Great review, as always. We have had our ShowBox for about a month and have gigged with it several times now with good results. It fits the bill for a small to medium sized venue system for our duo where we need more inputs. The sound is very good and the features are impressive. My favorite thing is definitely the detachable mixer and the SD card record feature. The looper is pretty useless since it's only one button. I would MUCH prefer their two-button footswitch to be able to use for the looper (dedicated stop/clear) as opposed to one button being used to turn off effects. That's an oversight, IMO. Size is a little large but there is a lot of stuff crammed in there so I guess you can only go so small. Trim 6 inches off the height and it would be much better. Weight is at the upper limit of true busking portability but good enough. The bag is good enough for light transport. I think this system ticks a lot of boxes in the battery powered system category and will appeal to those needing more than two inputs as well as those that don't like using a phone/tablet app for control. I've owned several of the small battery powered systems over the years and this is definitely my favorite so far.

I regularly use the Everse 8 for small restaurant/winery acoustic guitar/vocals performances. It provides plenty of volume and sounds great, even in a busy/packed restaurant. In your experience, can this compete? I love all the features of the mixer and would love to have additional inputs for guest performers....but not at the expense of sound quality and volume. 😊

Hi Aaron, I bought it the week it came out. I loved the concept of the breakaway mixer but it just didn’t have the power for me. It distorted when I cranked it up. I now have the Everse 12 and I’m more than happy with it for busking.

Wow! Six inputs? The price point seems to be pretty right on nice looking bag too. I’d be curious as to how it sounds compared to the Bose S1 pro. Do you think it would be louder? If so, this could be killer

Nice direct-to-SD sound on that cool Maton geetar! What I‘d really love to hear is the how the speaker sounds in a room (and yes, I‘m well aware of the trials & tribulations of micing things up that way) with both guitar AND vocals. And that side-by-side with a well-known player such as the Everse 8 and/or the Bose S1 Pro as a tonal reference point. Why with vocals, too? Because I find that tons of speakers sound fine with guitar, but many start to break up or sound harsh or lack proper bass when vocals are pumped through them. A guitar can sound great through a given system just because the guitar‘s (or pickup‘s) weaknesses are somehow being compensated for by the speaker, which, itself, might have a skewed frequency range. And the audience doesn‘t know how that particular guitar is supposed to sound. But with vocals as another point in reference, we can start connecting the dots…and with a side-by-side comparison with a familiar speaker, we can guess fairly accurately at the tonal differences between the two.

I think they should let the price like that to keep it affordable, but add extensions, like a pedal looping or looping pad as a extension machine to work with the amp doing and update and charge por the looping pedal or looping pad. And keep adding many other futures just charge them as extras and keep the original price. But this product seems to go to be true I will be getting mine soon, let’s see how it does.

Would you be able to do a sound comparison between this and one (or 2 , or whatever) competitors? eg EV Everse 8"

Would love a comparison v Everse 8

Has anyone tried it with an electric (non-acoustic) guitar?

I know it would make the unit heavier and perhaps more expensive, but I'd be very interested in a 12" speaker version; although you could line it out to another active speaker.

Beautiful intro! Besides features, how does it sound compared to Everse 8?

You should go to Guitar Center and try the AER. You can try it for a week if don't like it you can try it for a week and bring it back

Hi Aaron, how are you finding the AP5pro vs the Cole Clark PG3 system for live playing? Cheers

Hi AaroN and thank you for your efficient videos on the subject (that I have just discovered..)

The features are pretty impressive, but the LIVE sound quality is lacking compared to other Battery Powered PA like EV Everse 8 or 12.

10 inch woofer would be nice for a duo

Sounds great! Is that a Maten SR808?

Nice playing Aaron. Maton? Did you and Cole Clark breakup? 😂

Good video Aaron. I was just about to buy an Everse 8. Should I rethink?

Does it trump the Pro Plus?