DigiTech RP-100

You don?t even need to read the manual to use this unit. It is a floor multi fx, so patch changes can be made ?on the fly?. The only thing I would have liked to find is a general ?speaker simulation engage? switch, to make it easier to convert all the patches for recording purposes. Another thing it misses is a phrase trainer and a tap tempo feature, but these are venial sins. The AC adapter was included in my package (Italian version).

This little unit is based on excellent sound processors (24bit A/D/A, 44khz), something very uncommon in this price range. The result is a warm, natural sound. The simulation are very good (I use the JCM900 and Dual Rectifier ones most of the times) and effects are good to excellent. Probably you can find better simulations in Line6 Pod (may be also in Behringer Vamp), but for the versatility this unit is superior (and cheaper!). The patches are usable, but usually a bit too ?extreme? (I like Auto Swell, Boogie Dirt, Rectofy, Gainster, Wailin?, Vibro Thang and few others because they?re really cool). I edited my own patches according to the two main situations in which I use it: 1-20 are to be used in the FX loop of my valve combo (without using amp simulations and reverb); 21-40 for connecting directly into a P/A or for recording (all the features enabled, including compressor, amp models, speaker simulation and reverb). Except for that, the patches are very similar, with the first three named respectively ?Clean?, ?Crunch? and ?Lead? (for fast switching in live situations), with obvious meaning, and the others using more uncommon effects (including tremolo, vibrato, flanger, phaser, volume swell etc.). Moreover, I divided them into two subgroups, named respectively ?vintage? and ?modern?: 1-10 and 21-30 (using jcm 900 model) are vintage; 11-20 (using eq to increase distorsion) and 31-40 (using Dual Rectifier model) are modern. I also use a BBE Sonic Maximizer 362 after this unit, to get an even better sound (sound and fx quality increases radically). I don?t like very much how the tuner and noise gate work: the first is quite unstable; the latter is not enough ?smooth? (cuts the noise too quickly, with an unpleasing effect). I would have liked to find a better AutoWah (I don?t like the Envelope Filter). Drum loops are very cool. For more information about my setup and how I edited the patches, visit my web site at http://www.flamminifra.cjb.net

Seems solid, due to the metal chassis, but a friend of mine bought one which has broken very soon (may be it was ?born? already defective), and I would not trust it 100%. After all, the more complex is an object (and multi fx are really complex), the most is the risk it gets broken.

Complete, versatile, very good sounding and cheap. Nothing comparable in its price range: the v-amp is a bit different (desktop format) and less versatile, while Zoom 505 is not as good; the other competitors are very expensive or suck.

this unit is really easy to manage, once you read the manual you just don't need it anymore, it is really easy to understand how the editing section works, i would recomend this method for every pedal in the world. However, something i don't like about the rp100, is that you have to press both pedals at the same time to bypass de guitar, and also, the storage method for the presets isn't comfortable cause they are in line so switching between patches is some anoying.

i'm using a jackson performer series, ps4, with a marshall mg15cdr, the sound is kind of noisy when you are bypassing (at high volumes), some patches are a little quiet, anyway, this unit sounds really cool, I do like the amps simulations, you can get very impresive distortions, from metallica to pantera and death. Effects like chorus and delay are very good, however the wah is not any good unless you have the expresion pedal. i recomend to get the rp200, cause it comes with the pedal and also with the power adaptor, theese two things cost around 60 bucks, so you might better buy the rp200.

I usually play heavy metal and some grunge, from bands like aerosmith, stp, pearl jam and alice n chains to pantera, angra, rhapsody and death. you can get almost any sound you want. for the price i paid, i'm very happy with it. it doesn't have a pro sound but for a begginer or just for practicing it is very good. i forgot to mention that it has a rithym feature that is like o bonus for the price it is good for timing practice.anyway i would recomend you to buy the rp200, how ever if you don't have the 20 extrabucks for it, you'll be very happy with the rp100, i will give it a 9.

This thing is pretty easy to use but you have to study the manual for a while to figure out what your doing and even than it can be tricky.

The sounds on it arnt very good.The distortions are all noisy and they sound almost exactly the same unless you spend 20 minutes fixing it.I usually use it as a boost for my other pedals by putting it on a clean setting like 15 or 12 and than using a seperate distortion or overdrive in front of it. I like the sound of it when I use other pedals but by itself its not very powerful.Its got a good sound for the price. If it was any better Digitech would have to charge more for it and 100 bucks is all a 14 year old without a job can afford.Its a decent pedal.

Ive owned this pedal for 6 months and its allready starting to break.The switch that makes the presets go up stops working.If I want to get to the second preset I have to stand on it for two minutes waiting for it to go down from 80 to 2 and if I pass it I have to do it all over again. Needless to say im a little upset. Ive done a couple gigs with it before at friends birthday parties and stuff like that.Im afraid to use it in case it stops working again. If any of you know how to fix it I would be extremely grateful if you told me how. JLosfro@aol.com, I had to save my allowance for a long time to get this and i dont want to stop using it allready.

I dont know, I called about my problem and said they didnt know what was wrong but i couldnt send it back without the reciept and i lost that.

I play anyting I like so I play everything from blues and jazz to heavy metal,exept country.This pedal matches any of the styles because of the many choices but none of them very well.If it were stolen I would be amused that some idiot stole a broken pedal and upset at the same time.I probably wouldnt get another one just because 100 bucks is alot of money for me and especially for something that will break in 6 months.Ive been playing sinse I was 7 and i just turned 14 so I guess its been 7 years.I have 3 guitars.A cheap piece of junk I started on, a Gibson Les Paul Studio I won in a drawing,and my new best friend-Fender American Stratocaster my dad got me for my birthday.Thanks dad. God I love that guitar. Well anyway,the clean sounds on the pedal are much better than the distorted ones but thats why i bought it in the first place.I already have like 4 distortion pedals.The pedal would be great if it didnt break so soon. Oh well, get what you pay for.

This is do easy to use. Seriously a 8 year old can program it.

Has great sound quality even when played at high levels. I use an Ibanez Iceman CX120, and the sound is so great, with excellent tone. I would recommend this pedal...and i would use it live

I depend on this product, and i would use it live without a backup

NOTE: When you purchase make sure you get the power supply this thing eats AA batteries in like an hour.

Never had to refer to customer support, because i never had a problem with it

It's Great. I use it to play alot of Metallica and a whole load of heavy stuff. It's also great for playing leads. Definetly pick this up

Easy to use, just need one that will work. I love this little thing, but mine keep going bezerk after minminal use. Its a shame. they can do so much with so little. I am sure Digitech will someday pin the problem down and then produce good stuff.

Pretty darn good. I love the amp modules, the BF black face is truly good. The mesa amps are o.k. the tweaking to get good sound is minimal if I can do it you can.
the only problem is reliability.

Yuk, these poor little things, need a good staff to make sure they work for more than a few hours. i love them, but I need something that will work for a few years at least. know what I mean. I have to keep returning them. What a disappointing situation for the company and the person using htem. this is going to hurt the company reputation. I wish the qulity control would have done better.

I usually go back to where I bought it.

Very good, just need to get one that works.
It does alot for the money. However it needs to work.

I found it easy to use not really too complicated.

I use a Triple xxx through a slant Marshall with Vintage 30's. My guitar is a Washburn Idol. The reverbs and the delays are definitely the highlight of the unit. The chorus seems too fake to me. Mostly during fast picking it sounds too wavy. Almost like flanging. The amp models are quite disappointing. As others have said on this review they sound bassy, no definition on the E and A strings, like mud on fast single note runs. The best one is the JCM 900 model. The worst is the rectified model. I found the models are too fuzzy sometimes. The acoustic model is really crappy. Another thing I didn't like was the dropouts between presets and if you leave your foot on the preset too long the presets go too fast. If your moving the presets down it might skip into the factory presets below the first preset. And it sounds horrible if you already have distortion on your amp.

I noticed it would do strange things once in a while. The presets would flip out, you could be editing and the drum machine will come on. The presets would flicker once in a while. Not good. I have a hard time trusting this unit live.

I would never get another one. I bought because of all the ads and hype about the audio DNA and all that. I do like the reverbs and delays they do sound very good. But thats it for me. If I had some more trust in it I would use it live for reverb and delay.

This is a simple enough guitar multi effects processor. there's three "parameter knobs" that control various things depending on what part of your sound you are editing. it's EXTREMELY easy to edit. you press one button to get into the edit mode, and simply scroll down to which thing you want to edit (ie, wah, compressor, amp model, EQ, effects, etc). then once you've chosen what you want to edit, all you have to do is play with the three parameter knobs to adjust what you want to adjust. there's a "matrix" of effects, amp models, and parameters right there on the actual unit so you dont have to constantly look in the manual (although there is a quite a bit of info in the manual pertaining to certain effects such as reverb, delay, and cabinet/mic but dont worry about that, it's easy enough to figure out). speaking of the manual, it's extremely useful and isnt so long that it gets tedious to read and isnt so short that it lacks information. getting a good sound out of this is fairly easy. i'll explain more in the next section.

I use an epiphone les paul standard into a Fender Performer 650 hybrid amp. The Rp100 is fairly noisy but only on very wet and distorted settings. as long as you use the useful noise gate feature on the pedal then you should be fine. the Effects on this (strictly speaking about the modulation, not distortion or delay or reverb) are great. the chorus and flanger are very thick if you want them to be or very subtle if that's what you want. it comes with a few other effects like vibrato, tremolo, and phaser (and many more) that are all fully adjustable with the three parameter knobs. as for distortion, it CAN be good but you definitely have to tweak it. it's somewhat difficult to get a good scooped mid sound simply because this thing is DIGITAL, not tube. some of the presets are really good but overall, the factory preset patches are redundant (a few sound very very nearly identical). but you can edit them out (it has space for 40 user presets and then the 40 factory ones which cannot be deleted).

I play lots of guns n roses and i can DEFINITELY get a good GnR sound with this. i was skeptical at first but the "Stack" model amp is very good for Guns. The delay let's me make the welcome to the jungle intro patch. and the delay and reverb are also great for lead tones. the compressor is great for clean sounds and for patches that you want to use the tapping technique with. the EQ is alright for little tweaks here and there. I also play lots of acdc and they have a really good factory preset for angus' tone, although you should probably ramp up the gain and volume a bit and add some slight reverb to it.

lastly, i have ONE problem with it. there's a ton of feedback at times for no reason. it's strange, cuz i turn the master volume down and nothing happens. then i turn the gain down all the way and it's still loud. but then other times those knobs work perfectly. maybe i'm doing something wrong but sometimes the feedback just rolls out and it's damn near impossible to stop (even with the noise gate).

i've already dropped it once after two days with it. it works fine. but i wouldnt use batteries with it. i mean...SIX AA batteries? no thank you. i'll stick with my free adaptor. the casing is all metal as far as i can tell (even the patch pedals thank god). it is sorta light but it IS pretty small so........well, just dont drop it from high up. i'd definitely gig with this BUT i'd have to spend some more time with adjusting the levels cuz the volume levels are always out of whack for some reason.

ummmm, the people at the store were nice...

i play lots of classic rock, 80's rock and grunge. this pedal can do most of those quite well. i live in canada so this thing cost about double what it costs in the US but i'd still say it was worth the money simply cuz two INDIVIDUAL pedals would cost more than this thing. there's nothing i love or hate about it. it'll give you a good sound if you're patient and it's very easy to use. there's the volume issue of course but that's probably just a matter of inexperience with adjusting the levels. what i mean by that is that sometimes i'll have one distorted patch at level 99 and gain 99 and then switch to a clean patch that's at 50 and 50 and the clean patch will still be louder. anyways, i chose this thing cuz it was "cheap" and i needed something like this for a LONG time. i'm happy with it.

This thing is really easy to even a baby could programm it!!

It's a bit noisy, so use noise gate. I play thru a Yamaha RGX121 and a polytone minibrute (very, very old, with no gain or something) and it sounds pretty good,I haven't tried it out on full volume (My amp goes too hard for that)
but don't use gain and compressor on full 'cause if you play loud with your amp you'll get endless feedback.
Watch the effects they make the sound louder.

I never had a problemm with it, but BUY THE ADAPTER!!!!!!

at the end it sounds good when you take time to make the good sounds.

It's a little annoying that in play mode the knobs affect different
things to what they do in edit mode. Not the best bit of user
interface design there. But other than that it's simple to use.

I am using a Brandoni Telecaster into an old Traynor valve amp, or
alternatively direct recording.

It is a little noisy, but not excessively so.

At volume the high gain distortions aren't wonderful, but then that
isn't the sort of sound I am interested in. The milder overdrives
are much better, and the tweed and boutique models are nice for
bluesy stuff. The mild overdrives are better than the competition
at this price point (Zoom and Korg).

The black face model lacks the sort of top end sparkle of the
real thing.

The tuner is absolutely terrible.

There is a loss of dynamic range on the clean patches, but not
too bad.

It seems reasonably solid, but I'd want to take an overdrive
pedal and some reverb on a live gig (assuming that is what I
was using the RP-100 for - if I was using it for more extreme
stuff then there wouldn't be much I could do).

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As everyone has explained already, the Rp100 is one of the easiest multi-effects products to use on the market. Initially, good sounds are easy to get, but for higher volumes, more tweaking needs to be done.

Let's get something straight, this is a multi-effects DIGITAL processor for under 150 dollars. It's not a marshall stack or a fender twin reverb. However, there are so many GREAT sounds you can get out of this thing it's unbelievable. Yes, the pedal does have some noise, all pedals do. I use this pedal from a cheap ass guitar straight into a fender princeton 65. NOTICE, to achieve good sounds at loud volume you MUST use the cabinet modeling, other wise the high gain sounds are ear piercing and treble heavy, the cabinet modeling smooths out the sound incredibly. If you still get ear piercing treble, it's probably your guitar (in my case) or just lower the treble on the equalizer. The effects sound very good but do increase the volume of the preset considerably. Overall, the effects do sound quite good.

Very reliable, have gigged with it by itself. Buy the power supply.

Never delt with but they have a very informative web site.

I played this pedal live with a crybaby wah running in front of it. I had one of the best sounds at the show and was complemented by many people. My guitar is shit (I'm working on it) which affected my sound, but if you have a quality instrument you won't be dissapointed. When using this pedal i would make presets with my amp nobs on zero for treble and bass. Then, depending on what kind of room, place I play at would adjust the equalizer on the amp accordingly. In carpeted rooms you need more treble, concrete more bass, and outdoors more treble to stick through the mix. I play mostly hard rock with fast soloing and a lot of blues for myself. I can get a great VAN HAlen sound out of this pedal. Overall, if you don't have the cash for a high priced effects unit or amp, BUY THIS PEDAL. I am very satisfied. And don't blame the pedal if you have a crap instrument or amp. At first i did, but now I realize it's more the guitar, and I'm not that great yet.