Rockman Soloist

THIS UNIT IS NOT MADE ANYMORE AND SHOULD NOT BE LISTED UNDER DUNLOP ROCKMANS. DUNLOP TOOK OVER PRODUCTION AND NOW MAKE ONLY THE GUITAR,METAL AND BASS ACE. SOLOIST HAS CHOURUS,STEREO AND DISTORTION EFFECTS. DUNLOP DOES NOT HAVE THIS. HAD A GREAT SOUND WITH PHASE EFFECTS THAT SOUNDS LIKE BOSTON BECAUSE IT WAS MADE BY TOM SCHOLZ.

SOUNDED GREAT WITH STEREO, FUZZ, CHOURUS AND A GREAT PHASE SHIFTER SOUND WHEN USED WITHOUT HEAVY DISTORTION. WITH DISTORTION IT SOUNDS LIKE ANY BOSTON RECORD. MEDIUM AND HARD DISTORTION AND SOUNDED GREAT THROUGH AMP. THIS IS OUT OF PRODUCTION AND DIFFERENT THAN NEW DUNLOP MODELS. DON'T HAVE NEW ONE YET SO CAN'T COMPARE BUT WISH IT WAS BACK

THIS ITEM SOUNDED GREAT BUT WAS MADE VERY POORLY. PARTS FELL OFF CIRCUIT BOARD A WEAK JACK INPUT THAT WAS EASILY BROKEN BY MOVEMENT. I TOOK VERY GOOD CARE AND DID NOT ABUSE BUT WAS CONSTANTLY FALLING APART. AC INPUT AND HEADPHONE JACKS ARE THE SAME TYPE AND CAN BE CONFUSED AND YOU WILL FRY UNIT LIKE I DID. MANUFACTURED POORLY

AS I SAID THIS WAS MADE BY SCHOLZ AND OUT OF PRODUCTION. I AM ONLY WRITING THIS BECAUSE I SAW THIS ITEM LISTED UNDER DUNLOP. DUNLOP DOES NOT MAKE THIS MODEL. TO BAD BECAUSE IT SOUNDED GREAT BUT WAS MADE POORLY. DUNLOP GUITAR ACE IS A DIFFERENT PRODUCT AND SOUND AND RELIABILTY IS NOT THE SAME AS NEW....GOOD OR BAD I DON'T KNOW

LOVED THE SOUND HATED THE WAY IT WAS ASSEMBLED. WISH THEY STILL MADE IT ONLY WITH BETTER QUALITY CONTROL. GREAT FOR SPACEY AND ROCK SOUNDS. REMEMBER THIS IS NOT DUNLOP ROCKMAN BUT THE ORIGINAL..LOOKS THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT..YOU CANNOT BUR A DUNLOP ROCKMAN SOLOIST..MAYBE I CAN FIND A USED ONE THAT WORKS......I DOUBT IT.....

3 3-position switches: clean/edge/distortion, nomo/stereo/chorus, 3 volume settings, plus ON/OFF switch. Doesn't sound too hard for me. ;-) It took me no time to figure it out, although this was my first effect.

I think it is all right, at least for the kind of setting I play, i.e. at home in headphones. The distortion is fine, but there is no way you can adjust it and listening to the same sound for months is somewhat boring. ;-) In fact, I would give it a higher mark if it had an adjustable distortion. Sometimes, in bigger phones with the volume on my Strat at 5, it sounds almost like some sort of fuzz (or is it the way it is *supposed* to sound? Maybe my crappier phones just add a bit of their own distortion :-). The chorus is...ahem...odd. I can hear no delay whatsoever!!!! The is a change in the tome, it's a bit warmer (but not fatter) and quite pleasant, but what about delaying??!! I usually play with the chorus turned on just to have that nicer sound. For chorus proper I use my CE-2. As for noise, it is present. The is a very faint "wah-wah" sound, but as soon as you pluck a string, you can't hear it any more, so I don't care. I use a standard Start, so the level of noise largely depends on electric devices in vicinity. :-) Nevertheless, when I use 1/2 or 2/3 setting, the noise is negligible.

It's hard to say. I have it for just 4 months and I don't know for how long it was used before. Phone output jack sometimes loses contact somewhere but I never cared to take a peak inside. Otherwise, it's fine.

Never had to deal with them

I personally think that it's a very decent piece of electronics. For someone who like me doesn't have a lot of money (I doubt the thingie is too expensive) for a proper amp and effects, and who can't play through the amp for some reason (I live in an apartment building and I just learn the guitar, so I don't want to be thrown down from my 14th floor by angry neighbours ;-) it's a good deal. You got your basic setup (i.e. amplification and distortion) and even some frills (that...err...let's call it "chorus" ;-) , so concentrate on what music is all about: PLAYING. IMHO it's great for a beginner, although I greately doubt it's any good for any kind of professional use. After all, that's why it was presented to me. Feel free to agree/disagree with me, just don't kill me if you buy it and in your HO it sucks. :-)

piece of cake- chorus or echo (not both), two clean sounds, two distorted sounds.

i always LOVED rockman chorus and clean tones, but hated the distortion. still, i'd always heard Tom Scholz based its tone on a mic'ed Marshall thru a 4 x 12 cab. much to my amazement, when the chorus and echo are off, this pedal almost nails it. i had the original rockman and the sustainor rack module, which were both pricier than the soloist, but its distortion was easily the best. great for home demos, even though solos still sounded canned and overcompressed.

started shorting out after 6 months or so, and dead entirely in a year.

good question.

as much as i've slammed my sustainor (and i've taken heat for my review), i LOVED my soloist. it's been dead for 5 years, but i still have it in a box, hoping...........