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mattleaxe

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Carvin Legacy
« on: June 04, 2009, 05:38:37 PM »
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.

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Re: Carvin Legacy
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2009, 06:19:56 PM »
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.
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Re: Carvin Legacy
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2009, 07:42:51 PM »

That's a killer deal for an awesome rig. Get it!!
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Re: Carvin Legacy
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2009, 04:26:02 AM »
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.
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Re: Carvin Legacy
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2009, 09:16:57 PM »
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)