Zoom G11 User manual

You must read the Usage and Safety Precautions before use.
Quick Guide
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Multi-Effects Processor
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① Touchscreen
This shows the G11 functions as icons. While looking at the screen, touch it to select patch mem-
ories and banks or make settings, for example.
② Amplier section
Use the dedicated knobs and the touchscreen to make adjustments as on a real amp.
③ Expression pedal
Use this pedal to adjust the volume or a wah effect, for example.
④ Effects section
Turn effects on and off and adjust them like using stomp boxes.
⑤ Footswitches
Use these to select patch memories and banks and to turn the tuner on and off.
Functions of parts
• Patch memories
These store the effects used, their order, on/off states
and parameter setting values. Effects are saved and
recalled in patch memory units.
• Banks
These are groups of 4 patch memories.
Bank A Patch memory 001
Patch memory 002
Patch memory 003
Patch memory 004

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Making connections
Headphones
ZOOM BTA-1 or other
dedicated wireless adapter
This enables wireless control of
the G11 using the iOS/iPadOS
Guitar Lab app.
Expression pedal
(ZOOM FP02M)
A pedal can be used to
control effects.
External effects (2 loops)
Connect the SEND 1/2 jack to the
input jack on the effect and connect
the RETURN 1/2 jack to the output
jack on the effect.
External MIDI device
Connect MIDI cables here.
The G11 can be used in coordination
with an external MIDI device.
USB ash drive
(USB 2.0/3.0)
Use to import IR data and
update the rmware.
Computer (Mac/Windows)
Connect a USB cable (Type-C).
The G11 can be used as an audio
interface and with Guitar Lab.
AC adapter
(ZOOM AD-19)
AmpMonitor speakers
Guitar
Portable music
player, etc.
Adjust the volume on the
connected device.
The computer or iOS/iPadOS Guitar Lab app can be used to manage patch memories and
to edit and add effects. Guitar Lab can be downloaded from the ZOOM website (www.zoom.
co.jp).
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1. Minimize the volume of the amp/monitor speakers.
2. Set to ON.
This turns the G11 power on and opens the Home Screen
on the touchscreen.
3. Raise the volume of the amp/monitor speakers.
By default, ECO mode setting is ON, so the power will automatically turn off if no use occurs
for 10 hours. ECO mode can also be turned OFF.
NOTE
Turning the power on
The volume output from the G11 can be adjusted.
Raise
Lower
Adjusting the master level
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Using the touchscreen
■ Home Screen overview
This is the screen that appears on the touchscreen when the G11 power is turned on. All the
functions are arranged as icons, so each one can easily be accessed by touch.
Current patch memory
Touch an icon to
select a function to
set or adjust.
The Home Screen has four pages. This shows which page is currently open.
To open the next page, swipe
left from the right edge.
To open the previous page, swipe
right from the left edge.
Current bank
■ Using the screens
Touch and drag to operate.
Touch an item to select it. Drag an item to move or adjust it (slide nger any direction while touching).
Icons on the Home Screen can be dragged to reorder them.
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■ Returning to the Home Screen
To return to the Home Screen from a function
screen, swipe down from the toolbar at the top
edge of the touchscreen.
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The name of the selected patch memory can be shown in large letters for easy conrmation.
Touch on the Home Screen.
■ Selecting patch memories with the touchscreen
• Swipe down to select the previous patch memory.
• Swipe up to select the next patch memory.
Showing the patch memory name while performing
The touchscreen allows all the effects and the amp being used in the patch memory to be
seen at a glance.
Touch on the Home Screen.
When six or more effects are being used, press
or to change the effects that are shown and can
be operated in the effects section.
Showing the entire effects chain while performing
Effects shown in the effects section
The G11 comes with patch memories prepared to enable quick experimentation with a
variety of guitar sounds. Patch memories are organized in banks of four. Choose a patch
memory that you like and try playing guitar with it.
1. Press or .
Select banks.
2. Press or .
Select patch memories.
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■ Adjusting the amp with the touchscreen
Touch on the Home Screen.
Touch a switch to change
its setting.
Drag a knob up and down
to adjust it.
Amp name
• The parameters that can be adjusted and set depend on the amp type. (Some parameters can
only be adjusted and set using the touchscreen.)
• Adjustments to the values of settings made in the AMPLIFIER section are reected on the touch-
screen.
Adjusting the amp
Use the amp section to adjust the amp selected with the patch memory.
1. Press .
This turns the amp ON/OFF. (It lights when ON.)
The name of the selected amp is shown on the
AMPLIFIER section display.
2. Turn .
These knobs adjust, from the left, the gain, bass
frequencies, middle frequencies, treble frequen-
cies, presence and volume.
When adjusting the amp, parameter values are
shown on the AMPLIFIER section display.
When the AUTO SAVE function is ON, changes to patch memories will be automatically
saved. (This function is ON by default.)
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Use the effects section to turn ON/OFF and adjust the individual effects used in a patch
memory.
1. Press .
This turns the effect ON/OFF.
The effect indicator lights when it is ON.
2. Turn to adjust an effect parameter.
The knob adjusts the parameter shown above it on the
display.
Parameters that can
be adjusted and their
current settings
■ Changing the effect order
1. Touch on the Home Screen.
This opens the effect reordering screen on the touchscreen.
2. Drag an effect you want to move.
This moves the effect.
Turning effects ON/OFF and adjusting them
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2
Category Effect type

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■ Adding effects
1. Touch on the Home
Screen.
This opens the effect addition screen on the
touchscreen.
2. Drag to the position where you
want to add the effect.
3. Touch .
4. Touch a category to select it.
Drag the scrollbar on the right edge to
scroll the list.
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5. Touch an effect type to select it. Then,
touch OK.
This adds the effect.
■ Deleting effects
1. Touch on the Home
Screen.
This opens the effect deletion screen on the
touchscreen.
2. Touch the for the effect that you
want to delete.
That effect will be deleted.

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Using the pedal
If an effect in the PEDAL category is selected in a patch
memory, the amount of the effect can be controlled with
the expression pedal.
Pressing the front of the pedal turns the pedal effect ON/
OFF. (When ON, the pedal indicator lights.)
Check the effects section for the effect that can be
adjusted with the pedal.
When an external pedal is connected, two effects from the PEDAL category can be used.
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Expression pedal
Pedal indicator
The PEDAL category contains pedal effects.
■ Changing effects
1. Touch on the Home
Screen.
This opens the amp/effect changing screen
on the touchscreen.
2. Touch the effect that you want to
change.
3. Touch an effect type to select it. Then,
touch OK.
That effect will be changed.
• To change to an effect in another category, touch BACK, select the category and then
select the effect.
• See Guitar Lab for the explanations of each effect.
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