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Diary Of An Axeman « Digitech 2112 SGS ... AWESOME !!!! »
Published on 11/16/23 at 23:44
Value For Money :
Excellent
Audience:
Advanced Users
I used to use a Eleven Rack and I was happy with it and had to learn to live with the digital sound .
One day, after I got my tax return, I decided to treat my self to some new gear. I went into a small guitar shop and seen the Digitech 2112 SGS and decided to try it out.
This old rack unit sounded much better than my Eleven Rack, those two 12ax7 tubes gave me some mind blowing tone and soon my Elleven Rack was sidelined for good.
And with the Control One MIDI board controller, it just added more flexibility.
I called Digitech and the nice lady that worked there printed out the owners manual and it helped me zero in on the features of this devine device.
I have a Digitech RP-12 and RP-1 on my effects pedalboard. Even the presets on those floor units sounded great in my 2112 unit !!!!
I went to my RP-12's harmonizer program and made a MIDI CC change that when I would push the root note go to the middle, the 3rd up go to the left and on the rightside ( from the 2112 ) a 5th down.
All those notes were clean and prestine, just as good as my Eventide 3000.
I gain stacked my distortions from my RP-12 and RP-1 so well with the 2112 SGS's overdrive, that I recreated my Carvin X-100 B, V3, Legacy 1,2,3, my VHT Pitbull, my Peavey JSX, Triple XXX with the tube distortion path and with the analog distortion path, I recreated my Randall Warhead, RG 80, RG 100, Carvin SX 300 and other amps.
You can combine both the tube distortion and analog distortion or use them separately. You can recreate any amp ever made.
The modulation; so many variations of chorus, flanging, the phasers, detune are unbelievable and flexable.
I can recreate Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock or the Filmore East w/ the Band Of Gypsys, Dime Bag Darrell's tone, EVH's Brown Sound, David Gilmore's vast tones, SRV's Blues tone, Alex Lifeson's sound, Brian May's sounds , Metallica's sounds or the Edge's sounds and my own .
Someone complained that the Wah Wah was lame, they just didn't have patients to set it up right.
With the detune, I got a great acoustic guitar 12 string with an acoustic simulator sound and 6 string acoustic sounds with a Behringer AM100 Acoustic Modeler going thru a Decibel Eleven Loop Expander.
I can now do Can't Kill Rock n Roll, Fade to Black, Revelation/ Mother Earth, Ramble on, Diary Of A Madman or Dead or Alive.
You can place any of the effects any where in the program ...in any order .
At the end, I always add a 6 band Parametric Eq to make this device to be an equal to any new modeler out there. Another great feature, you can add two more expression pedals, one from back of the 2112 or add another on the Control One pedalboard and that makes three expression pedals .
And with the Seamless feature, I can have no pauses or glitches when I change programs.
I can set it to overlap 2 to 3 seconds into the other program and it will fade away like a studio recording edit / punch in .
Not bad for a device made in 1997 .
Front panel ;
● One Input, Input knob, Output knob, Clipping light indicator .
● Gain knob to control the drive of the tube or analog / distortion, can go from Fender clean to Mega Rectified.
And if the tubes are too intense or too weak , for your tube tastes, swap then out and you'll notice the difference.
● Bass, Mid, Treble and Mix knobs.
● Large Display screen.
● Program knob / Effect Wheel knob .
● Program buttons.
● Effects Library buttons.
● Solo button, give you the ability to get 6 dB boost for soloing.
Back panel;
● AC Line Input, MIDI IN, OUT / THRU Jack's.
● Foot Controller Input.
● Expression Pedal Input
● High / Low level effects loop switch.
● Send / Return Jack's for the Effects Loop .
● Balanced Left and Right Outputs .
● Fuse receptacle.
Over 40 different effect Algorithms that can be organized in your preferred order .
With the gain stacking from my RP-12 and RP-1 going into the 2112, I can set the gain very low on the 2112.
I can recreate any Distortion, Overdrive or Fuzz pedal or recreate any amp ever made .
And if you stack your Modulation, Delays or Reverbs, you can add ambience that even Strymon owners could only dream about .
One day, after I got my tax return, I decided to treat my self to some new gear. I went into a small guitar shop and seen the Digitech 2112 SGS and decided to try it out.
This old rack unit sounded much better than my Eleven Rack, those two 12ax7 tubes gave me some mind blowing tone and soon my Elleven Rack was sidelined for good.
And with the Control One MIDI board controller, it just added more flexibility.
I called Digitech and the nice lady that worked there printed out the owners manual and it helped me zero in on the features of this devine device.
I have a Digitech RP-12 and RP-1 on my effects pedalboard. Even the presets on those floor units sounded great in my 2112 unit !!!!
I went to my RP-12's harmonizer program and made a MIDI CC change that when I would push the root note go to the middle, the 3rd up go to the left and on the rightside ( from the 2112 ) a 5th down.
All those notes were clean and prestine, just as good as my Eventide 3000.
I gain stacked my distortions from my RP-12 and RP-1 so well with the 2112 SGS's overdrive, that I recreated my Carvin X-100 B, V3, Legacy 1,2,3, my VHT Pitbull, my Peavey JSX, Triple XXX with the tube distortion path and with the analog distortion path, I recreated my Randall Warhead, RG 80, RG 100, Carvin SX 300 and other amps.
You can combine both the tube distortion and analog distortion or use them separately. You can recreate any amp ever made.
The modulation; so many variations of chorus, flanging, the phasers, detune are unbelievable and flexable.
I can recreate Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock or the Filmore East w/ the Band Of Gypsys, Dime Bag Darrell's tone, EVH's Brown Sound, David Gilmore's vast tones, SRV's Blues tone, Alex Lifeson's sound, Brian May's sounds , Metallica's sounds or the Edge's sounds and my own .
Someone complained that the Wah Wah was lame, they just didn't have patients to set it up right.
With the detune, I got a great acoustic guitar 12 string with an acoustic simulator sound and 6 string acoustic sounds with a Behringer AM100 Acoustic Modeler going thru a Decibel Eleven Loop Expander.
I can now do Can't Kill Rock n Roll, Fade to Black, Revelation/ Mother Earth, Ramble on, Diary Of A Madman or Dead or Alive.
You can place any of the effects any where in the program ...in any order .
At the end, I always add a 6 band Parametric Eq to make this device to be an equal to any new modeler out there. Another great feature, you can add two more expression pedals, one from back of the 2112 or add another on the Control One pedalboard and that makes three expression pedals .
And with the Seamless feature, I can have no pauses or glitches when I change programs.
I can set it to overlap 2 to 3 seconds into the other program and it will fade away like a studio recording edit / punch in .
Not bad for a device made in 1997 .
Front panel ;
● One Input, Input knob, Output knob, Clipping light indicator .
● Gain knob to control the drive of the tube or analog / distortion, can go from Fender clean to Mega Rectified.
And if the tubes are too intense or too weak , for your tube tastes, swap then out and you'll notice the difference.
● Bass, Mid, Treble and Mix knobs.
● Large Display screen.
● Program knob / Effect Wheel knob .
● Program buttons.
● Effects Library buttons.
● Solo button, give you the ability to get 6 dB boost for soloing.
Back panel;
● AC Line Input, MIDI IN, OUT / THRU Jack's.
● Foot Controller Input.
● Expression Pedal Input
● High / Low level effects loop switch.
● Send / Return Jack's for the Effects Loop .
● Balanced Left and Right Outputs .
● Fuse receptacle.
Over 40 different effect Algorithms that can be organized in your preferred order .
With the gain stacking from my RP-12 and RP-1 going into the 2112, I can set the gain very low on the 2112.
I can recreate any Distortion, Overdrive or Fuzz pedal or recreate any amp ever made .
And if you stack your Modulation, Delays or Reverbs, you can add ambience that even Strymon owners could only dream about .
