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    Default L6B'S Vintage Bass Amps And Cabs Zoo

    zoo

    an establishment that maintains a collection of wild animals, (No pun intended) typically in a certain place, for study, conservation, or display to the public.


    What's the Zoo about? Well since I'll be sitting around waiting till next month (Aug 2014) (hopefully no longer) to receive my Fender 500
    Rumble Bass Amp! And also I just got back my Line6 effects unit from where I had it for awhile and thought while I waited to hook this baby up to the Rumble, I am reacquainting myself with the unit and its vintage amps and cabs (effects etc).

    So I decided that I wanted to see these beast (Amps) and cabs performed in their natural habitat, who played then, what music groups played them, what basses were played with them and how they sounded etc to make comparison to the real deal.

    So for about the next (counting this one) 20 weeks, 1 per week we shall explore these beast, you might even learn a thing or two (I know I have!!)

    So here is our first vintage beast performing in it's natural habitat and after the video will be some information on this vintage animal!! GROWL.....

    The Acoustic 360 Bass Amp and cab

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    Santana*bassist*David Brown rocking a couple*360*stacks at Woodstock


    The Acoustic 360, was used by
    Larry Graham, John Paul Jones, and Jaco Pastorius. In the early 70’s Acoustic 360, featuring a separate
    preamp “head,” plus a powered cabinet with a single 18-
    inch speaker in a folded horn. The 360 with the built in
    fuzz and tuner was the choice was John Paul Jones’ choice
    for Led Zeppelin’s Low end—he can be seen playing thru
    two in the film, The Song Remains the Same. But Jaco’s work
    with Weather Report really showed us what a versatile amp
    the 360 really was. When the band left him alone on stage
    for his bass solo, he really wrenched everything he could
    out of his gear which included two Acoustic 360’s, a wah
    pedal, a rackmount “blue” MXR digital delay and his trusty
    Jazz bass. Towards the end of his solo he would stomp on
    the wah pedal, turn on the fuzz and do a great rendition of
    the Star Spangled Banner. He got everything out of that amp, from mellow jazz to
    speaker shredding feedback.

    Led Zeppelin bass amp
    http://www.led-zeppelin.org/studio-and-live-gear/964
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    If anyone is interested in the new Acoustic 360 bass amp you can check it out here!! Hey Elmo!! Check out the Neons on this one!!

    https://www.facebook.com/AcousticBassUSA

    http://archive.today/link:www.acousticbassusa.com



    By the way, if anyone is interested and is wondering what a folded horn cab is etc, here is a couple of links on it.
    https://www.google.com/search?q=a+po...m=122&ie=UTF-8

    https://www.google.com/search?q=what...w=1024&bih=515

    https://www.google.com/search?q=what...w=1024&bih=515

    Until next week, Jam on!!

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    Line6bassmanTR

    2nd installment of The Amp Zoo is here - http://www.thunderrow.com/newthread....ostthread&f=31
    Last edited by line6bassman; 07-25-2014 at 11:07 PM.
    GO LOW!!!STAY HIGH!!!ON BASS THAT IS!!!

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    Oh, boy! I look forward to these reports from you!! Thanks, l6b!

    Oh, and nice strings!
    Last edited by Elmeaux; 07-18-2014 at 07:00 PM.


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    Folded horn cabs were very efficient and could produce high sound levels through fairly small amps compared to other speakers of the day. Back in the 60s and 70s some of the Altec Lansing cabs were folded horns (the A-7 Voice of the Theatre) and a few others.

    Loud, but not very clear articulation as they did not respond to transients that quickly and their frequency response was not flat, often with peaks and valleys because the box/horn could not be optimized for all frequencies.
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    For more on this historic amp and it's modern reincarnation, see the May 2013 issue of Bass Player.
    Brian

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    Cool! Looking forward to how this shapes up!

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