HEADRUSH 5.1 Is Here! Now With NAM — Transcript

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1. 0:01[bell]
2. 0:11[music]
3. 0:23[music]
4. 0:30[music]
5. 0:32>> Oh.
6. 0:42Hi everyone. My name's James Arvin. How
7. 0:44are you doing?
8. 0:47>> [screaming]
9. 0:49>> I don't understand what you're doing.
10. 0:50>> [laughter]
11. 0:50>> I don't know.
12. 0:51>> Okay.
13. 0:52>> It was a good start.
14. 0:52>> Yeah, okay. So, what the hell are you
15. 0:55doing here?
16. 0:56What the hell is this? This is awesome.
17. 0:58I haven't seen this before.
18. 0:59>> Yeah.
19. 1:00>> Uh
20. 1:00>> [snorts]
21. 1:01>> but but things have changed, haven't
22. 1:02they?
23. 1:02>> They have. Um the good people at
24. 1:05HeadRush, part of the InMusic Group,
25. 1:07have reached out and we're quite excited
26. 1:11about
27. 1:12a thing we don't normally get too
28. 1:14excited about. This is the latest
29. 1:16firmware update, firmware 5.1
30. 1:19for the HeadRush Core and the rest of
31. 1:22the HeadRush family.
32. 1:24This is cool.
33. 1:25>> Can I just say
34. 1:26>> Yeah.
35. 1:27>> HeadRush
36. 1:28>> Yeah.
37. 1:28>> are constantly updating their stuff.
38. 1:30>> Mhm.
39. 1:31>> While so many other companies, not
40. 1:33naming anyone
41. 1:35>> But you just did.
42. 1:37>> No, I haven't. I haven't named anyone.
43. 1:38But but but you know, so many other
44. 1:39companies seem to neglect updates, but
45. 1:41HeadRush constantly update, which is
46. 1:44kudos to HeadRush.
47. 1:46>> Indeed.
48. 1:47>> Brilliant.
49. 1:47>> Um I have a
50. 1:49more than a soft spot for HeadRush
51. 1:50because obviously it comes off the back
52. 1:52of um 11 Rack technology and all that
53. 1:54sort of stuff. Um but
54. 1:57to say this is like an old 11 rack is
55. 1:59just chalk and cheese.
56. 2:00>> yeah.
57. 2:02>> There's no easy way of saying this.
58. 2:04Um, I thought HeadRush cloning
59. 2:07technology was good.
60. 2:08>> Mhm.
61. 2:09>> But they are now embracing all things
62. 2:12NAM, both A1
63. 2:14>> Mhm.
64. 2:14>> and A2. Do you want to show the good
65. 2:16people? Um, yes, indeed. Let me put this
66. 2:19back onto our rig and you can see that
67. 2:21this is one of the captures, one of the
68. 2:24presets, if you like, featuring
69. 2:27technology that will be shipping as part
70. 2:29of the new
71. 2:31firmware update.
72. 2:32>> Let you play with it.
73. 2:33>> Indeed. [music]
74. 2:38>> [music]
75. 2:44[music]
76. 2:52[music]
77. 2:58[music]
78. 2:58>> NAM is great, isn't it?
79. 2:59>> NAM is really good. This is
80. 3:02our Cornford TSR 20
81. 3:05>> Oh.
82. 3:06>> captured forever and eternity on the new
83. 3:10HeadRush.
84. 3:10>> Good amp. Is that still available, then?
85. 3:12>> Certainly is still available. Who Who
86. 3:14knew?
87. 3:14>> I need to get one.
88. 3:17>> Um,
89. 3:19that's the big deal. There are loads of
90. 3:20other things which we will talk about,
91. 3:22but NAM is the big deal for this update.
92. 3:25And
93. 3:27>> [snorts]
94. 3:27>> along with NAM support, both A1 and A2,
95. 3:32and obviously we all know that A2 is the
96. 3:34new super duper all singing, all dancing
97. 3:36version of the NAM platform.
98. 3:38>> Yeah.
99. 3:38>> What you can now do is access not only
100. 3:42the HeadRush Cloud, which is cool, and
101. 3:45you can see that if I go into my
102. 3:48content, you can see here some patches
103. 3:50that I've built for
104. 3:53HeadRush, which will be available for
105. 3:55free on the HeadRush Cloud. Free for
106. 3:58free. But, you can also get into Tone
107. 4:013000
108. 4:03directly from the unit.
109. 4:05>> That's really clever, isn't it?
110. 4:06>> Now, you will see here a whole load of
111. 4:09Tone 3000 NAM captures, and these are
112. 4:13our paid-for platform. Obviously, I can
113. 4:15get into it because I have access to our
114. 4:17back end.
115. 4:17>> Oh, right.
116. 4:18>> And you can as well. But, the good
117. 4:20people out there can't be. Once you have
118. 4:22a Tone 3000 account,
119. 4:23>> Yeah.
120. 4:24>> either to create your own captures
121. 4:27or to buy other people's, you'll be able
122. 4:28to access them from within the HeadRush
123. 4:32ecosystem.
124. 4:32>> Oh, awesome.
125. 4:33>> So, if I want to, I can load up our uh
126. 4:37Matchless or the Cornell
127. 4:40>> Give me something Give me something
128. 4:40dirty.
129. 4:41>> And I go to NAM.
130. 4:43>> Mhm.
131. 4:44>> I can then scroll through our available
132. 4:47models, and here they are. So, what
133. 4:49would you like?
134. 4:50>> Give me something Give me something
135. 4:51filthy.
136. 4:52>> Ooh, filthy. Let's go that one and load
137. 4:56it.
138. 5:00>> [music]
139. 5:05[music]
140. 5:10>> Nasty enough for you?
141. 5:11>> Yes, nice.
142. 5:12>> That's the Diesel.
143. 5:14>> Oh, nice.
144. 5:15>> Yeah.
145. 5:15>> Yeah, sounds good.
146. 5:16>> And it's really good. Really really fast
147. 5:20for patch changes. You don't get any of
148. 5:22that kind of
149. 5:23thing, the gear change thing. Really
150. 5:25really nice. And
151. 5:28it's just brilliant. You still have
152. 5:31access to all of the HeadRush amps.
153. 5:35>> Right.
154. 5:36>> You can still change back to the normal
155. 5:38ones. I've got my HeadRush amps either
156. 5:39in HeadRush or Revalver format.
157. 5:42>> Mhm.
158. 5:43>> I can still go into my clones. I've got
159. 5:44my amp clones in conventional HeadRush
160. 5:46format, and the old clones and super
161. 5:48clones format.
162. 5:49>> Oh. And of course, I can now load in
163. 5:52NAM models. Now, at the moment, you can
164. 5:55only add one NAM block per patch.
165. 6:00The theory being, much like you would
166. 6:02with scenes, where you'd swap between
167. 6:04two blocks within
168. 6:06>> Right.
169. 6:06>> a patch, to be able to change
170. 6:08instantaneously. But to be honest, I
171. 6:11haven't found enough of a problem with
172. 6:13the the jump between patches to really
173. 6:16warrant it.
174. 6:17>> So, that's an at moment thing.
175. 6:18>> I have heard from the HeadRush grapevine
176. 6:21that that is something they're looking
177. 6:22into. I won't say working on, but
178. 6:24looking into.
179. 6:25But you can have a conventional amp
180. 6:30block Yeah. and a NAM block and switch
181. 6:32between them.
182. 6:33>> Oh.
183. 6:33>> And you can have a clone block and a NAM
184. 6:37block and switch between them.
185. 6:39>> We'll talk about the prices of the
186. 6:41HeadRush a little bit later on.
187. 6:42>> Yeah.
188. 6:43>> But yeah, yeah, what else is new?
189. 6:44>> So,
190. 6:45um there are a whole load of updates
191. 6:48with regard to routing and patching.
192. 6:51Um
193. 6:52I tend to think in a very
194. 6:54straightforward kind of linear fashion,
195. 6:56so I kind of have my compressor block,
196. 6:58followed by preamp block, followed by
197. 7:01amp, followed by speaker, followed by
198. 7:02some modulation,
199. 7:04delay, and reverb.
200. 7:04>> But if you want to do parallel stuff,
201. 7:05you can do all that sort of stuff.
202. 7:07>> Absolutely.
203. 7:07>> And you can now do that on here by
204. 7:09hitting that button there, and I can
205. 7:11route between a whole load of different
206. 7:14preset formats.
207. 7:16>> Oh, awesome.
208. 7:17>> Which is really cool.
209. 7:17>> Yeah, yeah, it's really good.
210. 7:18>> Um you couldn't do that before, and it
211. 7:19wasn't so powerful before. You can now
212. 7:22have
213. 7:23separate amps on separate chains, if you
214. 7:25want. All the kind of stuff you can do
215. 7:27with
216. 7:28other
217. 7:29simulation platforms.
218. 7:33>> [music]
219. 7:45[music]
220. 7:52[music]
221. 7:58[music]
222. 8:02>> There's a new
223. 8:04JCM 900 style amp block called the 90
224. 8:08Michael ACM 900. Catchy title.
225. 8:11Uh however, it's not installed as part
226. 8:13of the Russian I've got. I must have a
227. 8:15an older version of the install.
228. 8:17>> But but that'll be available with the
229. 8:19update. That's cool.
230. 8:20>> Um
231. 8:21>> There's some more kind of effects pedals
232. 8:24and stuff. There's a new bass graphic,
233. 8:26which I really like. They've also
234. 8:28tweaked some of the existing stuff. So,
235. 8:32dynamics
236. 8:33compressor 3 or Dyna Compressor 3 has
237. 8:35been updated. The gray compressor has
238. 8:37been updated, which is really nice. The
239. 8:39BB delay, which is one of my favorites,
240. 8:42has been given a kind of a mod
241. 8:44to make it a bit more
242. 8:47bit more feedback, bit more um clarity.
243. 8:50Really really nice. I use that a lot for
244. 8:52kind of my Gilmore-esque patches.
245. 8:55>> [music]
246. 9:00[music]
247. 9:07[music]
248. 9:13[music]
249. 9:19[music]
250. 9:23>> HeadRush love a quality of life update.
251. 9:26This is one of my favorite things. If I
252. 9:28go up there,
253. 9:29we now have a built-in clock.
254. 9:31>> Oh, that's great. So, so you can
255. 9:32basically have it next to your bed.
256. 9:34>> Yeah.
257. 9:34>> Yeah? That'd That'd great. That
258. 9:35>> Also a timer.
259. 9:37>> Now, I do the I do get the clock. I do
260. 9:39get the clock because you know, if if
261. 9:41you've got to finish a set by a certain
262. 9:42time.
263. 9:43>> Or if you're trying to hit midnight for
264. 9:45New Year's Eve.
265. 9:46>> Hey, even better. [laughter]
266. 9:48>> Um and you can still access all the
267. 9:50normal stuff. You still access to
268. 9:51pedals, but you know, you've got
269. 9:54It's actually quite I think it's really
270. 9:55useful feature.
271. 9:56>> a useful feature, yeah.
272. 9:57>> Um there's also some other updates to
273. 10:00the drum machine, which we kind of
274. 10:02um elaborated towards earlier.
275. 10:05I I always thought a drum machine was a
276. 10:07bit of a Really, a drum machine? But
277. 10:09some people, as we found in the previous
278. 10:11comments, love a drum machine.
279. 10:13>> And actually, this I think I don't think
280. 10:15this sounds too bad. I mean, you know,
281. 10:17if you're if you're sort of want wanting
282. 10:19to do some practice and you want some
283. 10:22some drums. And also, the swing on that
284. 10:24was quite nice, wasn't it? The swing
285. 10:25that we demonstrated in the beginning.
286. 10:26It's good.
287. 10:30>> [music]
288. 10:39[music]
289. 10:50[music]
290. 10:56[music]
291. 10:59>> You can also now control the drum
292. 11:01machine from the external editor.
293. 11:04So, if you've got your iPad on your mic
294. 11:06stand, for example,
295. 11:07>> Great.
296. 11:07>> you can now control the drum machine,
297. 11:09which is really handy. Because
298. 11:12I'll be fair, it's a bit of a faff going
299. 11:15in having to go back to the second page
300. 11:18to restart or stop the drum machine.
301. 11:21>> Oh, that's really handy. So, you know,
302. 11:23if you've got your iPad on your mic
303. 11:25stand on stage and you're using the drum
304. 11:27machine for That's fantastic, yeah.
305. 11:29>> Really, really cool. Um there's other
306. 11:31little things you can do with the tuner,
307. 11:32the now the tuner volume can be set to
308. 11:35zero and still work as a tuner. There's
309. 11:37some
310. 11:38>> Okay.
311. 11:38>> clearly some kind of tweaking and
312. 11:42>> There are public requests probably
313. 11:44because that's what it was originally,
314. 11:45yeah.
315. 11:45>> Okay. [clears throat]
316. 11:46>> But
317. 11:47I think the main thing about this is the
318. 11:50NAM
319. 11:51integration and they've done it really
320. 11:54well.
321. 11:55Um, the touch screen
322. 11:57once you get your head round select with
323. 11:59one, double tap to enter it's pretty
324. 12:02straightforward. So, if I go into it yet
325. 12:03another one of our amazing NAM captures,
326. 12:06let's go for the
327. 12:09uh, it's the diesel. Let's do the SP 77
328. 12:12as I SAID BEFORE.
329. 12:15>> [music]
330. 12:21[music]
331. 12:28[music]
332. 12:38[music]
333. 12:45[music]
334. 12:48>> THAT UNIT
335. 12:49>> IT'S SO GOOD, THAT SP 77.
336. 12:51>> um,
337. 12:52yeah, I mean
338. 12:55the big news is NAM. Um, um, why
339. 12:57shouldn't it be? That'll be enough for
340. 12:58an update for me, if I'm honest.
341. 12:59>> Yeah. Pretty good.
342. 13:00>> The new update
343. 13:02>> Yeah.
344. 13:02>> works on all three of the latest
345. 13:06versions of Head Rush. That's the Flex,
346. 13:07Prime, the baby one, the Core and the
347. 13:12Prime.
348. 13:13>> The big the big one.
349. 13:14>> one.
350. 13:14>> Yeah.
351. 13:14>> Which has got the continuous controller
352. 13:16and all that sort of stuff. Two rows of
353. 13:17pedals and all that sort of stuff.
354. 13:18>> Um
355. 13:20access point, uh, the Flex Prime
356. 13:23which is the baby one, which gives you
357. 13:25three buttons and a controller.
358. 13:27>> Mhm.
359. 13:29>> 439
360. 13:31That's the current price in the UK in
361. 13:33pounds from our friends at Andertons.
362. 13:36>> Awesome.
363. 13:39>> I genuinely, I mean, we've looked
364. 13:41recently at
365. 13:43um that little Sonic cake box.
366. 13:45>> Yeah.
367. 13:46>> Which was great for not much money.
368. 13:48>> Yeah.
369. 13:48>> But it's a different different
370. 13:49>> I'd much rather take this out on the
371. 13:51road and there's an awful lot more going
372. 13:53on inside here and it's you know, as you
373. 13:55said, HeadRush are continuously
374. 13:58updating their platform.
375. 14:01>> Well done, HeadRush.
376. 14:02>> Great work. And
377. 14:04So, I'm always surprised when you say,
378. 14:08"That sounds great."
379. 14:09>> Mhm.
380. 14:09>> And and we we joke so often that I we
381. 14:13argue about so many things tonally,
382. 14:15sonically, all that sort of thing, but
383. 14:16actually
384. 14:17they've nailed it.
385. 14:18>> They've nailed it. It's good. Really
386. 14:20good unit, especially for the price. So,
387. 14:22we'll leave all the details for the
388. 14:24HeadRush and the new update in the notes
389. 14:26below. If you want to go and check it
390. 14:27out. Really hope you guys got something
391. 14:29out of this. If you did get something
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395. 14:34that comes out from the studio. That's
396. 14:35I'm Paul.
397. 14:35>> I'm James.
398. 14:36>> And we'll see you next time.