All user reviews of 5/5 for the DigiTech RP300

I bought this processor at Sam Ash in northern ohio for $220. I bought it because my amp (Peavey Rage 158) only has two channels and the lead is rather bad.

I really like the fact that there are 40 different settings, then the same 40 again, so you can change little things about the settings, (or the whole darn setting) and still keep the original around. This pedal is probably the only pedal I'll ever need. There are so many different effects and the fact that it has amp modeling and pickup modeling is just great. by the way, awesome built-in tuner

The only problem I can come up with is the fact that the pedal squeaks wicked loud. Loud to the point that its useless if your practicing,because its louder than an amp. This could probably be remedied with a little oil....or a louder amp
It also has a lot of features that I feel I'll probably never use. Like Learn-A-Lick. You record part of a song from a cd or something into the pedal and it slows it down. Great feature, but you need to buy the right cables to do it seperately.

The quality is great. I have had absolutely no problems so far.

Definitely worth the 220 I paid. From beginner to pro, country to metal, this pedal does it all.

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Bought it at Musician's Friend for $199 US.
Needed a good guitar FX unit for cheap.

Flexibility. Can get lots of sounds.

Nothing really. For the price it's great.

Not as solid as the Boss products but still seems plenty strong.

Good entry-level/intermediate FX unit. If you are an FX snob you may not like it but I love it. FX snobs will have to pay a lot more money to get bettter sounds.

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I bought the RP 300 at Guitar Center for $199.95. I had a RP1 for 7 years but it finally died. I chose Digitech because I like the sounds it makes and it's reasonably priced. I chose the RP 300 because you get the A/B switch for a little more than the RP 200.

The RP 300 has more sounds than you'll ever use. Digitech says you get 40 Factory settings and 40 User settings, but with the A/B switch it doubles the number of settings to 80 each. The A/B switch lets you change the amp type which changes the sound.

It's easy to program once you get used to the procedure. You can change a parameter, try it, change it again, try it over and over before you store the settings you like.

The expression pedal is neat. You can program it to inrease/decrease your effects parameter, or use it as a volume control. And by press the toe way down, voila, you're in wah-wah mode.

Not much. Some complain that your guitar cord gets caught under the expression pedal. I avoid this by looping the cord around either my music stand or microphone stand.

It takes a little getting used to the pedals being close together. You can't combine modulation effects into one preset.

Though solidly built, it's light weight makes it a little unstable if you're playing on carpet. I compensate by placing a piece of wood under it. I couldn't find a carrying case for it so I use the one that I had for my RP1.

So far, I'm very satisfied with the RP 300. The more I tweak it, the more I learn about using it. If you buy one, go to the Digitech web site and get the preset default settings (http://www.digitech.com/products/specs/RP300_Presets.pdf). Digitech also has a place where users can post patches they've created to share with others (http://www.digitech.com/patchlib/index.asp).

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I purchased this unit on an action on ebay for the express purpose of expanding my sound and adding varity to the few things I can do well on the guitar. Luckely, I used the 'buy it now' feature to puchase, with shipping included, the unit for 140$.

What's most impressive about the unit is the bang for you buck that it offers. The hardware has more effects than I could ever use in five sets, each effect being fullying adjustible as it would on a pedal giving only one effect. See, you preprogram your effects for a show so all you need do is stop on one pedal button to keep chaning your effect, sequentialy, throughout the song, with out the hassel of looking for which pedal to push. Of course, if all I need is distortion, I pull out my old Pevey Red. Honestly, you can not get board with the hardware, so it wont collect dust if you play, so you can count on it being well worth your money.

Thus far I have no difficulty working with the unit except for one minor detail: There is a delay occasionally when switching effects, but, I think it has to do with my guitar. After taking it apart, I may of botched the insides of it, causing the guitar to not output instantiously, instead of the pedal. But, other than that, the pedal has no negatives, in the opinion of a poor college student whoes happy with what he has, and can deal with distortion that is wicked cool, as some fellow guitarists occassionally comment.

The quality and constuction of the unit are simply out standing. Being thrown around, droped down a flight of steps, being stoped-on on a day to day basis, and still outputing as it did the day I bought it make this piece of hardware my thumbs up.

The Digitech RP300 is an affordable and excellent piece of hardware for anyone who wants a load of guitar pedals, but dosn't have the money to buy each individual one.

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I got this for $200 on MusiciansFriend.com as a first guitar effects unit.

I love the variety of effects, and its flexibility. None of the effects are top-notch, but theyre of generally good quality. Its very programmable, and a lot of fun. Overall, a great buy.

The expression pedal squeaks! Really badly! Also, the cables come out the back, as opposed to the side. This leads them to get caught under the expression pedal frequently.

Very sturdy, aluminum body. The foot-pedals are a bit small, and you might accidentally go into Learn-A-Lick mode until you get used to it. And the expression pedal squeaks. But overall, good construction.

Overall, a great buy. I'm very happy with my purchase. It's a great unit, especially as a first unit.

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from Musicians Friend, as a first effects unit, for $200

I think the RP300 is an excellent overall unit. I love the variety of effects, and the customability. The Amp A/B switch is very useful in making your own patches, and I consider it the main improvement over the RP200 (along with the two extra knobs).

A few things are wrong with it. First, the wires often get under the pedal, since they strangely come out the back, not the side of the unit. Also, the buttons are small and it is very easy to go into bypass or learn-a-lick mode by accident, when either changing patches or amp channels. And wah (and ya) effects aren't really all that great.

Durable, aluminum constrruction. No problems, but then again I only play at home, and I'm gentle with it. Sometimes the expression pedal squeaks.

Excellent piece of equipment, a great buy. Highly recommended.

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Crank amp modeling and digital multi-effects.
Modeling Amp: Fender Hot Rod Marshall JCM2000 (excellent), Mesa Boogie Rectifier, Vox, ...
Modeling firms: I do not use it because I think it's useless when you play on an amp.
Effects: Simulation of microphones, compressor, EQ, noise reduction, delay, reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo, panner, tremolo, rotary, yaya, synth talk, envelope, detune, pitch shifter, wah, Whammy, .. .
30 Rhythmic battery with adjustable tempo.
Ability to record up to 30 seconds of music for such a work by slowing the speed solo without changing tone.
40 factory presets + 40 presets can be edited via the pedals only.
On each preset, there is the possibility to put two amps interchangeable with the pedal AMP AB.
Wah, Whammy, Yaya, reverb, volume, gain, vibrato can be controlled in real time with the pedal.
You can not edit the preset on a computer because no USB or Midi but a database is available on http://www.digitech.com

UTILIZATION

The general config is pretty simple, but we must look at the manual for more advanced options.
Only problem c preset selector is sequential.

SOUND QUALITY

The efffets the RP300 is very powerful except for the fact that I was not too well understood the value of the Whammy, Wah is correct.
Saaturation of the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier is a little dirty for my taste against that of the famous Marshall JCM2000 is particularly successful.
This is one I use most often, by varying the gain and equalize it can play any style rock / metal (punk, neo, thrast, speed, heavy, death).
I use it with an Epiphone FlyingV is everything works fine.
There is no need to use the simulation of microphones if you have a guitar that matches the style you play.
Finally there are 16 amp models, including two specifically for clean and one that simulates an acoustic guitar.

OVERALL OPINION

It's been 6 months and I use digitech strengths are quality effects and modeling.
I also tried a Korg pedal AG1500 that costs the same price and level of saturation had no photos.
This trinket now costs 320 Euros but there's the top model RP400, which is exactly the same except that the RP300 has more new output and input jack and a USB direct and which aims to make decision- via the software.
The only advantage of the latter is a better convialité taken to make sound and it costs 480 Euros.
If you like big sounds warm and well with a crisp high quality max effects, look no further.

See all the features in the previous opinion, I have nothing to add except that the simulation of acoustic amp is zero. The rest is fine.

UTILIZATION

The use is very intuitive, no need to spend hours on the doc. The edition of the parameters is easy, the pedal is sturdy. All very good!

SOUND QUALITY

There are 40 presets and 40 user memories. I use a maximum of ten presets (the clear, the crunch, the highly saturated, wha wha, in short, the basic stuff). With my Charvel, it sounds great, for cons with my strat'Clapton is very disappointing, I admit that I do not understand ...

When I register, I plug the output of my RP300 straight into the table of my Portastudio Tascam analog and I have very good results as well as clean sounds as saturated.

OVERALL OPINION

I am very happy with this investment at great value prices, I use it for 1.5 years.
on the other hand, a little surprised that it does not sound with my Start 'but hey ..

Digitech RP 300:
Compressor, wah-wah, 12 amp simulators, equalizer, noise gate, 16 effects (chorus, flanger, tremolo, whammy, yaya, ...}, delay tremolo, 11 types of reverbs, + effects pedal as volume, whammy, tremolo ...

Pedal pretty gray Metallic, a screen shows the presets célectionné and its name, the AC adapter is provided.

UTILIZATION

Super easy to use when we read the record, we get all the sounds you want from blues rock grandpa, a Jimmy Hendrix and other StevieRay Vaughan, but also a sound very extreme neo-trach-core, we do what we want, it is very Polivalente.

SOUND QUALITY

I played on a épyphone SG, and also now with my latest acquisition, an Ibanez JS100. My amps are transistors: a fender and a marshall 15 watt 8080.

The effects are very good qualities, Wah-Wahs, amp simulators are exellent, we get it all sounds, it is something for everyone. There are 80 presets, 40 user, so there is room to save all your sounds, steps that happen in 3 seconds very easily.

Sounds worth a 10 because they are really excellent.

OVERALL OPINION

I use this pedal for 2 years, I bought 280 euros, it has declined since.
I find that it is not expensive considering the quality of this product in sound and ease of use.
I would do without hesitation that choice because this pedal is just great.

The rp300 offers every effect imaginable and provides the opportunity to tweak all of them as well. There are 40 effects and 80 slots for effects, so the second 40 are the same as the first 40. The effects processor is a stand-alone unit as each effect can be edited on the processor itself. It has only 1/4 inch inputs and outputs, but this pedal is not for pros, it's really just for fun. It is not rack mountable, it's a small pedal board.

UTILIZATION

The whole digitech interface is pretty easy to operate, though I have no idea about the la-a-lick function, I suppose reading the manual would suffice in finding out. Editing the effects is pretty simple. It doesn't overwhelm you with options, but it certainly doesn't limit you either. I remember I had to read the manual in the beginning to figure out how to edit and such, it was pretty straight-forward.

SOUND QUALITY

The effects are pretty decent. I never realized how different distortion could sound until I got this thing. My absolute favorite effect is "octave" because it models basslines while you play. I really like the "thirds" effect and the "sths" and of course the "wah." It's a really fun pedal.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had this pedal for about 4 years now. I love it, but I know it's really only for kicks and giggles. It is constructed poorly. The pedals themselves should have been metal and the circuit boards within should have been more secure. I have trouble with the channel selector at times. I use it to just jam because there are so many options, I think it was worth it to buy because it is so many effects in one. I dont regret not buying the crybaby instead. It's a good pedal for intermediate guitarists who are just looking for fun sounds.