Richard Jinman Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Anyone own or know anything about these? One for sale and seems to be the original model… my understanding is that it’s a more powerful version of the older AI bass amps, but can’t find a great deal of info online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Jinman Posted July 28, 2022 Author Share Posted July 28, 2022 10 minutes ago, Richard Jinman said: Anyone own or know anything about these? One for sale and seems to be the original model… my understanding is that it’s a more powerful version of the older AI bass amps, but can’t find a great deal of info online. Should mention I’m looking to amp an upright and I’m looking for that transparent’ AI sound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 I am 89% certain this is the high powered one. I used to run one and it was a lovely piece of kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Jinman Posted July 29, 2022 Author Share Posted July 29, 2022 1 hour ago, Owen said: I am 89% certain this is the high powered one. I used to run one and it was a lovely piece of kit. Thanks Owen… did you use it for upright? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Yep. Straight in. No preamp needed to buffer the piezo. Really easy. I ran it through a Bergantino 6x10 which could be seen as excessive, but what a sound! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Owen said: Yep. Straight in. No preamp needed to buffer the piezo. Really easy. I ran it through a Bergantino 6x10 which could be seen as excessive, but what a sound! 6x10 ?! Amazing. What sort of gigs? Edited July 29, 2022 by Drax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 4 hours ago, Drax said: 6x10 ?! Amazing. What sort of gigs? Whatever I was playing at the time. It was that or an ACME 1x12. Completely excessive, but what a sound. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passinwind Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 (edited) On 28/07/2022 at 00:49, Richard Jinman said: Anyone own or know anything about these? One for sale and seems to be the original model… my understanding is that it’s a more powerful version of the older AI bass amps, but can’t find a great deal of info online. Really? Is it not the 2R Series III: https://acousticimg.com/assets/docs/Manual-amp heads sIII.pdf ? The original Focus was part of the Series II line IIRC: https://acousticimg.com/assets/docs/manual_amp_head.pdf . If it's the 600 watt Series III, I owned the one channel version without reverb for a few years and used it for gigging on my BSX EUB quite happily. For bass guitar it was a bit less satisfying, but an external preamp helped quite a bit. It was really great for acoustic upright too, I'd highly recommend it for that. Edited July 30, 2022 by Passinwind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Jinman Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 42 minutes ago, Passinwind said: Really? Is it not the 2R Series III: https://acousticimg.com/assets/docs/Manual-amp heads sIII.pdf ? The original Focus was part of the Series II line IIRC: https://acousticimg.com/assets/docs/manual_amp_head.pdf . If it's the 600 watt Series III, I owned the one channel version without reverb for a few years and used it for gigging on my BSX EUB quite happily. For bass guitar it was a bit less satisfying, but an external preamp helped quite a bit. It was really great for acoustic upright too, I'd highly recommend it for that. I’ve bought it, so fingers crossed… will report back 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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