DigiTech RP50 Modeling Guitar Processor

This is my first review of a multi-effects processor, the first multi-effects processor I have ever purchased, and I am an amateur guitarist. Many of the people looking at a budget processor are probably in the same shoes, so here goes.



Retail Price: $99.95
Street Price: $59.95

Pros

• Lots of extra features
  


• Very affordable

Cons

• All plastic assembly
  


• Non-editable drum patterns
  


• Simple LCD display

Review

An affordable multi-effects processor with many features and effects. A flexible unit for the budget amateur or intermediate guitarist.

Summary

The DigiTech RP50 is a guitar tone and effects processor with a built-in drum machine, chromatic tuner, expression pedal input, and more. It is feature packed with a low price for the budget guitarist.

I purchased the RP50 at a local shop for about $47. A multi-effects processor like this is perfect for someone like me - an amateur guitarist with a low budget demanding tons of features. This unit lets you manage up to 40 user presets, with 40 more factory presets locked in memory, for a total of 80 effects selected with two pedals. The RP50 allows for ten simultaneous effects from a total of almost 30:

* Pickup Simulator
* Compressor
* Wah
* Amp Modeling
* Cabinet Modeling
* 3-band EQ
* Noise Gate
* Auto Swell
* Chorus
* Flanger
* Phaser
* Tremolo
* Panner
* Vibrato
* Rotary Speaker
* Auto Ya
* Envelope Filter
* Detune
* Pitch Shift
* Whammy
* Digital Delay
* Analog Delay
* Ping Pong Delay
* 6 Different Reverbs

So you can really pump out a lot of wicked sounds from this device.

The RP50 also has a chromatic tuner, a drum "machine" with 30 preset patterns, tempo, and volume control, and battery or AC power to suit your needs. The addition of an expression pedal input lets you add a passive volume pedal to manipulate control whammy, wah, and volume.

The sound of the RP50 is pretty clean on my budget system, and the added tuner and drum machine will save some money on a separate tuner and metronome.