HeadRush MX5 Ultraportable Amp-Modeling Guitar Effect Processor

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Description

If you care to elicit the best and most exciting tones quickly onstage and in the studio, the HeadRush MX5 has you covered. This ultralightweight effects system gives you authentically modeled modern and vintage tone in a 3.5 lb box. From modern high-gain guitar amps to vintage effects, all of it will be at your beck and call, with sounds easy to summon thanks to the high-resolution 4" touch display. Don't want to stop your set to tweak with your hands? All effects are tweakable via foot controls as well.

With a bevy of connection points to suit any player, the MX5 offers essential features such as 5 minutes of looping, gapless preset switching, setlist saving for easy cycling, and even recording/reamping by means of its 96 kHz / 24-bit interface. Whether you're taking the stage or recording in studio, the MX5 will come in handy underfoot.

4" Touch Display

The HeadRush MX5 offers an ultraresponsive 4" touch display that lets you touch, swipe, drag, and drop the building blocks of your rig with speed and precision. For the gigging guitarist, MX5's radiant high-resolution display has you covered, providing critical feedback exactly where you need it, especially when tweaking tones via the expression pedal in Hands-Free Mode.

Perfectly Portable and Flexible

Equally suited to home recording or live performance situations, the HeadRush MX5 is lightweight at just 3.5 lb.

Ever-Expanding Universe of Incredibly Realistic Models

The HeadRush MX5 packs a big punch of tone with an immense library of 46 amplifier models, 15 cabinets, 10 microphone emulations, 300 impulse responses, and 63 premium FX. HeadRush has emulated sought-after vintage and modern gear with accuracy in tone and an authentic dynamic response. The library will continue to be expanded with regular firmware updates to add new models and features based on user requests.

Unlimited Tonal Expansion with Third Party IR Support

Out the box, the HeadRush MX5 includes over 300 precision-captured impulse responses, meticulously crafted in IoSR Studios with some of the most historic guitar cabs inspired by Marshall, Fender, Vox, Orange, and more. Loading your own third-party IRs is a snap; simply hook up the MX5 to your Mac or PC via USB, and drag and drop your choice IRs. Plus, with virtually unlimited storage for IRs—1024 and 2048 sample lengths—MX5’s tone sculpting possibilities are virtually limitless.

Gapless Preset Switching with Reverb-/Delay-Tail Spillover

Gapless preset switching ensures any reverb or delay effect will continue to ring out, even after changing your preset or rig, leaving no break in your sound, and providing fluid and seamless sonic changes.

Easy-to-Use Stomp, Rig, and Hybrid Footswitch Modes

Controlling your sound has never been easier courtesy of MX5's 3 built-in footswitches that toggle 3 models or scenes, change rigs, or access your setlists. Quickly switch between the footswitch modes by holding footswitch 1 to select your desired mode. You can also select setlists, enter hands-free mode, and lock the touch display from this menu.

Convenient Hands-Free Edit Mode

Need to add a little more gain at the last minute? No problem. Using the hands-free edit mode, you can adjust any parameter mid-song without having to stop playing and/or bend over. Simply select the model that you want to adjust, select the parameter, and then use the built-in expression pedal to fine-tune your settings.

Toggle Multiple FX with Just One Footswitch

The powerful Scenes feature enables you to turn multiple models on or off in each rig, as well as select different model presets using only one footswitch. When you press the footswitch assigned to that scene, all models included in that scene will turn on or off or change to a different preset depending on how you assign them. This powerful feature is an incredibly efficient way to create quick access for different tones in the same rig.

Fully Assignable Expression Pedal for Maximum Control

The expression pedal has two powerful modes—Classic Mode and Advanced Mode—alongside a toe switch—Expression Pedal A or B—that cycles between two banks. In Classic mode, if you assign a wah pedal to Expression Pedal A, and assign a volume pedal to Expression Pedal B, only one of them will be active at any time. When you are controlling the wah pedal, the volume pedal will be bypassed, and vice versa. With the Advanced setting, you can assign up to four parameters to each expression pedal (A and B). Moving the pedal will adjust all of its assigned parameters simultaneously. Using the toe switch will select the other expression pedal and leave the current pedal's parameters active and at their maximum values.

Fantastic Looper with Save and Load Functionality

The HeadRush MX5 has an advanced built-in looper that you can use to layer parts during performances, or use as a songwriting toolwhen inspiration strikes. You can load WAV and MP3 audio files into the Looper to play along with backing tracks; you can also save new loops as WAV files and export them to your Mac/PC via USB Transfer Mode for sharing with the world. Each loop has a maximum length of 5 minutes and can hold up to a whopping 20 minutes of layered audio at a time.

Instantly Apply Global EQ to Sound Great in Any Room

The HeadRush MX5’s Global EQ feature is perfect for tailoring your sound to any space; whether it’s a venue or rehearsal space. Fine tune your presets to ensure you sound great and complement the acoustic characteristics of any environment. Dial back the low and low mids in boomier venues, or push up the high end in soundproofed rehearsal spaces. Whatever your space demands, MX5 delivers, letting you quickly apply some corrective equalization to your main 1/4" outputs and all of your presets without permanently altering them.

Quickly Organize Your Rigs for Performances

You can use the convenient Setlists feature to quickly organize and reorder your rigs for an upcoming performance. A setlist is a saved collection of rigs, which you can save and recall at a later time, perfect if you only need some of your rigs for a performance.

Record and Reamp via the Built-In USB Audio Interface

HeadRush MX5's USB connection opens up a world of feature-rich intuitive recording and reamping to a computer. When the HeadRush MX5 is connected to your computer, you can select and use it as a 24-bit / 96 kHz audio interface. When choosing the Reamp option, you can add tone coloration of an amp to a prerecorded audio signal, send the audio from your DAW through the HeadRush MX5, and then record it back into your DAW. This time saving feature is perfect for changing the sound of a prerecorded killer guitar take without having to manually play the same part again.

All the Connections You Need

The HeadRush MX5 assimilates seamlessly into your current rig with all the connections you need to handle any performance situation. The unit combines a 1/4" guitar input, two 1/4" TRS outputs (switchable between amp or line level), a 3.5mm output for headphones, 5-pin MIDI in/out via two 3.5mm MIDI adapters, and a built-in stereo 1/4" FX loop to integrate external pedals at any point in the signal chain. The HeadRush MX5 even features a 1/4" TRS input to connect an external expression pedal. The MX5 unites your existing equipment while opening up a world of new sonic possibilities.

HeadRush MX5 Specs

Footswitches	3 Footswitches with Color LEDs
Knobs	1 x 300° Master Volume Knob 1 x 360° Navigation/Data Encoder
Display	1 Full-Color LED-Backlit Display with Touch Interface, 4" / 10.2 cm
Connection	1 x 1/4" Mono Input (Guitar) 1 x 1/4" TRS Input (Expression Pedal) 1 x 1/4" Stereo Output (Send) 1 x 1/4" Stereo Input (Return) 2 x 1/4" Balanced Output (Main) 1 x 3.5 mm Stereo Output (Headphones) 1 x 3.5 mm Stereo Input (Auxiliary Device) 1 x 3.5 mm MIDI Output 1 x 3.5 mm MIDI Input 1 x USB Type-B Port
Power	DC Power Adapter Input, 12 VDC, 3 A, Center Positive
Dimensions	2.8" x 11.6" x 7.6" / 7 x 29.5 x 19.5 cm
Weight	3.5 lb / 1.6 kg

Delivery & Returns

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