4-mode dial lets you select standard or jumbo acoustic sound, add brilliance with enhance, or a piezo pickup sound. Top and body knobs make it easy to fine tune your acoustic tones. Have no idea if this pedal is good for noise or not.
Submitted by Aleem from Romford (18 points) on Jun 2, 2009:
Ah the ac2 its a mixed bag really. on the non noise side a pretty shoddy piezo sound.. but for noise.. love of g!d its good randomly (read mostly incorrectly) placed harmomics everywhere.. plug it in after a overdrive into a fuzz.. pure ugly beauty
Good Points: Badly made artificial harmonics.. ear slicing treble and white noise.
Bad Points: bad name more an semi acoustic with a shitty piezo sim not a acoustic guitar sim
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Submitted by ck3 from Portland, ME (280 points) on Jan 1, 2005:
This is another former toy from my pre-noise past.
Good Points: Produces a few odd and artifical emulations of an acoustic guitar with an electric signal ... complete with all sorts of odd artifacts with the right (or wrong) settings. Makes "normal" distortions really crispy and piercing, almost like the tones from the first Jesus & Mary Chain album. Also serves as a radically bright filter for instruments other than guitar.
Bad Points: Yellow.
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Submitted by mlaird from Portland, OR (8 points) on Mar 30, 2004:
I bought this as a way to make a Korg Electribe not sound like a drum machine but more of a click machine and it works great... I think this pedal is just a cheap enhancer, but it adds a nice bassy decay to short clicks (body) and the high-end crackle is where its really at. The (top) control can adds just a little sizzle to snare/cymbal sounds, or turn them into crackling fried bacon. Quite fun, if a bit static in tone, I like it because it is so distinct from distortion/eq.
Good Points: *unique tone
*manageable sound
Bad Points: *static
*one-trick pony
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Price Paid: US$65.00
Purchased At: Trade Up Music
Submitted by Yves from Ottawa (82 points) on May 30, 2003:
One cool little filter when used with the Bass overdrive, before or after. Used before it offers a different spectrum to the OD; used afterwards, it "tunes out" some of the OD. Simply amazing with swooshing noises or the reults of a phaser. But it is a static effect, like a funky preset EQ--unlike dynamic effects like wah, gates or delay. Good at adding some volume in the tenor range, using the Body knob.[Aside] To experiment with pedal order, parallel/series and so on can be a pain, so I've rigged all of the pedals into a Behringer patch bay--makes switching the order of the effects much easier.
Good Points: Solidly built, though the Mode button seems a little flimsy when you turn it. And there's a new book out (including a CD; sold seperately from pedals) documenting all BOSS pedals [Hal Leonard]; the book helps figure this one out and interviews the engineers who created the pedals to ask them what is the intent of the effect's design.
Bad Points: "E.G." label on one of the outs is confusing (electric guitar?)
Much high frequencies present at some mode settings, so Top control needs to be turned down a lot, if the pedal is last in the chain.
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Price Paid: US$90.00
Purchased At: Steve's Music
Submitted by Beavis from Afghanistan (190 points) on Feb 15, 2003:
The other reviewers cussed this a lot, but i think it sounds interesting. If u run vocals or drums thru it, it can add wierd tones to them and it sounds very wierd after a very noisy fuzzbox. If you use it for simulating a acousitc its sounds bad to me, but use it as a effect in its own right and its kinda cool
Good Points: Its Boss, its reliable. Will survive any drops or throws. Strange if used incorrectly
Bad Points: I hate acoustic guitars!!!!
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Submitted by TDS from Houston, TX (10 points) on Feb 15, 2003:
WARNING: If your girfriend and/or wife approaches you in the music store and says "baby, don't you want this pretty yellow-ish pedal" LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. DON'T DO IT!! You've been warned.
Good Points: Definitely makes an electric sound acoustic. No doubt about that.
Bad Points: It makes evil looking Charvels, BC Rich's, Jacksons, etc...sound real sweet and pretty playing love songs through a Marshall amplifier. There's something inherently wrong about that... Don't you think?
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Submitted by Jonathan from Marine City, MI (60 points) on Apr 18, 2002:
I borrowed this pedal to see if it was at all suitable for noise. And really,... it's not. Changing the modes did not seem to change the sound very much, if it did it was too subtle to notice. The knobs "body" and "top" give a more noticeable change in sound. The "top" knob is like a glorified tone control and can add a nice bright warm tone to a sound. The "body" knob can add a significant amount of bass to a signal, similar to a DOD Meatbox. I'd say if you can get one for cheap you might find it useful for the bass boost it can provide otherwise get a bass eq, octave pedal, a Meatbox, or a distortion pedal with tons of bass.
Good Points: Can act as a bass booster and/or add brightness and warmth to a signal.
Bad Points: The four modes are too subtle for noise and don't seem to differentiate much with each other.
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4-mode dial lets you select standard or jumbo acoustic sound, add brilliance with enhance, or a piezo pickup sound. Top and body knobs make it easy to fine tune your acoustic tones. Have no idea if this pedal is good for noise or not.
