HEADRUSHMX5 - Electric Guitar Multi Effects Pedal and Amp Modeling Processor with Touch Screen, Expression Pedal, Looper, and Audio Interface

I love the tones I hear on recordings of my favorite guitarists. THOSE are the sounds I want to hear when I’m playing. So my new ‘rig’ is a powered FRFR cabinet being fed by a digital modeler front end. I tried the $399 Tonex unit and found it mostly excellent except that it isn’t a true modeling amp but rather a unit built around specific tone samples. Some were fantastic, others much less so. The unit also had a handful of basic effects to complement those samples. In contrast, and for only $100 more, the HeadRush Flex Prime uses meticulously crafted models of LOTS and LOTS of actual popular amps, effects, cabinets and IRs too. I finally have the full spectrum of guitar tones spanning from the 50s through today, accurately and faithfully reproduced, right down to the feel of how the tones respond to my fingers, pick, dynamics and note muting techniques.I am currently feeding it into my Spark FRFR cabinet and it sounds terrific, and ay all volume levels too. Getting satisfying, album-like tones at low volume levels is one of the benefits of using a FRFR based system. A conventional tube amp has to be cranked to ear-splitting levels to get the tones we crave, but that our wives and neighbors hate to also have to listen to. This unit supposedly has the exact same technical innards and sound models as the bigger, more expensive HeadRush units, and each tonal patch allow up to fifteen ‘blocks’ including an amp and cab, and are almost endlessly tweakable, but easily and in instantly musically ways. I’ve had it now for about a month and have already created the dozen or so patches I need to cover 90% of what I need. The learning curve is about an hour, but the combinations of tonal elements near infinite, and so I’ve barely scratched the surface. But the results are accurate, satisfying and most importantly, INSPIRING! You just want to play for hours!But it doesn’t stop there. Included is their ‘Revalver 5.0’ software, a program where you can modify amp models’ internal circuitry and build rigs that can ultimately be transferred to your physical unit. There’s also their ‘Amp Cloner’ software for capturing your own amps’ tones should you have a specific amp sound you’d like to take everywhere you go without having to lug your heavy tube amp head/combo and half/full stack. I’m just getting into these so look for a follow-up review in another few months.Is the experience the same as standing in front of a raging stack blasting at 120 db while your pant legs flutter? No. But in my mind it’s better. You get to hear the tones you’re actually chasing, like you hear on the albums, at any volume you want. And they sound right because this little box has accurate models of the amps that created them, not just the one or two tones your stack provides.

VX5 Vocal Autotune pedal offers me more than others I have owned.I have owned many vocal pedals here's a few. T.C. Helicon Voicelive Play, Voicelive Play Electric, Mic Mechanic 2, FLAMMA FV01, BOSS VE-2, BOSS VE-500, and The Headrush Core. Don't misunderstand these are Excellent in many areas each a strengths and weaknesses and I'm delighted each time something new comes to the market in an attempt to provide vocalist with a useful tool. I'm sure I'll be trying new offerings in the future.So after trying the VX5 Vocal Effects Pedal for several days I'm very impressedFor these 3 reasons for now it's my vocal pedal of choice.1 Pitch correction for me is my number one priority and none of the other mentioned pedals come even close to this pedal with its Auto-Tune capability, it even exceeds my DAW Auto-tune plugins to which I have three.2 Vocal shaping by applying the various pedals FX features in conjunction with Auto-tune I'm able to achieve quality results.3 Harmony is important to me more for vocal shaping but as a Harmony only setting in my opinion the settings it offers are just as good if not better than other pedals.The VX5 has fewer FX categories and preset setting choices, but the most important ones are there and when combining presets setting with few exceptions it will achieve what presets settings that aren't listed.When using the FX effects in conjunction with the VX5 Vocal Autotune feature the outcome in quality has exceeded all the other pedals. for me.Is heavy (build like a tank) quality appearing to be exceptional.Updating the firmware, it's very easy and offers a path to future settings and upgrades.The only lacking thing right now is the ability to back up your created presets. When connected with USB cable the VX5 file system doesn't appear so your unable to back up any self created presets.Surely a programming oversight that will be corrected.