DigiTech RP-300

Had it for a veeery long time...

First thing??s first: this is a BEGINNER-INTERMEDIATE guitar player??s piece of equipment.

I strongly recommend it for beginners who want to explore what effects are all about. This thing contains pretty much everything there is out there in terms of live sound processing, for a good price.

ease of use: Very straight forward, the matrix system is a smart way of getting around the abundance of things you can do with this little thing.

Ok... sound quality is overall POOR. And keep in mind I say this with great affection that I have for this little thing, since its my first ever effects unit and has been with me through my years of learning to play and its eventual replacement by decent stomp boxes, which is pretty much the pattern any guitar player will go through.

Up to 95% of the featured sounds are almost comic. I mean, they give you almost every imaginable effect out there packed in 1 piece of equipment for some $250... what do you expect?

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Like most things out there, there is ONE thing the RP300 does SURPRISINGLY WELL! And this is the emulation of the Fender Twin Reverb, the (BLCKFCD-something). Configure your own sound, leave out everything else the unit offers you, except the amp simulation left on, with selected BLCK-something (its the first choice that comes up). Now connect that into ANY (may be ****ty, whatever) amp, and its bound to improve the sound that comes out TREMENDOUSLY.

Another great feature is that it gives you headphones stereo output, so you can practice at home, or even connect into the Line In of your PC, download some freeware recording program (strongly recommend Audacity, its free as well) and start laying down in stereo format your ideas that might pop up at home.

For sound quality it gets a 5 from me, because, really you cannot show up infront of more than 50 people and offer them the sounds that come out of the RP300... It wont get a 1-2 because of the surprisingly (and exclusively) successful emulation of the Twin Reverb and for the great, clean, cleaer stereo headphone output mix that it can give you, which can be handy for a number of things.

Well, like most people seem to have noticed, after a while the pedals will give up. Usually this will happen after a couple of years. But by that time, you most likely would have, either given up guitar, or progressed and started looking into building your collection of decent stomp boxes.

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At the end, this unit will stay at home with you, and just serve you to practice with your headphones, or help you plug very nicely into your PC to lay down ideas.

Strongly recommend it for beginners!

Nice work from Digitech to give an idea to the beginning guitar player an idea of what effects can do for you, for a decent price.

Pretty easy to use actually, most of it is pretty self explanatory and if in doubt the manual is pretty informative. That said I would like to use the detune feature a little more but it is over-complicated.

I really like the sounds, unlike some users I think the distorted sound is pretty good, and the clean sound is brilliant too. I mainly play thrash and hardcore and the rectifier setting, with a little tweaking is perfect for this. I use chorus and delay effects a fair bit and these both sound great

Here is the RP300's downfall, as many others have said the pedals are terribly bad quality and I've had the back off it countless times, I've finally fixed it by glueing small rubber peices to the inside of the back behind the microswitches so that I get a positive contact every time. Also I've been through 2 AC adaptors so far, on one the plastic just disintegrated (when plugged in somewhere it shouldn't have broken!?), and one just stopped working.
I would NEVER gig with this thing, it's fine for bedroom playing or the studio but it would scare me to death to think that I would be relying on this when gigging!

When I rang them about the pedals they were pretty good actually and even offered to send me the microswitches for free, although once I looked into it that wasn't the problem anyway. Trying to get an adaptor is another matter, don't even ask in a Digitech dealer, they NEVER stock them and will not break up pedal with an adaptor to help you out, I was MOST annoyed especially as I had a practice the next day & ??30 for an AC adaptor is more than a little excessive, I feel!

As I have said the sounds themselves are not a problem for the music I play, however the build quality isn't great and I think i will be buying a different unit when funds allow!

This is a good pedal, easy to get many, many sounds out of it. Way better then the new RP-300A that replaced it... i'd rather have the presets they already have then a bunch of artists i dont really play. Manual is good. Version 1.0. not upgraded

Using the patch library on the digitech website, can get plenty of sounds. excels in a mesa/boogie rectifier tone, but with some chorus and delay, a good tube-y tone can be had. Using an ESP LTD EC-1000 through a somewhat shitty crate amp. very quiet--noise gate works well.

Here's where it fucks up. the amp A/B channel switching button broke, so i had to open it up and bridge the connection between the footswitch and the little button inside, must be a shitty design. also, the input jack gets a little loose over time, and the connection no longer works without a little bit of jiggling. with some time i can probably bend back the little metal connection. if i can fix these well, i'd use it without a backup.

never did.

i play a lot of classic rock, as wlell as some contemporary heavy stuff, and it works well. i'd probably buy it again.

Not too easy to change individual patch settings on the fly.

Need the manual initially. Never used the record/whatever feature - don't know how/why.

Fender American Strat/Epiphone Les Paul Standard --> RP300 --> Practice amp (Marshall)

You need a damn good guitar to get a good sound out of this thing. But then, if you have a damn good guitar, you dont need this to get a good sound out of it anyway :)
Distortion sucks. In all my lead patches, I had to include a type of cabinet mic in my Amp modeller setting.
U really need to work on the Eq settings. Very unpredictable. You change your guitar and the whole tone composition changes (not in the pleasant way).

Delay is good (duh!)... i think, all in all, you need to tweak just abt every small setting before it gives you not more than TWO usable and pleasing tones.

That said, I think it's a nice piece to experiment as a beginner/intermediate guitarist. Know the functions, know the meaning of things like compression, noise suppression, gain, etc.

Use it for an year or two and then switch to better stuff.

It's been quite reliable. No issues over the three years i had it. I used it like a tin can... but it still sees the light of the day. But, i've always perceived effects pedals lack sturdiness and predictability.

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Like I said, you can get only about TWO good tones from this thing. That's with using super guitars/pick-ups.

I play mainly classic rock. I couldnt get any transparency through this in terms of tone and dynamics. I switched to stompboxes as soon as I was ready and over the RP300.

easy to manipulate except for the drum loop thingy.. it would've been better if it could be turned on and off with a footswitch.

can the rp300 be upgraded ?!

clean---> good
distortion --> garbage
the weakest effect it has is the whammy.. completely inaccurate..

i used it in front of 500 persons and didn't fail me..
except when there's low electricity.. it's uncontrolable..

i play blues and rock .. so it fits me perfectly.
i own a gt3 boss but i prefer this one on it .

Very easy to use.

Pretty good...but the amp modeling is not really what they say it is.

Not as reliable as the better-built pedals. This is a beginners pedal for sure...but do not rely on it lasting a very long time. PLastic is not condusive to long-lasting product.

Plastic crap...nothing more to say.

this thing is really easy to figure out, i got it without a booklet, so i had to mess around until i got all the effectys down, it took about a week.

i use an epiphone explorer that i have put seymour duncan distortion HB pickups into (cause epiphone ones sound bad no matter what) and a Kramer Randy Rhodes V. I use this pedal through a Fender Super Reverb-Amp (1968 175watt tube amp) and a Marshall MG250DFX. this pedal is ok i guess, through the marshall alone i cannot solve the problem of having no mid knob on the cab, it sounds muddy no matter what i do, through just the fender, i get a weird distortion from the tubes nwhen it is clean. through both, it balances out (i think it has more to do withe the difference in amp than the pedal.)

the effects are ok, some sound really cheesy and fake, others sound fine.

i have never used this live, but i have left it running for days on end without it failing, i just turn on the amp and play. Because i have never used it live i couldn't tell you how it would fare.

never dealt with them.

i normally play everything from Progressive (dream theater, etc..) to classical (J.S. Bach) so in the terms that i needed a multi-effects it is ok, i could have done better... but the price was just right for me. i got it for trading a broken epiphone mini-bodied explorer that had a messed up bridge and a useless pickup. i think compared to actual individual effect pedals it doesn't stand a chance, but i think that can be said for any muti-effects, it can't possibly have enough circuitry to effectivly duplicate each individual effect without having some limitation, otherwise it'd be 6 feet long, weigh 50 pounds and have a bajillion settings.

It's usable straight out of the box with the presets. As with everyone, I started to mess around with the knobs without glancing in the manual and got some good sounds out of it. I recommend looking at the manual cause it clears some things up.

Easy to program and lots of space to save them. Also, the digitech website has forums where you can get settings other people use or submit your own, so it's as easy as dialing one in if you're too lazy to mess around with it.

The V-switch for the wah or volume is excellent and so easy to use. The tuner is not very accurate, but good for on-the-fly use.

This is where it has its high and low points. I own a Fender Strat, a Gibson SG and an LTD.

For just practicing in my bedroom it was pretty good. I used a Peavey Envoy 110, and set all the countour knobs (bass, mids, treble) on my amp to zero and used the EQ on the unit and it sounded good.

As soon as you take it to a band practice situation, you start to see some pitfalls. When playing really loud, the distortions sound really buzzy and the cleans sometimes overpower the amp creating some solid-state distortion (aaarrgh!!) when strummed hard. The cabinet simulators are no good if you're using an amp. Probably good for DI recording but I never tried it.

I used it live twice (see Reliability for more) and played it through the P.A. system my singer uses at practice (a B-52) and it sounded better when I used the cabinet emulator than using it with an amp.

Some of the effects were useless to me (Ya-ya, autowah) but some were cool, such as the whammy. The noise gate was not very good - it cut out your sustain and you can still hear some buzzing at moderate volumes. Feedback is still possible with the noise gate engaged - even in clean!.

Overall, it is very good for the price and has everything you need and more, but if you're stepping out to the stage, I don't think this is for you - unless you're willing to do some mondo tweaking to get the right sounds.

Like I said, I used it live twice. It's quite a hassle because of the AC power only, you need an extension cord at the front of the stage with you. Also, stepping on the power cord (at least on mine) will easily pull the cord out of the power input on the unit - so place those wires carefully!

That being said, it's built pretty solid and could probably withstand some abuse.

After about 6 months, I noticed that the plastic pedals wouldn't work. It was totally random. One day it would be the UP, the next the DOWN and even the A/B switch. Now, it only shifts UP. I don't remember how long I had it before the DOWN pedal got stuck. So no access to the tuner or bypass.

I now pack it in my gigbag as a backup, in case my gigging amp dies (hasn't happened yet, knock on wood) on stage.

Dealt with them once, very fast reply to my email, but haven't contacted them since. I bought it used, so I never had a guarantee...

I play mostly hard rock, sometimes heavy and sometimes soft. I bought this because I wanted an all-in-one unit woth everything I needed. It did its job but I outgrew it. I would never use it live again (hopefully I won't have to!).

Useful tool to discover what effects you need. I realized that I only used the phaser, wah, chorus and two others, so I didn't need a multieffect unit anymore. I now have those individual pedals and a volume pedal plugged into a Hughes&Kettner halfstack.

If you need it for practice in the bedroom, I recommend it. But once you move on, you'll discover you probably want to upgrade or get rid of it entirely.

Best digital effects , in my opinion , come from a unit such as this when played at a soft volume through a solid state amp. So, if you use a tube amp, or play louder than say a home stereo, you need to modify the preset settings a bit.

Compared to other units such as this, the RP is easy to use and about as easy to understand as any of those multi efx processors, which are many.

The manual was very helpful, but if you just get to know the face display enough you can figure out how to tweak the settings easy enough.

By the way, reviewer before me, it's not that you must turn the knobs to zero, it's that you must turn them beyond the current value before the knob changes the parameter.

Sound quality is again great through a solid state amp, kinda hissy with tube amb, plus a steady soft buzz resembling flourescent lighting 60 cycle buzz.

Be sure to modify the settings for NO REVERB, unless again you play a very low levels. When amplified, the reverb ruins everything.

Likewise, the cabinet modeling, and pick up modeling is accurate, but it's a waste of time if you play in a live band. Better to not employ any modeling if you have a guitar amp.

Just use the RP 300 for the efx. Distortions are excellent! I use the sweep pedal for the gain level so I am always in control of how much crunch without going back to tweak the guitar amp.

Reliability not so good for me. I am a careful user and treat my gear with livng care. And yet, this week marks the second failure I've had in about 100 gigs. That's 2 too many.

The first problem happened after about 1 year, when the sweep pedal stopped working for (only) the Wah effect (which is supposed to be available on every stored setting). Only the wah stopped working. After tons of trial and error I fixed it on my own.

This week the failure was one of the 3 pedals stopped incrementing. Which is a major problem, because not only can you not increment, you cannot BYPASS nor get to TUNER mode either!

No experience with the company.

But I'm trying to get a replacement micro switch now.

I play classic rock, blues, country, gospel and jazz.

If I had to replace it , I would consider another similar unit that is less noisy through the tube amp.

Otherwise I like the RP300 a lot. Especially the assignable sweep.

I don't use any presets, only my own mods.

Pretty easy really. I only had it for a while before I sold it. I didn't get the hang (our the point) of the LFO stuff. It took a bit to realize that you have to turn the knobs to zero to actually change the parameters. I kept turning to no avail. On the whole, easy to use.

I did like the ability to switch amp/cab models and EQ and keep your reverb, delay, and effects in a patch.

Also, when you start off, the expression pedal gets squeakier and squeakier, almost to the point of being as loud as the guitar. Use some WD-40. Your expression pedal won't work for about a day, but it won't squeak again once it works.

Lots of effects, more than you really need. Great in terms of quantity...

Uh, not too good in the quality department. I'll start with what's good:

-Wah is OK
-Rotary, Vibrato, Tremolo, Chorus, and the Tape Echo are pretty good.
-Boutique amp model is OK I guess. So is the Fuzz.

Now what sucks:

-Amp models: Awful. The cleans are terrible, and so are the distortions. These are truly horrible and tinny. Don't even get me started on the Rectifier.
-Phasing is pretty bad, as is the reverb. The rest is mediocre.

I guess it's okay if you're at a gig and no one cares if the Mesa Boogie model acurately conveys your technique.

This thing used to scare me to death. The pedals gave out one day. I opened it up and found that the pedals didn't actually press the little plastic buttons. I had to scotch tape the components in place.

Used to use it in gigs, but the thing just scared the crap out of me. I was afraid it would give out on me in the middle of a song.

Never used it.

I play experimental stuff, so if I couldn't hear very well, this would be optimum with all the variety you can get.

However, if you have more than $200, which most of you probably do, get something else. I'm not a very big fan of multi-effects units anyway.

If you want to learn about different effects, give it a try, but don't expect to get great vintage sound.

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.

i thought it was easy to use (but then again some things i thought were easy others found hard, but.....). read the manual! not only does it tell you everything you need to know about the unit, but it gives you some background info on some of the stuff it's emulating (I thought that was cool). it takes a little (not much) getting used to, but is real simple once you've mastered it. it does take some doing to get a really good sound, though, and its easy to get a bad sound, but its not that bad.

i use a Peavey Raptor plus EXP guitar (which is a really good guitar for the price) and run it through anything from a marshal solid state amp at my church to the huge (and i mean HUGE) sound system in my school auditorium. so far i have no complaints. sometimes you have to tweak the EQ a little for the different sounds various amps give. i don't get any noise cause of the sound gate (a real life-saver sometimes where feedback is concerned). all the effects are good but i haven't gotten a hang of using the phaser yet, and theres some effects that i never use (like the auto-wah and the pitch change). i don't really go for the sounds of my favorite artists, i just make up my own stuff (altough i did make one that sounds almost exactly like Third Day's "Agnus Dei" on accident) the distortions are great, but you can't get insane amounts of distortion out of it (but then again i don't play any deathmetal) and its best for punk, rock, clean and old school stuff (like zz top, etc)

like a rock, or a tank or any other solid object that won't break. made of metal. i've dropped it several times on hard surfaces (on accident of course) and have bumped it against thing lots and it's still as good as new. nothing's broken, sounds fine. i'd give it a 20, but that's not a choice

never had to use it, see above ^

i play punk, rock, some softer metal, clean/acoustic stuff, and just about everything else, and it fits everything (just don't use the compressor on clean and low gain presets, i learned that the hard way). i've been playing for about 2 years or so, had this pedal for about the same, a little less. if it were stolen, etc. i'd most likely buy another one (or do my best to find it and steal it back) or i might go w/ the one that is the same but w/ mic outs and midi stuff. overall its a great pedal, well worth the money, its versital beyond anything i've seen (my friend uses a zoom and it stinks and he uses stomp boxes and they seem like a pain) and definately helps me get a good sound.

reading the manual you'll be able to edit your patches very soon,it'really easy,and the manual is well done,but it don't explain very well the channel A/B tipe of setting.

I use a fender stratocaster and a marshall 2005 as a monitor,I usually enter the mixer and go out trough jbl speakers (don't remember the model cuz they're not mine.the effects are very weak and I find the distortions sound like mosquitoes.I think weaking a bit you can have good delays and choruses,for clean sounds.
it also sucks cuz when you pass from a patch to another the volume is always different.I found the preset really terrible,but I bought it
to have the chance to edit my own,if that day I'd stayed in bed...

I won't depend on it no more cuz I've just passed to a more pro babe that's my brand new Boss GT-6,and it's now taking dust in the corner,waiting for some1 who want give me some euro...

I didn't deal with it.Hope is good.

I play in a cover band and so I need a lot of different sound cuz we space from melodic to revival when playing in marriage party,and rock when we play clubs(Toto-VH-Queen-Lynyrd-Gov't Mule-Allman-Joe Walsh).I
never owned a mfx,but some stomp,I bought it without checking it cuz the keyboardist said that the precedent guitarist had the RP50 and he had some good stuff out of it(I think he was a magician).
I found useful the jam-a-long feature and the learn-a-lick,but sometime you switch two pedals together and you succed in doing what you'd not.
If stolen I'll thank-you the one...
Don't buy it,go for something serious!

Very easy to use and modify patches. I have different patches for different songs and I have them programmed in the order in which my band plays the songs, so its easy to just go up to the next song. I also have a few songs that I switch up and down during the song, and that works out great as well. My biggest complaint is the "learn a lick" feature. Its really annoying when playing live and you accidentally push the far two buttons in and it goes into this mode. I'm thinking of gluing on a bar or something to prevent this from being "foot activated". Other than this, I would have given it a 10.

I've had this unit for 2 years now, and I have been happy with the sound quality. I play it through a vintage Ampeg VT-40 tube amp, 4 x 10 combo, and this unit sounds great. I also play it through a little crate practice amp, and its OK, not great. It also works pretty good for demo recording direct into a computer.

I mostly use the Chorus, Delay, and Tremelo effects. For the amp mods, I use a Tweed, or Clean for channel A (30 - 50 gain), and Hotrod for channel B (75 - 90 gain). I also like the FUZZ setting for some good distorted leads. The wah-wah pedal is also very useful and I use it on one of my songs.

For playing through an amp, make sure you turn off the cabinet simulation. I also don't use the compression or the EQ. I use my amp EQ to adjust the sound I want. I also use the Reverb on my amp, though the Reverb on this unit is very good.

I play a standard strat, and I use the noise gate, it helps.

I've noticed that some poeple have complained about a drop-out when switching between patches. I have never noticed this, and its not a problem for me, I change patches mid song and it works like a champ.

So far the unit has been reliable ,except for the "learn a lick" engaging when I don't want it to ( I guess my foot must be too wide...)

Battery option would be nice, because I once went to a gig and left the power adapter at home. Had to just play clean...

Never had to deal with customer support.

I would rate this thing as a 9. For me its great to be able to program a different patch for each song. My biggest complaint would be that you can't have Chorus and Tremelo at the same time. You can have Delay, and Reverb, along with a list of effects, but you can't turn the Delay off or on. You can program the pedal to change the level of the effect, which helps, but I usually program the pedal to increase volume or gain.

I've been playing on & off for about 20 years. This unit works great for my style of music which is basically rock. I used to have multiple effect pedals, which was very hard to keep up with, especially during a live gig, so I find that having it all in one unit is a better way to go. I'm sure there are better units on the market, but for the price, you can't beat this unit. I think that Digitech makes the best delay & wah, and this pedal has both. I also use the tuner on stage, and I think it works just great.

I would recommend this product, and I would buy it again if mine where ever lost or stolen. I would also consider stepping up to the GNX versions because you can save and download pathces to a computer.

great pedal for a beginer, the manual that came with it is easy fowlow along with. editing and efects is a little tricky at first so I recomend for one to look at the manual first. and the drum machine is easy to use.

I use my digitech with a peavey stereo chorus 212 and a imataion strat. When the pedal is plugged I get some feed back (buzzing coming frome the speakers).the efects a good but the distorion is weak and there no gain settings. I can get the sound of most of my favorite music bands such as Jimi Hendrix, Alice in Chains, and metallica.

I dont know about reliblity becuase ive only had for about 7 months and abought new at GuitarCenter.

I sent Digitech a waranty form online a couple months ago and never got a reply saying they got my form of information.

I play hard rock and this pedal dose an ok job at i have been playing almost two years now and own a imation stratocaster guitar peavey stereo chourus 212 amp (130 watts) , deam markley k15x wich I bring back forth to school because the peavey is to big for a bus ride. if it were lost or stolen i would probaly buy a diferent product from a diferent company. I bought a used zoom 505II last year had for a little bit and then just stoped working right so if you are one of those people tied over the zoom and digitech stay away from the zoom it's a crud and you only will be wasting your hard earned money.

As long as you read the manual, you'll be fine.

I generally use it with my two ESP guitars (Explorer & M252) and my Marshall Valvestate 10 and Carlsboro Colt 45L amps, recently used it for recording and played it through a Marshall AVT150H. The effects always sound great IMHO, but I only got it two weeks ago so I'm still exploring. Have managed to get a sound pretty close to Kirk Hammet's by using the Dual Rectifier sim and using the V switch for the Wah.

Yeah I think it is pretty reliable, as it's made of metal it isn't gonna break when you play it live, but ask me when I've owned it a year.

Haven't had to contact them yet.

I play mainly hardcore punk and thrash metal and this pedal has definately added to my playing, recently used it to record my band's demo. I have been playing seven years, I own an ESP M252, an ESP Grassroots explorer, a Marshall Valvestate 10 practice amp and a Carlsboro Colt 45L amp. I really like the versatility of this pedal, I did look at a Zoom 707 but it has nothing like the amount of effects that the Digitech has, and it's plastic so is way more likely to break. It is a great tool for writing and recording, haven't gigged with it yet.