Guitarists' Thread

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:52 am

YYZ30 wrote:I have seen pictures of all of them EXCEPT for the "7". I only found the "8" this past summer.

Thanks Z...that was a good read!

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:56 am

CygnusX1 wrote:
YYZ30 wrote:I have seen pictures of all of them EXCEPT for the "7". I only found the "8" this past summer.
Thanks Z...that was a good read!

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No problem.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:55 am

Oh my goodness... Carvin just released an absolute dream guitar for me. Anyone wanna give me $1700, no questions asked?

https://www.carvin20.com/catalog/guitar ... odel=sh550

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:17 am

I like the non sunburst looking one best.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:25 am

Quilt-tops RULE.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:26 am

Walkinghairball wrote:I like the non sunburst looking one best.

They have lots of color options available. That's one of the beautiful things about Carvin. You specify all the options you want and then they build the guitar for you.

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:58 am

ElfDude wrote:Oh my goodness... Carvin just released an absolute dream guitar for me. Anyone wanna give me $1700, no questions asked?

https://www.carvin20.com/catalog/guitar ... odel=sh550

Only if you give me $2200 for my Carivn I just built...

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:01 am

YYZ30 wrote:
ElfDude wrote:Oh my goodness... Carvin just released an absolute dream guitar for me. Anyone wanna give me $1700, no questions asked?

https://www.carvin20.com/catalog/guitar ... odel=sh550
Only if you give me $2200 for my Carivn I just built...

What's a Carivn?

YYZ30 · Post by **YYZ30** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:02 am

ElfDude wrote:
YYZ30 wrote:
ElfDude wrote:Oh my goodness... Carvin just released an absolute dream guitar for me. Anyone wanna give me $1700, no questions asked?

https://www.carvin20.com/catalog/guitar ... odel=sh550
Only if you give me $2200 for my Carivn I just built...
What's a Carivn?

Carivn- thats why I like Epiphone- I can bloody type Epiphone

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:15 am

YYZ30 wrote:
ElfDude wrote:
YYZ30 wrote: Only if you give me $2200 for my Carivn I just built...
What's a Carivn?

Carivn- thats why I like Epiphone- I can bloody type Epiphone

Fender and Gibson were always pretty easy too. I guess the easiest is PRS.

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:43 am

Woo hoo! A press release with both Alex Lifeson and Carvin in it !!!

http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/20 ... -Amps.html

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:24 am

ElfDude wrote:
YYZ30 wrote:
ElfDude wrote: What's a Carivn?

Carivn- thats why I like Epiphone- I can bloody type Epiphone
Fender and Gibson were always pretty easy too. I guess the easiest is PRS.

heyheyhey what aboooot ESP? huh? whaaat?

hel-LOW CAN-A DUH!

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:38 pm

When I was a senior in high school (I think it was... maybe in 1980 or something) I bought a used guitar amplifier. It was a 70's Peavey Pacer. 45 watts RMS, 12" speaker, two inputs, solid state, etc. Looks just like the one in the pic below except its knobs weren't all silver... they were silver on the outside with black centers.

Not knowing much about amps, I discovered that I'd bought it with a blown speaker. Eventually I replaced the speaker with Fane Crescendo.

Up until then I had been trying to get by with a little Pignose. Shortly thereafter I sold the Pignose to raise cash for an analog delay (I really wanted to play those echoes in the beginning of the 2112 overture).

I used the Pacer for a number of years, never really liking it very much. It got better around 1990 when I bought a Rockman and started driving it with that. Then I put it away and just sent my signal into the PA. I never really got it out again until fall of 2001 when my brother formed the band I'm in now. *looks for a picture of me using it*
Yeah, you can see the top of it in this picture from the summer of 2002.

At the time I was driving it with a Digitech RP5, and then an RP7 (the old blue one that had a 12AX7 tube in it). I thought I was satisfied, but my brother was on a tone quest and I started hearing it next to the amps he was going through... (Fender, Mesa, and eventually the Matchless Clubman).

It became obvious to me that I needed a tube amp as well. I started with the Epiphone Galaxie 10, and finally the Carvin V16 you always see in my sig. It was the Carvin that convinced me to stop using the RP7. I could tell it was getting in the way of the tone.

Today, just for kicks, I got the Peavey out and played it. The only pedals I had in front of it were a tube screamer and a Digitech digital delay for a little slap echo. I was playing songs like Blue Suede Shoes and Twist And Shout... oldies. Holy cow, I absolutely LOVED it!!!

Its distortion sucks, but as a clean amp... WOW! It sounded great!

I guess I didn't like a kid 'cos I was always overdriving it to play Led Zep and Rush. But as a grown up playing oldies... I wish I had known that my real problem was those darned all-in-one floor pedals I was using and not the amp.

Well, of course, one has to start A B testing when something like this happens. As a clean amp (which is pretty much all I use these days) I like it better than the Vintage 16... UNLESS the V16 is driving a 4x10 cab. That gives the V16 an edge over it. But I gotta tell you, the next gig I go to where a combo amp would be better than a half-stack, that Peavey is going with me!

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:42 pm

Always nice to find you had just what will work right there and you don't need to buy anything, eh?

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:36 pm

^^^^^^^^^

The one thing it can't do is distort well. My Carvin has great vintage tube distortion, so I'm still very happy to have it.