DigiTech RP-10

This unit is rather easy to use and get around in. Nothing an hour or so of messing with won't let you figure out. Never really needed the manual.

The units tonal quality is fine, if you don't expect too much quality on the bottom end from the gain. The sampler was pretty much a joke. The flange was decent. The chorus was fine, especially when mixed with a clean tone.

This unit is made with cheap SE Asian parts and it shows. I would DEFINITELY have a back up. I like to consider Digitech the "Compaq" of effects. Works okay at first, but after about 6 months to 2 years....IT'S CRAP.

If you're a beginner to effects or not gigging, than this will get the job done. If you're in a "working situation"...STAY AWAY.

I have had my rp 10 for 6 years.i would say that it is pretty easy to use if you like tap dancing.For me there are almost too many choices to tweak on it.But i think its hard somtimes to really get a particular sound out of it.

I use a esp and a hamer throught it into a marshall valvestate.To me it sounds best if you can use both outputs to get a stereo effect.The bottom line is some patches sound great and others sound like crap.The wha really sounds crappy.I have plugged it into a pa system and i get alot of noise out of it.If you can tweak the eq you can get some good sounds out of it,you do have to work at it though.

The only problem i have had is the wha not working somtimes why i dont know,but i dont use a wha anyway.I have used it in gigs without backups.

Ive never delt with the company before.

I play heavy metal and hard rock.I wouldnt suggest using this for metal.I preffer a analog petal for that.But I like using it for its convience.I dont think it sounds good directly in the board.But if your looking for alot of sounds and want to take the time to tweak everything its worth it.

Fairly easy, although scrolling through the menu's and comparing settings is a chore.

The fairly low bit and sampling rate (16 bits, 40KHz) is good for guitars but unforgiving on vocals. I used my RP-10 as a vocal multieffex for a while... Don't do it!
Wah-pedal sound is terrible, The compressor is a joke with just one parameter. Reverb and Chorus are good

No problems

asked for an extra manual and they shipped it for free. Very good.

Good for clean guitars.

i am a techie guitar player and understand processors. this was the second unit that i owned(after a zoom 505) at learned alot about programming. the biggest dissappointment was the inability to create your own algorithms. the eq could have been better and the tuner sucked with intense fierceness.

the chorus,reverb,delay effects are superb for the cash. the wah was totally useless-wah goes in front of distortion. the whammy is very electronic(good thing i have floyd roses). i hate the distortion. i came to this conclusion after i bought my 5150. before i used standard patches through a roc-pro 1000 half. all the weird effects like phasers,flanges,tremolo,arpeggiator,and etc. i don't use. i hate the 1/2 second delay between patches that was very annoying as well. coolest thing was the CC pedal. it could control everything from volume, chorus rate, reverb, tremolo, and effects mutations(buy it for this alone if anything!).

i bought used with no rubber on the CC pedal. display was lopsided, and the 0 button did not work. later on the 1 pedal ceased to function as well and the sides became unglued and are being held on by electical tape. the adapter was seperating from the transformer and so went more tape.

website told me about the upgrade and my dealer told me about the price.

good for directing into a multi-tracker into some earphones to keep from waking my wife at 3 am. i cut a few "demos" this way; with ME, RG-550,RP-10,DR-5,and MD-4. the 1/2 second delay is really noticable on these demos though. good for a person that has a good distortion amp and needs effects to color it. to me though, the space effects are its only good points soundwise.

this pedal board is fairly intricate to work epecially if you want to have one pedal do two functions Like say turn the reverb off and turn the distortion on(but its also a plus because this processor is capable of doing all kinds of complex things like that and all we have to do is read the manual) It is a lot like most digital effect processors out there choosing algorithyms and scrolling through parameters but once you get the hang of it can do so much it just takes a long time, a lot longer than turning a knob. A lot of people had a problem with the manual but I didn't. I got the upgrade to try to get a better wah sound but all that I noticed different was that the tuner works now before it was completely useless.

I use a Mashall super lead. Made sometime in the seventies and two les pauls One 93 (with seymour duncan seth lover pick ups) and one 96 (stock pick-ups)It sounds good a lot of people complain about the grunge distortion they say it doesn't come through in a band setting. I use this mostley with an electronic drummer a bass player and a Keyboard player and I haven't had a problem finding my place in the mix It could be because I boost the lower mids this thickens it up a lot. I wish it had a way to make the distortions smoother or gainier(Being from seattle the only thing I don't like about the grunge distortion is the name) the overdrive doesn't sound like an overdriven anything, and the heavysustain is decent. also I wish that it had seperate eq's for the distortion and clean because if you eq for the distortion then switch off the distortion the clean is too muddy and if you put your clean on one patch and your distortion on another then there is a second delay before the change, I can't stand this. the effects are good I love the flanges and phasors. I like the delay's two, there is one problem, I like to have one quick slapback delay but there is only like one or two algorithyms with a mono delay. the rest are all multiple tap delay's, but you can set all the delay's to the same time and then mix the echo to where you like it I just wish you could choose how many echo taps you get. the wah suck's I would only use it if I were really desperate. I don't care for much reverb but when I want it it's there.

It has seized up on me a couple of times not lately. If I were gigging with it I would bring a couple of stomp boxes with me just in case

Like I said I got the upgrade and I had a guy at the music shop do it He said the slot was in a strange place on the one I have. so I'm glad I had him do it. The upgrade really made the tuner work better but the smoothy whammy and smart harmonizer I don't have any use for. but I have never tried to write to digitech. they do have a good website that has info on the upgrade.

I play psechedelic space rock and the Phasor's and flanges really give me that swooshing sound I like. I wish the disrortions were a little smoother. I have been playing for 9 years. I have a phase 90, a sovteck big muff a korg G1 a fuzz face reissue(soon to be modified)and a soulbender. You could spend day's editing patches If you like (I do) or you could just use the presets. I plan on buying the rp-21d so if it were stolen that would just give me a reason to go buy the rp-21d/

Alot of people find the RP-10 really hard to work with, but I'm not really one of them. The pedal has 100 presets that give you a pretty solid base to build on. If you can find a preset that you like, tweaking it isn't too tough. I was able to edit patches the first day. The RP-10 isn't a didlyshit starter pedal either. It's an extremely complex effects proccessor that desighned to let you customize almost every aspect of your sound. Sure, you'd have to own the pedal and work with it for years to know absolutly everything about it, but that's part of what makes it a good. It gives you alot of control over your the details of your sound. Some people might find all of this freedom a little intimidating, but if you don't want tweak your sound at that level, you don't really have to. The RP-10 operates at a low level of abstraction, it's not dumbed down so that your stuck with their presets.

Ok, I've had my RP-10 for about 2 1/2 years now, so I think I know it pretty well. Let me start, however, by telling you some things that you should probably know before you buy one. This pedal is not the holy grail of guitar tone. If your playing a shitty guitar through it, into a shitty amp it's not going to sound like the setup of your dreams. If you hate your tone and want to change it, don't buy a pedal, buy a good tube amp and a decent guitar. If you already have a good tone, however, and want to add great digital effects to it, (chorus, reverbs, delays, are the best sounding) sculpt it with the eq's, and give it studio sounding sharpness (via the noise gate) this is a great pedal. Now a word about the distortions... I never got the Grunge Distortion to work for me. If your playing with a band, It just doesn't cut through. It has alot of gain, but not alot of edge. It always sounded GREAT playing alone in my room, but when I played with a band I could never hear myself (This wasn't a volume problem I was playing through a 120w 4x12). I've actually played the RP-10 through 3 different guitars (A Les Paul, an Ibanez, And a Del Sol) and amps (A princeton chorus, a Crate GW-120, and a fender Pro Junior), and I've always run into this problem. However, the guitarist I was playing with could run a strat through the same amp and preset, and never have it sound great, who knows? Heavy sustain is pretty good, if you want to overdrive an amp, and overdrive I never really use. Oh yeah, the wah and whammy suck, but the volume pedal keeps it from being a total waste.

Some of the rubber feet fell of the bottom, and my power chord split and I had to wrap it with electrical tape, but other than that this thing is solid. I've gigged with it without a backup.

This is a great pedal for what it is. It gives you alot of cool sounds. For me personally, digital sounds lacks something. I think I might sell mine and buy a couple good analog effects. In the end, I think that most people only use a handful of effects anyway, so If you definetly know what kind of music you want to play, and just want five or six really good tones, I think that you might be better off buying individual stomp boxes taloired to your style of music ( A good amp, a distortion pedal (a Boss Metal Zone for metal, an Ibanez Tube Screamer for everything else)a good wah, a chorus pedal, and a noise gate) I think that setup could put this pedal to shame any day. But, if you need alot of presets, want to make alot of weird noises, or dig 80's metal arena sounds, you might really like the RP-10.

The first time I tried editing patches, i almost cried. It was impossible to make it sound like i wanted to. It is my first effect unit and i was completly lost trying to figure out what algorithm I had to chose, how to progamm the delays, reverb, noise gate, compressor,... The solution came from the net, I did download rp-edit and it saved my life (and the rp-10's too 'caus I was going to throw it against the wall). This software makes it much more easier to use. The best thing is that I just download some patches and send them from my computer into the digitech...et voila, I just let somebody else doing the hard work

I use it trough the effect loop of my marshall valvestate 100h. My guitar is a '84 gibson flying v with only one pickup (emg81). I play deicide-like death metal and the distortions suck biiig time but I don't really care 'caus my marshall does a great job. I don't spend much time fooling around with the effects but I can tell this box can do everyting (except cooking) if you spend a lot of time on it.I just download patches and keep the best ones.

It once fell off the stage into the mosh pit and it's still working perfectly.

I play in a very violent deathmetal band, and it is great gear if you know ow to operate it. The best thing about it is that it makes me sound different, I don't need a tube amp and ten racks to get what I want. I found one preset wich is just insane, something cannibalcorpse-like but ballsier. First thing I do during sound check is just bang one E5 chord and everybody looks at me saying "wow". The only thing I regret is that I am not able to use all its features, just my main sound and a few intro sick sounds. Before I got it I just had a few stomp boxes, they were much easier to use but it was their only advantage. If it was stollen I would get an rp-12 because some patches I download work only with the rp-12 an they get my rp-10 all messed up.

well, it depends. if you're a brand new member in the processor world, this thing could be a little difficult to figure out. i guess all processors would be. however, once you get used to it, it's pretty easy to change parameters and effects. i give it a 5 just because it depends on how much you know about processors.

well... i got one of these about 2 years ago, and i loved it. i really strengthened my guitar playing skills tremendously. but the more i played through it, the less i liked it. a lot of people set their reviews up and give stuff bad reviews, but what they sometimes fail to realize is that it's not the product's fault always, but their guitar or amp. i was using a custom made ibanez rg and an ampeg svt with this, and i'd have to say that it wasn't my equipment. i really hated especially the distortions on this thing- they're pretty much disgusting, even after hours of tweaking. some of the effects were decent, but nothing too awesome. the wah's were horrid- i couldn't get a true wah sound out of them. and another thing i didn't like was when switching programs, there's a short delay in the changed program's response. that really annoyed me.

it held up really well the whole time i had it.

i don't know

like i said before, this was good for awhile. but the more i grew as a guitarist, the more i saw it's faults. it's definitely not good for live playing, as i gigged it twice. it had an overabundance of useless programs, but it did help get me used to modifying effects and stuff. i'd have to say that if you're un-used to processors, this would be a good place to start. don't go in for those under $300 because they're horrible (zoom, dod, digitech). if you can spend a lot of time modifying effects, get this and a couple of good distortion pedals (or your amp's distortion).

Si se lee el manual de operaciones, no hay problemas para manejarlo. La edicion de la libreria de los efectos es bastante sencilla y amigable. Igualmente el manejo de los algoritmos. Todo esta en el manual.

Uso mi DigiTech RP-10 con un amplificador Marshall Valvestate 8080, al principio tuve problemas con la calidad de sonido cuando lo conectaba directamente (in-out), luego lo conecte al loop de efectos y ya suena mucho mejor. En cuanto a los efectos todos son excelentes, los unicos que son una verdadera cochinada son el wah y el autowah, el resto suenan bastante bien

si se me da?a, estoy jodido!!!

es perfecto para el tipo de musica que toco

I like it. The interface is a bit limited, and the wah sucks rocks, but other than that I think it's one of the better processors (for the $$) that I've run across, though I fully intend to upgrade to the V2.0 chip soon (I'm using 1.8 now). I have a request in for the manual but the online manual for the RP-12 is close and has been a lot of help. Patches are fairly easy to edit thanks to the jump buttons on top, and aside from the crappy power supply (needs a wall wart) it seems pretty sturdy--my 3-year-old daughter's stepped all over it several times. If you get one of these, definitely download RPEdit--even without a midi card it makes it a lot easier to mess with patches.

I'm using an 83 Les Paul Firebrand, through a Samson SR-2 wireless, then into a Morley volume/wah (like I said, the RP wah sucks), to the RP to a generic stereo volume pedal (I prefer to CC link to other functions than volume) to an Ampeg SS-70 solid state combo. The noise gate is great and keeps even the nastiest fuzz from humming, the distortion is good (I came to this from a Tube Screamer), and other than the usual Digitech limitation of effect combinations, I can usually get what I want out of it.

Like I said, my daughter's stepped all over it and it's fine.

Customer support email has always been prompt and helpful. Good web site.

OK. The price seems unbelievable, but I bought the unit from a pawn shop which didn't have a power converter and got a hell of a deal--$45. Then I got the converter for another $30 elsewhere. But I would have bought it anyway, coming from a GSP-5 and tube screamer. I mainly play blues, but often end up in classic rock cover bands. The multiple banks for preset pedals are great for tons of sounds.