Also, the sound engineer feeds me two XLR connections, and I’m in stereo, set up, and ready to go in minutes. And I like the simplicity of tweaking a stomp box, and the sheer joy of an amp plugged into a 2 x 12 speaker cabinet pumping sound and air. The Headrush Prime provides an all-round package for guitarists, bass players, and vocalists alike, all packed into a sturdy floorboard housing complete with expression pedal. I could go on and on about the ability to build, edit and manipulate the signal chain until you all gave up reading. The HeadRush Prime includes an ever-expanding library of on-board guitar FX, amp, cab and microphone emulations, amp clones, impulse responses, as well as a full suite of vocal FX (including the industry-standard Antares Auto-Tune®)!

Indeed, Neural DSP claims to offer “the most powerful floor modeller on the planet," while HeadRush says the Prime is “the most powerful guitar FX/ amp modeler/vocal processor. I used Stomp Mode so that the left-side footswitches scroll from one rig (or song) to the next and used the Hardware Assign feature to save ‘scenes.Headrush makes products for guitarists, including high-powered active speakers and the innovative "Pedalboard" and "Gigboard" multi-effect boards. The range of functions available with the Headrush Prime allows guitarists, bassists, and vocalists to customise every aspect of their sound, making it a highly versatile solution.

This means you can spend days just tweaking sounds and building the ultimate patch library while playing the same chord over and over again. Factor in the headphone output, 5-pin MIDI I/O, and stereo FX loop, and the Headrush Prime is ready to take on any configuration in the book. That all arrives on top of the features that made the original Pedalboard an appealing package, including a huge library of modelled gear and IRs (including ReValver models) and a looper that can handle 20 minutes of layered audio.

The HeadRush Prime features proprietary next-generation cloning technology enabling you to greatly expand your onboard amp and FX library using real gear.

With your current setup laid out on the screen, you can drag and drop new effects, amps, cabinets and plugins, and rearrange them to suit your preferred signal flow. Then users can use the 12 footswitches with customisable colour LEDs and OLED scribble strips to assign the various models and trigger them as required. QuoteFrom what I have gathered is that you can migrate patches from the prior boards into Prime but you cannot go backwards. The HeadRush Prime will receive and/or send MIDI Program Change, Control Change, and Clock messages via the MIDI DIN and USB-A ports. This powerful guitar multi-effect box/amp modeler/vocal processor unit has a massive library of guitar effects, amp/cab sims, microphone emulations, vocal effects IRs, and more.

Gapless preset-switching is an exclusive feature on the HeadRush Pedalboard and means that any reverb or delay-tails will continue to ring out, even after changing your preset or rig. This is a massive oversight, considering Sweetwater’s guitarists find it about the most intuitive and accurate amp modeler on the market today! With its extensive range of options, the Headrush Prime is, without doubt, one of the most innovative devices of its kind, adding yet another quite exceptional multi-FX processor to the existing Headrush lineup. Or a bug when you are using captured amps have a volume drop until you activate the preset(scene) again or touch the clone's head. The incredible flexibility of the reverbs, delays, and harmonies will allow users to easily dial in their studio vocal sounds when performing live.

Which includes start, stop and replay functions for the looper, as well as for tracks in Practice Mode. Each loop has a maximum length of 5 minutes and can hold up to a whopping 20 minutes of layered audio at a time! Yes, you can connect your HeadRush Prime to your Mac or PC's USB port, then go to the menu page, and tap USB Transfer.Then it also uses a Direct Wi-Fi connection to access the HeadRush Cloud for preset and amp clone sharing. I'd still love a desktop editor but its easy enough to set things up that it's not an absolute requirement.