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Also like its stablemates, the MX5 can store aВ virtually unlimited number of thirdвЂ‘party IRs alongside those from the factory. Like the Gigboard and the Pedalboard, the new MX5 features 46 amplifier models, 15 cabinet models (each with 10 microphone emulations), 300 impulse responses, and 63 modelled effects. Booting up takes 15 seconds, which isnвЂ™t the longest wait at home, or in the studio or rehearsal room, but it could make accidentally pulling out the MX5вЂ™s external plugвЂ‘in power supply an agonisingly long and embarrassing experience on stage! It takes only six seconds to power down. No matter the change in description, the review MX5 runs HeadRush 2.3 software, just as its Pedalboard and Gigboard siblings do.

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AВ USB connector facilitates connection to aВ Windows or Mac computer.Д¬uriously, the description of the DSP has changed: the вЂњPowered by Eleven HD ExpandedвЂќ and вЂњPowered by Multicore SystemвЂќ logos, which adorned its older stablemates, have been replaced by the simple statement that the MX5 features вЂњcustomвЂ‘designed DSP system and powerful multicore processingвЂќ. Other quarterвЂ‘inch TRS jack sockets carry the MX5вЂ™s stereo effects loop and balanced main stereo outputs, with TRS minijacks being provided for headphones, auxiliary audio input and MIDI I/O.

AВ second, external expression pedal can also be connected, courtesy of aВ rearвЂ‘panel quarterвЂ‘inch TRS jack socket.

The final frontвЂ‘panel feature is aВ wonderfully petite expression pedal that features both adjustable tension and aВ toe switch, with aВ positive mechanical action. The latter can be used to navigate around the touchscreen, to select functions and to alter parameters. The MX5вЂ™s only rotary controls are the Main output volume and aВ pushвЂ‘toвЂ‘enter encoder. The touchscreen may be smaller than those of the larger Headrush devices but it remains easy to read and use. In keeping with its reduction in size, the MX5 has been given only three footswitches, each with its own individual RGB LED, the colour of which echoes that of its assigned onвЂ‘screen function. The touchscreen dominates the front panel and, while obviously smaller than the sevenвЂ‘inch screens of its stable mates, its legibility does not seem significantly compromised. By way of contrast, its bottom and sides are moulded in bright red, impact resistant ABS. Its black, allвЂ‘steel wrapвЂ‘over top panel carries the MX5вЂ™s rotary controls, fourвЂ‘inch colour touchscreen, footswitches and expression pedal, with all input and output connectors mounted at the rear. With aВ footprint about half the size of an A4 page, the MX5 is one of the smaller modelling floorboards around.

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Now, in keeping with the current trend of squeezing quarts of software into pintвЂ‘sized housings, we also have the HeadRush MX5, aВ superвЂ‘compact amp and effects modeller that contains all the software power (if not all of the facilities) of its larger modelling stablemates. In the four years since IВ reviewed the HeadRush Pedalboard (SOS September 2017: ), the brandвЂ™s first guitar amplifier and effects modelling processor, the HeadRush range expanded to include the more compact Gigboard and the highly specialised Looperboard, which is dedicated entirely to the art of looping.

It may be super-compact, but the MX5 punches well above its price tag.