The zoom G series is a far improvment on the old 505s 707's etc.. While I was looking for a muti-fx in the 400-600 price range i ended up getting the zoom g7.1ut it seems to sound alot nicer then the digitech and even the boss me-50 the biggest plus for the G7 is personaly the tone diference between my real cry baby and my g7's is very small. But then again I sold that a few months ago :( . Plus it came with Cubase :cool: well cubase le but thats good enough for me at home :p