Expand Your Acoustic Possibilities With The Zoom AC-2 Acoustic Creator Enhanced Direct Box

Amplify your acoustic sound with the Zoom AC-2 Acoustic Creator. The AC-2 is a DI (direct box) that encompasses all you need to deliver natural guitar tone on stage or in the studio. The AC-2 automatically restores tone lost through acoustic pickups, so your sound is always lush, resonant, and faithful to the instrument you have in hand.

Restore Your Acoustic Tone

With 16 source guitar presets, the AC-2 recovers the sonic characteristics of a variety of guitar types and body shapes. You can choose from dreadnought, upright bass, nylon strings, 12 string, and more.

Simply select your guitar of choice, then choose piezo or magnetic pickup. From there, the AC-2 is ready to reproduce and amplify your guitar’s tone with complete accuracy.

Essential DI Features

The AC-2 features a high-quality preamp which boosts your signal and helps restore your true acoustic sound. Add its natural-sounding reverb to increase your acoustic’s depth and width, and round out your desired tone with easy 3-band EQ adjustments.

Volume Control

The AC-2's Volume knob automatically controls the preamp’s input gain and output level, taking the guesswork out of adjusting sound levels to match. It’s all you need to make volume control and setup simple when you’re playing live on stage.

Cut Feedback Automatically

The AC-2 is also equipped with an anti-feedback button that automatically locates and eliminates problem frequencies — an essential for live performances.

Tune On The Spot

The AC-2’s built-in tuner with its large LED meter lets you easily see when you’re in tune.

Up to 9DB Of Additional Gain

You can also add 9 dB of gain with the tap of your foot using the AC-2's boost function, allowing you to switch from strumming to finger-picking without ever losing a note.

• 16 source guitar type/body presets for accurate tone reproduction
• ¼” input
• XLR balanced out
• Two ¼” outputs for mono or stereo connection to guitar amps, headphones, and audio interfaces
• Reverb effect
• High-quality, low noise preamp
• Piezo/magnetic input pickup select
• 3-band equalizer
• Input and output gain/sensitivity adjustable via single volume knob (patent pending)
• 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
• Three power options: 2 x AA batteries, the included Zoom AD-16 power adapter (9V DC in), or bus power via micro-USB port

SPECIFICATIONS

General

• Source Guitars: 16 types
• Sampling frequency: 44.1 kHz
• A/D conversion: 24-bit with 128x oversampling
• D/A conversion: 24-bit with 128x oversampling
• Signal processing: 32-bit
• Frequency characteristics: 20 - 20 kHz +1 dB, -3 dB (10 k load)
• Equivalent input noise: 120 dBu
• Noise floor (residual noise): -100 dBu

Guitar Input

• Standard monaural phone jack
• Rated input level: -20 dBu
• Input impedance: 10 M

Output 1 (Mono Phones)

• Standard stereo phone jack
• (combined line/headphones)
• Maximum output level:
• Line +7 dBu (10 k Ohms or more output impedance)
• Headphones 8 mW + 8 mW (into 32 load)

Output 2

• Standard mono phone jack
• Maximum output level:
• Line +7 dBu (10 k Ohms or more output impedance)

Balanced Output:

• XLR jack
• Output impedance:
• 100 Ohms (HOT-GND, COLD-GND), 200 (HOT-COLD)
• PRE/POST (switchable)
• GND LIFT (switchable)

Power:

• AC adapter DC9V, 500 mA center negative (ZOOM AD-16)
• Batteries: 2 AA (about 3 hrs continuous operation time using alkaline batteries)

USB:

• USB MIDI USB Micro-B

Dimensions:

• 158 mm (D) X 107 mm (W) X 52 mm (H)

Weight:

• 0.570kg / 1.26 lbs (without batteries)

Manufacturer: Zoom
Model: AC-2
SKU: I466763-N-1-WHXX
UPC: 884354017705

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