Rocktron Pro Q Guitar Enhancement System

I use the pro-q into send and return of a Brunetti xl r-evo 60 watt. Evrybody knows about the quality of brunetti's handmade amps and theirs sounds but if you are looking for a real metal sound you need a pro-q rack to compress your tone and boost your mid range.
I've never found something better to make it.

I play rock , hard rock, soft metal since 1998 i had a lot of pedal (boss ibanez danelectro morley) and rack (gp 100, pod, tc electronics)

This is by far the best sounding enhancer I ever heard. (yes, I did try a few) Very easy to use. Even the presets are ready to use. Can be used in a wide variaty of music styles. (from country to metal)

I compared it with a BBE, Behringer, Big Bottom (forgot the brand) and a Boss pedal (which is realy a waste of money) This one did sound great directly out of the box. I used it with Koch combo's, my (old) mesa rack setup, and my new (Lexicon G2 plus 284) rig. I'm sure it will do it's work with almost every amp.

Did never let me down, but, yes I can do without it if breakes down on stage. Althoug I would miss a lot of "body" in my sound. If you did get used to the sound, and you would turn it off suddenly, you realy miss the high's and lows.

Never had to deal with them. Do they still exist?

I play mostly rock oriented music, but as I wrote before, I'm sure it will work in a lot of music styles and on many different amp and guitars. I use it with several Strats, mostly equipted with active EMG's. But this thing also makes my two passive Strat's sound like their active, but still keep their charater.

This thing is spectacular! It's pretty easy to use even with out a manual , though that may be because I've got two other pieces of Rocktron gear in my amp.

I'm using it in my rack with (in signal chain order) a Marshall Valvestate 80+80 power amp,Rocktron Pro Gap Ultra preamp, The Pro Q goes here and a Rocktron Xpression processor with a Furman to clean it all up. For guitars I am using various B.C.Riches. If you want that heavily eq'd , processed guitar tone this is the piece to buy! You want tone like Dimebag? Wayne Static? Dino Cazares? Yeah? Go buy one!

It has not tubes, no vents onit because it barely gets warm. I'd take it anywhere.

Never had to deal with Rocktron. Why? Because they make sturdy equipment.

I play high gain , old school speed , thrash metal. Think Slayer , Megadeth, Testament. I've got a neck thru B.C.rich NJ Mockingbird,a Platinum B.C. Rich Bich,a limited edition Body Art B.C.Rich "Pile Of Skulls" Junior V and an old assed B.C.Rich Ironbird Rave. Marshall and Rocktron rack and a Beringher 4X12 cab loaded with 4 100 watt Jensen Audio speakers. If it was stolen I would definiley buy another one if I could find one. I believe Rocktron discontinued them in the early 90's. The Pro Q is the most important piece of gear (tone wise) that I have ever bought. Once you hook it up and play through it for a little bit and then hit the bypass button you immediately hear how weak your tone was before it!

Just a turn of the dial and you are ready to go. Very easy. It brings out the life in your amp. I never thought an EQ/Exciter could do this much for my tone. There is only one version of it. If you want a BBE but don't want to spend the cash on one, the PRO-Q will do that and much more for way less money.

Beautiful sounding. Make sure you use a good guitar and amp. If you use a PEAVEY RAGE with this, you need you have your PRO-Q taken away. Upset with an all-tube amp and it won't disappoint. I use mine with an Orange head and also my Triaxis preamp. Hush is excellent. Very useful and needed.

Very reliable. I gig with it often enough and use it for studio work. Perfect.

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When I heard it, I had to have it. I compared it directly to the BBE and this sounded better and did more. I wish it were still made so that the used prices didn't keep jumping up. It helps me in my creative process and to make money at gigs and at songwriting.

Just a turn of the dial and you are ready to go. Very easy. It brings out the life in your amp. I never thought an EQ/Exciter could do this much for my tone. There is only one version of it. If you want a BBE but don't want to spend the cash on one, the PRO-Q will do that and much more for way less money.

Beautiful sounding. Make sure you use a good guitar and amp. If you use a PEAVEY RAGE with this, you need you have your PRO-Q taken away. Use it with an all-tube amp and it won't disappoint. I use mine with an Orange head and also my Triaxis preamp. Hush is excellent. Very useful and needed.

I've had it for a while and it has lasted, lasted and lasted. Rocktron makes their gear to last.

I wish they didn't stop making it. Dumb on their part.

When I heard it, I had to have it. I compaired it directly to the BBE and this sounded better and did more. I wish it was still made so that the used prices didn't keep jumping up. It helps me in my creative process and to make money at gigs and at songwriting.

The guy who wrote that it is hard to use. He is nuts or he is still living in the 1950's with no master volume dial. Easy. Sure, you have to sit down with it for five minutes to get the hang of it but that's all. There is only one version of it.

I use it with my Peavey 5150 and my Mesa boogie Triaxis, Mesa 20/20, Jackson, Gibson Les Paul, and Strat. In go out into two Orange 4X12 cabs. The Pro-Q helps me EQ the sound I want and the Hush feature is very usefull:See amps above.

Never a problem with it. I've gigged with it on many occasions and the pro-Q has never let me down. My bassist keeps bugging me to sell it to him. I keep telling him, no way! This is a keeper!

? I've never dealt with them.

Well, I bought this 'cause I couldn't find anything that would eq properly with my gear. Also the Hush feature is something so worth it that I'd like to hook it up to my wife and putting the setting on max. One can only dream, right?

It does what it says it is going to do. I love the presets and being able to customize my own settings. Rocktron makes great and well-made gear so my hats off to you!

This is an easy unit to get great sounds out of. Many of the presets are great or just need a little tweaking. It does take a little work to dial in your own custom tones, but once you've got them, you've got them. The manual is very acceptable.

I ran a 1989 Charvel 475 Special guitar into a Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp, to a Mesa Boogie 50/50 power amp, into two Mesa Boogie 1X12 cabs, closed backed. Put a Digitech 256XL multieffects in front of the Rocktron Pro Q in the Mesa's effects loop. Also used a Mesa Boogie Abacus Midi foot controller. Later on, I started to leave the Digitech 256XL in the effects loop and patching the Pro Q in front of the Mesa Boogie. I felt this was more real and beefy sounding, but less slick sounding. With the built in Hush, it is quiet. Some settings are too extreme, but this shows you how flexible the unit is. The problem I had with this unit is that it sounded too rich with effects. Using it alone with an amp works fine. It sounds awesome, and it's more flexible than any EQ system I've ever heard. Use some big butt pedal like the Boss Metal Zone and feel the rage! Big Bottom! The Pro Q may be too rich or sound too "digital" for some. Beware of that. But this could be the unit for you.

Never had a problem with it, always plug in and play.

Never had to deal with them.

At the time I was more into rock music overall. The scooped death tones you can get in conjunction with a Boss Metal Zone are incredible, although this may sound sterile to some. I think it's a good match for all styles, but you do need to work it out with your whole rig to know what is going to work for you. I've been playing for 20 years. Now I own a Charvel 475 special, a Rocktron Voodu Valve, a Mesa Boogie 50/50 power amp, into two Mesa Boogie 1X12 cabs. If I owned one now, I would by a new one. Again, I love how killer it sounds, but hate how it's too rich to run with other effects for my tastes. My favorite feature is not any particular parameter or function, but rather how you can use it for stereo imaging. I think it outperforms the BBE Sonic Maximizer. My big regret is that I sold it years ago, and now I want it back! I slimmed down my rig, going with the Rocktron Voodu Valve. My tastes have changed and I want less effects nowadays like modulations, pitch shifting and delays, and more simple stuff like a little reverb and EQ. Or in the Pro Q's case, A LOT OF EQ!!Overall, I love this unit. But really check this out before you buy it. I could see how players could really love or really hate this unit.

The folks who are giving this thing a good review must be trying to sell it. The EQ is nearly impossible to dial in. Way too complicated.

Gotta echo what the last guy said. The noise gate behaves really unpredictably and completely messes up my amp.

Sold it too quick to find out.

Ditto.

If you want a decent EQ for guitar, get something with sliders so you can see what you're doing.

This unit is easy enough to operate, but it sounds like complete shit. It is no problem manipulating the frequencies and the noise gate, you just spin the dial. But the problem is getting a good sound, it's next to impossible. This effect sounds terrrible at high volumes with a high gain amp and the noise gate is so horrible that it is actually better to turn it off and deal with the noise.

I tried this unit out with a 1980s Peavey 4x12 cabinet and a 150 Watt solid-state Rexx 1602 amplifier. Without the Pro-Q the sound of my amp isn't bad, it's a bit thin, but the distortion is heavy and tight and works okay for high gain metal sounds. But with the Pro-Q hooked up the amp sounded terrible. None of the equalizer frequencies worked well, they all sounded bad. The Pro-Q made the amp sound muddy, tinny, loose and sloppy. I have spent hours tweaking the Pro-Q and I have been unable to find anything close to a good sound. The noise gate is fucking horrible. When I use a high gain setting on my amp and suddenly stop playing, the noise gate turns on after a split second, so that there is all this noise when there is supposed to be silence, and then suddenly the noise disappears. So if you're playing and want to do quick stop, you get a rush of noise for a moment and then it vanishes, preventing you from achieving a tight sound. The sound quality of the Pro-Q is total shit; there is no quality in it's sound at all.

I play heavy metal and have been playing guitar for about 8 years. In that time I've tried out lots of gear and this is probably the worst piece of shit I have ever owned. It does not work if you use moderate to high amounts of gain because the EQ sounds horrible and the noise gate just fucks up your sound. This unit totally gets in the way of your playing because you can't have tight stops in your music. Even with the noise gate set to full (to kill as much noise as it can) you get noise after you stop playing which soon disappears and sounds awful. The Pro-Q didn't sound that bad in the shop because it was at low volumes, and since I was searching for a unit to enhance my guitar sound and kill noise, I bought the Pro-Q. At the time it seemed like a good deal, but soon after checking it out at home I realized how bad the unit was. I bought the unit on impulse, which was definitely a bad decision. I've had the unit for a few years, but soon after buying it I took it out of my rack and it's been shoved away on a shelf collecting dust ever since. I'm going to trade it in for credit and take whatever little money I can get, because I know I will never use it again.

gotta know which frequencies do what and how wide a bandwith you want per frequency---not the most fun to dial in sometimes.

the phase and phase mix is what this is all about. makes your modern clean sound sparkle like nothing else, but the eqs are not warm and dynamic enough for vintage sounds. scooped metallers will dig it. use in moderation, and walk away and come back much later with fresh ears or you will overtweak.

great for modern clean ballad tone, funk spanky, and molten metal scoopage. stuff that requires presence in the right places and out of phase qualities. not a vintage machine at all. sold mine, but miss what it did to my clean tone.