Looks like the Rockman is back

[Baba]

Now, don't get me wrong, the chorus and clean was great but you can get that elsewhere.

I've read this, 1,000 times over the years, and yet I've never heard anything else that sounds quite like it.

 

[Baba]

They should have made it battery op and put a headphone jack on it.

As much as I hate to be that forum guy, you know, (it doesn't have IR loading, midi, and whatever else), I agree.

Initially, I was excite AF, but I'd only use this thing in headphones, nowhere else.

 

[HomespunEffects]

I've read this, 1,000 times over the years, and yet I've never heard anything else that sounds quite like it.

K.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Fun facts:

The SR&D Rockman "Sustainor" Rockmodule has a pre-distortion loop (literal 1/4" jacks loop) that allows you to go out to any EQ to shape the tone before distortion. Then simply shape things again after the Sustainor with another EQ.

Et voila: you can literally EQ out the so-called "SuCkY RoCkMaN ToNe!".

Everybody was using these SR&D devices in the 80's - Jeff Beck, ZZ Top, Def Leppard, Huey Lewis & The News, Joe Satriani, George Lynch, etc... they were used on countless albums.

And the "CLN 2" setting on the Sustainor/Rockman (headphone amp) is *the* spankin' clean S.S. tone (very similar to "direct to board") of the 80's everybody loves. As good as, if not better, than the Roland Jazz Chorus clean.

I've been meaning to do a demo of my Rockmodules... at some point in time.

 

[paisleywookiee]

I think people are using it to blend with another amp (or two).

I sold mine on Reverb a few years back, but it does occupy a weird space in the tonal spectrum that tube amps do not.

ymmv (Yngwie Malmsteen May Visit)

Yeah sometimes I’ll run a dry track from my FM9 along with the amped track, and then stick the Rockman model on from the Amplitube 5 Satriani pack. It’s pretty damn cool.

 

[6CA7-A]

Follow the leader ---

 

[Baba]

K.

I'm more than willing, and happy to be proven incorrect, so if you can share a clip, etc.

 

[norminal]

Yet another piece of gear that I absolutely have zero need for, but will likely purchase on release day.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Yet another piece of gear that I absolutely have zero need for, but will likely purchase on release day.

Wait til you try "CLN 2" with humbuckers and a lil chorus/micropitch+delay/reverb.

(Rockman "secret": CLN 2 was designed for humbuckers - Tom used DiM SDs in his LP - CLN 1 was designed for single coils)

 

[HomespunEffects]

I'm more than willing, and happy to be proven incorrect, so if you can share a clip, etc.

I had no idea a clean chorus tone was elusive.

 

[holoholo]

 

[paisleywookiee]

I've read this, 1,000 times over the years, and yet I've never heard anything else that sounds quite like it.

I'm more than willing, and happy to be proven incorrect, so if you can share a clip, etc.

You should share a clip so we can see why it is indeed so unique.

 

[Baba]

I had no idea a clean chorus tone was elusive.

I’m not sure where the combativeness is coming from, or maybe I’m reading you wrong, but a JC120 clean does not sound Ike a Fender Deluxe Reverb, which doesn’t sound like a Vox amp set clean, which doesn’t sound like a Rockman . . . etc.

It’s not just a “clean chorus tone”. I use clean chorus tones all the time, but I don’t sound at all like a Scholz Rockman.

You should share a clip so we can see why it is indeed so unique.

About 7:15 in:

 

[Whizzinby]

I’m not sure where the combativeness is coming from, or maybe I’m reading you wrong, but a JC120 clean does not sound Ike a Fender Deluxe Reverb, which doesn’t sound like a Vox amp set clean, which doesn’t sound like a Rockman . . . etc.

It’s not just a “clean chorus tone”. I use clean chorus tones all the time, but I don’t sound at all like a Scholz Rockman.

About 7:15 in:

That sounds awesome.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Fun facts:

The SR&D Rockman "Sustainor" Rockmodule has a pre-distortion loop (literal 1/4" jacks loop) that allows you to go out to any EQ to shape the tone before distortion. Then simply shape things again after the Sustainor with another EQ.

Et voila: you can literally EQ out the so-called "SuCkY RoCkMaN ToNe!".

Everybody was using these SR&D devices in the 80's - Jeff Beck, ZZ Top, Def Leppard, Huey Lewis & The News, Joe Satriani, George Lynch, etc... they were used on countless albums.

And the "CLN 2" setting on the Sustainor/Rockman (headphone amp) is *the* spankin' clean S.S. tone (very similar to "direct to board") of the 80's everybody loves. As good as, if not better, than the Roland Jazz Chorus clean.

I've been meaning to do a demo of my Rockmodules... at some point in time.

I love the sustainor module. I did some sessions about 20 yrs ago with one the studio owner had. Wish I had the recordings of it.
I'd still like an original but I have software versions (also the chorus) from Overloud that are pretty cool.

 

[Sascha Franck]

While there's some sort of emotional connection to this kinda stuff (I owned the half-rack compressor and EQ and the cheaper Nobels knockoff headphone amp thing), I guess I'm quite happy these days are over. Sure, you can instantly hear all 80s hits in that sound demo of Mr. Ronquillo - which brings back memories. But who actually likes being reminded of torture?

 

[2112]

That sounds awesome.

Soon™

 

[2112]

You can cop that Rockman Clean with a basic Tilt EQ into a compressor. I measured the Clean 2 mode on my old X100 and it's roughly a Tilt at 1600hz with 9dB of gain (ie -9dB low shelf & +9dB high shelf). It basically cuts bass and hypes the highs so the comp doesn't get blasted by low end.

The chorus is iconic.

 

[Baba]

You can cop that Rockman Clean with a basic Tilt EQ into a compressor. I measured the Clean 2 mode on my old X100 and it's roughly a Tilt at 1600hz with 9dB of gain (ie -9dB low shelf & +9dB high shelf). It basically cuts bass and hypes the highs so the comp doesn't get blasted by low end.

The chorus is iconic.

 

[HomespunEffects]

I’m not sure where the combativeness is coming from, or maybe I’m reading you wrong, ...

Huh? You're reading me wrong. I was just saying that you can get a super compressed clean chorus a billion different ways. I've just never liked the Rockman tone.