DigiTech RP-100

I have the RP100W (with a red screen)

This is fairly easy to edit using the knobs on its face. The USB connectivity of the new RP models would be REALLY nice!

The factory presets are ok, especially if you have a cheap amp, but on a good amp, they will sound pretty bad.
You can use the 40 user preset slots to make your own patches. Just google "RP100 Patches" -- there are some great sounding patches that you can dail in if you look for them.

However, this unit will NOT work well with a high-end amp. It adds buzz and noise if put in the effects loop, and it will make a tube amp sound very digital-ly. It also changes the tone of your amp significantly even when it is in "Bypass Mode". I tried using it for delay on my 5150 Combo once, and it was horrible. However, if you own a good amp, chances are you would buy high-end effects as well, and this is not designed to be a high-end pedal.

I rated it an "8", just because on headphones or a crappy amp, this unit can be programed to sound really nice.

This is very realiable. It has only 'frozen' on me once, and I just unplugged and it came back just fine.
You wouldn't need a backup for this live -- (but I wouldn't use it live anyway, just because of its sound quality when paired with the 5150.)

Digitech is a well-known company. They will give you support.

This is a really good do-it-all effects pedal. If you only need a simple solid state amp and 1 multi-effects processor, then this is the way to go.

Considering it only has a small,two digit screen it's actually Pretty easy to use.The layout is pretty intuitive,easy enough for beginners to use(which i'm guessing is the market they're after)For those who don't know any better i suppose it's easy to coax some descent tones out of this box.

Like i mentioned before,i think this unit is aimed at players who don't have a lot of experience playing through great sounding tube amps.It's great for what it is,an entry level digital representation of real amps and effects,but i'm a huge tone freak!!

i suppose the tones are more inspiring than playing strait through a crappy 10 watt solid state practice amp,but after playing the real amps this thing emulates you'll notice how harsh and fake sounding it is,i believe that may be due to the 22khz sampling rate,very shrill sounding highs and unresponsive lows.

i haven't even touched it since i bought my Zoom G7.1ut(real tube distortion!)the Zoom is the greatest sounding thing i've ever stepped on!!Anyone considering the RP100 please do yourselves a favor,save up and buy the Zoom!!this pedal will only hinder your playing and stifle your inspiration,imho

i've never had a problem with it,then again i've never had a problem with the garbage cans out front of my house 8-p.I'll give credit where it's due,this thing is built like a tank!!i've kicked it around for years(until i could afford some descent gear)Never had a problem with it physically.

i always kind of hoped it would die on me so i would have no choice but to buy a better unit,but it never did.

never dealt with them

If you want a broad digital representation of real tube amps,i guess for the price it's not a bad little unit,but if you're looking for tonal bliss,this ain't it.listened back to some tracks i cut before i bought my Zoom,compared to the new pedal it's night and day.

Like i said before,if you're a serious player like i am this thing will hold you back.

Easy.

You can get a huge range of sounds out of this pedal. We play covers so it's great for dialing in sounds from David Gilmour to Joe Walsh.

I run a Fender Strat SSH to a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. I've got an A/B splitter box, A for the RP-100, B for a Boss 7-band EQ and noise suppresor pedal.

It's noisy on the major gain settings, but if I'm using a patch for distortion, it's usually dialed in low, just to add a little punch to the Fender amp.

I use the RP-100 on about half our songs, and of those, the majority of the RP-100 usage is for modulation. It does just fine for chorus, delay, flange, phase - but I mainly use chorus, delay, and the compression function is good.

You can depend on it if you're not stomping the crud out of it. It takes a little effort to get to the tuner (stomp and hold both pedals down simultaneously for a second or two, and a quick stomp on both to bypass).

I have the RP-100 set according to our set list. I hit 1 for the first song, 2 for the second, etc. If one song needs a considerably different sound for a chorus or solo, etc. then that one song may get 3 and 4, and then I only have to go back and forth with one stomp. After that, I stomp again for the next song.

Never used

I play a huge range of styles, but mainly classic rock. It's a great match for the money.

I've been playing for 20 years.

I would get something more up to date if it were lost/stolen.

If you read the manual, you will have 90% of your problems solved. Making your own presets can be frustrating at first but, with patience, anyone can do it. My major beef is that it has too much of every thing. You could spend more time playing with your toy than working out your riffs! Buy it only after you already have your chops and song catalog down pat. This thing is like having a new video game.

It has a USB port so you can make a youtube video and sound like your favorite hero.

This will make you sound great through headphones. I use both single coil and humbucker guitars and could get my rock and blues sounds fairly accurately. No noise whatsoever! The effects and amp/speaker models are on the money.

This is difficult to say after 2 week use. The unit is metal and seems strong enough for gigging.

No need yet.

If you are into the heavy metal stuff, the presets are all you'll ever need. Buy this unit if your genre is 60s rock, 70s rock, 80s hair bands, techno rock or spacey music. If you want to sound exactly like SRV prepare to do alot of trial and error.

Buy it if you want to sound like a star through headphones.

This is my first multi-effects unit. It replaces a boatload of pedals and only costs $99. It is versatile beyond belief.

My only wish is that they offered a $40 pedal that has a few amp models and a few effects.

Once you've got it worked out this thing couldn't be easier to use! I guess it's because there simply isn't many features, and each effect/model/module only has a couple of parameters to tweak.

Changing patches sucks because you're only option is to change to an adjacent preset, ie... scroll through 'em 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 etc. There's also a HUGE silence while the preset loads... like half a second or something. This makes the unit unusable in my opinion, except for recording.

Distortions are fake and unresponsive/compressed, but i am pretty picky about my crunch. You can't get a responsive crunch out of this thing which sucks if you like to have a clean sound while picking softly which breaks up naturally when picking hard. Fidelity is low, i beleive the sampling rate is only 22KHz. High gain amp models are noisy.

You have to change patches a second before you want your new sound because it takes so long to load presets... useless for playing any song that requires more than one sound the whole way through.

Effects are not bad a suppose.

I've had this thing for about 6 years, used it extensively for about 2 or 3 of those years. I've had a few problems with it. One of the patch changing switches fucked up so I replaced it with the switch that controls the drum machine, which i don't use (haha, can't use now!). The AC adapter socket fucked up so I've connected a 9V DC adapter straight to the battery terminals. The output socket also fucked up so i had to re-solder it to the PCB.

You gotta be careful not stand on the leads when plugged in, as the sockets are soldered right to the PCB and end up breaking.

Cheap sounding
HUGE SILENCE BETWEEN PATCH CHANGES!!! big issue

Fairly easy to operate and program, even without reading the manual.

I'm very pleased with the sound. I'm really only using it for EQ - Reverb - and Delay. Sometimes I'll use a little Compression. I play jazz and shoot for a sound between Pat Metheny and Ben Monder and I think this does a good job. I'm using a stereo to mono 1/4" adapter in the output to run it in stereo to two early 80's Yamaha G100-112 amps. My only complaint is that when you plug in an expression pedal and try to do volume swells (ala Bill Frisell), you can hear the "MIDI" steps in the volume, so I use a volume pedal in front of the RP-100.

No problems yet, however I don't gig heavily.

I think it's a great value, however I'm really thinking of getting the RP-150 to see how the new "Lexicon" reverbs sound since that's my main use for the effects pedal.

Read the manual (available on-line). Very easy to use. I had to turn it into an emergency bass preamp last night, and that took about a minute.

With all the settings and EQ options on this unit, plus the ones on the guitar and amp, it would be impossible not to find some good sounds on this unit.

I have used this with an GK bass head into an old 2x12 bassman cab, or a TubeWorks 2x12 cab, and also a pair of Peavey 1x12 combo amps for stereo. I have used it both with and without a TubeWorks Realtube preamp, and of course, it sounds better with the tube preamp.

The 40 presets really suck - most are way over the top and I wouldn't use any of them. But they are really easy to tweak and save in the 40 User slots.

I don't use much distortion, but I think the Tweed model with the gain jacked up and a little slapback echo is just FINE.

I've used this on over 350 gigs, and I bought it used on Ebay, so it's been around. It's been stepped on, tripped over, and dropped many times, and I only had one minor problem. One of the pedals stopped working, and it turned out to be the tiny rubber pad that actually makes contact with the circuit board. It had shrunk a tiny bit. I cut the corner off of a business card and stuck it under the pad and it's worked ever since.

I play a lot of Dub and Old School Reggae, and I've used it on live gigs for reverb, chorus, phasing and echos and delays.
I sometimes use two 12" combo amps and the RP100 has stereo outputs, so I can get nice wide tremolo and ping pong effects.

I've used it as a stand alone pedal for a bass preamp, an EQ, or an autowah. I've used it for computer recording and as a headphone practice amp. The built in drums are a nice touch for practice or for a click or scratch drum track.

I can get a full 3 sets on rechargeable batteries if I unplug it during breaks, but I usually use the AC adapter, which in NOT easy or cheap to replace (no Radio Shack!).

Never dealt with them.

I've been playing funky reggae jazzy bluesy dub stuff since Nixon was around. The less I have to carry around and plug in, the better. This is good stuff for cheap. They don't make this one any more, but I wouldn't hesitate to buy a newer model.

Easy to use, but reading the manual is a good thing.

I sold my old Zoom 505 to buy this thing. BIG MISTAKE!!
The Zoom has nice distortions. The distortions of the RP100 are terrible, very artificial. Not to mention the noise and the hiss it produces. The humbucker/single-coil is shit. It makes my Gibson SG scream of feedback. The modulation effects are ok I guess. But I don't use them that much cause I play mostly 80s (hard-)rock.

Sometimes you have to switch it off and on again to work. The switches produces 'plops'.
You cannot run it on batteries, they're dead in 1 hour. You need that expensive DigiTech AC adaptor. Why doesn't it run on DC like normal effects???
Sound is too bad to gig with, so I don't know.

Dont know.

The Zoom 505 is a much better pedal in my opinion. I play 80s (hard-) rock so I need good distortions. This RP100 sounds very digital/artificial and makes a lot of noise..
I ordered a Zoom GFX1 yesterday. So maybe next week i'm happy again.

This unit is easy to use, once you get the hang of the layout of the top panel, and what each effect range is. Some of them are very powerful, so it takes some time to find out what combination of effects give you the sound you want. You can program 40 patches and there are another 40 fixed presets by Digitech.

In terms of switching between patches, I find it is difficult to use the unit as you have to scroll through your preset patches in sequence. What I end up doing is setting up groups of patches for each song or type of song that I play. It works, but then if you just want to add some delay or distortion and improvise then you can't, unless you can remember which number that sound was set under.

An AC power source is mandatory, I had the unfortunate experience of gigging with it, and a new set of batteries lasted the warm up and died during the gig. The problem is that when the batteries go flat, the unit doesn't die, but it goes crazy and switches between different patches on its own. Some of the presets are very loud and crazy sounding, so it can be quite nasty.

I use this most of the time with a pair of headphones and my USA telecaster.

The sound is pretty good. I would not say it was gigworthy comparing it to my normal stomp box set up. Some of the sounds are a bit hollow and processed. Using it as a dedicated pedal would not be a bad idea, for example if you just need a but of flanger, or extreme stereo delay from time to time, then maybe you can use this with an external looper.

Not sure if it is just me, but the tuner is very diffifult to use and not a great aspect of the pedal.

It seems pretty well built. I would gig with it alone, as long as I had the power supply!

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A good unit but not really good for playing live.

perfect for punctual use at home

If I lost it or broke it I would look around as this kind of product evolves greatly and there is surely something more capable on the market now.

This is a decent multi-effects unit if you're practicing, doing home recording, or playing the occasional show. It's not for the gigging guitarist, because, while it has good sounds and is easy to program, it has frustrating limitations that reduce its usefulness for live performance. The RP100 is a prime demonstration of why so many working guitarists still have pedalboards full of snaked-together stomp boxes instead.

The RP100 itself is a compact, dual-footswitch floor unit in silver and blue, with both plastic and metal components. The back holds 1/4" jacks for input, output, and expression pedal (which takes a standard passive volume pedal -- nice) jacks, plus a spot for the AC adapter (which you'll need -- the RP100 takes a slew of batteries and eats them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner). The top consists of a two-character LED screen, some more LED lights as indicators, three adjustment knobs, two programming buttons, and a pair of footswitches at the front edge. There's no MIDI control, although there is a built-in tuner.

Having bought it used from the guitarist in my band, I figured out how to use the RP100 quickly without the manual, but I did download it from digitech.com to find out what some of the cryptic two-character LED codes are (although the important Amp Model and Effects ones are printed right on the unit, others are not), and to determine what the 40 preset effects patches are called (even though the manual doesn't reveal what their settings are).

The major downsides, which make the RP100 ineffective for live shows, are:

- Changing patches requires repeated tap-tap-tap on the footswitches. If you're at Patch 1 and want to go to Patch 18, you have to tap up 17 times -- and you hear every patch in between.

- It's easy to change patches accidentally, because to bypass the unit you need to press both footswitches at the same time, and to tune you need to press both and hold them. If you're slightly off with your stomp, you might end up going up or down a patch instead. That's particularly annoying if you mistakenly go down to Patch 80 from Patch 1, since 80 is an especially shred-o-licious Teutonic Metal God patch that you can't change.

- The expression pedal support is weak. Most patches use it only for volume control. The only other effects that take expression input are the various wah pedals and the Whammy pitch bender effects. (When you're using the wah or Whammy, the pedal doesn't control volume. I'm not sure which takes precedence if you try wah and Whammy together.) I was disappointed not to be able to vary the rate or depth of tremolo, phaser, delay, chorus, or reverb with the pedal -- something Digitech could have supported, but doesn't.

- When you're in Performance mode (i.e. not editing, tuning, or in bypass), only one of the three control knobs modifies anything useful: no matter what patch you use, they change output level (good), gain/distortion (tolerable), and amp model (useless!). Seriously, how often do you want to crank around trying different amplifier emulators while you're playing? I'd much rather be able to (again) change the tremolo rate or reverb depth. But no go.

If I were gigging with this box, I'd probably use it as a serial-offender single-effects box, setting it for tremolo, for instance, but leaving it in Edit mode so I could tweak the settings. Unfortunately, once I did that it would forget the setting if I changed patches. As it is, I only use it for practice and home recording, where it is quite a good unit indeed -- see below.

Here's the chain: Godin LG (dual humbucker) or Strat guitar into the RP100, with the output of a cheapie Italian volume pedal plugged in separately for expression control; an MXR Phase 90 phase shifter; Fender pedal tuner; Danelectro Daddy-O overdrive; SansAmp GT amp simulator; 1970s silverface Fender Princeton Reverb amp (12 watts of monster power, with 10" stock speaker). All run off AC power except the Phase 90, which is old and can't, but when it's bypassed it doesn't seem to consume any 9V battery, so that's good.

The first thing I noticed: the RP100 hisses. Take it out of the chain, and the background noise diminishes noticeably. The hiss isn't terrible, but it's there, and the built-in noise gate won't help. Otherwise, its sounds are remarkably good: quacky wahs, decent EQ and amp, pickup, and cabinet mic modelers, and a wide range of lush tremolo/pan, rotary, chorus, phase, flange, pitch/detune, and Whammy effects, plus delays and reverbs. Unfortunately, most of the interesting effects (from trem to Whammy) lie in one bank, so you can only run one of them at a time. (You can combine effects from different banks -- such as wah, amp sim, EQ, chorus, and reverb -- simultaneously.)

The preset patches are of variable quality, and in no logical order. You can have a nice shimmery clean chorus patch, tap a pedal, and suddenly be in too-loud, echo-drenched, harmonized, super-shred prog-metal territory. Worse, of the 80 patch spaces in the RP100, half (41 through 80) are locked and unchangeable, with only patches 1 through 40 ready for editing (which you can do to your heart's content, including really easy copying of an existing patch -- yours or a preset -- to another memory location as a basis for tweaking).

How the expression pedal works for you probably depends more on which pedal you choose than on the RP100. I found my cheapie Italian job just fine for wah and whammy, but something with more throw might give you finer control. The nice thing is, since you can use any standard passive volume pedal (or any other sort of volume control, really), you have lots of choices.

So, if you want rockabilly slapback, AC/DC crunch, Clapton's "Brave Ulysses" wah-ified Woman Tone, acoustic simulation, old tweed blues, or whatever else, you can probably find a decent approximation from the RP100. You'll just have a hard time if you want to switch between them or make adjustments on the fly during a gig, without breaking the flow of a song or show. And there's that hiss. Which is too bad, really.

It's not a Boss pedal or even Digitech's all-metal Whammy, but it's not flimsy like the Zoom and ART multi-effects monstrosities of the early '90s, or even many other models today. My guitarist did gig with it (though the moved to a Line 6 pod and then a Vox ToneLab, which has a lot more knobs and two built-in expression pedals) and mine is beat up, but it still works. I wouldn't use a backup -- but I wouldn't rely on the RP100 either. Instead, I'd use it to supplement further, more necessary effects on a pedalboard, and wouldn't sweat it too much if it broke.

Once more, it's durable enough for the basement, garage, or home studio, but not for rattling around in a touring van.

Used, out of warranty, and it works, so I have no idea since I've never talked to Digitech. Their website is pretty good, though, and includes manuals, so they get points for that.

Okay, I admit it: I'm a drummer. I studied guitar when I was a kid and play it when I record my own Penmachine Podcast of podsafe instrumental tunes, but I make my money behind the kit, and have since 1989. So the RP100 works for me, because I don't gig with it. I play sixties-influenced rock (as well as actual sixties rock in my cover band), with some blues and electronica styles thrown in. The RP100 _can_ get good sounds for me, but as I mentioned, some of the presets are more suited to '80s hair metal, as is typical with these sorts of units.

If it went missing, I'd check out the competition first, since its limitations are annoying. The RP100 has some great individual effects which can be layered into cool patches, but I wish it had broader expression pedal support, a way to run some of the time- and waveform-based bank's effects simultaneously, more intelligent performance-mode controls, and less hiss. But for $50 from my guitarist, it does what I need pretty well, and I shouldn't knock it.

But if I were making my living with my guitar? Well, I'd save up for a better, more expensive, more durable multi-effects box or, more likely, a serious multi-stomp pedalboard, which might have a Digitech Whammy on it.

I've played the guitar over 25 years now, & I have been around equipment & such all that time. As with all effects, I strongly recommend getting the owner's manual & take the time to learn how this thing operates. It is not rocket science, & the manual is written very well, easy to follow.

My current set up is: 1979 Gibson Les Paul Custom, RP100, Boss CS2 Compressor, Boss AD2 Acoustic simulatore, Boss GE-7 EQ, & a Marshall 5212 Amp. Needless to say, I get a very thick sound. I'm playing in a classic rock band that does some country (as opposed to the traditional country band that plays some rock). As one can imagine, versatility is the prime aspect I'm looking for. I like the sound & dynamics of the RP100, but I was only 100% satisfied after reading the manual & tweaking my setting to meet my personal preference. This thing sounds great, but only after tweaking for personal preference.

Delicately tough would be a best way to describe this. I mostly use Boss effects, which as we know is legendary in the reliability department. I don't believe the RP100 would take the same abuse that a Boss pedal would, it's simply not built that tough. I treat it with care, & am very careful about how I handle it.

Never dealt with Digitech.

I think this pedal is a very useful tool to have. I have read reviewes where people have stated it is not good for playing gigs, more of a "bedroom" effect. Well, I disagree. Read ther manual, get your settings where you want them, & it will deliver the goods. Also, it does so in a cost efficient way that won't bankrupt you!

This is my first experience with a multi effects processor and I found RP-100 to be extremely easy to use all features.
It was very easy for a beginner like me to tweak the tone the way I like it with my set up. For example, to change delay effect, push select button until you the LED goes to Delay and turn three knobs to select the type of delay, amount, and time. Press store button to save to user bank.
One annoying thing is that you would have to program user bank carefully if you want to use this on stage. There's only two buttons to scroll up and down all 120 presets. Also, two digit LED display is not the best user interface although a unit as simple as this, you'll get used to it quickly. -2 points for buttons and LED display.
There's not much to the manual. I read it once just to figure out how to save my edited program and see the list of presets. I don't think I'll need the manual around. I already know how to use it(took me 5 minutes to get use to it once I read the manual).
I don't know whether it's been upgraded.
This unit is a great value though.

I used it with Fender Frontman 25R, LTD EC-1000, Fender Standard Fat Strat. I also tried using DS-1 for few minutes. One comment as a beginner with only few hours of playing with RP-100 is that this processor seems to hide the unique character of each of my two very different guitars. It would be quite difficult for someone to guess what guitar is playing if it's processed through RP-100(or is this true with most amp modelers?).
I found it quite noisy if noise gate is not used or using an extremely high gain setting.
The effects were ok(again, I don't have too much experience with other effects) in my opinion. I still like DS-1 pedal better as far as distortion sound. I was quite pleased when 3-4 models/effects were combined - as long as I keep each effect level low. I don't think anywhere near what I hear on professional recordings though. A lot of effects don't sound very smooth(is this what you call digital sound?) I get much more explosive drive tone using DS-1 or my little amps drive channel. RP-100 does change my guitars tones drastically, making it a fun toy or useful when trying to copy somebody else. If I crank up too many things(as in many factory presets) then it gets noisy, too muddy and worst - too digital. Having only few hours to play with it, I like Andy Laroque patches the best with some effects tone down a little(RP-100 includes 40 factory, 40 user, 40 "artist" presets).
I think I can get so many sounds out of this if I spent couple of weeks on this thing. But having only spent $100(new) I wonder if there's a big difference in tone quality of RP-100 and say.. GT-8. Is the tone quality better on more expensive units? Or is it just more bells and whistles? This leaves me wondering if I should try more expensive units. It might be better off spending extra $$$ up front and not wanting more features or better sound quality.
I've used Aleses Quadraverb II a little bit and I thought its sound quality(delay and reverb) was better than RP-100. I should go try other units and exchange my RP-100(see Reliability on why I'm returning it) if I can tell the difference. It keeps me wondering if RP-100 sound is cheesy compared with more expensive processors.
The drum machine is very simple but you can change pattern, speed and volume. Nice feature as I don't have a drummer to jam with.
Tuner is piece of crap. I got a Korg tuner that works 3x better. Extra feature but I think RP-100's tuner doesn't work well at all.
For $100 though, I doubt if I can find anything as feature loaded as this one. Rating 8 for interesting sounds for the price.

This is where I had the bad experience with RP-100. After using this unit for first 30 minutes it crapped out on me. While playing a preset it locks up. No sound. I unplug and plug it back in both power and input to reset it. Sometimes it freezes in 1 minute, 10 times in a row. I look in the back and the sticker says designed in US and manufactured in China. Not sure if it's bad micro or bad software, or both. I'm going to return this and probably buy more expensive model. So there goes my first impression with Digitech brand..
The exterior is made of some kind of cheap metal case(feels like it'll break if I drop it in the parking lot) and plastic buttons and knobs(plastic material actually seems sturdy). Probably not something you stomp real hard. But again, that's why it only costs $100. Actually, I should thank Digitech for making it cheap for an amature like me who will never gig on stage.

I don't want to try getting this fixed. Fortunately, this lock up problem showed up on my first try at home so I can return it tomorrow.

I don't play well. A cheap unit like this is a good match for someone like me who hasn't developed a unique tone or not worthy of $500+ effects. It's very easy to use therefore fun to play around with it. You don't have to open up the manual to program it. Having had a little experience with Alesis QV II rack effect, it's a pain to program a processor unless you enjoy turning knobs and pressing buttons 50 times looking at tiny LCD display before saving to your user bank. I'm too lazy. I'd rather play guitar than tweaking my effects for hours. In the end you only end up using handful of features that the processor provides.
After having a bad unit(I saw few more RP models behind the counter at Guitar Center.. looks like ppl returned them) I would like to try other brand. Something more expensive since I'm encouraged by how decent RP-100 sounded to me.

This unit is very easy to use. Take a few minutes to read the manual, after that so many sounds and effects are opened up to you.

I've been performing with this box for the past 3 years. It has handled every sound I needed. The rp-100 can be a little noisy at times, but it has a noise gate, use that and away goes the noise. For the few bucks this unit cost the amount of effects and delays are great, there is enough here to get many different sounds. I plug into a boss stage tuner-crybaby-rp-100-boss eq (volume boost) directly into the mixing board.

Been using this live for the past 3 years without a back-up, it has not let me down.

Never had to deal with customer support

I play current and classic rock and pop tunes and I have been playing for 30 years (started real young). This rp-100 is great for what I do. For the $75 bucks I paid 3 years ago I feel this unit has tons to offer. Very easy to tweak to the sounds you want.

I have found this thing very easy to use. No problems setting up my own patches, in fact I probably tweak one or two on almost a daily basis. Keep the mahnual because you will need it at first to remind yourself what each setting is doing. Eventually you will just have it all memorized.
It's pretty easy to get the sound you want because you can check the sound as you are actually going through the set up process. In other words you don't have to wait until you are completely done setting up a patch to see if you like what you have created.

The sound you get is totally up to you. I really don't like many of the preset patches, but you have 40 patches to create to your won liking so that's no problem.
I have been able to duplicate just about every sound I want. Everything from an old Eric Clapton/Cream sound to Beatles 12string electric, to AC/DC crunch/distortion.
Like the instructions suggest, I send the out signal from the pedal into the return jack on my amplifier. That way I am bypassing all the volume, tone, gain settings on my own amp.
I play both my electric and acoustic guitars through this. My electric is a Yamaha with two humbucker pickups so the pickup modeler comes in handy to get more of a single coil sound.
One thing that I ended up doing was purchasing a volume pedal so I could control the wah and pitch bender. I actually find the wah useful now but have not found any sound that I like with the pitch bender.

I have never had any problems with this unit. Mine did not come with an adapter whcih you really HAVE to have and never use batteries in it. I think that is the way to go because I hear the batteries will wear out quickly anyway. Check out the RP-50 unit because I believe it comes with an adapter.
Sometimes the tuner acts a littel whacked out. I will hit the e-string and get a g reading out then two seconds later it read e??? With some patience the tuner works pretty good.
The case is made of a pretty solid metal and has been solid for me although I treat it gently and never beat on it.

Never tried to contact them but I have found various sites on-line where you can get more information about the unit and patch settings.

Overall I have been very happy with the performance of this unit. I use it at least a few times a week and have never had any problems with it. The drum machine comes in handy although the drum beats are pretty much useless other than the first style. I have no idea what the other 29 could be used for. You can adjust the speed of the tempo and it's great for practicing.
I love this little box and playing guitar became a lot more fun after I got it. I would have to get a new one if lost or stolen. Not sure if I would get the same unit but definitely something similar, perhaps the RP-50, 70 or 200.

fairly easy to dial in good sounds with this, either tweaking the user default presets(1-40) to suit my needs or totally remaking them if i choose. some of the factory presets(41-80) are useful while some sound kinda cheesy. if you get a used one without the ac adaptor, buy an adaptor because this thing eats up batteries!

i've mostly used this with a 2001/2002 squier stagemaster HSH(last model of production before they changed the name and raised the price, very underrated guitar imho) into a behringer gx212(discontinued, it has a lot of these same effects already built-in, but it's not as flexible with different combinations) and haven't had any noise problems yet, knock on wood. also have played it through a couple different little practice amps(it made a usually weak sounding yamaha amp sound terrific). some of the effects on this unit sound good(chorus, phaser, flanger, whammy, vibrato & lots of cool sounding reverbs while a few effects don't sound very authentic(namely the envelope filter which to me sounds nothing like a real envelope filter). also, some of the amp models sound a little over the top with high-end fuzz, but considering the price paid i'm not complaining. for a low-end processor, this is excellent in terms of value and sound quality. i think you could dial in virtually anyone's sound you like - all you gotta do is put in some time with it, the sounds are in there! the drum rhythms can be helpful as a practice tool.

was purchased used a while back, so far so good - seems solid enough. i wouldn't recommend stomping on the plastic switches too hard. at least the casing is metal. if i were a gigging musician i'd definitely use it at a show for a tune or three. the appeal of this to me was have all the effects in one unit, to avoid having to get separate stomp boxes for chorus, reverb, phaser, flange etc...

been playing for a few years - rock, hard rock, classic rock, metal and this unit seems to be a good fit for them all. if stolen or lost i would probably get the rp200 with the built in expression pedal. i wish it had a larger alpha-numeric display than 2, but you get used to it. overall i think the rp100 is an excellent value as a low-end all-in-one effect unit. if you're on a budget and want something versatile that sounds pretty decent you can't go wrong!

C'mon, 2 pedals and 3 knobs? When compared to the higher end Digitech's with thier 5 pedal setups and everything, this one's a pretty good gateway into the realm of Digitech, when I got it I spent about 20 minutes learning about the thing and had it figured out for the most part...

Lacks alittle in this category...some of the effects just sound cheap to me, though the distortion I can get out of this cheap little box is perfect for the stuff I do (I play Progressive/Industrial Rock), and I get some nice clean tones and delays out of it, I play a Peavey Firenza AX and get a perfect tone, and even my Kramer focus gets some lovin' from this thing. But the iffy noise gate problems, and the cheapness of flange and phase effects is a bit of a turn off...

I've been using the pedal for 4 years, and I have gigged without a backup and had no problems whatsoever, the only problems I had were due to the pedals previous owner, who had actually souldered a random power supply to the main board of the thing, after fixing this travesty and buying an actual power supply I've had no problems, just had to adjust some settings when playing through new amplifiers. This things been through alot...

Never had to call 'em since I didn't buy one from the store.

Considering I traded a Boss Metal zone and 50 bucks for this thing (The metal zone was in shambles) back when I think the damn thing was still 150 or something, I don't feel ripped off at all, back when I played through a Polytone Mini Brute the thing helped my tone out a lot, now I play through a Crate GT200H Half Stack and I'm still trying to fiddle with the settings to make it work, if it doesn't , I'll probably sell it off to someone who wants a multi f/x pedal and pick myself up some individual stomp boxes or something, I most likely wouldn't replace it if it broke because the model is kind of obsolete by now, but in short, a very good pedal for the price.

What can I say, 2 pedals and 3 knobs, not hard to operate. Currently using gnx3 and gnx4, while on tour. Take a spin thru the manual, you might learn something.

I play with a young popular band here in the US so I will keep this short and sweet due to endorsement reasons. I used this pedal with various guitars such as Gibson LP's, Fender strats, etc. and also thru my stage amps which are Peavey Classic 100 Full stack, and a Marshall 69 plexi 100 half stack, and smaller solid state amps as well. Some of the overdrives and distortions are weak and sound very artificial. The acoustic simulator is not to bad. Some of the reverbs, chorus, and delays seem to be ok for an intermediate effect unit. To all you younger guys out there, good luck or try to get mom&pop to spend a little more cash.

OK, check this out. I got this pedal off a friend for $20 with the correct power supply. He never used it much, just dicked around with it at practice, and gigged a few times with it. I play around with it for a few minutes at night, for only a couple of days, and just this morning, it doesn't power up at all. What a shame, It was going to give it to my little brother. The power supply works with my gnx3 and gnx4, so its not that. I put fresh batteries in and still no power. I disasemmbled the unit several times and troubleshooted as much as I could, and still nothing. WTF!!! Just wondering if anything works anymore. Oh yea I almost forgot, Its only made to work for a while, then break after the warranty runs out, so you have to send it back and pay for the repair. Thats a smart way to make money, make crap, then sell it. I would not gig with this unit, or you might be stuck on stage with a broken ass pedal, wondering what to do. I am now a little scared to use my other Digitech products on stage. But theres always back up units. If you do, have a back-up. Yes I know, I can't bitch to bad since I only paid $20 for it. Guess I'll give my little bro' the gnx3 or send him something new.

I have dealt with Digitech in the past, and I found them to be very helpful. All questions were asked, and they put me on the right track.

If you are on a tight budget, I would recommend this pedal. However, if you are not, get something else.

They say we get locked-in to a specific sound when we use a multi-effects guitar processor. I have heard other guitarists use their RP's and I can testify that we each sound completely different! The RP100 took my archtop right over the top with unbelievable professional sounds. This is an absolute must since I perform for a living.
I edit patches only slightly and am impressed with the factory sounds for the most part.
The manual is easy to read and I still rely on it from time to time. I try to memorize the directions as much as possible since I have to have this stuff down pat on stage. The settings for each tune/song are written on the music or the song title in my music list. The patch is listed first, then Digi, then the drum beat (its number) and then the tempo, like this: 2/td-Digi-7@34. This is the setting for "The Water Is Wide." This code takes up little space and my eye recognizes it quickly on stage. It only takes 30 seconds to set up the RP100 for each tune.

I use an archtop with two magnetic pickups and a Yamaha 6 channel PA system. The RP100 goes into the "Line" input. It is never noisy. The effects are very strong.
I do not try to copy any other artists, but try to get a unique sound. The overall sound is the usual sweet jazz style so common to the archtop, but with a bright treble to keep the melody above the chord accompaniment so natural to this guitar style. All the various effects sound very good.

I can depend on this handy little unit. It is very reliable. The unit and cord fit in the pouch of my padded case. I take it everywhere so I can practice with it. When I'm away from electricity I use batteries and a headset.
I use a variety of drum machines which I have prerecorded for backups. However, I have practiced with and learned the RP100 so well that I can use it for requests when I need a quick backup drum beat. It is very good for this!

I have not needed customer support yet.

I play cover tunes/songs from many genres. Pop, folk, jazz, fingerstyle, classical, ballads and love songs. I'm getting up there in years and have played since I was 4 yrs. old. I also play plectrum banjo (4-strings), elec./ukulele, and an elec./classical guitar. A Yamaha AG Stomp is the processor used for the uke and classical. And the RP100 is the first processor in the line for the archtop, but also goes through the DigiTech GNX3 before it reaches the PA system. I also use a (passive)volume pedal for the RP100, as sometimes I start out too soft or too loud and can make that final adjustment while my hands are busy at my craft of entertaining audiences with pleasing sounds.
The RP100 is "Digi" and the GNX3 is "Dad of Digi." If anything happened to Digi I would replace him immediately! I use this friendly music companion more than any other unit I own!
I wish The RP100 had "intro and ending" drumbeats. But I live without them since I always include instrumental intros and endings. With the volume pedal I can turn the volume off the drum machine on the last beat. This helps the music sound very professional.

the manual is very clear but even without the manual you can operate it !
you have 40 patches you can chose and 40 al allready chosen.
If you want a realy great sound you'll be busy for a couple of minutes but it's worth your time.

I play a strat with a 100W marshall and if I pick clean channel and every time I chose a distortion patch I remember why I bought this pedal !
It's not that noisy certainly not if you select the noise gate.

It's built in a hard metal chassis so I think it's pretty strong, but I don't think if you jump a couple of times on it, it would still work cuz' the pedals are made of hard plastic.

haven't dealt with them

I play rock and this pedal works well for that, you can play metal with it, but then you beter buy the metal zone of boss.
My god, if it was stolen I'd by a new one, this pedal realy kicks ass !

It's relatively easy to get basic sounds out of this unit. For a cheap pedal, it sounds decent, but your options are limited when it comes to achieving a certain sound you want. Editing patches is alright... Nothing special and you get used to the set up rather quickly.

I use this pedal with no other effects/pedals, and it plugs into a Peavey TKO 80. One of my biggest complaints is the excessive noise of distorsion. I was very unhappy with the flange with distortion as well. However, if you like to play clean tones with flanges and other effects, it sounds a bit better. In my 2 years with this pedal before the right pedal broke, I could not find any similar sounds to artists like Frank Zappa, Chuck Garvey, Trey Anastasio, or Dickey Betts.

The thing shit the bed after a friend of mine played around with it for 10 minutes. The right pedal is broken, and I have to use the left pedal to cycle through all 80 tones. I suppose for $100 you get what you pay for, but this thing is made out of very shoddy plastic. I don't think I would ever use this at a gig, anywhere but by myself, or at a practice.

N/A. I don't think I would try to deal with them anyway, the pedal was not all the great to begin with.

If you want a compact multi-effect pedal with decent sound fr it's price, go for it. If you want something more reliable, better sounding, and more usable for live shows, I would spend another $100 and buy a Boss ME-50 on ebay. It's not that I'm unbiased towards this pedal, but 2 years of working condition is unacceptable for the thing to crap out. Hope this review helped.

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.

N/A

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

This thing is sooooo easy to use its untrue. Getting a good sound out of it is tricky though if you don't know what you're doing. The inbuilt sounds a re largely poor (although i prefer the 100 to the 100A the "artist" presets are really bad)but the pedal has a strong following and you can get patches from the digitech website made by people that DO know what they're doing. In the right hands this thing can do a lot - the manual is very good i thought just what you need to know nothing less nothing more. The tuner is very good - the drums (metronome really - very simple beats) are fantastic for jamming/practice and have really tightened up my playing over time but not good enough to record really. Plus you have the input for an expression pedal - never tried it (fool that i am i went out and blew wads of cash on the rpx400 instead.)

weeeelll i been using headphones and a 4 track which was the appeal of this pedal anyway - space saving/versatile and cheap. I use a bad fender strat copy (would like a goth flying v but money dont grow on trees)there is a hum on some setting s but i think that's lareg;ey my crappy axe! the noise gate eradicates noise when the strings arent vibrating. The effects might not be perfect but for the money they're amazing - you can get a lot of variety with this pedal - the overdrive is satisfyingly thick (recently got RPX400 and was let down in this area.)and the correct balance of setting scan give a very pleasing and professional sound - but you either got to be a pro or lucky to get the balance right i think. check the patches at the website. It records well on a tascam 4 track anyway.

had it 2 years - it went flaky for a month or so but apart from that it's solid as a rock. I wouldnt gig so i dont know (performance anxiety - im the same in the guitar shop!)

never had to deal with them because the product is ver strong but they're website is pretty cool and they gave me a carry bag/lead/plectrums/headphones when i bought the RPX400 so i like them :-)

I play rock/metal/goth/blues/mellow/ambience this thing can do it all and more - its so small, so reliable, so versatile and SO CHEAP! you really cant complain - it's so cheap and so fun you might aswell get one. A pair of headphones your guitar and the RP100 all fit in a gig bag and you dont need anything else. I always loved it but now i got the RPX400 i appreciate it more - you get SOOOO much for the cash. BUY one BUY one BUY one!

Look at all the reviews! I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree but with some tweaking and a short learning curve good sounds were had in a short amount of time. Setting patches is a breeze. The manual is ok but a quick reference card for the presets would of been nice. I know I had to make my own and tape it so I didn't have to peck through 40 of them. Minus one...

No you will not get the exact Marshall or Mesa or.... But for the price it's close enough. My pedals were sold on eBay long ago with the new technology this and my amps have to offer. The presets are overdone and you'll want to set your amp flat or find something very neutral to play through to avoid coloring the sound even more. Then set everything to 0 and start with an amp model. Build from there until you're happy. Take your time, For the price a 9. Two decent pedals will set you back way more than this thing.

I wouldn't trust stomping on this thing 50 times a night. For the occasional change of sound the pedals are ok. If you play through entire songs without channel switching/pedal stomping put it somewhere that you can switch settings by hand. Batteries and AC options are good insurance that you'll at least have power should one fail.

No need to call.

Looked at models from Zoom and the other companies. Needed something easy to haul around that would outlast the warranty and give decent sounds. Easy to learn and fun to use. Bang for the buck rated it gets a 10. Thanks HC for providing the space for us to share our opinions.

Never had any effects before except a poor tube on my amp - my freind had racks of effects processors and they confused the hell out of me! this things interface is a piece of cake though - before reading the manual (which is very good - except it description of single coil/humbucker doesnt match whats on the display) i was editing patches straightaway - it takes time/knowledge/experience to get a good noise but the principal is very straightforward.

I am not a professional - i am not in a band - i do not gig - i wanted a very cheap very small very versatile effects processor for my crappy strat copy that i could plug headphones into and connect to my tascam fourtrack. This thing satisfied all requirements. At first the novelty of having effects was enough to put a smile on my face but after a while i started to think it sounded really poor! the factory presets are awful (seriously) but user presets sounding awful is purely your own fault man! after visiting the digitech website and copying patches that sound like Steve Vai/Yngwie/Hetfield etc i realised this box has A LOT of potential and the only thing holding me back was that i didnt know what i was doing! The website is very good btw - a number of famous guitarists have posted patches there (Yngwie/D.Mustaine etc..) but it takes some coaxing to get the good stuff out of it. I have also played keyboards through it for messed up hawkwind type ambience or just a bit of atmospheric reverb on a piano - very good - i give it a 7 for sound because it has a lot of potential but it isnt immedialtely apparent.

had it two years - kicked it dropped it used it every day - works fine. Havent toured with it and i am gentle when i use the foot switches so no expert. Briefly went through a phase of changing amp models on patches for no reason, which was disconcerting, but stopped a long time ago.

N/A never dealt with them but am always drooling over their products and visiting their patch pages.

I predominantly play thrash/death metal but like all music and have found this pedal is capable of producing most sounds i want for blues/pop/ambient/LSD psychadelia/Goth etc.. (at least in the right ball park if not perfect). I have been playing bass for years only seriously picked up the 6 string 2 yrs ago when i bought this pedal. As i said i only have a strat copy and a 4 track but this thing has really inspired me and im looking at upgrading (maybe a flying V goth or a Variax.) - i am going to buy a RP300a or GNX3/4 as soon as i can as i want more functions than ive got - but as an entry level pedal for someone who is very poor or has no kit/space - you cant beat the rp100. professionals complain about it but they really should be spending more cash on their gear - for everyday doods like me this thing will rock your world for a long time for very little money! THE ONLY THING TO SAY IS GET THE RP100A INSTEAD AS IT HAS 40 PRESETS FROM MUSICIANS INSTEAD OF THE CRAPPY 40 FACTORY PRESETS I NEVER USE ON MY RP100 BASIC!!!

Pretty easy to use,not that you'd want to use everthing IN it,but it does OK with a few butttons to push. I downloaded the manual from Digitech and had most of it sorted out in a couple days. Upgrades?--hell, the guy that had it before didn't even try to change any of the presets!

I use mainly Strat style guitars--some with single coils, one with humbuckers, and they sound good with the basic settings on the RP100--both into the amps and into the board, so now I have options when I record--I can have more control over sounds and can cut down on backround noise. The effects are uneven--reverbs and delays are decent, but some of the others are pretty cheesy.

I only use this at home--bypass mode is very thin sounding and is the main drawback--I'd be tempted to try it in front of people if it sounded better when its turned OFF. Maybe it'd be OK in somebody else's rig, but I have other effects that sound better.

Other than the manual, I haven't dealt with them--at least their website is useful as opposed to a couple other ones I've visited lately. The RP100 will probably be fine just sittng on the desk next to the recorder.

I play blues and rock,also some experimental music for 35+ yrs. and will keep going as long as my hands work : ) I've owned lots of stuff over the years and have had fun with most of it. I also have a ZOOM GFX707,which is good for effects,but doesn't sound much like an amp--the RP100 gets more amp-like sounds, so maybe they can work together. Maybe when the plug-ins get better, I'll go out on a limb and buy something new, but right now, these are a big improvement over just miking an amp--the tapes don't lie(at least MINE don't!) If it got stolen, I'd have a good laugh, since these aren't worth much used, and if you don't know what its for, it's a big doorstop!

This pedal is very easy to use. I bought it used and didn't have an owners manual for a couple of days and I still figured it out pretty simply for the most part. I downloaded the manual off of the digitech site and it made life a lot easier.

I run a variety of guitars through this thing. I have a Marshall DSL401 but I never use the pedal with it. I have a Vox 15r pathfinder and since I don't like the distortion on that little amp I bought this little pedal to help me out. I play a lot of bluesy stuff(The Black Crowes, Allman Brothers, etc.) and for just jamming over at a buddies house this thing helped me out. A lot of useless effects onboard so probably 85% of the effects never get used. And as far as the total sound,, its pretty convincing of the amp modeling attributes,, but its hard to get a good distortion right next to a good clean channel,, especially a good clean channel without some kind of crazy delay or tremolo effect kicking its ass.

Built like a tank as far as I can see. I would never gig with this thing because of the sounds. It could get too confusing. But I don't think that it would break down on you if you were to use it for this.

Never dealt with them.

This thing is perfect for what I bought it for. I only use it with my practice amp to get bigger tones and better distortions. For what I bought it for and the price I paid,, I couldn't really ask for much more. It would probably be perfect for home recording use as well,, you can get pretty much any amp sound you want and the lead channels do indeed kick ass.

With the manual, there should be no problem figuring out this pedal. Without it, like suppose it was bought used, you might run into trouble. If you know what you're doing, though, you can probably get the tone you want, anyway, because the knobs are arranged in a sensible fashion.

I have the box between my Epiphone Les Paul and Crate half-stack. The tones are pretty good, but the versatility is where this thing is worth the investment. It really has about all the effects I would need, even if they aren't quite perfect. The distortion is not quite as heavy as it could be, but it's as heavy as I, personally need it.

The effects on the RP100 are reliable. It always turns on when I plug in and off when I pull out. It feels indestructable, if not for the plastic knobs and pedals. The main body is steel maybe, and heavy. The problem I have is with the built-in chromatic tuner. It is on crack. Apparantly I am constantly playing either an Eb or an A. That's okay, though because I don't really need the tuner. I would, though, advise buying a power supply. It will eat your batteries faster than you can eat a cupcake.

I play everything from Eric Clapton to Metallica, so it's nice to have a pedal that can cover them and everything in between. On second thought, it might not have quite enough distortion for Metallica, but I guess it isn't bad. The only feature I would add would be a seperate bypass pedal, but I'll live. If it were stolen, I would try to find the person who stole it, to see if he was a guitar player, and I'd see if he wanted to jam, because no one within a 50 mile radius of me seems to play. This is a nice pedal for just playing around in my room, which is all I'm good for anyway. Live, I don't know, but it's great for what I use it.

Really simple and easy to use. All you have to do is read the manual once, and you'll do fine. Manual explaing everything.

Everything is good. There's no noise because this thing has a NOISE GATE AS AN EFFECT. When it did make noise, it was because of my amp. All the effects are good EXCEPT THE DISTORTION DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GAIN AND CAN SOUND BLOCKY. I paly alot of thrash and death metal. There are a few distortion types, but it can sound really crappy sometimes. Good for solos though. gets a 6 because all the effects are good, but because distortion really important, and this distortion lacked, i had to dock it alot.

Up to a scertain Point. MY LEFT FOOTSWITCH HAS BEEN BROKEN, it's being dumb. It's gotten to the point to where it switches up when it's supposed to be switching down, and it'll stop working completley at times. DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE METAL CASING, this thing can still be damaged easily. I'v giged with it, i had to set my settings in order according to how they were going to be played through out the set because i was only able to go from setting 1, to 2, to 3, to 4, and so on because the left footswitch was broken. I'v had to gig withouth a back up, it was the only way i could get lead boosts.

havn't dealt with them, like a moron i didn't mail my warranty. I wish i did so i could get this thing back like new and i could sell it at a decent price and save up for a better distortion.

I Play HEAVY metal that need alot of Gain. THIS LACKS IN THE GAIN part of distortion. However, if you're into rock, or you just want it for the other effects, deffinatly worth cheking out. HOWEVER, this cannot take alot of abuse, the left footswitch on mine if broken, and because of that i'm giving this thing a low score. I'v had this for a little over a year.

Very easy to make or edit cool tones. The manual is easy to understand. It has everything I could ever want, except for an "inteligent harmony"

USA Jackson KV-1 Dave Mustaine model > RP-100 > Crate 212 combo
I bought this for the Delay and Pitch Shifter effects...I'm not into all those crazy effects like Phaser, Flanger and Chorus. Sounds good to me, and I've used alot of shit. The distortions don't get as heavy as I'd like, but they're pretty good.

I bought the AC adapter because I HATE battery power. Unlike the RP-50, this is made of metal not plastic.

I play music influenced by guys like Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen and Marty Friedman. I also play Thrash Metal and Death Metal. I'd buy again if destroyed, the only other pedal I'd consider for my use is a Boss PS-5 for the harmonizer. I used lots of other pedals, and this had what I wanted and nothing I didn't.

For it's price range, it is easy to use. Ony 3 knobs and a ton of parameters, though, can make it time consuming compared to a Genesis-1. Sometimes the knobs don't register when I turn them--it seems you have to roll it past the setting to get it to work. It is easy to learn as well; you can just jump in and fiddle. One complaint---the drum pattern tempo setting does not dial in BPM's, i.e. "75" seems to be about 120 BPM---there are only two digits on the display, so they couldn't put up anything past 99.

Manual is very good---expains all the effects parameters pretty well.

It's irritating that it didn't come with AC adapter (it needs a 1300 milliamp 9v adapter, not too common). It takes 6-aa's and only lasts 9-10 hours on that. There's no on/off switch---you just plug in to turn on. Footswitches are just up/down patch change and bypass for both and tuner for both held down for 3 seconds. Tuner works well, but if you bypass, sometime when you go back, you're up or down one patch before you started.

Good wide variety of sounds. Lots of different amp sounds, but they sound very digital to me. I picked up a Genesis-1 and like the sounds out of it much better. Lots of the presets go a bit overboard with reverb---fine for headphones or DI, but too much for playing through an amp with a group.

I use a rebuilt Peavey Triumph 120 tube amp and it makes the distortion sound awesome, but the reverbs sound muddy. I like a big, bluesey David Gilmore sound, and this combination of amp and pedal nails it. I play Ibanez GAX-70 as my main axe. I've also used Yamaha Pacifica strat copy (HSS), D'armond Les Paul copy, and a Schecter C-1 with it.

There are tons of delays as well, and they are fantastic. No tap-tempo, though, only presets. Modulation effects are good as well, but again, the chorus and flanger sound really digital. Very good clean amp sound with reverb to do a blues sound.

I don't particularly like the compressor, either. My Genesis-1 just has lo-med-hi compressor and it works much better than the RP-100. I bought a Nady CL-5000 rack-mount compressor/limiter/gate so I can truly tweak it and it works much better (good investment for only $85).

Gate works pretty well, but if you turn off the gate, even with no input signal, this sends out noise. Otherwise very quiet.

All in all I'd say this is great for practicing and if you really work with the patches, they'll work live as well. As I use it more and more (had it about 2 years), I plan to use it for less and less. I want to pick up a dedicated distortion pedal and use the RP-100 only as a delay/modulation box (I use the reverb on the amp).

Rock-solid construction--all-metal box, very solid. Battery box lid broke, but I use AC adapter now. Solid buttons and knobs. I would use it without a backup (not on battery power, though!)

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Very good for the price, but I think more aimed at practicing/home recording. It's great for playing on the couch with headphones, but I am not totally satisfied when I get together with my band and use it---I spend too much time there twiddling knobs to try to get the sound right. But for $79, which is what I've seen it for recently, you do get a LOT of effects and parameters!

Your an idiot if you cant use this you select the effect twiddle the nobs done.

The sound quality on this is great, everyone is saying its noisey but you can put the noise gate on and vuala. The effects are very well done and dont sound cheap.

Hasnt done anythign wrong yet ive used it 4 times live and the guitarist loves it in my band so he bought one very reliable.

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My band plays emo/pop/punk and the tone is great at home i paly blues jazz classical metal hard rock old rock and u can get everything. GREAT BUY.

To the people that think this thing is hard to use: what the hell are you doing using the internet? This is the easiest to use piece of equipment I own. Really. Push the button until it gets to the effect you want to use and then use the knobs to tweak them, then push the store putton to store it to a preset number. Wow. Tough.

The manual tells you basically the same thing, but it also lists the factory presets. Not really vital information, but nice to have.

Occasionally used for recording, never used live. Has a terrible noise problem when put through any high-gain setups, or simply high volumes. Amp models are... iffy. Some sound great, others are terrible. The effects are all rather well done, only the pitch shift is aneimic. Which is sad, as Digitech gave us the Whammy Pedal. I just don't like the non-editability of effect order, and the fact that you can only have one effect plus delay plus reverb. The noise gate is terrible. Only a threshold parameter. Blasphemy.

I will never ever gig with this thing. It's built like a tank, but the sound is terrible for live situations, and I have issues with its preset selection system. MIDI implimentation would help.

I play a lot of stuff that requires flexiblity, and this thing doesn't have enough of it. It's nice for getting a particular sound for recording, but don't EVER gig with it. If it were stolen/broken/lost, I probably wouldn't care. I rarely use it. Again, needs more flexibility and MIDI. But for 100 bucks, why bitch?

Manual is essential inless you have had experience with these sort of things.
Editing patches is a snap once you've read the manual.

I play a Fender Strat plus through either my Fender Princeton 110 plus amp or straight into my Fender P-250 PA. OK ... I love Fender gear:)
Some of the distortions are quite noisy, esp if the gain is high. Knock the gain back and the noise goes without a huge loss of 'crunch'. I also find the distortions lacking in reality - ie they have a very digital sound but I am continuing to search coz this unit is so flexibile there must be a great sounding disto in there somewhere !
Some of the amp modeling is crap. The rectifier is unconvincing but I like the crunch amp and the Stack is Ok with some tweaking. The effects: flangers, phasers, chorus etc are all quite usage and very tweakable. I haven't found any clean tones that I really like but part of the problem is my guitar has a GREAT tone which is lost a bit going through this unit. I gonna try using it in the effects loop of my amp / PA as suggested so I can retain the tone of my Strat and still get the use of the great effects.

Have had no problems with it yet. It has been used for both outdoor and indoor gigs ... and will again. I have no backup unit:(

never needed it

I Play rock/pop/folk - mainly originals.
I have been playing for 10 years. I also have An Ovation acoustic and a Samic Classical. No other 'gear'
If lost or stolen I would replace with either the RP200 or the J-Station
Apart from researching the net ...it was the best priced option !
Wish the distortions where more convincing. I have yet to find one that has the sustain and 'warmth' of my Fender amp. Also find it lacks a little bit of bottom end.
This unit HAS added to my playing.
For the price its unbeatable ... but it will never be the real thing. For those who think it is and have rated this unit down because it doesn't exactly replicate a Mesa or whatever are full of shit. For me its to get a sound that suits MY songs not those written by some other artist so its great for personalising your own sound.
But if you wanna sound like Jummy - 99% of Joe Public will NOT know the difference between this unit and a $2000 amp but those that do know and have a quality ear will cringe with its digital sound.

This is very easy to use once you've spent a few minutes getting the hang of it. It is very flexible and easy to program for your own settings/patches.

If you want to know what it sounds like, check out these mp3s- I used the RP100 on each with different effects. These were home recordings through a Shure SM57 into a Roland Boss BR8 recorder. I played an Ibanez ES335 copy (the AS120):

1) 'We Are The New Wine' - used the RP100 distortion, cabinet modeler and delay as well as the vibrato on a few of the breaks, the tremelo on the 2nd guitar, and the auto-wah on the break near the end.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/3388/3388677.html

2) 'Summer Century Meltdown' - used the RP100 delay, cabinet modeler and vibrato effect as well as the phaser effect. The vibrato effect came out great.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2339/2339652.html

3) 'Fear The Unknown' - I got some great RP100 distortion with lots of feedback and sustain on this song. One guitar is full saturation on the gain, the other was minimal gain with delay and reverbs from the RP100. A tad much on the reverb, but it was all one live guitar take and I didn't want to redo all of it just to knock a bit of the reverb off.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/2581/2581466.html

After having bought and played at least 100 different pedals over the last 13 years, I have to rate this very highly. The last guy's comments indicated this was not stage-worthy and that it is only for beginners - I would instead say that I have used it to great effect live and on recordings, and that I think it's got some great sounds (and I am no beginner). I bought the Line6 DL4, MM4 and DS4 and have instead opted to keep using the RP100 after checking both out top to bottom. My ONLY problem with it is that if you are changing from one patch to the next, there is a brief drop-out of sound while it switches. This doesn't bother me too much because I run a dual-amp setup and the effects only go to one amp - so if the one amp drops out for a sec, the other is still blasting and no one notices the 1/2 second drop-out.

Worked great for the last 2 years.

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I give it high ratings. It's not the absolute best top gear you can get, but for the money it's great. It is much better than many other effects in the same price range and can be quite useful even in a pro setup. Would I rather have a Bradshaw switching unit and all vintage/top of the line gear? You bet. Can I sound great on stage and on recording with the RP100? You bet.

I play effect driven alt-rock, indie-pop and energetic, darker melodic rock along the lines of U2, The Church, Sunny Day Real Estate, Coldplay, Trail Of Dead, The Verve etc... I've been playing since 1987. I have owned dozens and dozens of effect pedals as well as over 100 guitars in the last decade. Currently I own/use the following.
Guitars: 3 Ibanez AS-120s (ES335 copies), 3 Gibson Les Pauls (a 1960 Classic, and two Studios), an Epi Les Paul Custom, 3 Yamaha SBG/SG series (SBG200, SBG1500 and SBG1300ts), Washburn Mercury II series strat style.
AMPS: Peavey Classic 50 (all tube), Classic 30 (all tube), and a Fender RocPro1000 transtube through a vintage Fender 2x12 cab. I run a stereo setup.
EFFECTS: guitar>Ibanez TS9 tubescreamer > TS808 tubescreamer > DOD FX65 Stereo chorus > Ross vintage Phaser > RP100 > Boss DL3 Delay > Line6 DL4 delay > amps

Very simple - RTFM, that's why they went thtought the trouble to write it!!! It took me a little while to get the hang of it, but now I can do it blindfolded. The preset sounds are a bit goofy, so I have tweaked it to my own liking and I am happy with the sounds. You can move your sounds around, that was an excellent idea - you can put them in any order you like. I haven't really had any problems getting a good sound. It helps to set your amp to a very neutral tone.

I use(d) a Hamer Studio (got stolen) through an Ibanez TB-25R amp and I found that it worked quite well. (Good quality pickups help!!)Replaced the Hamer with an Ibanez GAX-70. As far as noise, not much there, more with single coils though. Some of the presets are crappy, but that's why you should experiment, find out what you like. Most of the distortions are good, although the "recto" setting is fairly generic and the "fuzz" is crappy. Chourus, delays and reverb and so forth are pretty good. I don't really use vibrato or tremolo at all. I also like the detune and pitch stuff - kinda fun, you can get some Jimmy Page sounds with those. Auto-Ya: USLESS! I plan to get a passive volume pedal to play with the "Whammy" effect. My only gripes sound-wise are the cabinet models, most are pretty dark sounding and consequently not really satisfying. Also, the humbucker/single coil setting is backwards on my unit - the display reads one setting and is actually the other.

Never given me a problem, hopefully it stays that way. I am a basement noodler, so I've never taken it on a gig. Maybe one day...

Never dealt with them, but I did register it.

It works good for my tastes, mostly heavy stuff (Zeppelin, Sabbath, Ozzy, Rush, and newer heavy bands; Korn, Staind, Disturbed, etc..) I've played on and off for 20+ years. Other gear: Fender Strat, Crate MX-10, Yamaha PRS-550 Midi Keyboard (it's my drum and bass machine.) If it were stolen or lost I'd move up in the range (RP-200 or 300) I love the simplicity - once you get it set up it just works.
What do I hate? CRAPPY PRESETS, LOW HEADPHONE VOLUME OUTPUT, SOME OF THE RHYTHMS ARE USELESS (Not enough rock rhythms) - are you listening Digitech?
I have a friend with a ZOOM 505, I thought I might get one, but I like the RP-100 better (metal case, easier to use, sounded better) I think overall its a pretty cool thing for the price.

Anything I wish it had? - A FREE POWER ADAPTER!!! $20 FOR A $5 AC adapter, come on Digitech!!!

I'd like to get a POD, but that's a LOT of money when you got kids, house, car and everything else to pay for too - not to mention you have to get a MIDI foot controller or Line 6 board you make it really useful in a gig situation.

How easy is it to get a good sound out of it? - not possible

How about Editing patches? easy

How is the manual for it - good

What setup - Roland JC-120, various guitars(gibson, fender, gretsch, Dearmond)
Is it noisy? at times it is.
Are the effects weak or do they always sound great? weak
Can you get the sound of your favorite artists? no
Are certain effects (distortion, chorus,) very good? Very bad? - its fair
Don't be decieved by high ratings on this thing. It is for beginners, who want to have a toy to help increase their desire to play. This is not, gig quality.
Kids may enjoy it, but it is not a serious tool.

Didn't keep it long, it was given to me.

They have always been good to me

this is a toy, a toy. Repeat a TOY.
It is not worth the price of $99.00
Parents, don't buy this thinking it will make your kids sound better, it will only grate on your nerves.
Kids, save up your money, and look for a used or new Boss GT-6, ME-50, or a POD. You would do better spending your money on a decent amp(marshall, vox, fender)
If you want lots of diffrent sound get good gear, you'll be sory otherwise.
I've been playing for about 25 years, 16 years professional, and I have gone through a lot of gear. This thing doesn't even come close to stuff that is 20 years old.
If you spend your money on this and think it sounds good people will look at you funny and you'll wonder why they don't want to listen.
Sory digitech, back to the drawing board.

it's not hard to use, not at all. It's just that the longer you use it, the better you start playing with this or that, and I don't really understand people who say it can't sound any good... I'd put it this they, THEY can't make it sound AT ALL.
The manual is ok, but nothing better than self experience.

It is not noisy, my amp (old Hughes & Kettner) is due to some obscure soldering problem! The factory presets aren't good, but that's the same for most factory presets on most modelizing thingies (vetta anyone?) The effects are ok, but I rarely use anything more than a little delay and reverb, and even for those I'm not a whining picky biatch given the price of the thing.
I've posted some sound patches on digitech's website, under the nick of Sam669 or something like that, check for yourself, but I find them to be really honest sounding!
I love the Mark IIc amp model.

hmm, that's the drawback! The right knob has problems: if I turn it to the max clockwise, the value goes back/oscillates between 0 and 99.
And sometimes when I click on "store", it launches the drums AND the store function. It can be scary!
For serious gigging, I'll prefer to wait for a good deal on a digitech 2120 ;)

I play progressive metal, and that thing is ok. So ok that I prefer it for lead tones than the Yamaha DG over there lol!
If it were stolen, I wouldn't buy it again though, but would look for something better.
I'd like to add that people who complain about how it sounds blatently do not know their needs enough to know what gear they should buy to please them.

First off: I'm pissed at Digitech. They make products that sound pretty decent & are easy to navigate, only to have them develop weird
problems over time after they are conveniently out of warranty. Nice.

Sounds pretty good. What does it matter when you have zero faith in the unit. Tech 21 GT-2 anyday friend. The leslie imitation is wonderful- the autoyaya a fucking joke. The blackface is righteous-
The rectifier renders all guitars indistinguishable from one another only to dissolve into an unrecognizable sputz of fizzy white noise.
Does anyone deserve such wild inconsistency even in a 99 dollar box?
I don't think so

In two words: FUCK NO. The one thing I really need-the tuner- takes a crap and starts registering the wrong notes- making me think me losing me mind! WHAT"S NEXT
I'm selling mine before it stops working completely(my mind, that is)

Don't know, Don't care
I won't buy another effect device from Utah, ever.
Fuckin Harman bought dbx and jbl too godamn bastards
Pardon my French

If stolen good luck tuning up you larcenous swine.
I wanted to like this box, I really did.
Try Korg, Boss instead. Zoom bites.
Digitech,Genesis,Johnson,DOD is all the same conspiracy: a product you want to utilize and enjoy but ends up letting you down in some
pointless, avoidable and stupid way.

Well... its got 3 knobs and a few buttons, and 2 pedals. Pretty easy to use if you read the manual as it details everything in layman terms. If youve ever used a multieffects box, then youll have no problems.

Youve got a bunch of amp models to choose from, and most of them sound pretty decent. Theres plenty there for any style. Most of the patches I used were thin and lacking in bite, but thats just the distorted ones. The clean channels sounded pretty nice though. One big downfall of this pedal is that when you switch channels theres a lag between them where there is no sound. When you are playing by yourself its not that big of a deal, but if you are in a band trying to keep up, its really distracting. Not for gigging, thats for sure.

Mines been dropped and kicked and many other things and it still works. The pedals get stuck down every once in a while which is a big hassle, but nothing too terrible. Its made out of metal with plastic pedals. I wouldnt use it for a gig except as a tuner set up off the ground somewhere.

Ive never had to deal with them, so I dunno.

Basically this pedal is good for beginners who dont have a lot of cash to spend. I paid 165 bucks for it and got severely ripped off. Later I found out that they only list at about $99US. They are pretty good for recording, or playing direct to board, but after a while you get tired of the lack luster patches and the lag between channels. My advice, save up to buy the GNX series effects if you want to go that route.

Very well designed from the point of minimising the number of controls required.
Quite intuitive again considering the minimalist design approach.
Manual is quite good, but I always like the idea of easy/getting started single sheet approach as well as a detailed manual

Jackson Professional and Peavey Amp
Early days yet but I have gone through all standard and previous users effects and all seem OK.
Facility to listen directly through headphones is soooo very good for me when my kids are in bed.
I was unsure what to expect from this little unit but this is so cool, and with the added bonus of some great user sites with users effects........what can you say!

I will give it only a 7 as this is only a #70 unit so will never sound like something ten times the cost

Well its 3 years old and looks very good (of course the guy I got it from may not have used it very much)

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Metal, Rock and blues
Many years on and off
Yes I would and I may even buy it new
I love it all, but I love gimmicks
Only compared reviews rather than sitting in shop and making true comparison, (but why invent the wheel when others have done it for you, and the unit came up for sale too quick and didnt want to miss a possible bargain)

No too hard. Only had it for about 30 minutes. Able to make decent sounds pretty quick and preset patches are ok.

Sounds like a $100 processor. Used with a Marshall AVT 50 (which rocks btw, best 400 amp i could find, but line6 spider is pretty sweet too). Used in effects loop in store, chorus sounds good, tremolo sounds good most other modulation effects sound good. Distortions are all kinda weak, the amps sims sound tinny and weak. This unit sorta takes away from the amp. Prolly going to get a Boss chorus like everyone else. Would buy digitech pedals, but well, read below. I bought it for this one gig cause i dont have any effects and wanted to spend very little money.

Ok. This is the vent section. I took it home, played for about 30 min on batteries (cause the Guitar Center man sold me the wrong power supply) and it just died. Like out of the blue. Really really stupid. I wasnt really that pleased with the sound in the first place but this is pathetic. So im taking it back tommarow.

Havent delt with them, YET!

It sounds ok, but not great. Maybe im just not a digital fan. The reliability thing is kinda sad though. If you like it, buy it. If not, go for individual pedals. Maybe they are more expensive and more of a hassle, but I think they sound better.

My friend bought the Digitech Whammy padal and i was stunned by the number of sounds he made out of it. So when I went out looking for a whammy - i found the Digitech RP200 and was blitzed out for the thing - I was going to get a Line 6 POD - but this thing was waay better - a lot easier - had great presets & a whammy!!! I could not be happier with the results.

I can absolutely get any sound out of the thing I need - and then some - i'm still exploring new possabilities with it - and i've had it for over a year. All my favorite bands - Tool, SNOT, Alice N Chains - I cover them all - and all there varieties of sounds that even they use. I use a Schecter C-7 with it - which is almost a disgrace cuz i'm from Kalamazoo, Michigan - Home of the Gibson Les Paul. But i can't complain - i also use a Crate - or what ever else i can plug it into. Anything sounds good with my Digitech RP200!

ok - everything is great but Depenability - the thing needs to be more tank like. Traveling with it is kinda a pain in the ass - cuz sometimes i have to reset it. I should make a case for it - i really hate to complain.

BLiTZeD OuTA My MiND!!!

Terrible. Difficult. Frustrating. Then again, it's a processor.
I should've known better, and just stuck with my stomp boxes.
Who wants to mess around with all those damned settings? Not me,
that's for sure. It's a processed sound, and doesn't at ALL sound
like a good amp, don't let the hype fool you. The only thing
that this thing is good for is to play it through your stereo when
you don't want to plug into your big amp, or use it with the headphone jack thru headphones. A big waste of money.
Then, when trying to shut the thing off, you have to step on both
pedals to put it on bypass....then to turn it back on, press just
one of the pedals, and if you leave your foot on the pedal too long,
it goes up or down the number settings....that is, you press on the
pedal to get setting number 1, and WHOOSH! it goes all the way up
to setting number 4 or whatever! It's too damned touchy. I had to
make a LONG list of the settings because I couldn't remember which
one was which! Cumbersome, indeed. I don't give a shit WHAT Guitar
Player Magazine says (they gave it a good rating). Digitech must've
paid those guys off in BIG bucks!

I use a Les Paul and an SG. Not noisy, just sounds shitty, no matter
WHAT settings I used, and I tried all of them. Played this thru a
Fender Blues Deville, which has a beautiful sound, and this thing
ruined the sound altogether.

I wouldn't use this on a gig. It would totally fuck me up.

Who cares? It's a piece of shit anyway.

I play rock...classic and some metal and some country and blues.
It sucked for all of them.

Difficult, even impossible to get a googd sound out of this effects unit. Editing patches is quite easy. The booklet is o.k..

Used with only a Squier Strat and 10W solid state combo, but I would have thoght even with these it would have been capable of producing a decent tone somehow. This was not the case. Both the clean and distorted sounds are far too dark and muddy. I ended up using the rectifier and black face simulations most because these sounded the least like this, but they weren't good.

Completely reliable and quite robust

N.A.

I don't recommend this moddeler to anyone, unless you have hardly any money and want to recreate a few (poor) classic amp sonds

To me, this thing is a little confusing because the parameters for each object, say amp model or effect, keep flickering past on the display field. it would be nice to see all 3 at once.

I'm using a Godin Artisan and a ES335 copy thru a Fender Princeton. The only noise I get is when you try to use certain amp models with the gain set high. Most of the effects, like chorus, flang, delay, reverb, etc., sound very nice. I didn't care for the amp modeling or the picup selection or the mic placement.
One big complaint I have is with the 40 presets. I cannot use ANY of these. I tried some of the user patches from the Digitech site and the same thing. How could anyone possible use these settings with a live band?
My final solution with the sound is I changed settings 1 thru 10 to be a specific effect (or 2). Like 1 is chorus, 2 is delay, etc. This makes it easy to get to a nice effect and if I want lead, I hit my Ibanez TS9. Then I used 11 thru 20 for different amp models. Then 21 thru 30 for the amp model of choice for distortion with the settings from 1 thru 10. Hey, it works for me.

pretty solid unit

never had to call

First let me say, if you're gonna get this pedal, get the RP200. Same unit plus expression pedal - and you get the adapter FREE. Approx. $150 for the RP200. Approx $110 for the RP100 plus $25 for the adapter.
I'm an old blues player, but I got this unit because I'm playing in a band that does all styles and we use a sequencer (yuk!). I just needed more options than my tube screamer gives me and I think the RP100 will be a big help.
I've been playing for 30 years. I think I mentioned my equipment already. I've owned and played about everything thru the years.
If it were lost or stolen, I'd get the RP200.
I love the fact that you get all those effects from ONE pedal. I hate daisy chaining a bunch of pedals!
I already mentioned that I don't like the amp modeling much. I used to have an old RP5 or something. It was huge with 5 pedals, but it had different distortion sounds v.s. amp modeling. They were very usable. And there were several factory presets that I used.
I don't like holding down both pedals to bypass or tune. There should be a separate pedal for that.
It helps my sound, but I had to work at it.

Read on for ideas on how to get more from this thing:

You already know all the features; they're mentioned below. I'll try to stick to opinions here. The RP100 is easy to use, but unlike a Line6 POD, it only has three knobs, so you have to scroll down a matrix of features to change settings. Most guitar players are used to twisting knobs to get a change in tone, so it's counter intuitive for us to work this way. Manufacturers should take note: we don't liket his type of user interface!

As a practice and noodling tool, it's alright. There are a few good smooth sounds here and some not-so-good, harsh ones. There are better tools out there for recording such as the units from Line6, Yamaha, Behringer and Tech21. If you're going to commit something to tape, invest in more pro-level gear!

I've found it quite useful as a pedal for jamming and live performance (and even for recording as noted below). The RP100 allows you to selectively turn off virtually all of its features including the amp models, cabinet simulation, EQ, gate and effects. In this respect, it's the ultimate multi-effect for your tube or solid state amp's effects loop!

For example, my 5-watt Crate VC508 tube amp has an effects loop but has only a single tone control for EQ and no reverb, so I patch the RP100 into that and turn off everything except the noise gate and reverb. Excellent results! In this configuration, I've found that I can use the middle knob to change to one of the other clean amp settings (C1, C2) or even the blackface and tweed settings. So I have the tube preamp section of the Crate going into the RP100 then the output of that going back into the tube power amp section of the Crate for awesome warmth. By diming the output of the RP100, I can push the Crate into warm overdrive. I can use the EQ on the Crate and tweak it further with the EQ on the RP100 and I can dial in any of the additional effects from the RP100 such as delay, flange, etc. This should work very well with any amp that has an effects loop and it greatly enhances any of those one-trick-pony amps and breathes new life into them.

Or I could bypass the preamp section of my tube amp and plug my guitar straight into the RP100, but still run the output into the tube power section. Very versatile!

It's not that great in front of the amp, but there are uses there too.

One other feature I like is the Humbucker to Single coil emulation; it doesn't really sound like a single coil, but it's quite helpful in making your tone cut through when you decide to turn on all the effects.

As a standalone device, this is just ordinary, but it's versatility when combined with the above setup is invaluable in a package that fits in a gig bag!

I've had it for over a year without any problems. It's quite solid and I expect it to last many years. Forget about running it on batteries, they don't last very long.

Digitech has a lousy rep for customer service. My few dealings with them bear this out.

The RP100 is an excellent value not just for what it is, but for what you can do with it.

Very simple guitar processer lost of great features to simple

Well I dont know whats the problem with all the negative reviews This this only cost $99 dollars. I think if you think about it its the cost a weeky shopping. However this thing sounds great one or two of the effects need tweaking.

look pretty well made however your not surpose to throw the thing around.

dont know

I have to say I'm impressed with this petal it also has a drums patten to practice with the secret of the this unit you have to make
it work you you find the right beat set the temple find your patch I'm
certain you will be able to record with this thing. By the way guitar player listed it as editor choice. that alone speaks for it self.

It's a simple thing to use. Very easy to make your own patches. The manual is good enough to get started, after that you'll never use it again.

The guitars I own are the better budget guitars. I have an '87 Squier Stratocaster and an Epi Les Paul with birdseye top. Usually I run the guitar through a Crybaby Wah > RP100 > Laney LC15 tube amp. In this setup the RP100 sounds great. It doesn't kill the tone of my guitars when using my own patches. The factory patches are overprocessed and can sound too digital, but little adjustments can make them very useable.

Before I bought the RP100 I kind of decided I would only use it for the reverb, chorus and flanger. I also have a H&K Tubeman which has incredible overdrives and distortions and I expected to keep using it together with the RP100. Well, the Tubeman now lies somewhere in a closet doing nothing. The RP100 has actually good distortions and very acceptable overdrives. The only one I don't like is the rectifier...too much noise and very cheap sound.

The effect are good, especially with clean sounds. Not all of them are useable. I don't think I'll ever use the auto-Yah. In some cases I would like some more control but in general you can create some wonderfull sounds. Also this thing is not very noisy. Some of the distortion have some noise. but I guess that's normal for any high gain setting.

I often use it with headphones and then it also sounds great. If setup well it can really sound as if you were playing through an amp.

I thought this thing was made of plastic, but a little piece of the finish chipped off and now I can see it really is a metal casing. I don't thing is build strong enough for gigging, but I never gig so it's good enough for me.

never dealt with them.

I've been playing for more then 20 years...but that was just fiddling around. I started to play seriously about 2 years ago and decided 2 months ago to add a new toy to my setup. I wanted to make some more different sounds and a multi effect was the obvious choice. I did not have the time to check out many other products and started to read reviews at harmony central. It's not easy to pick the more serious reviews, but after reading a lot of them I thought the RP100 would be the right choice for me. I was right. The RP100 is a lot of fun and makes beautifull sounds.

I think the RP100 is more than a toy. If you play around with it and don't overprocess your sounds it can be good enough for the serious guitar players. For headset practising it's excellent.

It's a fairly straight forward unit, for the price. The manual does give a logical, basic, graphic explanation of what certain effects do, how they interact, and how they should be hooked up, so it's fairly obvious that Digitech is seeking the novice market with this unit. I used it a few weeks before I gave it to my son, to check it out. It's good for him. That's why I bought it anyway, a gift for him.

First, I have a criticism. I've have noticed that on many, many reviews on nearly all products reviewed here on Harmony Central, players don't match their equipment well, or at all. And they claim to be professionals! I have a Gibson SG Standard and a custom Amer.Deluxe Fender Strat with Texas Specials, into a Marshall AVT 50. Big sound and mucho denarii here. You DON'T use a $100 pedal with a $2000 guitar, or top quality amp! With my equipment, the RP100 doesn't do them justice. So I used it only on the Strat to check noise suppression. BUT, I bought my boy a Washburn BT-2 ($400) customized with Seymour Duncun JB's, and a 15 watt Marshall practice amp along with the RP100. With that setup, the RP100 sounds very good. He has fun with it, and he likes ALL the effects. FUN...isn't that what playing guitar should be? Think novice when buying, with matching novice equipment.

He won't gig. The kid's in law school and slogs dogs at Fenway. It has a high impact plastic casing, but if a stack of law books in his small apartment falls on it, I question its ability to survive. Any company that makes effects should make sure their product is "step on proof," as in actually being stepped on by a heavy person in the dark, not just "stomp on proof." The power supply is rugged, however.

So far, after 10 months, he hasn't had any trouble. He hasn't expressed a loss of interest, so an upgrade is not necessary. As I've said in other reviews, part of customer service is making a quality product in the first place. I think this is an excellent buy for a novice, and it doesn't break the bank. I don't think Digitech intended this to satisfy the artistic needs of a player who owns a Les Paul with a Marshall JCM, for example.

My rating will be in the context of novice use. It's novice equipment!
It's easy to hook up, store, and is clearly labeled. Lost or stolen..."Uh, Dad, got a few bucks?" Yes, I'd get him another. He's progressing with it, and not to rely on it solely to learn how to play. The problem is, novices don't always store equipment properly, or at all. Therefore, the casing could be a safety hazard if left on in the dark and someone steps on it. Not only would the person get a shock and cut their foot, but the unit would be destroyed. I hope the folks at Digitech will correct this problem. I have lectured him about taking care of stuff. And no, he can't touch my SG or Strat.

this is an update to my previous post. Late in '02, I decided to get a rogue volume pedal from musiciansfriend.com to test out the options the rp100 has that I couldn't access. I would definately recommend getting a passive volume pedal.

With the passive volume pedal you can access the wah, volume, and the whammy feature. And all work quite well! Volume works well for swells (whales sounds etc), the wah is decent (i prefer the 3rd option over the crybaby and the boutique-has more "range", and i also find it sounds better when i also run my zoom 9150 tube preamp on a clean setting for some subtle distortion-it enhances the wah i think) and the whammy feature is WAY FUN!!! If you've heard the cool noises/sound effects that tom morello makes w/ RATM/audioslave, you'll enjoy this. I do a lot of post processing (the rp100 is first in my chain) and you can get some fun techno sounds w/ the whammy. the potential of this pedal is not unlocked until you get a passive volume to add to the input.

w/ the volume pedal going into my rp100, i find that i'm using it a lot more. the amount of sounds at times seem almost unlimited for a small inexpensive pedal like this. i use it in my chain of effects at the beginning: rp100--zoom 9150--digitech dsp256xl--dod d12--digitech ips33--lexicon mpx100.--to amp/or direct for recording. the only knock is that the presets have a very weak signal going through all my gear, so i have a couple of presets w/ the amp settings maxed out when w/ my rack setup. a very flexible pedal. I'm trying to imagine what the future of digital modeling will be and all i can think of is something like this but it will have a pedal for volume control, a pedal for pitch (whammy) control, and a pedal for tone (wah/envelop) control. the sound will be very moldable/flexable. it will also be very tiny i bet.

The ease of use is really great i didnt even half to read the manual which is a first for me. Its alot easier to use then some efect prosesers liek the boss rackmounts and things which dont even come with optional pedal and you have to press with your fingers.

The sound wuality is great im running it through my roc pro 1000 head with a traynor 4 12 cabinet. The only thing is some of the amp mods on high distrtion arent so great jsut because of the fuzz u can hear when ure not palying all the effects sound great though and really like the flanger and the chorus. My favorite thing probaly thoguh is the amp mods like mesa fender amrshall and the fact you can switch your pickup type

The reliability is great ntuhing can really go wrong with it the only thign is the pedals are a little to clsoe together so when ur epaly a song with many different efects its hard tos et them up int he right order of use ide deffiently use this on mah badns gig which is coming up soon!

I never had to deal with the company theres nothign really that could go wrong with it.

The overall is that its great you can customize it for anystyle of music you paly i paly rock and ouck witch is great for this machine if soemone stole ide cahse them down and kill them too bad im not a fast runner. I probaly owudlent buy it again becasue ide probaly go for the RP-200 which has the expression pedal built into it. The only thing ide like to have different is if you could use too amp mods at once i would deffiently recomend this for the begginer or expert.

Before I begin let me tell you this. I already wrote a review for this product below but after more use I came to a harsh conclusion.
The ease of use is great just edit a patch and put it where you want it.

LET ME TELL YOU IF I WAS JUST USING THIS IN MY BEDROOM IT WOULD GET A FIVE. TURNED UP LOUD THIS THING BLOWS!!!! I tried running this through my amp. IT sucks I am a hard rock player it has the worst distortion I have ever heard. It even sucks out of a good PA.
Although I said it is horrible I will gove it a three because the chorus is pretty cool and so is the echo and those type of effects.
And one more thing. TERRIBLE NOISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah I would rely on this but the only question is why would I want to use something that will make me sound less good than I really am?

I give this a low rating but I would have to say it is fun to mess around with and I use it out of a practice amp instead of my performance amp and it is great for a beginner. If you are a tone fanatic like me or are in a serious band dont buy this. Even if you think it sounds good in te store trust me, turn it up and you will be disappointed.

The unit is easy to use as far as editing patches is concerned however it takes a little time to get a good sound out of it. Some may argue that you can never get a good sound out of this unit however you have to understand this is a toy (something to have fun with) not a serious piece of sound gear. What can you expect for $100? The manual that comes with this unit is easy to read and understand.

It doesn't really matter what amp or guitar you are using with this unit because this unit does not enhance tone quality. If you are looking for quality effects this not the unit to buy, it's on the noisy side and sounds somewhat processed - especially the distortion settings, when you strum your guitar strings the resultant sound from the amp doesn't feel like it is coming from the guitar. Overall the effects are not very good however you can milk some good sounds out of this unit with a little tweaking, the delays, reverb and tremolo effects are useable.

I'm not sure how reliable this unit is. I'm having a problem with low headphone audio so I have my doubts about the build quality of this unit. It wouldn't be advised to gig with this unit without a backup.

This unit works okay for Rock however it is limited in its use for Country music. I've been playing for a couple of years and own both high and low end equipment. The RP100 is a low end piece of equipment however it comes in a very compact package with lots of features. In terms of performance, flexibility and value its good piece of gear to have fun with however if you are serious about the quality of your tone don't get this unit. I'm not a big fan of digital processors however they are very convenient and fun to use. Previously I owned a Korg digital effects proccesor - the Korg was a better unit in terms of tone quality. If I lost this unit I would look for something else with better tone quality - in fact I may give this unit to my daughter to use and stick to individual pedals.

Para ser un multiefectos, es bastante intuitivo, si lees un poco el manual, lo dominaras pronto, claro q demora sacar tu sonido preferido(con tantas opciones) pero se pueden sacar buenos sonidos. Puedes editar los patches facilmente al cabo de un dia de usarla, el manual ayuda mucho, es amigable. Pero en presentaciones de dia, es casi imposible modificar patches o ver la pantalla. Ademas tienes algunas pistas de bateria para jamear, un afinador q ayuda bastante (si no hay sol), y puedes enchufarlo en tu cuarto y usar los audifonos para ajustar tus patches y ensayar sin ayuda de un ampli, eso es muy bueno.

Uso una Epiphone, y el ampli es un Selmer. Empiezas a escuchar ruido al ir aumentando el uso de simuladores de pickups o los compresores. Pero en general el solo uso de lo basico(simuladores de amplis, de cabinets, reverb, chorus, delay, etc)no genera ruidos notorios. Los efectos de modulacion me parece q estan buenos, sin llegar a espectaculares. Gran variedad de opciones para editar cada uno, aunque no puedes escoger algunos juntos como chorus y detune. Pero si reverb+delay+algun otro. Ese "algun otro" puede ser o chorus, o detune, o wha-wha (horrible whawha), o pitch, o flanger, entre otros. Los distorsions son malos, el unico rescatable es el que simula un Marshall JCM900, aunque si estas buscando un sonido serio, como para grabar, no pienses que tendras el sonido del Marshall de Slash en una cajita. Solo es bueno, pero no excelente. ALgunos simuladores de amplis limpios, si me gustan, sin llegar a ser expectaculares. Bueno, luego de 3 horas de probar y probar configuraciones, logre un sonido bastante parecido al de la guitarra de Slash en Sweet Child (version original, no en vivo) Este patch lo debo estar publicando en la pg de Digitech en estos dias. Yo conecto el line out a line in de mi PC para grabar, y obtengo buenos resultados, las simulaciones de cabinets ayudan mucho a obtener un sonido real, aunque repito po enesima vez, que es un buen sonido, pero no super impresionante si buscas calidad profesional. Pero si quieres un sonido aceptable, bueno para presentaciones en vivo, y divertirte grabando en tu PC, esta excelente

Me ha pasado una vez q se cambio de patch solo, pero nunca en un concierto o ensayo. Parece que es de buena calidad, yo suelo cuidar muy bien mi gear.

Quize el pedal de expresion y no lo tenian. Aunque me recomendaron sitios.

Toco rock de los 70, 90, blues. Guns n Roses, Aerosmith, Metallica. La calidad del sonido al aumentar el volumen (si usas distorsiones de los patchs)decae , aunque no terriblemente. Por ello estoy pensando comprar un buen pedal de distorsion para ayudar a mi RP100 en la distorsion. Estoy pensando en el Guvnor 2. Y el RP100 lo usare para boost de volumen, y efectos en general, nada de distorsiones. Toco desde hace 8 anos. Si se perdiera, no compraria otro, buscaria otras cosas, no porque sea malo, sino porque ahora busco calidad de la mejor. Lo q me encanta es el hecho de no necesitar ampli para jamear en tu casa, poder grabar buenas pistas, y la facilidad de uso. En la pg de Digitech encontraras muchos patches. Odio los distorsions y el ruido al usar compresors o pickup simulation. Seria bueno q tuviera pedal de expresion (eso lo trae el RP200) Debo de admitir q me ha inspirado mas de una vez su sonido en mi cuarto.

Very simple to edit patches. You do have to read the manuel to find out what some of the abbreviations on the LED stand for but for the most part, its pretty self explanitory.

I run it through the effects loop of my Nomad 55 and it sounds great. I use it for subtle effects (mostly delay, chorus, and compression). The chorus in particular is AWESOME. Its one of the smoothest and most subtle choruses that I have ever used! The distortion sounds pretty fake, but what do you expect? My only complaint is that it is a bit noisy. Running it through the effects loop fixes this problem but I also use it sometimes in front of a POD when I go direct into the board. The noise is minimal so its not a big deal but its still kind of annoying.

Metal construction. MUCH better than the plastic ZOOM pedals that I have used. I've had it about 6 months and it hasn't failed me yet.

never dealt with em

Overall, its a great value. I used to think these things were pretty cheesy but this one has proved quite impressive. The biggest advantage of this thing over individual pedals is that you can write patches and use the footswitch to change em on the fly, which is something that's just not possible with separate units. Its also very easy to set up, as opposed to pedals that can be such a hassle sometimes. For such a cheap price, you can't lose.

Couldn't be easier to use the 40 presets that it comes with. Programming your own sounds is a little more involved, but read the manual and you can figure it out.

If you can't find some good sounds from this unit, then I feel sorry for you because you can't be satisfied. There are an unlimited number of different sounds this thing will make, some are better than others, and some I'll never use, but I can find an infinate combination of sounds that will work for any kind of music imaginable. I play mostly blues, but throw in some other stuff including classic rock and country rock. I'm playing an Epi Joe Pass and a Tele, through a SF Vibro Champ or a Blues Junior, and I am very happy with my tone, but this unit has opened up a whole new world.
I don't agree with the reviews that say the distortion sucks. Some of the sounds are somewhat digital sounding, but there are plenty of good ones on here, you just have to experiment to get the one you're looking for.

It's made of metal, and seems durable. I've only had it a few days, and I don't play in a band, but if I did I would certainly gig with it and not worry about it.

Haven't dealt with them, but the website is very helpful, with lots of user suggested settings to try.

This thing is a great value. It would cost a thousand dollars to buy individual pedals to do what this unit does. I'm having a ball with it. I bought it just as a toy, something to goof around with, but it's actually a great piece of equipment. You name an effect, and it's on here. You want to sound like Santana, SRV, you name it, this little bugger can do it.
I've been playing 23 years, and have owned a few pedals over the years, but the last few years have been playing just guitar, cord, amp. Now I'm getting sounds I never imagined before, and it's easy. If anything happens to it, I'll get another one, definately.

Wham-Bam New effect, easy as hell as long as you actually have a clue about EQ, Dist, and different syles of Effect. Hit left Button, lower number, Hit Right Button, higher number, A gerbil could use this..... as long as it was as intelligent as a 5 year old.

Sounds Grrrreat! you can get any kind of distortion with it, any kind of phaser effect, whatever you want as long as you know how to use it, it is possible to get. If your looking for an effects bank with lots of fancy things to play around with until you find 'your sound' then buy it, if your looking for a simple on/off distortion pedal, or a simple on/off effect, then its a waste of money, buy some boss pedals!

Mine has decided to go MENTAL! if i use it through a loud amp (i use a Hughes And Kettner Half Stack) basically if its used about 50W or more it goes mental and changes all the settings around, changes number, all while i'm playing so i wouldnt gig with it at the moment... then again i did buy it second hand (the person that had it before me never gigged with it and he says he only played through it twice) if it was new then sure i would, apart from it is plastic and it will be broken if you jump on it too much. If i had a back-up then yeah i would use it.

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Its great if your still searching, if like me you have found the sound taht you desire, dont bother with it. Although.... it is fun to play with, even if you dont gig or compose with it!

this unit is very rudimentry in fashion, however it is impossible to dial in the three knobs on the very first try. editing patches is very easy once you read the manual. getting a good sound is a different story, the unit only models amps not known to mankind but will get some sounds which may be tolerable. roll the treble down on your Les Paul type axe and explore the stack/analog delay, got some Page like tones. also dialed in a Run like Hell clone program using tweed, mininal flange, C1 on cab and diggi delay.

do not use: chorus, phaser, detune or compressor, these negate the already mediocre performance. also for some of the drives except when using cab positions. I use this with a practice amp only, does not sound good with my tube setup. a crybaby pedal will liven up this unit though.

i have had this for 2 years. i have taken this on camping trips and have had no problems. i would use this as a backup on a gig only with the power supply. this has been reliable for practicing.

I would only recommend it for practice situations. I wish it had better amp mod sounds. Anybody who has blinking lights on the unit better change the batteries when using batteries. keep it in a good storage place like the box it came in.

Yeah whatever. I hate the way you have to "catch" the setting on the knob before it changes the value. PODs do that too. it's just annoying.

Not good. Very processed digital tone by itself or through headphones directly into the unit. But... I got this as a gift from my wife and I was using a POD at the time for my home jamming set-up, so I was bound to find a good sound. And I did.. Set the RP100 on the Stack setting, lots of Bass, less mids and treble, cab simulator on 3A, a little reverb and delay, nothing else. Then go into a CabTone speaker simulator set on 4x12, then into a RP7 with some more reverb, eq and another cabinet simulator, and finally into quality headphones and viola instant Marshall stack, big ballsy hairy tone with smooth harmonics. A whole lot of monkey motion and the Cabtone costs as much as the RP100!, but like I said it was a gift.... Actually this set up sounds so good I sold the POD. Into a PA it sounds OK but not as good as the headphones. Moral of the story, keep plugging in stuff til it works, or save up and buy a tube amp and quit your bitchin'!

AA batteries? come on. I found out that the POD AC adapter works just fine for this as well, same voltage, roughly same amperage, been using it for a year, no problems. Cheesy packaging, plastic parts, basically a throw away til something better comes along.

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For a home set-up into headphones with the above mentioned other bits, pretty good. Otherwise by itself it's crap! My main set-up is a Les Paul into a Bogner. I'm waiting for a better modeling device to come along.

It is easy to use, probably the easiest multi-effect processor I've worked with. It's easy to edit and to work out. The manual is very helpful. It was easy to get the best sound possible out of it.

Have you ever broken wind into a microphone? No, seriousely! That's what I got from this. I'm not a fan of the whole amp modeling scene and this is just a big example. It carries no tone. Any guitar you play through it sounds the same. The delay, flanger, tremelo, and a couple reverbs are what I found useful. The stack modelis the only one I use but it still doesn't have the gonads to drive metal, get harmonics , or drive a solo. The chorus is bad and so is the phaser. Detuning effects are fun, but my amp can't get the lows to use it a lot and it is out of tune if you have it up above your pitch.

I can depend on the AA's to run out. Seriosely, this thing eats AA's like an obese 10-year-old at Old Country Buffet. Unfortunately I'm forced to use it w/o backup. The adapter specially made by Digitech is $20 and I accidentally lost mine.

Rock, Blues, ...
Played for 1.7 years, won't get another one. I'll eventually replace everything with individual pedals, but for the time, it was okay for me. For the price and the skill level I was at it was worth it but since I got my Brian Moore I'm needing some sounds w/definition.

Well I am surprised . At first glance it looks a little complicated but the manual is very descriptive and will help ou t a bunch.The only bit of advice I would say is if your a beginner on guitar I would start out with single effects because with this you need to know what your doing in order to tweak it perfectly. If you buy it I must say the manual helps a ton and explains everything perfectly.

I am currently using a strat and a gibson/ epiphone which kicks serious ass. Im playing out of a sundown a 50 boutique amp. Basically I like straight up stuff like creed disturbed godsmack and Most alternative I dont use too much of one effect at one time.But my favorite effect on here would have to be the chorus or the noise gate and compression oh yea and the mic placement options. The chorus is a little more difficult to use but if you tweak it right you should be fine. If I have one word of advice it would be dont overdue the effects or youll get too much of a sloppy sound. Themost usefull tools on this handy little product would definitally be the compressor the noise gate or mic option. Im pretty young but very serious about my music. I must say if you wanna sounds tons more proffesional and to get that proffesional tone try this hot kick ass little tool. But one last thing I strongly advise you to get another distortion pedal . the distortions on this sound good but there is not a big enough low end and there is only one volume channel which can cause problems.

Ive never dealt with the company and prolly will never have to, but Im expecting this thing should last a long time with its metal casing.

I would give this unit a ten because anything with this many features for such a low price is an excellent value . Although this is true you will need some good old stomp boxes such as a crybaby wah or ibanez smash box distortion pedal . Although there are a few things I dont like they arent enough to keep me from lovin it .

Editing patches is a breeze, but part of the criteria required for this review is "how easy is it to get a good sound out of it?"... Unfortunately, it's next-to-impossible to get a good sound out of it. Everything sounds grainy, lifeless, and sterile. The manual was decent, but if you candy-coat a piece of shit, it doesn't make it taste better.

Terrible. Weak. Unconvincing. The sounds you get from this pile are horrible. They sound like pre-packaged, vacuum-sealed snapshots (piss-poor ones at that) of a decent effect. Terrible.

Well, here's the product's one and only saving grace... the chassis is all completely metal, and the only plastic parts on the unit being the knobs/buttons/patch pedals... however, the only thing this amounts to is that this pedal will sound bad throughout the entire show/recording session with a great deal of consistancy, as it is too structurally sound for you to have the distinct pleasure of it dying.

Decent.

How long have I been playing? 9 years. Experienced? Definitely. Look kids, if you've never had a pedal before, of course this pile's going to come up roses, but if you've had ANY experience with analog/good digital effects, stay away from this one. It's a huge pile of shit.

this pedal is very easy to program and it sounds alot better than other digitech processors period.

This pedal has extremely good sound quality(24 bit 44.1 khz)studio quality,it sounds the best through Roland amps,especially a jazz chorus,ive gotten a pretty good rhoads tone out of the thing,but you have to spend some time tweaking it to get the best possible tones.It is worth it in the long run,the best sounding amp models are the marshall 900 and the johnson high gain,the rectified takes alot of tweaking to get a good mesa sound,but mesas sound like shit to me so i dont use use that particular amp model anyways.My setup=84 Gibson Flying V>rp-100>roland jazz chorus 90.....im done with my rack,this pedal does it ALL!

i gig with it all the time,its a keeper....

Im Rob,i mainly play metal and progressive(Yes,Ozzy Ozbourne,Vh,Motley Crue)ive ben playing for 16 years,im a marshall stun soloist and have won many guitar competitions(classical and rock)and this is the most advanced compact processor i have played through,its not a junker like alot of zoom shit is,the models actually sound like the genuine amps but heres the catch..YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE RIGHT AMP TO MAKE THEM SOUND GOOD(a very clean setting with alot of warmth and prescense,preferably an older fender tube amp or any roland amplifier above 40 watts,this pedal will not shine with any of the new marshall mgs or crate amps,due to the sharp clean tones that lack warmth and definition.The distortions are superior to the metalzone,tubescreamer,just about most of the novice pedals on the market...but you have to program the right cab settings to get that ultimate tone your looking for.Effects are all top notch,it is truly a rack in the box...very quiet,very dependable,it sounds beter than my old $1000 rack setup,which i recently sold after purchasing this pedal....

After daisychaining a few stomp-boxes together for a few years, it was nice to stumble across this product. Out of the box and experimenting, then recording & gigging with this bargain in no time whatsoever.

1996 Peavey Reactor (US Telecaster style guitar) & a Peavey "Tupelo" Accoustic/electric; through a Fender "Auto GT" amp. I have noticed just a "tad bit" of "white noise" through the house PA when I have plugged in direct, no problem with amp (where I had more controll on stage). I love the controll you have to tweak the settings of the effects, the phaser blows an MXR Phase-90 out of the water, excellent for getting sounds of Waylon Jennings (although not being able to mix in chorus or flange at simutaneously is a mild setback). Also dig the presets, although never named as-such, that emulate EVH, SRV, Thorogood, and Angus Young. Settings for accoustic guitars are awesome, great depth & warmth with chourses, reverbs & delays. The tuner is fine, but the LED's tend to jump around a little bit more than a dedicated digital tuner-that aside, it's nice just to mute & tune really quick in between songs without unplugging. Note for players playing into PC-based hard-disc recorders: Unless you have no problem boosting the sound in post, a pre-amp between RP-100 and recording source is advised for recording more subtle setting-based tones.

Good for gigging--I personally set up my own presets in groups that keep things a click away from each other, electric patches in one group, accoustic in another. Never had a back-up, I guess I'd finish the night "dry"!

Never had to deal with them, will grade on a simple, yet effective manual.

This is my first multi-effects unit, so without having anything to compare it to besides reviews from trade mag's & other players, I find this to be an essential part of my gear, on the stage & for recording. Versatility, modest price, all in a nice little package.

The RP-100 is extremely easy to use and get great sounds out of it. Editing patches is simple and straight-forward. The only drawback is that you have to start with one of the 40 factory-programmed patches, which isn't a big deal.
The manual is good, and even attempts to describe how a flanger, chorus, etc. works. Mine is revision 2, or at least is says r2 when it starts up.

The only ease-of-use problem I can think of is that it can take several stomps to get from one effect to another. If your song has more than 2 effects in it, then you might have a problem during live performances.

Using it with a 2002 Epiphone Les Paul Standards and an old Squier Strat.
The unit is not noisy at all, except on certain amp models, where I assume it is *supposed* to be noisy. It adds in the amp's characteristic hum, which is a nice touch, IMO.
Most of the factor effects are good, but it is so easy to customize them, that you can easily adjust them to your liking.
I'm using it with a simple Peavy RAGE amp, 15-20 Watts, I'm not sure. I have never heard such good sound come out of it!
I stumbled on a good Van Halen setting while customizing, and there seem to be plenty of parameters to get you the sound of the band you are looking for. DigiTech has a page with user-submitted patch settings, too.
The Auto-Ya effect is pretty silly, but might come in handy for one song in a lifetime! All the other effects are great.

The housing is built tough, with a metal casing on top. It is dependable when using an A/C power supply. I haven't tried it with batteries, yet. I'd probably at least gig with a distortion box as backup, 'cause electronics can screw up at any time, regardless of the exterior construction.

They have a good web page with user-submitted patches, but that's all I can say. For this, I'll give it a 8.

I play rock, a little metal, and acoustic strumming/picking. This pedal has effects for all my styles. I've been playing for 10 years, but not seriously until lateley. I've got the Epi Les Paul and Squier Strat, and a Peavey Rage amp.
If this was lost or stolen, I'd definitely get another one. I don't have the coordination to use an expression pedal just yet, so I'd probably stick with the RP-100.
I love the massive flexibility each effect has. It would be nice, however, to be able to add more than one "effect" to a patch.
I read a comparo on Musician's Friend, but I didn't actually try any out before buying one used on Ebay.
It helps me make music, for sure. It inspires me, because I can have a new sound when I get bored, and it spruces up the sounds coming out of my wimpy amp.

It's very easy, and it's manual is very friendly, pedals react at real time.

The knobs are cool, gives you the feeling that you're interacting with single pedals. It's a perfect ten because is the first processor that is friendly with impatient users.

One thing I hate of any effects processor is distortions. But this unit has a lot of them and they are really cool, however I believe that distortion must come from an external source, I actually use two dist. pedals to get a customized sound instead of the RP-100. That makes me have two more pedals of this unit for other purposes.

I was looking for a reverb-delay pedal, since Boss pedals are very expensive I considered the chance of buying a Zoom 505 or the RP-100. Zoom 505 is a toy, it's a beginners thing with limited settings, it doesn't have the features of a experienced axeman, I really think it sucks after I tried one.

So I tried the RP-100, and it had the features I wanted, more control over delay-reverb settings, and more control over modulations. Delays and reverbs have the sound quality of rack processors, 3 kinds of delays which are totally cool, with 2 secs of delays, that opens a lot of possibilities, just like Boss pedals and maybe better than them, 99% of feedback emulates the "hold" settings of Boss pedals. Reverb sounds are great too, maybe ten kind of reverbs, I only use Arena (low level but with a lot of decay, not noisy, but very deep), Spring and Room sometimes.

Modulations are great too, even when I don't use Flangers or Phasers, those are very good too, you can play all Smashing Pumpkins Phaser songs.

I would compare the chorus effect with the Boss Chorus Essemble. Very nice but not as psycho as church or Hammond organs, it is a great effect one of my favorites. The rest I can say that I don't dig them, they distort the sound of your guitar a lot, maybe you can rescue old cheap guitars adding some compressors, EQ., Pick-up type, amps and mic placement settings and a noise reduction thing. I actually try to make my sound the most natural possible, so I avoid the last effects mentioned.

Auto-yas (not interested), Envelope filters (cool wah sounds, not interested), Pitch Shifter (very nice, some cardingans are cool with it), Bend (cool when you want to sound like baritone guitars, it reacts at real time). The rest I can't remember them... Any other issue you can send me an email.

Tuner is great.

I can depend on it, I use it in gigs without backups. However I can easily play without it because my style doesn't require lots of effects.

Great customer support, I live in Venezuela and once I had troubles with a RP-6, I worte them and they helped me great. Their response took one day.

Great stuff, killer sound, easy handling, very good any style.

Fairly easy to use, and I like the sound of the effects very much, but it is a pain to experiment with in a gig.

To switch between program modes you have to keep pressing the program button. Example: you want to add chorus. You have to press the program button six times to get to the effects program mode. An if you press too many times, you have to go "around the horn" again.

If you are not experimenting during a gig, or you have enough time, the it's no problem.

If all you want to do is change the amp model or the volume or the gain, piece of cake, just turn the knobs.

If you have time, programming is super easy. Set it how you want, press the set button and pick a number slot to store it in.

I really like all of the amp models, and the effects. They sound great and they are really quiet when they are suppose to be. I tried out a Behringer V-Amp 2 that costs quite a bit more. I sent it back and kept the RP100. The V-Amp was really noisy, and when you activated the gate, it clipped the signal so that it sounded like mud.

I use it mostly for recording, and the sounds direct into a DAW are increadable . You can do so much with this unit. I can't belive it is such a low cost unit.

The problem with the unit is that it flavors the output to sound like an amp. When you put it into an amp, the amp is flavoring it again. This unit is phenomenal when used direct into a DAW or a PA. You can get it to sound great into an amp, but you need more than your basic amp. It has to have a real clean clean channel, and it has to have an effects loop. If you plug the guitar into the unit and then into the amp, it will sound good only at really low volumes.

The other problem, if you want to call it a problem is that it is a low cost unit, but they put features in it that are designed for the recording market also. Example: cabinet simulations. They are designed not to make your single speaker amp sound like a 4x12 cabinet, but to simulate the sound of a 4x12 cabinet with the mic placed in different positions. For us recording junkies, this is great because if you do any recording you know the more microphones you use, the more ambient noise is introduced into the recording. This way you get a mic'ed sound without using a mic and all the problems that mics introduce.

This though, confuses your non-recording user.

The one thing I hate is the pitch shift effect. It takes the original signal and either raises or lowers the note and then re-mixes it with the original signal. It should allow you to remove the original signal, but you can't do that. (example: simulated Bass)

Also, I think they could have left out the acoustic amp model. It does not work really well. I have gotten it to sound similar to an acoustic guitar, but I had to do a lot to it. Had to used HB pickup simulation, and add chorus, with EQ bass at about 6 and the mid and treble all the way up. Strange enough it sounded better without reverb.

Solid, no problems yet.

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I play mostly rock, pop, jazz, and rock boarding on the edge of country and have been at it for about 30 years. It does a good job for me.

I don't know if I would replace it with the same unit if it were stolen because of the pitch shift thing, but if that were not a problem I would, or with an RP200.

I like it the way it is, the only things I don't like are the acoustic simulator and the pitch shift. Fix those and it's 99% perfect.

To make it 100% perfect, rather then having to press the program button multiple times, make direct access buttons. Example: press the EQ button and the three knobs now adjust the EQ. Press the Reverb button and the knobs now adjust that.

I would be in heaven then.

Pretty easy, especially compared to a POD. Editing the presets was fun, and real easy.

I use a PRS standard, fender japanese strat, and fender mustang, into either a Marshall JCM 800 1959, or a VHT 50 watt power amp with a Marshall JMP-1 preamp. The JCM goes into a Mesa 4x10, the VHT into a Mesa 2x10. I have a small collection of vintage effects, and have always been skeptical of these digital modeling things. I've tinkered with them in shops, but never had the opportunity to let one rip and tweak it to the max. My girlfriend bought this for me for my birthday, so... Some of the effects are nice. Especially the flanger. The delays are a little weak, but there's like eleven of them, so you may find something you like. Now, to the bad. The acoustic simulation is horrible, I wonder how they thought they could pull that off. The Whammy effect is also bad. The amp models are brittle, cheap imitations of the real deals, except for the Mesa model, because you can't get a worse sound than a Mesa already has;). But my biggest complaint it the cab modeling. Does anyone really think that plugging this box into your amp with one 12" will make it sound like a miked 4x12? If you do, you're fooling yourself. But the flange, phaser, and raotary speaker effects are nice.

I haven't gigged with it. It eats batteries, so buy the power supply.

Haven't dealt with them.

I usually play analog effects, an electric mistress, small stone, big muff, and fender blender. I think these things go for about $100, so a beginner or someone on a budget could get kicks out of it. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. Who knows. I will say it's much better than the POD, and costs about 150 bucks less. I'm not a big fan of modeling processors, but I was suprised by some of the effects. If anything, get it for the great flange, phase, Leslie, and compresser. Not for modeling

I am going to make 2 reviews of this product: one today and one in about 6 weeks when I am more familiar with it's workings. Suffice to say, by reading the thin but useful manual and the digitech website you are well on your way.

I play Squier Tele w/Vintage Noisless Pickups and a Fender Princeton. NOT A BIT of noise....anywhere. I think all of the presets could stand some tweaking, but this unit is so simple, as soon as you are comfortable you will WANT to start tweaking.

A few things appear useless. Pickup modelling, the Acoustic simulator, and the Auto Ya features. I think the time and energy spent on creating thjose wouldve been better spent elsewhere. I need to spend more time with the cabinet/mic modelling before I really know how it can benefit me.

Highlights? 27 different types of delay (inc. 2 sec infinite repeat), rotary, tremolo, and envelope filter. All of those are amazing and comfortably tweakable.

Needers of quality clean sounds with love this. GREAT sims of tweed amp and blackface.

I hope it's reliable. I have had it a week. I will admit to heeding the cautionary tales in earlier reviews about weak pedals and LED madness. The store where I bought it did mention they had one come back with sloppy pedal work. I am planning to use this for gigging.

First rate. I've emailed them asking questions about patch libraries (on their site) and such and they have often emailed back within the hour with helpful info.

I play on cruise ships. I bought this to have a lot of bang in one pedal. I think this is easier to use and in many ways better than the POD or V-Amp, which is amazing considering the price. The tuner works great with my Tele but not so with my other guitars. Weird.

If you are shopping more multi-effects in ANY price/ability range, the RP100 MUST AT LEAST be a consideration. Simply amazing.

I've reviewed this product below, and thought that I'd add an update. Having used this for many months now for many different applications, I've come to be even more impressed with it.

I just finished a recording project where I used two Shure SM58 mics as drum overheads into two different RP100's with the amp/speaker emulation off, no effects, and I used a little compression and reverb. The bass drum mic went into a Bellari tube mic preamp. The drum sound was AMAZING! Best drum sound I ever got. I used the RP100 for all guitar and bass tracks. I also used the RP100 for the vocal mic, again just using the compressor and reverb. Sounded fantastic. So, if you're just using yours for guitar your missing half the fun. This really is a do-all box.

I still use tube amps on the gig, although I have used this straight into the PA for smaller gigs. I use it religiously for all my acoustic gigs though, again using compression and reverb. After many months of use, both stage and studio, I've never had any trouble with this device.

Couldn't tell you.

This may be the most underrated device ever, when you consider all of it's non-electric guitar uses. It's great for bass, drums, and vocals too.

this is the most terrible piece of equipment i have ever used. literally. and for a point of reference, 8 years ago when i started playing guitar, i had a no-name guitar running through a peavey 15 watt amp. it only had 5 strings. i want to give it a negative 10, but cannot. feel free to recalculate the averages with a -10 in place of the 1 i had to give it.

terrible. impossible to program mods. screen jumps around schizophrenically. piece of absolute shit X 100.

sucks chrome off of hitches.

fuck digitech and the horse they rode in on. at least they have DOD. on yeah, they suck too. id be disappointed if my shit came out looking like this.

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.

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.