All user reviews for the DigiTech RP100

Considering this unit has a little built in drum machine, for the low price (available used for $20-$50), its a great value. Nothing like playing along to drum tracks to improve your playing and improvisation. As a multi effects unit, it has alot of effects (some good, some not), alot of distortions and sounds (some good, some not), and the ability to save 40 of your own tailored sounds (this is great). I personally didn't like most presets in the unit (and almost gave it away), but you can create some genuinely nice sounding sounds w/effects as your personal presets. The noise gate works great (nice for noisy high gain amps). In short, it's easy to write this unit off as kinda crappy if you don't spend some time with it. There are some very nice sounds lurking within if you have a little patience and get to know the unit. Then add a little drum machine, noise gate, and tuner......and it becomes a steal at say $30 or $50 bucks used these days. Plenty worth picking one up for that low investment. Metal chassis too, built rugged.

This was a gift given my by my dad for my birthday a little over a year ago. He paid $160 Canadian for it. It was bought at a store in Fort Frances Ontario Canada.

The Unit does have a lot of sounds and effects. It's easy to program (although it takes a long time) and generally easy to use. It would be an alright pedal for beginners doing their first recordings. It really is a beginner's tool. But for those people who don't have a lot of money, or nice equipment, it basically does the trick for practice or studio.

I would NEVER use this pedal live. I've played a lot of shows since i got it, and i've never taken it to any of them. there is absolutely NO volume synchronization between effects. the distortions are way to loud compared to the soft sounds. If you ever have to switch between soft to distortion in a song, PRAY that you have a nice volume pedal.

It's also not very sturdy. 2 of the nobs have broken off, and all of a sudden, the built in tuner started thinking my C tuning was a G# tuning. i have no idea how that happened. So now i need to borrow my bassists tuner for gigs.

the construction is simple, medal casing around cheap plastic buttons. The casing feels sturdy, but the buttons feel really easy to break (as they are) and like i said earlier, the sound quality is passable.

Bottom line, If you are a beginner, and you do some studio work, and dont have a lot of money, than this is an alright pedal. You will need to spend time reprogramming the settings, and you will end up replacing it eventually, but it's an alright pedal in a pinch. but NEVER use it live unless you have a nice volume pedal that wont change pitch.

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i got my RP100 for christmas from www.musiciansfriend.com and it costed around $80. I had had my guitar for a while (not a very good one) and i thought it would be fun to get something to make playing guitar more exciting.

It combines many interesting effects into one unit at a reasonable price. A good product for a beginner guitarist. It has a cool drum simulator. Pretty cool different amp types to simulate through the pedal.

The effects don't sound excellent...hard to customize your own effects... causes a jumble of cords... you need to buy your own adaptor plug (batteries don't last very long)... lots of effects sound the same (loud and distorted)

I would say pretty good quality. An individual pedal for each effect would sound better... but it would be much more money and maybe harder to work with. I think that the RP100 would be better if it had more buttons on it, making the process of creating your own effects easier. I just find that the way it's built makes the pedal difficult to work with.

If you want 40 effects, get this. I have found that i think i would rather have like 6 seperate pedals... each with their own effect. I would describe this as "so-so". Not excellent, just okay. I would instead find out which effects you would want to use with your guitar.

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I bought this unit at Ken Stanton, a local music store in Atlanta, Georgia. I only paid $90 for it. Heard great things about it and that the effects were incredible especially for the money.

The rp-100 has many effects including 9 amp modelings and lots and lots of other effects. These include anything from reverb to music compression. Lets you create your own sound or use 40 of the factory presets. Also includes 40 artist presets. You can also add an effect pedal from digitech or boss. I added my digitech metal master and got incredibe new sounds and variations. Lets you mix up to 11 different effects at once and save them to th rp-100 itself.

The only thing I didn't like was the qality of distortion. It sounds great though if you add a effects pedal. The only problem is you have to pay another $100 or so for the distortion pedal.

The rp-100 is made out of medal so it holds up incredibly well. The only flaw is that it has plastic pedals.

Great effects processor especially for under $100. Lets you do anything you could dream of.

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I bought this online for 80 bucks. I used the Musician's Friend site. The service from them was absolutely awesome.

I think its stupid to buy an amp just because of the effects that it has. Amps should sound good with the signal you normally run. Also, you can get amps much cheaper (and in my mind, much better) by purchasing models that just have a few channels and some whopping volume. This pedal is the perfect addition to one of those amps. It's got lots of modeling for solos, cool riffs, or any style you want to play.

The one thing that makes stomp boxes better than this is the fact that you can turn them on and off and your signal stays playing out the amp. Unfortunately, if you want to play a song using 2 or more presets, there is a slight delay between the shift. It doesn't work well for that. But it is excellent for shifting styles between songs.

It's not a solid as my other Digitech stompbox. It's made of thin, lightweight metal and has plastic pedals to shift presets. I would rather have it sturdier, but it hasn't taken any damage as of yet. If you got the deal from Digitech that offered a GIG pak, you would receive a bag to keep it in while traveling. That might be a good idea.

This product is awesome. It provides unlimited styles. It can produce a Mesa Boogie rectifier, a Marshall Stack, and lots of other amp models from Fender, Vox, and many more. Then, you can top it off with 12 different kinds of effects, a few variations of delay, and a cluster of reverbs. This is a fun product to fool around with.

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It cost me like $100 in a store here in mexico

Well I've had this unit for a year now and I like the fact that you can edit everything very easily almost without any effort

Sounds are a bit confusing, I mean the effects do not sound like real or like the quality y expected. Also the tuner in the unit is very weird, it doesn't stay still, tunning your guitar in this is really desesperating. The switches are very close to each other and make very difficult to press one without touching the other, specially if you are singing and can't get distracted watching your feet.

It's real hard metal but I would have to say mine got broken on the jack, it really suprised me cause one day I was playing and suddenly it started sounding distortion instead of my guitar sounds. I haven't fixed it yet but I'm going to get a Boss Me-33 instead, I've read some really good reviews about it.

It's a good effect processor but I think there are a lot better one's in the same price. If I was with $100 I'd rather buy a zoom.

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I ordered this online at Musician's Friend. It cost 80 dollars.

My amp was pretty plain. It had only equalization, volume, and distortion. This multi-effect pedal opened doors of possibility. With huge delays, choruses, flanges, and pretty much every effect I can think of, this pedal changed my sound a lot. It can really make a good song great.

The ads are kind of misleading. It states that the pedal can run 8 effects at once. I assumed that meant you could run eight different chorus effects, flanges, phasers, etc. Instead, I found that you could only run 1 of those at a time in combination with other things such as pickup and amp modeling. Still, the amp modeling has come in handy. And the reverb sounds cool when recording songs that are supposed to be in certain places (open meadow, church, etc.)

It's not as durable as my stomp box. It is made of thin metal. If it was any heavier, the pedal would probably weigh a ton. Still, I don't think it would take much abuse. Luckily, I received a free gig bag for it when I bought it.

If you are running a standard amp with no effects, than this little pedal is perfect for you. If you already have effects in your amp - More power to 'ya.

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i strangely never bought this!i was given it by my music teacher because it was old stock!it had never been used ever for 2 years.

i think the effects are top quality!it also
looks real good.my favorite effect is the
AUTO YA it is just fab!there is also some nice strange effects.

i dont like the fact that theres no expression pedal.i also dont like the plastic pedals!i think that if you are not careful the pedals may break.

apart from the pedals i think it is beautifully made.i haven't had it long enough though to give an opinion but,from the look of it,it seems as if it will be bomb proof.


all in all a nice pedal,very econmical (i know the average price!) and also can be used for anyone.i have heard that it can be put to good use by plugging it into a p.a/moniter but, i haven't tried it yet.

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Had this gig coming up and I started looking out for an affordable multi effects processor for my guitar. The one that caught my eye was Digitech RP-100 with a price tag of under $100 ($90 to be more precise)

The RP-100 packs in quite a lot of good features and each effect is better than the the other. The range of distortion that is available is quite extensive. Each effect can be customized to suit your liking. Programming effets is quite easy since you can select one of the 40 presets available and then store upto 40 presets of your own whole retaining the factory presets too. The built in rhythm (drum machine) is quite useful for those who prefer to practice alone.

There is nothing I could think of except an expression pedal (which is available on the RP-200)

Although they look quite solid, they are quite light and may tend to move around if you're stepping on them too often. They're tough and can take a lot of beating.

For anyone who is looking for something under $100, I'd say the RP-100 won't let you down. And to make things easier, over 300 presets are available on the net (be patient & prepared to spend time programming each of them) In short, its value for your money.

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Bought this unit at Guitar Center in 2001 for $99.00 US.

On first read, this can be a great little multieffects unit for both beginners and heads to dink around with. Its got a stack of effects, some great and some not so great but for the beginner, it is an inexpensive way to learn how to shape a guitar sound that is all your own and become acquainted with using effects chains.

One thing critics of this box need to understand is that this is an ampmodeler with other effects - not a ditstortion modeler. This means that whatever gain/overdrive characteristics you hear from any of the factory sets are based off of how the amp models are being "driven" via the gain setting. If you use distortion boxes before your RP100, you may want to think of the RP100 as your amp and so select an amp to use (amp modeler) and adjust the gain as if you were running a distortion before the amp.

This also means that any amp modeling you use may be "colored", even negatively, by plugging your output into another amp. It would be like running a mic'd signal from one amp and running that into another. Could be messy, or could sound glorious.

In this way, the RP100 is great for recording and playing live if you do directly into PA mains/monitors. If you like using an amp, I suggest turning the amp modeler off first and using the effects stack into your amp and see how that works.

For $100.00 dollars there is nothing to really complain about. I do wish the process of switching between patches would be momentary with on delay - then I could really use it like a footswitch on an amp. As is, when you switch mid-song, there is a noticeable delay and moment of silence between switches. In this way, this it truly NOT a stompbox.

The construction is great. The plastic footswitches might seem suspect but I am rough on stuff and they are holding up fine. The knobs/pots are ok. After over 1.5 years, some of my knobs are a bit scratchy when turning but not after they are set. Since I don't adjust the knobs mid-song it really doesn't matter to me.

Great investment for beginners and live gigging for direct to PA setups.

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Alto Music, Middletown $99

Solid construction and easy to figure out. Will never replace a real amp, but some of the sounds are pretty good for my home recording situation. The sounds I generally go for are Neil Young/Crazy Horse, Nirvanaish/Foo fighterish, trashy grunge, and Radio Head, Velvet Underground. I worked up a nice clean tremelo that was nice and I was able to approximate most of the grungier sounds within reason. I like the Gain knob feature.

Can't smoothy switch between two sounds, like playing a distortion then punching into a break with a heavier distortion. Some of the other effects are very limited but I don't use them much anyway. I haven't found the gate very useful and the compressor is not musical at all.

Solid. The buttons and knobs seem to do what they are intended to do. Fairly logical layout.

There seem to be many of you who feel the need to trash this unit because the box can't get sounds that approximate the sound you get with your '59 les paul through a Vintage Marshall. Look, it's a digital box that cost $99. Get over it. Look at it for what it is. Why are you trying to bring this thing on to the stage anyway? I bought this unit to do direct recording in my apartment, mainly to put together demos of song ideas to bring to band practice. For that I think this pedal will be great. I think with some tweaking, you will be able to get useful sounds but if you are really that particular about your sound, you shouldn't be worrying about what this $99 digital effects box sounds like anyway.

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The main reason i wanted this pedal was because it was real cheap, something like 100 dollars. After just playing out of the amp, I wanted some cool effects to go with it.

I like the effects, they are genuine, as if they were stomp boxes, except digital. It's not a big pedal, so it doesn't take up that much space on stage or in my room. The colors of the pedal are cool; they sparkle and stuff. Other than all that, that's about it.

There's about as much bad stuff about this pedal as there is good stuff. The pickup/wah simulator absolutely sucks. SUCKS! don't use this--ever. It's a fake disguise thingy that makes single coils sound like humbuckers--totally cheap. the compressor is bad to on this, so use a seperate stomp box compressor. the preamp settings are all unreal too. They too "disguise" but instead of the guitar, the amp! Supposedly, your amp can sound like a fender, Mesa Boogie, Marshall, Vox, and others, and of course, it doesn't work.

Construction is good. Strong metal case. Quality of the overall pedal is good, but the power input for the 9V ac adaptor is very delicate, and the one on mine doesn't work anymore. Whoever wrote the other review on this product has the same problem.

I guess this pedal is ok, but in some ways just....cheesy. I can't think of any other words. It's kind of like the Danelectro shift daddy. Although, Digitech and Danelectro are EXCELLENT brands. EXCELLENT. It's their pedals (not all, just some) that are cheesy. Although, this pedal is great for EFFECTS. It's like any other. It's great. Just make sure that you don't use the "disguise" settings.

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I got this pedal for Christmas about three years ago, year 2000, I believe. My parents told me they payed exactly $100 for it. I wanted and got this pedal because I had never experienced using effects, so I wanted to start off with something interesting and new to me.

What I like about this pedal the most is probably its construction. It's in a strong metal chassis, and has taken many beatings from me. The effects are fairly good, considering how much people hate digital and rack-mount units. Its got a nice Flanger, phaser, and chorus. Power wise, it can run on a 9V ac adaptor, or 6 AA batteries. It's very easy to use; I didn't even need the manual. It has a variety of many affects: chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo, vibe, vibrato, whammy, envelope (automatic wah), and auto yah, and some others.

The colors of this pedal are pathetic. The metal chassis sparkles, and the knobs contrast the color of the metal. I don't care much for color though. The reverb on this thing absolutely sucks. It is supposedly has a different reverb for different environments, but each one sounds terrible, with the exception of Amplitheater reverb. I don't like digital units that much; I prefer using seperate stomp boxes and wahs. I don't like the pickup/wah simulator on this pedal; it is supposed to make single-coil pickups sound like humbuckers (if you so choose to) and humbuckers sound like single-coil pickups. This all sounds extremely fake. Totally ridiculous. Let your guitar be what it is, not what it's not. All this cheesy stuff disguises the true tone of your guitar, which is good, if you're ashamed of your guitar. If you take pride in the tone of your guitar, don't use the pickup/wah simulator. Another thing is that sounds ridiculously fake is the preamp settings. For example: you have the ability to make your amp sound like a Fender, a Marshall, and many other amps. This is pathetic. Number one, as you might have guessed, is that your amp sounds nothing like a Fender, or any of the other settings. Number two, when performing, each preset has a different volume when using the preamp settings. The third thing that sucks, is the cabinet/mic/gate settings. The sound coming out is already set by a microphone. In other words, it's as if your amp is a speaker, and the real tone is coming from a different amp. All this sucks.

The construction is good. As mentioned above, it is in a metal chassis, and is very strong. As for the quality.....is a different story. My RP100's power slot (for the 9V ac adaptor)has gone bad, and i have to use batteries, which is a pain. Every week I have to buy new batteries. I've repeatedly tried to fix it, and i've taken it to the shop many times. No good. Try to be extra careful with the power source slot, cause it's really delicate. Other than this, the quality is great. Mine has many other problems, but aren't Digitech's fault, instead are the fault of some friends of mine, who spilt coke all over my pedal.

Don't get me wrong. I may seem really harsh. Digitech is a great brand, but not all that good for the Blues and rock and roll and stuff. This isn't the only digitech pedal I have. This is a good pedal for you if you just want it for the effects, and if you turn of the fake settings. It is ok for Blues, but this pedal is mainly for heavier music, and funky stuff. I rate this product a 3. What gives it the three points are the effects, which are no different from stomp boxes, they are genuine. I take off two points because of all the fake settings.

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I bought this pedal for $190 bucks with the ac adapter at Tom Lee music in Vancouver.

This is an all around pretty good pedal.It is way better than anything in it's price range.I know a few people who went and got Zoom pedals and this is far superior.The reason that I first got interested in it was because of the price.just to buy one boss pedal in Canada can run you about $125 but this thing has more effects than I know what to do with and it was only about 70 bucks more than that.The effects are of good sound quality also this unit is pretty tough too.

I haven't really found anything that I really dislike about it yet and I've had it for more than a year.I haven't really used any auto wah effects before but I found this one to be kind of harsh.Other than that nothing.

I haven't had any problems with it yet.I haven't dropped it really bad yet but it's been stomped pretty good a few times and no problems.

It has lots of effects, a tuner, it's pretty tough and it's cheap.I would definitely recomend this pedal.I've been playing guitar for about four years so I'm not a beginner but I'm also by no means professional.I'm sure that eventually I'll want something better.If I do descide to move up to something more advanced I would definitely look for a Digitech.

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well i had previous owned a zoom processor, and it was ok but the delay wasnt as user friendly
as i woulda liked. after getting fed up with it i sold it and bought this unit...for like $129,00 us...

inexpensive.....well built......some of the effects are
kinda cool as well....and the fact that it has a headphone jack on it...
it once helped me keep my sanity during the hell of a greyhound trip


well, at first i liked it alot....and eventually after i edited
all the presets to what i liked...(for the most part)....i realized
that switching between presets wasnt seamless...like all the lovely
individual stompboxes...(i.e. boss HM2 and the likes) also, when
recording the distortion leaves what can only be described as a thin
blanket over the dynamics of the sound...really makes the guitar
almost un-intelegable....individual notes are lost

solid construction but when it comes down to it....the sound is what is important

not bad if you are using to write songs and stuff....i mean if you have a practice amp
and are sitting in your living room practicing...it is awesome...i mean it also comes
with a glorified metronome included and that is great for practicing, but recording is
kinda rough and well your live sound is kinda mushy with it...so there....

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It was a gift, but the list price at Brook Mays Music was $99.99

Things I like:
1. The Amp Modeling: I have a solid state Crate amp, but long for Tube sounds. THis gets me as close as I can without getting a tube amp. Several different amp models give each effect a different "flavor."
2. Great barrage of effects: Each effect is fully programmable and sounds full and rich. I also like the auto wah and rotating speaker effects quite a bit.
3. Storage: It's easy to program your own sounds in store them as presets. I have three or four effects groups I switch between as I lead the worship service at my church.
4. Built-in drum machine: I know it sounds cheesy, but I've found it fun and even pretty useful when I'm jamming by myself. lots of preset tracks here, as well.

I don't have a volume pedal, so I'm not able to control the dynamic effects like wah and ya. For a built in Pedal, you need to get the RP200, and spend an extra 50 bucks.

Construction of the RP100 can only be described as "Solid." I don't leave it in one place very much, and don't have a case to fit it, so it gets banged around quite a bit, but hasn't lost a step. The stomp pedals are durable, as well. The display is also clear and easy to read from a standing position.

I'd recommend this unit wholeheartedly to anyone with a solid-=state amp who's looking for some "tube tone" to go along with a ton of effects. If you don't alredy have a volume pedal, though, you would be better suited with the RP200, which includes a volume/Wah pedal as part of the unit.

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I acquired this fine piece of equipment from Academy Of Sound in Manchester for £90

The features i like about this equipment is that it has a metal case which makes this a very durable and reliable piece of equipment because if any of you guys are as heavy footed as me you're gonna need it. The Digitech RP100 has a total of 80 different effects and is very easy to use and adjust. The many effects range from Tremolo, Vibrato ,AutoYah ,Ping-Pong Delay, Chorus and Detune (one of my favourites especially with a bit of chorus). There are a total of 9 amp modellings on it these range from a rectifier based on a mesa bogie double rectifier (sounds really cool), an amp called the high gain which gives a lot of extra distortion also a fuzz box which gives a classic sound, there are also clean amp models based on amps by fender and one which makes your electric guitar sound like an acoustic. The other cool things about the RP100 is that if you have a single coil guitar you can change the sound to a humbucker and vice-versa if you have humbucking pickups. There are a lot of extra things you can alter like the mic setup this allows you to get the extreme heavy sound you get when you mic up your amp or if you prefer you can get nice bright sound out of it. Finally there is a chromatic tuner built in so you can easily stay in tune or alter it if you wish.

The only thing i dislike about this is that it doesnt come with wah wah but hey for £90 come on thats life.

The design is very simple and sturdy as Im over six foot weigh as much as a baby dinosaur and still havent come close to breaking it.

You might be thinking all that technology is going to make it sound like a computer not a guitar but it realy does work thats why its getting the top score sa it really is that good and the only way youre gonna find out yourself so go on ......hours of noodlin' await

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i got this at my local guitar center, i dunno if it was on sale or not, for $99.99. A great deal.

It does everything for you, coming with 40 presets that you can do variations of. A wah control in lets you hook up an expression pedal. You can also change the pickup tones, from humbucker to single coil. Amp modeling, cabinet modeling and a noise gate really add to this great box.

The first time i tried it with the batteries in, the whole unit went haywire. The guy at the store said that you have to use the adapter or it does that, after trying it and a few other units. So i bought the adaptor ($19) but i really would have preferred batteries for some gigs.

Durable. Some kind of metal shell, with high durability plastic knobs and footswitches.

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I bought the RP100 at Brook-Mays for $100 after trying several comparably priced guitar processors.

The quality of the imulations and effects were great.

A few of the pre-programmed effects combinations are a little over the top, but they are easily edited.

I was impressed with what a sturdy little unit the RP100 is. I think it will survive quit a bit of use and abuse.

If I ever start playing big gigs I might move up to the more professional level units, but for the playing I do now, this is a great little processor. The sound quality is as good as the stand-alone effects it emulates.

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Purchased for me as a gift. Lists for $99.95(US) on Musiciansfriend.com -- Purchase price at Brook Mays local store was $129.95

The RP 100 does it all! 12 fully-controllable effects (you can use all 12 simultaneously....probably wouldn't WANT to, but you could...), and 12 adjustable amp modeling effects, PLUS a drum machine (for playing alone) and a tuner which you has presets for standard OR alternate tunings. You can stick with the 40 standard presets, or enter in 40 of your own. I began using it immediately, leading worship at my church.

The power supply is not included, as I thought it should be (especially if purchased at the list price). it's an extra $25-30, depending on where you purchase.

Shell is constructed of aluminum -- pretty sturdy -- Digital display is easy to read from far off. All effects are easily controlled by just three knobs, and a dual footswitches let you scroll up and down through the presets.

The RP 100 expands the scope of your current amp, and the effects sound great whether plugged in to an electric or acoustic. The quality of sound and range of effects pretty much eliminates the need for other pedals.

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I bought this little miracle from Musicians Friend. It cost only $99. But you have to get the power supply becouse it eats batteries like a person who's been on slim fast for a month would eat oreos after just discovering a cookie jar full of 'em in the back of the cupboard!

You might get 2-4 hours with good quality battaries. That becomes very expensive after a while. Buying 6 AA batteries every week is not something I plan on doing, so I got the power supply.I guess if you used those rechargeable batteries it would be OK.

I bought it because I've always wanted a pile of effects (there's something like 24 in this unit) to goof around with, the price is great, and I heard it had better quality sound than the competition in this price range. I compaered it to the Korg Tone Works AX1G, The Zoom 505II and buying individual effects. The Digigtech RP100 suited my situation most. I wanted something to plug straight into a power amp or mixer, record on my computer and jam at night with my head phones.




First thing I like about this is the quality of the sound. There isn't terrible back ground noise and when you use the noise gate it eliminates all back ground when your not playing. I plugged this thing in and turned up the volume on my amp and I thought it was brock becouse I didn't hear any humm, buzzing or hissing. so I turned up the amp even more thinking "oh my god, it's broke my amp!" So I hit a power chord, while still crouched on the floor dierectly in front of the 2 15" speakers, and it roared out and almost knocked my over. I was totally shocked! The sound was really good.



I love the amp sims. I love the way they work. You see this box actually doesn't have distortion effects. The distortion is created by cranking the gain knob on the amp sims the way a real tube amp would work. Not all the amp models can distort, some are just clean sounds. The ones I like best are the stack, high gain, tweed, and the black face. I like to play metal(metallica, pantera, etc) and this thing is awsome for that. But I also like to play a little blues now and then and the Tweed amp is perfect, it it's clean when you pick soft but gets angry and distorted when you pick the strings hard. The black face amp is great for playing clean stuff, it has a awsome bass and sweet clear highs.



The other thing I like about this is the usability. It's easy to use and has knobs on it. It is easy to fine tune the settings. A lot of the settings are controlable from 0 to 99. This allows you to get the exact amount of effect, volume or whatever. All the competition use anoying little buttons and most of the other units are not as fine tunable. The 'matrix' that you use to program it looks like some thing from star treck. Phrases like "Crank it up scotty" come to mind.It even has an effect called a Phaser! I'm not sure if you can kill alians with it though.



I like the built in drum machine. It is very very usefull for practice and is a whole lot more exciting than the boring clicking of a metranome. This is essential for practicing, it has helped my playing out a lot. There's all kinds of different styles and you can change the tempo. TIP:to find out the drum track styles (blues, techno, metal etc.) you have to go to www.digitech.com becouse they didn't print them in the manual for some reason.



I love the flexability of the delay effects. You get analog, digital, and ping pong. and they are all totally controlable.



The selection and quality of the reverbs is shocking. Hall, spring, Plate, room, church...whatever you want it's got it. and they are also totally controlable.This is one of the best features on the peddle without a doubt.



Other stuff like chromatic tuner and pickup simulators are cool as well.



The major thing that I like about this is the price. $90 for a Boss Metal Zone + $30 for a cheap used noise gate + $25 for two power supplies + $50 for a decent reverb=$195...obviously the RP100 is a better deal. It's a miracle you can get all this good quality sound out of a little dinky box that only costs $118.99 ($99+19.99 power supply). Wow...technology is amazing, but i'm still waiting for those flying cars si-fi movies have been promising us for years! Or at least a flying motercycle



Flexibility of aplication. You can plug it into an amp, direct into a mixer, use as a head phone amp, and you can do direct recording with it. I use it plugged right into a power amp and have great results. I have also recorded stuff on my computer using the line-in jack on my sound card and had better than expected results. Though it's no line6 POD, but it won't eat your bank account up.



It's Stereo. This is good for recording, if you have two amps, or one stereo amp. It's stereo through the headphones too. This is great fo the flanger and the ping pong delays.



Overall I love this thing, it is good for all styles and has a wide selection of usable effects. Some other boxes have more effects but I would never use a lot of them, or they just sound bad. The tone quality of the Rp100 seems to impress a lot of people, including me. I never believed for this much money you could get something like this. Wow



Major thing I don't like? The Wha Wha. It sounds like a wha wha..sort of. but it just has a bad sound quality. It has some weird back ground noise hissing and it's not very proffessional sounding. It sounds like a wha wha but just a really bad quality one. The tone of it sucks. The pitch shifter is not all that grand but at least it doesn't mangle up the tone of your guitar and add swirly hissing sounds. I can't believe that wha sound comes from the same boxas the other effects! The other effects and amp models are clean and profesional sounding. The wha is definatly the runt of the RP100's family of effects.



The pitch shifter is disapointing. mainly becouse you can't turn off the original signal and just hear the down tuned signal. It plays the original guitar signal and mixes it with the shifted one and it sounds very electronic. It would be way more usable if you could turn of the original signal.



The rotary speaker effect wasn't as wild as I thought it would be.



The volume on the head phones is too low. On some of the clean setting you can hear your pick hiting the strings.You can solve this by turning up the amp level and/or the eq settings while your editing the patch.Lets say your eq setting are bass-4 mid-0 treble-5. Turn them all up about 5, so your new sdetting would be bass-9 mid-5 treble-10. But that is a pain in the butt and there should be higher volume to start with.



The boutique and hot rod amp models aren't all that good. The fuzz is a little dissapointing too. The acoustic simulator is no good at all.



A Jam along jack would be cool, so you can play with your favorite bands or practice tapes. You could jam with Britney spears or Nsync, just like all guitar players dream of doing!!!!



Uses batteries up to quickly. I would like to use batteries for jamming in the back yard or in the park. You can use batteries but I just wish it didn't use them up so fast. It's a shame becouse this thing is so portable.



One thing I don't like is that digitech have released a RP200! it is basically a RP100 with a built in Expression pedal and it comes with a power supply. For $149 it's clearly a better value than the Rp100. It also has something like 2 new effects in it and the expression pedal can be used to control all the effects and the gain on the amp models. On the RP100 if you plug a volume pedal in you can only use it as a volume pedal, wha pedal, and Wammy pedal. So I would check out the RP200 if I was you. And you get a power supply included! Check it out, only $149 from musicians friend and some other dealers.



I would like to mix effects like the flanger and the phaser but can't. a bunch of effects are in one section and you can only choose one at a time. The compresion, delay, reverb, wha wha, pick up simulator are all in different sections . But the chorus, flanger, phaser, tremelo, panner, vibrato, rotary, auto ya, envlope filter, detune, pitch shifter and whammy are all in the same section and you can only choose on at a time. So you can run the choruss through the delay and then through a reverb but you couldn't run the chorus through the wammy. A lot of the lower processors have similar setups. with individual boxes you can put a chorus, flanger and pitch shifter one after the otherif you wanted to, but the lower price processors don't allow this. Oh well you can't have everything, especially not for $99!



The construction is good. It's made out of aluminum and seems to be tough. The foot pedals are plastic but they seem to be pretty darn tough and can take a stomping. The knobs are the thing I would worry about. They seem like the're flimsy and could break of if stepped on.



I don't advocate stomping the heck out of any equipment, but if you play drunk on stage, and you abuse your equipment you might want to look for something else. For onstage use the RP2000 and similar processors are better. it's tougher and is much more suited for stage life. Personally I would use this on stage, but I don't play in a band so I'm speaking from inexperience. I try to look after my equipment, but I can imagine a lead singer stomping around like a retarded elephant and smashing the knobs off this thing! And if the drummer puked on it you could have some problems with shorting out. If that happened I would put the singers head through the drummers drums one by one and you don't even want to know where I would put the microphone!!



Overall This thing is the best bang for your buck. Highlights of the RP100 are the good selection of amp models, great reverbs, wide selection of delays, and good over all sound quality. There is vertually no back ground with the noise gate. The wha sucks and a few of the amp models are disapointing. Being able to plug this direct into a tape recorder, or your computer to record with is very usefull.



I don't think it's for everyone, if you are just looking for a few effects like reverb, chorus then I don't know if this is for you. Individual pedals can be aranged in diferent sequences and if your a seasoned player this may be desireable. This is mostly suitable for begginers to intermediate. Some Pro's may like this but others hate this and all digital stuff. Some people swear that you have to use only vintage Tube Screamers and others say the new ones sound just as good, and others don't like Tube Screamers at all! It's all opinion and your tone is a very personal thing. I would urge everyone to at least try it out. Just for the noise gate, the delays and the reverbs I think this thing will save you money.



I ordered it online without even hearing it.I didn't have a car at the time and couldn't get a lift. I could return it in 45 days if I didn't like it so I took the chance. But I would test it out first if I was you.



The bottom line with any of these processors is the sound and I think this has a good range of sounds to please most people.



I would advise you to look in a catalog, your local music or online and find out what's available in your pice range. Then go to places like Music Gear Review ( that's the website your looking at now!), and check out what people are saying about all the different equipment in your price range. Go to the manufacturers website and try to fid manuals. Read them to get familiar with the units, then take a trip to the music store and try out the ones you like. If you can't find the manuals and you don't know how to use something, ask the salesman to help you. Try to use similar guitars and amps to your own. If you can't get to the store (i don't have a car right now and couldn't arange a lift.) I would recomend using something like the musiciansfriend catalog to order from. They allow you to return stuff within 45 days and deliver quickly. From the day I mailed of my order to the day I recieved it was less than 2 weeks.



I ordered the RP100 without hearing becouse at www.digitech.com they have a sound sample thing. Any company that stands by their products like that are usally good quality. You can hear what the presets sound like and I thought it sounded good. I think it sound better in real life than it did on those recordings but they are a good represntation of the RP100(and RP200). But everyone has different amps, guitars and playing styles so be prapered to return it. It is programable so you can get many more sounds out of it than the presets in the recordings.



Overall goood quality at good price, try it out. I would give it 5 out of 5 but they have the RP200 out now so I only give it 4. I think most people will be happier with the RP200. All the effects, amp models etc. sound the same just a few extras and built in expresion pedal. Take your time to find the right processor for you, your style is yours and you are the one who's spending the money. Good luck in your effect hunting!



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I got this unit as an early christmas present at my local guitar store. My whole goal their was to buy some strings for my acoustic (they had a huge sale that day and I was stringless, so.....)guitar. First thing I did (everytime I go I do this) was play with some peddles, they then showed me the newest effects proccessor from DigiTech and my dad offered to buy it for me as an early christmas present. He payed $100 on sale, its usually $140, ad to that the $20 power adapter.


First reason I bought it was I wanted numerous pedals, phaser, whammy pedal, delay, etc; but they where all so expensive, I then tried it and got confused as hell as how to work it, then a sales person helped me and right away I start salivating. My dad then buys it for me and I take it home. After a little manual reading on yee'ol bowl I understood how to use it and found out it was quite simple. It has EVERY feature you would find on any other digitech device but way more compact. The things I really liked where the amp modeling, eq, and effects/delay. I could reproduce any bands sound in seconds.


The only thing that I did not like about this pedal was (in my opinion) the distortion was weak, so I got more cable and slapped my Ibanez smash box onto it and I was jammin to my hearts content.


First I thought. Sh*t, a plastic pedal, but after close examination I found it was made out of aluminum (yeah!) but the pedals themselves are made of plastic and I feel if you step on them to hard SNAP! but I really dont know since I dont jump on my pedals. The quality was very nice, everything worked the first time.


Fantastic proccessor, buy it instead of all the pedals you've always wanted. Its gotem!


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All the effects imaginable are available: delays and reverbs, modulation (chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo, ...), vivrato harmonizers (shiffter pitch, detune, whammy) and distortion (saturation, overdrive ...), wha -wha, the more modules as necessary compression, noise gate and note qualisation.A other ancillary effects such as Rotary speaker, auto wha ... not to mention the HP simulators, simulators of micro (humbucking / single), the acoustic simulator!
Modlisation's all about, all the effects are good for the price of this BCAN ages, like the trs trs amp simulators convincing.
Conection Rear: between jack, Stereo output jack (cord bridle ncssaire out in Stereo), taking power, headphone jack and conection of pedals 'expression.Le mtal case is sturdy and conditions rsistera LIVE.

Front, we have 2 pedals (selection of banks, tuner, bypass), an array of paramtres and control of a digital screen displaying simplistic numro value of bank or knobs allow paramtre.3 of varying values.

Note also a simple rhythm box but trs useful for playing mtronome.

UTILIZATION

This is a multi purpose extreme simplicity! We have 40 users and 40 programes factory. The programing of a bank is facilitated by LED lights next to being paramtres edition.
The pany that BCAN is to provide beginners only 3 paramtres select for each effect. For example, for the delay, the first potentiomtre numriques immediately imposes delays, or analog, combined with various intensities. In short, a helping hand, you select a time delay of a type and intensity.
This allows rglages fast, simple and effective ..... and the door of nophyte.
Side of the mdaille: the concentration of many of rglages potentiomtres 3, a combined display simplistic ncessite often use the information (too simple but sufficient).

SOUND QUALITY

All effects are good but it is the amp simulations remain the most under the Exceptional cost of the machine. Of distos dchirantes really much better than the RP5 I owned before. The wha-wha (3 modes) is also good trs.
Be careful, you can not compare the RP 100 a professional multi-effects rack, and of course the delays are not exceptional, the reverbs and chorus a little rough, the non Equalizeur Settings, microphone simulators means, and compression rgler difficult.
The simulator HP is effective, even the noise gate. Whammy pitch and others are fast.

I play a LAG Rockline "snake skin" in position pickup and conect my RP 100 is a body double Marshall Valvestate (by shunting the pramp) or via a high-end HP simulator (the price of the RP 100 ) on a multi-numrique KORG.

OVERALL OPINION

Multi-purpose trs persuasive, versatile and practical, the size of a double pedals !!!!!!!!!!

BCAN a sturdy and lightweight, ultra-compact and autonomous (also works on battery), a price dfiant any concurence! The best value / quality-price of all multi-effects of all time.

Attention, it would be a shame to deprive an expression pedals (optional) volumes for the functions and wha-wha! Personally, I dja an expression pedals or purchase the RP 100 RP rather than the 200, but is much more convenient to have a fawn any pedals spar the main case, for the place or you want it (right foot, left foot ...).

OK, this is not a Triaxis or the TC-electronics, but a serious tear, and can play many wonders. This is an excellent product for beginners, advanced users to see nomads. The default for this BCAN noys are the standard potential available for a price as drisoire.

Pdagogique see the logical sense of the RP 100 is poustouflant. Welcome to Digitech, but beware, the sound of this very modern firm does not please everyone.