Digitech RP 7 Valve

Advantages: all in one unit
Disadvantages: need to learn how to get the right sounds

...The digitech RP12 is a floor based multi effects unit for guitar with the ability to store sounds and call them up quickly and easily. The range of effects is vast and they cann be combined to create a good range of sounds. You store the sounds in banks and they can be accessed through the floor pedal board. The effect quality is very good and the programming of the sounds is easy. You get 64 standard settings and can set 64 more The manual gives a good start to the unit and allows you to get into the creation of effects quickly. The best way to learn to use it is to have a go and you soon will pick it up. At the cost it is agood unit with a great range. effects include distortion, eq, phaser, comprssor/limiter, echo, reverb... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent build - great sound
Disadvantages: Little to complain about

...The RP12 was a standing stone the RP100 and 200 are the way forward. The RP100 - is for me a the very escence of professionalism and creative structure. I love it! You may have guessed. The device is extremely uncomplicated to operate, yet complex enough in depth and facilities to allow one to experiment with robust and violent abandon. The device is extremely well made and I'm sure would well survive a Slipknot rampaging stage show. Although to be fair I'm not sure that any effects pedal would beable to cope with an onslaught of blood streaked vomit hitting it at 50mph! The device offers a huge range of effects, microphone positions and volume stroke gain contols. A hugely impressive 40 pre set effects voices and a combination of 20 varying drum beats, a tuning section and a number of tweaking controls provide the guitarist or indeed... Read review

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Advantages: Analog overdrive circuitry, vintage overdrive tone, great as a channel booster
Disadvantages: Battery life isn't great

...About two years ago, when I went and bought a new guitar amplifier (Laney TF200-II), I thought "Great, I'm probably going to have enough gain and tone to suit my needs". It did have great tone, but sadly not enough gain for me. So I began to use my Line6 POD2 (a guitar amp modelling preamp) as a booster to get more gain and fill my needs. But this wasn't a great move, the POD over digitized the sound and so just didn't sound right. I began looking for an alternative, and found the Digitech Bad Monkey. After listening to some sound samples I decided that it was a perfect booster for my amp. And it is... What's great about this little green pedal, is the tone that you get from it. It is just like a vintage valve (Tube) amp. It has that warm break-up that you'd expect to hear from a valve driven amp, and none of that over compressed... Read review

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