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| Author: | paulo [ October 7th, 2015, 3:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Carvin Ac30 |
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/ms ... 31386.html |
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| Author: | markcv [ October 7th, 2015, 3:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carvin Ac30 |
Weird. Not your fault Paulo but I thought that was an AC40... did Carvin make an old model called the AC30? |
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| Author: | Matt R. [ October 7th, 2015, 3:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carvin Ac30 |
Are these good basses? I've always wanted to grab one of these and rip the frets out. |
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| Author: | bhunt1 [ October 7th, 2015, 5:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carvin Ac30 |
There are a couple of demos of them on youtube. Carvin has a fretless 5 string AC 50 in their guitars in stock section - jet black unlined fretless but w dreaded gold hardware: http://www.carvinguitars.com/guitars-in-stock/114552 |
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| Author: | markcv [ October 8th, 2015, 8:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carvin Ac30 |
Funny, I was checking out some of those demos. It seems they're just average people demoing their basses. Unfortunately, I haven't seen or heard one yet that seems to do the basses justice. Have you Brian? |
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| Author: | MCS4 [ October 8th, 2015, 12:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carvin Ac30 |
I used to have a fretless AC40 and loved it. Surprisingly fat tone. I played it live regularly in a loud hard rock band, although never as my main bass. I'd have kept it, except I eventually decided that I needed to buy backup fretted bass and couldn't afford both. If this one were fretless I'd probably have already bought it. |
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| Author: | bhunt1 [ October 8th, 2015, 1:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carvin Ac30 |
I have not seen great demos on these. They are interesting though |
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| Author: | gravesbass [ October 8th, 2015, 4:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carvin Ac30 |
That's an AC40.... UNLESS the 2 treble 2 bass side = AC30. I had a fretless AC40 a few years back. It was 2 treble 2 bass side tuners like this. That fretless was a great bass and played wonderfully. You could even hear it acoustically. As far as a AC50 with a B string, I don't think you'll really be able to hear the B unless its amplified. the E was a little thin in the volume to begin with. --> My 2 cents... |
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| Author: | MCS4 [ October 9th, 2015, 1:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carvin Ac30 |
gravesbass wrote: That's an AC40.... UNLESS the 2 treble 2 bass side = AC30. I had a fretless AC40 a few years back. It was 2 treble 2 bass side tuners like this. That fretless was a great bass and played wonderfully. You could even hear it acoustically. As far as a AC50 with a B string, I don't think you'll really be able to hear the B unless its amplified. the E was a little thin in the volume to begin with. --> My 2 cents... I'm pretty sure "AC30" is a typo. The two-by-two headstock is an option on most all Carvin four-string basses, so it doesn't have anything to do with the model number. Also, Carvin's website itself says the AC40/AC50 is not intended to be played acoustically, but rather is designed as a more ideal way get an "acoustic bass tone" while amplified to gig volume. So yeah, it is unlikely that you'll get a ton of volume out of a low B string without amplification. |
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