DigiTech RP-300

this suck is actually pretty easy to use, got knobs like stomp boxes....

has some pretty cool effects....not everything is great though, but what'd ya except..it's only $350 (CAN)....haha
needs a lot of tweaking to make it sound good...i personally think that this pedal has good distortions for big solo's...other than that it's ok...

umm...wah pedal already makes this weird sound as it's gonna break...but it looks alright...

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alright pedal...for those who want some cool effects and not looking for serious quality in the sound..anyway if u were looking for some good quality sounds, u'd wouldn't look at a pedal that's priced at $350 CAN....but overall for the price, i'm pleased..

Pretty easy unit to use. Havent started editing the patches yet however the manual covers it pretty good. only have had it 2 days.

I use emgs so there is not much if any noise at all. Most of the stuff is usable. Im in an industrial band, so Im sure Ill be able to use even the wierdest sounds. I plug my emg81/85 loaded Ibanez RG 470 into this then into my Marshall VS100 combo. I like the sound I get. Thats pretty much all that matters. The only thing I dont like is that it adds delay to everything, but you can edit the patch so it can take the delay out.

Looks like I can depend on it. Id gig without a back up.

I play Industrial, Metal, Hard Rock, and Blues. It works great for me. If it were lost or stolen Id buy it again. I dig it. Sweet ass value for 200 bucks. I recommend it.

Day 1: Amazingly easy to get started, out of the box. About half
of the presets were useable for music i play (classic rock,
hard rock, metal, alternative.)
Day 2: Gathered some settings off of the net, easily programed and
tweeked them and had some custom settings of my own!
Day 3: Started creating my own patches/settings...so simple to
create and tweek.

So it took me only 3 days (only playing a few hours a day) to find sounds that were perfect for me...VERY EASY TO USE

Only gripe: I have size 15 feet....those little tiny foot switches are damn hard to negotiate with shoes on (and i hear this from other people w/ normal sized feet to). I find myself hitting multiple buttons at once, going into bypass or learn a lick mode alot by accident...got to be very careful or play barefoot!

I was expecting a little better sound quality out of it. Amp modelings are very good (but dont think there gonna sound exactly like the real thing.) Effects are decent (not quite like Boss Stomp Boxes) sound better with the volume turned all the way up (creating a problem for my regular nightime use). The unit produces a very loud output that is hard to tweek into a good sounding medium level. A little to much crunch and gain on alot of the amps that isnt easily tweeked. For the price though, very, very good.

ehhh.....had it only a few days but it doesnt exactly seem like a tank...looks better suited for practice and light road use....not world tour material.

Digitech has a nice little website, but the problem is: the RP-300 is not represented well. No Patch library specifically for the RP-300 (forced to use the rp-100 and rp-200 libraries). There is a users forum, but it is email based so i get atleast 2 dozen emails a day that i do not want asking for wiring schematics, or how to find that REO Speedwagon or Captain Beefheart sound. They will respond to your emails in about 2 days time, fairly decent response time.

Overall...it is a very decent unit for the price. All my gripes i have with it cannot be offset by the affoardable price of this unit. Better than spending thousands for a few amps and stomp boxes. Once more users have this unit, then we will all be able to trade some patches and help eachother out. On that note...email me if ya know a good place to find patches and settings for this thing.

I have never used an effects processor before . . . and I had NO troubles getting TONS of sounds out of the RP-300. I haven't tried editing patches yet, but it seems pretty easy. The manual is very short, but seems to cover everything.

I'm using a Washburn Maverick 6 string, and playing through a Crate GFX-15. (Practice amp). The effects always sound great, but some of them are kinda dumb. (I don't know where people would use them . . if you want sound effects, use a keyboard :)

I really like the amp modeling. . . You can get some great sounds !

I haven't had it long enough to rate.

Digitech's website is pretty complete . . . but I've never had to call them.

I like to mess around with all kinds of types of music. I'm not a very good player. But, this processor makes me sound really good.

It isn't very often that a product actually exceeds your expectations, but this one exceeded mine.

One of the little features that I didn't think I would care about is the tuner. There are so many times when I'm trying to play along with music that I don't want to bother with detuning. Espically, with my crappy tuners that only tune to EADGBE. So, to do anything besides a drop-D is a royal pain. (I have to fret it to find a note that my tuner will tune to).

Having a built in tuner lets me detune to ANY tuning, in a couple of minutes. Lately, I've been playing along with Cold, Just Got Wicked, and the distortion matches really well with the song . . . I actually sound like I know what I'm doing :)

Tres facile a utiliser, l'acces aux differents parametres est tres simple

J'utilise une Charvel CH-4 (2 simples bobinages et un hambuker) avec un combo Marshall Valevestate 40 W, ou directement branche sur la table de mixage de mon porta studio Tascam 644 (avec le simulateur de HP). Les sons sont superbes, les presets exploitables tel quels.
Une critique, le simulateur acoustique n'est pas terrrible...

Je joue du blues, du rock, du hard, depuis une vingtaine d'annee.
Avant d'acheter mon rp300, je possedais un digitech RP1, et je ne regrette pas le changement!

Very easy to use right out of the box. One suggestion. Read the manual before you do anything. It's very useful. Editing presets to your own taste is very easy to do. I thought it would be real chore at first but after 5 minutes or so I was making my own personal presets no problem.When you power up the unit it tells you the firmware revision (mine is 1.0) I didn't have any trouble getting a good sound out of it.

I'm using an American Telecaster with this unit running into a Fender Princeton 65 amp. Not noisy at all. Especially if you use the noise gate feature. Very useful for certain noisy effects. I've only had it a few days but I've yet to notice any weak sounding effects out of it. Very pleased with the sound I'm able to get out of this unit. I'm really into Oasis and I had no problem re-creating Noel's live crunch with this unit. I have one preset called Oasis and the next one up from it called Lead which sounds remarkably like the lead guitar sound Noel uses for solos live. The secret to a good overdrive crunch with this unit is fine tuning the amp modeling with the right amount of gain and EQ. With a bit of tweaking you shouldn't have a problem re-creating the sound of any band or artist with this effects box. I was very impressed with one of the presets called "swell" Gives a very rich full sounding chorus effect with volume swell and cool delay. None of the effects are weak in my opinion. Like I daid before the key to getting the right sound is tweaking the presets to exactly what you want. With a little time and patients you'll get the sound you're looking for.

I've only had it for 2 days so I can't really comment on it's reliability. I would gig with it but I'd use a back-up for no other reason than to give myself piece of mind. Looks like a well made unit. Solid metal casing.

Haven't needed to deal with them and hopefully I won't have to. I was happy to have been able to register online and not have to mail in that registration card.

I'm very happy with this unit. I'm able to get the sounds from my fave bands like Oasis, Green Day, Travis, Stereophonics. I've been playing for 11 years. I don't own a lot of equpment. I have a Fender American Telecaster and a Fender Princeton 65 amp. If it were stolen I'd go out and buy the same unit again as soon as I had enough money. I love the ease of editing the presets. I love the drum machine that is built in. It has like 15 or so different drum loops to practise to all with adjustable tempo. I Love the expression pedal. Totally adjustable and very useful. I love all the different things you can control with the pedal such as gain and volume and of course wah and whammie. What do I hate? Nothing, but I do find that most of the factory presets kind of useless. Most of them are outrageous Glam metal effects from the 80's. I also wish you could custom set all 80 presets and not just 1-40. I find this unit definately helps me make music. I can make any sound I could dream of with this thing. It truly is a total effects package. You really can't go wrong with this thing.

This thing is set up in a matrix sort of fashion. It's easy to make changes. You Just press 'Select' until you get to the effect type you want, then turn knobs to make the desired changes, then press 'Store'. That's it! It's easy to get a good sound, but study all the parameters, (there's a whole lot), then with patients, you can dial in an excellent sound. It's easy to ignore things like mic/cabinet placement setting, but with patience, you can dial in your sound. There's a lotta depth to this unit! You don't need the manual to begin editing patches, but I suggest you do. The manual is short and sweet. Take the time to read it and you'll be more armed to get an even better sound.

This thing compares favorably with units costing $150 more. Seriously. Digitech has this AudioDNA DSP (Digital Signal Processor) that rocks everybody else's socks off! They got a winner on their hands. Even the RP-100 and RP-200 have this chip, and they sound just as good! I had both, now I have the RP-300 and I'm very satisfied!

I play an ESP LTD M207 and Epiphone Les Paul classic 7 string through a Peavey Ultra 212. After having gotten this RP-300, I exclusively use the clean channel on my Ultra. Don't get me wrong, the Ultra is an excellent amp, check out my HC review of the Ultra 212. But I run through the clean channel to avoid the effect pedal dance while on stage! I rely on the RP-300 for all my sounds, including a rectifier sound that the RP-300 does so well. I love hearing that squeal when I do pinch harmonics. The PR dishes out what I want to hear!

All the standard effects are there, and a few exclusive to DigiTech. And they sound good. I have to confess, the chorus doesn't sound as good as my vintage Boss CE-2, but not many choruses sound that good, so I'm still satisfied. And yes, I have found a live use for the YaYa effect! I also really enjoy the volume swell effect to get a type of violin sound.

If you're trying to decide between the RP-100, RP-200, and RP-300, let me help. I've had both the 100, and 200. The RP-100 that I had had an annoying slight delay between patches. If you're going between patches in one song, that delay may become an issue. Maybe DigiTech fixed that with a new patch, I don't know. Also, you gotta get a power supply for the RP-100. That thing eats batteries! The approved wall wart costs about $20, so it makes more sense to toss in an extra $30 and get the RP-200, which comes with the power supply. That's my advice. The RP-200 comes with the expression pedal, 2 more effects, and to me a big bonus is a 6 character alpha-numeric display. It's much nicer rather having patch '12', you have your song's name displayed instead. If you're budget minded, save a few more corn and spring for the RP-200, you won't regret it. Now, when the RP-300 was announced, I immediately decided "I ain't gonna get it!, I'm happy with the RP-200!" I went to the DigiTech site and downloaded the manual and began reading it. Some things began jumping out at me. I was never happy with the compromises DigiTech had to make with editing parameters for the effects because the RP-100 and RP-200 had only three editing knobs, and one was dedicated to choosing which effect you want, so you only had two knobs to shape your effect. Imagine shaping a flanger with just 2 knobs! Well, 5 knobs in the RP-300 was the point that made me interested in it. Then, the triggered flanger and triggered phaser sold me on it, and I knew I wanted an RP-300. Most people know when you use a flanger, you have no control over the sweep while you use it in your songs. What if you can set the flanger so it starts at the same point of the sweep every time you use it? And you can modify this starting point too, whether you want the flanger to start at the top, middle, or bottom, actually, any number of spots? Well, the RP-300 can give you that control!!!!! I was sold! Then when I bought it and began using it, I stumbled upon one of my most favorite features. V-Switch! The expression pedal can control any number of parameters. Say, you have it set up to control the gain of a modeled amp. Press on the toe of the V-Switch, and you're instantly into wah-wah. Just like that. Press again, and Wah-wah turns off! Awesome!

It's not built like a RP-2000 or a GenNext, but it's metal top with metal bottom. If you're not abusive, it will serve you well. But while I'm jumping on stage, I give my RP-300 a wide berth.

Never called them.

If it got stolen, I'd replace it with another one. That AudioDNA DSP has gotten to be heard to be believed. Don't let it's price make you think it has a second rate sound. I've played through the J-Station, POD, GT-3, GFX-8, and Korg unit. This thing is the best value, no doubt about it! My only complaint is the foot pedals are too close to each other. Be careful so you don't go into 'learn-a-lick' mode while you are doing a show! :-(

I offered to wear cowboy boots to get around this problem, but my band members didn't like that idea! :-)

I'd love to join a RP-300 user group if one exists. I don't have time to create or moderate one, but I'd like to be a regular participant.

Plug this unit between your guitar and amp, power it up, and you're makin' sound! The presets are actually useful, which is more than I can say for most multi-effect units. You can tweak the editable presets to your liking, or you can build your own from scratch. READ THE MANUAL. It helps you keep things straight when editing. The 'matrix' and LED display are quite helpful too, but the manual is the key. Once you've edited and built some of your own presets, you start getting the hang of things. I MUST MENTION THIS: When you're ready to store your edited preset, whichever 'amp channel' you leave it on when you press 'store' will become the default channel whenever you select that preset. I prefer to have 'channel A' as each preset's default, so whenever I am ready to store a preset, I make sure channel 'A' is active. The A/B switching is an excellent feature, enabling you to have a 'rhythm' sound AND a 'lead' sound within one preset. I have been using the 'B channel' as a volume boost, or to add some gain for solos. Just remember to decide which channel will be the default for EACH of your presets, or you'll get confused when you change presets. That has really been the only snag I ran into, but I figured it out, so it shouldn't be a problem for the rest of ya.

I am running a late 80's Ibanez RG-550 into this unit and then into my Laney GC-50 amp. I take the RP-300's mono (left) output straight into the amp, not thru the FX loop, and use the clean channel. The sound quality is excellent. The amp modeling is quite good. For distorted sounds, I have been favoring the Rectifier. HINT: The rectifier does not need much gain at all! In fact, try smaller amounts of gain on all of the amp models... you don't need anywhere near what they provide! If you use more gain than you need, you're gonna need the noise gate, which I don't use. My pick attack varies from very heavy to barely brushing the strings with my fingertip, and noise gates interfere with a delicate touch. The Blackface amp model is sweet for clean sounds! I love almost all the modulation effects, but the pitch shifting and whammy are very grainy sounding to me, but I don't use either much, so that's not a huge issue. The delays are good, and so are the reverbs. I did not expect this unit to sound as good as an Eventide or a Lexicon, but it sounds so good I would have paid twice as much! This unit has some really cool features... take advantage of them! Especially the expression pedal. Assigning effect parameters to it was a great idea. I sometimes like to change the amount of reverb while I play, and to be able to do it with the pedal is cool. By the way, I wouldn't suggest using the cabinet modeling if you're going into a guitar amp like I'm doing. Only use it if you're going direct into a P.A. system.

I am confident in this unit, and I would gig without a backup. Haven't had it for very long, but I'm sure I will. This thing will probably outlive everything else in my rig! I had it powered up for seven hours straight the other day, and it was just fine.

I hope I never have to deal with them! My local retailer has always been good to me, so I'm not worried. Support your local music retailer!

Overall, I am very pleased with this unit. When I try out any piece of musical gear, I always know immediately if I will like it, and I was hooked by this unit right out of the box. I can achieve many different tones and sounds, which I need for the music I play. Bravo, Digitech!

JUST PLUG IT IN AND START PRESSING THE UP BUTTON TO CHANGE EFFECTS

SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD THE FIRST WAH IS GOOD FOR PLAYING JIMI HENDRIX'S "PURPLE HAZE".

DIDN'T NEDD ANY AND WILL NOT NEED ANY

GOOD WAH
KORG AX1000 IS MUCH BETTER
WHICH IT HAD A DISTORTION THAT SOUNDED EXACTLY LIKE METALLICA

I want to rag on this incredible machine as little as possible but it is quite hard to use at first. This is the first time in my recollection that I have ever had to read the instructions all the way through. You really had to read them to find out what all of the parameter knobs do on each setting and effect. There are just so many things to do with it.
Also, though this is a given when you by the rp-300, there are a lot of knobs and a lot of different options and parameters for each effect. Now, this is not a problem if, like me, you want the perfect sound andknow exactly what you are looking for. However, it is easy to see why some people who are not as picky and/or can't distinguish between 2 similar sounds would get overwhelmed. There are a HELL of a lot of ways to edit the sonunds on this thing and some people would just say, "Screw this, it's too complicated." But for perfectionists like me, this rocks!!
By the way, the second reveiwer from the top, Louise Consorti, said he gave DigiTech a guide on what all of the factory presets do and what effects they use. Well, they put it on the website on the Rp-300 page under the PRESETS download and it works with Acrobat Reader. It has saved me from many hours of work and boredom. THANKS!!

I play many kinds of rock, from the heaviest metal like Pantera to punk like Green Day or rock like Pearl Jam, or really light rock like Counting Crows. RP-300 is great for all of them. It has lots of kinds of distortion that, depending on how much gain and volume you use, sounds very punky, metaly, grungey, rock-and-rolly, or it sounds great with a clean sound too.
The effects are almost all perfect. I was thinking about buying some really good stomp-boxes too replace any of the crappy and unusable effects on RP-300 and I don't think I will have to. It does everything your heart desires and it does it well. Some of the effects are a bit redundant but I'll get into that later.
My one complaint is that some of the effects screw up the tone or make it sound muddy. For example, the wah pedal has to by somewhere in the middle (not all the way toe-up or toe-down) or you don't get the sound you had before when it was disengaged.
Also some of the settings are a little noisy and the noie gate only works when you don't play. It goes off while a note is being played and stays off until you hit the string. Using humbucking PUs, or the very good humbucker option on the pedal, helps

I haven't taken it very far outside of my bedroom but it's made of metal and it looks quite sturdy. Just don't but too much weight on the pedal and don't abuse it and i sould work forever.

Never used them, hope I never do.

This is literally one of the best efects modelers on the market. If I lost it, I'd get a new one as soon as I had enough money. This works for every kind of music on the planet. There are also a lot of effects that make it sound very far from music but who can resist? I could be the next Tom Morello (the guitar effects WIZARD from Rage Against The Machine).
There are quite a few effects that do mostly the same sound, for example, whammy, pitch-shift, detuner; chorus, delay, flanger, panner, oscilater. There's nothing you couldn't make into one effect and add some creativity and improvisation.
My set-up is not great and the RP-300 is actually the most expensive part of it. I have a squier strat, (I really have to replace it. It's not bad for $130 but for any more, it is) a Peavey Blazer-158, (very good small amp but I should replace that too) and the RP-300, which almost makes up for the rest of my set-up.
Bottom line: buy it. If you don't like it, return it, but that won't happen unless you crazy. This thing makes a shoe-box with rubberbands on it sound like a Gibson.