Zoom Streetboxx

[tedstryka]

Anyone used one of these?

Saw one on craigslist and wondering if I should pick it up to join forces with my 404 and 606...

[balazs]

never used one but it seems pretty cool. Just remember its not a sampler just a drum machine, with bass and synth sounds built in and has all the basic fx and has a sequencer. If you want to keep it basic, it could be an all in one machine.

[formal]

Sounds from the Beat Kangz....

You could call it a ghetto Beat Thang if you got one. I've thought about picking one up to go along with my Sampletrak.

[tedstryka]

Nah, I got samplers covered with the 606 and 404. Just thought it might be cool to have something with a bunch of onboard sounds I could feed either into the 606 or 404 and tweak around. I was wondering if anybody around these parts had experience with it. My relatively limited experience with ZOOM makes me a little wary though, as I find them nowhere near as user-friendly as SP's

[formal]

I dunno man, I had put away my Zoom sampler for the last 6 months and I just took it out over the weekend. Every feature on it is faster/easier for me to use than my 404. I never used the drum machines, but from the looks of them they seem to be set up the same way. I think if you can rock the SP samplers you'll have no problem on a Zoom machine.


NO! I don't work for Zoom, but I feel they don't get much love due to their low price. The way I see the streetbox is like the DR202. It's a hiphop based drum machine with samples geared toward our genre.

[tedstryka]

Yeah I gotta admit, the last time I messed with a ZOOM I was not drum machine savvy in the LEAST, so it's entirely possible I'm way off...maybe now since I've got some SP experience under my belt the ZOOM stuff would be a breeze

And I think you're %100 right on about inexpensive equipment being overlooked ...this happens across the spectrum for instruments. For an alarming amount of people, not only novices, expensive = good, and guitar center reaps the benefits. But in my experience this is not the case. I read an interview with ?uestlove from the roots and he said the cheapest drums are usually his favorite in terms of sound...I couldn't agree more.

[.:WIZDUMB:.]

my homie jonny just picked one up and i was playing with it the other night, its actually a pretty dope little machine, perfect for drums patterens and bas sounds, it works perfectly alongside an sp, just sample loops into the sp, or it can just be used as a sound module, shits got a gang of sounds.