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It is a phase shifter. Not all sound quite the same, so it may be a different flavor than the one you have.

Modeling & profiling have come a long way in the last 15 years. It is hard to imagine a device like the GP-5 being able to do what it does in such a small pedal at a very low cost, albeit at what I'd consider to be sub-par technical current standards as would be required by today's professionals (AD/DA conversion and latency, primarily). Be that as it may, the GP-5 proves it can be done on the cheap and is absolutely fine for applications that may not be critical. Honestly, in a bar/pub setting, the audience doesn't give a rip about tech specs. More important IMHO is how the player feels about the product. If it works, it works. I'm hoping that the bigger players in modeling multi-fx take note and implement high quality NAM capture playback as part of their next generation of products. IMO very risky if they don't.

Here's an Anderton's review that goes in depth. https://youtu.be/hQlsqvSOUEQ

Yup. Crazy amount of tech for low dough. Also loads NAM (Neural Amp Modeler) files, which replaces the amp & cab modeling blocks. Probably using serious data compression, but the guitar NAM captures sounded pretty respectable. Would love to see a bass demo using 3rd party NAM from the Tone3000 library.

I'd love to know if you can trigger a saved loop via MIDI from an external pedal, so this could be used like a sample playback device of sorts. That would be pretty slick!

My history with Zoom pedals: original MS60-B, then B3, then B3n, then G5n, then B6. As for moving from the B3n to the B6, it's absolutely a step up in quality, features and user experience, but of course you're paying more than double the cost for all of this stuff. I was just playing through my B6 the other day and it's got some damn fine sounds in it! That's saying something considering my main squeeze these days is a Fractal Audio FM9-Turbo ($1800 USD). I will say that the modeling market in the low-mid to midrange of the market is now very competitive and there are many good options. The B6 is still around $500USD new at most vendors. For a little bit more, there *might be* options that suit you better, but only you can figure that out. If money is tight, a used B6 would be a better choice than the B3n in terms of features. If pedal size is an issue, then the B3n is the better choice, and IMHO it's still a viable pedal processor. Keep in mind that if you're performing live, the B3n requires a DI interface for balanced/XLR connections, whereas the B6 has an XLR output, as well as 2 discrete switchable inputs with discrete EQ/gain for each input. Great performance features if you gig live with 2 different basses on hand. Good luck!

ZOOM B6 recognizes Guitar Lab for windows. Always has.

This is a topic I spent a little bit of time chasing last year. I currently use a Fractal Audio Systems FM9 Turbo, which has a very good "virtual capo" allowing for alt tunings. Though it is very good (better than anything I'd tried previously), a product called the Virtual Jeff Pro was brought to my attention as a product to try out for its low-latency pitch shifting. Long story short, the Virtual Jeff was very good, arguably on par with the FM9 pitch shifting, but in the end the FM9 won the comparison by a very slim margin. I was hoping to use dedicated pitch shifting in order to avoid having to carry a second bass guitar, tuned a half-step down (E-flat), 4-string basses only. My personal take is this: it CAN be done, but it depends on the content of the bass part as well as your tolerance for the bass sound being altered from its native tone. If you're plunking 1/8th notes at 110 bpm and just holding the bottom down, it's fine. Once tempo ramps up and bass figures get more speedy and complex (1/16th notes) on the low strings, the faults start to show. I've got an especially low tolerance for digital processing latency. In the end, I gave up on using pitch shifting for this type of stuff, though others do use it to their satisfaction, especially on 6-string guitars, where it can work very well.

What does your live rig consist of? What types of sounds/effects are you using in your multi-fx? Also, the amount of headroom your stage rig has will play a part in this, so can your stage rig otherwise keep up with the band, volume-wise? I agree with the idea of leaving the multi-fx out of the signal path for a go-around next gig/rehearsal. If you can get a good ballpark tone without the extra stuff, then that's a lot of the battle. If not, you've got other problems. Once you've established this, you can then start to methodically, one-by-one, introduce individual effects from the multi-fx. In fact, just adding a multi-fx totally bypassed has been known to suck tone.

Have you all seen the new Headrush PRIME? https://www.musicradar.com/news/headrush-prime-floorboard-guitar-fx-amp-modeller

This happens when you're playing or not playing...or randomly? If it doesn't happen at home then that would indicate something in the rehearsal room environment (electrically/electronically) or with the gear provided. A lot of buildings just have bad power and RFI noise issues. Did you try playing into their amp directly, no B6 in line? Personally, I've only had dead quiet operation everywhere I've used mine, home or at gigs, so no odd clicking that I can ever recall. I'd keep a close eye on this and triple check everything out at home using ( if you have them ) different cables, basses, amps, power sources. See if you can replicate it.

Agree regarding Zoom...historically great bang-for-buck products. I've been using them at home and on stage for many years and they've always done the job.

The bluetooth adapter is only compatible with IOS devices with the Handy GuitarLab for B6 app, which is only for basic functions on the B6 and IR downloading. Nothing about audio there IIRC. https://zoomcorp.com/media/documents/E_HandyGuitarLab_for_B6.pdf I, too am and Android user and a little bummed that Zoom didn't include an Android app. But also, I've read of some users who've said Bluetooth implementation with the adapter is less than stellar, FWIW, YMMV. That saved me from yet another purchase.

Nope to both as far as I'm aware. The DI selections are POST everything, or bypassed. No option to change it.

Zoom products are about as simple as you get for programmable multi-effects, and have generally represented the best bang-for-buck at the low to low-mid price range. I've owned and gigged the B3 (out of production), B3n, G5n (loved that layout!), and now the B6. Never was disappointed in any of them.