The only thing that will save Headrush is NAM compatibility

i liked headrush units while owning, but once sold never really missed them.

I find the team quite strange - they would make effort to release the products every now and then, but not market and update them hard enough.
 
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You can bet your bottom juice hole that Helix Stadium will light a fire under the arses of the Headrush product team. Headrush Prime is actually pretty good to be honest, and it does a lot. Doesn't have the same market place "cool" factor, but it isn't half bad.
 
You can bet your bottom juice hole that Helix Stadium will light a fire under the arses of the Headrush product team. Headrush Prime is actually pretty good to be honest, and it does a lot. Doesn't have the same market place "cool" factor, but it isn't half bad.
I’m basing what I know of them from a somewhat lengthy run with revalver like a decade ago. I remember the cloning tech being miserable, even for them.

What’s gotten better? I may have incorrectly assumed it was still all their old legacy tech in there.
 
I’m basing what I know of them from a somewhat lengthy run with revalver like a decade ago. I remember the cloning tech being miserable, even for them.

What’s gotten better? I may have incorrectly assumed it was still all their old legacy tech in there.
Quite a lot of the amps come from the Eleven Rack tech, and those aren't terrible. I liked the Soldano model quite a bit. The newish amp cloner tech isn't too bad. Certainly as good as Kemper and QC is, in terms of accuracy. But they do feel like amps - not the old old Revalver tech. That stuff was a bit weaksauce.

There's quite a lot of cool delays and reverbs on it, and I think some of them are better than Helix. The drives are so-so.

Built in auto-tune is nifty. The cloud preset sharing side of things is better than what Neural have done IMHO. The built in practice tool is very MPC-ish, probably no surprise there.

Overall, I actually thought it was a cool package. It doesn't sound terrible, it has a few unique-ish features, the overall signal quality is good, the touchscreen is responsive. If you had it side by side with the competition (as I did!) it would compare well IMHO.
 
Quite a lot of the amps come from the Eleven Rack tech, and those aren't terrible. I liked the Soldano model quite a bit. The newish amp cloner tech isn't too bad. Certainly as good as Kemper and QC is, in terms of accuracy. But they do feel like amps - not the old old Revalver tech. That stuff was a bit weaksauce.

There's quite a lot of cool delays and reverbs on it, and I think some of them are better than Helix. The drives are so-so.

Built in auto-tune is nifty. The cloud preset sharing side of things is better than what Neural have done IMHO. The built in practice tool is very MPC-ish, probably no surprise there.

Overall, I actually thought it was a cool package. It doesn't sound terrible, it has a few unique-ish features, the overall signal quality is good, the touchscreen is responsive. If you had it side by side with the competition (as I did!) it would compare well IMHO.
Thanks for the info, this is good to know. I’ll have to check out their lineup.
 
I messed around with HR superclones last week on a HR Core. I didn't create any myself but I tested a bunch of different ones available right now. IMO they were just as good as my Kemper's liquid profiles. The problem was the other effects can't touch Kemper, Fractal and Line 6. So now you have good amps on HR but still very lackluster effects. I will say though that the HeadRush way of doing scenes in conjunction with their presets for each block make it SUPER easy and more flexible than just about anything on the market right now. And their UI, so good. It's just the effects quality and hardware dependability now for me.
 
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So they caught up to a 15 year old capture tech with some lipstick applied? That's not very impressive in 2025.
the silence of the lambs GIF
 
So they caught up to a 15 year old capture tech with some lipstick applied? That's not very impressive in 2025.
Yeah - you're not getting it. I'm by no means a HR fan (see my other posts) but these are a little different. Not earth-shattering but not just your normal single captures. And Kemper liquid profiles are not 15 years old, BTW.
 
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