Al Krow Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 Can the Zoom G2-4 be hacked to use with bass? And / or do the patches work reasonably well on bass anyway? The compact form factor is appealing and Andertons have these available now for £129, which seems very good value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDaBass Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 20 hours ago, Chienmortbb said: Now where I will criticise Zoom is that the old PC editing software does not work on the B2 Four. On the plus side the effects are quieter and there are some really useful patches out of the box. Hi John, is my understanding correct that the B2-4 does not talk to Zoom Guitar Lab nor ToneLib? So the only way to edit is through the Apple App or on the B2-4 itself☹️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chienmortbb Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 (edited) 3 hours ago, JohnDaBass said: Hi John, is my understanding correct that the B2-4 does not talk to Zoom Guitar Lab nor ToneLib? So the only way to edit is through the Apple App or on the B2-4 itself☹️ Correct. Zoom dropped a clanger there. Don't get me wrong its a great pedal, especially with a version of your Free/Bad Co patch on it (stolen from the B1 Four). Most of the stock patches are usable unlike the B1 Four. Edited April 3 by Chienmortbb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDaBass Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 19 minutes ago, Chienmortbb said: Correct. Zoom dropped a clanger there. Don't get me wrong its a great pedal, especially with a version of your Free/Bad Co patch on it (stolen from the B1 Four. Most of the stock patches are usable unlike the B1 Four. Wow, now that is a huge error. At least my B6 talks to Zoom guitar Lab so swapping patches from B1 Four is easy. It's hard to believe that the Zoom techies overlooked a desktop solution. I did have some GAS to build a new pedal board around a B2 Four, but your confirmation has doused that fire until a desktop solution appears. Thanks John 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 1 hour ago, JohnDaBass said: Wow, now that is a huge error. At least my B6 talks to Zoom guitar Lab so swapping patches from B1 Four is easy. It's hard to believe that the Zoom techies overlooked a desktop solution. I did have some GAS to build a new pedal board around a B2 Four, but your confirmation has doused that fire until a desktop solution appears. Thanks John Hopefully no such clanger on the MS-60B+ due out in the next couple of months. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRBboy Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Seems like an oversight not to have guitar lab/Tonelib compatibility, and also no android app (although looking at the reviews of the G2 one in Play store, maybe we're not missing anything 😅). Hopefully they will address this. It's not an issue for me as I don't have any patches I want to port across. I also find the UI on the pedal simple to navigate and set my sounds up, so the lack of software support isn't an issue, however it seems like a glaring omission which will certainly put some people off. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 On 02/04/2024 at 19:44, Chienmortbb said: There is a problem with Android. There are multiple manufacturers and the OS is controlled by another company (Google). So its like the wild west in terms of policing Android distribution. With iOS it is one stop manufacturer and OS provider so much less support needed. The platform is stable and reliable. I am not saying Apple are perfect but most of the Pro Audio software and DAWs are on Apple devices as they have prioritised audio visual performance. I have an Lenovo Android tablet which takes over 1 second to respond. That makes it unusable. That's a truly awful excuse for Zoom's failure to support Android. The app is a library app, it's not an audio app. There are defined classes to deal with everything that would be required of it, so there's no excuse for not producing the app. And just because you've got a crap tablet doesn't mean that 99.999% of Android users don't have tablets or phones that work an awful lot better - my elderly cheap Huawei tablet, for example. Other manufacturers support Android - Behringer do for the X-Air series, Nux for their Mighty Plug, M-Vave for their wireless MIDI. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 On 04/04/2024 at 11:14, TRBboy said: Seems like an oversight not to have guitar lab/Tonelib compatibility, and also no android app (although looking at the reviews of the G2 one in Play store, maybe we're not missing anything 😅). Hopefully they will address this. It's not an issue for me as I don't have any patches I want to port across. I also find the UI on the pedal simple to navigate and set my sounds up, so the lack of software support isn't an issue, however it seems like a glaring omission which will certainly put some people off. I've just installed the Android Tonelib-Zoom to try it out with my MS-60B. Hopefully Tonelib will update Tonelib-Zoom to cater for the recent releases, on both Windows and Android, and maybe they could teach the Zoom developers how to program for Android. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Further report: Android Tonelib-Zoom works on my Pixel 8 Pro and Nokia T20 tablet. I don't have an OTG adaptor for micro USB (it's on the way) so haven't tested it with the elderly Huawei tablet yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRBboy Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Update on the power supply: finally received my power supply from Thomann..... And they've just sent me a bog standard EU>UK travel adaptor... 🤦 Not impressed, but I'll just carry on using the power supply over already been using. Also having a problem with my B2 Four.... I just can't decide which drive sound I like best! 😅 Oh the first-world problems caused by multi effects! 🤣 Back to the drawing board shortly to try to make some decisions. I'm not as in love with the dark drive as I expected to be, although I do like the dark preamp for my Crunch sound 👌 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_bass5 Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 Thinking of order one of these next week. Im ok with the software being iOS as id probably use my ipad more than my Mac anyway. Ive looked at a couple of the support documents but cant see if the unit still needs a PSU or if it runs off bus power from the ipad. Im guessing it needs a PSU as well though? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 On 05/04/2024 at 11:46, tauzero said: I've just installed the Android Tonelib-Zoom to try it out with my MS-60B. Hopefully Tonelib will update Tonelib-Zoom to cater for the recent releases, on both Windows and Android, and maybe they could teach the Zoom developers how to program for Android. I've just emailed them to ask / encourage them to do exactly that for the B2-4 and MS-60B+ 😊 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_bass5 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Just ordered mine from Bass Direct. According to the manual it can be bus powered, this swung it for me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRBboy Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 1 hour ago, dave_bass5 said: Just ordered mine from Bass Direct. According to the manual it can be bus powered, this swung it for me. Awesome! Hope you like it. I had a wobble last week, but it is a really good unit TBF. A good middle ground between quality of sounds, flexibility and ease of operation I think. 👌 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_bass5 Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 Just now, TRBboy said: Awesome! Hope you like it. I had a wobble last week, but it is a really good unit TBF. A good middle ground between quality of sounds, flexibility and ease of operation I think. 👌 Cheers. Im still 50/50 whether i really need it, but as it’s cheaper than the BDDI i would have ended up getting, and covers my other need for an interface that works with my ipad for home practice (covered in another thread) it seems a reasonable price to pay. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRBboy Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 2 hours ago, dave_bass5 said: Cheers. Im still 50/50 whether i really need it, but as it’s cheaper than the BDDI i would have ended up getting, and covers my other need for an interface that works with my ipad for home practice (covered in another thread) it seems a reasonable price to pay. Exactly, I mainly wanted it for the Darkglass emulators, so it's cost effective anyway and has a bunch of other cool stuff. Still haven't got my sounds quite how I want, but getting there. I had ditched my drive pedals off my board, but may yet reintroduce one or both. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRBboy Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 I have to say, the Djent preamp is SICK! I'm still playing with it to see if I can get the settings right for it to be useable for me in the band, but it's an incredible distortion! The ZNR is really useful in conjunction with any of the drives too, I've just left it at default settings but works really well as a noise gate. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 3 minutes ago, TRBboy said: I have to say, the Djent preamp is SICK! I'm still playing with it to see if I can get the settings right for it to be useable for me in the band, but it's an incredible distortion! The ZNR is really useful in conjunction with any of the drives too, I've just left it at default settings but works really well as a noise gate. Totally agree about the ZNR ("Zoom Noise Reduction") being a must - that's a standard block on pretty much all my B1-4 patches. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_bass5 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 (edited) I’ll need to dig my old B1-Four out as i have a nice generic tone with just the right amount of drive programmed in for the type of songs I’m doing. I can’t remember what i was using for OD, but it wasn’t from an amp sim. I remember at one stage i was using various BDDI’s and switching between them. I’ll probably not do that this time. Edited April 24 by dave_bass5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_bass5 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Just wanted to mention, this thread is the first time ive ever heard of Djent. I had to go and look it up. Even then it took me a few mins to figure out that it's a genre and not a brand lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRBboy Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 I like the fact that with the B2 Four, having 5 slots on each patch and the three footswitches, I can get everything I want on one patch! 😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_bass5 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 4 minutes ago, TRBboy said: I like the fact that with the B2 Four, having 5 slots on each patch and the three footswitches, I can get everything I want on one patch! 😅 Yeah. That’s the attraction for me. BDDI on all the time and add others to taste as and when the song needs it. I might create a separate patch for just one song. I normally use a 5 string as it needs low B and C#. Thinking I’ll just add the octave below in with the pedal and play higher. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 4 minutes ago, TRBboy said: I like the fact that with the B2 Four, having 5 slots on each patch and the three footswitches, I can get everything I want on one patch! 😅 Oh that's interesting - they've set up the new MS-60B+ with 6 slots on each patch. Wonder why the difference between the two? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 1 hour ago, Al Krow said: Oh that's interesting - they've set up the new MS-60B+ with 6 slots on each patch. Wonder why the difference between the two? Because its one more innit - bound to be better 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_bass5 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Maybe it’s because of the DI section? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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