digitech rp255

[AKA Ninja]

http://www.music123.com/Guitars/Guitar-Amplifiers--Effects/Guitar-Effects/Guitar-Multi-Effects/Floor-Guitar-Effects/RP255-Guitar-Multi-Effects-Pedal.site7prod580863.product

Anybody got an opinion on this?

I'm mainly interested in it for the looper, tuner, and expression pedal. I also like that I can use it in my effects loop with the aux input to amplify whatever I want to jam with at the time; nothing else in my house is loud enough to keep up with my B-52 when I get the chance to crank it, so letting me run my tunes through the power amp would be aweful nice. The headphones are nice as well, and i can run it into the pc as well.

is there a  better multi effects w/ aux input and looper, in that price range?

[SecretWeapon]

I had one of those several years ago and ended up selling it. It was a neat unit and might be good for a beginner but considering all the audiophiliac sound whores around here you'd probably scoff if you actually heard one.

As I recall the effects were decent but overall the unit sounds so flat and lifeless. Its very empty sounding and the worst part is that it doesn't have true bypass, so you get that dead effect even when you turn it off.

[AKA Ninja]

I had one of those several years ago and ended up selling it. It was a neat unit and might be good for a beginner but considering all the audiophiliac sound whores around here you'd probably scoff if you actually heard one.

As I recall the effects were decent but overall the unit sounds so flat and lifeless. Its very empty sounding and the worst part is that it doesn't have true bypass, so you get that dead effect even when you turn it off.

I'm not really interested in it for the effects, I'm interested in the tuner, looper, auxiliary input, and expression pedal (and alternately, as an alternative to using guitar rig on the laptop all the time when I'm away from my amp). And my amp has a switchable effects loop, so I can actually take the pedal entirely out of the chain with a footswitch tap.

[Franky G-String]

I had one of those several years ago and ended up selling it. It was a neat unit and might be good for a beginner but considering all the audiophiliac sound whores around here you'd probably scoff if you actually heard one.

As I recall the effects were decent but overall the unit sounds so flat and lifeless. Its very empty sounding and the worst part is that it doesn't have true bypass, so you get that dead effect even when you turn it off.

I'm not really interested in it for the effects, I'm interested in the tuner, looper, auxiliary input, and expression pedal (and alternately, as an alternative to using guitar rig on the laptop all the time when I'm away from my amp). And my amp has a switchable effects loop, so I can actually take the pedal entirely out of the chain with a footswitch tap.

Well, it's your call.  I'd try it very hard before I bought it if I were you.  Keep in mind that dedicated loopers are hard enough to use and ones built into a muti FX like my DMMw/H are handy, but are all but useless in a live environment IMO.

[Chris]

I had one of the older versions of that, and it was crap. They may have improved, but I doubt it.

[AKA Ninja]

Keep in mind that dedicated loopers are hard enough to use and ones built into a muti FX like my DMMw/H are handy, but are all but useless in a live environment IMO.

I don't want it for playing live, I'd never have the coordination for using it live. I'd want it for working on riffs and for recording.

This is all bedroom and travel usage we're talking here.