BOSS AD-10 Acoustic Preamp - Review & Demo
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2017
- We take a look at the brand new BOSS AD-10 Acoustic pre-amp now available to order at PMT: www.pmtonline.co.uk/boss-ad-1...
Check out the BOSS AD-10 over at PMT Online today: www.pmtonline.co.uk/catalogse...
The BOSS AD-10 Acoustic Preamp is a professional acoustic guitarists dream pedal. This nifty piece of kit has been expertly designed to improve the sound of your acoustic guitar and restore all the lush vibrancy of an acoustic that can sometimes get lost when playing through a PA or amplifier.
In this demonstration we see how the BOSS AD-10 restores the tone of your guitar and faithfully delivers the signal of your guitar regardless of what type of pickup you’re using, whether it’s an on-board preamp or piezo pickup.
The BOSS AD-10 preamp also includes a host of useful features and effects, and you have comprehensive control over your EQ at all times. You have an onboard compressor to adjust dynamics, 3 different types of delay and chorus to choose from - each of which have been specifically tuned for an acoustic guitar. There’s a wide range of reverb effects to choose from as well as an 80 second looper, allowing you to sculpt entire songs on the fly.
There’s also an on board tuner, meaning you’re gig ready, any time!
The BOSS AD-10 also features an MDP Compressor dial control (CP-1X circuit) allowing you to adjust the dynamics musically without muffling your tone or losing any of those subtle nuances within an acoustic guitar.
Watch the video and listen to how this BOSS AD-10 completely improves the sound of your acoustic guitar instantly. If you’re tired of not getting the sound you want out of your acoustic guitar on stage - this is the solution!
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Always enjoy Sam's demos - clear, straightforward and no unnecessary bullshit or infantile looning such as you get all too often from certain demo-uploading duos. Great stuff - an no wanking around with show-off shred or suchlike. Thanks Sam, grteat acoustic playing, by the way.
As an added personal thought --- I rarely use or like overdrive or distortion and even with FX units designed for acoustics, I often use them with my electrics simply because I never need to drive them too hard.
Excellent reviewer. First time I watched this person and he’s terrific at reviewing this product.
THANK YOU for posting this. Awesome stuff. Stay safe & healthy.
This may be my next purchase! Thank you for the rundown.
Nice demonstration . Well done.
Martin Kelly max
Excellent demo on this product.
Well done demo. Thanks for posting.
Great review! Sold me on this!
nice demo, thanks
Great review. Is the acoustic preamp comparable to the dedicated AD-2 in your opinion? I have that, TU-3W and the CP-1X going into a Radial J48 and love it, but this mega box has it ALL it seems. Just don't want to lose the great tone of the AD-2.
brilliant review thank youuuuuuu....from colombia
Big improvement, what amp is he running thru it ? Sounds Great !
Hello thanks for this review. Does this work well with violin?
Very good sounding pedal. Might be saving my pennies.
How can you switch from one tone preset to another while playing live?
Are you going to turn the tone selector with your fingers while
playing? Anyone? Thanks!
Where is the tuner display? Looks like it only has a 2 digit display?
hi can i use this unit direct to my monitor speakers that i usu on my digital piano or do i need a to buy an acoustic amp or PA speaker also can i run my digital piano through it on the second input ..just bought a taylor guitar from you a few weeks ago and would like to get more effects from it
Thanks
I can hear some blur - tender at the beginning jaja. Amazing
i notice youve got two line outs , are you one into one amp and one into another in stereo
Hi friends, I have a question; I bought the ad-10 and when I turn off the unit, the screen remains turn on and continuing showing the letters ad/By alternatively and continue flashing, is normal?. Maybe this is not the correct place for this question, but I search information and I don't find it.
It seems that if you have a piezo only pickup system you would benefit more from a unit that has more modeling control, but if you have a guitar with a mic+ piezo system yo might not need any more extensive modeling control. Bottom line is not every guitar will fit every preamp.
Solid playing and review, sir. Took me months to decide if I liked the AD-10. The chorus button is pointless. Acoustic Resonance is futile. I'm ambivalent about the Ambience feature. But I like the AD-10's soft compression, EQ, effects loop, delays, looper and anti-feedback/notch functions. It's not an amp modeler. If great acoustic guitar tone is elusive, this pedal will not mask the suck. Additionally, the AD-10 tends to magnify that irksome under-saddle piezo quack. I got rid of the under-saddle transducers from my Gibson J-45 and Martin DC-16GTE and installed K&K systems (mounted on the bridge plate in the guitar cavity, not squished under the saddle). No more batteries. No more quack. Just great sound from each guitar when amplified. The AD-10 really shines now.
Just started using this pre-amp and this sounds exactly like the sound I’m looking for. Would you mind sharing what settings and knob levels you’re using?
@@Ronaldo__McDonaldo Finding the right sound can be pretty satisfying. I go back and forth between the AD-10 and the Sonicake acoustic pedal. The base settings I use on the AD-10 are: 1) EQ - Bass-20, Mid-10, Treble-40, Presence-35, 2) Acoustic Resonance (Natural)-70, and 3) Compression (Hard)-19. That seems to keep it fairly balanced through my acoustic amp (Fishman Loudbox Artist) I indicated in my previous post I didn't care for the acoustic resonance, but I've grown to like it, as long as compression and Presence stays low.
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Hi Sam! How would this work with my nylon string guitar?
What parameters are stored in the memory mode? Specifically, does it save EQ, resonance settings etc to switch on the fly? I want to use this for a guitar and mandolin live (I switch between instruments).
If only this pedal had an undo/redo function for the looper! Please reissue or update Boss FX!
🎉 thanks
How well does it work with Nylon strings? I'm always amazed that all the DI and effect unit developers seem to think that all the acoustic guys only play steel strings. My Takamine nylon with piezos could definitely use some help whem I'm in a larger venue. Is this what I'm looking for?
look for a YAMAHA AG-STOMP they dont make um anymore but I remember they had some nylon presets
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Nice
Can the delay & chorus be used simultaneously
John T Doherty yes they can be.
can i use this for my Taylor GS Mini bass
Sure why not
Is this the guy from the movie “District 9”?
Good for classical guitars?
No
I bought this preamp and tried my Taylor and Epiphone with a Fender Blues Junior (15W) but the tones were horrible! I spent a whole day working on the settings but none of the tones were as close to the ones in the demo! Great if you or anyone can help me!
Put the preamp straight into the PA.
Hi Kenneth: You must use an acoustic amp, or direct into the p.a system. Acoustic guitars requires fullrange speakers. Electric guitar amps are just for electric guitars
15W ? lmao, what do expect from that ? Anything below 50W will definitely sounds terrible and has boxy flavor in it. Get an studio monitor atleast or nice PA.
@@benjoshd3386 thank you.. I'm all set with it!
can i plug it to my electric amp or no? if no is your answer so which amp is good for acoustic guitar? Roland Cube 10gx is any good?
I would like to place the exact same question. I like acoustic sound but I can't use two amps in my bedroom, this is sheer divorce reason and i love her.
which model of the guitar is playing here?
Виктор Гудасов brcr
Can I use this for violin
Except for the onbaord Looper the THR5 is way beyond this thanks to its unique N superb Mike's Sims + incredible FXs
Does distortion is in it
Nope
Have heard better reverbs :)
Great demo.... but sounds horrible... still has the piezzo quack!!!
I don't think u can get a true/realistic sound gauge here on YT. They have video compression(mics use/recording software/and which do color the audio. Tone is also controlled by the picking hand which I think he is a bit heavy handed on in this demo. I found a softer touch even for aggressive parts of a song gets me 50% better tone before the darn signal even leaves the guitar!
La reverb no vale. Lo más importante. Sonido muy digital . Plástico.
Like most of these gadgets it does make a difference, but it still sounds horrible.
I'm not sure if it was the guitar and pickup system, but that sounded awful. All quack to heavily compressed quack. With units like the Tonedexter by Audio Sprockets and simple pre's like the Red-Eye and the Sunnaudio STage DI, I don't know why someone would buy this. I'm a big fan of many Boss effects, but this video made me not want to buy it.
I don't hear much improvement of the nasty pickup sound. I wish there was a way to make an acoustic guitar sound like an acoustic guitar when plugged to the pa. everything,,,, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING out there sounds like poop
Fishman Aura Sixteen!
@@evenseb7574 BUZZZZZ!
Oooooh wrong answer. Oh that eliminates you from the game... Thanks for playing. Tune in next week to the conclusion of "This pedal sucks made by a Company trying to convince you to buy something you don't really need"!
@@bugsycline3798 Whats wrong with my answer, whats wrong with the Fishman Aura. Have you tried it?
@@evenseb7574 what's wrong with it? Let me count the ways.
1. it sounds like a thin typical transducer pick up, no matter what setting you give it..
2. Its a gimmick to fool those who aren't critical about the sound of their guitar into thinking they need to buy it.
3. No matter what their advertising says, it does not sound like a well-miced studio recording of an acoustic guitar while played live... it still sounds like POop.
3. see my original comment.
4. When your ears can tell the difference between maple , mahogany and spruce, you're only lying to yourself if you think anything in modern technology has made a plugged-in acoustic guitar sound natural.
Sorry bud, this ain't my first rodeo... I've tried EVERYTHING out there. Nothing lives up to the advertisement hype concerning plugged in acoustic guitar. The only solution is a mic at the sound hole... and we all know the horrors of doing that after one gig.
@@bugsycline3798 I never tried it on acoustic, but at least on nylon it makes my day :) takes away the "plastic" sound