The Ugly Truth About TC Electronic Bodyrez Acoustic Pickup Enhancer

So TC Electronic brought this thing the Summer NAMM and I honestly have to say that I'm geeking out about it. It looks like a great solution for an acoustic player. The video (that we all expect to see from TC Electronc now) explains, and hypes, this tiny pedal. Like their ditto pedal, there are more features than you would expect from a pedal with one knob. There is a feedback filter, phase inverter, and mute function. In a pedal with ONE knob. Not only that, but the eagle eyed among us may have noticed that there appears to be a micro usb port. So this pedal might be a part of the Toneprint series, or at least give us more options with connectivity.

So what is so ugly about all these features being stuffed into a tine little box? Well, Lets look. If you are a acoustic player, then you probably don't use many pedals. A tuner as some sort (which may not be a pedal), A DI to run into whatever PA you use, and maybe a tone shaping tool provided that your onboard electronic doesn't do it for you. You might run a delay or reverb, but that is a Effect as apposed to signal processing. What TC Electronic has made is a super compact pedal that provides a simple and elegant solution. But these are other options.  BBE makes the AcoustiMax that does everything this pedal does and give you tonnes of control. It is also roughly 7 time larger than this pedal, but it includes everything but a tuner. Aphex make the Acoustic Xciter. I love this pedal as well. The controls are a little more open to interpretation, but the effect it has on a peizo pickup is amazing. It doesn't have all the function of the Bodyrez, but you'd be hard up to find a pedal that does what it does as well. I'll be first in line to get my hands on one come September, because these don't hit the market till the 29th of September. I guess we will have to wait till then.