Have anyone used those yet? I can get a good deal in a 2x12 Celestion V30 Combo... help please....
Carvin Amps
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I have a carvin Legacy head and our bass player has the Carvin "Red Eye" head and two carvin basses.
I love my Legacy. Built very well. I had one problem with it, the volume would drop at strange times, then it gave me a funky noise. I thought that it might be something big, but it turned out to be power tube failure. Replaced those and it was good as new again. As for the tone, it's great. Very liquidy lead tones, articulate, but thick; similar to a Mesa Mark series in "feel and response", but more mid range crunch to it and not as saturated. The cleans are amazing, they do sound just like Vai's clean stuff. The distorted tones aren't quite Vai's sound, but I think that is the DS-1 and the TC Gforce.
I think that they are very good for the cost to product ratio...resale value isn't the best, so buy used!
I love my Legacy. Built very well. I had one problem with it, the volume would drop at strange times, then it gave me a funky noise. I thought that it might be something big, but it turned out to be power tube failure. Replaced those and it was good as new again. As for the tone, it's great. Very liquidy lead tones, articulate, but thick; similar to a Mesa Mark series in "feel and response", but more mid range crunch to it and not as saturated. The cleans are amazing, they do sound just like Vai's clean stuff. The distorted tones aren't quite Vai's sound, but I think that is the DS-1 and the TC Gforce.
I think that they are very good for the cost to product ratio...resale value isn't the best, so buy used!
shredhead7 said:
Thanks! I´m looking for a solid tone, mostly dist. for rythmn and lead. That feedback helped a lot thanks.
My friend has a Legacy as well, and several people have been in the studio with them. Playing everything from death metal to punk. It's a great amp, not my taste, but it does everything it's been used for with no problems. The leads are to die for with that thing, the rhythm cuts through perfectly and has a nice rounded tone, very solid. I like 'em. Maybe someday I'll pick one up for the studio.
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dreamcatcher
Raising the Knife
I've got a Carvin 100XB or whatever the code is. The Legacy precursor, basically. Carvin 4-12" prolly loaded with their BT12s, but I've never looked. Love it.
But it has a microphonic preamp tube right now
Loudest clean tone on sucha thing. And at one audition I was told it was the heaviest tone they had ever heard. But that was some alt-rock act
But it has a microphonic preamp tube right now
Loudest clean tone on sucha thing. And at one audition I was told it was the heaviest tone they had ever heard. But that was some alt-rock act
i´m just looking for something uncommon in Metal. Maybe Carvin own drive isn´t so high gain, specially the vintage series, wich I´m looking for actually. But with some dist. and od. pedals it may work great, and I still will have a diferent tone...
Or it won´t work and always sound like crap, who knows...
Or it won´t work and always sound like crap, who knows...
HeadCrusher
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I got a DS-1 for sale on eBay 
http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7420194143&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MESE:IT&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7420194143&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MESE:IT&rd=1
shredhead7 said:
Don't forget that Vai's DS-1 is modded by Keeley and that he mainly uses it for boosts on solos - the Keeley mod gives a bit more output and less compression, as well as a tone control range that you can actually use, so it works better as a boost/balls-in-a-box/whatever than the stock DS-1.
Jeff
