| The Digitech RP Series Page Making the best of these Small/Cheap Pedals |
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After the Boss ME-6 and Korg AX30G died, I bought a brand new Digitech RP-200A at the Auburn Guitar Shoppe, which lasted about six months before the moody cats killed it with their territorial pissings (not the song) yet again. I later picked up a RP-250 sometime around 2010 as a "Travel Effect" unit, which I used until about 2020 later on, usually using it with a late model Peavey Rage 158 amplifier for serenading my girlfriend at the time (now my wife). So I've had two pedals in this series. So I decided to consolidate them down to ONE page.
The Digitech RP-200A was a "Manual Only", mono (except through headphones) model released sometime around 2002 or 2003. This pedal featured a built in drum machine which I used on a lot of M.J. demos at the time (mostly the Ice Box and Killing Alabama era stuff). It had no way to edit via Midi or USB hence hte "Manual Only" comment. It was the first unit I ever had that had a real, wah-style expression pedal on it and a pitch shifter, so this was about the time I started using the whole "5ths" thing though I did a lot more limited since the pitch-shifter technology in Digitech's DSP at the time on these pedals was not up to par with something like a WH4 Whammy pedal. The big deal about the "200A" was that the "A" stood for "Artist Presets" - meaning that, apparently, Digitech hired/brought in some celebrities to program their famous tones to make patches for this unit. Of course, I did not give a rats-ass when I bought this thing, I was going to program it to sound like ME. The Digitech RP-250 was a later version of the pedal, retaining all the same features of the RP200A, but now it had USB-based editing, and could act as a digital recording interface when connected to your computer via a regular USB 2.0 cable. It could also be edited using the Digitech Editing software - which I will be hosting here once I find the files as well. This made it a lot easier to use, and a lot more convenient. I used this pedal on the Mad-Mike recordings on SoundCloud, as well as I used it to record all my guitar parts when I was in Murderock while recording the "Demonia" album. I also used it a few times a open jam at Hayley's a Flight's taverns and it sounded incredible there. This was around the time I started looking into guitar direct-into-board as a viable future option for the postage stamp sized stages a lot of dive bars have today, since I could do everything with this that I could do with a Bugera 333XL, Peavey 4x12, and the nine or so pedals on my board, and only need 12"x12" of floor space for this thing in front of my feet on stage, giving me more room to move around. Sadly, most rockers are "traditionlaists" and scoff at the idea, apparently none of them believe, understand, or know I'm a true tech enthusiast on a nerd-like level that it seems almost no other guitarist can match for some reason. Manual Editing Patches Editing Patches via the Editor - RP-250 Only Patch Management & Factory Patches Patch organization on the Digitech devices is in a "tree" format, with about 50% of the pedal having unsavable (without some trickery) original presets, and then the other 50% are "user" presets. They are all in a row, which means you need to make the most of one patch. Another problem is that the DSP on these seems to be a little "slow" so changing from one patch to another for a different sound usually has a 1-2 second delay, especially when moving from an effects heavy patch to another effects heavy patch. Factory Presets - Digitech RP200A
Factory Presets - Digitech RP250
Patches - RP-250 (MANUAL EDIT)
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