Comments about Fender Acoustasonic 150 150W 2x8 Acoustic Guitar Combo Amp:

Just to let you know, the MIC. channel DOES NOT HAVE MID tone adjustment, OR VOICING,as stated under features!!!!!!!!!!!

Comments about Fender Acoustasonic 150 150W 2x8 Acoustic Guitar Combo Amp:

for a dual purpose amp/pa by far the best i came across. I owned Acoustic, Kustom, even pa systems (not cheap ones either) and this 150 can hold its own.. The controls are sensitive so no vise grips and treat it like a lady you"ll be very happy!! LOVE iT!!!!

Comments about Fender Acoustasonic 150 150W 2x8 Acoustic Guitar Combo Amp:

I wanted to use this as a stage monitor in a live band situation. I opened the box, played it for about 20 minutes and knew right away, that even though this amp is rated at 150 watts, it would never hold up. This amp weighs only around 23 lbs. It just sounds really tinny. And I wasn't really impressed with the onboard effects either. Spend a little more and get the SWR California Blonde II Acoustic. This amp sounds fantastic and really punches through the mix.

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this is an amp I been wanting and got. This amp is what it is plus more. Naturally it is an acoustic amp but I like the fact that u can use 4 electric regular and jazz guitars and a p.a. as well. it is good 4 house parties to backyard barbecues and wedding halls to out door events. If need be the line out has a level to boost your volume when tied or patched in a p.a. if you want versatility a non back breaker portability then this is the amp 4 you

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Using either of three voicings of Jumbo, Dreadnought or Parlor, I can adjust my guitar to any style sound I want. Also, using the FX settings, I can enhance these various voicings. So many combinations that its often hard to select just one. I like being able to use the FX and voicings to taylor any song. You will not be disappointed in this amp.

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Another reviewer had trouble with the vocalist being used with the amp. If you go direct from mic and guitar to the amp, the hissing goes away. At least it did with mie. To minimize, douse the vocalist effects, and fiddle with the line in function of the vocalist. It too has its effects. Still have interference, and am still experimenting.

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This acoustasonic 150 is one fine amp. I had the 30 and was wondering if this one would have as good a tone and it does but louder. Both my Gretsch and my acoustic sound great with this amp. The built in effects are really good.

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I was excited to get one of the new fender acoustasonic amps last week. I've been in the market for an acoustic amp that doubles as a portable PA for quite a while and the latest offerings from Fender looked promising. I decided on the Fender mainly because with its many features it seemed to be the best bang for your buck acoustic amp avaiable. I like versatility and this one seemed to have it all with two channels, modeling for acoustic and electric guitars, a good selection of FX and an FX loop. So after watching some of the video clips on youtube and reading the mostly favorable online reviews I decided to give it a shot. Upon unboxing I noticed some slight cosmetic flaws (a small dent and a couple of light scuffs on the tolex) but nothing major. I quite liked the vintage look of the amp and the tilt back legs are the same kind they use on the Twin. When I turned the amp on I noticed a slight but persistent hiss coming from the speakers. I tried using different cables and tried it out in different rooms of the house thinking I might be getting interference from electrical appliances but the hissing persisted. Over the next couple of days I tried out all the different voicings and FX thinking I might get used to the hiss but once I plugged in my strat and set it to the Blackface voicing the hissing problem just got that much worse. I thought that it might be the guitar or the pickups contributing to the noise but it makes the same sound no matter what you run into the amp. One would think that the "tweed" or "british" voicings would have a worse hiss since they are the higher gain voicings. This problem effectively kills one of the main selling points of this amp; for me at least. As a solo, mainly acoustic, performer I thought it might be nice to add some electric guitar tones to my set but there is no way that I can have that much noise coming out of my amp in the small, intimate settings that I play. That coupled with the fact that the other two electric guitar voicings have no way to control the amp's gain other than with the volume control on your guitar which forces you to increase the volume of the amp which just makes the hissing noise louder. On the flip side the acoustic sounds produced by this amp are quite good in my opinion. I was able to dial in a nice acoustic tone with my Yamaha A3m as well as with my Ibanez 12-string. The all laminate Ibanez benefitted more from the acoustasonic's acoustic voicings than did the all solid-wood Yamaha with its own internal mic modeling but I ended up using the acoustasonic's dreadnaught voicing with the Yamaha as well running two signals from my Vocalist pedal, one into the instrumant channel and the other into the mic channel with my vocals, and adding just a tad of mic modeling from the guitar for some air and added harmonics. The string dynamics feature came in handy as well taming some of the mild brittleness from the Yamaha's mic models. The reverb was quite good I thought but the rest of the on-board FX weren't all that great in my opinion. My vocals sounded clear and present but I found it hard to get much volume out of the mic channel without getting a lot of feedback. I tried using the feedback fighting feature but it seemed to negatively affect the tone of my vocals so I left it alone and played it at low volume. The XLR out worked well. It sent a nice clear signal straight to my PA. Never tried the USB recording out but I think that that would be the best bet for recording with this amp unless you like to have a lot of hissing in your recordings. The overall volume was unimpressive for a 150 watt amp but I dared not turn it up very because the louder the amp gets the louder the hissing gets. So I guess if you can get past the hissing issue you might have a pretty good amp or maybe if you play in a band you won't mind it so much. But if you're a solo performer like me you might want to look at other amps in this price range or maybe just a tad higher. I suppose there is a chance that I just got a bad one (it happens) so, since Musician's Friend's excellent customer service dept. has agreed to exchange the amp I got for a new one, I guess I'll give the acoustasinic 150 one more shot since I liked the amp's overall tone. If the replacement amp I get is of better quality than the first one I recieved I'll write a follow-up review. Here's hoping the best. Happy strummin'!

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I was a bit leary about purchasing this amp. I'm not a pro, I've played mostly acoutic 6 & 12 string guitars. I recently just picked up an Epi DR-500MCE 6 string acoutic-electric w/eSonic2 pre-amp. I played it through a small Peavey amp but couldn't use it to it's full potential by separating the outputs to a 2 chnl amp. I demo'd 2 chnl amps with it and WoW! the guitar just came alive! I settled on the Acoustasonic 150 because of it's versatility (being able to play electric through it) and the wonderful sound it has just on "Pure Amp". I don't know how that one gentleman could say he had "intermod distortion" unless he got a bad one. Intermod distortion is something that happens in RF (radio frequency) communications. RF is not audible to the human ear. If you set it on "Pure Amp" it sounds very nice. Pure acoustic guitar. Then you can add in the effects if you want. It's also light! An added plus. Try one out, I think you'll be impressed if you play acoustic guitar.

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I'm 53 years old. I grew up in a time when distortion was present in an amplifier whether you wanted it or not. As the years passed by and electronics evolved distortion became a thing of the past unless it was intentional. The worst sounding distortion is called intermodulation distortion (IMD), look it up on Wikipedia. Simply put if a signal contains two different frequencies, i.e. two strings at the same time, a very unpleasant set of tones not in the family of the overtones of the original two frequencies is produced. The result sounds terrible. This amplifier suffers from a significant amount of IMD at all volumes. It would appear that the designers of this amp are hoping no one knows what IMD is anymore or can recognize it when they hear it. That is a bad assumption when their customers are musicians. I'm forced to bring it back because my ears have never been able to tolerate IMD even before I knew what it was called.