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Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | Hello everyone. I want to try an acoustic processor to help me with tone and feedback problems. The Boss AD-3 processor was recommended to me highly by a friend of mine. Anyone ever use this unit? And can everyone give me their opinion on a good acoustic prcessor? Thank you...Paul Hebert |
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| Boss AD5 or ZOOM 504 II are good.
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Location: So. Cal. | I have the AD-3, it's quite good in taming the piezo pickup and produces a nice warm acoustic sound (from an Adamas of course). The anti-feedback works decently well, however, it won't completely eliminate the howling when I play with a full band (bass, drums and electric guitar) in a small location. |
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Location: Scotland | The AD3 has a single feedback notch, but you really need two, one for the body resonance & another for the top resonance. If you have an Op40/50 or Optima preamp you can let the AD3 find the most prominent feedback frequency and use the onboard notch on the guitar for the other, a feedback-buster or Ovation Airlocks help also. Failing that you need a Parametric EQ or a Behringer Shark. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | I have a BOSS ad-5 which has much more tone control/variation than the ad-3. Ironically, I don't like what it does to my Ovations. I use it with my Parker Fly, which is an electric with a piezo "acoustic" pickup as well as humbuckers. The Ad-5 warms that up nice and makes it have more of an authentic acoustic tone.
With my Ovations Acoustics I use a Trace Elliot graphic EQ acoustic pedal, and gives a nice rich, punchy sound. As far as I know, they discontinued these a few years back.
As far as feedback, which I don't have much trouble with at all, I keep a set of these rubber Ovation sound hole plugs in my case-but haven't needed them in years. I purchase them a long while ago (haven't seen them since), and they fill in the holes of the leaf pattern and prevent the air inside the guitar from feeding back. They destroy tone as far as I'm concerned, but they do keep feedback out in a pinch, if the notch filter won't do the trick. In a band situation, it just might do the job.
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Location: NJ | The airlocks/feedback-buster plug tend to wreak havoc on your acoustic sound, but work well when playing at high volumes with a full band. I've since stopped using mine since I do solo/duo gigs now (even though I/we play at high volume), but it really helped in cutting the lo-end feed back that I was getting from the bass player when playing with my old band. |
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Location: Australia | I use an ART Tube MP which is a little valve preamp to warm up the tone when I'm playing out or recording.
It's simple and effective at taking a little brittle edge off the sound. |
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AD-3 Acoustic Instrument Processor question
