Headrush Flex Prime

[JCW308]

It's a shame, the Stage with captures has no CPU left to build decent presets.

 

[KingsXJJ]

Nothing wrong with L6...HX is wordclass...although reverbs could be better....and that tuner.

Wordclass for sure.

 

[KingsXJJ]

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Datasheets for both SoCs are readily available online. The old chip is definitely based on ARM Cortex-A17 (32-bits), while the new one has ARM Cortex-A55 cores (64-bit).

Click, click, BURN!

 

[KingsXJJ]

For those bickering about hardware, this video touches on it -

That’s a wordclass video!

 

[KingsXJJ]

Headrush is living rent free in so many heads! Such “Prime” real estate.

 

[lolainnb]

Lots of people sh***ing on this but I seem to remember @paisleywookiee loving Headrush products. Or was it PositiveGrid products?

 

[paisleywookiee]

Lots of people sh***ing on this but I seem to remember @paisleywookiee loving Headrush products. Or was it PositiveGrid products?

Huh? How about neither? I've bought a lot of PG stuff in the old days, but they've been dead to me for quite a few years.

 

[timbuck3]

I like the hr core screen size and gui setup… would like to see fractal have this and knobs that also are switches like qc and tmp but likely wont happen

 

[la szum]

My Buddy broke out his Prime at practice the other night, because it received a
firmware update--including a desktop/app editor.

It sounded like an hot mess. Again. Ground practice to an halt. He went back
to the Helix after a couple of songs.

He has this idea about wanting to "clone" his fave Helix patches onto the Prime.
That just sounds like a wacky idea to me. Introducing latency and added A/D/A
conversions just sounds like a recipe for disaster.

 

[Lysander]

He has this idea about wanting to "clone" his fave Helix patches onto the Prime.

Guess that when you have a hammer, everything really looks like a nail.

 

[timbuck3]

My Buddy broke out his Prime at practice the other night, because it received a
firmware update--including a desktop/app editor.

It sounded like an hot mess. Again. Ground practice to an halt. He went back
to the Helix after a couple of songs.

He has this idea about wanting to "clone" his fave Helix patches onto the Prime.
That just sounds like a wacky idea to me. Introducing latency and added A/D/A
conversions just sounds like a recipe for disaster.

A hot mess? Never heard that term used for gear.. only usually for women one knows

 

[JiveTurkey]

This thread is close enough. I saw the Headrush pedalboard in GC the other day. Jesus christ talk about a goddamn battleship sized turd

 

[paisleywookiee]

This thread is close enough. I saw the Headrush pedalboard in GC the other day. Jesus christ talk about a goddamn battleship sized turd

Yeah I played with whatever the hell the MX5 replacement is, at GC in Chicago. It’s a POS.

 

[Desertdweller]

Yeah I played with whatever the hell the MX5 replacement is, at GC in Chicago. It’s a POS.

I briefly had the 4 button touch screen unit a couple years ago. The interface was cool until you got to the drop down menus with hundreds of variants of horrible sounding effects. Then I tried to run it in 4CM with an amp since it had a relay switcher to change channels. Big time "nah" on that too as it has the worst tone suck I think I've ever heard from an effects unit. If you're just using it to get a preamp sound and maybe load your own IRs it's serviceable, but yeah "nah" is the key to these units IMO.

The only saving grace is I was able to trade it up with a local for something I really wanted.

 

[timbuck3]

This thread is close enough. I saw the Headrush pedalboard in GC the other day. Jesus christ talk about a goddamn battleship sized turd

I saw a few used ones in the case at gc collecting dust.. as well as a helix and gt1000

 

[JCW308]

I saw a few used ones in the case at gc collecting dust.. as well as a helix and gt1000

I would take a used or new Helix at a decent price now, for sure.

 

[MadMaxG79]

I would take a used or new Helix at a decent price now, for sure.

If you had a used Headrush Prime and were located in my area, I would gladly trade you my Helix Floor for your Headrush Prime.

I posted both my Headrush Pedalboard and my Helix Floor on the local used market a couple of days ago in hopes of moving to the Prime instead. I won't go into the details as to why, only to say that it's very much motivated by a lot of the concerns that are right now being discussed in the "Digital Doubt" thread on here...

 

[MadMaxG79]

This thread is close enough. I saw the Headrush pedalboard in GC the other day. Jesus christ talk about a goddamn battleship sized turd

Yeah I played with whatever the hell the MX5 replacement is, at GC in Chicago. It’s a POS.

I briefly had the 4 button touch screen unit a couple years ago. The interface was cool until you got to the drop down menus with hundreds of variants of horrible sounding effects.

For any potential Headrush Prime / Core / Flex Prime users out there, I just want to go on the record and say that I highly disagree. I don't know if it's because I've never owned or even played a Fractal unit, but I've owned and played the Line 6 Helix Floor, the Line 6 HX Stomp and the Atomic Amplifire extensively along with a lot of other modelers and I definitely would not describe the Headrush units as turds, POS or horrible. On the contrary.

 

[JCW308]

If you had a used Headrush Prime and were located in my area, I would gladly trade you my Helix Floor for your Headrush Prime.

I posted both my Headrush Pedalboard and my Helix Floor on the local used market a couple of days ago in hopes of moving to the Prime instead. I won't go into the details as to why, only to say that it's very much motivated by a lot of the concerns that are right now being discussed in the "Digital Doubt" thread on here...

Sorry to hear. This is a big mistake IMO.

 

[JiveTurkey]

For any potential Headrush Prime / Core / Flex Prime users out there, I just want to go on the record and say that I highly disagree. I don't know if it's because I've never owned or even played a Fractal unit, but I've owned and played the Line 6 Helix Floor, the Line 6 HX Stomp and the Atomic Amplifire extensively along with a lot of other modelers and I definitely would not describe the Headrush units as turds, POS or horrible. On the contrary.

Turd status aside; that thing was HUMONGOUS. Good lord. Either way; use what moves you!