RP 1000
I owned an RP 6 for many years, and two years ago when I got my Mesa 5/50 I stopped using it with live gigs because it sounded a little thin, and resorted back to my old stomp pedals.
Well I got my RP 1000 today and OMFG this thing is a BrUTe!
I mean in a good way, solid as you can ask for, and now Im dying to get off work and plug this puppy in
Has anyone used it with a Mesa 5/50 and what is your setup?
I don't know if anyone might have this info, but I used factory setting \"F31\" on my RP6 a lot, and wonder if there is an equvalency chart somewhere that lists what patches might be common between the two so I can get a heads up on things.
Wow Im pretty stoked and can wait to fire it up
l8r
Well I got my RP 1000 today and OMFG this thing is a BrUTe!
I mean in a good way, solid as you can ask for, and now Im dying to get off work and plug this puppy in
Has anyone used it with a Mesa 5/50 and what is your setup?
I don't know if anyone might have this info, but I used factory setting \"F31\" on my RP6 a lot, and wonder if there is an equvalency chart somewhere that lists what patches might be common between the two so I can get a heads up on things.
Wow Im pretty stoked and can wait to fire it up
l8r
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btw- kool tunes on your site link.
I played in a youth group band for my congregation for about 4 years a number of years ago until the band broke up (not for bad reasons) when the leader left for other pastures.
Those were some good days
Anyway I will let you know how the rp1000 plays thru the Mesa 5/50
rock on
I fired up my shiney new RP1000 straight out of the box, and I read the first couple of pages of the manual to get familar enough with the unit and I first went through all the patches to listen to each.
The manual can be downloaded from the following link just for a little pre-purchase contemplation and drooling...
ftp://ftp.digitech.com/pub/PDFs/Manuals/RP1000/RP1000%20manual%2018-0597-A.pdf
I love \"Big Storm\" 49 and I believe this patch will be my foundation for future tweeking.
What's too kool is that I wanted it a little grungier on the distortion and all I had to do was rotate the Knob 1 (Tone Library) until I got the \"DISTORTION\" setting and voila!
Also the \"SUSTAINER\" is fricking awesome too, though I think it needs just a little tweeking.
Spent the rest of the night just making adjustments and rotating knobs, but not altering patches just yet...
I stayed up too late but it was worth it and discovered many useful features.
This weekend I will hook up my Mesa 5/50 via the Amp Loop and I intend to use the Clean (channel 1) set to pure clean with no reverb and see how things go.
I think I may tweek the RP1000's distortion to work with the amp's (Channel 2) Channel set on \"Burn\" mode and then use my amp's great distortion as either an alternate, lighter distortion or another layer of distortion.
I dunno, I'll have to see how it sounds at that point.
I played with the Loop Phrase sampler and it didn't take long to figure out the sequence of foot switching to get it to work
Wish it were longer than 20 seconds though you could loop out to an outboard unit for that.
The foot pedal has good tension and felt solid underfoot and all the switches have a hearty snap when you press them which will be great at a gig because of the positive feedback through your shoe.
So far I am awed by the possibilities.
RP1000 is more than what I expected
As you learn the RP more please reiterate your thoughts on it.. As I haven't tried one yet!
But Sunday night I was able to install the AISO drivers and the Library Editor and hook up the rp1000 to my PC.
The installs were hassle free, although I do have some kind of issue with Sonar Cakewalk with the sound being garbled/distorted as a direct input but I will figure that out later and post in a different area for tech support.
Besides I can always come out of the rp1000'S 1/4\" jack into my firepod's instrument jack for recording.
Anyway, I continue to be awed as this upgrade from my rp6 is leaps and bounds above what I had.
The editor is simply a great tool.
I mean, editing patches on the rp1000 is easy enough. However, the great thing about the editor is being able to see the entire dropdown list of available options for each paremeter is the bomb.
You can select different effects, amp cabinets... just about whatever ... on the fly.
In minutes I had it down. Editing new patches is a cinch.
I spent the next 3 hours going through the huge arsenal of effects and cabinets and tweeking till my brain melted.
So here is what I am considering.... I play in a cover band, and we also do a few originals and we all know that the particular sound on a song makes it unique.
In the past I had about 4 different patches I used at a performance, switching in/out whatever effects I needed at the time. I thought it was great, and versitile.
Here is the thing.... You can set the rp1000 in either \"Preset\" mode, or \"Pedalboard Mode\"
In \"pedalboard\" mode, you get to activate the bottom row of 5 switches with presets and then use the top 5 switches for their labeled function, ie. distortion, chorus, etc etc to switch in/out effects.
In \"preset\" mode all 10 switches are Presets, either factory or user ones, but you cannot turn off individual effects in that mode.
So here is what I am considering, setting up matching presets within each bank.
So... if I need to play Santana tunes, I could set up two presets for that.
One preset for clean, and the other for distorted. Then I would arrange them so that the clean preset might be on switch 1, and the distorted on switch 6, so they are physically one above the other. Easy!
See, There are 100 user presets. They are accessed in banks of ten, so 10 different patches appear on the 10 footswitches in \"preset\" mode..
That could be 5 pairs of matching presets per bank, 20 banks, giving you two distinct setups for up to 50 songs! wow!
That would seem like a lot of work, but actually the PC based editor makes this job a piece of cake.
The most time consuming part is tweeking your sound using the vast arsenal of sound altering goodness.
Knowing me, I will probably reserve the first or last 5 patches to have custom patches to operate the rp1000 in \"pedalboard\" mode, where I can call up 1 of the 5 patches for particular Original songs, then do it the old fashion way... switch out individual effects as I need them.
The best of both worlds!
I did plug the rp1000 into my amp, but sad to say, I could not operate my Mesa 5/50 amp at it's normal setting of 50 watts due to my neighbors, and though the 5 watt setting sounded good for my apartment, I still need to load up my laptop and setup for an afternoon in a club or building where I can \"stretch my legs\" so to speak and really tweek my sounds for that environment.
So I still have not played around with the Amp Loop stuff.
Anyway, so far I'm lovin it
-Rick
I have only so far played with the harmonizer with an original tune I have that makes use of a guitar solo with the harmony played a third above the melody.
You can hear that song here.... \"Long Long Time\"
http://www.myspace.com/rickhebertmusic
Note that I recorded that harmony part by way of an overdub, not
the rp1000 harmonizer, but the sound is close with the harmonizer.
As long as I didn't set the \"mix\" too high, and as long as I did not do pitch bends or vibrato on the string it sounded passable and might do the job in a live setting but that is untried as of yet.
We have a gig this Saturday, so I might try it then and let you know how it goes.
So far I am not familiar enough about other harmony settings yet to say fairly what I think.