MX5 - Electric Guitar Multi Effects Pedal and Amp Modeling Processor with Touch Screen, Expression Pedal, Looper, and Audio Interface

I am extremely happy with this purchase and was pleasantly surprised at the build and versatility of this little tank. First and foremost, while I didn't go through all of the literally hundreds of built-in effects and amp modelers that come with the device, I played around with them enough to know that they are decent, but not mind-blowing. The good thing about that though is there are tons of resources on the web where you can download free and premium (paid) IRs (Impulse Responses) and guitar rigs to faithfully recreate the perfect tones you are wanting from top artists and songs, as well as pre-designed IRs, rigs, and tones that were curated by pros with way more time, patience, and skill than me. I ended up deleting pretty much all of the stock IRs and rigs from the device and I'm replacing them with third-party amps and effects that I use for my own style of playing. All of the ones I've put on the device sound incredible so far even through my cheap Danelectro Nifty Fifty practice amp, and I'm beyond pleased and excited to find what else is out there. The touchscreen is bright and responsive, and is pretty intuitive once you know what you're looking at. Adding new tones is a fairly simple process of plugging your MX5 into your computer, go to Global Settings -> USB Transfer and all of the effects, rigs, and IRs will then be displayed in your File Explorer. You can delete, replace, remove and upload to your heart's content using this method. Now, for the trickier part - operating the pedal has a good bit of a learning curve. I've found it to be pretty essential that, if you don't have a brain that likes playing with tech and figuring things out, a thorough reading of the manual is a must. Since there are only three stomp switches, putting together a "setlist" with multiple guitar rigs and learning how to switch between them took me about an hour or so of playing around to figure out and I still have to pause for a moment to remember how to do certain functions (although the more I use it, I'm getting faster). That aside, I am still giving this the 5-star rating it deserves due to the fact that I KNEW going into it that having only three switches would make things slightly more complicated. That is no fault of the manufacturer, but rather part of the design and the price I signed up for when buying this. I will say, however, that I plan to get the HeadRush Prime in light of the fact that it gives you much more control by having 12 switches as opposed to three (so that I can trigger and control individual effects without needing to perform complicated switching on the fly to get to a specific component). Overall, I highly recommend the MX5 for those who may not need a ton of instant versatility and dynamics and maybe only want to play with a handful of guitar tones at any given time. The pedal itself is designed well, sounds GREAT, and is more than enough for most types of guitar playing out there.

I am a 50 yr old guitar dork who has been playing out locally in various bands for the last 20 something yrs. Play a bunch of styles/genres. mostly standard tuning, slide and hybrid picking stuff... I ordered a few digital pedals ($400 or less range), recently for my birthday, and this was the one I didn't send back. Hard to find much to bitch about. I have had several digital boards over the years, but this is the first that isn't consumer level merch. The other boards I returned all had convincing reviews online that looked comparable but upon trying them out in real life - there was a clear winner. Cons: I guess the worst thing is just taking the time to figure out how to get the patch levels evened out. There is preamp input & output gain, rig volume in global, and a master volume, and that doesn't even get into amp and cab models which each have their own gain levels as well, so you got at least 4 volumes to deal with. Amps all respond like the original (very differently from each other), which puts another layer of gain response into the formula depending on what flavors of dirt you like. It's a deep board. A lot to learn..... A LOT. But... it sounds friggin great. The most obvious difference, I can hear and feel, is just the huge improvement of A/D & D/A conversion and overall tracking. The less expensive consumer grade stuff is sooo much less responsive. The dynamics are crazy, and a little hard to tame if you're used to a little digital compression from cheaper converters. Super touch sensitive, super dynamic, super responsive. Noise filter, and gate on input are per-patch programable and work very well to filter out hiss and get a dead quiet amp when not playing and still maintain a natural feel/sound and release. Makes my old Crate Palamino V30 (30 watt el84 driven tube amp) sound freakin' huge and dynamic before I turn anything on - just the converters sound awesome. Once I add one of the many luxurious reverbs the sound sweetens to a sumptuous clean with miles of headroom. My amps cleans have never sounded so good. Amp models are very, very good. Sound great in my amp or my headphones. I haven't gotten into using any of the amp models (through my amp with the band) yet, it's a little jaring for me... I like to stay in my comfort zone I guess. I run mine in the effects send/return, so I can still push my amp's front end with analog goodness and get the response from my amp's preamp that I am used to. Overall, the clean and dirty amp models are all very good, they are detailed and breathe with your playing dynamics. Great sounding everything. Not a ton to choose from in the dirt box category. I like to have my old analog pedals for that part of my chain anyway - so definitely not a deal breaker for me. Regardless, it covers the basic distortion bases and does it pretty convincingly for a digital board. Reverbs, modulations, delays sound really great. especially the reverbs. The tiny expression pedal is very responsive/programmable and the onboard wah sounds are really good as well. Got a few whacky effect patches I have crafted that add a nice ocean of ambience when it's called for. Looking forward to recording with this little beast. I think this pedal hit it's demographic with me... This little guy is the gateway-pedal. I already am eyeing its' big brother...

I have a small Zoom multi effects pedal that wasn't too bad but I needed to put my glasses on every time I wanted to adjust anything. I did a bunch of comparison by reading and watching quite a few reviews. I liked all the features that this has, color touch screen, simple controls, lots of effects, cabs, amps. ... Its got an amazing amount of possibilities. It can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm slowly learning. Thankfully there's plenty of information on YouTube. The looper is fantastic,and easy to use! I do wish it had a metronome and drum effects, but I can certainly get those elsewhere. So, if you're thinking about this model, I'd say go for it. It really allows you so many options, different types of signal chains, plenty of effects, lots of rigs [pre sets] and a surprising amount of control over each of these options. I am more than happy with my purchase and I am probably only utilizing 1/4 of the options.

Después de estar 3 años con el MX5 , hace poco adquirí el FLEX PRIME, ya que me gusta el formato de 3 pulsadores, si no necesitas pedal de expresión puedes tener un 4 pulsador disponible. Para usarlo en directo tengo una carpeta de SETLIST para cada concierto y presets de cada canción y con la posibilidad de tener 6 escenas por preset, que ahora con el FLEX PRIME pueden ser hasta 12. Mejora en todo a la versión anterior: - Mayor cantidad de huecos para colocar efectos(14) con la posibilidad de ecualizar gráficamente cada efecto o amplificador sin necesidad de usar un hueco para agregar una EQ (eso solo para mi es un motivo de peso para adquirirlo) - Mayor cantidad de escenas: 2 grupos de 6 escenas pero con el inconveniente de desactivar el pulsador de afinador, que igualmente se puede activar navegando en los menus, pero lo veo impracticable para directo. - Simulaciones de amplificador del REVALVER que mejoran mucho la calidad de las anteriores simulaciones, que ya eran bastante buenas, con la pega que no aparecen algunos amplis más típicos como el JCM 800 o el SLO 100 que usaba bastante, he tenido que ir a un PEAVEY 6505 y un DIEZEL, pero vamos para mi compensa con creces el poder usar Revalver y siempre puedes cargar un clon o super clon. - Conectividad mejorada, con bluetooth y wifi que permite incluso conectarte con una tablet por la red wifi compartida y poder ajustar los parámetros sin tener la pedalera en la mesa como con la MX5. - Libreria on line de donde descargar más efectos y amplis clonados.

2年前に発売された当初 某楽器店で試奏してた事もあり (店員さんに詳しく機能を教えて貰いました) 到着から 約３日間で機能を把握。 でも、初めて購入される方は 少し、難儀するマルチエフェクターだと思います。 付属の解説書も ほぼ、簡素な説明しか載っておらず、 最初からプリセットされている 270種類のエフェクト(Rig)も 全く、説明が無いので ほぼほぼ、YouTubeの解説動画を見て 使いこなす、 そんな印象です。 でも機能を理解さえしてしまえば、 ものすごくコスパの良いマルチエフェクターだと思います。

Es un pedal de muy buena calidad y práctico. Trae muchas opciones de uso para sus tres botones que hacen muy fácil crear escenas con la misma cadena de efectos sin cambiar de parche. Me gusta que su pantalla sea touch porque ahorra mucho tiempo en configuraciones. Lo único complicado de manipular a veces es el tamaño de algunos parámetros en la pantalla.

It's got loads of amps and effects that are way too complicated for my brain and cover all the bases well as far as I'm concerned. I find the user interface excellent being a touch screen and knob combination. It was very intuitive and didn't require looking at the manual at all. Important to me is that I wanted a built-in, well implemented looper. This is something that most reviews and YouTubes don't cover. Line 6 (Pod Go, HX Stomp) don't do good loopers in theirs. The Headrush has a permanent, always available looper - at the time of writing, my understanding is that Line 6 require you to place a looper block into the particular patch you're using. This takes up a processing slot and has to be done on a per patch basis. It is also limited to a max of 80 seconds. The Headrush looper is always available and can record up 50 layers up to 5 mins per layer and a total time of up to 20 mins I believe. You're free to change patches between recording layers. It's not a multi-functional looper like BOSS RC-500/600 devices but is great for capturing ideas. It can be connected to the laptop to allow loops to be moved either way. It doesn't have any built-in rhythms like some such as Zoom but you could transfer a WAV or MP3 drum beat via USB and have it as layer one of a loop. You could play stuff through the AUX In but having something controlled via the footswitches is better IMHO. For example, the WAV or MP3 could be an entire song minus your guitar bit which you can then jam/solo over and capture your genius as a new loop layer. You can also record as either pre- or post-processing which, if set to pre-, would allow you to record the clean signal so then when you play it back it will play through whatever the current patch is. This would allow you to take your riff and try out different patches without having to play it again and again. Yes, I would have liked a few more footswitches but that's the way it goes (you could pipe in a MIDI footswitch for some extra control but that'll probably cost you half as much again). The software allows you a lot of flexibility in how you want to configure the footswitches e.g. on/off stomps, patch changes, scene changes, set list changes. I like having the expression pedal. It doesn't get used much but I didn't want to have yet another external expression pedal hanging around when the occasional funk fix is required. Auto Wah is always terrible so the only way to get good wah-wah-ing is to use a pedal in my view so having it there is great. The pedal is small but has a very good movement and weight to it. Very solid (and tension can be adjusted). The whole device is nice and compact, very sturdily built and fits in a gig bag pocket a treat (the sticky out ones, not the flush zip ones). Personally, I couldn't be happier and wish I'd bought it sooner.

This is a great option for a modern modeller. The fact that it is one of the smallest with this feature set and as a simple navigation set up with a touch screen is amazing. The sounds are great coming out of this thing. I run it into my Duncan Powerstage and my own cab. I cannot comment on the sound quality of the onboard IRs but there are so many great free ones available (including the two celestion ones in the box) that this is a non-issue these days. My only complaint would be that there are only a few metal amps and a lack of modern metal overdrive pedals. This is a minor issue as the ones that are there are great! The eq pedals are very effective at fixing this issue as well! Great job Headrush.