DigiTech BP80 Bass Multi-Effects Processor

Feature:
Only a loop station could make this thing better.

Quality:
Looking at the unit I thought "You get what you pay for" but after owning it for over a year now I am amazed at the ruggedness and value.

Value:
Can't beat the value this thing offers.

Desirability:
It doesn't look like much, in fact it looks cheap. But if you want to look good, go buy yourself a guitar. If you want to sound good, you won't go wrong with one of these.

Sound:
This thing is great, and the price is incredible. It is extremely versatile, if you take the time to learn the deep editing features to create your own presets you can rock the house night after night - when I'm getting dead spots I can easily add compression to whatever effect I am using and store it as a new preset - if I'm not happy with the "house" sound I can use amp modelling to fatten things up. When the house sound man says "that bass was kickin!" you'll see what I mean.

Ease of Use:
The manual is perfect. Easy to adjust to your taste.

Support:
The fact that it has worked perfectly under heavy abuse and never failed means I have never needed support, therefore top scores her too.

Overall:
A loop station is the only missing ingredient. I might upgrade to a different model just for that feature. But it will cost a whole lot more than this baby did, and it's already paid for itself ten times over.

Feature:
The effects are cool some of them for my style are worthless. The tuner works very well and is pretty responsive. Its a great priced unit that will give you all the effects you thought about buying seperately but probably wouldn't use. I still plan on buying a Big Muff distortion and a Crybaby, but this will fit right in. It has plenty of features and for someone who just likes to play with effects its more than enough.

Quality:
its not metal which worries me when I take it to practice because my guitar player will likely step on it. After that happens I will let you know. So far though I havn't had any problems with it. I gave it a 9 because I wish it was a metal chasis. Seems relliable, comes with a power source so that is good because I don't need to spend money on batteries.

Value:
its a great value. If your like me and your looking for some effects to mess around with or to add a little tone to your rig you can't go wrong, its not fancy and you get a lot of effects that you can use or just mess around with. Its small so if you linking it with other pedals your not going to take up much room. I would recomend it to anyone.

Desirability:
Well so far my wife hasn't hinted that it is making me look sexier. The unit in my opiion is kind of plain looking it doesn't really look that cool and can sort of look cheap. But plug it in and you will change your mind.. its like me doesn't look that good but sounds great so we are a perfect fit.

Sound:
pretty good sound havn't played around with creating my own effects much yet but was trying to program the wah and accidently saved a new preset that makes my rig sound better than ever. I like the tuner it works well and when you bypass the unit there is no effect on your sound! So when I turn it off its off that is a huge benefit. It is easy to set the out put so when adding an effect your volume doesn't change. Its a little small though using the expression pedal can be challenging but its not that big of a deal.

Ease of Use:
so far its pretty easy to use, Its not too complicated and I like that because I would rather spend my time playing and not programming. right out of the box you get 40 great effects and then 40 programmable ones.

Support:
checked out website seemed nice,I havn't used them, So I will give them a 10 to give them the benefit of the doubt. First unit I bought was at guitar center since I had a gift card there, got it home and it was broken, took it back and so far so good.

Overall:
I like it a lot I will keep it around and since I am not a huge effects user I will probably never upgrade or replace it. I am going to add a crybaby and a big muff but that is only because when using effects those are the two that I use the most. If your a beginner or a pro you will like this unit. It also acts as a direct box in a sense so if your playing a gig you can just pack this thing with your guitar and have a drink while watching your other band memebers lug in heavy equipment. I have recently started playing and focusing a lot on guitar so I am probably going to buy the same effect that is built for guitar.