Rockman

Rockman is a guitar electronics brand originally created by Tom Scholz—MIT-trained engineer and frontman of Boston—under his company Scholz Research & Development (SR&D), founded in 1980 in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. The brand launched in 1982 with the Rockman X100, a battery-powered headphone amplifier and signal processor widely considered one of the first commercial amp simulators, whose compressed, chorus-laden tone defined 1980s arena rock. In 1995, Scholz sold the Rockman line to Dunlop Manufacturing, which continues to produce Rockman-branded products today, including the Ace headphone amp series and, via its MXR division, the 2025 Rockman X100 Analog Tone Processor pedal.