DigiTech RP350

The easiest pedal on planet earth! Except for a stomp box. With Xedit it's fun, and really easy. Manual seems to good, to tell you the truth I have owned several Digitech boxes and this fits right in. Looked breifly thru the manual, off I went to making patches. Had to upgrade to 1.1 version. simple, and no problems, and I'm NOT a computer geek, trust me.

The new DNA2 chip is for real. This pedal has as good as wah as I have ever used. The Lexicon reverbs are well, Lexicon! Chorus, reverbs, etc. all seem top notch. I must say I'm not crazy about the spring reverb or the rotary effect, the reverb is a little to "pingy" for me. The Lexicon reverbs make up for it in my opinion. I have ownwd the following (all good in there own way) Boss GT-6 and Gt-8. Digitech RP21D, RP100A, RP200A, RP300A, KORG AX1000G, AX1500G, AX3000G, ROCKTRON UTOPIA, Several ART tube processors, Line 6, and to many to name. This one ranks in my top 5 favorites. I give it a 9 because I have yet to hear a 10.

Seems sturdy, but damn, I wish they would make the foot pedals metal! The expession pedal is, and it's nice. NEVER gig without a backup! Even the most expensive gear breaks. -2 points for the plastic foot pedals.

upgraded to 1.1, a breeze. Never had Digitech to repair anything, so no comment there. I have emailed a couple of times, answers were very short and straight to the point. Some parts of my questions were totally ignored, oh well.

I'm 48 years old but still play hard rock "Godsmack, Metallica, blah, blah, you get the picture. BUT, i also love players like Steve Vai, Satrina, Frank Marino. Good rock has to have good tone. HATE fizzy sounds. If a lot of guitar players would turn the gain down on these Digital pedals, they would have a different opinion about them.

easy to use x edit is great

but could with some external pedal port for live work

stunning sounds the bypass works great i have used it on bypass

the used to it wih jut the tube screamer sounds amazing

though and old sound city 50 plus head

i can also get that real dave gilmore sound

i can't wait to see what it can do live

had no need for them yet touch wood

if you play music for pink floyd to bb king to metallica to the police jazz
to funk

or just about any guitar music

this does the job

Very Simple

Let me qualify this Rating....I own a Boss GT8 & a PodXT Live with all the expansions....I didn't expect this pedal to sound as good as it does but I was floored by rhe quality of the sound on my recordings by this unit . I use a Roland Strat thru a Roland midi box into a Triton Extreme / ( DigiTech RP350 ) a Presonus Firebox into Cakewalk Sonar 5 recording software...It sounds significately better than my GT8 & It even beats my Pod XT Live with my Variax plugged into it...I would never have thought a pedal cost much less could sound this good, the only reason I even got the thing was I had to get rid of my electonic drums to make more room in my studio and it was just a side item I grabbed to equal my trade in value...

Havent had it very long ...dos'nt look as durable as my other units though...

For the sound quality this unit soars considering the price...

Very easy to use, the easiest pedal ever.
X-edit 2 is awesome for PC.

But do not have on -off swich , its a shame! :)
Don't need to turn off...

This is THE BEST sounding guitar multieffect today.
I compared everything from Behringer V-Amp to POD XT...

Better than any Digitech unit, any RP, any GNX, any Genesis, any POD product inlcuding POD XT too.
Better than any VOX, any BOSS unit... GT8 is a joke compared to this.

The only close multieffext is the valve based G7, and G9,
but RP-350 is better.

Build like a tank. full IRON!!!!

Every preset is on the site, good support, etc...
You can hear all effets on www... very nice!

You CAN'T go wrong.

STUDIO quality effect.

I'a a professional recording producer since 15 years.
I try near all multieffect (95% of all)

ANY Line 6 and Boss product is a Joke compared th this animal.
Because RP-350 has a brutal new generation processor on it.

its stupidly easy to get a good sound because all of the amps and effects sound good straight away - its still possible to dial in something horrible but with a little thought you can get some really sweet tones. ex-edit is a great application but using the pedal on its own is quite straightforward aswell.

im not going to give it a 10 because it would have to be stupendously amazing for that but it is really really good. at first i was taken with all the stompboxes and effects (theres so many!) but lately ive been just playing with the amps models and reverb - it has a really nice warm tube like feel - on the bigger amps like the plexis you can get that natural sort of compression and feel - if you turn the gain up on the vox ac30tb you get that great tube shimmer - a strat and the twin reverb is unbeleivable - it sounds so real. I really like the reverbs because as a line 6 user i was worried about mic placements and things that id miss but you can get the same sort of effect with the onboard reverbs - the lexicon room reverb is really good at mimicing mic distance if you keep the predelay low for close micing or high for distance micing - experiment with the liveliness and level to change the feel of the 'room'.
There are a lot of compressors and stomboxes and effects and they are really great (especially the fuzz pedals) but im really impressed with the amps and reverbs wich are the most important part as without them there wouldnt be any point - the cabinets are good aswell, even the digitech cabinets sound good. its so easy to get the sound of an artist if you know what equipment they used just put the combination in and you are there right away just levels and eq to tweak to get it neailed but the actual nuts and bolts of the tone are there immediately because the models are so accurate. i use XLR outputs with the speaker compensation switched to "mixer" and they go into my soundcard wich my powered nearfield monitors are plugged into. Im really happy with the sound and im finding it really easy to work with.

the metal casing and pedal looks very durable but the buttons/knobs and matrix are made of plastic and not the toughest ive seen

if you have the right sound system (ie studio monitors) you are going to be happy with this pedal if you give it a chance (im talking a week or two to get to know it dont just give it one night) i never liked these multi effects pedals in amps it just doesnt work - use the amp sound and some stompboxes = modelling pedals are best for DI stuff.

its a really clear modern sound to it - it has retro amps but it sounds as if they are recorded in a modern studio (although things like the em plate reverb and tape delay can make the sound more vintage - works great with the plexi 100 and bassman for voodoo chile etc..)

its kind of marketed as a toy or begineer pedal but i also agree that there is some serious tone to be found in here and its really not that hard to find

As mentioned below, manual is so, so. Unit is pretty intuative, however the manual needs to be read to fully understand all functionality. Never had a crash using X-Edit.

I rated this as a 10 to offset the previous 2 reviews which I feel are off base. I would rate it an 8 otherwise. Let me begin by saying I do not work for Digitech or any music retailer. The effects are on par with Digitech's overall quality and sound.

If you've ever used a Digitech before, you can expect the same sort of flavor out of this unit. Some effects are stronger than others and you may prefer the overall sound of a competing companies effects, but they are good none the less, and if you ever wanted a Whammy pedal, you have one here from the company which invented them.

Modulations sound very organic and the stompbox emulation is very good. I compared the TS9 model (with everything else bypassed) to my actual TS9 into a Tech 21 Trademark 60 and it is very, very close. Same experience with the Rat. Compared to my old RP2000, the whammy doesn't have the latency that the RP2000 had, patch switching is way, way faster with just a very slight break between patches (I talking like 10ms or less) and the bypass is much better (the manual claims true analog bypass).

To the previous poster claiming the unit could not get clean sounds, this is not my experience. I believe either that unit was defective, the active preamp of the acoustic/electric was set to boost a frequecy to the point of distorting the input of the unit, or the output of the unit was distorting the input of the mixer (perhaps the mixer input was set to mic level instead of line level?). The clean sounds are clean, you can dime the gain on a couple of them and they stay clean. Bypassed the unit is as clean as any stomp I've heard.

The modeling on this unit is on par with pretty much all of the current generation, some companies do certain things better than others. Versus Line 6 stuff I feel Line 6 does high gain better, however this unit does low gain better, extremely good in my opinion.

Also to consider, there is very little direct competition at this price point with this type of quality.

Again to offset a previous post which claimed the unit is plastic. That is absolutely incorrect. The unit is built of metal. The up, down, and a/b switches are some type of hard plastic consistent with any other competing product in this price range as well as the RP2000 which I used to own. The rocker pedal is metal with rubber stripes to increase traction. The knobs are made of plastic though, Digitech opted to follow the current trend and try to place knobs for each parameters.

The unit as a whole feels very, very solid.

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I will be posting a in depth review including sound samples and side-by-side comparisons of some of the stomp emulations versus the real thing in about a month. I'll post an update to announce when the site goes live.

It sounds okay for the price. Presets and models are like the GNX3000. Some are good, some are thin like PODS. Manual is gobble and teeny print. Editing with USB is good. I did get a crash or two but then it just started working for some reason. V1.1 Yes.

Sounds good. Artists have better gear so I don't try as much. Comparing to the GNX4 effects NO. GNX units have better effects. I like some of the models but some are just there to add a few more. I used both cheap amps and good amps. A VHT rackmount and D Avatar cab w modeling speakers. A Powerblock (recommened by many). And a Fender Blues Jr.
Compressor is bad. This one, like the GNX3000 fails on the gates. Overall the sound is good for just jamming at home but I'll take my stomps over this RP anyday.

Plastic. What a disappointment. The RP2000 was a tank! I'd have a backup or just not use it live. The footpedal is okay but like a cheaper Zoom. I think another 40 bucks for it to have a steel chassis and top would be better.

upgraded versions and it worked

Metal, Bubble Gum 80's, and my own stuff. Playin for 15yrs. I have a HK Switchblade, Crate BV, and Fender Blues JR, VHT power amp, D.A cab.
Stolen, I'd be upset about the $199 but not go buy another. For the same price I just bought a Rocktron Utopia and it kills the RP. It's heavy duty and has GLOBAL features! Finally!
The 350's effects are bad. That's what I don't like. When I A/B the Utopia's effects it's a no brainer. Plus, with the Utopia I can change efx panning, and amp levels in my STEREO mix! Utopia WINS!

Editing patches with the hardware is easy with a quick read of the manual. I did not get into using the computer interface editing.

I used this pedal with a Tom Anderson Crowdster Acoustic guitar. I bought it because of the XLR out feature that would allow me to plug directly in to a sound system without lugging around a direct box as well. I planned to use it at church with mostly an acoustic sound, but also mixing in some effects and some tube-like overdrive from time to time. I know that this unit is not necessarily meant to be used with an acoutic guitar, however, I have used this guitar this way in the past with a Boss GT-6 and had decent results.

I first tested the unit using only headphones and was a little skeptical. Most of the amp models had a very raspy sound, almost as if you ran a distortion stompbox directly into a sound system with no preamp. When I plugged the unit into our sound system at church I was pleasantly surprised... at least at first. The amp models did not have the nasty sound they had in the headphones--they actually sounded very warm and full (not to deter any metalheads out there... you could get nasty if you wanted). I will say that there were only one or two amp models that I liked, but I really liked them. And all this with spending very little time with the unit. I suspect that if I'd had time to really work with this thing, I could have gotten some fantastic overdrive and tube distortion tones.

Here's where my disappointment came, however. We were ready to start practicing and I soon discovered that I could not get any really clean tones. Even with the distortion and amp effects turned off... AND EVEN WITH THE UNIT IN BYPASS MODE... I was still getting some kind of mid-range distortion. The Crowdster has a really great acoustic tone on it's own, but there was no way to get that tone through the unit to the sound system without it getting muddied and distorted.

I emailed DigiTech to see if the unit I had was defective, or if a firmware upgrade would fix the problem, but they only suggested that maybe the accentuated highs of the acoustic guitar were causing the problem. I find this hard to believe.

In defense of the RP350, it is true that I did not spend much time with this unit. It's possible that the distortion I was getting might not occur when using the quarter inch outputs (I used only the XLR outs). It may be that I could get the unit to work somehow, however, I bought it specifically for the XLR outs, otherwise I could have bought any other guitar processor on the market. Also, Though I don't believe that my guitar was causing the distortion, I do think that the distortion might not be as noticable with a regular electric guitar.

Anyway, I ended up returning the RP350 to Musician's Friend. I wanted to write this review to aid anyone who may want to buy one of these... just check it out before you buy, especially if you need to be able to get nice clean guitar tones.

I didn't use it long, but it seemed very sturdy. It is heavier than it looks!

Digitech emailed me back the same day I contacted them. However, they either knew about the problem (and didn't admit it), or just weren't all that interested in helping me solve it. The email I got back from them was about 2 sentences long and offered the lame excuse already mentioned above.

I have been playing some kind of music since I was 3 years old and enjoy many different types. Recently I have developed an interest in technology as it relates to music and have done some recording. I have also used a fair amount of different gear over the years. I'm not a gear guru, but I'm not a newbie either. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that there is a problem with the design of this unit. At the very least, in bypass mode you should get out of it exactly what you put in, which is NOT what was happening with me. Anyway, depending on the manner in which you use this, you might not have a problem.

I'm a bedroom music hobbyist computer recording type of person. I got my RP350 yesterday and was pleasantly suprised! I had that straight out of the box feeling when you can't stop playing and you seem to sound better than you actually are! I would love to play this thing through quality powered PA speakers! I have used the x-edit once, it seems okay however on one occasion it crashed windows xp, a system hang me thinks!!! I sincerely hope this is a one off. I upgraded the firmware easily to 1.1, no problems there! The manual is good although not great. The writing is awfully small - you need a magnifying glass to look at the list of asignable presets.

The thing that sticks out for me is the signal seems purer and fatter than other mfx units I've owned. When I played a preset I thought the compressor and gates were on but they weren't, wow! This is the first time that an MFX units presets sound useable and tight that I've ever owned. The sound is overall better than GT-8 and the Pod, I'm convinced of this. Sounds workable thru my studio monitors, however am dissapointed with the sound through headphones, fizzy and lightweight, any tips on how to improve this would be most grateful. The first thing I noticed was how much less hum there was from my pickups than the other units, I hate hum! Now I don't have to turn off my computer monitor when i'm recording, yipee! The effects are definately of a decent quality, although the modulated delay sounds a bit strange to me! Your probably not gonna get ear rippin genuine metal tones to your satisfaction out of this thing, however if your looking for quality distorted tone there is a definate jump in quality compared to other units.

The build is okay, although I would be a bit worried about the plastic front fascia being scratched and worn if you gigged a lot. The design is a bit tacky as well.

Not dealt with them yet!

Yep it still sounds digital but hey thats cos it is folks! (I find the vox tonelab has the closest tube tone cos of the saturation when the note breaks up, it's slightly earthier). I still much prefer this unit overall though. I wonder what the new zoom unit is like, I hear good things! Lets face it guys and gals you will never beat playin thru a quality tube amp with a strat or les but that's not what this is about is it? It's about a myriad of effects and tones at your dispersal in a compact unit at a bargain price. So much more convenient than lugging and miking a marshall stack into your little bedroom studio whilst annoying your neighbours with 100watts of tube distortion ha ha ha!

There is no doubt that this unit should get great reviews simply cos of its pricepoint. If there is anyone reading this unsure of what mfx unit to buy, you must try this one, it's definately up there.

this unit was obviously designed to get a good sound easily. there are two levels: there is deep editing from the hardware side (and deeper editing using the ex-edit software) but there is also a surface level where you can just turn a knob for a sound (eg blues/metal etc..) and turn another knob for a pre programmed effects chain (eg chorus + reverb or distortion + pitch shifter) there are a few more knobs for amp level, amp gain and effects level = so you can get a good sounding patch in 2 seconds flat - or do it the old fashioned way and spend hours tweaking your patches to perfection.

For the beginner its a god send because you can easily dial in a sound you like and then study how it was made for making your own patches in the future.

Its worth noting that the 75 Factory presets (there are another bank of 75 duplicate presets that can be overwritten with user patches) are all very good and very useable = in fact the preset demos on the digitech website are what made me buy this unit - and ive never said that of a Digitech unit before!

New software for the USB drivers and Ex-Edit editing/librarian software was posted at Digitech yesterday - your unit needs to be firmware v1.1 to use it but they include a firmware updater in the downloadable software bundle - the firmware upgrade was very easy and you just need to perform a factory reset to complete the task = wich again was very easy.

The manual is excellent and detailed (but has less background and explanation of effects and amps than the Line 6 Manuals) and Digitech have made it very small and compact this time instead of the A4 tome they usually put out.

well to be honest it does feel a little weak - the plastic knobs and pedals feel pretty breakable i dont think it would put up with someone stomping on it at a gig - the casing is rock solid though and the expression pedal is pretty tough and made out of metal - but i do worry about those plastic componenets. But its early days so i cant really give a rating on this yet and it probably helps to keep the cost of the unit down wich makes it more accessable.

Well theyve been cool so far - i feel they want to get everything just right with the release of these new units - i like what theyve done so far with the support on their sound community pages and the softweare downloads and clear instructions. we'll see i guess.

If you are a beginner guitarist who wants to try recording aswell as jamming, or if you are a 14 year old shredder with no money this thing is made for you - and if you are an experienced player or just have christmas GAS and some cash burning a hole in your pocket you should definately check this out. Like i said i really like the amp and cabinet models - but even if you dont the stompboxes and WHA/Whammy makes it a worthwhile purchase - very small footprint aswell - im trying to remember if my RPX400 was bigger - i dont think it was.

I know that i like it as much as my Toneport - and i DEFINATELY like it more than the GNX3000 (i tried to love that unit but there was something not right there) i have fond memoeries of my old trusty RPX400 and its a good feeling to come back to the product in its new snazzy incarnation.

i think digitech have made a lot of very clever moves on this one - they have obviosuly been listening to the customer feedback (or griping!) and they have come up with a really neat focused product that is within the reach of anyone, and it has the edge on a lot of the competition because it is so low priced yet sounds amazing. Im really impressed and very happy with my purchase.

but a good caveat would be that if you're not sure - wait a few months to see if there are any design flaws that are waiting to reveal themselves - i thought about that but i couldnt wait and im enjoying it a lot so sod it! :)