Acoustic Control Corporation 118

It's a very simple bass amp, made in the early 1980's it can last a lifetime if you take care of it. It's not so sofisticated, but I never ask much out of a bass amp, I rarely use amp's eq.
It has 2 inputs, bass, mid and high eq, volume knob -of course- both high and low boost switches, and a line out on the back.
Although it's not all that powerful, it can be very much used in live performances. You should consider that the real use for bass amps live in large shows, is to work as a monitor for the bass player. The audience hears a whole different amplification.

Sounds really great, it has a nice vintagy bass sound. Again, it's very basic.

It's very strongly built, I've own it for many years and never had to do anything more than replacing a screw.

There's no real technical support. You'd have to find a good technician for yourself.

It's nice, it's simple, it's powerful. All I ask in a bass amp.

My Acoustic Control Corp. Model 118 combo amp was made in early 1981. It's a very simple amp, probably around 50 watts, has bass, middle, treble, dials and a power boost button and a brightness boost button. 2 inputs, one channel. It's great for practice and would do fine at small gigs but you can't play a big room with it cause it's only 50 watts. It's HEAVY, maybe 60 lbs. Solidly built cabinet loaded with an Eminence speaker which I replaced with a better speaker. I also play guitar through this amp. No loops, or headphone jack...has a line out in the back. It's solid state like most Acoustic amps. Internally, the amp is layed out impressively, well designed and built, and very rugged. Very simple electronics inside.

I like the tone for bass....I think solid state is better for bass than tube as most small tube bass amps fart out a lot worse than solid state bass amps do....I dunno why exactly but I've been told it's because a tube amp has to work really hard to reproduce bottom end frequencies...solid state amps don't have to work that hard to do the same thing. The tone is very nice for solid state...very close to tube quality for guitar work...not harsh or artificial sounding like some cheaper solid state amps. I use single coils and humbuckers on my basses and guitars and all sound good through this amp. Nice harmonic content...OK, it's not a blackface Deluxe Reverb, but it sounds pretty good. It runs very quiet...no hiss or hum. This amp is suited for clean playing of bass or guitar...NO, you can't turn it up and get a blues tone...you just get a louder slightly distorted tone...not good for Stevie Ray playing styles. But it will do nice clean blues, country, or rock styles.

This amp is designed and built very straightforward...simplicity and durability are built in. It's over 20 years old and sounds as good as the day it rolled off the line.

Service is iffy...the company is gone but I understand there are guys out there who know how to fix them.

I've been playin for 30 years for fun, not as a pro. I own 15 guitars, 2 basses, and about 9 amps, Fenders, Vox's, Traynor, etc. This amp gets used mostly for bass practice...it sounds better than plugging my bass into my Super Reverb any day. I highly recommend these Acoustic amps if you can get a good price...no, I wouldn't give 500 bucks for it but I'd pop for 200 for any Acoustic amp I could find...they are solid and sound good...heck, the Doors used them and got AWESOME music out of them. I saw the Doors over 20 times...wow, they were awesome and Robbie always played through Acoustic amps and got GREAT tones. I'd buy another one in a flash.