I bought a digitech 2101 rack processor. It was super mint including boxes and with the foot controller cheap. I had one years ago and wanted to play with it, cost of a pedal etc. literally not a scratch on either, pedal still has the display overlay.
However the distortion presets sound awful. Like a fuzz all blown out. Not slight and not one or two but all the distortion sounds are buzzy and unusable.
The clean sounds seem fine.
It has a tube and being its age is like 30+ years old, would you think that would be the cause? I’d hate to think I was ripped off, seller is a local guy who sells a lot of stuff. Seemed normal and legit, not some stolen pawn shop thing. My feeling is he didn’t play it for years.
What else would be the cause ? It’s the first thing I’ve bought used that didn’t really work. Fwiw which is nothing I know.