Product: DigiTech 2101
Price Paid: US $800 used
Submitted
01/26/2000
at
07:03pm
by
Anonymous
Ease of Use
:
1
it is like programing a f*cken rocket
Sound Quality
:
10
i play black metal and death metal it sounds good you have to tweak for a long time tho i am useing a crown 2000 watt power amp and jbl dual 15 in moniters i use two of those. this sounds good enough to play any thing you want i have played for only 3 years and have gone farther than most will ever go in guitar playing i have taken this to metal fest and i got signed with century media wile i was their and i used the gsp 2101 .
Reliability
:
10
works fine i have used it with out a back up
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
have not have to use any support yet.
Overall Rating
:
10
i play in a black metal band called moonspell i have used $8000 esp effects processers this unit i recommend for any one that likes to play metal. the effects are good enough its the use of good talent and a good setup that will make it sound good
Product: DigiTech 2101
Price Paid: US $1000
Submitted
01/25/2000
at
01:57pm
by
Anonymous
Ease of Use
:
7
Stick to the presets and it's a 10. Tweak the presets, and it's a 9. Try to create a new effects chain from scratch, and it's a 3. I can get usually get what I need by tweaking the presets, so I have no complaints.
Sound Quality
:
10
Well....you could spend about a zillion bucks on each of the individual effects, and everything would sound better....but the 2101's effects are way more than adequate for a mult-FX box. I'd give the sound quality an 8, but coupled with the fact that you change EVERYTHING with the tap of a toe, I'd give it a 10+.
For the guitar, I have a BBE 461 in the effects loop, and usually output in mono, plugging the left/mono out straight into the power amp in jack (bypassing the preamp) of a Fender Super 60, and then put a Marshall Power Brake between the power amp and the speaker. I ALWAYS use the 2101's tubes, and NEVER use the "distortion" effects. What can be accomplished with those two 12AX7s is truly amazing. This is a full-tube setup, and sounds better than any tube amp I've ever used. In the studio or for bigger gigs, I'll hook up a second tube amp (usually another Fender), the same way, and it sounds incredible.
I do a lot of Cubase recording, and the 2101 sounds weak when plugged direct into the board, so I got a Line 6 Pod, for that, and am using the 2101 as a vocal processor....which it does EXTREMELY well. You'd have to look far and wide to find a box which can be a tube preamp, a compressor, and a quality reverb unit...especially for the price that these things can be gotten for on Ebay.
Reliability
:
10
I've had mine since the summer of 1994, and have rehearsed, gigged, and recorded with it without a SINGLE problem. The original tubes are still in there. The continuous controller on the pedalboard died, but that was a simple matter of replacing a diode.....so no complaints here.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
N/A....no problems means no support issues.
Overall Rating
:
10
When I bought this thing, it was advertised as the state-of-the-art, do-it-all preamp, multi-effects unit....and that's EXACTLY what it turned out to be. 5.5 years later, I'm thinking of buying a 2120, and keeping the 2101 as a full-time vocal processor.
You could spend thousands and thousands putting together a better sounding rig, but it would be a bitch to cart around and and you wouldn't stand a prayer of a chance of swithing all those devices in the half-second between the verse and chorus. This thing does it all.
