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[reaprendendoguitarra]

Honestly ALL the top tier Multi Effects Units are amazing and if you spend sometime with them you can get perfect professional sounds out of them... With that said, since last firmware update 4.0.0 HeadRush (Prime, Core and now Flex Prime) has became the most complete unit out there (at least for me), I firmly believe that because now we have stopped looking into sound quality (all the top units have reached the top) and now what makes a Unit "better" than the other is what they provide in terms of extra features... So as far as I can see no other company can beat Headrush now, they basically got the whole thing... I believe that the only reason why we don't talk more about the Headrush products it's because they still the "new kid on the block" and its community still kind of small (but it's growing fast)... I've owned Boss, Line 6 and some other brands but Headrush has fulfill all my expectations like no other.

[alstiver]

I've been gigging the MX-5 for three years now. It's the predecessor to this. It's been super solid. This is even nicer. Nice overview, thanks for posting!

[Bridging_the_Political_Divide]

Alot of love for the 2nd gen HR products. My HR Prime still amazes me.

[michaelmurphy]

I think it is awesome to have a professional, gigging musician help the community by providing the pros and cons of all the units out there, and there are a lot of them now. I am a Helix floor user and you are right, the increases in DSP now are substantial. Thanks for another great review.

[stevekatz]

I’ve owned just about every Headrush board and i have a bit of a love affair with their products - have this unit and love the form factor!! great demo vid!

[algorithmify]

Headrush flex prime with good quality clones/IRs (usually paid for ones) sounds as good as any other device from the "big boys" (kemper, QC, tonex, etc.). On top of that, it has a great price point and features (particularly, connectivity, looper, DSP power, super clones, etc..).

[tenderbender]

Thanks Steve for honest and straight to the point content. Your kind of sincerity is hard to find. Cheers!

[BrokenDreamRox]

There's so much to the Flex that makes it competitive with the much higher priced boards like the QC.

[AlexVonCrank]

That looper is a strong selling point. Metronome, too. Nice.

[teerexness]

Kudos to Headrush for not using the word "core" in this product name. Again.

[DavidMorisset]

It would be better with an internal lithium ion battery. Also, remove the expression pedal, for an even smaller footprint. I could always connect one when needed. That would make this multi-effects pedal ultra portable.

[scottakam]

That is extremely cool. Very tempting. The only slight negative I see is the laptop power supply. Hard to see how Line 6 sells their old units with things like this out there.

[JCW]

Scenes now have the x2 feature for each (A&B) which is awesome.

[Scott__C]

Good stuff, Steve. I got the Core a while back and the addition of the web browser based editor has been great. I think Headrush is really the sleeper of the top tier modelers.
Digging the consistency throughout price points.

[MarbsMusic]

Great video, just got my HR Core about a month ago and really enjoying it so far! If I didn't need XLR out I would have just gotten this one!

[reyals]

Hello Steve, it'll be of great help if you could do a comprehensive video comparing this to the Quad cortex Nano.

[Davidlovesmusic]

And I like your channel a lot. I watch it whenever you come on

[jimsimmons]

The stock factory presets sounded pretty good!After further tweaking of the Flex Prime i bet it would sound great!

[shellsjoint]

Steve my hero!! Happy New Year my dude!!!! I'm so glad you did a video I been really wanting this for my fly dates.. Amazing video!!

[steveliberty]

Hi Steve. great video, and great playing, as always. This Headrush Flex Prime device seems to have great feature set. But actually, as the first touch screen multifx, Headrush has always done a nice job of the user experience. I especially love the fact that the editor is mobile - thats huge! Unfortunately for Headrush, in their early days, they got hurt for "not sounding as good" as other multifx / modeling devices. You didn't really address the tones in your video - how do they compare to Line 6, QC, etc? I don't mean which is closer to the real amp being modeled (a somewhat useless benchmark in my opinion), but rather which one just sounds better (or alternatively, which one is easier to dial in)?