Mine has two problems that never got fixed: the output of the XLR outs is horrendously loud and uncontrollable, and the harmonizer screws up depending on the note you're playing. I used to be a Digitech fanboy, will never buy anything from them ever again. If you intend to buy one make sure it doesn't have the aforementioned flaws.
Mine has two problems that never got fixed: the output of the XLR outs is horrendously loud and uncontrollable, and the harmonizer screws up depending on the note you're playing. I used to be a Digitech fanboy, will never buy anything from them ever again. If you intend to buy one make sure it doesn't have the aforementioned flaws.
Did Digitech and/or Stan not take care of the harmonizer in the RP1000? taht sucks! The RP355 and RP500's harmonizers were pretty good. And I'd take a hot XLR over the whisper of the HD500's XLR all day. You can always turn the channel input down, a hot signal requires less post boosting and as such a lower overall noise floor. If those 2 things are enough to steer you away from Digitech, feel lucky. Early HD500 owners have had to put up with 10 times that and sit patiently for about a year before the product was "complete". Boss is the only company which seems to consistently put out a complete and bug free product. Of course, many have not liked Boss's COSM high gain tones so I guess even with them its a trade off of sorts...
I'm not a big fan of the modeling in the HD500 either, but at least I can use it as a MIDI footswitch for my 11R. The XLR outs in my RP1000 are unusable, trust me. As soon as you slightly turn the trim control up from zero it becomes loud and distorted. And to my knowledge and in my experience Digitech has made it pretty clear that once you've bought one of their products, if there are any design flaws with it you're pretty much screwed. IMHO ad infinitum of course.
I don't know if it's a problem with RP1000, but Digitech doesn't seem to consistently implement electronic circuit protection on the XLR outputs of their guitar processor products.
If your Digitech's XLR outputs are connected to an audio mixer's XLR inputs, and the mixer's phantom power is turned on, this can potentially damage the electronic circuit that drives XLR outputs in the Digitech.