Description
The Fly Rig 5 is Tech 21’s answer to the pedalboard builder who’s tired of hauling a board, a power brick, and a spaghetti nest of patch cables to every gig. Under 12 inches long and just over 18 oz, it packs five of the brand’s most respected circuits into one rugged, all-metal enclosure — and every stage in it is all-analog.
At the core sits a genuine SansAmp amp/speaker/mic emulator, re-voiced here for chiming clean tones with a 3-band active EQ, Level, and Drive that pushes from warm break-up into snarling grind. Nested inside that same section is a Reverb (derived from the Boost RVB pedal) tuned for lush spring-style ambience — no clattery pings or washed-out canyons of decay.
Cross over to the dirty side and you get the Plexi section, built on Tech 21’s Hot-Rod Plexi circuit: the crunch, midrange detail, and low-end punch of a ’68 Plexi head, with its own Level, Tone, and Drive. A dedicated Hot footswitch adds up to 21dB of pre-amp gain independently, so it can boost the SansAmp, the DLA delay, or your own amp on its own.
Rounding things out is the DLA delay section, based on the Boost DLA pedal, voiced for vintage tape-echo character — slap-back to cascading repeats — with Level, Time, Repeats, and a Drift control for randomized, tape-drift modulation, plus its own tap-tempo footswitch.
Everything runs on an all-analog signal path with reverb and delay mixed in parallel, silent-switching footswitch actuators, metal jacks, a 1/4″ high-impedance input, 1/4″ low-impedance output, and an included auto-switching 12V DC power supply (100V–240V, so it travels with just a plug adapter). Four knob grippers ship installed on the Level controls.
- All-analog SansAmp with 3-band EQ, Level, Drive
- Reverb section based on the Boost RVB pedal
- Plexi distortion based on Hot-Rod Plexi, with independent Hot boost (up to 21dB)
- DLA tape-style delay with tap tempo and Drift modulation
- Gunmetal metal housing, metal footswitches and jacks
- Includes auto-switching 12V DC power supply
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