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In terms of sound, anyone familiar with the Digitech and DOD brands in the ‘80s and early ‘90s would know what to expect. At less than five hundred quid (cheaper than the Boss ME-5’s launch price), this product did represent good value, and it had a big impact on the market. Initially, the RP-1 was the only piece of gear that took such a concept seriously, and recognised that just because a guitarist found a rack impractical for live use, it didn’t mean he or she didn’t want those rack-synonymous sounds.
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The RP-1’s strength lay in its ability to take the rather convoluted and expensive setups that pro guitarists were rigging up on stage, and present them to the amateur or semi-pro, who wasn’t realistically going to lug a rack around the local venues. The associated brand DOD of course shared the Digitech’s specialist knowledge of the heavy metal and modern rock market.
Blues to Fusion” (and accurately so), it was clearly going to appeal most to hard rock players, and the preset bank reinforced that notion. Whilst the RP-1 was marketed as able to give the user “everything from Thrash Metal to Country Rock. The RP-1 was distributed in the UK by JHS (John Hornby Skewes), with an original recommended retail price of £499. A powerful, four-model, user-editable speaker simulator completed what was, back at the unit’s UK launch in 1992, a dynamite package.
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It came with full MIDI, 75 factory presets, storage for 75 user presets, and the ability to stack up 9 (of the total 23) effects simultaneously.
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The RP-1, conversely, integrated the essence of a professional rack-mount pre-amp/processor, and its separate floor control unit, into a single case. The ME-5 was a consolidation of floor FX pedals integrated into a digital switching and parameter storage system. Whilst the RP-1 probably looked vaguely like a derivative of the landmark Boss ME-5, that’s not really what it was.
But of course, innovative manufacturers like Digitech were not going to stop innovating, and their RP-1 effects processor served as a saviour for guitarists who didn’t want to call a halt on the progress of the ‘80s and suddenly go back to single channel valve combo reissues on a direct feed from the guitar. The early 1990s was a time in which a lot of guitarists started to focus away from innovation and onto a more retrospective plane, in which recreating the best sounds of the past was considered the way forward.
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