DigiTech RP-100

Easy to use, in the beginning you'll need to use the manual to know the abbreviations but after a few hours everthing is gonna be ok... I used lots of multi-effect units in the past (my friends have some DOD units) and editing patches is easier with the RP-100...

I use my RP-100 with a Squier double fat strat through a Peavey rage 158 (the perfect little kit for a beginner) Has a beaginner I don't really know if the effects sounds right but I know that it sounds better than the DOD stuff of my friends... The sound isn't noisy, and a great feature for those of you who, like me, play guitare in late night, there is a plug for headphones in the back, this way you'll always get the best sound you can get...

I'm not gigging has a guitar player (I'm a drummer) but we use it as a backup when we gig... It's metal, not plastic...

Digitech have the coolest customer support I ever saw, I emailed them a question and I got the answer 5 minutes later ... 5 minutes... realy cool... by the way, yes you can plug a bass or a mic trough you're RP-100 unit...

If my unit was stolen I would definitely buy a new one, for 200 $ (can) you realy get something good... my favorite feature the opportunity to plug headphones in the back. If you're a beginner-intermediate player who is looking for an affortable multi-effect unit go get the RP-100, for an advance player you might want something bigger, but you'll pay the price...

it may not be a single effect stompbox but its still quite easy to use after downloading the manual and skimming through it once while i was waiting for mine to arrive i got a good idea on how to edit patches and the first thing i did was create a couple of patches with very little problem. the print manual seems to have a few typos and errors but the one i downloaded seemed to be corrected

cheap piece of crap guitar -> rp100 -> peavey TNT100

i like the sounds i can get great clean sounds some good distortions still digital but its only $100 new its not gonna nail the sounds of a bunch of $1000+ amps the effects are good acoustic modeling is not too easy to get working right you gotta play with other settings to make it work properly only problem is for live use there is a slight delay when changing patches which can be a problem

if i did play live gigs i could use it without a backup

NOTE TO ANYONE PLANNING ON PURCHASING ONE: get a power supply it eats batteries

their site seems pretty good they have downloadable manuals the faq section seems pretty good other than that i dont know ive never had to deal with digitech

when looking around at guitar processors in the $100 price range to cut down on what i carried with me when i went on trips out of town i looked into the rp100 the zoom 505 and the korg ax1g.... this one won it does help me write music great tool for practicing and possibly even live use NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR GOOD ANALOG EFFECTS IN THE RECORDING STUDIO

I'm very satisfied with the sounds. editing is easy, and the manual is easy to understand, except for some spelling mistakes, but they were corrected on the companys website.

I plug my squier strat through the RP100, into my amp. I generally use the RP100 as a preamp, and my amp as a power amp. The effects sounds great. the only complaint is about the acoustic simulator. It sounds noisy.

I'm not gigging, so I don't know.

It still as good as new, never needed to contact them.

I think this effect unit will suit everyone. If it was stolen, I might consider buying a more excpencive unit, such as the RP300.

This pedal is pretty easy to use. It's my first Multi-Effects, so i didn't compare ease of use to something else. You really need the manual to edit the patches though, you won't know what's going on. Also,,,, BUY THE 9V A/C PLUG!!!!!!!!!! if you use batteries the thing goes crazy when the batteries go low.

I like the sound, No complaints here. I play an Epiphone G-310 SG, through a Fender Twin Reverb , and Fender Deluxe 90. I like the way it sounds so it might depend on if u have a cheap amp, u won't get what ur lookin for. It can be noisy, and then it can't. It depends on what u set it to. You can change some settings to make a lot of feedback and noise. I like it. All the effects are good, bute some of the effects are sweet, if ur practicing wear some headphones or play with surround, its sweet. Here's what it's got(just copied from a different site) -
It combines the versatility of a room full of vintage and modern amps with full-featured, studio-quality effects. With 26 programmable effects to choose from and up to twelve available at once, the RP100 offers endless possibilities. Each effect includes up to three adjustable parameters. The built-in Rhythm Trainer plays sampled drum beats in an infinite loop and allows you to change patterns, tempo, and volume level. The RP100 comes with forty ready-to-use factory presets, all of which can be adjusted and stored as user presets. Other features include 24-bit A/D-D/A, a simple user interface, chromatic tuner, stereo output, and an expression pedal input.
Features:
26 programmable effects
Twelve effects available at once
Three adjustable parameters per effect
Rhythm Trainer
Forty factory presets
Chromatic tuner

Its metal, not plastic so it'll will last. It's been dropped before, in fact right on my friends guitar by accident,, it left a nice dent in the wooden body of his strat,,, oooops. I trust it, some other pedals are plastic so i probably wouldn't trust those so much. I trust it through a gig. Make sure u get the A/C adapter, did i say yet?

Never dealts with the company,, even though i was ready too. It was acting all crazy the day i got it, so i took it back to the store, and they couldn't figure out what was wrong, later we found out it was the batteries, so i bought the A/C plug. No problem there

I play anything, but mostly Classic rock, Metalish, and Punk. Put it this way, i play from Led Zeppelin to Blink 182 to Pantera. It works for all of these, for the "darker" music, u can even edit patch to make the guitar sound like it's detuned a whole note, so when ur guitar is really at EADGBE, it sounds DGCFAD. it's KOO. i didn't compare to other things, so i dunno what else is better or worse in this price range. It's got a drum loop, so thats kool to play with drums.

This is Piss easy to use.My drummer can work it.

I use an epiphone Les Paul Into a Marshall JCM-2000 half stack.The clean sounds are quite good, the distortions are totally shit.They sound sod all like the real thing. The only semi-decent one is the Marshall, but i just use the amp for that.The effects are okay, the delays are good, and the reverbs are good.Compression is crap.It just boosts the gain a bit, which is not what it is meant to do.Gets a six because the clean sounds are good.

It fucks up sometimes.It keeps flicking between presets, even if you don't touch the bastard.The tuner is crap.I can't get any sense out of it.

Never dealt with 'em.

Can't record with it due to the poor sound quality.Good for the money,or for somebody new to effects.I have playing since I was 8, I am now 13,and I play all styles of music from Steve Vai(fucking amazing guitarist) to George Benson.

With some tinkering, and the manual, you can be creating your own presets in about 1/2 hour. Manual was very basic. Two pedals for scrolling ( with a big gap ) up and down between presets.

Lowend Strat through a Roland JC-90. Plugged it in and NOISY NOISY NOISYYYY..arg. My setup is a little clean and twangy as it is - found that the RP-100 sucked out alot of the character of the Strat and added alot of niose. Gave me a headache. Made even the chorus on my JC sound bland ( that possible? ). The noise gate sucks. It's true like in the previous post, you play and the hiss is there, loud as ever. The distortions are dull, bassy and all pretty similar, turn up the gain and no one can hear what your playing, not even you. The chorus ( lots of options, very cool ), reverb, flange and delay are passable for $100. The tuner, drum synth, detune and Auto Yah(?)..whatever. Long gap when switching presets, that blows. Was trying for a passable SRV sound, the Fuzz is too much and too dull, just like all the distortions - if you have more than $99, keep looking.

Just bought it.

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Great, cheap way for beginner to get an introduction to effects. If your new will give you a starting point for what your REALLY looking for. The chorus, flange, delay and phaser are passable and would make this a cheap keeper for me if it weren't for the NOISE.. the rest of the stuff is too cheesy. But hey, $99, er...$140.00 - the AC adapter is sold seperate. I'll play with it another week or two, then it goes back. I paid too much for my Roland-JC to let this thing make it sound like shit.

Very easy to use! Editing the presets is a snap. I plugged in an old passive volume control for the footcontroller and it works great!
All of the effects have some limitation on reprogramming, but essentially will do most everything you need to do.

The noise is quite dependent upon the effects and distortions you use. The more distortion (i.e. the higher the internal gain for the drivers), the more noise.
The effects are very convincing as are the amp simulators.
I take this direct into ProTools on my iMac and it is incredible! The weakest part is the rhythm trainer, which is very rudimentary, but if you want to learn how to keep a beat, it can be quite useful.
I occasionally use it with my Fender HotRod Deluxe and it works out very well, particularly if you use the direct in to the amplifier section.
With a G&L Skyhawk or my Epiphone Sheraton, I get great tones.

Have had only one problem, and that was the tuner losing its calibration. However, resetting the unit to original specs solved the problem instantly (except for the loss of all my user presets, which isn't a big deal).
I only use it in my home studio, so I can't validate its road-worthiness.

Past dealings with Digitech have always been great.

If you want a direct in box for recording without spending a ton of money, give the RP100 a test. I think it's great.

my 2 cents: it's easy to use. hard to remember the abbreviations at first, but you get used to them. i've had mine a year, still have to refer to the manual at times. one knock i have against this is that you have to go to the web page to get the breakdown of how each preset is created. once you change the user presets, it's hard to remember. other thing i hate is that the web page also has the list of the drum patterns. should this be in the manual? also, note: i like the look of the rp100, very retro-modern, but in price comparison, you have to buy the adapter, then if you want to use some other features you need an expression pedal. w/ those costs, you might as well get the rp200.

i have a love/hate w/ this. for the most part any sound can be created, and i've used this stand alone w/ an amp/direct and now in my effects chain: w/ digitech dsp256xl--dod d12--lexicon mpx 100. it works well in all applications. can go from clean to distorted, uneffected to wacko effects. i think the amp modeling works well, i think in the headphones it doesn't sound very good--way way too digital, but good for practice when everyone is sleeping. a few things i hate: wish it had more than 40 user slots. after you have this a year, i need more! the factory presets are good i think, pretty basic in range of sounds, they work well w/ all my other over effected sound options. other things i hate: the pickup modeling-a joke. i've always hated the split humbucker sound to get single coil. get a single coil to have single coil sound, humbucker to get humbucker sound. and i wish it had more delay time. 2 seconds seems a tease. wish it had 5 seconds (or MORE!!). also wish the modulation effects were divided up. you can't use a flanger w/ a chorus, etc, they are all in one effects module. so i went out and got other effects to compensate. but that's me. mostly it has a good sound. wish this would have been around when i bought my first distortion box in 1988!!

seems reliable.
plastic "foot" buttons seem somewhat weak, but i
keep it at hand b/c i'm always tinkering w/ sound etc.
not much into stomping on my equipment.

they have a webpage, and i think this manual is on line (i think).
hate that the manual doesn't have all the options on it, have to go to web site (see my above comments). i mean put the parameters for the presets and the drum patterns in the manual.
if you don't have web access--you miss out. that shouldn't be right.

overall-i think this is a good little effects/modeling box.
it's the basis for my sound and is very modifiable. wish it
had more user slots--i'm sure they are selling truckloads of these, and in a few years a truckload will be for sale for dirt.
i'm curious to see what the next generation of intro effects will be.
oh-i should say that i played a pod once at a music store and i thought my rp100 kicked it in sound. and the pod costs like 4 times as much. it has a lot of good applications-w/ amp, w/ other effects (at least does for me)/works good direct for 4 track recording, and good w/ headphones (just remember it's a bit digital sounding through headphones). my 2 cents...

U can actually get a lotta sounds in it, provided u spend some time in it.the manual is not all that great as it doesn't give u the complete picture what sounds can be derived of it.

I use a pmg guitar and a stranger amp. Its an indian one but even in it is not at all noisy!!!its godamme clean.about the effects as i said said we have to spend some time with it to get a desired sound.but anycase its not noisy, and abt the artists, there are a few websites for this processor where in which we cud download the desired settings for different artist like , metallica, maiden, megadeth and stuff.i'am not actually very satisfied with the chorus and distotion.

Quite dependable on small shows and i use it on gihs without back up.

never had a chance to deal with the comapany but thier website is good.

i mostly play rhythms and i sing for a small band, we do a lotta alternative and maiden kinda music..so i feel it very nice to play.i've been playing for 4 years and i own a p,g guitar and a stranger amp.hope i don't lose it even if i wud go for digitech cause it is kinda so nice for the price.i love the various kinda settings and i hate the by pass feature as i miss it occasionaly when i step on it.i compared it with the korh and boss metal zone nad i felt it way good.its a great pal for a beginner guitarist started to play for gigs!!!!LIKE ME!!!

Ease of use? I really don't know what all the complaining is about! In my opinion the RP-100 is infinitely easier to edit than its granddad, the RP-1, and for that matter, the process is VERY similar to the original Zoom 500 series pedals. YES, you should read the manual and, YES if you're a "instant gratification" type or a child you're going to be disapointed. Once I edited my first patch I knew nearly all I needed to continue to experiment. I've owned quite a few programmable devices in my time and you simply must be prepared to spend some time with them. The manual: I bought mine used and downloaded the manual from the Digitech site. It's about as good as any manual authored by the designer.......they know too much to ask the right questions! The manual is a good starting place, but some of your best results may just happen by accident. I don't know anything about available upgrades.

Sound Quality: AGAIN, I really don't know what all the complaining is about! I have NEVER, never, never found canned patches IN ANY guitar effects unit 100% acceptable! They ALWAYS need editing and tweaking, and ALWAYS will. Why can't people jsut accept that as a fact of life and quit condeming the equipment because their personal tastes are different than the factory programmers?
I bought mine only for the chorus, tremolo, leslie, delay, wah, etc.., not the distorions. No, none of the effects are equal to rack units costing five times as much (some people just can't be fair, have you noticed?) but for stage use this is as good as I've used and sound really good to me. My amp is a Mesa Nomad and the distortion/overdrive it gets cannot be beat, so, I set the effects up to be as transparent as I possibly can (careful setting of the EQ and using amp simulator C2 with no gain will get you there) and the results are very satisfactory. I do not use the distortion/amp simulators at all, though I think they have good potential. I hear very little noise, but while playing with some of the amp simulators I noticed that high gain and compression will bring some noise out, just like 90% of stomp box distortions do. The effects that I am using sound very good to me, especially the fast leslie I use for the solo in "Good Times Bad Times". The overdrive of my amp is not "muddied" at all by the the RP-100 (DO use the effects loop of your amp). My only complaint is the Wah, NOT the sound it gets, but the fact that I have to first hit the RP-100 by-pass and then switch on the expression pedal....two motions instead of one, then by-pass to turn it off. This is a pain sometimes. By the same token, Wah SOUND I use is better than my Crybaby, and you get to choose from three. I have been toying around with the distortions at home with headphones and again, I really think that with the right amount of tweaking (EQ, gain, cabinet & mike sim., and compression setting) these can sound as good as any synthesized amps you could ask for. Time brother......take some time.

The back plate appears to be thin sheet steel. The housing looks like a durable plastic matrix of some kind. Mine was beaten up by the previous owner pretty thoroughly, but it functions fine. I've made this statement numerous times before after reading other reviews; "Child, if you jump up and down alot you're going to break something". This is an electronic device and should be used in the manner intended. Mine is mounted on my SKB PS-25 pedalboard between the Mesa footswtich and the expression pedal. My only hope is that the swtiches hold up better than my old RP-1 and RP-10 did, that is why I'm voting "no opinion", although I think the unit itself should hold up fine. Time will tell. Oh, by the way, the manual states that you must use the 9VDC 1300MHA wall wart that is sold for the unit. That would probably be best, but I've found that a Radio Shack 800 MHA works just fine and doesn't get hot....the 500 MHA power supply that came with the PS25 does get hot, so I'm staying with the 800 MHA unit. The adapter plug that goes into the RP100 has a large diamter + pin, so you'll have to modify the power patch cord of your SKB pedalboard to fit it.

No clue.

Style of music: Classic rock covers, blues, originals.
Been playing 40 years this year.
Stage Guitars: 1982 pre-lawsuit ESP Strat clone and a 1972 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop Deluxe.
Yes, I would buy another used RP-100 if mine were stolen or lost...may buy another one anyway. It's got a "play along" drum track feature that is pretty neat too....the drums sound pretty darned good!
What do I love; I think the patch editing is a breeze, if a bit time consuming, BUT AREN'T THEY ALL? I also like the compact size. This one, double-size pedal eliminated my Arion tuner the Dynacomp, my Dano chorus pedal, my Boss delay pedal, and my Crybaby. Not bad! Scrolling up and down through the patches is not a problem for me because I never need more than one different patch per song, so I make the adjustment between songs. Pressing two pedals at once to bypass the pedal demands some concentration, but the Zoom pedals are the same and I got used to that years ago. I'm not sure if I like the tuner function just yet.
I could have bought one new but thought at the time that I would wait until the "used" price more closely matched the value I think this unit represents.....and I still feel that way.......about ALL guitar effects. They are all over priced. Why do I feel that way? Just like computers, two weeks after you buy one it has been surpassed by newer, better technology. It never fails. However, another way of comparing the value of the RP-100 is to add up the cost of all the pedals you would have to buy to get the same effects. By that scrutiny alone the RP-100 is a huge value for the dollar, depending on HOW you utilize effects.