Hey guys,
I got a digitech rp200 for my birthday a few years back thinking that it was a neat idea and it has been nothing but problems. First the expression pedal was squeaking louder than my amp, then after I loosened it it was limp and just fell, then not too long after that the one footswitch stopped working and soon after the other stopped working as well. Has anyone else experienced any technical problems with digitech products or was I just unlucky?

My RP-12 died once. Two legs on a transistor were touching because they were careless at the manufacturing facility. I had to replace the power transformer once also. Other than that, no problems with the switches or pedal.

I have a gnx3 and it's still working fine. Had it for about a year, or something.

An RP200 is a lot cheaper, so I'd expect the construction and quality control to be worse.

I suggest you buy something like the Boss ME-50, and/or upgrade your amp to something decent if you haven't already. There's no reason to still use an RP200.

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I have an RP7 that was used by my old guitar teacher. I've had it for about 3-4 years, and it has not failed me once. Honestly, its the key to my sound. I have found nothing else like it's sound. Even on the newer models, I cannot get the same sound out of it.

And overmind? May I ask why you have "RIP Nathan Gale" in your signature? And why no one has proceeded to smack the fucktard out of you for it?

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the rp's are not only worse in sound quality from just about every other pedal they've made, but they're also not built as well.

if you have warranty you could just take it back or get it replaced...

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The only problem I had with digitech is that the pedal broke the window when I threw it out.

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Its a piece of shit. The thing has no distortion quality, the effects blow, and I had to fix the squeak. You are not unlucky the thing licks more balls than a goat fucking crack whore looking for a life.

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never heard that one before.

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I use the Cab and filters, not to mention the downtuner and expression pedal. That is well worth all money.

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Dude, the guy asked if anyone had malfunctioning Digitech products, not if you hated Digitech multi-effects processors for your own wacky reasons. My RP-10 rules (mistakenly called it an RP-12 earlier). I use it for most all of my effects and the only complaint I have about it is that it takes 2 seconds to change presets after you press a button. I used to use the cabinet simulator just like Dissection does until I got some serious cabinets. I'm sure the RP-200 is more than sufficient for average use. My RP-10 is just as good or better than my old ART rack unit and it does everything I need it to do. You should provide technical data and specifications to support claims of inferiority and make some specific comparisons or at least a description of why you think it is inferior. Just saying something is the worst thing ever is totally meaningless.

Hey xdx, you just like to pick on people with crappy gear, don't you ya big bully

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i'm not picking on anybody... i got nothing against dissection... but if you've played half of the units i have, including an rp... you would laugh too.

unless of course you have a cock in your ear.. but in that case, you have bigger problems to worry about than shitty gear.


no he didn't. and by "he" i mean dissection... because "he" is the one i was laughing at and addressing. not the origional author of this thread. who've i've already answered with my bit of "sorry, but those things are built like shit".


glad you're happy with it... but what does that have to do with anything? especially since you're last couple sentences before this were about how nobody cares about the opinions of these units. and how "you" think this thread should only be about malfunctional digitech units..


okay, lets have it your way....

the funniest part of it was the "that is well worth all money". honestly. anyone who has played one of the recent rp units. (not the old school ones.) knows that the quality of the tools and fx they provide are complete garbage.

i admit asking a $150 multi fx pedal to authentically do what a $200 single effect pedal does is retarded. (i'm talking about the whammy/detune/pitchshifting stuff in this case.) but on these units, it's practically unusable. same with the cab simulation and everything else.

i got an rp2000(the biggest, nicest, rp) for christmas several years ago, like when they first came out. not because i wanted it, but some how a salesman was able to con her into thinking it would be a good gift for me.

it ended up being a huge tuner pedal most of the time, occasionally it was a toy(or a doorstop), to break apart riffs and experiment with the parameters of fx... so i learned alot from it, but to use in a serious situation... hell no.

there are better ways... better units... at similar prices...

of course my opinions are based around other units i've played. i've played, and owned may pedals and rack units. sorry, but comparing the fx quality of an rp200 to units like the tc electionics g-major, rocktron replifex,intellifex, and xpression, lexicon mpx-1, ect... is like comparing a rougue tube rider halfstack to a marshall jcm 900(per se) halfstack...

but of course if you've never played better units or you simply don't know the difference.. your opinion will be different.

and of course price is usually a factor.

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Ah, now we're getting somewhere. Those things are only $150? They must be worse than I figured. If you're using it for tuning, I hope they've made some improvements because the tuner on the RP-10 is total crap.

What's your favorite multi-effects unit that's less than $1000 (rack, floor, whatever)?

well, probably the tc electronics G-FORCE... but they're only under $1,000 if you buy em' used. new they're about $1,400

if we're talking new... lexicon mpx-1... because it sounds encredible, probably about on level with the g force. but it's a bitch to program if you don't know what you're doing. and it has a bit of lag to it. more so than alot of other units.

the g major(the poor man's g-force) is nice in how it sounds and it's easy as fuck to use compared to alot of units. but they're not very reliable and they color tone a little to much for my tastes..

rocktron units are awesome because they're cheap as hell, easy to use, reliable, and sound good.

if we're talking best multi fx rack unit ever made, i'd throw that trophy over to the eventide eclipse. but that's to rich for my blood at this moment.

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Programming is no problem. Lag is unacceptable. Is there a decent one under $1000 new with no lag?

haha i got an rp 100 like 4 years ago and now all it is is the led dsiplays and the circuit board, it still works though and i still use it all the time.

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well... all digital units have latency... just some worse than others. the lexicon stuff sounds incredible.. but it's simply a bitch to program and has pretty bad lag for a unit of it's calibur.

the tc g major is only $500 new...

the rocktron xpression is like $300 new(and imo better than the g major)

but, buying new is for suckers.

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Oh ya and the tuner broke too after about a month haha.

I suggest that you buy a new multi effect like Boss ME-50 or V-AMP 2.

No thanks man I've gotten a new amp since i got the thing and thats all I need for now.

Ok.