Rikk Beatty has been playing guitar since he was 13 years old and using Digitech products since then. Its no wonder he would end up being a clinician for Digitech that tours coast to coast all year round on the incredible DigiTech Truck! Rikk has several instrumental albums out and is currently in the studio working on his newest album that showcases the GSP1101 and RP500 titled "Guitar Farm". He has shared the stage with such bands as Great White, Dio, Cheap Trick, April Wine, Sanctuary, and Forced Entry. In addition to his albums, Rikk has performed on several other artists albums and has written music for jingles, commercials, and plays.

Rikk was also the Guitar Center Seattle store champion in the 2003 national guitar competition "Guitarmagedon" and took 2nd place at the regional finals in San Francisco. Digitech is proud to have such a talent on board showcasing all the great gear from Harman.

Visit Rikk online at: www.rikkbeatty.com and
MySpace at: www.myspace.com/rikkbeattyband

Marc “Coop” Cooper is no stranger to DigiTech. Coop started with DigiTech as a clinician in the late 80’s early 90’s demonstrating our first attempt at vocal harmonizing the famous VHM5 Vocalist and continuing throughout the 90’s with our other offerings. The singer/songwriter has traveled all over the world spreading his own unique style of music while educating the public about gear and music alike. Coop has shared the stage with Danny Gatton, Steve Howe, Les Paul, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Pat Travers, Greg Bissonette and Uli Roth to name just a few. Welcome home Coop. Please check him out at http://www.myspace.com

The amazingly talented Jennifer Batten has played all kinds of styles from straight ahead rock, metal, fusion, blues to funk. She had spent 10 years playing for Michael Jackson traveling the world as his guitarist. Later she became musically involved with Jeff Beck touring and recording with his band for several years. Jennifer started with Digitech in 1991 when we introduced the Whammy pedal to the masses. Jennifer has incorporated and demoed it ever since while saying: “The Whammy Pedal is part of my body.” Digitech is truly honored to have such a remarkable team and family member.

Ralf Jung is one of our international travelling clinicians. He joined the DigiTech Team in February 2000. Since then he has done close to 1,000 clinics and attended all the major trade shows worldwide. His performances are informative yet entertaining and he is a real talented guitar player!

Ralf played in various bands and projects, has appeared on several recordings and has been in the top ten charts in Japan and Germany with his music.

If you like to know more about Ralf please visit him on his webpage www.rj-guitar.de

From a love for music that began early in his childhood, Paul Crook’s desire to create has blossomed into a storied career. As the lead guitarist of Anthrax, from 1995 to 2001 Crook’s expertise expanded into engineering and co-producing the group’s “Volume 8” album. Currently Crook is the lead guitarist for Sebastian Bach (Skid Row).

Crook is credited with composing and performing on John Carpenter’s “Ghosts of Mars”. He has worked with Ministry, BOC, Alex Lifeson, Bernie Marsden, Dee Snider and Anton Fig. Paul also engineered Puff Daddy’s “Victory,” and was an assistant engineer to Eddie Kramer.

A current DigiTech clinician and endorsee, Crook is a valued member of our team, who continues to spread the GeNetX™ message at clinics nationwide.

Marco Cardona
Digitech’s Italian clinician since 1999, who aside from showing off Digitech product also does session work. Marco has played in the past with Gregg and Matt Bissonette, Marty Friedman and Stuart Hamm. He is also a journalist for a major magazine in Italy.

Diego Mizrahi
Born in Buenos Aires on 18 April 1965.
Started his musical studies at the age of 8 at the Instituto Vocacional de Arte Labarden.
Studied music at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla, Conservatorio Nacional López Buchardo, Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda, Musician Institute of Hollywood, LA, USA, and later with teachers of the stature of Scott Henderson and Joe Diorio.
Received a fellowship from the Berklee School of Music, Boston, in Argentina (1992).
Edited several publications (books and video clinics), which are sold in all Latin America.
Helped writing articles for the magazine El Musiquero for ten years, editing with it two clinics on video and cassette.
Chosen the guitar player of the month in January 1999 by the English-Spanish magazine Guitarra total, which published a song of his own in the CD of the magazine.
Since 1992 he has played with his band La Mizrahi Blue Band, recording three CDs -and about to release a new one-, and touring the west coast of the USA in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000, performing together with Santana, Jeff Baxter, Ozzomatli, etc.
In 1997 the band hit the first numbers of the Spanish rock charts in radio stations of Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
In 2000 the band was chosen by Leon Hendrix, Jimi’s brother, to be Leon’s own band, offering a tribute concert to his brother Jimi Hendrix at the Coconut Teaser in Hollywood.
Currently, producer and host of Music Expert TV, as well as editor of the magazine of the same name, which has instructional contents and includes a CD.
Diego Mizrahi is one of the musicians who has taught more clinics all over the country. He has taught clinics of products such as Washburn, Ernie Ball, Samick, Roland, Randall, etc., as well as instructional clinics and workshops. He is the endorser of the guitar brand Washburn USA and he gave a clinics with Washburn / Randall all around the Latinamérica.

diegomizrahi@yahoo.com.ar

www.diegomizrahi.com

 

Dave Martone works closely with the Canadian distributor Erikson concentrating on clinics and spreading the word of DigiTech throughout Canada. Dave has attended Berklee College as well as Fanshawe College to help him round out his expertise in the music industry. We here at DigiTech are very glad to have Dave on board. Please check out his webpage for more info: www.davemartone.com

Andres Osorio hails from Columbia with many years of guitar playing experience. He has been working and promoting DigiTech gear since 2003. Andres owns and operates Cornerstone Studios in Bogota producing other musical acts when he is not on the road showing the latest gear from DigiTech. Andres has recorded several albums including: The Burning Glass Project and My World. DigiTech is very pleased to have him on board.