DigiTech RP-100

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

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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.

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).

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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.