A)Koldunya
1)Clean (HW100 - Hiwatt Custom 100)
2)Rhythm (Krampus)
3)Lead (Pollex oddly enough, supposed to be a downtune djenty amp )
4)Empty
It works pretty well with iOS and bluetooth, though I had to turn my auto-off screen setting well, off, because every time the screen shuts off the damned thing has to reconnect. Every. Single. Time. It was annoying as all get out, and there is no in-app option for “always on screen” like a lot of my other audio-related apps have.
$40 was worth not having to bend over to work presets from the floor or faff with yet another USB cable; they think awfully highly of their BTA-1 bluetooth adapter, though. I swap it between devices, it’s not worth another $40 for a second one I have yet to use the desktop Guitar Lab software. I’d be curious to see if people manage to hack these things like the Multistomp line
The DI emus on the B6 are totally worth it. Krampus on the G6 is great. I’m reminded I have not downloaded the Jenson IRs from Zoom’s website to hear how they sound. I’m always up for guitar speakers that are not the Celestion Vintage 30
Naw, it stops at the B3/G3 and G5 series. Maybe some day. I’d like the lofi delay that the MS trio has. Though I have it on my MS-100BT (discontinued and not supported by ToneLib or firmware hacks iirc).
If the ToneLib folks follow the release/update schedule they have used previously - looks like a ToneLib Zoom update (at least for Windows) would be in spring 2023.
Unrelated, I used the cabinet emulations on my G6 last night, vs the IRs. My takeaways:
1)People that said they were bad don’t know what they are doing
2)Use them for how they sound, not necessarily what they are claiming to emulate
3)7-8% CPU use vs 35%+
4)More sound sculpting options than using an IR.
5)For some stupid reason they default to “mic off” which is… well… useless lol. Why would you use it without a mic? (you won’t. It sounds like absolute trash and is intended for use with a real cab according to the manual…)
Some sound pretty dark, but so do a lot of the IRs I have. Blending between a 57 and 421 is nice, though I’d liked to have seen more mics. Maybe a “dual slot” cab sim with 8 controls vs 4, that’d be useful to blend cabs/speaker types.
Thomann has the B6 for $366 but of course the caveat is that it’s $425 shipped to the US. That’s still a good price, though; Mine was $400 during the recent sale for $450 new.
The G6 is $299, or $360 shipped to the US. I paid $290 for my open box one.
I actually wondered about that for about 1.5 seconds back when I posted that.
But the mic is off. It would still sound like that 1x10 in its cabinet. I suppose you could see what the high/low controls do in this instance; that might actually be interesting to experiment with…
Fortunately for me, my bedroom amp is either studio monitors or a FRFR combo
Yeah that’s the weird thing. If the mic is off, all you get is the amp sim, but you still have to go through the cab sim as a no-op. It’s basically a bypass, but at that point, why add the cab sim at all?
It’s not like anyone would want to toggle that, even in stomp mode. They would just make two identical patches, one with and one without cabsim.
Would the B3N be an upgrade over the B1four? I have the B1four, and I like it. I’d be willing to splurge on a (used) B3N if it’s an upgrade, but if it’s a wash, then I don’t need to waste money on a non-upgrade…
Seems like the main difference is having the 3 “stomp boxes” and the flexibility that would allow, although it seems like amp/cab sims are going to consume 2 of them regardless. Is there some other difference between the 2 pedals?