On 2005-03-22, mikey jensen gave this DigiTech Guitar Effects a 2


Purchase: 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.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
Quality: 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.

Summary: 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.

On 2004-01-02, Warchicken gave this Digitech Guitar Effects a 5


Purchase: I ordered this online at Musician's Friend. It cost 80 dollars.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.)
Quality: 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.

Summary: 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.

On 2003-12-11, cody davis gave this Digitech Guitar Effects a 4


Purchase: i took it from my friend so i didnt pay enything
Pros: i like how you can create your own effects and save them and the drum beats to play along with
Cons: no peddle
Quality: its built well

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On 2003-12-05, t.sweeney gave this Digitech Guitar Effects a 5


Purchase: 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.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
Quality: 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.

Summary: 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.

On 2003-10-20, Mike Chung gave this Digitech Guitar Effects a 4


Purchase: Bought this unit at Guitar Center in 2001 for $99.00 US.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
Quality: 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.

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

On 2002-02-28, Curtis Thomson gave this Digitech Guitar Effects a 5


Purchase: I bought this pedal for $190 bucks with the ac adapter at Tom Lee music in Vancouver.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
Quality: 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.

Summary: 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.

On 2001-12-20, Shawdad gave this Digitech Guitar Effects a 4


Purchase: It was a gift, but the list price at Brook Mays Music was $99.99
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
Quality: 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.

Summary: 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.

On 2001-12-05, El Monkey gave this Digitech Guitar Effects a 5


Purchase: I acquired this fine piece of equipment from Academy Of Sound in Manchester for £90
Pros: 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.
Cons: The only thing i dislike about this is that it doesnt come with wah wah but hey for £90 come on thats life.
Quality: 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.

Summary: 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

On 2001-12-02, Stratlover gave this DigiTech Guitar Effects a 5


Purchase: I bought the RP100 at Brook-Mays for $100 after trying several comparably priced guitar processors.
Pros: The quality of the imulations and effects were great.
Cons: A few of the pre-programmed effects combinations are a little over the top, but they are easily edited.
Quality: I was impressed with what a sturdy little unit the RP100 is. I think it will survive quit a bit of use and abuse.

Summary: 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.

On 2001-06-26, Arthur Jaquz gave this DigiTech Guitar Effects a 5


Purchase: 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.
Pros: 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.
Cons: 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.
Quality: 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.

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

On 2001-06-26, DHunter gave this DigiTech Guitar Effects a 4


Purchase: 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.
Pros: 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
Cons: 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!
Quality: 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!! ;-)

Summary: 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!