I remember asking for this pedal for xmas when I was 12 and I found it like 2 weeks before xmas, by the time I unwrapped it I already had presets in it lmao My parents were super impressed and made me bring my guitar to my grandma's for xmas and she cried when I played nothing else matters. RIP to my awesome polish grandmother! When she found out there was such a thing as polish death metal she started getting me Vader and Behemoth merch for xmas \m/
My step dad still has one of these. But he only bought it like 6 years ago. It does not sound good. (I had behringer's version of one of these when I was a teenager. It also did not sound good.)
DON'T JUDGE THIS PEDAL BY THE PRESETS! They all have too much gain, compression, reverb, EQ, or delay. I think they were meant to show off the pedal's extreme settings. If you program your own patches, you can get much better results. I'll admit that there's a digital quality to the distortions - they're not as convincing as newer modeling gear. But they sound okay in a mix. The unit's real strength is in the modulation effects, delays, and reverbs. Most of them are excellent, and hold up even today.
If you plug this in a tube combo, use the amps dirt instead of the pedals, you'll sound just as good as anything else. People buy into marketing way to much lol.
You can get some kind of "beginner's" multi-efx units from a number of different brands -- Mooer, Zoom, Nu.X, to name just three. Some even have an expression pedal which can be programmed for wah or volume or gain. They offer a grand array of options: choose from 20-odd distortion options, ten modulation options, half a dozen delay types, eight amp voices, all the common reverb types. They're definitely a great way for a new player to learn about pedal effects. These units are all too easily dismissed as noob gear; they're cheap and the preset patches can sound weird or unappealing. But I'd like to see a guitar TH-camr (maybe our bewhiskered host) set these preconceptions aside, sit down with one of them, and really work at seeing what they can do. I have a hunch that there are surprisingly good tones to be found even with the cheapest ones.
Great processor for back in the day! i would have never continued playing without mine, it was great for exploring effects and sounds i wouldn't have had access to otherwise.
I have a RP300 I bought about 20 years ago. it's fun for bedroom use, or even jamming out with your friends. It's actually pretty easy to navigate if you have the large display screen that tells you what's what. This video doesn't go into the many variations built into each effect. There are many _tweakable_ parameters for EVERYTHING on these. You could even alter the pre-sets to whatever you choose then save it in another memory bank. Fun Times
I had this and a zoom played through my crate 2x12 combo back in the day. I am so jealous of people starting guitar with all the great gear that can be had today. They’ll never understand how hard it was to get good tone!
I have an RP1000 I use as my base to build my tone on. Only thing I don’t use is the built in dirt boxes. I have my own for that. But I have found that all multi FX units require the player to spend some time working with them before they sound good. Built in presets are ALWAYS bad. They are made to show as much of pedals capabilities at one time as possible for those trying it out in the store. Like I said, I love my RP1000 and use it to run direct to PA with absolutely no issues whatsoever. But it’s nowhere near a “just plug and play” experience with these things. They take some time to dial in.
i had the rp500 and can totally agree. i mostly used it as a headphone amp and computer interface. to be honest, some of the dirt models aren't too bad, especially the ts9 model. i wasn't the biggest fan of the amps though. still, using it as an interface and having a boost or overdrive available when a pedal might take up too much space or be a pain to set up, really made it keep its place with me.
I have a Behringer V-Amp, and all 99 presets were terrible, and it took me years to learn how to use it effectively. The thing is in terrible shape nowadays and only barely works, but I haven't yet had the heart to junk it, because there's something of a strange pride in being able to coax the kinds of sounds I could get out of such a cheap and inscrutable piece of gear. Most serious guitarists would probably give up after an hour. Also, I picked up one of those Zoom multistomp pedals last year, and I was blown away by just how far multi-effect technology has come.
My rp50 got crushed, so I gutted an external hard drive, drilled holes, mounted it in there and then wood veneered the whole thing. It still rocks. The delay at 45 matches another brick in the wall perfectly!
Ahh, I used to have an old RP-1, and DSP 128 back in the 80's. Loved those things, I thought I was fn Steve Vai with all those cool leds flashing and stuff. I don't think I ever sat down to figure them out, just found a patch that sounded good and went with it. Now, I have to go on reverb and find one...thanks
I got this pedal in 2000 and used it for years, playing in bands. Setup my own presets for specific songs with different settings for verse/chorus/solos. Made it super easy to hit the settings I needed without fumbling with multiple stomp boxes to turn on and off delay, distortion, chorus and reverb at the same time.
Best $20 i ever spent! Hahaha Actually it's a fun little unit and while some factory presets are not that great, you can tweak them and change parameters, etc. if you have the time to spare. It's not really that hard. Another plus: built-in drum patterns you can jam with! I have Boss pedals and a HD 500X Pod to noodle with and they're great but i will never part with my little RP 100!
and you can take those factory presets and back those up with other pedals like the Ibanez TS7, the Boss DS1, the Sans Amp, the Maxon Analogue delay, the Electro Harmonix electric Mistress (really good chorus and flanger), or the Maxon ROD 881 real Overdrive Distortion (yeah that's how I run my first pedal board, Quadroupling the overdrive/distortion with some chorus, flanger, and delay thrown in).
I still have mine in my vintage gear display case, got a Johnson preamp and the original line 6 pod up there too. Tried them with some OwnHammer IR's, not bad. It really showed me how important the speakers are in the signal.
Ha! I totally bought one of those for my grandma when she decided she was going to teach herself how to play. She couldn’t get any ‘good’ tones out of her Lyon (by Washburn) strat through her Fender frontman amp. ...I was only trying to help...
True! Drum machine blasting through the P.A. and me jamming along with it. Those were the days! I actually still use that function just so i can record and lay down basic bed tracks. Cool little unit!
I used one heavily around 02-03 and I remember everybody wanted to buy it off me. I always said i loved it but truth was i sounded like shit, and the rp made me sound worse haha. I was using a walmart First Act strat copy into a first act lunchbox amp that was permanently overdriven because it couldn't handle any signal thrown into it 😂 Good times.
The best thing about these type of pedals was the ridiculous volume level differences between the patches. My weapon of choice was a Zoom GFX-707 by the way. Went into an Epiphone guitar starter pack amp with an 8" speaker. This pedal was my first exposure to "distortion".
Yeah how were they never able to fix that? Even the user could go through, adjust the main level for each effect, and save it so they all match...why couldn't they just do that at the factory?
I had one it was good for what it was I knew it needed a lot of work but I knew the technology was new, it got me thru many late night practice sessions without disturbing roommates or neighbors.
I got the RP80 for my birthday in 2007, a few months after my first guitar. There's still one sound on it that I really like as a lead tone. I have no idea what it was trying to emulate, but through poor imitation it ended up being its own unique thing that I really dig.
I use the RP200 to this day as my "rig" for playing at home. After some time I got some really nice tones out of it and been using them since then. Also I really really love this thing for it's simplicity.
That's awesome I still have the exact model, I got from my cousin years ago I still gig with it. It is on the pedal board and use it for basically everything but my overdrive. It's completely simple to dial in ultra-high utility I still love it!
All of the expression pedals seemed to crap out. My bandmate had one, and the pedal took a shit a week or so after Christmas. I had an even worse one. I had the plastic Zoom processor. It was total garbage
The RP50 is actually how I started playing. The music store gave my parents a big discounted deal to get my brother and I our first guitars and they threw in cables and 2 RP50's for us to be able to practice with headphones. That's all I had for the first year or so when I first started playing.
Honestly there is a lot of bad in there, but there is some quality in there as well. With some effort and tweaking you could get some pretty nice tones out of it. As a teaching device to find out what kind of effects or sounds you like, it's pretty great actually. Certainly not good enough to be your only pedal, but worth keeping around for funsies at least.
I keep one around as an emergency backup to my other amp. It took me a while, but I was able to get a decent rhythm tone (very Mesa-ish) and a usable lead tone. I would definitely not use this as a primary source for tone, but in a pinch, it will get me out of a jam, and it's simple. Plugging straight into a di, and that's it. I used to have an Ampeg VH140C, and the effects loop crapped out on me (preventing me from using the amp's distortion), so I plugged it in, and it got me through for a little while until I could get it fixed.
Not that anything could make this thing sound good, but I remember running it through the front of the amp always made it sound shittier. Plug it in to the fx return and see if its better!
I still have a RP6 (metal chassis!) and a RP80. The 6 was good for its time. The 80 was a toy tier hilarity when it first came out. Both have insane latency issues with some effects. I keep them to remind me what it was like before I had decent equipment.
Sounds like you didn't give it a chance to work for you. Too bad. It's very tweakable on many levels and obviously this dude didn't bother going into detail or didn't know how to go about it. All i can say is it's a helpful little tool and it actually helped me to create and move up to the next level.
ALL TOO TRUE...Every multi I ever got had it's own personality, strengths and weaknesses. Use them all! Playing 43 years, experimenting all the way. I always edit like crazy, never use factory presets. Shred on
@@rickleblanc8900 I spent a lot more time with the RP2000 I think it was called. Full floorboard in like laser blue. Pretty much across the board, all of the distortions and digital overdrives from that time were really thin and not very usable.(Unless you're recreating Static X) There are a few exceptions ie Boss MT-2, Ibanez TS-9, I'm sure i'm leaving one or 2 out. But on the whole the main use I found for using Multi Effects boards from that time was to figure out what actual pedals I wanted to buy. Especially being pre TH-cam it was the best way to figure out what different effects were. All that said, to clarify, none of the effects on the RP100 stand up to thier real world counterparts.
To be honest, there are options today that sound as bad or worse. Including offerings from the biggest brands in the world. The presets in these processors are designed to be audible in a busy music store. Yeah, music stores were busy (and profitable) in the ‘90s. If you are reviewing this pedal, it’s not a fair review. If you are just playing it for laughs, it’s doing the gear and the audience a disservice. At least try to get a good sound. Then if you hate it, fair enough. In a lot of cases, I would guess what you were doing was overloading patches designed for low output guitars. These things didn’t have a great dynamic range so you had to adjust patches to the input they were receiving. I had one of these, and yeah, the presets were total crap. Presets almost are always crap in theses things, even today. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t some killer sounds in there to be had, especially in combination with other gear. The modulation and delay effects were pretty damn nice, as I recall. Once everything wasn’t set to 10 to compete with 20 other people trying things out.
I have the rp100 and still use it today. Goes thru my effects loop, kick it on whenever it's time for a lead. Use some compression, give the eq on it a little but of an adjustment from my normal tone, and a little reverb and delay. Thing does great for what I use it for!
Firstly, I'm not a "player", strictly "cowboy chords" for me. However, I bought a copy Strat in mid 2000's, and it came bundled with a 15W amp and what they called a "GP120". This was the same as the unit shown here, but with a wah/expression pedal. Given my lack of ability, I've been using it off & on ever since and really enjoying it. I am sure that more accomplished players will turn their noses up at this unit, but for my level it is ideal. Only thing missing is a looper but again, at my level that's not really a problem!
For the $30 or $40 they go for today, its a great value. Integral drum machine alone makes it worth it. Presets suck but you can create your own presets that sound quite good. Overall, a steal on the used market today.
I had one of these when I first started seriously playing guitar (at age 11-12). I ran it thru a little Crate solid state practice amp (which I still have), and I thought it was the greatest thing in the world. Then it fried. After watching this, all these memories of learning songs like “Living After Midnight” and the whole AC/DC “If You Want Blood...” album are flooding back. Good times!
Oh memories, I had an RP1 then RP10 or 12 LOL. Then Line6 saved my tone for a few years. I'm back to amps and pedals nothing like it. Until some places require you to go direct in, comes my two notes torpedo c.a.b. the beautiful thing is, I can still use my pedals.
during my time being in a band I came across the RP 50 it was given to me at Scot's valley here in cali for a gig. at the time I was just getting use to using my Fender black and red Starcaster. and I've been using it ever since, now I"m going to pick up a second RP 50 for my keyboard and build a pedal board around it.
I know the guy who used to be the tester for these. He gave me the prototype for the RP 100. I still have it. works great! Still not a huge fan of the distortion I get out of it though. but I love the delay effects it produces.
This was my first guitar pedal ever...... I remember I could play the riff to Man in the Box by Alice In Chains with one of the effects and I was SOOOO HAPPY ABOUT IT
I still have an RP300 with the expression pedal & it has a drm machine built in with different loops. It also has an auxiliary in so you can pipe a recording through it and play along. It was basically my practice amp for a few years. I'd just play through headphones.
Ohh I remember torturing my grandma with the RP 50 while she was cooking, and she told me i SOUNDED GOOD
RIP grandma, love u
Rudy Ayoub 😳 That's a good grandma right there, bro.
@@monsterk7603 she was the best
She sounds like she baked really good cookies.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well, that’s grandparents for ya
My dad bought me the RP100 back when I'm in junior high. It was my first effect pedal, my dad support me since I was a kid. I love him, thanks dad.
Mantap bang iga
same story here.
I remember asking for this pedal for xmas when I was 12 and I found it like 2 weeks before xmas, by the time I unwrapped it I already had presets in it lmao My parents were super impressed and made me bring my guitar to my grandma's for xmas and she cried when I played nothing else matters. RIP to my awesome polish grandmother! When she found out there was such a thing as polish death metal she started getting me Vader and Behemoth merch for xmas \m/
Your gran sounds awesome 😊
@@DadDiaries She was the absolute best!
Vader and Behemoth are awesome, whenever I meet a new metalhead I always recommend Vader.
Remember the 90's? More like remember yesterday as this is my main tone source.
I'm sorry.
Consider a go fund me for a new tone source.
I'm sorry man...
This is so sad, Alexa, play Despacito
My step dad still has one of these. But he only bought it like 6 years ago. It does not sound good.
(I had behringer's version of one of these when I was a teenager. It also did not sound good.)
DON'T JUDGE THIS PEDAL BY THE PRESETS! They all have too much gain, compression, reverb, EQ, or delay. I think they were meant to show off the pedal's extreme settings. If you program your own patches, you can get much better results. I'll admit that there's a digital quality to the distortions - they're not as convincing as newer modeling gear. But they sound okay in a mix. The unit's real strength is in the modulation effects, delays, and reverbs. Most of them are excellent, and hold up even today.
If you plug this in a tube combo, use the amps dirt instead of the pedals, you'll sound just as good as anything else. People buy into marketing way to much lol.
I ran an overdrive pedal in front of mine.
What this guy says. My thoughts exactly. Presets are crap. Dial it back and it will surprise you. Booteek? No. Useful and passable, certainly.
Great point, they are useful in the mix more often that solo.
You can get some kind of "beginner's" multi-efx units from a number of different brands -- Mooer, Zoom, Nu.X, to name just three. Some even have an expression pedal which can be programmed for wah or volume or gain. They offer a grand array of options: choose from 20-odd distortion options, ten modulation options, half a dozen delay types, eight amp voices, all the common reverb types. They're definitely a great way for a new player to learn about pedal effects.
These units are all too easily dismissed as noob gear; they're cheap and the preset patches can sound weird or unappealing. But I'd like to see a guitar TH-camr (maybe our bewhiskered host) set these preconceptions aside, sit down with one of them, and really work at seeing what they can do. I have a hunch that there are surprisingly good tones to be found even with the cheapest ones.
I first got a Zoom 505 in 1999 but it broke then my dad took me to a music store in 2002 and got this baby, very good memories with this pedal.
Great processor for back in the day! i would have never continued playing without mine, it was great for exploring effects and sounds i wouldn't have had access to otherwise.
Man I loved my rp100, taught me a lot, was perfect for that stage in my life.
it was the same for my RP 50, that's how I built my first pedal board (most of the gear I still have today some even given to me by my own dad).
I had the rp200 with the wah pedal, I
Tortured my parents ears for hours with it.
I'm using this actually ;)
I wanted the wah pedal version so badly.. It looked so badass.
Had RP 200 as well.
I still have one. Don’t use it but it still works perfectly fine haha
I had the bass version, or something like it with the expression pedal on the side. Really horrid presets.... worthless door stop.
I have a RP300 I bought about 20 years ago. it's fun for bedroom use, or even jamming out with your friends. It's actually pretty easy to navigate if you have the large display screen that tells you what's what. This video doesn't go into the many variations built into each effect. There are many _tweakable_ parameters for EVERYTHING on these. You could even alter the pre-sets to whatever you choose then save it in another memory bank. Fun Times
Remember? I've been trying to forget...
Word.
I had this and a zoom played through my crate 2x12 combo back in the day. I am so jealous of people starting guitar with all the great gear that can be had today. They’ll never understand how hard it was to get good tone!
Every Music Go Round in America has one of those collecting dust.
I repurposed mine as a coaster.
I still have and use mine. Love it. Bought it new 23 years ago. ❤
@@svendugandzija9716😂😂😂
Makes even the best guitarist feel and play like a beginer again, Ah nostalgia :)
I do agree with you.. Lol
@@noize911 The ones with the Whammy features were pretty cool tho, :)
Hahaha no kidding
My local pawn store has had one of these for as long as I can remember.
Leon Todd * Yep ! And priced higher THAN the new retail price even though it's used🤣😅😂😆😉
heeeey take it dont lose..!
As a 14 year old entry level guitar player, this thing was so badass. Gave me everything I needed for an affordable price. Still have it actually.
Back in the 90s, I had a very low budget riiiiig 🎵
I have an RP1000 I use as my base to build my tone on. Only thing I don’t use is the built in dirt boxes. I have my own for that. But I have found that all multi FX units require the player to spend some time working with them before they sound good. Built in presets are ALWAYS bad. They are made to show as much of pedals capabilities at one time as possible for those trying it out in the store. Like I said, I love my RP1000 and use it to run direct to PA with absolutely no issues whatsoever. But it’s nowhere near a “just plug and play” experience with these things. They take some time to dial in.
I agree
i had the rp500 and can totally agree. i mostly used it as a headphone amp and computer interface. to be honest, some of the dirt models aren't too bad, especially the ts9 model. i wasn't the biggest fan of the amps though. still, using it as an interface and having a boost or overdrive available when a pedal might take up too much space or be a pain to set up, really made it keep its place with me.
I throw mine in my fx loop for random effects.
Using the 4 cable method is where it shines, but I totally agree, you need to spend time with it, not P&P.
I have a Behringer V-Amp, and all 99 presets were terrible, and it took me years to learn how to use it effectively. The thing is in terrible shape nowadays and only barely works, but I haven't yet had the heart to junk it, because there's something of a strange pride in being able to coax the kinds of sounds I could get out of such a cheap and inscrutable piece of gear. Most serious guitarists would probably give up after an hour.
Also, I picked up one of those Zoom multistomp pedals last year, and I was blown away by just how far multi-effect technology has come.
Nah m8 it's all about the zoom 505 ;)
A4 bitch. That was the shit. I had 2 at one point I dunno where they went
They seemed to get worse as they progressed but the original black ones weren't too shabby
I still have a original zoom 505 lol
@@ddub1253 lol
Lol yeah man, I rememeber preset C1 or C3 had the best distortion.
My rp50 got crushed, so I gutted an external hard drive, drilled holes, mounted it in there and then wood veneered the whole thing. It still rocks. The delay at 45 matches another brick in the wall perfectly!
I still use my RP250 just for delays and reverb and it sounds killer!! Digitech gear uses Lexicon Algorithms for the delays and reverbs.
Ahh, I used to have an old RP-1, and DSP 128 back in the 80's. Loved those things, I thought I was fn Steve Vai with all those cool leds flashing and stuff. I don't think I ever sat down to figure them out, just found a patch that sounded good and went with it.
Now, I have to go on reverb and find one...thanks
I still have my RP1 but use a DigiTech 2112 on my rack
I used an rp355 for years, recorded an 8 song CD with it. Still have it. They've improved over the years.
My dad bought me an RP100 when I was 13 in about 2005. I still have it. I still use it. It’s still awesome! 🤟🏼
I remember my dad ripping me a new ass for “bringing this trash into his house”! He told me boss metal or nothing lol
Too funny dude... thanks 4 sharing that ...cool..
I got this pedal in 2000 and used it for years, playing in bands. Setup my own presets for specific songs with different settings for verse/chorus/solos. Made it super easy to hit the settings I needed without fumbling with multiple stomp boxes to turn on and off delay, distortion, chorus and reverb at the same time.
Best $20 i ever spent! Hahaha
Actually it's a fun little unit and while some factory presets are not that great, you can tweak them and change parameters, etc. if you have the time to spare. It's not really that hard. Another plus: built-in drum patterns you can jam with! I have Boss pedals and a HD 500X Pod to noodle with and they're great but i will never part with my little RP 100!
and you can take those factory presets and back those up with other pedals like the Ibanez TS7, the Boss DS1, the Sans Amp, the Maxon Analogue delay, the Electro Harmonix electric Mistress (really good chorus and flanger), or the Maxon ROD 881 real Overdrive Distortion (yeah that's how I run my first pedal board, Quadroupling the overdrive/distortion with some chorus, flanger, and delay thrown in).
That was my first processor pedal ever! And I had a lot of fun! What a great times were those (':
RP 255 was one of my 1st little units, I loved that thing.
I've still got one😂 once i figured out how to use it properly I was set.
Cheeeah
First pedal I owned got it in middle school to use with my squire intro kit it will always have a place in my heart
Actually sounded good going straight into a four track cassette recorder.
I still have mine in my vintage gear display case, got a Johnson preamp and the original line 6 pod up there too. Tried them with some OwnHammer IR's, not bad. It really showed me how important the speakers are in the signal.
I love that you decided to try it with some modern IRs. Hahaha Now that would be an interesting video.
Ha! I totally bought one of those for my grandma when she decided she was going to teach herself how to play.
She couldn’t get any ‘good’ tones out of her Lyon (by Washburn) strat through her Fender frontman amp.
...I was only trying to help...
Your grandma has a lyon, a frontman, and a digitech rp. That's awesome!!!! Best grandma ever!!!
Had the RP80 for a year or two when I first started playing...my favorite effect was definitely the obnoxious "yah-yah"
I actually loved the acoustic simulator on the rp100.
I still have one! I was cleaning the closet out and found it. I'll give it another try now, thanks!
You forgot to mention the drum machine part
True! Drum machine blasting through the P.A. and me jamming along with it. Those were the days! I actually still use that function just so i can record and lay down basic bed tracks. Cool little unit!
Remember using the drum machine (with various beats and presets) for Jamming and even a show between Drummers!
I remember that drum machine being really terrible and I never used it.
Wow, i got one back in late 90s. Brings back memories
I gigged with one of them in 2002 !! 😂😂
sdmcustom woodworking same...but in 2006
I used one heavily around 02-03 and I remember everybody wanted to buy it off me. I always said i loved it but truth was i sounded like shit, and the rp made me sound worse haha.
I was using a walmart First Act strat copy into a first act lunchbox amp that was permanently overdriven because it couldn't handle any signal thrown into it 😂
Good times.
I still have mine somewhere in the basement. I used it with my then soft synths rig, not guitars. And yeah, it sounded awful most of the time! 😂
Lol same. From 2001-2010. (Only for chorus or delay lol)
MOIST FLABS
Just the delay, through a nice amp, sounded fine.
I used to only use the RP100 and a Morley Wah. I set my own parameters and I loved that simple set up.
The best thing about these type of pedals was the ridiculous volume level differences between the patches.
My weapon of choice was a Zoom GFX-707 by the way. Went into an Epiphone guitar starter pack amp with an 8" speaker. This pedal was my first exposure to "distortion".
Yeah how were they never able to fix that? Even the user could go through, adjust the main level for each effect, and save it so they all match...why couldn't they just do that at the factory?
I had one it was good for what it was I knew it needed a lot of work but I knew the technology was new, it got me thru many late night practice sessions without disturbing roommates or neighbors.
2:47 "clean"
“Overdrive”
I got the RP80 for my birthday in 2007, a few months after my first guitar. There's still one sound on it that I really like as a lead tone. I have no idea what it was trying to emulate, but through poor imitation it ended up being its own unique thing that I really dig.
Excellent review. Thank u. I did enjoy it.
I still have my RP50 and the GNX board. Always loved DigiTech.
5:51 Boss Metal Zone
One of my Christmases was based around the RP300. It was the best Christmas I ever had.
I just got the rp7 yesterday
I use the RP200 to this day as my "rig" for playing at home. After some time I got some really nice tones out of it and been using them since then.
Also I really really love this thing for it's simplicity.
These don't sound bad if you dial them in.
That's awesome I still have the exact model, I got from my cousin years ago I still gig with it. It is on the pedal board and use it for basically everything but my overdrive.
It's completely simple to dial in ultra-high utility I still love it!
holy goddamn i still have mine. I have the 200 with the pedal but the pedal quit working a week after i bought it.
All of the expression pedals seemed to crap out. My bandmate had one, and the pedal took a shit a week or so after Christmas. I had an even worse one. I had the plastic Zoom processor. It was total garbage
I used a rp100 with a zoom volume pedal. Twenty years on and they work fine anytime I plug them in.
The RP50 is actually how I started playing. The music store gave my parents a big discounted deal to get my brother and I our first guitars and they threw in cables and 2 RP50's for us to be able to practice with headphones. That's all I had for the first year or so when I first started playing.
Honestly there is a lot of bad in there, but there is some quality in there as well. With some effort and tweaking you could get some pretty nice tones out of it. As a teaching device to find out what kind of effects or sounds you like, it's pretty great actually. Certainly not good enough to be your only pedal, but worth keeping around for funsies at least.
I keep one around as an emergency backup to my other amp. It took me a while, but I was able to get a decent rhythm tone (very Mesa-ish) and a usable lead tone. I would definitely not use this as a primary source for tone, but in a pinch, it will get me out of a jam, and it's simple. Plugging straight into a di, and that's it. I used to have an Ampeg VH140C, and the effects loop crapped out on me (preventing me from using the amp's distortion), so I plugged it in, and it got me through for a little while until I could get it fixed.
My first pedal!! Back in 2004... Still got it and a RP200 with the Wah... Oh memories
Not that anything could make this thing sound good, but I remember running it through the front of the amp always made it sound shittier. Plug it in to the fx return and see if its better!
My brother just bought one and I'm impressed he's having fun with it and does this wicked cyclone tone he might be the next Morrello
I've got a Digitech BP200 bass pedal with the expression pedal I'll send you if you want it Fluff.
I see the bass pedal on pro boards.
I'll take it off your hands my man (;
I still have a RP6 (metal chassis!) and a RP80. The 6 was good for its time. The 80 was a toy tier hilarity when it first came out. Both have insane latency issues with some effects. I keep them to remind me what it was like before I had decent equipment.
I had that same piece of garbage. I kept giving it to my buddies, and it kept finding its way back to me.
Bought mine in the 90's and still use it. Best feature is making your own presets and saving them.
Yep that thing seems to suck as much as i remember
Sounds like you didn't give it a chance to work for you. Too bad. It's very tweakable on many levels and obviously this dude didn't bother going into detail or didn't know how to go about it. All i can say is it's a helpful little tool and it actually helped me to create and move up to the next level.
ALL TOO TRUE...Every multi I ever got had it's own personality, strengths and weaknesses. Use them all! Playing 43 years, experimenting all the way. I always edit like crazy, never use factory presets. Shred on
@@rickleblanc8900 I spent a lot more time with the RP2000 I think it was called. Full floorboard in like laser blue. Pretty much across the board, all of the distortions and digital overdrives from that time were really thin and not very usable.(Unless you're recreating Static X) There are a few exceptions ie Boss MT-2, Ibanez TS-9, I'm sure i'm leaving one or 2 out. But on the whole the main use I found for using Multi Effects boards from that time was to figure out what actual pedals I wanted to buy. Especially being pre TH-cam it was the best way to figure out what different effects were. All that said, to clarify, none of the effects on the RP100 stand up to thier real world counterparts.
@rickleblanc8900 nah most guitarists I know don't want to spend time tweaking settings when they can just plug in, set up their board then play.
I had one of these when I first started playing and I loved it so much!!
To be honest, there are options today that sound as bad or worse. Including offerings from the biggest brands in the world.
The presets in these processors are designed to be audible in a busy music store. Yeah, music stores were busy (and profitable) in the ‘90s.
If you are reviewing this pedal, it’s not a fair review. If you are just playing it for laughs, it’s doing the gear and the audience a disservice.
At least try to get a good sound. Then if you hate it, fair enough.
In a lot of cases, I would guess what you were doing was overloading patches designed for low output guitars. These things didn’t have a great dynamic range so you had to adjust patches to the input they were receiving.
I had one of these, and yeah, the presets were total crap. Presets almost are always crap in theses things, even today. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t some killer sounds in there to be had, especially in combination with other gear.
The modulation and delay effects were pretty damn nice, as I recall. Once everything wasn’t set to 10 to compete with 20 other people trying things out.
I have the rp100 and still use it today. Goes thru my effects loop, kick it on whenever it's time for a lead. Use some compression, give the eq on it a little but of an adjustment from my normal tone, and a little reverb and delay. Thing does great for what I use it for!
I had the rp80 and I loved it from what I remember.
Brings back memories. I had the slightly bigger one with a wah pedal.
I had a Digitech RP5 back in the day. I don’t miss it one bit.
Firstly, I'm not a "player", strictly "cowboy chords" for me. However, I bought a copy Strat in mid 2000's, and it came bundled with a 15W amp and what they called a "GP120". This was the same as the unit shown here, but with a wah/expression pedal. Given my lack of ability, I've been using it off & on ever since and really enjoying it. I am sure that more accomplished players will turn their noses up at this unit, but for my level it is ideal. Only thing missing is a looper but again, at my level that's not really a problem!
I had one of these. I mainly used it with headphones. A lot of the settings were really shrill, it's a miracle I'm not deaf!
i had the rp-1.
it was fun.
I still have my RP1 plugged into a 20 watt Peavey combo, but my Degitech 2112 for the rack rig
Dude! I still have mine, and I still have my RP3 as well. Just can’t let them go with the memories attached to them. Thanks for the video Fluff
For the $30 or $40 they go for today, its a great value. Integral drum machine alone makes it worth it. Presets suck but you can create your own presets that sound quite good. Overall, a steal on the used market today.
I toured for 4 years with an RP1000. Used it for volume and a tremelo effect for 1 song. Thing is still running strong. Built like a tank.
I still have my RP50 somewhere. There was one preset, maybe 24 that sounded exactly like mid 90s Zakk Wylde and 18 year old me loved it.
I love these 90s vids so much - takes me back to all the shite I used while learning. Keep em coming!
I had one of these when I first started seriously playing guitar (at age 11-12). I ran it thru a little Crate solid state practice amp (which I still have), and I thought it was the greatest thing in the world. Then it fried.
After watching this, all these memories of learning songs like “Living After Midnight” and the whole AC/DC “If You Want Blood...” album are flooding back. Good times!
I still use this pedal today. I have wanted to update to the RP150 for years haha
I love these 90s videos.
DUUUDE!!! This was my first effects pedal! Circa 2001.. Oh the feels
I've got a RP255 that I still use. I love it to bits
Oh memories, I had an RP1 then RP10 or 12 LOL. Then Line6 saved my tone for a few years. I'm back to amps and pedals nothing like it. Until some places require you to go direct in, comes my two notes torpedo c.a.b. the beautiful thing is, I can still use my pedals.
RP500 my first pedal, sure its bigger than these ones but I still have it and still use it effectively as it holds up and still sounds great.
I still have an RP50, I hardly ever use it but I did mess with it recently and programmed some decent clean tones. When I was 13 it was fun.
My favorite multi effects I ever had (as a kid) was my Digitech RP 2000.
I play thru a RP300, I like it. it has a expression pedal, looper and has rhythm.
I had one of those way back in France in the 90’s ! Swapped it for a boss DS1 at the time lol Ah memories...
during my time being in a band I came across the RP 50 it was given to me at Scot's valley here in cali for a gig. at the time I was just getting use to using my Fender black and red Starcaster. and I've been using it ever since, now I"m going to pick up a second RP 50 for my keyboard and build a pedal board around it.
I used to have the DigiTech RP80, which was very good! I bought it in 2003 (if I remember correct) and I had a wonderful time using it!
Digitech RP-7 was my first multi-effects pedal, and it had an actual tube!
It's 2020 and I still use a RP-150 for recording.
WOW, some of those metal tones are awesome. DigiTech have been leaders in the field and have delivered great sounding pedals in their RP line.
Had one of these!!! That was awesome for self practice
I know the guy who used to be the tester for these. He gave me the prototype for the RP 100. I still have it. works great! Still not a huge fan of the distortion I get out of it though. but I love the delay effects it produces.
This was my first guitar pedal ever...... I remember I could play the riff to Man in the Box by Alice In Chains with one of the effects and I was SOOOO HAPPY ABOUT IT
To be from the 90's it sounds way better than my DigiTech Element
I still have an RP300 with the expression pedal & it has a drm machine built in with different loops. It also has an auxiliary in so you can pipe a recording through it and play along. It was basically my practice amp for a few years. I'd just play through headphones.
2120 still rocking it (AWESOME)
I had one of those, but when Zoom came out with the G3, I made the switch and never looked back. Still love my G3.