5-21-2021
Yeah, I'd love to find a Rockman now for a sane sober earthly price.
About 20 years ago I went to a garage sale.
I passed up two of them, with the power supplies, for $20 a piece. AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
At some point in the last few years prices have gone through the roof.
Strange, since it seems like every time you see the term "Rockman" it's somebody saying how much they hate the tone, or Boston, or both.
Go to Youtube and do a search.
I saw a video a while back of Joe Satriani, using a DAW or a plug in or something.
They were comparing it to a real Rockman.
Some guys claim that they can get close with a GEQ.
I have tried using a Boss GE-7 GEQ pedal.
I personally have not had much luck, and gave up.
Before prices went into the stratosphere, I got lucky and got a Rockman Stereo Chorus/Delay half rack.
I don't use the delay hardly at all.
But that stereo chorus.........with a little reverb, split hard to left and right, it sounds like you're playing in the Taj Mahal.
I suspect that one of the secrets is that one side is dry, and the other is wet. (You can set it for other mixes as well.)
The old Peavey amps with built in stereo chorus, many of them did the same thing.
So did the Roland JC120. One speaker is wet, one is dry.
But the other thing that the SC/D does is add a delay (30ms to 60ms) to part of the chorus as well.
I suspect that the Peavey/Roland amps do not (in fact, I'm almost sure that they don't).
If you REALLY want to go down the Rockman rabbit hole of doom...........
Search Youtube for Tom Scholz: Sound Machine (it's about 9 minutes long).
He does a pretty good demo of the HyperSpace pedal.
Then, do another Youtube for scholz rockman hyperspace or some combination thereof.
There are guys that have figured out how to do it with floor modelers like the Boss or Line 6 units.
If you can't get the settings from the video, then you can probably go to the manufacturer bulletin boards and get the info from there.
I believe that the Axe FX units also have a Rockman model in them.
I'd suspect that similar units like the Kemper can do it also.