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Rocktron Xpression Multi Effects Processor
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The Rocktron Xpression Guitar Multi Effects Processor comes with 128 presets for guitar and bass and lets you use up to 10 effects together. Includes many vintage and classic stompbox-style effects, with multi-voiced delay and chorus for both live and recording. Delay and Rate tap controls, 4-band parametric EQ, active/passive input switch, D.I. out with speaker...
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The latest in a great line of multi-effects from Rocktron 
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The interface has been pretty much the same since at least the Replifex and the Intellifex was far enough back that I can't remember if it had the same interface (I don't believe it did). The menus are very intuitive and almost self-explanatory. Patches are easy to use, create, modify, and store. I don't know that I've ever looked at the instruction manual because it's that straight-forward.
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| Sound |
The sound quality has been getting better with each revision. I own both this unit and this unit's predecessor, the Replifex. The sound quality of the Intellifex is much better than that of the Replifex. The one function they removed from the Xpression is the latch-style amp switching function. It's there on my Replifex, but not on the Xpression. The chorus and all modulation effects are lush and highly configurable so you can dial in the exact tone that you want. The hidden and (IMHO) greatest feature of this unit is the mixer section. I found that if you are running a single-channel amp or don't have a solo booster, you can use the mixer section to boost the return signal on your lead patches giving you a nice gain boost on your lead patches. In other situations, you can pan different effects to different sides and boost or cut them to suit your needs. The only thing this unit is missing is a preamp, but if it had a preamp on-board it would be called the Rocktron VooDu Valve. All the other implementation-specific sounds are in there: tremolo, pitch shift, phaser, flanger, etc. and all effects are top-notch.
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| Reliability |
I've been using it for years and never had a problem--I would certainly gig it without a backup and have without incident.
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| Customer Support |
Never had to deal with them.
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| Liked about it |
Interface carries over from previous product so extremely small learning curve.
Outstanding quality effects for a reasonable price.
On-board HUSH noise reduction and configurable mixer section.
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| Didn't like |
Amp switching feature removed.
On-board HUSH doesn't seem to work quite as well as a dedicated HUSH.
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4.0 |
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An FX unit which can act as all your guitar effects.
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Sound quality is unreal considering a unit this price. Editing patches has tons of options and parameters like na eventide but not the easiest unless you read the manual.. which is a manual that assumes too much knowledge of things like MIDI. But for guitarists, I think it is important to learn about MIDI if you are into recording. I know the converters are high quality.
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| Sound |
Using solid body electrics. This sounds more subtle than my eventide eclipse - which has the distinct eventide color. The only reason I also needed an eventide is because this unit does not have advanced synthesizer-style modulation of paramaters, and it does not have the moog style low pass filter that I needed the eventide for particularily to get the Dino Cazares style metal riff intros. But if you are not looking for modulation effects other than an expression pedal, nor synth style filters then this unit is perfect for you because it has all the usual guitar effects like delay, reverb, chorus, flange, rotary, pitch shift, octaver etc... and the bypass is true. And for the price this is a true gem. Very clean effects.
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| Reliability |
Rock Solid. Knobs are well built. High end 24-bit converters. Extremely reliable construction.
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| Customer Support |
This is the company that has one of the best tech support staff in my opinion who would sit with you all day to explain something, even if you did not read the manual! This is what I call proper technical support, unlike other companies who get mad at you for not reading their manuals which assume too much technophobe knowledge. ANd I find that often times, many manuals are pure garbage. The toll free 1-800 number helps too.
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| Liked about it |
Clean but subtle effects. An economical solution to get high quality standard effects to cover at least your delay and chorus for electric guitar, and these sound best after distortion and in the effects loop as this rack unit is meant to be placed. With a good midi switcher you can hook up to this or their Rocktron Patchmate to control this and your analog pedals which you can keep in a rack tray and switch with. Highly recommended. I still have kept this even after acquiring my eventide because this unit also seems to be an industry standard for the price. I am shocked I am not seeing more of these because this destroys the TC electronic because this one has no artifacts in the sound, and is true bypass.
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| Didn't like |
Not as creative as an eventide, no intelligent pitch shifting based on scales (but I don't have time for that anyways as we metal players are in different tunings), not as many effects/filters as an eventide nor the stepped or envelope modulation assignable to anything in the eventide, complexity of the manual. But the price is worth this unit. I give it a 4.5 out of 5.
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5.0 |
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| Ease Of Use |
eading the manual you can get a hold of everything in this unit.
Editing patches is quite intuitive.All effects come in configurations; confidurations are assigned to a given patch, and then you edit them. Some are simple (like Reverb, Hush), some are complex (like 8-voice Chorus/Delay).
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| Sound |
The Xpression vintage effects include many classic stomp box style effects like Flanger, Phaser, Rotary and Tremolo.
Rocktron's multi-voiced Delay and Chorus are designed for Guitar and Bass for BOTH live and recording situations,Reverb,Multi-Pitch Shifting, Compressor and Hush.
A Tap Button for "Delay" and "Rate" control is on the front panel and is MIDI Programmable.
Reverbs sound convincing. They've got many parameters to tweak with,which is really nice.
The delay & chorus are a mixture of several voices (up to 8) for which you assign the rate/delay/depth.
You can have either have them in a 4 voice combination (w reverb) or a 8 voice combination(without reverb). Mixing so many voices might seem hip at first,but in my opinion, after 3,4 voices the whole sound becomes too complex, and I don't use settings with more than 4 voices at all.
Regeneration rates (which determine the no of repeats) are slippery stuff,it's easy to get annoying feedback onstage if you're not careful.
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| Reliability |
No problems
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| Liked about it |
1- Awesome effects quality
2- Easy to use
3- Midi
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| Didn't like |
Nothing bad about it.
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| Overall satisfaction: |
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5.0 |
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