5 HeadRush MX5 Tips and Tricks!

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Taking a look at a few tips and tricks with the HeadRush MX5! Love this thing - hopefully this is helpful to you if you use a Headrush!
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@stevegaede17 Год назад

Great vid! informative, brief, accurate and well edited. love it THANKS!! and yes it did help

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks so much! I appreciate it! Very glad to hear it was helpful \../,

@matttactics8275 11 месяцев назад

Ive owned this pedal for around 7 months. Played it live for the past 2. Ive been trying to figure out how other ppl use it to get ideas. I run it with scenes and each scene is a different level of distortion. So i have a clean scene, little dirt, and then fuzz scene. And I dont usually switch banks, just use one rig all show. It works but im about to start experimenting with other methods. Thanks for the video!

@JustinBlair 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for checking out the vid! Yeah definitely a TON of different ways to use these units, so I hope this vid helped a bit! Much appreciated!

@secohen73 13 дней назад

Thanks for the tips on this unit. I may need to pick one up!

@JustinBlair 13 дней назад

Thanks for checking out the vid! Lemme know if you get it and have any questions on it \../,

@MikeMiranda777 Год назад

Really great tips! Thank you! I ordered one of the right-angle adapters too.

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks very much! I appreciate that. Nice! Hope it helps!

@HRpuffnstuff23 3 месяца назад

This helped me a great deal thank you!

@JustinBlair 3 месяца назад

Glad to hear it was helpful -Thanks for checking out the vid!

@leearmitage Год назад

thanks some great tips, recently got one of these and still getting use to it, and there will be some videos to come on it

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks so much Lee! I appreciate it! Hell yeah - it's an awesome piece of gear - very fun to learn the ins and outs of it

@betones_ Год назад

I’ve just got my MX5. Helped me a lot. Thanks

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks so much for checking out the vid - glad it helped!

@lpgreene Год назад

Great video! Thanks for sharing

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks so much! I appreciate it!

@tomm1413 Год назад

I literally just bought an MX-5! This is super helpful thanks!

@JustinBlair Год назад

Hey very cool! It's an awesome piece of gear. Thanks for checking out the video!

@EliTheIceman Год назад

Another Tom M. here … I just took delivery of an MX5 this week. Keeping to know it is going to be fun?!?!

@tomm1413 Год назад

@@EliTheIceman After 3 months of using it and exploring the seemingly endless features, I can only say that it is a lot of fun! The presets aren't amazing, so I suggest just going straight in and trying some stuff! It will keep you busy for a while 😁

@EliTheIceman Год назад

Would you mind sharing a setting for one of the presets that you created?

@JRusso238 Год назад

right angle adapter is next level life-hack! Thanks!

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks man! Glad to hear it was helpful!

@ForFunGuitar Год назад

Hello Justin. I have a question about an external expression pedal. Is it possible with the MX5 to activate the wah on/off without to toggle it, like the Helix LT can do ? When I have the expression pedal full open the wah is OFF, when I press it a little bit down , this activate the wah and I can sweep, when I go back to full open this set the wah off again. possible with the mx5 ?

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks for checking out the video! Good question - yes you can. The MX5 has an expression pedal on it that is fully customizable/programable. You can set up the individual parameters of the pedal to control anything from wah, to volume, to phaser speed, to distortion, and just about anything else. There is also a jack to connect an external expression pedal as well, if you would like to have two pedals available. Hope that is helpful!

@Getsmore 2 месяца назад

I love the JST IR’s Joey Sturgis tones. And for 30 bucks I probably got 100 different ones that are really good. They’re really the only ones I use now.

@JustinBlair 2 месяца назад

Thanks for the rec! I haven't tried those out, but will have to take a look \../, Thanks for checking out the vid!

@jason4906 3 месяца назад

Hi, great video thank you! I have one question. On my MX5 the drop tune pedal only seems to go down whole steps? Could you share how you dropped to E flat tuning? I am not seeing anything for dropping half step down. Thanks!

@JustinBlair 3 месяца назад

Thanks for checking out the video! Glad it was helpful. The drop tune pedals are actually in increments of half steps, so dropping '1' on the Headrush actually means dropping a half step. Hope that helps!

@Getsmore 2 месяца назад

When I run my headrush, pedalboard or MX five through my Mesa Mark Four I do the 4K cable method, but sometimes I’ll bring my head rush FRFR’s and run straight in

@JustinBlair 2 месяца назад

Yeah this thing is super versatile - can do a bunch of different setups with it - love it

@sbrave Год назад

Thanks for the tips, and tip! How would you compare the built-in drop tune to Digitech Drop pedal? Any experience using a MIDI controller with this to do Program Changes? I can only seem to get my controller to do CC, to turn the effect blocks on & off.

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks for checking out the video! The drop tune on this is great - very smooth, quick response, and no weird distortion of the tone like some pitch shifters have. Ah, I'm sorry I haven't used a midi controller with this yet.

@sbrave Год назад

@@JustinBlair I'll check it out, and in the first slot as you mentioned. Thanks!

@JustinBlair Год назад

@@sbrave My pleasure! Hope you dig it!

@Chachibooyah Год назад

These are awesome tips Justin. Can you elaborate on tip 5? What’s the process of getting the additional direct track out to the DAW? Thanks bro

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks very much, Dan! I appreciate it! Sure thing - so in your DAW, if you are able to arm multiple tracks to record at once, choose Line 1/2 on one track (the effected tone) and Line 3/4 on another track (the DI tone) and that should allow for recording both tones at the same time, one on each track.

@Chachibooyah Год назад

@@JustinBlair you’re the man! Thanks brother.

@lennyjay22GbgLALV 2 месяца назад

Great video! I have had my MX5 for about two years and I love it. I use an analog overdrive in front of it since I’m a stickler for precise timing when switching from clean to dirty and it works great.

@ymelfilm 7 месяцев назад

Hi, can I address an external footswitch to operate the looper? Tks!

@JustinBlair 7 месяцев назад

Ah, that's a good question - I'm not sure, since I haven't tried that. I know you can add an expression pedal to Headrush units, but I'm not sure about a switch for the looper...

@assafrodriguez 2 месяца назад

Question about using IR - when adding IR to the chain (and turning off the cabinet), are you still can output the HR MX5 to an (real) Amp front? 10x!

@JustinBlair 2 месяца назад

Good question! Yes you definitely can, but you may want to make adjustments on both the amp and the MX5 to make sure your sound is coming out normal. For example, make sure to have the amp on the Clean channel, and adjust the eq to balance any eq-ing on the Headrush. Thanks for watching!

@CamposCaster Год назад

Hello, let's see if you can help me with this. I know I can program different combinations of effects but having only 3 switches, I don't understand how in live situations, I can go from one to the other. I suppose that some switch will have to be tap more than once. In other words: Can I use it like the joyo pxl8 ?. And the other question is how does it sound directly into an amp without using the virtual amps and IR´s. Maybe I should use an M9 but I think the quality of the effects of the MX5 is much better

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks for checking out the video! So what I do, personally, when I want to have one switch control multiple effects at once is to create two identical rigs, but have one of the rigs include the effects you would like to engage with the switch. So for example, if you want one switch to turn on a boost and a chorus, maybe during a solo, create one rig with the boost and chorus and one rig without, and swapping between those two using the 'next rig' and 'previous rig' switches. As for the amp input, it sounds great - if you turn off the amp sims and cab sims on the unit, it acts as a standard pedalboard and can go right into your amp's input.

@santiii_alvarezz Год назад

hello! I just bought the headrush mx5 and I have a problem... when I change the patch with the footswitch there is a small but annoying delay in changing from one patch to another? Does anybody know what is it due to? thank you!

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks for checking out the video! Couple things to take a look at: -Have you updated your Headrush firmware? -Are you referring to an audio cutout while switching? if so, do you have 'Tails' turned on? -Also, I know some units swap when you depress the button, but the Headrush switches when you release the button - is that the issue by chance? If it's a software issue, a factory reset can help, otherwise, Headrush's support is great if you want to start a ticket with them. Hopefully that's helpful!

@ironvip 8 месяцев назад

Hi, I have a question to your present number 007. I see you are using a stock cab instead of an IR. Is it possible to get a good sound with such set up in a live situation going straight to FOH or do you simply use other pedals etc to make it work? I am asking as I am not able to get a decent sound out of the stock cabs...

@JustinBlair 8 месяцев назад

Great question - the stock cabs definitely can be used for some great tones, when mixed right (either live or in studio) BUT I personally vastly prefer IRs - when I actually play live, I almost always use IRs instead of cab sims. Have you downloaded their Celestion IRs? They're great. If you are interested in purchasing IRs, York makes some great ones. Thanks for checking out the vid!

@ironvip 8 месяцев назад

@@JustinBlair I did and I do like them :) still learning how to use them properly in a mix. Thank you for your quick answer! Soon I will play my 2nd gig with headrush. hopefuly it will work well..

@Krystof.Veritae Год назад

Great tips mate …. Do you have the part number for that angle adapter ? The link doesn’t work :( I saw few but there are size differences want to make sure

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks so much for checking out the video! Ah, yeah you're right - sorry about that - here are a couple links that should work - the size is 5.5mm x 2.1mm, so one of these should work great: www.ebay.com/itm/252828392815 www.ebay.com/itm/252828406527

@Krystof.Veritae Год назад

@@JustinBlair thanks mate

@JustinBlair Год назад

@@Krystof.Veritae Sure thing!

@Setha107 Год назад

For the last recording tip. To get the DI, are you connected by USB? Or do you have the MX5 going into an audio interface with a instrument cable? Useful tips btw.

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks for checking out the video! I am connected directly through USB from the HeadRush to the computer.

@Setha107 Год назад

@@JustinBlair Nice, I figured it out. Thanks

@JustinBlair Год назад

@@Setha107 Great! Glad to hear it \../,

@padawan9127 Год назад

Hi, thanks for the video. Can you attach an external footswitch like the boss fs7?

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks for checking out the video! Most expression pedals will work just fine with the HeadRush units, but I don't think external footswitches do, unless you are using MIDI control footswitches. Hope that's helpful!

@padawan9127 Год назад

@Justin Blair that's great thanks Justin. Subscribed!

@JustinBlair Год назад

@@padawan9127 Thanks so much! I appreciate that - May the Force be with you (hahah going off your username \../, )

@joaberios Месяц назад

Can I use different configurations for the outputs simultaneously? One with IR and another without it in the same patch?

@JustinBlair Месяц назад

Great question - What I bet you could do is create a stereo split rig, with the L side including an IR and the R side without an IR, then use the L and R outputs as two separate outputs. I haven't tried this but I think it should work...

@joaberios Месяц назад

@@JustinBlair Thanks for the answer. I thought the same thing. If it's possible, it will be enough for me.

@JustinBlair Месяц назад

@@joaberios Sure thing! Hope it works out! \../,

@vitalianch 4 месяца назад

i don't like using capo, can this unit tuning up the pitch? thx

@JustinBlair 17 дней назад

Sorry for the late reply - There is a drop tune option, but the way I have raised the pitch before is to add a chromatic harmonizer, but have the effects level at 100%, and the dry level at 0%. Thanks for checking out the video!

@coreblo77er Год назад

Thanks for the tips. I don't really understand #3 though. Is the point that you make duplicates or triplicates to make them easier to scroll into without worrying about passing a single rig?

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks for checking out the video! The reason I have used the doubles/triples in a row is when multiple songs use the same tone in a row. Instead of having to remember how many songs use the same rig in a row, I find this method is easier to just click next rig for each new song. This isn't as big of a deal with shorter sets, but for long sets of 20+ songs, I personally have found it helpful. Thanks!

@themagicguy1 Год назад

the link for the angle adapter goes to a blank ebay page Great Stuff

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks so much for checking out the video! Got any Headrush tricks you like to use?

@willowil1 Год назад

sounds cut off, instead of naturally lasting like one would have with an amp, any tips on how to solve that?

@JustinBlair Год назад

Thanks for checking out the video! Sometimes, the sustain can be cut off too early if you have the noise gate threshold set too high, or the 'tails' setting turned off. Try adjusting those, and that might help. Thanks!

@asmallfarmhomestead3657 Год назад

Probably noise gate. Double click on the input icon and you can get rid of the noise gate. This will allow the notes to ring out naturally

@GJ11598 Год назад

The drop pedal can do half steps?! I thought it only did full steps?

@JustinBlair Год назад

Yep! It can drop half steps as well. Thanks for checking out the video!

@GJ11598 Год назад

@@JustinBlair care to share how to get a half step down?

@JustinBlair Год назад

@@GJ11598 If I am remembering correctly, I believe just choosing the 'Drop 1' option on the drop tune pedal will bring it down a half step.

@GJ11598 Год назад

@@JustinBlair ahhh that makes sense, down 1 semi-tone which would be Eb....new to this all so sorry to sound like a noob lol

@JustinBlair Год назад

@@GJ11598 No problem at all! Never hurts to ask - glad I can help! \../,

@DanielDavis730 2 месяца назад

Plug it straight threw a amp. Or better still straight into a pa mixer desk i plug a hotone mp100n into a line aray pa and mixing desk and is unusable. Had to go back to my real valve amp