Vintage Carlsbro Amps?

[doomcaster]

Does anybody here have experiance with these?
I have one of the first 50watt combos
2 x EL34s and 3x EEC83s with 2 original celestion g12h speaker
Bar none the best sounding amplifier I've ever played through, It will do any genre with any guitar perfectly
I only ever seen 1 other in a music shop and the carlsbro HQ was only 5 miles away from where I live.
Have any of you tried one? or didn't they make it out of the Midlands   BTW i know they still make new amps but this is for the 50s- 70s era

[viking]

In Belgium,Carlsbro was big at the end of the 70's (def.out of the Midlands  :)).

[Brow]

I have a 1974 (I think) 50-Top head in pretty much mint nick.

It's a great sounding clean amp that takes pedals very well, love it :D

[38thBeatle]

Back in the day I had an old Carlsboro bass amp- t'was reliable and had a good tone though was bulky. A band I was in had a Carlsboro PA. I might be wrong but they were, if I recall correctly, mid range and of reasonable quality.

[HTH AMPS]

from the early valve Carlsbro stuff I've seen, they started off making amps of comparable quality to Laney, Selmer and Marshall - used the same Drake transformers in those 'Top 50' amps as Marshall were using in their 50w heads of the time (early 70s). 

I've never been fond of the tone of those amps, though they are a great platform for gutting and building a better circuit into   :D

[Mr. Air]

I have no experience with Carlsbro amps, but 10 yers ago or something like that I had a Carlsbro 4x12 cab which my dad had somehow got his hands on  :D

It was a huge cab even for a 4x12

[doomcaster]

+1 on the big and bulky, my 50 watt combo is nearly too heavy to carry alone, and im a big guy too
I have mine totally original and the tone is pretty good, can't be any later than '60 and it still has the original mullard tubes in, between me and my father that works out at 51 years of abuse and it's never once needed a single bit of maintenance, Thats more reliable than certain 1 year old ss amps I've owned *cough*Marshall*cough*

[wardieboy]

I have a 1972 100 Watt Valve head, without a doubt the loudest amp I have ever used. I have never cranked it above number 1 on the volume. In fact I practically need to use tweezers to adjust the volume levels as she goes from 'off' to 'off the scale, stop it! My ears are bleeding' within a very tight threshold.

The amp is very heavy. She sounds sweet with loads of headroom, the tones just sound so sweet.

I haven't been able to get her to break up much naturally due to wanting to prevent my face from melting.


 

[doomcaster]

lol Ive had that volume dial "problem" before, 2.5- 2.6 is the difference between off and painful on mine, not good in a tiny brick room :)

[sgmypod]

Weirdly got offered a 70's (I thinks) TC60 the other day prob needed work for silly money