DigiTech RP-100

I played through this for a while with just headphones, and other than the presets, it wasnt very hard to get different tones on it, the manual explains it all pretty well. Definitly needs more knobs, less buttons

Blah. I play through this with an LP into a simple solid state amp. The sounds are horribly processed and fake, not usually a lot of white noise, but on some settings its pretty buzzy. The acoustic sim didnt sound acoustic, but it gives alright cleans, and the blackface and other clean amp models are alright, but dont have any real character. The delays, verb, chorus, and flanger are all i ever use this for.

Its plastic, strange popping noise, cant put up to high inputs

I play blues, some rock, and a little funk. This unit didnt cut it. WAHs are very sterile. ALSO: big issue with this-this processor doesnt have "distortion", just overdriven amp models with settings 1-9. Not much in the way of versatility. The single coil emulation was kinda cool if you wanna add some sparkle to a dull setup, however in general, this unit just sucks all tone out of a signal chain. very digital

You can tweak hundreds of combinations an dlevels of effects. To some this might be frustrating trying to achieve that "perfect" sound. Of course we all know that sweet sounding amp we own somehow will sound different as our styles change. This box gives you enough options to change the sound for the current mood you're in. You can keep it simple with a bit of reverb or pile the effects on. Learning the funky two letter abbreviations in the display takes getting used to.

I hated most of the 40 presets at first. Sounded over processed and fake. It collected dust for awhile until one night I plugged it into a little Peavey Blazer. I set all the amps controls flat. No bass, mids, verb, nothing.. everything to zero. Turned the volume knob up a bit and found I was getting great sounds. The other amps were coloring the sound and what this thing needed was nothing more than a powered speaker. Plus no more trying to use the amp's volume knob to keep the late night practice quiet. The RP100 is now used as a volume control with more precise results. I'll try is someday with the bigger amps and see what happens. Try plugging one into your amp with everything set flat. A touch of volume and if you can't find presets you love you should spend your money on more lessons.

To stomp on night after night I wouldn't trust. The price doesn't have beat it into the ground built in. I have mine sitting by my gear and switch by hand for different tunes. Had it a couple years. Seems better built than other similiar products in the $100 and under bracket.

It works well for it's price. The built in tuner works but can be tricky. As mentioned I wouldn't use for serious stage peformance unless switching was at a minimum. No regrets with this purchase and I shopped hard before taking it home. Ac adapter is a must. It's a battery killer. This is a top pick in it's class.

This is an easy pedal to use and set up, and has lots of variations of sounds. I do feel the drum machine end is weak. Now, in my opinion, the coolest thing about this pedal is the headphone jack, you don't even need an amp. When we went on vacation, I took my guitar, a good set of headphones(ones with an in-line volume control), one cable and the RP100 with a power pak. I was jammin all the time, and nobody could hear, down right awesome!

I use a Gibson LP and the guitar I've been using the most lately is a Schecter S-1 elite. Amps are, Tophat Club Royale, Vox Buckingham and a Marshall JTM30, also an Epiphone Galaxie 10(very cool little tube amp!). This thing makes all kinds of different sounds, and when you find one you like or make one up yourself, you can store it one one of forty presets. As far as quality goes, I have a Boss DS-1 that was modified by Keeley, a tube screemer and one of the Fulltone pedals just to name a few. These individual pedals DO have much better sound quality than the RP100. Sometime, after a while, they can all start sounding the same. Some you couldn't even use in a song, but, they all sound cool just to mess with.

Like anything else built in this world, some are good and some are bad. Sofar, mine has had no problems. It seems to be made of mostly plastic, therefore, you absolutely can not beat the shit out of this pedal. A lot of pedals are built like tanks, this one isn't. If you buy new, get the replacement warrenty, it paid off for a friend on mine.

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I've been playing mostly rock for over 35 years. I have had the RP100 for close to 2 years, almost got rid of it at one time. Then I started to use the headphone jack. Now there's no way, I'll replace this one if I ever loose it or it breaks. Again, if you go on vacation and can't part from playing your guitar for a week, this pedal is the ticket!! Weather at home and everyone is asleep or on the road, nobody can hear you!! I call it "playing under glass"....

This unit is very easy to use once you understand the modes of operation. I actually broke down all of the factory patches and put them in a speadsheet so I could see what each patch was made like. Manual is good but you just have to spend a little time with the unit to get the hang of it.

I have several Les Pauls (and some other guitars) that I play thru the RP. I am very torn because I play thru a Marshall TSL 100 and I love the distortion that the amp produces but the RP100 has such great distortion too. The unit is not noisy at all.

I would definitely trust this unit playing out. I love it so much that I bought another one on ebay for half the price I originally paid just so I could have one to practice at home with. At home I have a Marshall MG50DFX. I use the clean channel and the RP and the sound rocks. Any sound you want. I also have a Marshall half stack at work that I use it on and it brings the old 50 Watt MKII head to life.

Haven't had to call them.

A good sound to a guitar player is EVERYTHING. Good sound motivates you to play better. This unit does the trick! Buy one. Shit, buy two like me.

There's nothing really difficult about using it. The manual pretty much says it all and editing patches could hardly be easier. If you know what kind of sound you need it's not hard to get it.

My setup is quite poor: Ibanez RG320FA (I'm going to replace the humbuckers with SDs JB & '59 soon) - RP100 - Park 15W

For the price range, I believe the sound is OK. The reverb and the delay are quite good, the chorus and the flanger aren't really really bad.
However, most amp simulations suck ass: the Marshall stack is pretty weak (not even far from the real Marshall sound), the same goes for Fender Twin Reverb and etc... the ones I use - Dual Rectifier (Does a good job for thrash metal though it's noisy), High Gain (for soloing) and C2 (for acoustic stuff).
The whole thing is a bit noisy, you cannot pass without using noise gates (And that cuts off your tone, sometimes it fucks up my dive bombs)

I try playing bands and artists like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Dream Theater, Death, Megadeth, Pink Floyd - of course, with this small box you couldn't expect to get their sound.

Here's where the whole thing crumbles down. Made in China, what can I tell you...

First off, the right footswitch started to cut off the signal. I opened the box and saw that the plate wasn't really stable in the right side (it was slighly curved). I tried to fix it and now it's better but still isn't really reliable. I would absolutely never gig with it !

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the tuner:
1) Well, it never was precisely accurate
2) It doesn't show the exact tone anymore. When I play an E, it shows me G. When I play G, it shows Bb.

Frankly speaking, this thing can be used only in home or during rehearsals (And just hope that you don't get on the nerves of your bandmates with this source of problems)

Can't really tell, I've never dealt with DigiTech

I wish this thing was more realiable, had better amp simulations and wasn't that noisy.

I've been playing for slightly over 2 years. I know that it's not much but I believe I deserve something better. The RP-100 is good for complete beginners but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone more experienced.

It it were lost... Well, I wouldn't care much because I expect it to completely fall apart in the next few months anyway. I would never buy it again. In fact, I would never buy anything made in China again...

would not really know, my friend helps me out with that, other wise i will probly be have trouble

i played with a no brand guitar loaded with emg selects and another no name guitar loaded with EMG-HZH3 pick up set. The guitar is plugged into the pedal into a marshall G30R-CD combo amp that has a ten inch speaker.wow this thing is a POS! put the gain all the way up and crank the master volume to max and you find out that this pedal has no better distortion than a acustic amp! This thing is a toy and nothing more, its for people who want to play around.

its lasted my friend a good long time and i played a great deal on it too, hasent broken since he first got it used on ebay.

maybe my friend knows

i play thash metal, punk, old school metal, but would not use this for that, but it sounds good for emo (gay fagget, winny rock). i have been playing for a year n a 1/2 but know better to stay away from this pieace of shit. If I own one and it got stolen, the i would say thank you very much, i think i would go buy a boss now. what i love about it though is that its travell size, another thing i forgot to mention about it is that when you try to tune your guitar the pos half the time is so fucking senceative that it takes forever to tune your guitar and when your done it still sounds out of tune. Final conclusian, go get a zoom or rather a boss, thtrow this piece of crap out the window or give it to good will because remember its just a toy.

Honestly, I have a terrible experience with this pedal.
My RP-100A broke one month after purchase. Two weeks after purchase, the pedal would, after several minutes of being on, cut-out all guitar sound and replace it with loud cracking noises and tones. The screen would also display gibberish. Shortly after that, the power cable stopped providing power so I had to use batteries. Then the RP-100A finally broke completely. When it was powered on, the screen would display random lines and there would be no sound output.

My model's serial number was 1000-something.

I called customer support and described my problem and that I had my proof of purchase that was less than one month ago, well within the warranty period. They wanted to charge me to fix it. Luckily I purchased it from a good local store and they let me return it and refunded my purchase. I put the money towards getting a better pedal.

Complicated at first, but you get the hang of it with time.

The so called dual rectifier sounds terrible, I have EMG 81's in my Flying V so don't whine about my pickups. The cleans are ok, but I rarely use them, the Mesa Mark IIC+, or their really bad version of it, has very little gain-base ratio and most of what you here is bass monotone, keep in mind the Mark IIC+ is what the boys in metallica used in Master of Puppets and ...And Justice For All. The JCM 900 is realistic, a low gain POS.

pretty reliable, but I wish it would stop and give me an excuse to replace it.

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I play mostly metal, fast and heavy. Played through a marshall for practicing, it makes it sound even more pathetic. I don't know what I was thinking when I bought that amp. My other amp is a Mesa Mark IV long head, that I keep on a Rectifier 4x12, and all this pedal does is make me realize how blessed I was to get my hands on that Mark IV.

it not really easy to use but anyone with a brain could figure it out.

the feature that is supposed to change your sound from a humbucker sound to a single coil sound is really bad and most of the amp models are bad too. the efffects and the delays are the only thing that makes this piece of crap worth buying

i would never in one hundred thousand years use this for a gig or even a jam. The reason is that when you are using a patchand you want to switch to another patch, the sound cuts outs momentarily, so you can forget about continuity in your soloing or riffing. it also takes six double a batteries that it sucks dry in about 6 hours

i haven't

i mess around with the effects and delays on this machine. the drum machine that it comes with has the absolute worst drum beats. with the exception of maybe three f these beats the rest are impossible to play along to

its pretty easy to get a ok sound out of it by just going through the presets. Number 45 is pretty sweet distortion. The manuel is good and pretty inforative tells you everything you need to know. It takes some playen with it to figure out how it works.

I use a epiphone les paul custom (soon to have a emg 81 and 60) and a fender standard strat with hot rails. I run this through a fender stage 160 (soon to by 5150 II, witch is the best and most brutal amps i ever played). On high gain settings it is pretty noisey. The noise gate is a piece of crap, it doesnt take out any notes it just shuts of all sound when your not playeng but all the noise is right back when you hit a note. I like the effects a great deal, fun to mess with although i dont usually use effects. Also i love the autowah. whenever i turn it on and it pisses off all my bandmates. i though all cabinet simulation was real bad. drak fuzzy useless for my tastes. the distortions are ok, there non terrrible but they aint no 5150 II. but they are better than my fenders dist. but i give it an 8 for the cool effects

its been fine for the 6 monthes ive had it.

i got some complaints in this aspect. ok when i got mine it was supposed to come with a rebate for FREE ac adapter, gigbag, cable, and picks. So i get it and the rebate has a 10 dollar shipping and handleing charge. what a load of crap. 10 dollars to get this "free" stuff. Plus it took over 2 monthes for them to send the stuff to me. 2 monthes of battery chugging, that ate 6 aa's like a whale. The ac adtapter was worth the 10 "shipping" bucks but it shouldnt be advertised as free. so i get a cable to, and its like 20 feet, that stopped working after a month. what a hunk of junk. i had to give this catagory a one

i play hardcore and metalcore. its not that good of a match but it will hold me over till i get a 5150 II. i been playen a little over 3 years. If it were stolen or lost i would not replace it, cuz i wont need a pedal once i get my 5150 II. Its good for the money, but not a a maricle