Zoom V3

not bad for the price

I ordered this vocal processor to try some experimental sounds for my art rock project, i mainly needed the harmoniser and distortion effects, however the tracking is not the finest and neither is the compressor. While it packs a lot, i would hope it packed more and sounded better in the mix.

Nice part of the rig.

Good processor for the money. Easy to use, and features enough to use at home, studio or on stage. You do need a good microphone though. (Cheap)Microphones with high clarity might overload some effects.

worked for me..

needed to be able to change my voice because of reasons..... it did the job

A useful tool with some gimmick features

I have had the Zoom V3 for over a year and used it to record demos. It is quite helpful for generating ideas and I like the sounds you can get, but there is possibly too much spent on the silly features, rather than the core tools.

The build quality is good, the buttons and knobs are tactile and it's easy to operate in low light. It's a shame you can't stack the tuned modes like harmony and pitch correction, you can only really add compression, reverb and delay to the many pitch related effects. I will probably upgrade to a Roland VT4, but not because there's a problem with the Zoom V3, it's just lacking the controls I'm looking for.

Zoom V3

Not quite the quality of Roland Boss or TC Helicon.

But cheaper and value for money.

And a great desktop feature for podcasters and live streaming etc.

Love this

This is an excellent piece of kit , if your thinking , don’t ! Buy it

very decent product

Just used it shortly . But it worked very well, very easy. Interesting possibities :' Enhance' (takes amongst others away sss ), 'Unison' (full but natural voicing), 'compression'. And fun things like robotvoice, telephone voice.

The reverb and delay are very nice. But it's not for making extreme voice sounds. No wet reverb (like TC Helicon R1 or the more extreme MAW). For normal singing it seems very good. I realised that in my setup voicepedals don't work. I returned it. Also I wanted a wet reverb anyway. But I must say, a real nice product.

Produto muito bom

Eu pela primeira vez quê compro o produto

Sei quê é bom.

Daqui para a frente vamos ver

Does what it promises

Easy to use while playing.

Eaysy to push buttons

Sound quality amaing

What a toy

The effect sound cheap, although the range is pretty extreme for special effect.

The BIG MISS is the fact that I can not combine effects.

I can't even use pitch correct in combination with one of the others.

Only compressor delay and reverb are combined with effect.

Appearantly the V6 is able to do this but I couldn't find the information on the zoom website to confirm.

I can imagine the effect to be usfull in broadcast for speach, but having no way to combine the effects or saving the adjustments would mean to fiddle evertime I change effect which is undoable while singing.

Furthermore I found that the volume is very low and there is no XLR-out; can't get my head around using two different types of connectors for a machine that was designed to be used for microphones. Using my preamp resulted in no sound at all.

Non of this is mentioned in the user manual.

To me this has degraded an otherwise pretty nifty device to a childrens toy. Easy to push buttons to get weird sounds, it does get a laugh though.