I had the later version the 126.
I ended up having two that I would stack on there sides one on the other.
Not mine but a photo of one...
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The Acoustic Club
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I ended up having two that I would stack on there sides one on the other.
Not mine but a photo of one...
My model 126. Purchased from GC used online for $149 + shipping about $50 if memory serves...
it is still in excellent condition. I've had it about 4 years I think.
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Time for a little ACC love here!
That is one hell of a bass! You do any mods yourself?
Thanks.
I had the body built by @/\/\3phist0 and the neck was built by Freestone. The tapped PU's were made by Tom Brantley. I assembled it. Wired stereo. By far my best sounding bass. The pic is shown with uneven string spacing…of course fixed by now.
The build thread link posted below.
Awesome StereoPlayer! Just awesome. One day I'll have a personally designed and built bass too but assembled by someone else. I build submarines not basses.
Thanks again!
I've wanted a bass like this for so long. Just finding the right person to help me was the hardest part. The PU locations are just what I wanted. It roars! And the PU's are just as nice! It plays so nice!
Sneaky Acoustic 360 Sighting in Summer Of Soul movie.
We went to see the documentary. Excellent music and footage. Very thought provoking. Well worth checking out!
Of course, Me being a gear geek, I was checking out the guitars and amps on the stage. The vast majority being Fender, until Sly and the Family Stone got up. Then we are confronted by walls of Sunn amps. Larry Graham appears to be running through four Fender Bassman heads stacked on a dolly.
But then I noticed that at the bottom of that stack was a Acoustic 360, and that was what he was plugged into!
This makes me think the festival may have had an agreement with Fender, or maybe there was some kind of sponsorship deal, that made it necessary for Graham to hide his amp.
Anyone know anything else about this?
We went to see the documentary. Excellent music and footage. Very thought provoking. Well worth checking out!
Of course, Me being a gear geek, I was checking out the guitars and amps on the stage. The vast majority being Fender, until Sly and the Family Stone got up. Then we are confronted by walls of Sunn amps. Larry Graham appears to be running through four Fender Bassman heads stacked on a dolly.
But then I noticed that at the bottom of that stack was a Acoustic 360, and that was what he was plugged into!
This makes me think the festival may have had an agreement with Fender, or maybe there was some kind of sponsorship deal, that made it necessary for Graham to hide his amp.
Anyone know anything else about this?
@Roxbororob how's it hanging Brother? Are you playing out much?
Hey! I was glad to see your post, an ACC sighting has been long overdue!
Its been a long dry spell...but things are picking up. I have a gig in a "big" room in November (fingers crossed), so guess what rig I be hauling out...?
And you? All good down south?
Its been a long dry spell...but things are picking up. I have a gig in a "big" room in November (fingers crossed), so guess what rig I be hauling out...?
And you? All good down south?
A long dry spell is right!! But, Things have blown up quite a bit in the last few months.
Ive got two projects going: A full on rock project, and an organ driven old school funk thing that I'm really excited about. The drummers are excellent in both!
Labella Flatwounds and my Acoustic 220 on the two. Tone To The Bone!!
Looking at a BN3 115 combo amp. Any info on them or the rotory tone control thingy. Thanks
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There's an Acoustic 4x10 cab for sale on Reverb (pickup only), and am trying to determine what speakers it's loaded with. The drivers seem to be Eminence (squarebacks) from 1972, but I can't deduce what the cones are. It is very likely a recone.
It is advertised as a bass cab, but somewhere in this thread someone mentioned the Eminence squarebacks are intended as guitar speakers. Any clarification appreciated.
Link: Acoustic 4x10 speaker cabinet Black Tolex | Arbutus Music | Reverb
It is advertised as a bass cab, but somewhere in this thread someone mentioned the Eminence squarebacks are intended as guitar speakers. Any clarification appreciated.
Link: Acoustic 4x10 speaker cabinet Black Tolex | Arbutus Music | Reverb
Possibly they are guitar speakers. The voice coils look small. Not an expert here…
Those are guitar cabinets, marketed and sold as such back in the day. I have two old Acoustic catalogs (well copies of them) and they are most definitely guitar cabinets.
Acoustic Guitar amps from the ACC days are not worth much really so I suspect there's a bit of marketing at play here since vintage ACC bass stuff is considered desirable. As a bass cabinet this thing is no desirable.
Analogeezer
I recently joined the forum so I will now join this club 
Picture is my all original, 220 head from 1978....purchased new in September of 1978 for $330 (that would be nearly $1,400 today).
I probably did 300+ gigs with this thing back in the day but stopped gigging with it (except taking it to gigs as a backup to my rack system) around 1988. Last time I used it seriously was as part of a practice rig circa 1998 - 2000.
The reason it still looks so nice is I always carried it around in the factory box and made sure I was the guy who loaded it in, set it up and loaded it out.
With my original rig (two homemade 1 x 15" cabs in a stack each with a JBL-K140) the head actually fell off the stack (from like 5+ feet up) onto concrete twice before I started putting a towel around it to dampen the vibrations.
The amp kept playing, in fact I didn't even notice until I turned around and saw it on the floor. Lucky for me it flew straight off and flat onto the concrete, just smooshed one of the hard rubber feet a tad.
In all of this time (going on 43 years) I have had to make one repair; the power switch stopped working and when I opened it up I found a large ceramic cap across the switch had one of the legs broken off. Resoldered it and the switch then worked!
While it has some hum, hiss, and noise it's really no worse than it did as a new amp; older designs tended to be this way.
The head on top is one of the Guitar Center Acoustics; bought on a lark as an experiment. Other than the name and the logo these are NOTHING like the old ACC Acoustics.
I guess you could say nostalgia was part of the factor in my purchase decision but the fact it was only $199 (on sale, they normally are $279) was the major reason. A cheap way to check out the Class D thing.
If I could find a nice example of one of the original late 70's era matching 2 x 15" cabs (or a pair of the single 15" cabs) I would be all over that but most I have seen for sale look like they have been dragged behind a truck since the 1970's LOL.
Analogeezer
Welcome to the Acoustic Club @Analogeezer !View attachment 4361182 I recently joined the forum so I will now join this club
Picture is my all original, 220 head from 1978....purchased new in September of 1978 for $330 (that would be nearly $1,400 today).
I probably did 300+ gigs with this thing back in the day but stopped gigging with it (except taking it to gigs as a backup to my rack system) around 1988. Last time I used it seriously was as part of a practice rig circa 1998 - 2000.
The reason it still looks so nice is I always carried it around in the factory box and made sure I was the guy who loaded it in, set it up and loaded it out.
With my original rig (two homemade 1 x 15" cabs in a stack each with a JBL-K140) the head actually fell off the stack (from like 5+ feet up) onto concrete twice before I started putting a towel around it to dampen the vibrations.
The amp kept playing, in fact I didn't even notice until I turned around and saw it on the floor. Lucky for me it flew straight off and flat onto the concrete, just smooshed one of the hard rubber feet a tad.
In all of this time (going on 43 years) I have had to make one repair; the power switch stopped working and when I opened it up I found a large ceramic cap across the switch had one of the legs broken off. Resoldered it and the switch then worked!
While it has some hum, hiss, and noise it's really no worse than it did as a new amp; older designs tended to be this way.
The head on top is one of the Guitar Center Acoustics; bought on a lark as an experiment. Other than the name and the logo these are NOTHING like the old ACC Acoustics.
I guess you could say nostalgia was part of the factor in my purchase decision but the fact it was only $199 (on sale, they normally are $279) was the major reason. A cheap way to check out the Class D thing.
If I could find a nice example of one of the original late 70's era matching 2 x 15" cabs (or a pair of the single 15" cabs) I would be all over that but most I have seen for sale look like they have been dragged behind a truck since the 1970's LOL.
Analogeezer
I own a few vintage ACC pieces as do several others here.
270, 320, 120 heads, 126 combo, 402 & 406w cabs. It took a while but everything was acquired in the last 4-5 years.
They don't get out as much as I was hoping they would, mostly due to Covid Ha ha ha, but I don't think I'll ever get rid of them now.
