DigiTech RP-100

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.

NA

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).

n/a

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.