DigiTech RP-300

It's hard to understand at first just screw with it a while you'll get the hang of it. I didn't have the manual when i got it. It took me about to weeks to know everything it does.

I have a Gibson Epiphone sunburst guitar i put a DOD fx13 Gonkulator after a boss Overdrive distortion. I usually use the Gonk's distortion but sometimes boss. I follow those off boss chorus not a super not ensamble just a chorus then an Electro Harmonix Small Stone 4800 along with a flanger then the platform. The modulators on this thing are great except the phaser. Then again it's on a platform of course you will hear the vox. If you screw around with the expression catagory you can create LFO skips that arent quite as cheezey sounding as tremolo you know a little bit more modern. If you have a whammy or octave on (pitch) you can play with a trigger or sq and get all these funkey lil techno beeps that sound robotic or like aliens trying to speak. I love the whammy i frequently put it on a double octave up and it sounds very harsh great for noise breaks in songs it's very atonal and sounds like a robot blowing up. I love all the pitches because i like playing alot from the incubus CD S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and they crank out the funk metal but like to take noise breaks in a certain shade of green and favoriate things i find the whammy very helpful because on favoriate things it sounds like a one signal octave even though he has a boss octave. The only thing i hate about this pedal is the distortion ahhhhhh. It compares to an overdrive on with an output plug to a cassete recorder fit in with a transfer outlet very lo fi and crappy. It's one of the worst distortions i've heard on a platform and i know that you shouldn't expect much on one but seriousely good thing i didnt sell my distortion pedals to buy this. If your planning on doing that you will kick yorself forever. I would downgrade majorly for this incredibly bold flaw but the mod's, sustains, equalizers delays and reverbs save it because it's mod's are the best ones i've heard and have more then most boards despite the phase. It's easy to get sounds of S.C.I.E.N.C.E. outta here with the LFO's and Expressions and totally new sounds i've never heard a guitar do. Bottom line is this thing rox besides the distortions it's prely one of my smartest effect buys ever.

Well you need a AC so lol. I can depend on it tho unless i leave it on a few days then i need to restart

Nope never dealt with them except for the online

This thing rocks except for the distortion. Thats worthless but it's other qualities kick it up. It's a fantastic value for the money i spent hahaha

HARD AT FIRST, BUT THEN IT GETS EASIER AS YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING.

SOUNDS LIKE CRAP WITHOUT AMP CAB, AND SOUNDS HORRIBLE WITH HEADPHONES, BUT ONCE IT IS ROUTED THROUGH AN AMP, AND EQUALIZED PROPERLY YOU CAN GET THE *********BEST************ SOUNDS WITH IT. I WAS PLAYING WTIH THE LFO WITH THE YA YA, AND MADE IT SAY WOE, LIKE IN THAT ALICE IN CHAINS SONG, I ALSO GOT A FUNNY OH-YEAH SOUND... IT MAKES EVERYONE LAUGH, BUT THE DISTORTION WITH THE RECTIFIER IS JUST SICK!

I GOT A CRAPPY ONE...MY MID LEVEL KNOB, ONCE IT GETS TO 99, STARTS HAVING A 'SEISURE'AND GOES ALL OVER THE MAP, THEN AT 0. i COULD SEND IT BACK, BUT I GOT IT AUTOGRAPHED BY ZAKK WYLDE, AND A BUNCH OF OTHER GUYS. I HAVE TO KEEP THIS...I HAVE NO CHOICE...SO I SAY IT IS AWESOME.

NEVER HAD TO DEAL WITH THEM ON THIS PRODUCT, BUT ONCE I E-MAILED THEM JUST FOR FUN TO SEE IF THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE A TALKBOX FOR THEIR X-SERIES PEDALS, BUT THEN THEY E-MAILED ME BACK SAYING THEY ALREADY HAVE ONE CALLED THE TALKER........THE TALKER IS ACTUALLY A VOCODER USED IN TECHNO MUSIC...WHAT MORONS. ANYWAYS DIGITECH ROCKS!

THIS THING IS JUST GREAT. I AM THINKING OF BUYING THE NEW GNX4...YES GNX4 (4), BUT I AM ATTATCHED TO THIS. I JUST CANNOT LET IT GO. SO I GIVE IT A 10, AND BY TYPING THIS REVIEW MAKES ME WANT TO KISS IT!

OH YEAH, I MADE SOME CASE FOR THIS, SO IT'S ALL WOODEN, EXCEPT FOR THE KNOBS, PEDALS, AND SCREEN...LOOKS REALLY COOl!

The digitech is sometimes a pain to use, but with enough hours spent tweaking the patches you can get a good sound out of it. The manual is also helpful for understanding how the wah-pedal can manipulate dly levels, rotary speeds, and such. The main problem I have with it is when I'm using the wah-wah pedal, I sometimes have my foot to far off the side, thus hitting the channel button. Yet, the v-switch is extremely helpful if you are switching between a wah solo and to non-wah rhythm.

It definitely needs banks to separate your patches, but that can be solved by lining up patches according to your setlist.

Overall, it is a good pedal, if you put enough time into it. Yet, the amp models are too limited, and the cab option just sounds weak when it is put through a fender ultimate chorus, or even recorded. Because it dums the fullness of the sound.

I'm using a high-end samick (2 hum, 1 single) with a Fender Ultimate Chorus 2x12. And I must say the pedal sounds more complete and full in its patches through headphones. Effects are somewhat lessened through any amp. Yet, can be brought back somewhat to the norm *headphones, through a slight gain. The main distortion I'm using now has no compression or noise gate, (because these weaken the signal) behind it, and is put at about a 13-15 gain setting, with no cab. I use the Stack amp model at about 30 in level with a Master at 50. I do this to keep the patch from overdriving.

Rectify, is extremely noisy. Feedbacks constantly, and may only be used most likely in a recording situation.

Rotary effect is awesome, as well as delay, and panner. I sometimes use these with the stereo option.

Distortions; however, leave you in a rut, because it's hard to manipulate the patch in order to get something decent. The clean amp models are the shit though, they can make you guitar sound ten times more brilliant with just a turn of the knob.

I can depend on it, yet it sometimes has a nervous breakdown, and the guitar signal is sometimes affected when switching from a dly patch to a clean patch. I wish the inputs were placed on the sides of the gadget, cos' when wahing you can get your guitar cord in between the pedal and the machine itself. Thus, leaving you fiddling with your foot trying to move the cord, so you can switch off the pedal or hit the higher ranges. I would also like to have some kind of power supply input which locked in some fashion, to keep my bassist from tripping over it and pulling it out.

I don't think I would need a backup, you could kill someone with it. But, what is needed is for this blasted machine is a decent tuner. It will drive you nuts, believe me man.

Never had do deal with them.

I've been playing seven years running now, and the music particulary pertains to a mix between punk/ska/alternative/folk/blues/and of course rock n' roll. I own lots of other gear, but if I had to say just one I liked for it's ease of use it would be the Zoom GFX606. If it were stolen I would probably just by a pedal like a marshall jackhammer, or bluesbreaker. I love the pedals channel select, I hate the tuner. I compared it with the expensive Yamaha DG stomp, but got this instead because digitech makes nifty looking pedals.

It is a very self explicit piece of gear. After a quick glance to the manual I got the general idea of how to make my own sounds. However, if you are a begginer with effects, it will take you a couple of months to really achieve the sound that you dreamed about some crazy night.

I am using a Yamaha RGX 420 (ordinary not Drop 6) guitar , and a Gibson- Epiphone Les Paul Guitar with my RP 300 and an (an?) Ibanez TB 15r amp (my first!) . At first i couldn't get any really usefull sound, there are a lot of presetes that have "interesting" sounds, but nothing that really sound like a guitar should sound. The Rerverbs, Delays are realy nice. the compressor and the noise gate are Awesome (i've tried this with a lot of noisy, cheap, crappy guitars and i can make them sound decent). However the distortion .... the 12 "amp models" that come with this totally suck... unless you use a nice feature called "cab" . I play metal (Dream Theater, metallica, nightwish), Funk (REd hot chili peppers) and some rare things (NIN) and i say that it really take time to get what you want. You can get a nice "low FI" , "artificial" sound for things like NIN of Porcupine Tree, but for metal I think it is not just enough (unless you have some decent Amp) although the Rectifier model with some 4*12 cab can do some good stuff i think it is not enough.

Here it becomes tricky. Overall it is as solid as granite... except fore those blue footswitches. AFter some little time (a month o so) it happens that one of more of them stops working, as if it didn't clicked how it should. However, this is a minus problem, after three journeys to the customer support I realized i could fix this very easily. Just open it (be careful, do not tocuh anithing!) And gently remove the screws for the footswitch part, and you will see like a butoon that the footswicht should push, just play aropund with the buttom some time, re screw the back and you are ready to go.

I bought it a Mexico City (Music City store) and gave me 1 year of warranty and the guy who helped me was the one who told me how to repair the footswicth thing, really helpfil.

It is really usefull for a begginner, really cheap and has everything you need to understand how effects works and how to begin you endless quest for tone. However, if you are a bit more experience should try perhaps some of the GNX, more money, more features.
The only thing i would love to have in the RP 300 , is some kind of footswihcth so you do not have to put your effects togetehr, that you can jump form presset 1 to presset 48 without going all the way

Appeared very simple to use, just plug it in and fire it up. Unit came with power supply but no manual. I got it running in just a few minutes. The interface is pretty intuitive. Everything is labeled and functions as expected. There's lots of knobs and buttons but you really can't screw things up by playing around.

This unit was purchased as a "blem" from Musicians Friend. Cosmetically prefect, but it has been returned and I can tell you why, the sound was just awful. Many effects were extremely "noisy" with a constant "crackle" going on. Some effects didn't work at all, some worked sporatically. Yeah, OK, I probably got a lemon, but somebody somewhere isn't testing these things the way they are supposed to.

It is built solid, that's for sure. The entire housing, with the exception of the plastic pedals and the display panel is metal. If it was working right, there may be nothing like it. But I will always have it in my mind that, as solid as it was, it was sounding terrible. Something inside is pretty fragile. The only way I would play in public with this is if this was my backup, and my primary unit failed.

Never tried Digitech, just called Musicians Friend up and asked for an RA number so I can return it for a refund. Interesting, I was just looking at the specs for the RP100A on the Digitech website and there are several errors concerning that unit's specs. Even they don't know the products that well. Basically, I'm out 15.00 for postage to return the thing.

Not playing too long again after a 30 year vacation. Play a lot of British invasion, Tull, Stones, classic stuff, Bob Segar, Eagles, no metal, etc. Play Fat Strat, Tele, etc. For this thing, if it was insured, I'd pay someone to steal it. Seriously, I know people who love Digitech and I have no specific problem with them. This is a faulty unit, not a faulty design or company. It sure appeared loaded with features and abilities. At this point, I do not know which way I will go, stick with single pedal effects and have a minefield in front of me, or go with some multi-effect system. The jury is still out.

Really easy to use! I live a couple of hours away from the nearest guitar center, and on the way home I read the manual. When I go home I plugged it in and just started going at it! Obviously it took a while to dial everything in right, but there were no headaches at all.

I run everything through a Carvin AG100... which is *technically* an acoustic amp... but since I'm using a digital amp modeler I want the cleanest sound possible. Anyway - this thing does just about anything you'll need it to. In fact... when I decided to drop it from my rig for reasons I'm about to go into, this was the biggest dilemma I had.

The footswitches broke after mid-heavy usage... I didn't play more than a dozen gigs with it! Maybe I was just too used to Boss reliability... but it was crazy! And then, about a month after getting it fixed, a different footswitch broke, and then some point after that, the first footswitch broke again. Very aggravating. I'm looking into the more robust GNX series. But I DEFINITELY would not play a gig without taking a backup. I own the Vocal 300 as well, and the SAME EXACT thing happened!

It was good - but the repair center people were Extremely aggravating. Not the Company's fault though, and their internet correspondence was prompt and helpful. Digitech is a great company.

This thing could most likely do just about anything you need it to. And the delays on this thing are awesome. More so than anything else I've used. I would most likely get something else if it was lost or stolen... I dunno.. I just thought I'd let you prospective buyers know that the footswitches have a *major* problem with reliability.

If you're looking for simplicity, search no more my friend, 'cuz it doesn't get any easier than this. Just press 1 button and start turning knobs. Plus, the matrix is so easy to understand, you won't even need to touch the manual to get started (OK, this is a bit exagerated; there are some functoins that need to be studied, but nothing that a 2-minutes reading won't solve). The ONLY thing I don't like 'bout it is that you have to "run" on the footswitches if you want to travel from patch 2 to 30. Didn't the think about banks? But if you're smart enough and have your movements well-planed you'll put the patches you need to use in a song right next to each other. I'm DEAFINITELY giving it a 10

I have to say that even though you can create great "Pink Floyd-like" sounds with it, SOMETIMES it can be a bit noisy, but don't worry, if you put it in your lap it will feel like a kitty. If you asked me, I preffer those realy deep, introspective, head-twister sounds (like Pink Floyd, or Incubus), sounds that the RP 300 reproduces greatly.

Don't be fooled by its looks. That pedal is a rock (if you are a HUMAN BEING and don't start using it for your aerobics classes)

Sorry. Couldn't say. Hope's good, but I'd be lying if I said anything.

I think this is a great pedal. As I said before, it is SO easy to use that you'll love it from the first moment. Before I bought it, somebody told me about the ZOOM GFX-4 and I started making comparissons to see which one was the best to suit my needs. After reading both manuals downloaded from the web, I went for the RP 300 without hessitation, not only for being so user-friendly, but also because the great effects it has, such as the YA-YA, SINTH TALK, TRIGGERED FLANGER and PHASER, the kick-ass distortions, delays, choruses and so on. I would be a real gerk if I said that this is the greatest pedal in the whole world, but I can say that it's a really good step in the right direction. I would put it in the third of five steps (the first being just your guitar and amp, and the fifth being Steve Vai's racks)

Everything is really easy to use, Im glad I purchased it for sitting around the house. It has all your effects such as wah, phaser, detuner, chorus, flange blah blah. For me it gets a little confusing on some things but everything is pretty much self explanitory. Good Pedal.

Im running my Fender Standard Strat (Soon to be a Gibson SG!!) through this into my practice amp which is a crate mx15. I dont care about what amp I buy because to me, it has some good amp simulators. One thing you can't do with this pedal is turn the overdrive on on your amp, you wont hear crap. I get the sound of Iommi, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix everything. You can get the patches at the digitech website by the way. I am planning on purchasing another wah and eventually i will sell this pedal because the wah is fake compared to a real thing but what do you expect? It's all MIDI I believe and it's pretty darn good.

This is very dependable, I stomp on the expression pedal hard to hit the V Switch and it's great, I've had it for six months and so far I haven't had any problems with it.

I've never dealt with the company and I don't plan to.

I didn't get the rp300, I got the rp300a but it is definantley worth it, I've only been playing for a year and a few months but I know that this is pretty good quality for what it's meant to do. The only thing they can improve is the talk box thingy is pretty crappy but I didn't even expect that effect to be on it. I play mainly rock and some blues. I like using my guns n roses patch when I play Sweet Child O' Mine, it sounds perfect, get the patch at http://www.digitech.com it has a Pickup Simulator so My Strat sounds thicker. When I first started, I was gonna get the rp-100 or something but I'm glad I waited and got this one, definantley worth it! If it got stolen I dunno if I would by it again because I would really like to get individual pedals because they are the real thing. I really like this for at home when your practicing though because It's all in one box.

I've had the RP300 for over a year now (resisted the temptation to add a review before I'd really used it). I play in a semi-professional 80's (UK) cover band....Spandau ballet, Duran Duran, Wham etc.

I can't really fault the RP300 for ease of use. Within about 30 mins you'll have it worked out, and the table based patch editing works fine. The manual is reasonably good. I'd give it good marks for ease of use. One thing however is that it's very easy to accidentally press two foot switches at once and end up in Learn a Lick mode - not good in the middle of a gig.

Also there are only 40 user patches, which may be fine for some but I use a lot of patches - I play covers so for each song I'm trying to get as close to the original sound as I can. Restriction on number of patches is the main reason I'm considering another unit at this time.

I'm running a squier strat into the RP300 and straight into a Peavey Bandit set on the clean channel Note - as you can see, nowadays I generally use the cheapest gear I can get hold of. For years I've carted round Gibsons, Fenders, Marshalls, and Mesa Boogies to Gigs and constantly worried about getting them damaged or stolen. Then I realised that your average punter hasn't got a clue what gear you're using and is too drunk to notice the tonal quality anyway - so now I use cheap gear and don't have to worry about it...the fact that I'm playing 80's britpop helps as well (not a great era for classic guitar!!)

Having said that, playing a set of 80's covers requires virtually every guitar sound you can think of (including all the weird ones that usually no-one uses, so the RP300 scores there - it's really got everything that I need - even the digital whammy pedal was useful on one track.

The sounds are fine and perfectly usable for what I do. Chorus/reverb are good, overdrive sounds are a little synthetic but as I've said before, your average punter won't tell the difference anyway.

Hmmm - not sure I'd bet my life on this thing. A bit plastic, and the smaller buttons have a habit of getting stuck under the facia panel when you press them in. I've used it for a year and it's still Ok but then again I'm generally not too heavy handed/footed with my gear - I suspect some people could trash this pedal fairly quickly.

I seem to have one really annoying fault in that on one of my patches - it always seems to default to maximum amp volume. Even if I edit the patch, lower the volume, save it, the next time I come to use it it's jumped to max again. Really annoying - however that's only happened with one patch.

Never dealt with them. Web site wasn't too bad - had an online copy of the manual and a PDF file showing how all the factory presets are constructed.

For cheesy 80's music and a cheap expendable bit of gear, this is perfect for me. The only thing I'd ask for is more user patches. If it got stolen I'd probably get something with more patches, maybe the Zoom, or a Boss GT6 if I could get one a little cheaper. At the end of the day though, this little box has helped me earn a lot more money than it actually cost me, so can't complain!!

Pretty easy. wasent too complicated at all. the only thing i found hard to use was the whole recording deal on it

iam using my fender strat and a yamaha 100w amp (hope to up grade in amps soon!). it can be pretty noisy, but it really is a good noisy! i like the effect rectfy, i belive it is called. and limpy. i can get quite close to my favorite artists, they are metallica.haha. and i can get pretty close to james hetfeild's sound and kind of kirk hammet's.

i can depend on this, sure. you know, this is the first and only pedal i have ever had so i cant really compare it. but it is reliable. on a gig i would bring a backup if i had one but that is because i bring a backup for every thing just to be on the safe side

i never had to deal with the company! and i never got an upgrade or got it repared.

i play metal(lots of it) and it matches it fine. i also play blues and it works for it great. i have been playing for 4 years now. and iam told iam good. i think iam pretty good. and i told you all my gear.i would probly buy it again if it were ever stolen, but there is a good chance i would buy something else to compare really. I wish it had an easyer to use recording system. but overall it is great!no it doesnt get in the way. it helps make my music, i love it! i want to get the 400 because it has alot more features.