I debated long and hard about getting a G-natural for my acoustic or going with the nova system. I took a gamble on the nova system, and its absolutely amazing. The effects are pristine and the amount of control you have over them is awesome. My drummer literally quit playing during rehearsal to just listen to my acoustic through his in-ears, that's how clean and open my setup sounds.

When used with my strat, its equally impressive and has a speaker emulation so you can go straight into the pa. I now have only one pedalboard that works with my acoustic and electric and I couldn't be more pleased with my sound.

Martin -> Fishman Aura Spectrum -> TC Nova System -> Digitech Vocalist Live 2 -> PA

This unit is EXTREMELY well made. The craftsmanship is astounding, but I see the parameter knobs breaking off easily as they feel flimsy and cheap.

When I first unpacked this thing and dialed in some patches, I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Of course when I took it to our rehearsal studio to seriously test drive it, it fell flat in every imaginable area.

It sucked the life out of my tone, even with no effects on, and the thing doesn't have a BYPASS function (scary). There was so much volume loss, a 50 watt Marshall Half stack couldn't cut through the mix even with Nova's volume wide open.

The modulation effects are horrid, especially the chorus (which isn't even musical).

I was very happy to return this unit.

The packaging was neat and easy to disassemble. The unit itself is built like a tiny armored truck. Foot switches are seriously robust.

Sound-wise, the unit is usable right out of the box, though I didn't care for the default delay settings or the default reverb settings. These were easily adjusted to taste. As with all multi-effects units, I didn't dig the distortion and the overdrive and chose instead to run my mainstay Radial Hot British in front of my Nova System.

The Chorus ... where do I start? When engineers sat down to design this thing, did they bother listening to the classics? Maybe check out a Small Clone or something? No. Nova System's chorus is atrocious unless you like something that sounds like a weak flanger that modulates badly. Thank goodness the Nova System has a Detune effect, that is very chorus-like and sounds great with distortions and overdrives.

The Boost function is a great idea, and may even eliminate my volume pedal. For me the Nova System will make a great, high-quality, Delay/Reverb/Modulation stompbox with presets thus drastically reducing my pedal tap dancing.

I rated the value kinda low because the chorus is terrible, and the unit is over priced.

I have a G-System, and sometimes, it's just too much stuff and set up to deal with at a gig; so I got the Nova System for road use. It's small, easy to set up, has decent OD/Distortion, and takes pedals before the input well.

I set mine up to use the internal drive effects with maybe Tube Driver just before the input, then out to a clean amp channel. The effects sound great. It can also be set to use an amp's preamp stage, then plugged into the amp's serial effects loop (no killdry, so don't use parallel).

The effects are very similar (in some cases identical) to those on the G-System; with some tweeking, I get a reasonable spring reverb, great modulation effects, and can simulate a Leslie/Univibe sound well enough for stage use. It does have it's own character, like the G-System.

The manual is basic, so you need to play around a bit. But if you've programmed very many of these multi-effect units, you know how to get around. Programming is similar to the G-System, so I was up and running in a few minutes with presets more or less cloned from my G.

Negatives (that don't bother me): no killdry; no real Leslie sim; pain to enter preset names (I don't like knob twirling to enter letters); no wah effect; can't reprogram the foot switched to do other things, so when if "preset" mode, you lose the ability switch compress/reverb/drive on or off: those switches all change preset.

I bought this about two months ago i am in love It honestly is ridiculous. This system can give u great effects and versatility. You can change from soft acoustic sound to a heavy metal tone in the click of a button. The one thing is there are some effects you cant use at the same time like you cant use phaser and flanger at the same time but over all this is just a great product. I love mine and am never giving it up!!!