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Any Vintage Acoustic Control Corp Users?

I got hold of a near mint Acoustic 220 head some time ago. I've had this amp before, and I truly think it sounds better than any I've used. Its like a SVT but cleaner and more focused, but still very warm. Its hard to believe there's no tubes in it. Do we have any other Acoustic fans on here?
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Nice stuff you guys have. Good to know there is still some love for the old stuff out there.

I think I can finally qualify to join the club:
I just got my first 370 head before Christmas to go with my 301 cab I got last year. Im still giving it some TLC (cleaning, new knobs, minor internal repairs, thats all). So now I have my 371 combo! Ill do a NAD post when Im done (soon) but here is how it looked when I bought it.

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My 301. It still has the original Cerwin Vega 188EB (8Ω) but I recently modded it with an Eminence ALPHA-6CBMRA installed in the upper horn (high passed at 800 Hz). Yes…full disclosure sacrilege but it sounds great with my SM400 on top.
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A picture of my 301 at a party (no SM400 there). I need some new gig photos...
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I'll use any excuse to post pics of two of my favorite pedals. They were made by TB'er JohnK.

The first one is a 370 PA (power amp) pedal. It literally sounds like a cranked 370, but not at the ear splitting level you'd have to to play at if you used a 370 head.

The second pedal is a 370 preamp in pedal form. Both pedals are the exact same circuit as a 370 head and use actual vintage ACC components.
 

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I have a 1970 150 with a 6x10 sealed cab. Sold as a guitar amp back then. Can be used as a medium volume bass rig if you keep control of the low freqs. Massively loud for guitar but no distortion. Sorry, no pics handy. Here's a sample:Early 1970’s Acoustic Control 150 Amp with 104 Cabinet
I've got one of those cabinets. I use it with my GK 400 RB. Works pretty well. I've had it for about 15 years. It's my outside rig.
 
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I had an Acoustic 150 and its matching 4 x 12 bottom to play some rhythm guitar through back in the early 70s. I only had it about 6 months and was never able to get the sound I was looking for.
The bass player in our band at the time had a 360 with two 370 bottoms and it had lots of thump with his Gibson bass.

That original Acoustic stuff is 40 -50 years old and its good to see that its still working.
 
I've been using this 320 and a 402 cab on somewhere close to 100 gigs a year for the last 6. It gets worked hard but hasn't had any trouble keeping up:

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I've also got the 408 cab with 4x15's, all original, two re-coned, but I've only gotten to use it on two gigs and a recording session that never saw the light of day. Maybe they can bury me in it when I'm dead:

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Here's the only time I got to gig my 370 with a 301 cab. It was pretty much a religious experience. Weirdly, the 301 in this photo isn't mine although I have one exactly like it. Apparently I didn't wear a belt that day:

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This is my at home pissing off the neighbors practice rig. The amp in the 118 combo died so I play my 230 through the speaker. I'm really starting to like the 230's built-in distortion. Oh yeah, anyone wanna buy an old Hagstrom bass?:

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In this one I'm using my friend's beat-to-hell 220. It's the amp that made me fall in love with ACC. Before this discovery I needed toobz. It sounds pretty much like how that plastic cup full of Bulleit Bourbon tastes:

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In further Acoustic nerdom, I had to do some extra work to find the correct speakers for my cabs. It was part of the fun, really. I found a Cerwin Vega 187 on the classifieds here to replace the ridiculously crappy 18" that a previous owner put in the 301. They really should've just paid for a re-cone. Night and day on that one. I got the two 15" Eminence that belong in the 402 from @map34157 who posted those cool pedals a few posts above. I bought that cab with some nice sounding Peavey Black Widows in it but since sold them. The 118 combo came to me with a seized up speaker so I found another white dust capped Eminence to replace it.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I kinda went total overkill this past summer and bought an Acoustic Black Widow bass too (seller's pic from it's listing):

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