Headrush Gigboard

The touchscreen multi-effects pedal that will revolutionise your rig

- Michael Astley-Brown

HeadRush’s Pedalboard floor processor released in 2017 was seen as a worthy if familiar competitor to Line 6’s market-dominating Helix. In 2019, the two units have diverged: Line 6 stripped out the amp models for the HX Effects, then downsized the Helix into the arguably too-small HX Stomp. HeadRush, meanwhile, has delivered just one smaller offering, the Gigboard, with the same range of effects and amp models, plus touchscreen functionality, in a perfectly proportioned format.

Given the touchscreen’s ubiquity in our everyday lives, its appearance here is superintuitive. Rearranging your signal path and setting up presets is a cinch, and there’s even a nifty hands-free mode that allows you to use footswitches to adjust parameters. Those presets, by the way, are known as rigs, each of which possesses 11 slots for amps, cabs and effects. A rig can