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Acoustic rig opinions

#21
I don't know about all of the GC Acoustic stuff - but the rig in the practice studio (some head and an 810) at the local GC is the worst sounding POS I have ever played through. I can almost get a useable tone by running my Tech 21 Para Driver in front of it - it's pretty horrible though.
 
#22
Pimpernel Smith said:
It's interesting to me that people are speaking up about their using present day Acoustic amps. I used to play Ampeg B-15's and thought nothing was better, than I played Trace Elliott followed buy SWR 15's.

I tried the little Acoustic 260 mini stack, and loved the tone. I've used it for about a year and a half and it meets my needs and sounds very good.

I also tried the Acoustic combos and was very impressed with their tone, and simplicity and the low prices.



I think there's a snob factor working against them when it comes to these amps. If your ears like the sound, and you like the size, and the power, buy it. I know several experienced bass players who have bought them and use them.



We simply have to get over the reference to the old Acoustic Amps.



Just my tuppence.
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I seen several bassists use GC Acoustics on gigs and they usually sound great. I love my 260 mini stack for a bedroom amp but I do hate when I have to use it in low volume gigs with the band. I believe it's mostly due to the cab design, though. I replaced the stock driver with an Eminence Legend and while it was a huge improvement, that cab is still incapable of giving any tone in a band setting, though it is surprisingly loud enough.

I don't really think it's fair to compare the new GC Acoustics with the ACC amps since the have nothing in common except for the logo.
 
#23
FWIW.........
I have a B600h head, B200combo, B15 cabinet, B410 cabinet.
I have used the 600 head to power the B15 cab, the 410 and the 410 paired with the 15. The 600 and the 15 was ok, the 600 and the 410 was very good. So was the 600 with the 410-15 together.

The B200 combo works very well for my needs (open mike night house band duties, 50-75 people bar gigs). Adding the B15 cab to the B200 combo was a bust. I didn't know why until I did some digging. Here's why. The B200 combo is 200 watts into 4ohm. The internal speaker is 4ohm. The external speaker output jack is wired in SERIES! So... adding a (not so efficent) 8ohm load to a 4ohm speaker equals approximately 12.5-13ohm, thus lowering the power to 100 watts or so. Now I understood why adding the B15 cabinet was so underwhelming.
Keep this in mind if you get the B200 combo.

The B200 head has both speaker outputs in PARALELL, same as the B600, which is the normal way of doing it, so adding 2 8ohm cabs together will get you 4ohms and the full 200 watts.
The B450combo uses the B600 head with the 2x10 neos.

FWIW,YMMV

Ken R
 
#24
I would say get the b200h head alone rather then the combo for what was previously stated above when it comes to trying to add an extension cab. I bought my b200h head used for $100 and tried both a 4x10 alone and a 1x15 alone. Went with the 4x10 since it was more punchier and more for my taste
 
#25
I'd also like to add that within weeks I found a super well taken care of ampeg 4x10 on the cheap and that paired with my b200h is my current rig and I love it. So another perk of having a separate head is being able to upgrade just the cab at a later time :)
 

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