Carvin question???

[Hetfield]

are the carvin Legacy amps good for heavy metal????

[jgcable]

Re: Carvin question???

I just demo'd one this weekend. The Legacy has great tone and a great clean channel. The gain is not enough for metal without using a pedal. I really liked it but I hate using overdrive pedals and I wish it had 3 channels. It is fairly expensive too but then again, everything attached to Vai is overpriced.

[Hetfield]

Re: Carvin question???

i found one for $500....
but i think your set up will be alot better for me.....jc able

thanx

[jgcable]

Re: Carvin question???

Buy it and I will trade you straight up for my entire rack mount rig. I no longer need the gain that my rig has so the Legacy will do just fine. There you go...It's your move.

[Hetfield]

Re: Carvin question???

well i just checked back with the site i found it at last week and she is gone...but i found another one at $599.00......but i dont have that much cash right now and i dont think they do trades.....man this sux....

e-mail me dude...at [email protected]

i'll tell you the site and you will buy her and give me props and trade me your set up for my voodoo and i'll even pay $100.00 more....is that a deal????

[StuTDavis]

Re: Carvin question???

I tried a Legacy a while back, and really didn't care much for it at all. Just seemed kinda mooshy and blah overall. It's kinda like I'd always expected...seemed, if you wanted to do a Vai cover, it'd be great, but probably not good for much else, without a lot of other gizmos to change the sound. The other Carvin amp I tried at the time sounded much better for metal, to my ears...much crisper and clearer. It was one of the silver-faced ones, I think...I forget what the model was.

Back a few years ago, a friend of mine was looking into them. He played Vai stuff, but also liked to play Metallica. I told him my theory, that the Legacy would probably nail Vai's sound for him, but doubted it would get anywhere near Metallica. He got a Legacy head anyway, and pretty quickly called me asking how he could dial in more of a Metallica sound. We went through the ropes on it, and it never got close, to either my ears hearing it over the phone, or to him, there playing it.

Stu

[jgcable]

Re: Carvin question???

The amp you tried was probably the MTS3200. It is a killer head with tones of gain and the best clean channel I have ever heard. Carvin clains it has violin type sustain. They are right. It is very nice. Think of it as a severely hot rodded JCM800.

[Hetfield]

Re: Carvin question???

hey jg cable ...how about my voodoo + $200.00?????????

is that cool...

[jgcable]

Re: Carvin question???

Where are you located?
Does it come with the footswitch?
Respond by PM'ing or emailing me considering we aren't in the classifieds section. I hate to do trade stuff out of the classifieds section. Thanks bro...