Distortion - DigiTech RP500 Owner's Manual

Distortion

The RP500 includes the tones of many popular distortion stompboxes, each of which can be
fully dialed in.
Distortion - Knob 1 selects a Distortion. Press this knob to turn the selected Distortion
on and off.
- Based on an Ibanez
- Based on an Ibanez TS-808 Tube
Screamer
- Based on a Voodoo Lab Sparkle
Drive
- Based on a Guyatone
OD-2
- Based on a DOD
Overdrive/Preamp
- DigiTech Redline Overdrive
®
- Based on a Pro Co RAT
- Based on an MXR
Knobs 2-6 have the following functions for the various Distortions:
Distortion Knob 2
(Gain)
Drive
Overdrive
Gain
Drive
Gain
Gain
Distortion
Distortion
Gain
Grunge
Gain
Gunk
Drive
Fuzz
Fuzz
Fuzz
Sustain
Disclaimer: DigiTech®, RP500™, DigiTech Whammy®, MultiChorus®, AutoYa™, YaYa™, SynthTalk™, Grunge®, DOD®, Lexicon®, and
AudioDNA® are trademarks of Harman International Industries, Incorporated. Ibanez Tube Screamer, Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive, Guyatone
Overdrive, ProCo Rat, MXR, Boss Metal Zone, Roger Mayer Octavia, Demeter Fuzzulator, Arbiter Fuzz Face, EH Big Muff Pi, Dunlop Cry Baby,
Vox, Clyde McCoy Wah, MXR DynaComp, TC Electronic, EH Electric Mistress, EH Small Stone, Boss Octaver, Unicord Univibe, Fender Opto
Tremolo, Vox Bias Tremolo, Maestro Echoplex, Fender Twin Reverb, EMT, Fender Tweed Deluxe, Fender Bassman, Fender Blackface, Twin Reverb,
Marshall Super Lead, Mesa/Boogie, Hiwatt, Fender Tweed Champ, Soldano, Jensen Blue Backs, Celestion, Johnson Amplification, VHT Amplifica-
tion, Sunn, Orange, Gibson, Laney, Roland, Peavey, 5150, and Randall are trademarks of their respective companies and are not associated or af-
filiated with DigiTech or Harman International Industries, Incorporated. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used to identify products
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whose sounds were reviewed in the making of this product. ©2008 Harman International Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
TS-9
®
Overdrive
®
250
®
TM
Distortion +
®
Knob 3 Knob 4
(Param. 1) (Param. 2)
Tone
Tone
Tone Clean
--
--
Low High
Filter
--
Tone
Butt Face
Low Mid
-- Low Mid
Smear Suck
--
Tone Loose/Tight
Tone
--
Tone
- Based on a Boss
Distortion
- DigiTech Grunge
®
- Based on a Boss MT-2 Metal
Zone
®
- DigiTech Death Metal
- Based on a DOD Gonkulator
- Based on a Roger Mayer Octavia
- Based on a Demeter Fuzzulator
- Based on a DOD Classic Fuzz
- Based on an Arbiter
- Based on an Electro-Harmonix
Big Muff Pi ®
Knob 5 Knob 6
(Param. 3)
(Distor-
tion Level)
-- -- Level
-- -- Level
-- Volume
-- -- Level
-- -- Level
-- Level
-- -- Level
-- -- Output
-- -- Level
-- Loud
High Level
High Level
-- Heave
-- -- Volume
-- Volume
-- -- Volume
-- -- Volume
-- -- Volume
DS-1
® TM
®
TM
TM
® Fuzz Face TM
®
P7
(X-Edit
TM
only)
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
--
Mid Freq
--
--
--
--
--
--
--