The mini controls are all arrayed across the top and illuminate in a different colour for each stage. Five footswitches activate the four individual processes - boost, distortion, SansAmp and delay - and, as the reverb is tied to the SansAmp module, the fifth switch is available to be used as a tap tempo for the delay.
There is no facility for onboard battery operation. Mono guitar in and mono line out jacks appear on the rear face of the enclosure, along with the 12V DC input for the supplied universal PSU. This is a nice configuration that results in your tone–shaping elements never leaving the analogue domain, whilst still giving you access to high–quality effects. The name derives from it being the kind of rig you can take on a long–distance ‘fly’ gig, where the only thing you’ll get to bring with you is your guitar - this will fit in the pocket of a guitar case or gig bag with room to spare! The Fly Rig 5’s primary signal path is all analogue, offering an individually switchable ‘Hot’ boost, a Marshall Plexi–style distortion, and a SansAmp stage, with a digital spring–reverb emulation and tape echo–style delay running in parallel. Tech 21’s Fly Rig 5 is a very compact multi–stage guitar pedal, designed for both DI’ing straight to a PA or recording system, and for use in front of a guitar amp. Compact pedalboard? DI preamp? The perfect ‘B–rig’? This ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of guitar processors is all of those, and more.
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