Product: Acoustic Control Corporation 123
Price Paid: US $360.00
Submitted
09/08/2004
at
02:41pm
by
Doc Richards
Email: docrichards at juno<dot>com
Features
:
10
Made in 1981. The amp had enough power to overdrive a medium sized room. Came with a footswitch for channels and reverb. The amp was 125 watts, solid state and had a clean sound. It was brown tolex with sienna accents on the front panel.
Sound Quality
:
10
The sound was incredible. It could do anything using the graphic equalizer. The manual gave approximate setting for various performers sounds...some of them were correct!!!
Reliability
:
10
This amp never let me down. I finally blew a speaker on it in 1993 and had to replace it with an EV.
Customer Support
:
10
Never had any dealings with the factory. It was incredibly durable and trustworthy.
Overall Rating
:
10
This amp was still working great when I gave it to my son with the matching Gibson V2 guitar in 1993.
Product: Acoustic Control Corporation 123
Price Paid: 500 (australian) used
Submitted
05/12/2004
at
08:05pm
by
josh brannelly
Email: joshamd at hotmail<dot>com
Features
:
9
This unit came about in 1974. Might i say very very versatile it is a fantasticly loud piece of equipment just like its brother the 124. The overdrive channell has plenty of volume and it keeps together well(no speaker breakup)Feed back tones are nice for a solid state amp. Plenty of eq. Ie:bass mid treb and 5 band grafic which allows for plenty of different feels from warm rhythems to gutsy solo's. The only problem i had with this amp is over drive just didn't have the tone i was looking for but i still use this amp to power my 4x12 cab and i have a jmp1 pre amp/ processor providing the sounds but the 123 has enough eq to tidy up pretty much what ever guitar i plug in to it. Very versatile and very very loud.
Sound Quality
:
9
clean is real clean. has a real nice kind of metaly tone like that of curt cobains acoustic at live in new york. overdrive need a little less bass and mid tones to get good sounds but i plug my 123 into a 4x12 which i recomend to anyone who owns one of these. grouse feedback tones though for a solid amp.
Reliability
:
10
This thing is the oll faithfull of my amp collection in 30 odd years i have only blown 1 fuse and had the power lead replaced because of some fraying. ohh yeah and it has been droped a few times but she still runs as hard as the day i first got her.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
They closed down but there is a site out there and the guy that runs the site can get his hands on schematics and such
Overall Rating
:
10
fantastic nuff said
