Musicians Review of a Bose S1 Pro With Live Music 

Hi ! I am very happy to have found your channel! I have been looking for more than two months now for reviews on the pa amplification tells me but nobody and I repeat nobody treats the topics as you are doing!! Thank you very much for your time! I wish you much luck!! Continue in this manner, you are a very good musician!!

Great review 👍🏻 I love my Bose S1 Pro and I also using it without the Tonematch switch on. I found the same thing as you, made my voice and guitar sound thin and lacklustre. Right now it’s all I really need. For most gigging venues you’d go from the “line out” into the house PA anyway, making this the perfect monitor.

"you gotta know a lot more than Wonderwall" this line had me dying 😂😂😂 Great review and looked like a fantastic location to perform! 🤩

Great review! Lack of low end considered, but not a deal breaker. Ordering one today. Thank you.

Nothing can touch this great little P.A. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Yo también la uso, y es totalmente una maravilla. Gracias por tu vídeo. Saludos desde 🇲🇽🤟🙏

This was an excellent Review and I totally agree with not using the tone match settings. The sound is amazing with backing tracks. Just wish there would be a master volume.

This was very helpful as I am also doing the solo acoustic thing. I just ordered one yesterday and can't wait to try it out. Thanks!

fantastic review. Thorough and candid.

This is super helpful, man thank you so much! ❤️

Thanks for this! I too am a singer/songwriter, sharing my original music. But, I too, gig out as a solo acoustic artist, playing covers also. Thanks for sharing. :)

Just bought this Boom Box PA System and i'm excited to take it outside and jam.

hey buddy! thanks a million!! i’ve been thinking about gettin one too!! i’m convinced it’d be perfect for my solo gigs as well!! you sound great btw❤️🌻

Thanks for sharing about the speaker..❤️

Great to hear your review ,thank you

Thanks for the great review

Excellent no nonsense no fancy recording and video. Way to many reviewers think they are recording and filming an epic movie. I think this might be just the ticket for me playing small senior living residence homes gigs for me. The portability is a real plus.

Thanks Stuart! Great review....Ive done some gigs through a Roland AC90 acoustic amp....and the largest of Bose Poles....im hoping this speaker will be a nice compromise....not expecting a lot of low end (Bose B2 sub does actually boom finally, ha).....Great data and set....thanks for the scoop! Mike

Beautiful! Great job!

Hopefully one day I can be like you out performing. Good stuff brother.

Thanks brother keep rocking!

Thanks for a great review from someone doing what I do. I’m 60 this year and the days of lugging 100 kgs of gear are over for me. But I still want first class sound! I want people to say “wow, you sound fantastic”. Anyone wanna buy a Roland AC60? 😂✌️❤️🇦🇺

excellent review, appreciate your opinion of 'low end' -great singing and guitar playing too!

I’m with you on all of this. It does what it does brilliantly though. I have a pair and use them for either small family garden parties and camping or their primary use case is as foldback monitors with a pair of Bose L1 Pro 8s. When using them as foldbacks, I roll the bottom end off so as they don’t bottom out, and then they really project well, and the L1s really fill the low end in more than adequately (the L1 pro series doesn’t lack in low or top end at all, and I genuinely think they’re the best thing Bose have made to date in terms of sound quality). The great advantage of using the S1 pro as a foldback is the reduction in power cables all over the stage and the small footprint.

Thanks for the thourogh review and opinion

I use two S1’s which I designed an adapter to align them vertically (yes, true) so I basically shade the lower one for near-field listeners (and monitor…it’s on a stand over my right shoulder) and shade the top one a bit hotter for distant listeners. I feed an Aux send (post) on my mixer to a Bose Sub1 for a bit of guitar/vox and foot percussion. The system performs fantastic. I get tons of positive comments from patrons. I can supply power to Sub1 and other gear with portable Jackery AC supply for a totally off-grid and powerful system for up to 100-150 people. A single S1 is great to have for weddings and even small outdoor parties. No other battery powered PA in this size can compete. Cheers

my best friend is pro street musician, told him to buy this, he's currently on a chinese cheap one.. will be massive improvement for his own job

Very helpful. Thank you!

awesome review thanks

Nice job and great review!

Great review, man, thanks.

Anybody who plays Thirteen Senses gets my interest. Excellent

Sounds great!

Thanks very realistisk test

Great review

Ordered today. For my solo gigs with tracks. Today I tried with tracks and the tracks had nice base actually. My friend brought it over to try with tracks and I'm sold . You say not enough base I thought it was fine. It's light and I'm thankful not to lug around my 40lb powered monitor and put up on a pole. When I play with full band it's my monitor.

I have two paired together great sound for vocals, music, movies, and I use the Fishman mini Loudbox for the guitar actually two of them now will being paired in stereo with a Boss stereo chorus. Very convenient set up and light weight to travel. The Bose S1 Pro I got through Best Buy for around $550.00 each but now they have jumped dramatically! Great battery life!

Awesome review thanks 👍 Currently looking at a battery powered setup but do want the percussion low end sound Maybe the new Boss Street Cube 2 for guitar and the Bose for singing would be a good setup ?

you sound great man!

Great stuff. Enjoyed what you had to say. Honest account, very authentic and thus very appealing. I've only just started. Got a S1 pro, not the pro plus. Now, I do have a number of condenser microphones. Can I use one of them with S1 pro? I'm just trying to avoid buying a dynamic mic. I am guessing you will advise use of phantom power supply along with it. No idea how to go about doing that.

Brilliant! 💯

Wow!!! Thank you so much for this review💯🙌🏾🫶🏾. Please do you know if I can sing using an instrumental track with backing vocals with this speaker?

Subbed you just now, after watching this - the third video by you - today. The other 2 were about the Evox Jmix8, which I am kinda interested in trying. Love your way of going through the pros and cons, and especially how you show us how things actually sound in live settings. Most reviewers don‘t manage to convey that, for they play stock music (from their phones or whatever) in showrooms or living rooms, and often the music they use is crap for judging how natural a system sounds. So I much appreciate your more musician-friendly approach. And now your video on the Bose S1 Pro cinches my feeling that your use scenarios and sound preferences are a very close match to mine. I know this because I have (and love!) the Bose S1 Pro, and would have said exactly what you did about it. Adding to that for whomever‘s interested: I‘ve tried about 15 acoustic amps over the years, and owned about 9, among which are an ancient AER Acousticube (too analytical and cold, i.e. not warm enough, esp. not for my vocals), a Roland BA-330 (too sharp in the treble, and sound break-up when driven with loud vocals, i.e. preamps without sufficient headroom; also, some kind of limiters or comb filters cutting sound fidelity to save the woofers from too much energy, I suppose), a Roland AC-33 (excellent for the wee size, but don‘t try to drive it hard or it breaks up, especially when on batteries), a Roland Cube Street Ex (also seems to suffer from selective frequency filtering to keep the speakers from being overdriven, leading to less-the-warm and less-than-full bass response and a bit too much harshness and hiss; improved the unit and decided to keep it after swapping woofers for warmer, punchier ones), a Fishman Loudbox Mini (warm and full and can be driven loud, with a very pleasing internal compression I am sure is there, but the speaker lacks sparkle and upper-mid differentiation and can sound kind of dull with certain pickups/guitars unless tweaked a lot, at which point it then sounds unnatural), a Laney A-Fresco 2 (great warmth, punch and definition, but the sound dies when on batteries, even high-quality, high-powered Li-Ion ones), a Crate amp no longer made (60 Watts of very punchy sound on the floor or tilted, but with an overly sharp treble range that has to backed off carefully if you don‘t want to kill people in the front row, and too big/heavy for pole mounting) and now - finally - the Bose S1 Pro. (Oh, and we won‘t even get into the various PA speakers I‘ve also used. ;-). For my acoustic solo and busking purposes, the Bose wins hands down!!! It can fill a coffee house or street with beautifully warm, sparkling (but not sibilant), well-balanced and punchy sound, even when on batteries!!! It never breaks up when driven hard (shouty male vocal), and sounds lovely on the ballads. All of my guitars (with high-end pickups) sound great on it. And it is so incredibly compact that it‘s a breeze to take anywhere. Add in a speaker pole (got mine in a bundle from Thomann here in Germany) and the great backpack case, and you can even jack it up over people‘s heads for more throw, like in your scenario. I also love it for use as a tilted (!) floor monitor on duo gigs with a full PA. It gives me my voice the way I want/need to hear it: full and sparkly, but not boomy or sizzly so as to create feedback). And it‘s so small, I can squeeze it in at the front edge of any stage or corner of someone‘s living room or patio without it looking clunky. That said, I totally agree that it does NOT cut it for use with my Roland stomp pedal (SPD One Kick) or a manual stomp pedal or my BeatBuddy. I tried using them with my RCF M18 digital mixer ahead of the Bose, but the low-frequency response is disappointing for that kind of thing, so I just skip it. No way in hell that I‘ll ever sell the Bose! What it lacks in really low end it more than compensates for by delivering clean, punchy, powerful and non-distorting bass on acoustic guitar and vocals, and that’s exactly what I want from such an amp. I love it so much that I‘m considering using its Line Out to run a signal to a floor woofer (or the above-mentioned Crate, which has a 10-inch woofer) for a fuller-range system. Either that or maybe a column array like the Evox you also kindly tested for us. It‘s great to hear you‘ve been just as happy as I have with the Bose, which finally ticks all the boxes for me. Meanwhile, I still have that old AER Acousticube and the Roland Cube Street Ex, so if anybody reading this lives in northern Germany and is interested.... ;-). Thanks again, Stuart, for giving us your input on these things, and for sharing your warm and friendly nature with us along the way. Also really enjoy the tunes as you present them. P.S. Like you, I also much disliked the ToneMatch presets. I keep them switched off.

Thank you for this nice review and demos! What would you say comparing it to Roland BA-330?

Man, I play out as a solo artist 3 to 4 nights a week..... just saw one of these at a pawn shop for $400.... had no idea about it until I just watched your video.... I'll be right back.

Good review thank you. How did you hook your loop unit into the Bose?

Great video! You sound awesome, keep it up! What loop station are you using?

Crazy that it has battery power.

Thanks a lot Mate

Very helpful review - enjoyed listening. Do you think one of these would be loud enough for busking with digital piano and vocals? 🎹💛🌈

It works if you use a six channel mixer i play sax flute guitar vocals & tracks been using the Bose S1 for years and just one I have three but for bigger bigger huge than used two is fine, but most of my gigs are just one and it’s very powerful. We have to adjust the high and goes on the speaker itself and the mixer through the channels on the mixer, works perfect, I’ve had no problems Good luck Chaz

Which would you prefer the Bose or rcf jmix8

Yup, the speaker is a bit weak on the low end. Blackstar Sonnet 120 is better. About the same price point. Loud and low end for days. It was co-designed by an acoustic guitarist for Blackstar.

Great video thank you! Just curious after a few years now, are you still liking the S1 Pro or have you changed to anything else?

Hey man nice job on getting some RU-vid content going.

Does anyone know how to take the speaker off the stand?

Can I ask if you use only one Bose for guitar and microphone and also use a loop system through that one Bose? Thanks

Great review. Im a keyboard player and have been looking at the s1 pro (2 of them) im impressed with what I hear but the test time is when you get them home or a 1st venue I am worried incase my sound from a keyboard will get lost from a small speaker

Please, what was the brand of guitar you were using.

Cool review. I agree with pretty much everything you say, but would like to add a view things. 1) The Tonematch preset is designed around an Audix OM3. It really sounds nice with that mic. An OM5 is even better. The OM5 sounds almost exactly the same as the OM3, but it cuts a little more of the low frequencies that are below the vocal range of most of us. 2) If you want the low end for looping or backing tracks, add a Bose Sub1. The Sub1 has an S1 preset that sends frequencies above 150Hz to the S1. You can use the Sub1 with two S1s. The combination sounds fantastic. I agree though that for just guitar and vocals, one or two S1s alone are perfect.

good review m8, but i think i would of like to hear it peak out or cranked up a bit louder!

does it has good bass

S1 Pro, simply the best.

Can it run with bluetooth from a mixboard on a live gig?

Fantastic real world review. Boss is always more on mids. Not so great at the low end. Was just wondering if you have tried pairing this with a subwoofer. Will that make it suitable for say an audience of 100 ?

This is excellent. Subscribed. I’m between this and the Fishman Charge. Does that Taylor have the ES2 pickup system? I have Taylor’s with same ES2 and have heard reports it does not sound good with this Bose but your guitar sounded great

Here’s a very well kept secret ! The Fishman subwoofer 330 sounds amazing! with the S1-Pro and it’s priced at $400.00

This guy is cool. Sounds good live unlike 99% of everyone else Ive heard including my own gig. Agree S1 pro sux for musicians but prob good for small tyme faux DJs.

Hi Stuart, You sound great!!! I'm having a difficult time from gear shops getting the answer to my question so I guess I might have better luck if I ask an owner. I want to know if the Bose S1 charges while in use with the power cord plugged into the wall. Thank you Liberty

What do you charge for a show

What you use for looping? I was heard blues club street ex and sound very awful when compared to this Boss but your reviews keep my away from Boss S1 for looping. Cheers

hi do i need a mixer for this thing to cut the lo frequency of my mic or does the speaker come with the setting

Nice playing! Where’d you get the black shirt you had on? It’s 👌

Will this be loud enough for pub/bar gigs ? I have a Boss acoustic singer pro, looking for something to bump the sound up but I’m looking for portable and loud.

In your opinion is this the best affordable amp for singing (Guitar also ofcoure...)

I find that I have to play cleaner through the S1. It picks up every little mistake. Do you find the same?

Thanks for a very informative "real world" evaluation! Have you tried out the JBL eon one compact? I was wondering if it sounds as good with the ability to handle low end percussion better, due to its 8" speaker

Do you think it would suitable for a singer with backing tracks to use for some busking and then home use such as a small party?

Thank you for your review. May I ask what column array do you have?

I’m debating an S1 Pro and an F1 sub. I’ve heard good things. Then again L1 1S with B2 Bass could be just as good for the same price.

Did you use a DI box for your acoustic guitar? Or did you just plug in? Also you said you used an F1 too for a gig, did that need a DI box? Can you use an electric guitar with it? Thanks for the video it was really helpful. Cheers from California!

Sir, can we use that s1 pro as an interface? Like doing a simple recording. Do you know? Thanks. Btw, good job on the video.

Hello, what is your loop system please ?

Can you link them together for a duo? Two guitar two vocals?

What stand are you using for your iPad?

how long does it last outside? i play like 8 hours some days, and is there a way to add battery by buying another one? thank u

Sir did you used the reverd function and what what was the volume level?

Good guitarist but I have to say i thought your vocals are lacking a bit and would reccomend a peddle boss ve or something with harmoniser n looper for you ....that speaker for small background eatery like this yeah...soul destroying gigs for any performer I think ....really are..... but sayin this you probably have bigger kit for bigger venues were people wanna listen ...Can i ask does the battery last 4 hours or 11 ?

Hey Stuart ..nice tips.. Im a musician like u .gignn n buskin. I use loopstation300.n i was looking for battery amp that if u make percusion like bangin slap the guitar..what du u think is good... Im planingbto get a JBL eon one..what du u think about .for slpin bangin for looping..u think it can handle. Thanks so much.. Nuce plyin too..

Hi! Which of 6.5-inch battery-powered speakers can produce sounds in such an urban area near or at a great distance. Like, for example, Everse 8 in the street version? When a backing vocalist with a speaker is both nearby and from afar, his music and voice can be clearly heard at a distance of 200 meters and even further in the fifth minute of this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yoybdtGrRm4.html What else could be similar to Everse 8? There is no need for the compact Jbl EON One. I have been using it for 3 years and have already sold it because it is twice as weak in volume as Everse 8. You can hear it clearly here in the short 1.5 minute story ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OMPkPStMgo4.html The speaker should be loud, compact and lightweight so that the musician can transport it on a special trolley (this is also seen in the video). Will the Bose S1 Pro be enough on such a city street ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uJeYJNi0bb8.html Where is another musician playing guitar and singing in Everse 8? Thank you in advance!

How do you think the speaker will handle a bass guitar?

Sound on the speakers is a little pale. Anyway you made it look good.

Lu lagi nyari lagu viga si bose bro, tapi ga muncul2? ,, sama bro

Whats the song you play @4:30min

Get a lil two ch mixer with phantom

Hi, Can we take the lineout of Bose S1 Pro, and connect to a audio interface for recording purposes. Typically to a behringer uca222.

Do you think that Bose s1 pro is better than cube street ex?

Best speaker ever for vocals. Not line in music though. Don't get it for a boom boox. If you want it for just music then get a Jbl partybox of your choice.

Is it loud enough?

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