HeadRush Flex Prime - Guitar and Bass Multi Effects Pedal and Amp Modeling Processor with Touchscreen, Looper, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, IR Loader, USB, Lessons

I love the tones I hear on recordings of my favorite guitarists. THOSE are the sounds I want to hear when I’m playing. So my new ‘rig’ is a powered FRFR cabinet being fed by a digital modeler front end. I tried the $399 Tonex unit and found it mostly excellent except that it isn’t a true modeling amp but rather a unit built around specific tone samples. Some were fantastic, others much less so. The unit also had a handful of basic effects to complement those samples. In contrast, and for only $100 more, the HeadRush Flex Prime uses meticulously crafted models of LOTS and LOTS of actual popular amps, effects, cabinets and IRs too. I finally have the full spectrum of guitar tones spanning from the 50s through today, accurately and faithfully reproduced, right down to the feel of how the tones respond to my fingers, pick, dynamics and note muting techniques. I am currently feeding it into my Spark FRFR cabinet and it sounds terrific, and ay all volume levels too. Getting satisfying, album-like tones at low volume levels is one of the benefits of using a FRFR based system. A conventional tube amp has to be cranked to ear-splitting levels to get the tones we crave, but that our wives and neighbors hate to also have to listen to. This unit supposedly has the exact same technical innards and sound models as the bigger, more expensive HeadRush units, and each tonal patch allow up to fifteen ‘blocks’ including an amp and cab, and are almost endlessly tweakable, but easily and in instantly musically ways. I’ve had it now for about a month and have already created the dozen or so patches I need to cover 90% of what I need. The learning curve is about an hour, but the combinations of tonal elements near infinite, and so I’ve barely scratched the surface. But the results are accurate, satisfying and most importantly, INSPIRING! You just want to play for hours! But it doesn’t stop there. Included is their ‘Revalver 5.0’ software, a program where you can modify amp models’ internal circuitry and build rigs that can ultimately be transferred to your physical unit. There’s also their ‘Amp Cloner’ software for capturing your own amps’ tones should you have a specific amp sound you’d like to take everywhere you go without having to lug your heavy tube amp head/combo and half/full stack. I’m just getting into these so look for a follow-up review in another few months. Is the experience the same as standing in front of a raging stack blasting at 120 db while your pant legs flutter? No. But in my mind it’s better. You get to hear the tones you’re actually chasing, like you hear on the albums, at any volume you want. And they sound right because this little box has accurate models of the amps that created them, not just the one or two tones your stack provides.

I have all of the Tonex Line and 2 Valeton GP-5 pedals and 2 versions of the Sonicake modelers but none compare to this. The ease of creating and editing a rig is amazing. The sounds are great and I found a lot of pre-created free rigs online and loaded many IRs to create my own. I love the vintage Tweed and Vox IR sounds and the versatility of the rig editing on the browser based app is unsurpassed. Very high quality!

Bit of a learning curve but very worth it, great tones to be found by a patient tweaker! Doesn’t have that digital sound, or feel, very low latency, undetectable actually If you get one, watch some videos on it, read the manual, experiment!!

I have the Lg prime pedal board. This is very nice to not have to take the monster with me to practice all the time and what's nice is the patches are interchangeable!!

I got this based on all the YT reviews about the 4.0 update, and it does not disappoint. But, the unit is tiny, and the screen is too small to work without an iPad or computer (which hooks up via Bluetooth easily and runs in a browser without downloading an app, I might add). I ended up returning it and getting the Core. If you want something for home use, it's fine; but not practical, with only three buttons and a tiny screen for live use.

Captures on this beat Quad Cortex and Helix models - get it while you can! A steal at the price - bless the Headrush \m/

La vengo usando desde ya hace buen tiempo y la he probado con guitarras eléctricas e incluso con guitarras electro acústicas de metal y de nylon. Y le he podido sacar muy buen sonido. SI lo recomiendo. Saludos desde LIMA PERU

Awswome, sounds great

Der Multieffekt wird von mir hauptsächlich zu Hause und mit Kopfhörern genutzt und dafür ist er ziemlich perfekt. Was mir am besten gefällt, ist der Web-Editor. Man kann über einen Webbrowser die Rigs (Presets) wählen und bearbeiten, ohne den kleinen Bildschirm oder die Tasten nutzen zu müssen. Dafür muss der Flex Prime nur mit dem gleichen WLAN verbunden sein. Ab SW Version 5.0 kann man auch im Browser Klonen ausprobieren und herunterladen, früher ging das nur über den Bildschirm. Ansonsten hat der Flex Prime einen Looper, der 5 minütige Aufnahmen machen kann, und bis zu 50(?) Aufnahmen schichten kann. Mit der SW-Version 5.0 kam neu dazu auch ein Drum machine. Die Standard-Presets/Rigs sind nicht die besten und haben bei mir keinen guten ersten Eindruck hinterlassen. Dafür hat man über die Headrush Cloud aber quasi unendlich viele neue Klone oder Rigs und wird irgendwann fündig. Insgesamt bin ich mit dem Flex Prime sehr zufrieden und kann ihn weiterempfehlen.

Prima werkend systeem voor Bas

Una pedaliera molto bella, semplice da utilizzare e creare il proprio suono. Permette di fare praticamente tutto, sia per lo studio a casa che sui palchi per il proprio live

Génial. A répondu aux exigences des nouvelles sonorités et technologies. Je le recommande

Honestly the bang for buck is crazy, even if it is an expensive piece, you basically get an entire pedal board for $800. Best thing about it is the use of banks can make one rig have up to 12 different sounds and the amp sims are awesome