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Pretty cool!!!! I'm going to go full Def Leppard in 2025.

They'll get my money when they do a Sustainor or Distortion Generator pedal. Until then, no sale!

I knew a really good EVH player back when I was in high school and he had some Rockman stuff going into the front of a Marshall of some type. Back in the late 80's, I only knew that it was a "Marshall" but not the specific model. So would that just be some type of boost?

oh hell yeah, sold

https://www.jimdunlop.com/content/manuals/MX100.pdf

Yeah… I want that.

This is one of those I would have killed for as a teenager. If it's cheap, I'll probably grab it just to get my nostalgia on.

eyeball987 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 8:45 pm I knew a really good EVH player back when I was in high school and he had some Rockman stuff going into the front of a Marshall of some type. Back in the late 80's, I only knew that it was a "Marshall" but not the specific model. So would that just be some type of boost?

No it's not a boost its full distortion with effects. It was made to go direct but club PAs were shit back then so a lot of players would run the Rockman into the low input of an amp dialed clean.

I had a Laney AOR 1/2 stack and one of my friends asked me to let him use it for a show. I get there and he had a little Rockman plugged into the low input. At first I was like WTF but it actually sounded awesome lol

Depending on the price I might just grab one of these to mess around with! I always had a soft spot for the tones the Rockman preamps put out.

Guitarbilly wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:23 pm
No it's not a boost its full distortion with effects. It was made to go direct but club PAs were shit back then so a lot of players would run the Rockman into the low input of an amp dialed clean.

Got it. That dude must have been using the clean channel on the Marshall then. I would give this a shot for sure. Don't know anything about it yet, but I am in at the moment.

I think this would be really cool to mess around with for a lot of those blended 80s rock sounds. Satch, Lynch, MacAlpine, ZZ Top, Def Lepp, etc.

I have a pretty decent Rockman profile on my Kemper, but I'd prefer:

1) Pedal format
2) Reasonably priced
3) New

$230 seems not the worst (what one website reported), and if the tone is there it's worth the price considering the used market for Rockman gear.

I'm definitely in.