Acoustic Image Focus 2R

[Richard Jinman]

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. 

[Richard Jinman]

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

[Owen]

I am 89% certain this is the high powered one. I used to run one and it was a lovely piece of kit. 

[Richard Jinman]

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? 

[Owen]

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!

[Drax]

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

[Owen]

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. 

[Passinwind]

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

[Richard Jinman]

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