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Published on 07/02/04 at 15:00I purchased this unit from Musician's Friend for $99. I'm trying to build a small home recording studio and I don't have a guitar amp. I wanted an all-inclusive guitar effects unit that would take the place of an amp. The product's decription would lead you to believe it would everything you'd ever need...
The RP100A is easy to use. The owner's manual is well written and everything is clearly labeled.
The sound quality of the RP100A is less than desirable and certainly doesn't live up to it's billing. There are tons of effects available on the unit, but, honestly, none of them (except maybe the reverb) sounded very good. The distortion sounds decayed very nastily and it was very hard to get a balanced sound on the clean settings. To put it simply, it sounds more like a kid's toy than the high-end amps its trying to emulate. If you like drowning your guitar tone in an ocean of effects, this might work for you. But when I tried to tone down some of the effects, the resultant tone was rather crappy.
The unit did seem well-constructed. But I returned it to Musician's Friend (with no hassels, I might add) only a couple weeks after getting it.
This is not a unit for a serious musician. A 12 year old kid trying to wow his classmates might can use it. I can't. I think I'm just going to try to buy an amp...
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
The RP100A is easy to use. The owner's manual is well written and everything is clearly labeled.
The sound quality of the RP100A is less than desirable and certainly doesn't live up to it's billing. There are tons of effects available on the unit, but, honestly, none of them (except maybe the reverb) sounded very good. The distortion sounds decayed very nastily and it was very hard to get a balanced sound on the clean settings. To put it simply, it sounds more like a kid's toy than the high-end amps its trying to emulate. If you like drowning your guitar tone in an ocean of effects, this might work for you. But when I tried to tone down some of the effects, the resultant tone was rather crappy.
The unit did seem well-constructed. But I returned it to Musician's Friend (with no hassels, I might add) only a couple weeks after getting it.
This is not a unit for a serious musician. A 12 year old kid trying to wow his classmates might can use it. I can't. I think I'm just going to try to buy an amp...
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com