[Harp-L] Digitech Rp300 follow up

[Claudio Brutti <claudio.brutti1@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

just a little follow-up, since some of you showed some interest in this 
subject. Last thursday I went to the local weekly jam with the RP-300A. 
The patches I prepared at home, the ones I found on the net made by 
Richard Hunter and Chris Michalek, were still there, but I didn't have 
the time to check their volume level. Therefore they weren't exactly 
"ready to use", but with a little tweaking of the master volume I 
managed to have four or five sounds quite usable. The ones I used the 
most were the ones by Chris, based on a bassman simulation with some 
distortion in them. I used also the one with a selectable octaver in it, 
and I had a lot of fun, both during the soloes, and during the 
background riffs.  A very "horn-like" situation! The Hunter's patches 
were a little bit more esoteric, with more modulation effects, and with 
a loud band, as it was last Thursday, they were not the best choice. 
I've tried some of them on some jazzier tune with my chromatic, and they 
sounded perfect, but I had some volume problem, so I switched back on 
the bassman emulation and every thing went fine. I'll have to try again, 
next time: at home, Richard's patches sounded very good. No feedback 
problems with none of the patches (unlike the times I've tried to play 
with a V-Amp) . I've played all the time with an SM-57.

I still have some reserves about this unit,  from my last "patches-lost 
accident". I still don't know what caused it. I've heard that power 
failures could lend to some malfunctioning, but I'm not sure if this was 
my case. Next thursday I''m going to go to the jam with my electric 
mandolin, but this time I'll use only the factory presets. I'm pretty 
sure you're not interested in my mandolin experiments, so, if you'still 
need some comments on the Rp-300 use with a harp, you'll have to wait a 
couple weeks more.

Ciao,

Claudio