acoustic777's Fishman Pedalboard

I thought this would be louder, but I'm not using a pick. It's decent for a bedroom. EQ is very useable, but I still run an extra parametric to fine tune things. Reverb is awesome. Good for an always-on tone. Chorus is also awesome, but it's not footswitchable, so I rarely use it. No FX loop which would have been cool. Tough design though. Sides butt out to protect the knobs should the amp roll over. It's about the size and weight of a car battery (20lbs) so not bad! Aesthetics are a little bland though. Why does every acoustic amp and preamp need to be beige and brown!? Overall a decent and useable 4/5 stars.

You ever see the old Star Trek shows? The way the opening theme notes would just hang in the air? That must have been a plate reverb. I didn't expect to care about the spring or plate reverbs on this, but was very happily surprised by the plate mode. Found 2 very usable sounds there: For a lot of sustain try Plate mode Level on 2, Tone on 1, and Decay on 10. For Star Trek try Plate mode on Level on 6, Tone on 4, and Decay on 8. The Hall is a very useable mode that thins out your sound less. Spring is frankly a weird choice and I don't understand why that's on here. Does cause a touch of tone suck. The buffer switch is a good feature. TRS jacks are a good feature. Routing switch for TRS is a good feature. Box is slightly wider than most minis, but only by a 1/2". Case looks like brushed aluminum, and the red part is plastic. This is better than the 2008 Fishman AFX reverb (the bigger silver and yellow one) because that was a black hole for volume. You had to crank everything up before and after that pedal. Glad they fixed that. Next they should try to work on addressing that bit of tone suck. Still a cool pedal though, very fun and inspiring. I like it!

Cyberpunk Aesthetics? Check. Top Jacks? Check. Master Volume? Check. 5 bands of fully parametric eq? Check.

This is a historical first as well! In 1977 Boss dropped the spectrum SP-1 a single band semi-para eq pedal. Then in 1981 Pearl dropped a semi-dual band pedal. Then finally by 2008, Empress dropped the 3 band fully parametric eq pedal. In 2024 came the first 5 band fully parametric eq pedal, and I love it! Essential to have parametric with acoustic guitar! Works like a dream!

I have the older brown/green one. It is way better than I expected. Good tone, and usable features. Has a mute switch! The only issue I have is that there is no light that indicates that it is on and working. On stage that's not cool.