Zoom Ms-70 CDR

Just sharing my modified MS70 CDR pedal. I use it with a smaller portable setup where I mostly use 3.5mm stereo cables, so I opened it up and added two 3.5mm stereo jacks for in/out.

I was also annoyed the way it always just turned on when the batteries were inserted (due to the way it detects the new stereo input), so I also added a power switch too. It’s crude and sticks out, but there’s not a lot of room in there to be adding components and it’s the only place I could fit it really.

I’ve also used the Zoom Effect Manager to customise the effects too. For the money I paid for this used, it’s an amazing, super versatile bit of kit.

I followed this Zoom Ms-70 CDR - #165 by sinedied but also connected the two input grounds to each other to solve the fact that a jack needed to be plugged into the R input to switch the pedal to stereo mode, see here: Zoom Ms-70 CDR - #185 by Instant_Fidelity

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