individual vs digitech

I have a Digitech board. You can use more than one effect at a time - it's just a matter of learning how to set it up.

You can also easily work around 'cycling through' the settings. Mine comes with 64 presets, and 64 user settings. It's pretty rare that I need more than about 4 different sets of effects, so if I'm going to need #17, 24, 35, and 61... I just copy those into user settings 1-4. Makes cycling through them pretty quick.

I think some early Digitechs indeed only allowed two simultaneous effects. In any case, the Tonelab is a moddeler with effects so you'd usually get all yoru sound out of it and use the amp to just amplify it. I love the sounds of it and it is very versatile, but you'll have to decide for yourself. Behringer has a very nifty 19" rack multieffect for $99 and the Vamp seriest starting at $60, Zoom has the GFX series of floorboards starting at $129 I believe, Digitech has the RP series starting at $60, Boss the GT series starting at $250. These are the major brands in this pricerange, together with Vox' Valvetrnoix/Tonelab stuff.

I have the Digitech RP80. At first I really loved it because I don't have many pedals and it allowed me to try various effects. That along with the drum machine helped increase my practice time a lot. However, now that I've had it for awhile, I've come to the conclusion it is no replacement for individual stomp boxes. In other words, it's fun to play with and maybe even use for some recording, but I wouldn't use it live. It's a fun toy and for someone like myself who wanted to experiment to find out which effects I wanted and liked it was worth the money.

Don't get me wrong though, I use it every time I play because it does have some decent effects and for me the noise gate and compressor make it valuable.

Jason

I love my individual stomp boxes. But I also like the idea of all kinds of effects in one. I don't need much i need

Compressor,
Chorus,
Delay
Volume
Wah
Octave(i could deal without)
Acoustic simulator (could deal without)
Phaser

U know just the basics, not really a modelor so to speak. Just effects, i love my amp guitar sound. I just need a few effects. I hate the mess individual stomp boxes create. I may go buy one try it out see howi like it then decide

any suggestions something in the price range of 100 or less......Notice Katrina really $%^&*( my money situation

I got mine for $79 and I believe the RP100 is $99 at Musicians Friend.

Just a note, but the acoustic simulator isn't very impressive, IMO.

Jason

If it is for home use/recording check this out:
http://www.behringer.com/DSP2024P/index.cfm?lang=ENG

Excellent quality, some really great and uncommon effects, huge ammounts of paramters per effect, you can use whatever MIDI setup you like for live performances. Beats the crap out of most cheaper floorboards soundwise.

I had an RP80 and now have the Vox Tonelab, which I really like a lot more than the RP.

With either one, as Nil's mentioned, you can program whatever you like down low so the effects you use the most are just a click or two or three away.

There is a big price difference between the RP80 and the Tonelab and the modelers make very different sounds. I have one main setting that I have dialed in exactly the way I like it with my Les Paul.

The guitar you use matters, the music you play matters, it all matters and spending more money on a modeler is not necessarily better unless it produces the tones you want with the guitar and amp you use.

It would be great if you could try out what you are considering buying to see if it is what you want.

Hey leear,

Can you please shrink your avatar? 80 pixels wide.