Great Product But Digitech could of made a Superior Product if they tried 2

I bought this Product to replace a Digitech GNX4 as I had been reading about the Better amp/Cab Models especially where it comes to Metal Music.
LIKES:
I will say the Amp/Cab Models are much better then the Factory GNX4's, The Distortion Options just blow the GNX4 away Very Impressed with that.
I like the Feature where you can add your own Stompbox or Boxes with the Stomp Loop Feature (Although I have not tried it yet but will soon)
The Case is Extremely heavy duty and the Foot Switches appear to be Heavy Duty also which is a great thing if you do alot of Gigging or alot of Preset Changes or enabling/Disabling Effects.
The onboard Tuner appears to be a bit more accurate and easier to get proper tuning with then the GNX4.
DISLIKES:
I am not impressed with the Lack of 1/4" Stereo Inputs as I liked that Feature of the GNX4
I Feel the Compressor's, The Noise Gate and the Delay are not as good as the Ones on the GNX4.
One feature missing that I would of thought would be on this unit is the ability to have a preset bounceback( where say you start with a Metal preset then go to a Clean preset and all you would have to do is hit the same button you did to get the clean and you would be back on teh Metal Preset again) The lack of that makes you have to remeber which button exactly was the previous preset and move your foot over to hit that button which can easily cause you to mess up and select the wrong preset.
One other Huge Feature I will miss was the Warp feature and the dual amp setup on the GNX4 where Like a normal Guitar amp you can have one channel a Distortion channel and one Clean and just switch between them without having to change the preset which makes you have to set the effects identical on 2 seperate presets where whith the amp change all you changed was the amp effects stayed the same and you could even set it to have a Massive distortion on one amp and a little crunch on a different amp on same preset, The warp feature was cool where you coudl take 2 amps say Metal and combine them to get a specific tone and then save thatwarped amp as its own amp to use at a later time it really gave you a alot of Tweakability.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
All In all I like this Unit better due to the much better Distortion, Amp/Cab Models.
I gave it a 4/5 due to the Dislikes I mentioned and the fact that with the MFXSupermodels Upgraded Amp/Cab Models the GNX4 comes real close to the quality of the RP 1000.
I will keep using the RP1000 over the GNX4 but I believe they could of made a Much superior Product had they just added a few (not even all) of the Dislikes I mentioned, Especially for the amount of money these are listed for.
But I am still glad i got one and Hopefully as I use it I get better at fine tuning and get better Tone and I hope once i try the Stompbox Loop it lives up to its expectation.

fanfreakintastic...

By far the best pedal board I've ever used, great sound, very easy to use is always a plus... The pedal works like a single pedal that you can in your normal chain of pedals. One of the best things about this pedal is the ability to use your own amps sound. The pedal seems very sturdy and well built and its the first pedal board I've bought that came with multi cables. The only bad thing to me is some of the effects fade out and I have not figured out if you can fix it and the loop buttons are hard to use because they are on the top of unit and you kinda have to balance to use it, but the fxs3 foot switch fixed that problem. Over all great product...

Great System for the Buck

Overall the DigiTech RP1000 Multi Effects Switching system is a great unit. I use it every week when I play in my church band. It works great with the church's sound system and it's nice to be able to incorporate my own stomp pedals.

There are three characteristics that I do not like. (1) is that when you switch between presets, effects like delays do not transfer over. (2) when using the looper, you can only use one preset. Meaning that if I am play a rhythm section on a clean channel and want to play lead using a OD channel or distortion, the recorded rhythm changes to the OD and is no longer clean. This is useless to me. The 3rd main issue I have is the built-in Wah/Expression pedal. It uses a soft switch instead of a hard on/off switch. So its very easy to activate the Wah by accident. Not cool during a show. I have chosen to just tape it closed with the Wah off.

Aside from these three issues, I really do love the unit and have been able to work around the cons. I simply do not use the looper or the wah pedal. Instead, i've decided to use my DigiTech Jam Man Solo for looping and I plan to purchase a Cry Baby wah to use in front of the RP1000 in the chain. Also with the ability to incorporate the use of other pedals, I'm able to work around the preset delay issues.

On a scale from 1 - 10, I give the RP1000 an 8 which is pretty good considering the price point and the number of effects it comes with and its versatility.

Everything I dreamed it was

Went from an RD500 to this and I am so glad I did! Also tried the Digitech rack, but that didn't work for me either. I run w a Marshall DSL 2000 (50 watt) head and it actually gives you an extra channel because of using the loop and the front. This is what I wanted, to be able to use the clean Marshall channel as my rhythm channel and the loop as my clean. With the 500 I had to sacrifice the tuner and the wah effects because I liked the reg effects in the loop- with the 1000 everything works and just sounds so much better and like it should. The amp models are pretty good too and now you can really compare them side by side w your default tone. The overdrives in the past always sounded horrible, but now these sound and work like they should too. I love this petal board!

Throw down your sound with a Processor worth Spending your money on Digitec

The RP 1000 is a profesional effects processor. I started out with the RP 255 & decided to go all out. It will take you awhile to grasp just what all it can do.I have a home Studio and have used other effects but nothing compares to Digitech.I always Look to Ebay first before I buy Cause I always save alot of money.If you are looking for the right gear for Stage or Studio this is the one !!.