I have the MX5. I chose it because of its ability to load dual amps and cabs, the stereo effects loop and more horsepower under the hood than the other ones in the same price range. You can actually store ideas with the looper too, handy when you don't have access to a recorder and don't want to lose an idea. No buyers remorse here, pleased as punch.
@@iloveitall I've taken a lot of time making all my own presets over the months. It sounds and feels amazing to me. I do find that in some patches I am having to use 2 compressors to get the string feel and snap I'm looking for. It's not a high priced unit, for the money I am amazed. I play a bit of everything, rock, blues, fusion, etc. I've never had an amp that sounded this good, or this portable. I use the para eq on most rigs, that's where you can really make the tone shine or dull it down a bit. I'm using this box with a pair of powered monitors with 10 inch speakers and tweeters. This really helps for the stereo separation when using 2 cabs and or 2 amps and stereo effects.
I got mine a week ago, I love that there's a lot more DSP power than the Pod Go, so you can do stereo rigs and be less limited on what kind of signal chain you want to use. The setlist function to organize rigs together is really great. There's a couple patches that I use for everything, plus a couple that are dialed in for specific songs, it's super easy to have different setlists that contains my all-around presets plus a couple other song-specific rigs.
I recently purchased the MX5 and this pedal ROCKS!! so versatile and easy to use for any level. The more you look the more this thing does! The looper function is amazing! and everything is snappy and fast due to the quad core processor
I've owned the Headrush Pedalboard and recently picked up the MX5. It's an absolute beast at the price point. It packs virtually everything the big boy has in a nice portable package. It's a crazy good interface as well.
Been looking at getting one for a portable rig. Between the intuitive signal chain editor, the looper with storage, and recording interface capability, it looks perfect for the job!
@@cameronmoore7675 it’s pretty great. I use mine every day. Practice (headphones, into a mixer using monitors, through a headrush frfr), I’ve taken it to open jams and just plugged straight into the mixer. I use it for lessons, which comes in handy if my instructor wants me to work on something specific I have him plug into it and record a loop which I save. Haven’t used it for recording yet, I’ve no doubt it will be just fine for that just haven’t had anything I’ve wanted to record yet. I’d easily call it one of my best guitar related purchases.
Love the ampero, Tiny, Easy, straight to the point, ready to go, very good emulations. For my gig use, and practicing home, cause im not a huge chain FX guy, more like good amp a boost od and a reverb, It s def my kind of Gear.
Awesome video, and something that helped me commit on a MX5. (BTW, I really love all of your videos and interviews Kris. You've got great insights, interesting knowledge, and an infectious energy - keep up the amazing work!) Regarding "replacing" a preset on the MX5, you can only rename one and delete the old one. But that's not really how they envision that you use it. There's enough room for as many presets as you want, so the numbering in front is just for sort order convenience and nothing else, just like a filename. You can have several presets that start with "003" for example. The way the MX5 helps the player keep their options together isn't by number, but by creating a set list. Make a new set list and then just tap all of the presets to add them to that list. Anytime that setlist is active, the short list of presets you've added will be all you'll see. Honestly, it took a bit to get used to that, but it's a much more natural and "computer literate friendly" way to do it than the concept of physically numbered presets that we've all gotten so used to.
Im a studio owner in mtl.. And i had 60 classic amp.. accumulated over 30 years... They were all recap when needed.. deox..etc.. tube changed etc... Since 2011.. we use them less and less.. And basicly 2 years ago.. i sold all of them. Got almost 100 000k.. And now we are using mostly modeler... I got de quad dsp.. kemper... and headrush.. all version. Cost me under 10k. And it does the full job Without maintenance. This revolution is aka digital camera.. cell phone etc Real amp are important to remain in boutique maker..and giant. But they are almost a gone era already. As soom as these modeler got lelatenxy under 3ms... that was game over for real amp. They are near perfect these day.
I have both the Hotone and MX-5. Both are great but the MX-5 sounds MUCH better in a mix and never runs out of DSP and is so easy to use!. Also MX-5 footswitch configurations are way more usable in a live situation! Setlists on MX-5 are great! Hotone now has a compressor model with a Blend control which is cool ... MX-5 needs to add a modern compressor with a blend control! I continue to check out Line6 stuff but I Stopped using Line6 gear years ago as they have have a 'plasticy" sheen to their sound that makes my ears crazy and they have become overpriced! Nice Video!
I second that (the Headrush needs a blend control on the compressor.) I have one and love it but I sure miss my Keeley 4 knob comp. (with blend.) It makes a huge difference. Make up gain volumes on the trems would be nice too.
The headrush is the most intuitive of all the modellers out there that's the main reason people buy headrush. To organize your presets they have setlist mode very easy to do. Headrush is the best for ease of use. Surprised you find it not very untuitive
Cheers Nathan, it's always fun shooting out multi FXs. The only problem is, that it takes sooooo much longer to prepare a video like this. haha! Instead of plugging everything in, playing it for 5 minutes and done, it's more like 1,5 - 2 hours of tweaking before we can hit record. 😆 But it's important to cover these babies too, since so many use them and want to know more about them. Thanks for watching! //Kris
I’m sitting here feeling frustrated Abdominal surgery yesterday and I can’t do much But this is one video I was desperate to see Even if I am a bit of a space cadet from the anaesthetic I’m in the market ( when I can get about again ) for one of these Thanks Guys 🙏
Picked up the mx5 after trying a few multi fx units and the Headrush is amazing you can’t go wrong with it and the looper is brilliant it sounds so good and the unit is good quality with a nice clear crisp screen
Great comparison, I'd been thinking about getting one of these types of units. You guys should do a lot more of these vids because it's such a joy hearing you 2 play!
I tried to Head Rush and didn't like it. I have a line 6 Helix floor that I use for gigging. I just got the Hotone ampero and it sounds better than the helix. Easier to dial in a sound. The Marshall is spot on. I got it because of its size.
The dialogue is as great as the box comparisons. 👍🏻👏🏻👍🏻. I already bought the Headrush, but I wanted a bit of validation by watching your video. I bought a Helix LT when they first came out and within a week I sold it. The Headrush sounds great and is a breeze to create what I want to hear.
Hey Jon, thanks a lot! It was super easy to tweak the MX5 and I still can't believe the clean and the high gain tones I got with it. Super tasty. Cheers //Kris
I have 5 of the Hotone Nano's and they are pretty neat. I was looking at the Ampero the other day so this is timely!! Great job guys! Thanks for the vid....
Good one. I got a Zoom G5n a few years ago. I never use the presets - I just regard them as "demos of what is possible". A big part of what makes them useless is their volume is all over the map. I'm more or less happy with it, but for one big flaw - it is not responsive to guitar volume. Particularly for higher gain sounds. Instead of cleaning up when you turn the guitar volume down, it just sort of fizzles out. Not a nice sound at all. But I do like the built in USB audio interface - I use it to record on my computer. And the pitch shift can really be handy (I generally avoid using it like the plague, but every once and a while you find a singer who can't handle the normal key, and a song that relies heavily on open strings or notes that would just be beyond the range of a standard tuned guitar). Sturdy, reliable ... its OK. Not super inspiring, but functional. It would have been nice to see a summary chart at the end of your comparison. Price, clean tone rating, crunch tone rating, high gain tone rating, "live use" rating ... obviously just based on your subjective opinions, but I think you guys have pretty darn good opinions 😉
Happy user of pod go here. Best purchase in few years and after almost a year using it I'm still amazed of the features. Just started playing around with additional footswitch which I use to control settings inside a pedal. Eg. changing the level of gain instead of having it on/off (thats another pedal ;). Was supprised how good the Ampero sounded though but I like the expression pedal being natural size instead of those minis on all other units.
HX Stomp is a great choice! Yeah it's really hard to tell the differences sometimes. I have the feeling it would be nearly impossible to guess the price of the multi FX in a blindfold test. haha! Cheers //Kris
have both the line6 and the headrush, I find creating a usable tone with the mx5 easier and more organic, the line6 ability to assign multiple parameters to any footswitch is killer and the four snapshots on the pod is excellent. I bought an ampero control that works like a dream and can assign up to six more buttons or 4/2 buttons or expression pedals, the ampero controller is easily setup by you iPhone, this gives the the mx5 the ability to use my drive stacking on the mx5 buttons and all my modulation etc. on the ampero controller. the ampero controller is 100.00 on amazon. in summery you cant go wrong with either the line6 or the headrush in my experience, I play in 2 bands regularly and would recommend both whole heartedly, slight sound preference to headrush. ps.. you can use the ampero on the pod go as well. link to ampero/mx5 pairing. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-egEBgOnYNDM.html
Can anyone tell me or guess what amp he was using on the Ampero on 13:41 it sounded just like my old tone with the Bias Amp VST which i cant get the same results with anymore.
These are like PCs get the best processor the Headrush, tones are subjective and given time can be made to sound almost identical in a chain but the quad core allows 2 simultaneous chains on the mx5.
The question you have to ask which is not being addressed with these units is... can the processor handle all the effects (FX's /Amp/ Cab etc) if they were all on. I have the Ampero which has 9 slots in the chain and it craps itself beyond 6 the sound starts to break up i.e. latency occurs as the processor struggles to generate the sound . I have contacted Hotone they say it's a hardware issue. Question: why make something then sell it when you can't use to it's full potential ???
it handles it all just fine. I have a lot of rigs that use all 11 spaces, i'll have a compressor, gate, chorus, flanger, doubler, wah, volume, chorus, tube screamer or some other distortion, equalizers etc.. of course like regular pedals you have to go into each pedal and adjust it to get the sound just right and balanced, but yeah it handles it all just fine.
To move the patches in the order that you want, just connect it to the computer and an icon like an hard drive will come up. inside there is everything, patches, IR lists ,just move the patches into your order and save it in the pedal…
Just found your channel.. glad i did im also a musician,, love what ya doing.. i can relate to both of you.. thanks for sharing.. GREAT DEMO STUFFSSSSS!! HEADRUSH ALL DAY LONG!
Pod Go all day long. Load in your own IR's done! I never find myself maxing out the dsp (...simple high gain tones, minimal effects..) The MX5 sounds 2 dimensional...
Nah headrush sounds great when you actually know how to use it. And I've dumped a bunch of IR's into my headrush and it's the best clearest sounding out of my pedalboards.
One issue I had with the DNAfx Git was that it sounded great with headphones but not really good through an amp, as well as some noise which made me have to use a noise gate on most presets, is there a way to fix that?
I've owned a Helix LT, Boss GT-1000 Core and now an MX-5 and each one has their pros and cons. We all try to chase that tone, but reality is that most of these modellers are so good, that it doesn't matter which one you choose. I really like the MX-5 for it's simplicity - but it has it's niggles. The GT-1000 Core had great tones, but a really bad desktop editor. Also... it just felt meh and uninspiring to use. The Helix was so imbalanced - one patch would have the correct levels, next super-silent. I'm keeping the MX-5 as it just "works" - needs a desktop editor though.
Which one did you prefer in respect of the best amp-modelling? Currently I use a Helix at home, a boss GT1 for live but plan to buy either a NUX MG30 or the MX5. I need classic marshall (JCM and Plexi) sounds as well as Fender breakup. Any suggestions?
Multi-fx pedals don't get enough love...and it's because the presets and UI have always been mostly terrible. At least some of them are getting better these days. As you guys show, there are good sounds in there once you get past the annoyances. I'm a fan of them in general, but I completely understand why so many people aren't. Also, that PRS...
Have already ordered the mx 5 as It sounds so physical than the helix or pod go or gt1000. Just to verify I searched and this video comes up. Great review. Thanks. Did I purchase the right thing for gig?
Hey, I think it all comes down to preferences at this point, all of these multi-effects are capable of really convincing sounds. That being said, I think I also prefer the MX5 since it's compact, easy to tweak and sounds great. Good call! Cheers //Kris
I took some time and analysed these pedals and I have owned a Line 6 HD 500X. I didnt like it for many reasons. One being the sound 🤫. Finally chose the Ampero Pink Edition. Best descicion of my life.😎
One of your best vids so far imao. Can you pls put a side by side soundtrack vid of this comparison? Clean after clean, crunch after crunch and so on? No talking only blend in which pedal it is as a part two? Thx and more of this stuff please..... 🖖
I bought Line 6 Pod Go a week ago for live performance. I don't like the factory presets and the tbh. but for live performance, Pod Go is the best in these units. it has 32 factory banks and each bank has 4 presets total is 128 presets . you can make another 4 presets within each 1 preset they called it Snapshot. you can also make another 32 banks 128 presets for your own. your can load your own IRs too
POD Go does not even scratch the surface of the what the MX-5 can do. The HX-stomp does not either. You need the full-blown Helix to compete with the features and DSP of the diminutive MX-5
@@ryanequalizer only advantage of the Line 6 live is you get extra foot switches. That is literally the only thing. Those foot switches won't give you more DSP.
@@KidNato I like MX5 sounds and better for studio and playing for yourself. for live POD Go has presets. inside 1 preset you can make your own custom snapshots. and you can switch each snapshot sounds with footswitch. 1 preset you can get 4 different tones. That's why I bought POD Go. better for live. all the Multi Effects has weak points...
Recently bought the Headrush Gigboard because an expression pedal is cheap, the gigboard was only 50€ more, has more footswitches and is basically as powerful as the biggest brother (headrush pedalboard). I also have the HB DNAfx Git which isn't that bad either
Really great comparison and funny video too! I really liked the realism of the Ampero and I fully agree with Guillaume: just forget the presets and start from scratch. The unit makes really easy to achieve good sounds; just proceed like with a real amp and pedal board.
I returned a Nux MG30, it got cleans fine, but it has this weird chorusing on the distortion. Could be I screwed up the cab setting. But why would bi want something thati can screw up so easily. So I am looking around.
if you wanna make patches or rigs on certain buttons you can make a setlist and just drag and drop them, it took me a while to find this out as well because it was just labelled as something i wouldn't expect it to be labelled as.
I had the MX5 for about a minute. I never felt so distanced from a unit like this. It just didn't feel like my guitar was immediately connected to this. Latency and dated distortion tones meant I had to get rid of it. The Hotone Ampero (which I have also) is much better as far as amp tones go. Neither comes close to my Kemper.
Kris/ Guillaume This was a great video I wonder if you have any thoughts on more overdrive pedal shootouts Really interested in the Jrocket melody Thanks guys !
Thank you guys that was very interesting to heard your opinions and gorgeous play. And PRS a stunning beautiful! I'm a little upset that you didn't take in the review NUX MG-30. But it has no pink version so maybe that's the reason
Hey, thanks a lot! We simply chose 3 top-seller competitors against the Headrush for this shootout. There are so many more other multi FXs that are great, like the NUX, Zoom, etc. Next time! Cheers //Kris
Great video. Just 1 question. It's good on a set, without a drum, bass and 1 or 5 other guitar players. Do you thing you could hear the difference on a concert ?
Tested a mx5 in GC and I hated the noise gate. I could tell it was either have notes cut off or deal with excess noise. 11:18 in the video - that scratchy gate thing sounds like ass.
Great demo, sweet playing. I have the shell pink thing, to me the most natural sounding amps of all the units in the price range. Figuring out how to control it (need more buttons) and expand it with the HX effects (need more powerful ambient effects) I just got from you guys, in the fx loop of my Revv Dynamis. Only gripe is the expression pedal that everyone and their goddamn grandma puts on the right. I'm right handed, my lead leg is the left one and that's the one I use for wha, expression, patch switching, etc. Haven't seen a single built in pedal on the left since my ART SGX2000 controller (what do you mean I'm old??).
luved your video, although it is quite difficult to compare these four pedals with two visibly different guitars. however, i am very happy with my dnafx git. as the matter of fact so happy that i got the big bro as well, i mean the dna fx git pro! ampero hoptone looks quite similar to the dna fx git pro, so why not a comparison between these two? with the same guitar, if possible :)
It depends on your preferences. If you like your Marshall and want to get the best tones with the amp, get a few "normal" pedals and you're done. If you don't want to use the amp because you don't want to carry it around, or it's just too loud, then use a multi FX pedal instead. These have amp simulations built in which can sound really realistic. These have lots of drive, modulation and time based FX built in too, so you could use one of these in front of your Marshall too. Even though that's the last thing I'd do with them, since single pedals will sound more natural when played together with an amp. So, if you want the real tube amp experience, stick to the Marshall (maybe with a few pedals in front) and if having something super compact and versatile is your priority, maybe check out a multi FX like these in the video. Cheers //Kris
@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses thanks kris. I have a few pedals already. But i notice i always look for more haha. I have a DSL 40. Great amp. I use it at home. On my wish list i need a reverb, wah wah, power suply and the Rat.
so, all you dudes leaving comments - very helpful, btw, thank you : ) Are these comments based on playing this through a computer and listening on headphones? monitors? do modelers sound good through an amp and guitar speaker/cab? is that only the high end units because they sound better? thanks!
I generally play directly through headphones, of course the sound will depend on the quality of your headphones. When I'm home sometimes I'll play it through the headrush FRFR, sounds amazing.. best sounding rig I've ever had and I've spent thousands on pedals, processors etc over the decades and this is my favorite, all those other boards and pedals are in a box in my garage.
@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses Shame. I needed a final push to get the pod, since it's really hard to decide between all those amp sims on the market. Ampero is too feature poor though and headrush sounds thin and uninteresting to me.
Do you need a power amp to run these into a cab? . Not really into my boss katana sound any more and looking for something new. Using it for a pedal platform but the more pedals I get the more issues I run into with noise and keeping my high gain tone how I like it the sentry noise Gate I recently got actually makes more noise than it cuts out with a rain shower sound as it decays. I get bored fast and it's time for more amp options. Wish Kemper had a 1000 combo amp I'm a bedroom player not a professional looking to produce music or play live on stage, Still who dousnt want a killer sound.
@@che2335 😆 just stop those are terrible vs a 4 cable method into the effects loop of a real amp or using studio monitors. Fine enough to get by for busking or doing a small bar show but still low quality tones beaten by many other options. Maybe don't reply to a 6 month old comment I figured all this out a long time ago.
After my experience with the Headrush Looperboard in 2019, I’ve vowed to stay the hell away from their products. Spent a long weekend back and forth with their support, trying well over a dozen firmware updates, and finally gave up and returned the unit. Thanks for the shootout, guys.
