Digitech R(I)P 350 - dead(?)

[saarangnarayan]

Well today is a sad day in this household because one of its earliest gear acquisitions seems to have passed away peacefully in its drawer. The mighty Digitech RP350 was the first thing I bought to make noise with my electric guitar and Roland Cube (was gifted the cube earlier to play with my acoustic’s piezo pickup).

I decided to pull it out of the drawer of gear miscellany and plug it in for shits and giggles but it won’t turn on anymore. The screen flashed “RP 350” and then kept rebooting, almost like it wanted to live one last time but then it simply had no life left. I opened the unit up to see if there was a loose ribbon or something somewhere inside that I could re-seat to make it work. But nope. Didn’t have any effect (ha!). And then after a few more minutes of the “RP 350” flashes, it stopped. Seemingly forever.

This used to be my entire rig for a while. Then it became a pre-FX thing for my Marshall MG10HDFX (and later a Laney Ironheart 120) with the POD X3 Live handling post-fx. Then all of this got shelved/sold when I got the Axe Fx II a decade ago. But I hung on to the RP350 and POD X3 Live. The POD has seemingly been left to its own devices (hehe) now.

So long, farewell…

P.S.- in case any of you lot know how I can fix this, I’m listening.

 

[PLX]

Same thing happened to my Alesis SR-16 drum machine a couple months ago. Thing had sat on a shelf for decades.. plugged it in, booted, played around with some beats.

Switched it off and ate lunch. Came back to my recording desk and turned it on.. loud "POP" comes thru my monitors and the smell of burning electronics fills the air.

Godspeed, Alesis SR-16.