough amps to power it. It needs half an amp, but the PSU only provides 300mA, which is enough for the MS60B, which is also specced at 500mA but it's a much smaller unit. Some rejigging required. However, as an effects unit, it suits my needs (so far!)

First impressions after playing with it for about 45 minutes, just going through the effects and patches is that it's very easy to use to scroll through things and play with the noises. As with all multifx it's a session of "nice, nicer, hmm, nice, same as the last one, cool, WTF!" WTF is at the dusty end, there are some things from 70 to 75 that are just noise. I have no idea what they were on when they came up with those. Where it scores over the MS60B is the ability to turn off effects in a patch, I can think of at least two songs we do that have different types in different sections, that although possible with the MS using the A-B-C function will be far easier with the three footswitches. I now need to RTFM to learn how to program the user defined patches. Overall, so far, very pleased with it. The pedal board will need some serious rejigging to make it fit though.

I use a Cioks DC8 if that's any help, I bought it so I could power my TC Nova Dynamics, which from memory needs 12v Even if you currently have nothing more than standard Boss style 9v I'd still look for something with a bit extra just in case. I'm currently wondering whether it will drive my new B3n, which needs half an amp, the DC8 maximum is 300mA. It powers the MS60B OK, but that's a small format unit.

I've got it

Noooooo, Not tort. Have you no shame? Apart from that, looks wizard. Bung a playing clip up so we can hear how good an eight quid pickup is.