Zoom AC-3 Acoustic Creator Pedal

£269.00

This is the Zoom AC-3 Acoustic Creator Pedal from Zoom, listed in Specialist Effects Pedals on Just Pedals. Read More below.

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The Zoom AC3 is your all-in-one acoustic preamp effects pedal. For the live (or studio) guitarist it's an invaluable piece of kit thanks to its ability to morph and improve your sound in many ways.

Target Guitar Sound

One of the most powerful things about the AC-3 is its ability to make your current acoustic guitar sound like a completely different body shape altogether. You can easily change this by choosing the setting for your current guitar (like a dreadnought for example) and then adjusting the target guitar sound to be completely different like an OM or jumbo even!

Anti-Feedback

If you've played acoustic guitar live then you'll know that feedback can be one of the most difficult issues to deal with but the AC-3 has an automatic anti-feedback switch will prevent the guitar from creating any unwanted noise! This means you can focus on the gig at hand.

Key Features

  • 16 source guitar type/body presets for accurate tone re-creation
  • 15 target guitar type/body presets for tonal refinement
  • ¼” input
  • Two XLR balanced outs
  • Two ¼” outputs for mono or stereo connection to guitar amps, headphones, and audio interfaces
  • High-quality, low noise preamp
  • 9 effects with adjustable parameters
  • Piezo/magnetic input pickup select
  • Built-in compressor
  • 3-band equalizer
  • Input and output gain/sensitivity adjustable via single volume knob (patent pending)
  • Clipping indicator
  • Anti-feedback control
  • Boost switch for up to 9 dB of additional gain
  • Built-in chromatic visual-LED tuner
  • USB connection for firmware updates
  • Dual output jacks for connection to guitar amps and mono or stereo PA systems

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Brand

Zoom

Category

Specialist Effects Pedals

Specialist effects alter the signal in ways that do not sit cleanly inside one established family. They may use granular processing, frequency shifting, resonators, freeze or sustain, bit reduction, ring modulation, feedback networks or combinations of several techniques. The relevant distinction is the underlying process, its tracking or latency, and how completely the dry signal can be blended or replaced.

Tags

Acoustic

Voiced for the wider dynamics, strong transient detail and pickup characteristics of acoustic instruments. High input impedance, phase reversal, notch filtering and restrained processing help preserve body resonance while controlling piezo harshness and feedback. Balanced outputs may also carry the corrected signal directly to a mixer or interface.

DIY Kit

Supplied as components and hardware to be assembled into a working pedal. Circuit complexity, board layout, enclosure preparation and off-board wiring set the difficulty, while accurate component values, polarity and solder joints determine the final noise, reliability and sound.

Presets

Stores complete groups of parameter values for later recall. The number of locations, switching time, spillover behaviour and whether presets include routing, expression and MIDI assignments determine how completely one sound can change into another.

Stereo

Processes, creates or passes two audio channels. True stereo preserves separate left and right inputs, while mono-to-stereo effects generate spatial differences internally; routing, phase behaviour and whether trails remain stereo determine the resulting image. Some outputs sum to mono when only one socket is connected, which can change level or modulation depth.