The Acoustic Club

[StereoPlayer]

Back in 1974 I would often use both of my 371 stacks, typically one on each side of the drum kit. I seem to recall it being somewhat full-sounding.


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Very, very cool!

 

[JacklegBass]

Awesome. Guitar player using a 450/470?

It's a 470 that he regrets parting with. He bought the 470, the rare Acoustic standalone blue horn, and the Marshall cabinet to replace a 260/261. A few years ago he gave the horn to me (the one you see in my avatar).

 

[StingRay85]

Awesome. How can you hook it up to a bass Amp? Using a cross over?

 

[10cc]

Back in 1974 I would often use both of my 371 stacks, typically one on each side of the drum kit. I seem to recall it being somewhat full-sounding.


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Please tell me all three of you guys kept those instruments.

 

[ghostinthemach]

Acoustic 450 bass amp head | eBay

 

[JacklegBass]

Awesome. How can you hook it up to a bass Amp? Using a cross over?

Nope, it's intended to be paralleled with a cabinet from the full range output of an Acoustic amp. It has the same series high-pass capacitor found in the 261 and 201 cabinets, and just like with those cabinets the signal to the 15" drivers isn't crossed over or low-passed. You certainly could feed it from a crossover -- I have played around with driving the horn from the high pass output of an AMP BH-420 driving a separate power amp.

 

[JacklegBass]

Please tell me all three of you guys kept those instruments.

Not sure about the Les Paul, I'll have to ask him, but I've still got the 1962 Jazz Bass albeit with a replacement factory Fender neck. I'll never let that go. I've lost touch with the drummer.

 

[StingRay85]

Nice 220 specimen spotted. Only bottom white stripe. Do I need 4 220s?

 

[StereoPlayer]

Nice 220 specimen spotted. Only bottom white stripe. Do I need 4 220s?

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Yes!...

 

[StingRay85]

I paid 350 for a beauty together with a 402, 425 for a not-so-bad one together with a 406w, and 75 for a donor amp, but which is fully functional in the end. This guy asks 285, bidding at 255. I dunno

 

[StereoPlayer]

I paid 350 for a beauty together with a 402, 425 for a not-so-bad one together with a 406w, and 75 for a donor amp, but which is fully functional in the end. This guy asks 285, bidding at 255. I dunno

Yup, I get it...

 

[ghostinthemach]

Yup, I’d get it..

There. I fixed it for you.

 

[StingRay85]

Lol I made a bid of 255.01

 

[StingRay85]

Lol he accepted

 

[ghostinthemach]

@StingRay85 i hope you’re still gigging and can get some live-time with your collection.
I gig as much as I want, based on offers from my friends with ‘bands’, but I seldom am able to fit my larger ACC gear into any of those situations.
So my collection lives a very leisurely life.

 

[StingRay85]

Currently I stick to playing on my own, and collecting some cool ACC gear. Im building a music room above my garage for heavy fuzzed out jamming, it's almost done. Biamping to power my 215s, and OD towards the 12s. It will be cool

 

[StingRay85]

Any thoughts on what's the best bass match with Acoustic amps? I'm considering to trade my Stingray 5 for a US P bass. I feel like a very active bass and B string is not the perfect bass for the amp.

 

[Count Bassie]

Any thoughts on what's the best bass match with Acoustic amps? I'm considering to trade my Stingray 5 for a US P bass. I feel like a very active bass and B string is not the perfect bass for the amp.

Oh, I dunno. A Pbass is, of course, a match made amongst the stars... consider, however, John Deacon's career with Queen- Pbasses, AND Stingrays, through a 371 stack, or multiple stacks.
I'd hang onto that Stingray, unless you want to set up a payment plan and sell it to me...

P.S. Check out the bass sound/tone on The Game or Hot Space, News of the World, any of it really- but I think the later records were produced differently and the bass really jumps a little more. The beginning of "Play the Game" features a heavy, almost brown-note-like bass gliss downward that drops right into your gut. Likely a Pbass through a 370... so there you go. You need one of each.

 

[Roxbororob]

I would say that a passive precison bass (or jazz) is a match made in heaven for Acoustic tonality.

 

[ghostinthemach]

I totally agree w/both @Count Bassie and @Roxbororob.

The Stingray will take some ‘careful’ use of volume controls on both bass and amp, whereas any passive bass these amps are just more happy with.

Experimentation indicated that the active basses didn’t sound as clean ‘wide open’, but a happy spot was possible.

I also noticed that my 270 was a little more unhappy with my active basses than my others (120-126 & 320), but even that depends on how much headroom you have for the situation.

For gigs with ACC gear so far the only actives I have used were a MIM Marcus Miller jazz and a MIA P-bass Deluxe a/p.
The P got used both active and passive, while the active-only Jazz was tamed with the volume controls.

That jazz-ACC combination earned kudos from audience members to the sound tech at an annual outdoor big-stage gig.

The old-school tech, who usually compliments my sound every year knew exactly how to mic my old-school rig:

I’d brought modern gear every year and he used direct out and liked it, but when I showed up with my ACC stack, he grinned wide and said, ‘I know what to do’.
First time people came to the sound desk to mention how great the bass sounds.