MetalManiac
Li'l Junior Member
Here's an all original vintage 1981 original
model 165 amplifier made by Acoustic Corp. . This is a tube amp kind of similar in concept to the old original Boogie combos, high power, high gain in a solid Walnut and Maple 1x12" cabinet . This is the same "Acoustic"amp company that produced the famous vintage Acoustic bass amps . This has 60/100 watts switchable output from 4 6L6's , two cascaded channels each with its own gain and volume controls, bass, mid, treble with pull boosts on the bass and treble knobs, presence, reverb, and a 5 band graphic eq. The two channels can be switched from the front panel or with a footswitch (not included). It has a replaced Peavey Scorpion Plus speaker. Amp has been recently had the filter caps replaced . In addition to the tube preamp, you can select a FET input for a slightly different sound or run a outboard preamp or sans amp DI pedal straight into the power amp in input and have an monster loud 100 watt bass or guitar tube amp. It's got a few marks here but overall looks pretty good for the age. Grillcoth is original and the wood cabinet looks real nice. Amps working great,should be a solid performer for years to come. These Amps retailed for 1000.00 back in 1981. . Nice clean tones and CRUSHING Mesa MKI style high Gain. The original back trim panel that goes across the tubes is missing, however i made a new one..
To be honest, its an ill concieved idea that Acoustic came up with after the Mesa Boogie came out. Mesa promptly sued the dung out of Acoustic and shortly therafter they folded..probably just a symptom of the collapse and not the root cause, I'd guess it just cost to much for Acoustic to keep producing their astonishing quality bass amps by that time, and they tried to take it to a divergent direction, but thats purely speculation on my part.
Ive never heard a MKI, or at least ots been a long time but I do have an old Marshall, and this Acoustic that I have is just absolutely crushing high gain,but not the modern Dual Recto style and I'd guess thats what a Boogie original MKIv sounds sort of like, of course, the Boogies were no doubt built to an exacting higher standard, and the similarity of the wood cabinet and EQ is probably where it ends. I dont want to keep this amp. ..its too exotic and Im afraid it'll blow up, but turned up high through a Marshall 4x12 its a 100 watt Metal Blast furnace! Thats waht i want, but I'll wait till i can afford a real Boogie one day maybe.
model 165 amplifier made by Acoustic Corp. . This is a tube amp kind of similar in concept to the old original Boogie combos, high power, high gain in a solid Walnut and Maple 1x12" cabinet . This is the same "Acoustic"amp company that produced the famous vintage Acoustic bass amps . This has 60/100 watts switchable output from 4 6L6's , two cascaded channels each with its own gain and volume controls, bass, mid, treble with pull boosts on the bass and treble knobs, presence, reverb, and a 5 band graphic eq. The two channels can be switched from the front panel or with a footswitch (not included). It has a replaced Peavey Scorpion Plus speaker. Amp has been recently had the filter caps replaced . In addition to the tube preamp, you can select a FET input for a slightly different sound or run a outboard preamp or sans amp DI pedal straight into the power amp in input and have an monster loud 100 watt bass or guitar tube amp. It's got a few marks here but overall looks pretty good for the age. Grillcoth is original and the wood cabinet looks real nice. Amps working great,should be a solid performer for years to come. These Amps retailed for 1000.00 back in 1981. . Nice clean tones and CRUSHING Mesa MKI style high Gain. The original back trim panel that goes across the tubes is missing, however i made a new one..
To be honest, its an ill concieved idea that Acoustic came up with after the Mesa Boogie came out. Mesa promptly sued the dung out of Acoustic and shortly therafter they folded..probably just a symptom of the collapse and not the root cause, I'd guess it just cost to much for Acoustic to keep producing their astonishing quality bass amps by that time, and they tried to take it to a divergent direction, but thats purely speculation on my part.
Ive never heard a MKI, or at least ots been a long time but I do have an old Marshall, and this Acoustic that I have is just absolutely crushing high gain,but not the modern Dual Recto style and I'd guess thats what a Boogie original MKIv sounds sort of like, of course, the Boogies were no doubt built to an exacting higher standard, and the similarity of the wood cabinet and EQ is probably where it ends. I dont want to keep this amp. ..its too exotic and Im afraid it'll blow up, but turned up high through a Marshall 4x12 its a 100 watt Metal Blast furnace! Thats waht i want, but I'll wait till i can afford a real Boogie one day maybe.
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