Zoom, famous for its recording technology and multi-effects pedals, came up with a genius way for garage-band guitarists or performers that travel at little distance to have a good feel of effects in their hands.  This is called the G2.1u Multi-Effects Pedal. This device offers 80 patches, 40 presets and 40 programmable.

Don’t like the presets? Don’t worry! You have plenty of patches to program yourself.
Don’t be worried if you don’t know how to sound good either. Haax.se is a site where people share the patches that they’ve replicated off from different song’s bands.

Back to the pedal.

This pedal is a twin of the G2 pedal, but why does this cost more?  The G2.1u has an expression pedal, which can be used control your volume and many of your effects’ functions. The pedal’s anatomy includes a sturdy metal chassis with rubber side-guard shells, an input for your guitar, and output to express your music out to your amplifier or your P.A. system, a USB output for recording.

Some other things this pedal shows off is that it runs either on a wall charger, 4 AA batteries, or even with a USB cable(when plugged into your computer).  This helps if your studio doesn’t have enough electrical outlets.  It also has 2 buttons for toggling through your banks of patches, which can also be used to choose from a variety of different effects for your patch.  Another pair of buttons is the pair of metal buttons that toggle through your patches, which can also be used to activate the built-in chromatic tuner.

Tuning on the pedal is decent enough to play, but it isn’t as good as I had expected.  What I just said doesn’t mean that it has bad tuning, but the tuner “lags” at times.  For instance,  I wanted to tune my guitar to drop-D tuning,  the pedal said my last string was at a fine D, but when I checked, it wasn’t.  This probably happened because its not used to tuning at a low D.

Pros: The G2.1u is compact, light-weight,  affordable, and offers the basic necessities that a beginner needs.

Cons: On any drive effect, when multiple notes are quickly following each other, the notes that follow tend to lose their pure drive tone, but that happens to some drive pedals. The expression pedal gets stiff after a while.

This pedal goes for around $160. I wouldn’t recommend this too the pros out there that are really picky about their sound, but otherwise i would totally recommend it to anyone that owns an electric guitar.

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