Rocktron Replifex

This one is not upgraded unit (old version soft). There is one manual ,You need two hours to get it. After You don't have problems with geting what you want. On the other hand - you relly don't need to search good sound - on every patches you will get nice warm analog voice.

The effects are very nice. You can hear that this baby just play;]. As I sad, there is no problem to find your favorite artis sound. My am is Rivera Knucklehead Guitar Amp + rh classic blade guitars. The hush system -(best on the world) works relly nice and fine.

No problem.

After 8 yers of using it I will try to load a new soft then I will check it.

Greattt .You need to play on it to decide to buy it. Meaby it not looks like g-major ;] But belive me - it sounds better .

Easy to use .Editing patches is just a pice of cake.

Play with RIvera combo 2 x 12 and Gibson les Paul standard.No noise on evry settings. I think that this one I will save for-ever (when I play with my band I just feel that the sound is much better) .I Trying to play scofield style and I think that with this unit it;s much better to get.

I have this unit ready from 96. Never have problems. I hardly use this unit on the stage (I play per month 10 concerts).

I play rock jazz (rock-outside jazz:] .I think that will by a new one juts to have this unit in my studio rack. The rocktron corporation are making relly nice stuff but I have tryed almost all his stuff (intellifex chamelleon dpdt) ... and REPLIFEX IS BEST ONE .Just try it ;]

The manual is relly helpful. You need 2 hours to get strted but after that You can make a miracle with your sound. The system od programing patches is very smart. General - VERY EASY TO USE

I am using replifex with guitar Ibanez prestige .Amp Marshall 900. With this stuff I don't hear noise sound - Even if I will turn off the hush gate (the best one on the world) .The sound in relly nice - especially reverbs chorus delays. I with chorus I get the mike stern sound wich is relly nice. I've got many of boss stuff (rv-3 dd-3 rv-2) and chorus but belive me - this ones in replifex are much better. When I play laut, I can hear everything .Also I was trying play on some lexicon models and g-major system - very low quality effects - that's can I say it after I play on my replifex. Just try it and You will love it !

You can depend on it - (this item is much harder to destroy than g-major ).Never has the problems .

They always answer my e-mail in fast tempo. Relly nice and helpful !

As I said - juts buy it and you will fall in love ;].

Easy to use .No problem witch editing the patches .

Best I ever heard. The reverbs and delays and chorus are relly very nice .I am using with 6100 marshall .Tghe sound kick ass !

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I play jazz/rock .I play for some 11 yers .I think that this is better than g-major (replifex relly don't compress the sound as you can hear it in g major )

I've had this unit less than a week but it is a great unit for the money used going anywhere from $200 to $450. It is very easy to get most of the sounds you are looking for with this unit. One of the units greatest strengths is its speaker cabinet emulation which can be tweeked for very convincing tube response results without a tube preamp or poweramp in my signal chain - I myself actually combine this feature with the speaker emulation features on my Line 6 POD Pro preamp and it really takes the tube like emulation over the top specifically with the Replifex's reactance setting adjust as you see fit.

Consider that when this unit was introduced in the 90's it sold for like $1200 and was in countless racks (and in many cases still is)used by the pros and you can begin to see the value of this unit. In fact at one time this was one of the Edge's (U2) main rack units (to my knowledge he still uses it). Even by todays standards (2007) this is still very solid unit that can still be considered pro. High points of the unit are of course the speaker emulation, the delays (very, very nice), flange/phasing and effect mixing options. The compressor is very usable as well and the HUSH feature is a great plus as well. Many claim this unit is great for producing very full analog like effects with minimal noise introduction and I would strong agree with this statement. I give it a 10 rating largely based upon its quality results for the money when purchased at its current value. I know of no new unit in this price class that delivers as much as this unit does. It can literally replace dozens of stomp boxes in your chain and lead to a measurable reduction in noise level.

I own the replifex for about 6 years so i know pretty much well what it can do and which are the weak points. Usually most rack effects are quite difficult to program and do not get you a plug and play approach. While the replifex of course is not a plug and play effect (and it is not meant to be...try a boss pedal instead) it is one of the easiest rack effects to use and to program good sounds out of it. The manual also explains everything quite nicely and makes things simple. Very straightforward....10

I use it in the parallel loop of a Boogie DC5 combo and with a Marshall TSL601. It is not noisy at all. Nice quality sounds.....what i like best are the delays..........nice clear and warm delays...........the chorus is not bad at all but do not expect it to sound like the 8 voice chorus of the intellifex. Has quite nice flanger and phaser. I cannot comment on the rotary speaker since i do not use this feature. For me the weakest point of the replifex is the reverb section..................it is very underparametered.......only 4-5(if i remember well) parameters for the reverb and while the reverb is not bad i can never get exactly the reverb i want......That is the main reason i want to find a lexicon mpx1 at a good price. The unit is trasparent enough and does not mess with your tone.
I would give it a 6.5 because of the reverbs...........it's the only section where the replifex shows its age..........

I have never got problems from it even though i used it for giging. It is very well built.....never had problems with knobs not working, with freezing menus , non working LCD or other similar problems like some other much newer units demonstrate (G major comes in mind).

Never needed them.

At this time you can buy a rocktron replifex over ebay for low money......i've seen them go for even 150-180euros..............considering that price the replifex is a very very good fx. I have to say though that after living with the replifex for 6 years i am searching for something better and to be precise i am really getting frustrated with the reverb......It is acceptable but i came to the point that i want something better. I like all the other effects it comes with except for that. So if it were stolen i would spend the extra ? so as to get something like a lexicon mpx1.

My multi-effects units require quite a bit of tweaking before you can get a real usable patch...not so with the Replifex. I plugged this thing in and was in nostalgic sonic heaven! The unit is very easy to use. Twist a few knobs...the LED display tells you where you are at all times. If you are at all familiar with Rocktron's effects units, you will be right at home here. The manual seems to be pretty thorough. Firmware version 1.02

WOW...I was blown away from the moment I plugged this thing in. I am using an Ibanez S-series guitar > ADA MP-1 Midi Preamp > Replifex > Mesa Boogie 50/50 > Genz Benz 4x12. I am especially excited about the vitage analogue effects that this unit models, such as the Small Stone. I really can't believe that this unit is over 10 years old! I compared this to the TC Electronics G-Major and I chose the Replifex. It really does most of the same things that the G-major will do save Filter effects such as wah and Whammy. And the Replifex lets you choose the route for your dry signal as opposed to being locked into one signal flow! (through the A/D and D/A) If I had one criticism it is that the pitch tracks a little slow (but that may just be a parameter I need to investigate further) Great unit...great price!

The thing is over 10 years old and still kicks ass.

Well - the unit has been discontinued; but, unlike some of my other gear, Rocktron is still in business ;)

I've been playing guitar for 19 years. I currently play in the Progressive Rock band 'Man on Fire' (www.manonfireband.com) this unit will definitely help me be more creative and free to express myself. I am looking forward to a long and loving relationship....

If you are looking for a flexible multi-effects unit that has a good mix of vintage and modern sounds for a great price...look no further!

A little tricky to use, not as easy as my Boss gt-3 but once you read the manuel and play with it it becomes cake pretty quikly.

This thing is amazing!!!! Rocktron all the way. I also have a Boss gt-3 and as far as tone this thing blows anything Boss i've ever heard out of the water.

The effects are as clean or dirty as you want them. you can use the damp parameter to get some cool vintage sounding tones out of the effects. But seriously the cleanest effects ive ever heard. Don't know about the built in hush or gate though. Ive got the rack hush for that.

I find it's best used for post-amp effects. run through your amps FX loop

Not a single problem. Awsome unit!!!

This is my favirot piecs in my rig. i wouldn't trade this thing for anything short of a top of the line lexicon. It's an amazing unit. Definetly best for Post effects.

Probably hard for newbe's but pretty easy if you're use to signal processors. I even replaced the processor with a version 1.09 myself. This lets you kick effects on and off within presets like you would with stomboxes.

KILLER FEATURE: There is a Tip Ring Sleeve jack on the back that allows you to switch up to two channels on an amp or whatever else you can think of using MIDI. I use it to kick in a MXR Phase 90 and a MXR Flanger that I have in remote loops in my rack.

BAD FEATURE: Some effect combinations require you to run you're direct signal POST HUSH (anything that requires HUSH, compression, EQ, and tremolo if I recall correctly). This actually does slightly alter your sound. If you really listen you'll notice that it makes it slightly less bright. I believe this is because the whole singal will now be going through the anolog to digital converters. If you run your singal PRE HUSH then half you signal bypasses the D/A converters and you won't notice any sound coloration.

Also, if you have a preset stored POST HUSH ther WILL be a slight drop out when you kick in that preset. Not so if you run the preset PRE HUSH. I don'e use the Replifex's HUSH, compression, or EQ, and rarely use tremolo so 99% of my presets are stored PRE HUSH. Might be an issue for others though.

Reverbs: aren't as lush as on the Intellifex. Probably because the Replifex has a more narrow bandwidth in order to replicate vintage effects (the Intellifex is more of a Hi Fi studio quality reverb/chorus/delay unit). They still sound very good though, just not as 3D souding when ran in stereo.

Chorus: not nearly as good as the Intellifex's. It's only a 2-voice compared to the Intellifex's 4 to 8-voice chorus. It sounds about as good as you standard stompbox...which us what it's supposed to sound like.

Pitch shift: Here's a tip. If you want a tighter less "washed out" sounding chorus, use the pitch shift and set it for a slight detune (-5 or so). That being said, the Pitch Shift is okay. Not super smooth or quick tracking but it works fine for octave solo's and special effects.

Delays: are nice. The Hi Freq damp lets you darken them up so they sound like a tape delay. Easy to adjust and excellent sounding.

Phaser: could be better. This one sounds thin and like a toy. More of a special effect than musical sounding. Probably because Phasers (like Wah's) sound better in front of the amp. The one in Rocktron's Taboo Twin amp sounds just like a MXR Phase 90. It must be located before the preamp section in that unit.

Flanger: Good but not outstanding. Much better than the lame one in the Intellifex.

Rotory: sounds are killer. Some of the best! Speed (like most all other parameters) can be controlled using an expression pedal.

Tremolo: Excellent and flexable

Stereo Pan: Haven't used it.

Speaker simulator: Haven't used it.

HUSH: The built-in HUSH in the Repifex, Multivalve, and Intellifex are crap. Go with a good outboard unit. The HUSH in Rocktron's preamps work great though.

Compressor: Well if you use run the Replifex in your FX loop (like your supposed to) then your compression won't be infront of your amp like it's supposed to be. That kind of defeats the purpose of sending a level signal to the input of your amp. So I haven't used it. I suppose you could use it to simulate poweramp compression in the FX loop.

EQ: Very flexable but it's a parametric EQ so you better know what your doing..you could be tweaking for days!

The wall wart gets a little hot. You'll want a spare and they are about $30. I've burned a few out in other Rocktron units.

Excellent!!! Jim Chowning (sp?) has helped me via email and over the phone on numerous occasions.

For $200-$300 used it's a steal. Nothing else touches it until you start spending a few hundred more. I think the Replifex use to list for $1000+. Discontinued now.

I've had my Replifex now since 1998. I bought it new. Before then, I was using a Roland GP8 guitar effects processor which I had since I was 14. Eventually, I got sick of it; I just couldn't get it to sound like a guitar effects unit. The only cool thing was the delay; everything else sounded unnatural. As time went by, I was craving for a unit that had NORMAL guitar effects. You know? Ones that sounded like REAL guitar effects! I always liked the sounds of stomp boxes, but there were quite a few sounds that I liked and I just couldn't see myself buying all the pedals, hooking them up with patch leads, supplying the power and building a pedalboard to accomodate them; It was just too much trouble. Also, I couldn't imagine using three different effects at once and then having to change to another sound. It's cool if you're only using a couple of pedals, but more than a handful would've been a nightmare! So when I got the Replifex, not only did it have all those sounds that I dug, the effects themselves sounded more like the real deal. They worked really well when combined together, except in some cases. The sound quality was more pristine and more professional compared to the GP8. The Replifex also had some really cool features like real-time 'Tap Delay' and the 'Channel Switching' feature, where you could use the unit to switch between the channels on your amp. That made such a big difference; I no longer had to use the amp's channel switcher: just the Rocktron Midi Mate. Another cool feature was the Reverb and Delay Spillover, and there were no drop-outs between presets. The Replifex is fairly easy to use. Best way to get around it is to follow the instruction manual which is very straight forward.

I use a 1994 American Standard Fender Stratocaster, a 1994 Gibson Les Paul Standard and an Australian-made Maton Mastersound 500 Deluxe (beautiful guitar!). I play them through the 'Holy Grail' of my tone, which is an Australian hand-built Lab Systems Cage 30A all-valve Class A head and a hand-built Lab Systems 212 2x12 speaker cabinet loaded with Celestion Greenback 25-watt speakers. I run the Replifex into the Cage's effects loop. I have always used only one rackmount effect unit for all my guitar effect sounds, except wah-wah. The effects are used only for certain songs or certain parts of the songs. I never use too much effect signal either; only what is needed to produce the specific character and texture. This way the foundation of my tone is always the amp and occasionally my Boss Blues Driver pedal which I stick in front of the amp on the clean channel to produce a different type of overdrive tone. Because of the way I have everything set up, the Replifex is fairly quiet. I don't even use the 'Hush', EQ or 'Speaker Simulator'; I feel they alter the natural characteristics of the amp and the Replifex. I try to get the effects sounding as warm, organic and analogue-like as I can. With the Replifex, it is possible; it just takes a little time to sit down and tweak them until they sound good. I get the ideas for the sounds from the hundreds of old and new CD's I have in my collection. I spend a lot of time listening to all the little characteristics and nuances of a specific sound and then try to imitate that sound. This also makes a good starting base for experimentation and creating my own sounds.

I've had it for over four years, played so many gigs that I lost count and never used a back-up. And I haven't had a single problem with this unit. Now, that's reliable!

Never had to deal with Rocktron. There was never any need.

Well, what can I say? You know, over the last few years, I got pulled into this big debate on ANALOGUE Vs DIGITAL when it came to guitar gear. Personally, I don't give a shit. If it works for the guitar player, then that's all that matters. I have read a lot of reviews on this web-site where there's always this constant bitching and resentment towards digital guitar gear. I personally see someone like Rocktron or Lexicon or Eventide or TC Electronics as an option; an option for guitarists like myself, who want a little bit more than just one specific sound. I understand the nuances, characteristics and the magic when it comes to analogue gear, but I also know what I personally want as a guitar player. It's funny how it seems we're all on this quest for the holy grail of tone, but what's even more funny is how every individual guitarist has his or her own vision of what the holy grail should look like. There are the fortunate few with the abundant funds, or the lucky handful who are in the big league, who can take the risks and not get burned, but let's face it; a lot of us shmoes don't have the abundant funds and certainly most of us will never get the big break. But, we can still afford to make some decent choices, but the choices are very individual. So, my point is this: the Rocktron Replifex works for me. It works for me in every way. But, it didn't happen overnight. I had to sit down with this thing and make it work for me. In the end, it was extremely rewarding because over the years, literally wherever I played, I always had someone, be it a vintege tone conniseur or just a regular joe who likes to have a strum every now and then, come up to me after a gig and ask me how I got this or that cool sound. So, make the most of what you have.

Cheers

Slav
Sydney, Australia