Feel the rush! Hit the stage in style with the Headrush MX5 Multi-FX Processor at your feet and your favorite ax in your hands🎸 If you enjoyed this video, be sure to like, comment, and subscribe!
Short, sweet, very informative video for the basic functions of the MX5. Received mine yesterday and have had a blast so far trying out different configurations. It is by all means worth the smaller price compared to the full size pedal board model and is as easy to work with as shown here. Couldn't recommend it more to anyone!
I bought one of these early on. At first, after listening to the presets I was disappointed (almost returned it.) It's been a couple of months now and I am very happy with it now. After rolling my own presets the tones are inspiring and are everything I hoped they would be. It's easy to use, compact and powerful. I have rigs built now that sound and feel so good to play I haven't touched my amps since. I'm going straight out from the MX5 into a pair of 8 inch powered studio monitors.
@@mikehall4372 I have never played through a Pod Go. That was the other one I was considering. There always seems to be a trade off when choosing a modeller. I went with the Headrush because it allows me to run dual amps and dual cabinets of my choosing and 2 compressors with delay and reverb and still have 3 slots left for effects all on one preset. It has more processing power than the Pod Go and the touch screen for moving effects around effortlessly is really nice. The pod Go does have the extra foot switches which is really convenient. The longer I have the Headrush the more I like it. I wanted something small and powerful and this does it all.
Damn, this looks amazing. Been building a traditional pedalboard for a while but I would totally use one of these in lieu of all that for certain situations. Now I just gotta book some shows again.
I also just got into pedals and built a board the past year with 8 different pedals. I think I'm going to ditch it all because this thing is so easy to use and sounds good. I plug into 2 Headrush FRFR 108s, plug into my PC and use JBL monitors, plug into a mixer with a friend with a electric drum set and we play with headphones. It's so cool
All for 400usd? I'm bassist looking to purchase a guitar and one pedal to play with, just to explore a new instrument. This looks promising. I don't need anything more expensive.
What did you end up going with? I did the MX5 and FRFR 108s because the Boss software seems so clunky and behind the times. The touch screen on the mx5 is so good
@@davidfaustino4476 but no looper and doesnt have the wah thing and all the effects and the audio interface. do you have anything to back it up? not throwing hate but legitimately trying to understand. I think my main use isnt really the amp sim but the all in one ness of this device. anything from boss that competes?
Hi, Damiel! Thanks for your message, hope you're well and safe. Yes, the MX5 allows for the use of more than three effects at a time. There are blocks for eleven effects/amp/speaker models in a preset. Please contact us direct with other questions as you have them! Robert Williams, Senior Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 2371, robert_williams@sweetwater.com
anyone know if these units are blind friendly for those that do are blind? they should figure a way to add speech output screen reader so blind guitarists could use them as well.
I couldn't agree more. Those of us with vision impairments of any kind often have problems with this type of equipment in general because the screens are so small and the print is so tiny and it's hard to navigate.
LOL - for some reason I started out wearing jackets when I began doing videos 13 years ago, and now it’s just part of what I do. I don’t even think about it. Thanks for watching, Mitch
Hi, ymelfilm. The expression pedal is only used to adjust the parameters of the effects on the other footswitches. In other words, you wouldn’t use it to turn on a new effect, but you could use it to change the sound of something on one of the three main footswitches. For example, while you wouldn’t be able to turn on a boost with it, you could use it to turn up the volume and gain on an overdrive pedal, thus still acting as a boost. Thanks for your interest! Charlie Davis, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1320, charlie_davis@sweetwater.com
Hi, Angel. If you’re going to use any of the amp/cab modeling features in the MX5, you’ll want a clean power amp for getting the sound amplified. You could try running straight to the power amp input on the back of the Katana and see if that works for you. If not, a FRFR speaker would probably be your best bet. The FRFR108 is a great place to start for that. Thanks for your interest! Charlie Davis, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1320, charlie_davis@sweetwater.com
You would typically tap tempo at the beginning of songs when the drums count off. So at the end of one song you could quickly check your tuning and tap the tempo in so, yeah, it kind of is super smart.
Hi, Cocotico 999! Thanks for your message, hope you're well and safe. The Headrush MX5 is a full instrument workstation with amp and speaker models on board. A traditional guitar amplifier, home studio, headphones or full range amp can be used with this product. Please contact us direct with other questions as you have them! Robert Williams, Senior Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 2371, robert_williams@sweetwater.com
Here's my take on the MX-5. Don't bother trying to dial in a good tone without Custom IRs. Even then the Helix and PODGo products are way better in the amp tones before it hits the Custom IRs. The only way to get a good tone out of the MX-5 is to use a great Custom IR because the amp tone is not that good. Also, the amp selection is a handful of amps with some slight variations. You get what you pay for and the MX-5 is cheap. Mine got returned and I had high hopes for it since it was based on the Eleven Rack product line.
Nah, you can dial in really good tones w/o IR's. might take a little tweaking, but it's easy to do. I do have a lot of custom IR's on mine, but I have a lot that I use daily that uses a cab or two that come w/ the headrush, you just gotta know how to really go in and set everything up. Once you figure it out, it's actually not hard at all to do.
Hey, smartmammal. Thanks for reaching out about the Headrush MX5! This Multi-FX pedal does not have a phone or computer app if that’s what you mean, but it does have a hands-free mode that lets you choose and tweak amps and effects with your feet. With that feature alone an app isn’t really necessary with this awesome pedal. If you have any other questions about the Headrush MX5 let me know! Thanks and have a great day. Jack Wellington, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 3240, jack_wellington@sweetwater.com
Not really, no. A lot of what this does is aimed at emulating electric guitar amps: you'd do better to get a nice acoustic preamp box (people seem to like the L.R. Baggs Para DI) and then buy any additional effects you need (reverb, delay, maybe chorus depending on what you like).
@@sordel5866 Thank so much, I was hoping to find something similar for my acoustic set up. The MX-5 seems so convenient, especially for a traveling musician
@@heydarwinj Unfortunately these multi FX units are fantastically seductive. The Para Di isn't in stereo, has no onboard effects, no looper, no headphone socket etc. etc. but if your thing is acoustic guitar it will be far more useful to you (in a professional context) than something like this. If on the other hand you're looking at mainly home play, maybe there's more of an argument for having a multi FX though I'm not sure that this particular unit would serve you better than, say, a Plethora X5 which is focused on effects only (no amps) or one of the HX units (which is a bit more expensive but has a very large community of users). I know your pain though because a single box is always the dream.
Hello, Darwin! The Headrush would be better voiced and designed for electric guitar, so it might not sound as intended with an acoustic. If you're looking for great multi-effects and a preamp for your acoustic, check out the Transit A from Trace Elliot - it's a great option! www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TransitA--trace-elliot-transit-a-acoustic-preamp-pedal Thanks for the interest! Corey Elliott, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1242, corey_elliott@sweetwater.com
@@sordel5866 My travel setup is simple consists of adding reverb, delay, boost and a looper. I don’t really touch the eq besides the tone knob in my guitar. I would probably not use any of the amp emulation for gigs right now. I though this could be a good travel solution. On the road I play acoustic 100% of the time. At home I use electric guitar to practice soloing and guitar theory.
The features and price look great, but the tones - not so good. I’ll stick to using Overloud TH-U rig profiles and loading Celestion IR’s on an iPad pro for fly gigs. So far, that gets the best, most realistic tones for live sound straight through the PA among all amp sims that I have used.
Headrush tones that come preloaded aren't that great you're right, they're more as a template to adjust to make them your own. There are quite a few guys that have artist rigs that you can download onto it and they're way better. But, I've had Headrush for a couple years now and now I also have the Mx5 for when I travel for work. It's great and once you learn how to make adjustments on the pedals, amps and you can download IR's etc as well, it's easier to learn and use than anything else I"ve used.. I haven't used anything else in the past year.
Yeah…not enough immediate functionality for live playing, IMO. Two presses on a touch screen to turn on or off an effect is pretty impractical in a live setting.
Purchased a MX5 and returned it as I found that the touchscreen is way too small and makes using it nothing short of a hindrance. Has NO app for editing from a PC WHY? The Helix and even the Pod Go has editing software that makes them both super fast and easy to use. Forcing me to only use that stupid little touchscreen was the deal breaker for me so away it went....
wow.. wasn't that long ago when touch screen or even a decent digital screen was the new crazy tech... I have no issues w/ my screen, I do use the Mx5 for when I travel for work, I also have the pedal board at home, but I usually just use the Mx5 the most cause it's just lightweight, and I have all my rigs set up on it already. I love it.
