BOSS Acoustic Singer Live

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Isn’t Boss an effects brand?

Parent company Roland developed the Jazz Chorus clean amp beloved by everyone from Andy Summers to James Hetfield; there’s the Cube range, plus the new Boss Katana series. Now its new acoustic amps step into the light with the Acoustic Singer Pro and Live combos, following on from the ME-8 Acoustic Singer pedal.

So the singing part is important here?

It can be if you wish. The vocal channel can be used to mic your guitar for an extra sound source as well as the pickup and features phantom power to run condenser mics with echo, delay and reverb effects for vocalists or guitar. There’s even a vocal harmony mode that creates live harmonies as you play and sing.

What about the guitar side of things?

Guitarists aren’t left out in the features department. The two most notable are the Acoustic Resonance Button that offers three modes to restore some natural resonance to piezo guitars. The Tweeter Attenuator button applied a filter to high frequencies to mellow out your sound. Oh, and there’s a looper too.