DigiTech 2112

WELL, I'VE HAD THIS FOR 4 DAYS NOW & I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING, BUT THE FACTORY PRESETS SOUND FINE & TWEAKING IS EASY. I CONCUR WITH EVERYONE IN SAYING, "THE MANUAL S U C K S!!!"....MY 8TH GRADE TERM PAPER WAS MORE PROFESSIONAL (AND LESS TYPOS!). I HAVE VERSION 1.01 & AM THINKING OF DOING THE 2120 UPGRADE....IS IT WORTH IT??? ANYONE???

I HAVE A FENDER POWERHOUSE STRAT, HOME-MADE THINLINE TELE W/TEX-MEX P/U'S, EPIPHONE LES PAUL CLASSIC, EPI SHERATON SEMI-HOLLOW, AN APPLAUSE ACOUSTIC/ELECTRIC & A FENDER P BASS...GUITARS ARE GOING THROUGH A TECH-21 TRADEMARK 60 & A TECH-21 POWER ENGINE 60 IN A STEREO SETUP. I ALSO HAVE A VOX WAH INTO A MESA-BOOGIE BOTTLE ROCKET OVERDRIVE/DISTORTION INTO A BOSS EQ-20 EQUALIZER INTO THE FX LOOP. NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE 2112 IS SO DAMNED QUIET COMPARED TO THE PEDALS! I LOVE THE EVH '78 & THE BOSTON PATCH IS GREAT...MADE ME RE-LEARN "MORE THAN A FEELING" (I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WAS 1976 !!!)...ALL IN ALL, THERE ARE ABOUT 20 OR SO FACTORY PATCHES I WOULD USE WITH A TWEAK HERE & THERE. SOME OF THE METAL PROGRAMS BRING NEW LIFE TO THE GODSMACK TUNES I PLAY.

I KNOW IT'S EARLY IN MY OWNING THIS UNIT, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S BUILT SOLID................WHAT'S A BACKUP????

AGAIN, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING, BUT I'VE SENT A HANDFUL OF E-MAILS REF BATTERY/TUBE REPLACEMENT & FOOT CONTROLLER INFO & GOT ANSWERS BACK WITHIN MINUTES TO HOURS. I ALSO ORDERED A POWER SUPPLY FOR A CONTROL 8 FOOT CONTROLLER (ANOTHER E-BAY PURCHASE...$30.00!!!) OVER THE PHONE & THE PERSON I SPOKE WITH WAS VERY POLITE & INFORMATIVE.

I PLAY EVERYTHING FROM THE BEATLES TO HENDRIX, 70'S...80'S...90'S...2003 ROCK/BLUES, SOME COUNTRY/JAZZ. ALL MY CURRENT GEAR IS LISTED ABOVE. I'VE BEEN PLAYING OFF & ON FOR APPROX 10YRS. THIS IS THE 1ST MULTI-EEFECTS UNITS I'VE OWNED & I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. THE DUAL DISTORTIONS ARE PROBABLY MY FAVORITE FEATURE...NOTHING I DISLIKE...OR SHOULD I SAY, THE WIFE DISLIKES... ABOUT IT OTHER THAN NO HEADPHONE JACK. IF IT WERE LOST OR STOLEN I WOULD WIPE AWAY THE TEARS & HOPE I COULD FIND ANOTHER PRISTINE UNIT LIKE THIS ON E-BAY....GOD BLESS E-BAY!!!! FOR A WHOPPING $255.00 FOR THIS & $30.00 FOR THE CONTROL 8, HOW COULD I GO WRONG??? I'M MAKING MUSIC WITH A SMILE!

IF ANYONE OUT THERE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE PATCHES OR ANY OTHER INFO, FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL ME @ PUCKBOY1175@AOL.COM (HOCKEY...MY OTHER PASSION!). RIGHT NOW I'M WORKING ON MASTERING THAT DAVID GILMOUR SOUND & ALSO 3 DOORS DOWN.

OH, BEFORE I FORGET....ANYONE THAT HAS MADE THE 2120 UPGRADE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW THAT WENT...WAS/IS IT WORTH IT?????

I play guitar for 10 years and I had other preamp like Twin Tube and I guess very easy to change effects and programs, and I really think that I did a better trade with my ex-Carlsbro head. The manual of 2120 VGS is very helpful, because 2120 is just an upgrade of 2112, but with the same caracteristics and sounds. You can download from http://www.digitech.com

I use a Gibson Nighthawk '98 and I prefer say nothing about that....just listen and take your own decision....I play Metal...this equipment is excelent for me...and I need to say that the pitch shifter is very useful.

Yes, you can use this without preocupations...but is very cool to have a backup equipment.

Digitech's support was very helpful when I asked about the manual and other things about the amp. I recomend.

You can play anything you want, I had Marshall amps, Carlsbro amps and I think that the 2112 is the best for me.
I just don't give 10 to this equipment, because there is the Triaxis in the market, that I prefer no comment.

Well, I must say that im impressed with the 2112 mine is actually a 2120, I called Digitech and they sent me a ver 2.11 upgrade and did so quickly. The manual is not available online but you can download the 2120 manual and it's basicly the same thing with the exception of some of the factory presets. Speaking of which im not a programmer and am somewhat new to rack effects but this thing is pretty easy to edit and the manual if you have over a 9th grade education is easy to understand unless you are impatient or have A.D.D or somthing. I first plugged this thing into the mono effects loop of my crate and it sounded like crap (that's a no brainer by the way) I then plugged it in through the stereo inputs of my mesa simul 2: 90 and it blew me away, it sounded so good and the morphing is awsome. I really have nothing but good to say about this piece of equiptment.

As I said before I am running my EBMM Petrucci to the input and stereo out to a Mesa Simul 2: 90 it's awsome.

It hasen't died and I don't think it will I would definatly use this at a gig without a backup.

Just Perfect. I don't know why everyone else is complaining Digitech answears E-mails and phone calls promptly and they even get involved in the users forum.

I play mostly dream theatre, Rush, and some extremely heavy origionals and it is extremely versatile. You like panteras cowboys from hell song set the preset to Death Scoop and see what I mean!!!!

The good thing about the 2112 is that you can work on different layers, depending of how deep you want to go. There are many pre-programed modules on each effect ready to throw in. You also have the opportunity to adjust every parameter inside each module aswell. Here is my first objection: There are way to many parameters to adust. You really could get lost in this parameter-jungel. Especially in live-situations all the parameters do more harm than good.
This is the reason I'm thinking of going back to all those stomp-boxes. Anyway, I don't think I'll sell my 2112, because a processor gives you the possibility to store your patches.
Another BIG objection is that there is about 20 configs. This means that you may have made a good patch, and you just need a little tremolo to make it perfect, you may have used all the effects in that config.

I've never got that good clean-sound out of the 2112 pre, so I bought a Mesa Boogie Studio pre. HALLELUJAH! Now I only use the effect-part of the 2112. This works better for me, but in rehearsal and live-situations all those parameters still bugs me. BUT: If you got time to twink those knobs for some time, you can get good results. I still have some comments on some of the effects: The reverb don't have eq on the effectsignal, so you can't filter the reverb. The wah isn't very good.

It crashed once (I've had it for five years), so I had to reset it. I lost all my patches, and it was one hour before the gig....

As you can tell, I'm not one cloud nine aboud the 2112. It's a little tricky in live-situations, when you need to alter one parameter, but you can get where you want if you got the time. A great feature is that you can store your own modules (not patches) and use them in other patches. So, a good adwise is to build you own library of modules.
The Edge (U2) used the 2112 on the Pop-mart tour. In his current setup, he got two 2120s along with 60!!! vox AC30s, and Bono uses one 2120, so the machine can't be that bad after all.

The ease of use is the intelligence of people. If you had never used effects then it would be difficult but also a GP 16 is hard to learn!
The effects I use now were programmed in about two days and with my KOCH KV-50 it kicks ass. I already played life and our bandmembers are really glad I bought this product.
I only want tosay if people get a bad sound try to change the things that make your sound (according to your knowledge) or even (like compressor, eq to loud delays and stuff like that) remove them from the bank. The manual was not delivered but I'll get it.

The sound quality is very very very good. I can play death, thrash, doom, gothic, blues, jazz and so on and so on. The noise gate works as it should be the distortions are very good en if they are to noisy mix it with a little overdrive. The settings for each effect is enormous. Also if you play (during rehearsals) on a different amp you can easily use the 3 band eq and the in and output meters for a good/acceptable sound. I play now a KOCH KV-50 and with the settings I play now I wouldn't even think of trading/selling one of tehese products even so for my guitar (Ibanez RG 470, LP, Jacksoncopy)

Reliability is good for now. I own it for two weeks now. So I cant say much about it.

I emailed to digitech a several times and the respond was clear and good. Within three ours i got respons.

I usually play melodic/harmonic/doomy and stuff like that, but I also try to do a little black parts within these styles. i play for about 5 years now and I am still learning shit. ( I took lessons fo about 3 months)The only thing that took a while to learn was the time to switch sounds. It is not so fast but everybody could learn it in two hours. I only wish it had afridge iside so I would not have to walk for beer during playing.

The interface is pretty intuitive and there are a lot of places on the net where you can find your answer regarding this unit.

The stock tubes in this thing really suck: I replaced the tube dedicated to overdriven sounds with a NOS RFT 12ax7 and the clean tube with a JAN GE 5751: this was a hughe improvement in sound.

I own it for 3 years now: it was a second handed unit. Still no problems with it.

Never had problems with it. If I had questions, I consulted the many FAQ's and fora on the net, always with succes.

I play heavy metal, but also use it to create The Edge kind of sounds: this unit can handle this perfectly.

Very easy to use, the interface is very user friendly. It has easy to understand graphics

I like the noise gate, works fine. Only 2 tubes 12AX7 makes it sounds not as good as I would want. The distortions are not bad but I've seen much better. Any pitch effect should NOT be used, the suck big time, especially intelligent pitch harmony, they simply do not work. If you want something for harmony, get an Eventide, they rule. Speaker emulator is not that great, still sounds like its direct. But I have to say it sounds better than the small "all in ones".

Never had any serious problems.

Good support from Digitech

I want to switch mine for an Eventide, but there's a big price difference. I suggest you use this unit with a good full tube amplifier.

For a pre-amp, it is pretty easy. I've had multi-effects pedals, but this is my first pre-amp. I asked a lot of questions at the store about how I use it. They were very help full. With the manual, I was able to figure most of it out. The firmware version is 1.2

This thing kicks a*s. The only thing is that the wah in it sux (unless I have it set up wrong.) I play Ibanez and Jackson 7 string guitars plugged into a Shure UT wireless, into a 535Q crybaby, into a Digitech Whammy/Wah, into this. Basically, I've been named the big boy on the block with this setup.
I then plug my right and left outputs into a BBE 232 Sonic Maximizer, into a Peavey 2 way crossover, into 2 separate power amps. My Power amps are PV1200. I have 2 seperate stacks. My tops are Peavey 5150s, and my bottoms are Peavey 15" TLS Subs. My 5150's can't handle my pal muting of my low B string, so that's why I need 15" speakers, crossover and seperate power amps. I get one hell of a death metal sound out of this. SOrt of Dimebag Darrel like. Nice 30 band eq built in and solo boost for volume. Every one who has seen my set up and heard it loves it, including me. I should give it a 9.9 only because I don't like the wah, but that could just be me.

I've had this for 6 months, and have never had a problem with it. It has never crashed on me. I love it. If it isn't broken, don't fix it. So I'm not upgrading the firmware on the chip.

I e-mailed them about a question I had about changing the tubes. I'm not a tube guru and I asked them about if I needed to the 2 12AX7 tubes rebiased when I replace them. They e-mailed me back immediately the next day and told me that I didn't.

I play metal. Speed metal/Death Metal, the heavier and faster, the better. With this setup, I can make some 10 year Mashall stack, metal veterans shit their pants. It's pretty funny. This is my first pre-amp and I love it. I've been playing for 7 years with pedal boards, then I went to this for more control. It's pretty neat. Factory presets weren't bad. Just had to do some tweeking. Noise gate works nice and so does the tuner. If this were stolen, I'd try the 2120 because it is the only one I can really buy new. Pretty much the same from what I've heard. I just wish it had a better wah built in, but oh well. It still kicks ass.

I got a good sound out of it now, with jcm 900, I have it hooked up to
the front input, & had the preamp up too much, It works good at about 1/4 of the way up on the jcm 900 preamp, I only use channel B on my marshall, I sometimes have a hard time getting the solo to program on some of the channels, I mainly use 39 for dist. 2 for clean, & 34 for tremelo. & 5 for whah. Manual is fine, it helped me once when system locked up & had to press certain buttons when powering it on.
I think I have revion 02. Have never upgraded mine yet.

I use the marshall jcm 900 100 watt w/the marshall vintage series cabinet 4 12's, 78 les paul w/emg 85 & 89 pickups. other guitar is ovation celebirty deluxe, I have the noise controled good, just have to tinker with the noise gate. Effects I use sound good, I backed off the factory settings from 100 percent to like 17 percent. My favorite artist are Alice n chains, stp, metallica, eagles, pink floyd
collective soul. etc.

Yes I depend on it, have been gigging with it for about 4 years. without backup. only had problems with it locking up once. & had to reset it. Always have problem with getting tuner to come on with foot petal, I like the tuner & the ability for different tunings. I also recently had to completly disasemble & remove one of jacks I never use on the back to put on the front for the input. it had like 6 places to solder. Wish like hell it had the input jack option on the back of unit so when I use my Nady wireless I don't have to wrap a wire around from the front. Now I always wrap a loop around my skb case so I dont pull on the front jack.

never dealt with support.

Play rock music, good match. have been playing 25 years. other gear I own, Mackie 16cfx, peavey 1200 amp, carvin 1000 amp, carvin 400 amp, bbe 362, nady wireless, midiverb 4, 3160 compressor, dod electronic crossover, dod eq. two juice goose, yahama 18's subs, yamaha 15's mains, peavey 15's monitors, shure sm57 & sm58, & nady drum mics.

Well, it's not to easy, but the layout is very well thought, and, well - if you're not a retarded baboon, you'll figure it out. As to this, guys got their thinking caps on. Great.

Huh... Frances Farmer will have her revenge on DigiTech. One big gripe, but:
1. Delays / revs - great, very clear and just good. Industry standard, what can I say... The best around.
2. modulation FX. Chorus - good, but lacks that IN YOUR FACE of a mere $80 BOSS... Bad then. Flangers - wimpy, digitally sounding and harsh, even somewhat unadequate (call me stoopid). Phasers - thin. Never liked phasing anyway, so forget it. Digital. Typically expansive settings.. Yuck Wot, guys, you spent your youth trying to be Diana Ross guitar player and The Big Macho Disco Dancer?
3. Distortions. Ahem... Gimme my BOSS DS1 - I hate it, but even the miserable tube glowing inside this unit is just for lighting up the screen, probably... IT DOES NOT AFFECT TONE, so was probably put in by mistake. Period. Distortions are not very bad - it's an expensive toy, after all - but not good. They lack definition, power and character. Good for cheap pop studio, or retirement feast... For the Beasts after 64...
4. EQ - uh, they're OK.
5. Editing, layering - well, great, but the sounds suck by themselves. Successfully.

Can simulators - wot, you mean this is a sound of a miked-up cab? LOL LOL LOL Harsh and utterly unnantural. No "cab" as a matter of facked. LOL

Gets 4 only because delays are sooooo good.

Never gigged with THIS. would be scared to even put it in a case and move out.

Dunno... ppl say they're good and polite.

I play in indie band, and I own a Gibson Les Paul, a Mexican Strat, some cheap Stratalike, Marshall JCM900 combo, BOSS DS2, CE5, GEQ7, DD3 and Dunlop Crybaby. I have never been vintage nuts, and I force myself to be openminded - I am afraid to miss the next coming of an electric guitar... This device (2112) has lots of possibilities, myriads of them, it is packed with great useful features, I am almost sure it is gig worthy, and it has amazing delays. I even heard of ppl who used it as their main delay unit for everything intheir small studios...
The rest sucks harcore. Dists are almpst no good... *sigh* Could be far, far better. Soubds very plastic-ly, childish-ly, ZOOMish-ly, you name it.