What a great, informative, Open-Minded discussion on different pedalboards. Amazing how divided and snarky people can get so this was a model on how we should be instead of trying to argue what is "best". Ideal for me would be a Kemper in the Headrush hardware. Love the Headrush touch screen, pedal and amp images...

The core is hard to beat at the price

I've never seen you all before, but I instantly feel like I'm part of the group.

I’ve had the OG for over 5 years now and I still love it! I’ve played hundreds of gigs with it, I record with it every day and use it for teaching. I think it’s a very cost effective bit of gear!

I just bought new Prime at local music store sale for 1000$ USD and since that I feel like I am living a dream. I could not ask for more as an average bedroom guitarist.

The Prime may have launched in 2023, but the touch screen and format debuted on OG Headrush Pedalboard in 2017, 3 years before the QC

trust me, Headrush Prime is pretty great considering it has the cloud completely FREE! And no, you can actually layer/stack effects without any tone coloring.With tons of user rigs,clones of amps & cabs, amps, and pedals. I even started using it for vocals with the band when I switched from the OG board. 4 year long Headrush user.

I have the Core, I got it, because of all the stuff you can do with the unit, like it's a one stop shop. Cool sounds is something you can always get, either from stock or buying captures, getting updates, etc. If we learned something from units like the Line 6, is that the sound of your pedalboard WILL change with time and updates.

If the Headrush base amp models need to all be thrown out, how does the Headrush CPU usage work when it comes to using clones? Let’s say I want to use 2 drive pedal clones and then two amp clones in stereo. Left and right. Would the Headrush be capable of this and do it well?

As an owner of the HR prime, I have to say that The Hotone ampero 2 stage sounds wayy better...much closer to the Fractals than the HRP. plus it has the missing volume/mix/hc/lc controls in the fx.

I‘m pretty happy wirh mine!

The Black Mini is a a great overall amp model. Try it out.

The Headrush pedalboard was the first multi fx with full touch screen interface, back in 2017. And yeah, HR should be a bit less adamant about the models and put an output volume in all of them.

To me it good to profile amps and use effects with it. For the price of the core that can do both of those it hard to find a unit of course get a tone x but than need effect or go the other way QC but it cost more so for a profiler and effects it works.

I wonder if these guys had demo’d the HR w/the most current firmware update🤔and what speakers / sig chain did they use to compare? Personally I didn’t think I could love my HR products any more than I already do, but every update makes me even happier.

I am one of those who would like more HR options from you guys

It's a very impressive unit, but it has own personality. It does alot well.

Very similar what Daniel Cramer voiced on his channel - he wasn't all that happy with modeled (built-in) Prime tones, and preferred using it as a profiler, coupling profiles with built-in effects/drives.

Hay, should I keep my hx stomp or return it and wait for the kemper profile player? I really like the way the kemper looks and I want a more non digital feel. I'm coming from a 6505MH and a peavey 4x12 flight case cab which is my bed room amp.

For me I use only the IR from Vinai T and the Chimera from JTC. Very extreme better sounding with RCF ST 12 sma II then with the HR 108 speaker where I lowcut at 100 highcut at 4800 with RCF don't cutting at all, with anny cutting it sounds worse -the RCF speaker is a very huge difference.

Guys!!!! Headrush came out way before the Quad Cortex. Look up Pete Thorn demonstrating the Headrush Pedalboard. It has a great sound. I starting using it in 2017 and have 100s of videos on the Headrush stuff :)

I went with the core a few months ago bc my guitar/vocal rig was getting clunky with iPhones, dongles, interfaces and battery packs. It did solve that problem but it needs a few more things to make me happier with the purchase. I think it needs more MIDI capabilities, controlling vocals FX like key changes are very difficult in a live situation. The limited routing options doesn’t give me too many choices. I had to make 12 of the same rigs with all the key changes for harmony and pitch correction, I bank up an down to change keys. I would love to see a live view dashboard, the little icons of amps and fx are cute but I want to see levels and keys and tempo. The obvious is use the Bluetooth for if not an editor, at least a way to mirror the touchscreen on an external device to control. I use the core at desktop level bc I hate bending over, I have midi controllers that are very capable but headrush has very limited MIDI. My iOS bias FX 2 still blows away the core tone wise in my opinion but I’m a bad singer and need auto tune so I went with the core. I’m not chasing guitar tone as much bc I’m more of a live performer who doesn’t record much so I’m ok with the basic good tones all current modelers offer. The core should have stereo fx loop and 2 expression pedal ports. I wish they made the core for the desktop without the foot controllers, so I never have to bend over again. As the days go on, the buyers remorse gets less bc I’m getting better and tweaking vocals.

Im an engineer and have played for 47 years and i love it! .02 worth

Was wondering if you guys could do a video about which modeling companies support their products the best, such as customer support, firmware updates, additional features added through software updates? I love gear, amps pedals, modelers but never buy because I want a great product, awesome customer service and product support, software updates, new features etc.. I heard Line 6 is one of the best companies so far and that Headrush doesn’t do an6 kind of product support, no new features, no updates, firmware. I do very much like the Headrush Core and the new Hotone Ampero Stage 2.

I feel people always skip over the xloud on the devicevwith all the amazing uploads users have added.

Headrush Prime video # 135- As usual, reviewed this unit across several videos and have noticed a lot of questions and NONE of them ever answered, including my own. So here's the question: -Can you split your signal from -Guitar into FRFR/PA? -Can you split Vocals into PA from Headrush Prime Does using both guitar and vocal signal chain induce a noticeable latency?

From yalls experience, is the Headrush valuable as a vocal & guitar combo rig? I haven't seen many reviews diving into that functionality, mostly guitar guys mentioning its an option. I feel like for a little church plant with a portable PA it would be a great long-term solution for the worship leader, but I get the vibe that I might be the only person who cares. I'm excited about getting one at some point for that reason, but I feel like there isn't much interest, or maybe Headrush hasn't earned the trust of enough producer types, for that function to be celebrated. Am I missing something in that regard? Do the vocal effects not matter or just suck so no one wants to talk about them? Will Worship tutorials make a combo rig tutorial and talk about what they think (I have been waiting on that follow up video from them)

Buy a Prime and spend $14 on a Daniel Kramer preset pack and you will be floored, nothing else close for the Prime. It's both model rigs & capture rigs and it sounds fantastic. I get nothing by recommending it, just telling you the Prime on his patches/rigs is truly amazing the tones. Best $14 you will ever spend. 👍

The vocoder is way fun.

I absolutely loved the MX5. For when I'd practice I was able to make a Metallica AJFA tone, iron maiden FOTD and power slave tone, for my 7 string it took some work to build tones, but for regular IR or pre settings? Trash

You need the latest firmware.

Headrushing is still lacking on Lushy Reverbs..

Totally into this channel! The videos are always top-notch. Honestly, if you can dial in a solid amp sound on your HeadRush, it's a game-changer. Take a look at the A/B comparison video I put together; it really shows off the difference between the 'treated' and stock HR amps. Here's the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/psWThZapqs6qpJs.html

*I found the headrush to be a piece of crap and I'm literally an electrical/electronics engineer.* As a stand alone unit, it couldn't stand on it's own to produce enough gain for shredding metal and arpeggios or even hard rock level leads. I have also been using an analog overdrive I developed 15 years ago to successfully overdrive every digital modeler, solid-state and tube amp I own, but the Headrush was the first that didn't respond to it for shit. I ended up with a Valeton GP200 and it rivals the Boss and Line 6 of a slightly higher price point with flying colors. *Something else I notice about all these new generation units is they need noise gates, something I despise!* The overdrive I designed has allowed me to have face melting levels of gain with absolutely zero noise. No hiss, no 60 cycle hum, and no RF from surrounding devices that vanishes or partially vanishes when you touch your strings. *100% silence until this recent batch from virtually all brands.* I'm in the process of designing a new fuzz distortion to fill the gap for these new units so I don't have to run a noise gate and the initial tests of it's current state of development have been terrific. If it's dead silent overdriving the Valeton without a noise gate but shred level lead gain, *I'm certain it will perform this way with the new generation of digi units out there.* Ultimately, it is the foundation for designing my own original amplifier design with analog modeling and some critical design features that will have a major impact on how preamps of any active drive technology are designed.*

Had a prime, got it mint at a great price used, the entirety of the cloud and ability to share/upload/etc just didn’t work. Errors left and right. Reached out to support, took 2 months of back and forth sending videos and troubleshooting, then shipped it to them for another 2 months, came back to me and kinda worked, but still threw errors all Over the place, downloading or searching the cloud was a “fail six times on press, succeed once” so getting it work on that main huge selling point feature was haphazard at best. Captures hit or miss, and just became an annoyance. Why not have a web based exchange? Oh they did but killed it for this broken shitshow. No way to get captured aside from the hardware unit itself and a 4 month turnaround on a repair? It sold quickly, and I laid out the whole nest of issues. The next guy didn’t mind so much but a cursory glance at their forums says no fixes have been dropped since then. HR was purchased for a reason, and I don’t think it’s to stay at the forefront of development on their product line.

How can I not answer as the player😂

My only gripe with the headrush is it can't do ambient for shit...which is disappointing for me. Other than that, the prime/core is amazing. Most of these youtube guys are just coming off as pretentious or scoff at anything that isn't a kemper or qc.

Why buy a unit that just doesn't work???? im forgetting headrush. As with most modellers. It's false Advertising. Companies shouldn't be allowed to release modellers unless it does as described.

The problem with Headrush is its made by Akai, Akai is a company that releases products that have no staff that understand them at all!! The mpc is a good example, been around for 30 years plus and you try and find out how something simple works, good luck!! no customer service, useless manual and this thing sounds exactly the same, all these wierd issues and nobody can explain why.

"Should you buy it?" No