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ZOOM
ZOOM (Zoom Corporation) is a Japanese audio company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It designs digital multi-effects for guitar, bass and acoustic instruments alongside handheld recorders, field recorders, digital mixers and audio interfaces. It was founded in Tokyo in 1983 and has been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since 2017.
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About ZOOM
Co-founded by Masahiro Iijima, a former Korg engineer, Zoom spent its early years developing sound-generator chips, rhythm machines and MIDI synchronisation systems for other manufacturers. Its first product under its own name was the 9002, a very small multi-effects unit built on in-house DSP and designed to clip onto a guitar strap; the company's own history dates its launch to 1990.
Effects have stayed at the core of the catalogue. The compact 505 guitar and 506 bass multi-effects pedals arrived in 1996, followed by the GFX processors and, from 2005, the G-series floor units, beginning with the G2 and G1 and continuing through the G3, G5, G6 and G11. Matching B-series bass and A-series acoustic models run alongside them.
In 2012 Zoom launched the MultiStomp series of compact single-pedal multi-effects with the MS-50G and MS-100BT, adding bass and chorus/delay/reverb versions in 2013. The series got its first full update in eleven years with the MS-50G+ in late 2023, and in 2024 the MultiStomp+ range grew to include the MS-200D+, MS-70CDR+, MS-60B+, MS-80IR+ and MS-90LP+.
