DigiTech RP-100

Few but flexible parameters. The only-2-digits display does not help a lot. But the lists printed on the effect box make up a little. Nice tuner, but a little erratic. Up/down pedals for 40 presets and connection for optional expression pedal for volume/wha/whammy. I don't need more than this.

Guitar technology has never been as good as today's. For its price (and a lot more, too), you can't find anything else on the second hand market with comparable quality. Grab it. If you can spend more, get the Line 6 products, but this is very good, too. Don't forget that anyway this is a typical multieffect to be tweaked a lot to make it sound good. But it will. It's specially difficult to find a good equilibrium between the eq (that is only post-amp, therefore without any effect on widening the kind of sound of the amp models) and the cabinet simulation. You need the latter only if you don't use a guitar amp, otherwise the tone will be very bad (typical example: listen to the demo sound on the Digitech web site - why did they do that?). The other effects are of very good quality.
The tone doesn't change a lot according to your dynamic/volume pot, but it's acceptable.
Both direct recording and a guitar amp work well with this baby.

In the past, I was not very happy with Digitech stuff (a lot of, and expensive ones, too), but maybe technology is improving here, too...

Digitech on-line assistance is ok: But what do you want after spending few bucks???

I wanted something for my homework, so that I don't have to carry home my official stuff, even if now, after the big racks of the past, I just use a Line 6 Flextone (great!). And for this purpose it's perfect. I just wonder why I must tweak so much the eq and the cabinets... I lose my time instead of playing.
Anyway for that little money, you also get some useful rhythmic samples, and a decent acoustic guitar simulation. Is there still anybody against what technology can do for us?

I found the RP100 very easy to use. The presets are actually usable, not excessive showcases like some presets are on other multi effects. Then from there you just have to reach down and turn a knob to adjust gain, amp type, and master level. Hit the select button to tweak the the patches, and while in the patch you can tweak at the knob, and experiment, just like your favorite stompbox, but since one knob usually selects the effect, you usually limited to 2 adjustments. Then when you find a sound you like, just hit the store button, select the patch you want to store to, and hit it again.

Overall I don't think it could be much easier. Similar to the Zoom 505's setup, but it lacks banks, which would have been a nice addition.

I feel this sounds very good, for the price your paying. It doesn't quite sound great, but it is an inexpensive pedal. The RP100s instructions recomend running it through the effects return on your amp, but I like the sound of it through the front of my Fender HR DeVille better than through the power amp.

My main reason for buying this was to get a high gain sound for direct recording, that doesn't sound buzzy and treblely, and this does it well. I like to use the Rectified model, with the cab/mic sim on the warm 4x12, and the mic in the center position. The clean sounds are good too, but I haven't played with them much yet. Some complain about Digitechs being noisy on high gain settings, but I use it near my computer, and have noisy wiring in my apartment, so I wouldn't know, I just use the noise gate alot. Properly set up it does a great job of creating silence between the playing, and still letting the playing through. If you turn it up too much it starts to make the note swell.

I started out using it to record, but since I live in an apartment, and can't practice at high volumes, I've been using it almost all the time. It is a great practice tool for use at home, because you can get big sounds at low volumes, and have good sounding drums to play with too.

I have no past experience with Digitech, so based off the RP100, I'm pretty impressed. I was not expecting it to have a die-cast casing, which gives it a heavy, rugged feel. The knobs do feel flimsy, and while they are counter sunk from the pedals, they do stick up a bit. I can see these getting kicked alot. Which leads me to also question the quality of te internals, but what else would you expect for the price it costs, and what it does.

I emailed them to compliment them on the quality of the RP100, and they replied the next day, so I guess that's pretty good.

I listen to, and play a lot of styles of music. Some of my favorites are Punk, Metal, Blues, Rockabilly, and Surf. I'm on a budget, and I'm always wasting money on things that I think will cover a lot of different styles. Only to find it doesn't do any of them very well.

The RP100 is probably the first under $100 product that does a decent job of keeping up with my musical schizophrenia, is excellent for practiceing at low volumes, and is a good direct recording tool. For these reasons I'm giving it high ratings

This thing has great soud right out of the box. It is realy one of the best I have seen for a all in one amp model/ processor. Editing patches is easy, but there are so many options that you could be at it for some time. This is a pluse in my opinion, as you can get any sound you want from this thing. there are some web pages out there that have some patches by others, but I wish there were more. This unit will do well for the player who doesn't want to tweek it , as well as the one who likes to play with his processor for hours at a time.

I use a bass amp Peavy TNT 115s, and play a DeAromnd M-75t. It gives me a great sound!!! everything from heavy metal to an acoustic sound.
You can tweek this thing to get any soud you want, from any artist. I play all Christian music, blues rock (Darrell Mansfield) some stryper, Audio A, and passion music. This means a wide variety. RP-100 gives me all the sounds I need. Amazing Grace for funerals to Hindrix style.

As dependable as it gets. I don't stop on it though. I keep it where I can get to the knobs in order to be able to change quickly to any mood. I use my hands to switch sounds, I need a mount for my mic stand.

never delt with them, hope I never do. I've been playing through this thing for 6 months, no problems, and the knobs are still there.

If I were to lose it I would go for the RP-200 as it has the pedal. Just because I would like to try it.
For the price It's the best thing out there. No more long boards full of pedals, just one box to do it all. Take the time to set it to your style.

Easay to use,dont need the manual- except where is the list of the drum loops ? was a pain figuring out what was what.

The tuner is great and the footswitches work fine

awesome.Instant rack sound - lukather/vai etc.I use the stack with compression for palm muted metallica stuff and the stack with boosted mids and no comp for gary moore style blues.The rectifier model was a bit too dark for my liking,good for lead but less so for chugging.

I doubt if its as accurate in simulating the lower gain stuff,but i dont care as im much less fussy with my clean sounds than the high gain stuff..not much call for it in 80`s hard rock.



I also have the zoom gfx-8 for gigs,but wanted something small for practice.I use the rp-100 into a sovtek head and 1x12 cab ands its killer for the size/weight.This replaces the gfx into peavey power amp and 4x12 for smaller gigs.This thing easily sounds as good as my ada/rocktron/marshall mega rack as well(which is 15u high and impossible to move- still i love it!)

dunno.i had some very dodgy older digitech stuff before.. so i hope they have sorted this out!

i woudnt buy any of those 2u digiech rack units they always break.

The old gsp-21 rocks though....just dont use the overdrives.

dunno.

This is the most for the least.Great overdrives,tuner,drum machine portbable and better than those horrid shitty pod things(i owned one of those for about 3 days -piece of crap.)

Now if they just added a row of 3 patch footswitches and a bank up/down and kept the rest the same id be perfect....

Or an amp or head with one of these as the preamp section,like a simpler version of the johnson thing,more like the spider but with amuch beefer power out section.

I consisdered the 505(2) zoom thing but it didnt have the drum loops and wasnt as editable.

and dont even consider the korg stuff- yuck..they need to stick to keyboards and yamaha`s dsp stands for Dodgy Sounds Poo.Zoom stuff is pretty cool though

It takes a little getting used to, but once you get the hang of it, it's a breeze to program. Editing tones is easy.

This unit is one of the new modleing units that have been popping up from almost every manufacturer. It is in my opinion that none of these tones come close to hitting the mark. That being said, there are some decent and usable tones. I particularly like the "Stack" and the "Boutique" (when gain is dialed down). "Tweed" and "Blackface" are acceptable clean tones. The "Rectified" "High Gain" and "Hot Rod" are too over-the-top for anything but Metal, unless you dial the gain and level way dow, but then again, that's not the point of those models.

The effects are IMHO, not perfect, but usable. The Reverb, Tremolo, Rotary, and Compressor are my first choices as keepers. Flange, Phase and Gate, I don't see myself using. I won't touch the Chorus, And I cant for the life of me figure out what they were thinking with the "Auto-Ya".

One standout that I dig is the "Cabinet Simulator". You have 3 cabs and 4 mic placements. I have too much fun on this setting.

Also a huge plus, the Drum Loops. Great for practicing. Although a few of the loops leave me a little perplexed, the others are decent. Great feature, good move DigiTech....

!!!Heads up, potential buyers........ Do not use batteries. I loaded this thing with a full round of brand name batteries, plugged her in, practiced for a half hour and then......... Nothing. 30 minutes of use killed the batteries. Get the power supply or you'll be cursing loudly.

No other issues at this time.

N/A No issues yet

My purpose for buying this thing is this: Practice/Songwriting/Demo recording.

Being not currently in a band I needed something that I could use as a versital one-man-band direct line in thingy. This machine fit the bill to a "T". THough the headphone output is very weak, plugging in into a 4 track and using it to power the headphones gives decent volume there. Using it as a distortion pedal for my Blues Pearl feels a little like heresey, it still gets a plus for actual use, though I doubt I ever will.

This unit is nothing to rave about as far as actually emulating the sounds goes. But its versatility and features make it a contender. And as a practice tool, it gets very high marks. Great value for a mere $100.

Very easy!

I bought the RP-100 after reading this message board. I play an American Std Strat with EMG-SA's into an ADA MP-1, JCM 900, Soldano 2x12 cab. I try and stay away from gadgets like the RP-100 because after almost 20 years of playing I'd like to think that I've "out-grown" things like $100 processors. WRONG!! Sure, it is not as pure sounding as my main rig but it comes darn close. This is without a doubt the best $99 I've ever spent on musical gear. My advise is BUY one TODAY. You can spend more than $99 taking your date to dinner with nothing to show the next day, so cancel dinner and buy an RP-100.

$99 bucks and a 1 year warranty, should be no worries either way. If I used it for gigging I would buy at least 2 ($198 for 2 wow). To its credit it's pretty darn sturdy. It has a solid metal case.

Very easy to use. Once you get the hang of it you can program a patch in just a couple minutes. Manual makes it easy to use i fyou have questions. Only reason I would not give it a 10 is that you cannot switch between patches without some sound disruption, <example> You cannot switch directly from patch 1 to patch 25, you have to actually hold the pedal down until it gets to the number you want.

Unbelievable sound. No noise with the noise gate on. Many different amp models to choose from and some really great effects. This unit does not have just one or two distortions with a little variation of tone. It has many different amp models that all sound different tone wise. If you can't get a sound your happy with, your just too lazy to program it.

Have only owned it a few weeks but it appears to be a dependable unit.

Have not needed to contact them.

You should be able to play many styles of music with this unit. I have been playing for 15 years and owned many effects units. It not the best unit on the market, but it is most definetly the best for the money you can buy. You WILL NOT get more for your money than this unit. You should be able to do most anything you want with the rp-100. I just sold my rp-6 and this thing is the reason why. It kills it sound wise. It also has a built in drum machine that plays pre recorded drum beats to jam along with. If they could have made a better way to switch between patches that are not located next to each other, this thing would be a solid 10 for the money, $95.

It's really easy to use and it's really practical. You do not have to get into really details in tweaking just for practising. The editing patches is simple and straight forward. The manual is good it offers enough information. However it does not provide the do and don'ts to maintain the unit (i'm really critical in this). At least they could specify some tips, like do not expose it under the direct sunlight and stuff like that (hey even if everyone knows that, who the hell cares, we need to secure our investment, it's 370 AUD you know)

I use the pacifica yamaha and been playing for quite a while and also i use Fender Princeton and the RP100 sounds cool with this setting
not really too much noise. except some hiss sounds but overall it is still acceptable. I really hate the wah sounding the clean sound are acceptable but not what i expected. Distortions sounds just nice.
I tried to duplicate the joe satriani's style of sound and the unit delivers just enough i think about 60% accurate. Chorus, flangers just acceptable. They all sounds pretty much the same anyway no matter who produce it. The rectified is a killer and it is my fav. The stack is nice you can really get the distinct heavy metal sounds. For wah use the crybaby. No other effects could match with the real one you know

The unit look fragile. I would use it on a gig. Well my opinion is no matter what you use there is always a way to exploit it. Try to relocate the patches in order that is suitable for you. For my playing i usually only use up to 5 patches that is one for soloing (distortion), for backing or rythm, clean sounds and some exotic sounding just for a nice touch of the song and another clean sounds with alot of high gain and reverb so yes i would use this unit for a gig but for using it without a backup I would not.

Where? where the heck is Digitech Australia? The music shop would cover the warranty though so no problem with this.

It is just nice compare to effect such as zoom. But for digital modelling unit. I stil prefer the johnson amplification
I've been playing for almost 3 years now and i have the VF-1 from Boss which is really kick ass. Compare with products such as korg and yamaha it stands. I love the distortion really much For distortion I would say Digitech is the best. I've used me-30 before compare to RP100 it sounds really shit but hey that's an old product if you're looking for RP2000 sounds but not enough budget this is the unit you should turn to. I've also used a GT-3 before and you can't really compare this unit to GT-3 it's different type. Compare to pod, Pod is still better (a little bit) but for a price of a boss digital delay the RP100 stands. For whoever you are who is buying an effect i would highly recommend the RP100. Even if you already have a lot of Gears. It's a must have gear in your inventory

Very easy to use. The unit uses a scrolling matrix to move through parameters. Each section of the matrix has 3 parameters that are tweakable. It doesn't allow you to get extemely deep within the parameters, but certainly enough to customize your sounds. One pain in the neck is in the scolling, if you pass the parameters you wish to tweak, you have to scoll all the way back through all other parameters to get back to the one you wish to change.

I love it for what I use it for!! I currently play in a cover band that plays out on weekends. I have a big midi rack that powers 2 4x12s for playing live that I use for gigs. Its a big pain in the neck to set up my live rig for practicing at home!!! I also have a Marshall mini stack (15 watt head, 2 1x10 cabs) that I use to practice that I bought more for the novelty of it than the sound. Don't get me wrong, the little amp sounds pretty good for that 1 Marshall sound it gives you, but it's not versatile and has no effects. I wanted to get something to spice up my practice amp along the lines of a POD or J-Station, but didn't want to spend another $300 just for a practice setup on top of what the amp cost. When I saw the RP100, it seemed like the perfect fit!! Only $99 and you get amp models and effects!!

I really like the way the RP100 sounds, however I'm not using it to record or using it for gigs and I'm not really that concerned how close the amp models are. I'm just looking for a nice clean sound, bluesy sound, rock rhythm sound and rock lead sound that sounds good and is fun to play, and this delivers. Most people rave about the rectifier model. I think it's OK, but I much prefer the High Gain model for my rock sounds. I prefer a Van Halen (Fair Warning era) type tone and that model really delivers. Add a touch of chorus, delay and reverb and I'm completely satisfied. The Blackface models sounds great for a nice clean setting. Again, I don't know how close the models are, I'm just looking for a few nice sounds to spruce up my practice amp (or play through headphones) and make it fun to play without setting up my whole live rig, and this thing fits the bill perfect. I don't intend to use this for gigs so I'm not really sure how it would work in a live situation, but it certainly won't replace my rack setup (and this was never the intention). I haven't tried running it through my Mesa 2:90 amp to two 4x12s yet, but I probably will just to check it out. I guess if disaster struck and my rig crashed during a gig I could use this through a power amp to bail me out, but I'm hoping/praying that never happens.

Works fine so far.

Dealt with them on other products, but not this one. They're OK, not great, not terrible.

It pisses me off that the adapter is extra, who wants to keep replacing batteries!! For my use this is perfect. For the cost of a stomp box you get amp models and effects, granted with limited tweakability. There are some really good sounds in this unit and for me it is well worth the $99. Depending on your situation it may or may not satisfy your needs. For me looking for a fun box to practice with that gives me a variety of sounds and effects it's great.

A repost my first review I did too early, this one is a little more detailed
A cool pedal that I really enjoy small enough for my gig bag and sounds great. I have gotten some really great sounds out of this unit but it did take some time. The modeled sounds I have noticed seemed to be modeled tube amp that is real hot master punched and all of that. This really seems to help out when I am playing I think this has a little more feel than line6 wouldn?t say it sounds better. The effects are great I am using my ernie ball volume pedal as expression pedal the whammy is quite cool the wah is not bad sounding but it is noisy when not played. I do get some white noise usually when the batteries are on their last leg. The EQ takes some getting used to just takes a little time to master wish it had a little more in that department. Overall I have gotten 4 real usable sounds that I can use playing and have gotten compliments on my sound clean, lite tweed crunch, marshal sound, killer mesa boogie rectifier sound. I am using a ernie ball axis with this pedal and this guitar seems to compliment the pedal. I am using this, as my preamp into effects loop of tech 21 and it sounds great even when it?s punched all the way. Its pretty cool only having a volume pedal and small effects board on the floor. I haven?t got sick of this and I have had it for 2 months a cool guitar tool in my book and the spring reverb setting actually sounds like a spring reverb.