Carvin Legacy

[mattleaxe]

One of these popped up in my area with cab, celestion greenbacks, and a recent revalve, for a great £550. Has anyone owned/played one of these, and do they know if it can pull off more modern high gain stuff with a suitable Od pedal. Cheers.

[Jonny]

I was just gonna answer and say you might need an OD pedal, but you've already mentioned that so it may work.

My only sources are looking at videos/comments about the Legacy on YouTube.

[hunter]

That's a killer deal for an awesome rig. Get it!!

[yellowv]

I used to have a Carvin Legacy. I bought it b/c I got a great deal on the head/cab. It was a very good mid gain amp. Amazing lead and shred type tones and a great clean channel. However for high gain and metal especially tight riffing, even with a boost it was very lacking for me. I traded it for my 5150 and am happy I did. Although I would like to have both as the Legacy's lead tone and cleans are much better than the 5150. Great amp if you aren't looking for an all out metal machine.

[mattleaxe]

I'm leaning more towards this Carvin now, I am normally a fan of the metal monsters but this might force me to tighten my playing up a bit more, as well as non-metalheads being more accepting of my playing   8)