aldude

Seriously, the Carvin continues to astonish me. A couple of weeks ago we arrived for an outdoor rugby club gig - only to find that the "PA" was a crappy rig for pumping out disco tunes at parties but was unsuitable for an outdoor gig. We put the vocals through that (still distorted mind!) and ran instruments from only the backline. I had to whack the bass & sub bass up to about 7/10, and the volume to 5/10 and through my Barefaced 1x15 and 2x12 that was more than enough to fill an entire field with lovely bass and I detected not an ounce of distortion whatsoever - lovely and clean. Had to crank up the treble a bit too compared to normal. My only complaint was that it didn't quite have enough rumbly "sub-bass" though this could probably have been fixed with better EQing - we didn't have a lot of time for a sound check - perhaps knocking the bass & sub bass controls a bit further or turning up the volume & down the mids would have fixed it. Perhaps also the speaker area was small compared to an outdoor PA so more speakers would probably have helped (can go down to 2 ohm so I could even add another Barefaced Compact!! ) - would have given even more power too. But all that from a head that costs less than £500? Just mental.

Try Carvin amps.... I recently got a B1000 and now I probably won't be buying another amp ever again - unless it packs up Very small and light (though not F1 small!). Unbelievable amounts of clean headroom, tube preamp (bypassable) which sounds really rather good, a powerful yet simple EQ... and goes down to 2ohms if you like that sort of thing. All for a shocking price really considering the price I've paid for other amps over the years.