Advantages: shuts out background noise, allows lowr volume, decent sound, removable cord Disadvantages: slightly chunky, lack of lower bass
Anyone who has to travel to any extent whether it's by train, plane or bus will know how noisy the background can get and how high you have to have the volume to allow you to make out what you're listening to, especially with spoken word material like podcasts. Over time, these volume levels are both bad for your ears as well as being anti-social to other passengers.
There are plenty of headphones that claim to be noise-reducing or noise-cancelling but in practice, most are just designed to fill your ear canals more snugly. Some do have an element of proper noise cancelling via electronics but for some time now the benchmark has been the excellent Bose range although with prices of £250 or more, these are out of most people's price range.
I was thus very happy to find a pair of Panasonic's RP-HC500's to try out. These are still ...
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 ...
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 ...
