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That seems to do it all but it's nearly £300.
Or if you have a preamp in the guitar, you can use any standard electric guitar FX unit - just be careful with the distortion .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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I play exclusively acoustic and have gone through multiple pedal setups over the past year and a half. However the on thing that stays is the LR Baggs Venue DI. Used for about £150, it's a pretty big pedal however it contains so much within it that it's worth the money. The feedback function/notch is brilliant, the eq'ing is priceless for my Pure Mini pickup which needs a bit more shaping. I like the tuner, it gets some flack, but it's very easy to use (it gets the flack because people say it doesn't work if you leave it on for a while. All you have to do is switch it off and on again, it's deliberately like that as a battery saving function) I also use the FX loop for putting all my effects through and run 2 separate signals from it, one from the line out and one from the DI.
Effects wise, I think if you're using anything modulation, delay or reverb based it really doesn't have to be one made intentionally for acoustic guitars. Those pedals are built with certain frequencies in mind, but nothing you can't address with a normal pedal and some eq'ing. The LR Baggs Align series is good if you only need certain things (like the post above said, if you've got an on board pre-amp etc). I really liked what the Session pedal did, but it is a lot of money for something that's an always on sound that most people wouldn't know if you had it on or not.
Currently I run a HX FX through the effects loop of the Venue, with a EHX B9 in one of the additional FX loops and I can get pretty much any sound I want out of it. I pretty much have one simple patch and then 3 additional snapshots with more ambient settings. I can't recommend it highly enough
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For an acoustic DI any idea what the Zoom AC2 is like?
Does the HX FX have any acoustic shaping tools in it?
Like with all the Helix stuff you can use some IR's to help. I know 3Sigma are very well regarded for theirs if you use a piezo style pickup. Like with all this stuff it comes down to how you hear it and there are plenty of EQ options and the compressors are very good, so there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to get the sound you wanted out of it
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It's more to do with the feedback issues that you get when you start using drive/distortion with acoustic guitars
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It "sort of" claims to model various acoustic guitar types, but unlike previous generations of Zoom acoustic pedals it sounds and feels pretty natural, rather than trying to superimpose a radically different tone on top.
I've gigged it a few times now through my own PA and through others, and I can dial up a usable tone in seconds.
I tend to dismiss Zoom as kind of low level almost consumer electronics type stuff, but am really impressed with this, it feels pro rather than gimmicky.