When I was a much younger fellow and gigging for a living, I was a HUGE fan of Carvin. I had one of the 50w combos with a single 12" and 2 channels plus it had a unique feature of a third input that fed both channels. I loved that amp but it was constantly blowing the IC chip on one of the channels.... I think it was the clean one. It also was a bit of a speaker blower. The speaker was rated for the amp, but I recall having it sent back and reconed by Carvin several times. And no, I never ran my amps wide open. ( well almost never.... not in a show anyway) I asked and Carvin sent me half a dozen of those chips.... Still have a few in my guitar case but the amp is long gone sadly.
I then figured that I would buy the 100w single 12 with the EV upgrade.... O.M.G!!! That thing was LOUD. Yeah, it cranked and sounded good but it was too loud for my purposes. It had a switch on the back to switch it to 50% power but.... it sounded too mushy when I ran it like that. I sold it and bought my Mesa Boogie Studio 22w. Low power but I could crank it up and get the tone I wanted and since it had a line out....I had tried going with bigger wattage amps and that wasn't giving me satisfaction so I decided to go small with the amp. I fed that to a CARVIN DCA-800 power amp and fed 2 Lab Series 4x12 cabs. 800 hair parting watts if I needed it.... but the DCA has input attenuators and I would run the DCA at about 40%. That gave me plenty of stage volume for the venues we played. I used the Mesa to power a 15" JBL in a Fender cabinet placed like a floor monitor pointed up where I could get the guitar in my face at my mic. That Mesa DCA rig was my overall favorite in all the bands and all the amps I used. I still have the Mesa and I still have the DCA but the cabs are long gone as well. When I left the last band.... it was a 2.5 yr run with a house band.... I sold most of my gear and PA equipment to another band. Kept what I wanted and started building my studio setup at that time.
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i forgot to add.. how do amplitube users contact ik if they have a problem ? email ? cheers om
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I then figured that I would buy the 100w single 12 with the EV upgrade.... O.M.G!!! That thing was LOUD. Yeah, it cranked and sounded good but it was too loud for my purposes. It had a switch on the back to switch it to 50% power but.... it sounded too mushy when I ran it like that.
GH - I think you're talking about the X100 or X100B - that's one of the two Carvins I have - see the fuzzy beast in all it's glory below. I paid $50 for it in non-working condition, cleaned the controls, replaced the tubes, and repaired a damaged section of the circuit board (the part that provides bias to one of the power tubes) and it's all working nicely again. I agree about the 50% switch (mine can actually do 100%, 50%, and 25%) - it doesn't sound that great. The better option for me was to remove the outer pair of power tubes to run it at 50 watts (change output impedance to 8ohm instead of 16ohm to match) and use an attenuator when necessary (the silver box on top of the amp, which was DIY and can handle ~100 watts).
Muso - the Carvin I mentioned before is the other two pics - the MTS3200. All tube beast (save for a couple clipping diodes in the drive channel) with an excellent clean channel and tube-driven reverb! It's quite heavy and has only one handle, so I re-housed the amp into a head to make it easier to carry.
Now don't make me decide which amp I like better, that's too hard! Besides, the answer is always my Rivera Knucklehead...
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etcjoe. thanks......... guess i gotta email ik multimedia. i called my favorite music store today who sell the axe , and normally know all product details. but they werent sure bout multi client aspect.
simon...wowser pics. love them. correct me if i'm wrong but i think i read somewhere once that carvins were used on some pretty classic songs.
Guitarhacker... mesa boogie tres yummy... fyi , ive been so close to getting one so many many times...but each time i saved up family needs came first/other priorities. ive often wondered , what is it about boogies that are designed differently from other amps ?. i'd love to know classic rok songs they were used on.
All. ok heres a reason why i'm looking at axe or other products that give me non fizzy big variety of classic guitar rok tones. for some time ive been working on a new original punk song. as i'm a brit/cockney born i know the genre. and like to have fun with it on occasion. this one is fast "ba**s to the wall" with my brit punk vocs.
i'm pretty happy with everything cept my rhythm gtrs left and right of the stereo image which are meant to pound away headbanger style. its the left/right gtrs that i cant get to sound what i hear in my head. ive tried live amps, sims, pedals...all sorts. etc etc.
so at this stage i would say i screwed up engineering wise, and so i'm treating it as a rough demo. i'm useing biab drums and bass and some bb punk rt's way back in the mix together with my gtr traks for giggles.
what i'm gonna do is have one more go laying down my gtr traks L/R , and in a couple of weeks post the darn demo thats driving me nuts in the user showcase for any ideas on what i might use to get those L/R rhythm gtrs to sound the way i want pounding away. and people can tear the song apart if they wish. as you can see the song bugs the hey out of me regarding getting the right sound picture i hear in my head ...lol. so far ive failed. thats life.
best om (ex punk and also opera singer once .lmao.)
Muso - the Carvin I mentioned before is the other two pics - the MTS3200. All tube beast (save for a couple clipping diodes in the drive channel) with an excellent clean channel and tube-driven reverb! It's quite heavy and has only one handle, so I re-housed the amp into a head to make it easier to carry.
Now don't make me decide which amp I like better, that's too hard! Besides, the answer is always my Rivera Knucklehead...
Back in the old days I was gigging with Carvin equipment. I had a Carvin double neck, forgot the model number, and a huge Carvin amp, the FR1200:
simon...wowser pics. love them. correct me if i'm wrong but i think i read somewhere once that carvins were used on some pretty classic songs.
Definitely - Steve Vai used a Carvin Legacy for a long time. I know the X100B like I have was quite popular as a "Marshall killer", which I agree that it's at least as good as any Marshall I've played (and I've played a lot) but I don't know specifically who used them.
Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
mesa boogie tres yummy... fyi , ive been so close to getting one so many many times...but each time i saved up family needs came first/other priorities. ive often wondered , what is it about boogies that are designed differently from other amps ?. i'd love to know classic rok songs they were used on.
Santana uses a Mesa Mark 1 - Santana himself was the person who coined the "Boogie" name - look on Wikipedia for the story. The Mesa Mark II (particularly the Mark IIC and IIC+) were very popular with the 80's metal crowd - Dream Theater, Metallica, many others. There are definitely some hit and miss Mesa's out there - I had a Mesa 5-25 and a Mesa Transatlantic for a bit and was a bit underwhelmed, but they were definitely the wrong style of amp for me - a Mark series or Rectifier would've been more appropriate.
Nice! I'm not the best person at remembering who uses what gear - at least outside of the musical genres I tend to gravitate to (metal), and even then I don't remember my own gear half the time!
2. what pg programs and other music production programs are you using axe with ?? 3. what latency are you getting with the axe ? lower than 4ms ? note many daw software will show you the latency eg reaper top right side. 4. what round trip latency do you get ?
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