The best I've heard is the Rockman (Now no longer made). It's available in 2 versions the blue and grey actuator switches. I have the Grey.

What kind of guitar are you using? I ask because if you're interested in getting a convincing acoustic sound out of your electric, you'll get 500% better results with an aftermarket piezo bridge than with one of those cheesy acoustic simulator pedals.

My main guitar is a Parker Fly, which came with a peizo bridge, but before that I was mostly playing my 68 tele, which I had retrofitted with a Fishman Tele Powerbridge (they make em for strats, too). The bridge looks and plays identically to the stock bridge they're putting on Teles these days. The acoustic sound is really, really good. Maybe not "Taylor with an i-beam" good, but at least as good as a medium-to-high level Takamine acoustic.

Plus, you'll be able to blend the signals; I send my acoustic pickup through a Baggs DI into the board, and my magnetic pickups through pedals and amp. It really gives me a big tonal palette.

I have a 52RI Tele - with too much electronic wizardry inside already.

I've heard using a peizo bridge or undersaddle into the boss acoustic sim pedal sounds very very good.

"Too much electronic wizardry?" There's no such thing!

Seriously, this is one of the few areas where technology has really improved the electric guitar. In the early 80's, when active pickup systems came out, everybody raved about all the "extended headroom" and such, until somebody realized that a pair of EMG's with a preamp didn't sound as good as the old passive pickups that came in the old strat. Now, you almost never see boutique pickup makers inserting preamps--it's all about refining Old Leo's or Les Paul's original designs.

But the Powerbridge is different--it doesn't take up a lot of room in your guitar, it doesn't require a battery, and it doesn't change the feel or sound of your electric--it simply adds the option of a very, very convincing acoustic sound. There's nothing that sounds better than my electric through a good overdrive with a touch of stereo delay mixed with a clean, sparkly acoustic sound from the peizos. It sounds huge--like my band added an acoustic player who mirrors what I play!

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Originally posted by F1sh:
I've heard using a peizo bridge or undersaddle into the boss acoustic sim pedal sounds very very good.

Been curious about that Boss pedal for over a year now.. anybody ever tried one ?

Wondering how good it does with humbuckers and splitted humbuckers. Never tried one myself doesn't seem to be something they keep in stock to be tried in the local shops.

Unless you can cut the humbucker to single coil mode don't waist your money on the Boss AC? somthing... It's ok but not as good as the old Rockman - I'll thing about the piezo pickups but I don't have room in the guitar for a drop of solder.