All user reviews for the DigiTech RP100

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.

For the price, the RP100 is a multi-effect rather complete, although there are much better now. There are whaw-wha, micro simulator, whammy, modeling amp, equalizer, compressor, speaker simulator, reducing breath effects (chorus, flanger, pitch ...), delay and reverb, as well as a small drum.
The connection is very simple, since it is limited to a guitar input and output 6.35 mm, an expression pedal input and a headphone jack and a power supply.
Side memory, there are 80 presets in all, including 40 modified.

UTILIZATION

This multi-effect is ideal for beginners, since it has an interface very easy to reach: a button to switch each effect review, 3 pots to set them up, and another button to save.
In addition, all the effects available are displayed: no need to go in the manual to unearth a few hidden features!
The manual itself, although complete, is relatively quick read.

SOUND QUALITY

Knowing what is available now at the same price (the multi-effect still 6 years old when writing this review), the RP100 is not exceptional.
The compressor is very good simulations of HP are quite effective, delays and reverbs are good.
As for the amp simulations, the clean sounds are of acceptable quality, but nothing exceptional. The distos are pretty fat: ideal for sound to Santana or Knopfler. You will also get a sound to the ACDC quite easily.
Unable however to have a lead sound worthy of the name.
Side effects, well, no more: the chorus lacks a little finesse, the pitch does not remove the original sound of the guitar, and some others seem a little superfluous (vibrato. ..)
Note that for the whammy and whawha you have to use a passive expression pedal (which is not particularly useful).

OVERALL OPINION

I use the RP100 for 5 years now, I must admit that getting a bit overwhelmed, especially limited, particularly for modeling amps.
I particularly appreciate its ease of use and sounds hot that you can get with.
The value is still good, but I think to start now, I will turn instead to the new ZOOM (G2. ..), more complete (with a particular smart pitcher), and with much better modeling Amp.