Boss AD-10 Acoustic Preamp & FX

I don't want to write bad stuff about this product, I love the brand and it's a good product.

But.

You plug in an Atmosfeel pickup (Yamaha FGX 5) and the resulting sound without any knob touched and with no effect on will sound like there's a phaser pedal on at minimum, and in general the tone will lose realism, by a lot, the guitar sounds worse than a cheap one.

I have other, simpler guitars with standard piezo pickups that I don't use much anymore (Seagull, Lag, Cort), and this AD 10 does a good job improving their sound, but with my FGX-5 it's much better not to use it at all.

I pitted this against a Fishman Aura Spectrum. They are both excellent pre-amps for acoustic guitar. The Acoustic Resonance feature is designed to replace some of the frequencies lost with a dry piezo pickup and although this Boss AD-10 does not produce as finely detailed and complex a sound as the Fishman Aura, it is still extremely usable. It is also a LOT quicker to dial in a satisfactory sound and has the ability to save different setups that can be recalled much like any Boss multi-FX.

With the exception of the rather crummy reverb (one star removed), there is little to fault with this feature packed unit.