Acoustic Control Corporation G60T 112 Combo

The clean channel is really nice on this amp. The bright switch does what it says. With the bright switch off, it has a mellow, tweedish sound to it. It breaks at about 4-5, but only if you dig in. Cranked(too loud) it sounds friggin great. I tried an attenuator, and it loses all of it's tonal goodness. The reverb is nothing to right home about.
The gain channel is kaka.

I bought this because a long long time ago....a guitarist in a band bought a new Acoustic tube combo, though it wasn't this one, and I loved the sound. Maybe the gain channel on that one was useable..maybe I heard things differently in my youth.
Anyway, you really can't go wrong with the clean channel, pretending the other one doesn't exist, because even as a one channel tube amp, it rocks.

Made in the early 80's. Simple but good, 60 tube watts, one 12" speaker combo. Has: one clean one overdrive channel with variable drive, they are foot swichable (only one set of tone controles though) bright switch, reverb (foot switch), effects loop. Does everthing well. The clean channel gets nice bit of drive with hot humbuckers but can be very clean. The bright is very bright for county twang or 50's riffs. I can get a nice jazz tone too. The best part is the great tube compression that lets you sustain for next to forever.

The clean channel gets nice bit of drive with hot humbuckers but can be very clean. The bright is very bright for county twang or 50's riffs. The overdrive goes from just a bit to full metal. I can get a nice jazz tone too. The best part is the great tube compression that lets you sustain for next to forever.

The only problem I have had was a tube came loose after shipping but I have had it for less than a year. It is over 25 years old and still solid.

Gone and almost forgotten excpet by those lucky enough to have one

I have been playing bass and guitar for over thrity years with more guitar as time goes by. I would look for one if it was stolen. I love that it sounds great at practice or gig volumes and that its different; no one else I know has one. It would be nice to have separate eq for each channel but I don't find this to be the problem some others have. If you find one buy it.

2 channel, 100 watt tube amp w/ graphic EQ. They were sued by Mesa/Boogie for the similarities between designs. 6L6s. More features and power than I need.

I never use the lead channel...the mesa thing isn't really my thing, and this doesn't do it very well. This has clean for days, up on a level with a Twin. It is very trebly, but the EQ can make up for that. The reverb is gorgeous.

Gone decades without major problems. These amps are very hard to service because of the sheer amount of circuitry put into such a small box.

No longer extant.

I think I am going to get rid of this just because its louder than I need and heavier than I care to think about. These amps are solid

This is a 1981 Acoustic G60T Tube amp. I love this amp for any stlyle of music. It has a clean channel and a distortion channel with channel switching and I'm very pleased with the sound of both. I use this amp live, for practice and in the studio and the power is perfect for me.

I play a 1954 reissue Strat and play rock and roll, country, r&b and blues folk with great satisfaction. I love the sounds of both the clean and distortion channels.

A very dependable amp, in my opinion, but I'm having trouble with the channels bleeding into each other. The clean channel will distort somewhat, and the distortion channel either distorts or seems to lose power. I'm thinking it might be the opto isolators but I would like to get a second opinion. If anyone might know of this problem and could help I would appreciate it.

I'm just starting to deal with the company that made the opto isolators (Vactec}, now owned by PerkinElmer, and so far it has been smooth.

I've been playing about 33 years and if I were able to replace my Acoustic G60T with another, I would. It is a perfect amp for me.

This is a follow up to my previous review after servicing the amp.

I personally replaced every capacitor affecting the signal path, including all power supply caps. I bought all my tubes and capacitors from tubesandmore.com in Arizona. I bought new Groove Tubes for the power section and the preamp. I then had a guitar tech at a vintage amp dealer set the bias up for me for $25.

The amp is even more guiet than before and it was already quiet. I don't notice too much more gain or anything with the clean channel 1, but channel 2 has much more attitude than before. Channel 2 now offers up some smooth ballsy distortion for play rock. My wife even said twice from around the wall that it sounds good. Before the servicing, channel 2 sounded kind of cheesy.

So, channel 2 made the biggest improvement and I'm glad to have done the service instead of selling the amp. My wife can us the amp for her keyboard too.

I took it to a local blues jam and the other guys said they liked the sound of the amp. That's good since I play a Dr Z as well.

The amp is good, but not like true point to point tube amps such as Dr Z, so I stick with a 9.

22 years old and still pumping out tone.

Honestly, if it were stolen, I'd use the insurance money for a point to point tube amp such as Dr Z, Top Hat, or Fender that is the same size and weight. I just like the bite of those amps better. This amp does one thing really great and that's perform. It's been a work horse for 22 years. These go for $300-$350, so that's a good value.

Now, if some majorly went wrong with the electronics internally, I'd be really tempted to gut it out and make my own point to point amp out of it. I'd built channel 1 from an old Fender blackface deluxe with it. The cabinet is all solid pine plywood like the old days and that of the boutique amp builders. So, it's worth doing a project like that someday.

For now, I'll use it more and carry it with me when I want to travel to jams lite.

My amp is from 1982 and has all the features I need. It was the first amp I ever got. You can play from very clean to rock with it. This amp is a favorite to country players due to it's clean sound. I play clean, blues, and rock with this amp. It's pretty versatile. It has 2 channels. One is clean and the other is dirty. It came with an oak wood footswitch, has a standby switch on the power as well. It has an external speaker connector as well. This amp is perfect for home use, bedroom, and medium sized bars. At half volume, you are level with the drummer if in a band situation. The power tubes are 6l6's which are Groove Tubes. I use this amp for blues jams locally and only need about a third to half of the master volume. It's slighty heavy, put plenty portable as well. It fits behind my truck seat in extra cab which is handy. The reverb is very nice on this amp and I like it set at half.

I play a 79 Les Paul Deluxe and a 1996 USA Fender Strat with EMG David Gilmore pickguard in it. This amp loves any guitar. For blues, this amp is great. With rock, it's mostly good except for metal or nu-metal. This amp really excels at blues and classic rock music. I suppose it's good for country if that's your thing. The amp is very quiet and takes pedals very well. I used a MXR distortion+ with it when starting out and it sounded great with the amp.

Here are some sounds I really like out of this amp. I play all of these settings with treble at 9am and midrange at 3pm. Bass varies.

For blues jams: Master at 10am and Volume 1 all the way up. You get a nice punchy tube distortion which rolls off nicely when using the guitar volume. Kick in an overdrive box and you get all the extra sustain you need.

For blues jams and rock gigs: Channel 2 at 2pm and the master at 10am. I use the footswitch to toggle between the channels. This way you can get the SRV sound on channel one and screaming Hendrix on channel 2.

To play clean, roll off the channel 1 knob to 9am. I find the clean channel distorts once to set the volume 1 knob past 12am or more.

The distortion is well suited for blues, classic rock or hard rock. If you like natural tube distortion, it's great. If you want more distortion, just change to channel 2 and you are screaming thru Whole Lotta Love.

I've been using this amp since 1982. Knock on wood, but it's been perfect. Just a few tubes along the way, but all else is fine. I need a service done on it since I never did so before. I bet it'll sound much better with new tubes and caps, etc...

When I first bought it new, it had a broken reverb switch. Acoustic paid for me to send it to Inner Sound in Portland to have it fixed. WOW! It's been perfect since.

I've been playing for 22 years. I recently purchased a Dr. Z Maz 38 2-12 combo. I'm very fortunate to have the tone beast of the Dr. Z along with the Acoustic. The Acoustic amp will give you a unique vintage sound. It doesn't have the Fender spank or the Marshall crunch, but it has a very good clean and dirt of it's own. I'm keeping it as it's still very useable and portable. Good tubes amps like this are expensive, so I want it for a backup and to use around the house along with the Dr. Z.

If lost or stolen, I'd buy another since the prices of these are very low for the quality amp it is. It's not a big name, but anyone who owns one of these knows they have a great amp. Of course, I'd have to shove a hot 6L6 tube where the sun don't shine should someone steal it to begin with.

It's been with me for 22 years and without a problem. Not even a vibration! Heck, I bought a Fender Blues Jr. recently and it vibrated on bass notes after a few days so I took it back. The Acoustic can hold it's own out on the gig circuit as it has it's own sound. I like the reliability this amp has given me. Since they are cheap to buy used, I have to give it a 10 here. It's fairly light, so when I don't feel like schlepping my Dr Z to a blues jam, I'll take the Acoustic instead.

Your basic G60T with one exception, the speaker was replaced by the original owner 25 years ago with an EV12L

I play rock a billy and urban blues and it is fantastic. See my final comments for dealing with other styles.

Very well suited to country

Never gave me a problem. It is ready for a cleaning though

NOT!

Absolutely superior. When I play out I use the G60T in conjunction with my Flextone XL so I can take advantage of the Flextone floorboard and of course the modeling capabilities.

I place the Flextone on the floor and elevate the G60T on an amp stand directly over the Flextone. I run a chord from the "Send" output on the Flex to the Hi input on the face of the G60.

I set the volume for both amps to 10 o'clock. Bass, Mid, Treble and Master are set to 10 o'clock and reverb to 9 o'clock.

I use the volume control foot pedal to adjust volume as required.

This set up gives me amajing sound and flexibility because it plays to the strength of both pieces of equipment while covering the weaknesses.

I rate the G60T 9. It would be 10 if I could get any information.

The basics have been covered in previous reviews. 2 ch, 1 eq, reverb, line in/out, spk out. 60w 2 acoustic brand 6l6ga's, 3 sovtek 12ax7wa's, s.s. rectifier. I find myself adjusting the e.q. betwwen channels although I usually find a happy medium so its not too bad. Lack of seperate eq's only gets a 7

First of all, for what I do I absolutely LOVE this amp. In fairness of reviewing something I'm trying to be objective. My gigging days are long gone. Egomaniac singers and drunk bass players kind of took the fun out of it. I've sold almost all of my equip. I kept 3 fenders, all u.s.a, strat hardtail, tele and a lead2 (very under rated btw, a GREAT guitar for the $) All with the stock single coils.I play guitar-cord-amp period, no effects. This amp hails from the late 60's, early seventies and sounds the part. It has a very usefull range of tones from "cheap sunglasses" to "cinnamin girl" back to "love me do". This amp can easily hang with a drummer, I find that like most tube amps the master volume gets about as loud as it gets around 1 o'clock. After that it adds some wonderfull compression and really livens up the amp but doesn't get a whole lot louder. I mainly play these days for the sheer enjoyment of it but I stiil get together with a friend 2 or 3 days a week and collaberate on songs (he's still chasing the dream!) I've had a chance to compare with several differant amps, some s.s., some tube. The s.s. amps are a no brainer, this blows them away for tone, harmonics, pick attack, responsivness ect. As far as the other tube amps go I'd place this in the mid catagory. I prefer the sound over the cheaper manufactured tube amps(crate, peavey ect.) As for the high end stuff (mesa, soldano modded marshal, dr z Ect.) I can get VERY close but not quite. In all fairness for my little acoustic, I bought it used and I have strong suspicions that it has never been serviced. A cap job and some fresh tubes would prob. do wonders(I'm not a huge fan of sovtek's) It also gets a little microphonic at high volumes. Maybe new tubes or running a seperate cab as previously suggested would solve this. The clean has unlimited headroom with my passive single coils, can't say what hotter pickups would do. The gain channel never has unpleasant distortion. If sound quality were based on a sliding scale, tone for money, this amp would get a 20, but as it sits, its not quite as good as the amps costing $2500+ more so Ill give it a very solid 8. BTW did I mention I paid only $150 u.s. for it? God bless the fickle collecters not catching wind of this one!

still going stong after 30+ years, with original power tubes no less, 'nuff said

long gone, I found a scematic online easy enough

I've been playing about 15 years, I play rock,blues, country, rockabilly, funk. I'm very eclectic. A tune up would do it wonders as soon as I find a good tech, I'll have it done. When you can find an ORIGINAL, classic tube amp from "the days" and can have it completly serviced and still be under $300 BUCKS. How can you go wrong? Kids- throw away your s.s. stuff and find one of these.

This is a 60W 1X12 combo - it's all-tube except the rectifier, has two switchable channels for clean with preamp-gain and overdrive with drive and own preampgain,
active 3-band EQ for both channels, bright switch and an accutronics reverb. It has preamp out and poweramp in which may be used as an effects loop. If the poweramp in is used, the preamp is cut off. Also on the back are the footswitchjacks for channel- and reverb switching, the Fuse an a Holder for a spare fuse. Sometimes good to have one. At least there are two speakerjacks for the build-in one and and external one. If both are used you can swith from 8 to 4 Ohm resistance.
There could be an own EQ for every channel, but this is not the concept of this amp.
I use this amp for everything: live, recording, private. You may exercise the latest Santana soli at midnight without disturbing your neighbours and you are dressed right up with 500 audience on an open field without PA. The GT 60 112 is a loud and powerful amp which killed the build-in speaker as well as a celestion G80T and has now a celestion G120T, but with a band I play it only with an external 1x12 Box with an EV12L.
The Amp is a heavy and solid construction, but the tubes are too close at the speaker. When the EV12L was buid in, it damaged the tubes.
When playing the amp on a gig, it has to seperatet from the speaker at least one meter.

The amp is great! It sounds like it should with a strat like Mark Knopfler on the first Dire Straits album, with a strat like Santana (!), with an ES 335-type you can play explosive percussive jazz-licks like George Benson, soft Latin-jazz cords and rhythm. The same soundsettings on the bridge-pu will get you a biting John Lee Hooker-Sound and on the overdrive channel a monstergain.
To get the right clean sound it has to be worked not only with the EQ but with the relation between preamp and poweramp. Preamp at 1/2 and poweramp at 3/4 will get a sharp transparent sound with headroom but with Preamp at full and Poweramp still at 1/2 it will get fat and percussive like your drummer's snare. The clean channel nearly can be brought to distortion with a classic singlecoil but only with a humbucker.
The overdrive-channel is preconfigured so that you nearly can't get sharp transistor-like distorted sounds (worst case) but also no transparent crunch with the strat. That's what I bought my Fender Blues De Ville for. This means a strat sounds nearly like a humbucker-guitar (no SRV-Sound in the wake) and somebody may miss presence of the guitar at low volume settings but if you compensate this with the pure power of the amp you will come with a fat overlaying sustain-to-eternaty sound that will not push your audience out of the room. You can play for your life with it. Play with the treble setting and you control the bite, play with the middle setting and you control the presure on your chest, play with the bass-setting and you let the monster out. But all is well tempered and overdriven, not distorted.
From Mastervolume over 1/3 and clean channel gain at full, or drive at 3/4 and drivegain at full, it is possible to get the poweramptubes overdriven which makes the amp even more lively. My rating is for the sounds it has - not what it has not! Somebody told me it reminds him to the Boogie Mark I.

In my first two years I went through all ups and downs as it was my only amp then (1982), blew up two speakers and the tubes and made uncontroleble noises. A short time when I bought the EV12L but had it build in the amp, I used to screw out the amp-chassis an placed it on a separate chair!
But then I found the right expert, build the separate box, got an other speaker into the combo for exercising at home, had the amp in service 5 to 6 times in 20 years and no problems since. It's necessary to learn the amps noises and get it checked before it's running bad.
The amp is not forgiving but since it stayed away from it's own power it works.

Warranty was never in use with the blown-up speakers, but the authorized dealer (300km away) sent me all the blueprints for getting it serviced at the local authrized Fender-dealer. He serves it then since I own the amp. My service-rating is 10 to my local fender-dealer, but 2 to Acoustic (since they sent the blueprints)

I own the amp now for 20 years. For a short time I thought about the 100W-Version, but the extra graphic EQ proved to be not this effective. I felt it has too much power to play with the poweramp-overdrive, but it may be more solid constructed or the 6L6 poweramptubes may not have to work as hard as they do in the 60W-amp. I never bought a stompbox - I tryed several Ibanez and Electro Harmonix - since I felt they detroy the sound if switched of or become boring if used to long.
Now I play the G60T112 as the amp for leadsounds clean and overdrive with a Fender Blues De Ville for clean rhythm and crunch. The amps are connected with an A-B-C-Box, where C is sometimes connected with an Ampeg Jet II G-12T which should become a Vox AC 30 if I find a suitable one. I play a spring-1973 Fender Strat and a Ibanez AS 200 (ES 335-type) with Seymour Duncan SH-59 bridge and neck PU's.
Maybe a separate Top and Box - configuration would be less effort on the road, but now I think it wouldn't spare this much since it needs space for the accutronics reverb.
I compared it with MusicMan RD 112, Fender ProReverb, TwinReverb, KittyHawk Junior, Marshall Combos and 50W-Tower. I found it matched or beaten by Boogies at two or three times the price. I once heard someone playing a fender concert which sounds great but I don't know what exactly was in the rack nearby ....
If the amp would be stolen or lost, I would look over the marked and on my bank, but I would never hesitate to buy one again.

This is a 60W 1X12 combo - it's all-tube (well, not ALL tube - the rectifier is solid-state), has two switchable channels (a clean and an overdriven), 3-band EQ (just one), a bright switch, and reverb. It has an effects loop in back as well as footswitch jacks for both channel-switching and for turning the reverb on and off. In short, it has everything an amp SHOULD have, but no more than that (which is a good thing, in my book!). I think the only way it could be improved upon was if it had a separate EQ for each channel - but I ain't complainin'! I play rockabilly, 60s garage, 70s punk, classic rock, blues, and some old-time country, and it's very easy to get the right sound for any one of those styles, or even new ones that haven't been invented yet! It has classic tube sound, and you just can't go wrong with that.

This is the first tube amp I've ever owned, and I'm in love with it - I'd MARRY this thing if I could! I prefer trebly sounds, and this amp delivers them in spades - it's a lot like a Mesa/Boogie in that way. If you don't like the high end as much as I do, you can always turn the "bright" switch off, and it won't knife your ears so much. Either way, it sounds great - channel 1 is VERY clean, and channel 2 comes with a "drive" control with which you can get anything from just a hint of distortion to more than you'll EVER need! Both channels sound great (though you may have to tweak the EQ a bit to get there), and boy, is it LOUD! I haven't cranked it all the way up yet, but that's only because I'm afraid that if I turn it past 3 I'm gonna get evicted!

I've only had the amp for around 6 months, so I can't really attest to its dependability - on the other hand, I haven't had ANY problems with it yet, and it seems like a really solid amp, just like all the other Acoustic amps I've come into contact with.

Since the Acoustic Control Company is no longer in business, there ISN'T any customer service! They did the job right the first time around, though, and if a problem does happen to come up, any competent amp repairman SHOULD be able to deal with it.

I've been playing for around 15 years, and this is one of the best-sounding amps I've played through. I haven't played through many tube amps, this being the first that I've owned, but I've HEARD plenty of them, and this sounds just as good or better than any of them. I love that it gives me the exact sound & features I've always wanted in an amp - the minute I heard it, I knew I had to have it. If me and my G60T ever parted ways (just the thought of it makes me wanna cry!), I'd definitely hunt down another one and buy it - in fact, if I happen to stumble onto another one, I'll buy it anyway, 'cause it doesn't seem like there are too many of them out there!