In and Out/Thru MIDI sockets are provided, as is a USB connector that enables you to upload and download updates and to import and export ‘rigs’ (HeadRush-speak for presets), model presets (saved parameters), Setlists (collections of rigs) and third-party cabinet IRs (impulse responses), and also to connect the Pedalboard to your DAW as an audio interface.Īll the I/O are found on the rear, and the effects send/return loop can be switched between levels suited for line-level studio gear or guitar-level stompbox effects. Like the main outputs this can be stereo or mono, and it can be switched between rackmount and stompbox I/O levels. Additional quarter-inch TRS jacks carry the Pedalboard’s balanced FX send/return loop. A single headphone output is also provided. The Pedalboard’s main stereo/mono outputs are available on balanced XLRs and a pair of switchable amp/line-level quarter-inch TRS jacks. On the Pedalboard’s rear edge, you’ll find quarter-inch jack inputs for your guitar (TS) and an external expression pedal (TRS), plus an Aux input on a TRS mini-jack that allows you to connect your MP3 player, smartphone, tablet, computer or other source of choice. To the right of all of these, taking up almost the whole depth of the unit, sits the integrated expression pedal with its A/B display. Beneath this sit two rows of six footswitches, each having its own small alphanumeric monochrome OLED display and coloured identification LED. Physically, HeadRush’s Pedalboard is strikingly attractive, the front panel of its black steel body housing a central seven-inch full-colour touchscreen, with rotary controls on either side. I’m also told that Eleven Rack users are able to import their existing presets, which is a nice touch. Not only was the Eleven Rack code disassembled and reconstructed to fit the architecture of the Pedalboard’s quad-core DSP platform, but HeadRush also made tweaks to improve the sound, as well as adding new features and facilities, including new amp and effects models, and reverb tails which remain audible even when changing presets. As the ‘Expanded’ implies, however, this is not a straight port of that product’s software. The Pedalboard features, amongst other things, a looper - but don’t confuse it with Akai’s Headrush looper pedal HeadRush and Akai may share the same owner (inMusic Brands), but the products are entirely unrelated! The Pedalboard’s Eleven HD Expanded DSP software is actually derived from another popular product: the Digidesign/Avid Eleven Rack amp modeller/effects processor and Pro Tools audio interface. The HeadRush Pedalboard is a feature-rich guitar amp, cab, mic and effects modelling floorboard and four-channel audio interface, and the first product in HeadRush’s range. Building on Avid’s Eleven Rack technology, this new hardware amp modeller promises to combine great sound with ease of use.
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