You get the picture., a technical nightmare under the worst possible conditions. This means that in the dark lighting of a club, you are faced with unscrewing all those little pick guard screws to remove the pickguard to gain access to the battery while also making sure you dont lose any of those pesky little screws rolling around whatever and then ultimately disappearing into the cosmos.ĭoh If this is a Stratocaster like guitar or say one of those Fernandez guitars with the sustainer system, this probably means you have to also Waaaaaayyy loosen all the strings to be able to gain clearance for sliding that pickguard out. How many times do you adjust the height on your Les Paul humbucker and find that the pole piece end of the pickup is angled less than ideally into the body, and you cant do a darn thing about that Kudos to Carvin for their attention to detail and a simple but effective innovation. This not only allows for height adjustment but also angulation so you can parallel the string path. They have eleven pole pieces instead of six which Carvin claims eliminates dead spots in between the strings and results in more even volume, especially on string bends where the string usually veers off the pole piece.Īlso there are three height adjustment screws on the pickup frame two on the bass side and one on the treble side.
It is a very versatile guitar sporting active and passive circuitry with treble and bass boost AND cut, as well as coil taps for each pick up and an out of phase switch for a nice hollow mid-range boost.Īnd so you can get everything from roaring humbucker tones, to twangy single coil sounds flip the phase switch and get a Fenderish quack which although it does not get the genuine Knopfleresque in between sounds 2 and 4, does an admirable job of covering many bases without having giving the player a need to switch guitars. Their rationale is that by bypassing the middle man, they can sell direct to the customer for a far better price claiming that their guitar would sell for much much more if they were in local music stores.Īnother thing is that while seeming relatively obscure, there are some accomplished professionals who play these Carvins Craig Chaquico, Allan Holdsworth, and Joe Walsh just to name a few.Īmazingly despite some high profiles using a Carvin as their instrument of choice, these guitars still remain one of Americas best kept secrets it might seem. They are factory direct except for a handful of stores in California. Then I get A new brand I tell them Only been around since 1946.
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