is the rp350 true bypass?

guitarplaya18 · February 2007

hey, im getting a b-52 at-100 tube amp which has amazing clean, and dist. And i am also thinking about getting the rp350 so i can just use the effects. problom is, i have the gnx3000 and when i bypass it, it makes the amp sound bad. So i want to know if the rp350 does the same thing. Thanks!

guitar3456 · February 2007

not many that are including 350. In the sense of true bypass that is.

0Dannyboy · February 2007

:? I thought I read somewhere that they worked on this bypass issue ...made a dedicated circuit or somthing they are calling true bypass... (I could be getting my facts tangled I have been researching alot of stuff latley)...but my RP250 sounds way cleaner than my GNX3 on bypass.

iliace · February 2007

It would have to bypass the A/D/A stage to be hard bypass. I can't find this information.

0Dannyboy · February 2007

8) OK, I remembered reading that in the manual so I went and looked it up ...on page 2 under of all things :shock: bypass mode. Heres what it says...

:P The RP250 can be bypassed via a \"TRUE ANOLOG BYPASS CIRCUIT\" for a clean, unprocessed guitar signal.

so there ya have it yet another reason to just love the New RP series :!:

guitarplaya18 · February 2007

THANK GOD! i didnt want to spend a fortune on stomp boxes, considering the rp350 has way more then ill ever need...........btw, anyone looking to buy a gnx3000?

iliace · February 2007

\0Dannyboy\ wrote:

8) OK, I remembered reading that in the manual so I went and looked it up ...on page 2 under of all things :shock: bypass mode. Heres what it says...

:P The RP250 can be bypassed via a \"TRUE ANOLOG BYPASS CIRCUIT\" for a clean, unprocessed guitar signal.

so there ya have it yet another reason to just love the New RP series :!:

Wow, I can't believe I missed that part. I missed it in my RP250 manual, and the RP350 manual I downloaded last night trying to find the answer to this question! But that's awesome... I'm gonna have to try this with an amp.

guitar3456 · February 2007

sorry, thought you meant modeling, not the bypass itself. previous bypass sounded processed and changed the guitar output signal level. If you meant direct modeling, that's another thing..

guitarplaya18 · February 2007

so all in all, the rrp350 does not process the output signal in bypass mode resulting in the amp to have it orignial tone, just as if the rp350 was not pluged in?

0Dannyboy · February 2007

\guitarplaya18\ wrote:

so all in all, the rp350 does not process the output signal in bypass mode resulting in the amp to have it orignial tone, just as if the rp350 was not pluged in?

Yes you are correct sir. In bypass mode my RP250 is crystal clean with the same level of signal. Its brilliant

Thanks for listening Digitech . It was a most anoying fearture to have the bypass sound colored and weak in the GNX line. now this is completely resolved IMHO in the RP units.

iliace · February 2007

But... as Mike said... if you're running in the front end of the amp, the \"Direct\" modeling stage is still there, even on an \"effects-only\" setting.

guitarplaya18 · February 2007

so i just need to run the pedal in the effects loop to get a crystal clean signal on a effects only patch?

0Dannyboy · February 2007

:? perhaps I misunderstood the question. When I put my GNX3 in bypass mode the signal is weaker and colored. On the RP when I put it in bypass mode the signal is clear and of the same volume as the processed signal. This I assume is due to the new \"analog bypass circuit\"

guitar3456 · February 2007

when I talked to reps in PA, I asked about the efx only bypass. To bypass the unit is as they say, leaving your amp bone dry. Efx only can be a different thing, and is misunderstood as bypass. I had suggested the cleanest DIRECT models for this type of function. Previously they had suggested it would require additional internal routing that changes the entire pcb. Not sure of the purity in direct modes.

is the rp350 true bypass?

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