Rockman x100 = Boston, baby!

[bsfc9]

I had an X100 in the eighties and thought it was great. I was also in the Marines and took it along on shipboard deployments also. Unfortunately the Rockmans were not designed for that kind of environment and mine fritzed out. Now 20 years later I bought a nice one from Ebay. Sounds great just like I remembered it. In my opinion the Rockman was the granddaddy "modeler". The best soild state distortion IMHO.

[roodyrocker]

When the Rockman came out I traded in my Lab Series L3 amp for it. I thought the Rockman sounded good and I hated that L3 amp. I then ran the Rockman as my distortion preamp into a mid 70's Marashall non-master volume Super Lead head live I still have that original Rockman. Tom Scholz is a genius!

Rudy

https://www.wickedrocks.com

[Shawn Lutz]

When I worked at Power Play Studios in Queens NY as a session guitarist/co-producer for many of the top acts back then I used a Rockman X100 directly into the console.

A lot of people did that back then. The Rockman made on to a lot of albums. A lot pf people would record rough tracks with them abd it ended up sound good and they left tem on mixed with other amps.

btw...I have one myself I never could get a lead tone, rhythm and cleans are killer... it was great late night practice amp

[Subvamp]

I just pulled my trusty dusty Rockman out the other day and ran it through the Mesa combo on the clean channel. I pulled out "Boston" & "Don't Look Back" and jammed along to every tune, and damn if it wasn't "thee" Boston sound! I felt like I was part of the band.

[Bengal65]

LOL! I just finished peeling the foam doubleback tape off the back of the units. I had them stuck to the top of my rack in the 80's. They are both great. Tom Scholz played the bass on his studio recordings, so I had to have one of the Bass Rockman's too. Also, the bass unit sounds great. I used to plug the bass unit directly into the board for recording.

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Now I need to see if they still work. I think the headphones are long gone though.:ROTF:

[TheUntalentedOne]

When I worked in New York .... summer of '89 I bought the XPR 100 rack . It was my main live rig for years and still have it .
One of the main rock club acts over here used the x100 . He had it on a mike stand and went straight to the desk . Sounded great back then .

[roodyrocker]

I used a radiator hose clamp attached to the Rockman's belt clip to mount it to a mic stand live. I didn't do any singing though, still don't, just used it as a Rockman stand

Rudy

https://www.wickedrocks.com

[RacerX]

These were released in 1982

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockman_(music)

[soc_monki]

i remember reading and interview with Scholz and he was talking about how people were plugging the little Rockmans into amps and using multiple Rockmans for different tones and all that...he thought it was nuts because they were only designed to be headphone practice units or direct recording units. then he made the Rackmount version i believe.

i wonder how Tom feels about being the one to invent the first "modelling" guitar product? LOL

[roodyrocker]

The reason I used the Rockman through the Marshall back then is that at the time I didn't know others were using distortion pedals through Marshalls. I thought a Marshall was supposed to have all the distortion you could ever want. Therefore you can imagine when I cranked that 100W Super Lead and found out that I had a LOT of headroom and a very loud amp but not enough distortion to play the stuff I liked. So, I plugged the Rockman into it and thats how I played it till I later moved on to other gear including the ADA MP1 when it first came out. That was quite impressive as well.

Rudy

https://www.wickedrocks.com