MXR Rockman X100 Preamp Pedal

[muzamill_717]

Anybody got this pedal? I was interested because how simple it looks, only heard tones for like 80s rock, anybody used like a Ts9 or Sd-1 to boost it? Like can it do some modern metal stuff, if not can it do much-metal, metal core, etc. ?

 

[rexbinary]

Yes, I have one. No, it won't do any metal even with a boost.

 

[tedtan]

This should be essentially an 80s era Rockman headphone amp in a pedal format, so I wouldn’t expect it to do anything modern.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Like can it do some modern metal stuff, if not can it do much-metal, metal core, etc. ?

I'm sorry for the snarky answer but

lol
lmao

Serious answer:
No, it's going to sound like Boston, Hysteria-era Def Leppard, and every other '80s pop/pop rock record. And it's already artificially compressed to hell and back so I feel like a boost won't do jack. The only "modern metal" thing it can do is that Tesseract-style super-compressed DI clean tone.

 

[RaceU4her]

maybe with some emg's

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

maybe with some emg's

It's been awhile since I used a Rockman, but from what I remember it's such a compressed piece of gear, that different guitars or pickups make little difference lol

Honestly if you're dead-set on a small all-in-one piece of gear, the Ampero Mini is the exact same pricd.

 

[rexbinary]

it's already artificially compressed to hell and back so I feel like a boost won't do jack.

Exactly the result I had with my OD808X in front of it. Not jack.