tunghaichuan
August 5th, 2009, 01:43 PM
I picked this up yesterday at a local guitar shop:
http://www.digitech.com/products/Multi-Effects/images/RP155main.jpg
A new Digitech RP-155. I got the smallest one with USB, editing software, a drum machine, and a looper. I wanted a portable headphone amp that I could play without disturbing anyone and also to record with eventually.
I hooked it up to this rig to test it out:
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs195.snc1/6569_112327552054_666597054_2367474_2493392_n.jpg
Two Valve Juniors into matching 1X12" cabs.
It doesn't sound all that great into the VJ amps. I'm going to have to play with the settings. Most of them have too many FX and the FX are too loud in the mix. The high gain sounds are good, but the mid gain sounds are too gritty. The clean sounds have too much treble and are too hifi sounding.
I spent most of the morning downloading the audio drivers to my PC, installing the editing software and updating the firmware on the RP-155.
New shot of my four 5W amp heads and 1X12" cabs:
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs195.snc1/6569_112328187054_666597054_2367475_7705952_n.jpg
The pedal boards in front of the amps are Boss: SD-1, OD-2, OS-2, DD-3, DD-7, RV-5. The RV-5 is a nice compact reverb and adds some spaciousness to the sound. The DD-7 is a true panning delay, and has tons of features I will never use.
The pedal in the middle is my trusty MI Audio Tube Zone. That pedal is killer for metal sounds. And totally *crushes* the four Boss metal pedals I have. It is a Recto in a box, literally.
The Boss and MI Audio FX sound great into the two VJ amps, much better than the Digitech unit.
The manual is pretty thick, so it is going to take me a while to go through it and discover all the neat, built-in features of the RP-155.
tung
http://www.digitech.com/products/Multi-Effects/images/RP155main.jpg
A new Digitech RP-155. I got the smallest one with USB, editing software, a drum machine, and a looper. I wanted a portable headphone amp that I could play without disturbing anyone and also to record with eventually.
I hooked it up to this rig to test it out:
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs195.snc1/6569_112327552054_666597054_2367474_2493392_n.jpg
Two Valve Juniors into matching 1X12" cabs.
It doesn't sound all that great into the VJ amps. I'm going to have to play with the settings. Most of them have too many FX and the FX are too loud in the mix. The high gain sounds are good, but the mid gain sounds are too gritty. The clean sounds have too much treble and are too hifi sounding.
I spent most of the morning downloading the audio drivers to my PC, installing the editing software and updating the firmware on the RP-155.
New shot of my four 5W amp heads and 1X12" cabs:
http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs195.snc1/6569_112328187054_666597054_2367475_7705952_n.jpg
The pedal boards in front of the amps are Boss: SD-1, OD-2, OS-2, DD-3, DD-7, RV-5. The RV-5 is a nice compact reverb and adds some spaciousness to the sound. The DD-7 is a true panning delay, and has tons of features I will never use.
The pedal in the middle is my trusty MI Audio Tube Zone. That pedal is killer for metal sounds. And totally *crushes* the four Boss metal pedals I have. It is a Recto in a box, literally.
The Boss and MI Audio FX sound great into the two VJ amps, much better than the Digitech unit.
The manual is pretty thick, so it is going to take me a while to go through it and discover all the neat, built-in features of the RP-155.
tung