Carvin Mesa copy

[dancullinane]

has anyone tried one of these. it looks like a copy of a mark II. i didn't know Carvin copied things quite as obviously as this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Carvin-Mesa-Boo...ryZ10171QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[dodger916]

I'll bet it kicks ***. I had an Acoustic 65 watt, 2 channel tube combo that was great. It was from the mid-eighties, no C+, but it was a great amp nonetheless. Weighed a ton too!

 

[kiff]

my friend has an older carvin tube head. when I saw it, many years ago, I thought the same thing; boogie copy, at from the looks, but I never played through or heard it.

 

[settecorde76]

Mmm...actually the price of this amp is very low....Kitty Hawk also produced a Mesa Mark clone few years ago...

 

[LPClassic]

The 100B it's a very good amplifier for the money, used to have one and was a very decent amplifier, Carvin recently re-issue this model, the eq works very good and it does noce cleans and classic distortion leads.

 

[carlsoti]

Oooh, that's kinda sexy with that 15 in there!

 

[Old BF Shred]

Ah... the old X100B!!

I had one and they're not bad at all. Really screamed when turned up loud, as a real tube amp should. Not a Mesa, though. I sold mine to buy my Studio Cal 22+.

I am glad I did, but I wish I could have kept both. The 100B would have been a good candidate for a modern tube "modeler" in front of it.

Worth buying if you can get one fairly cheap.

 

[Pablomago]

I had an oak Carvin X100 with an EV speaker. (Can you say "boat anchor?") Up until recently a friend was still playing through it. The power section is pretty much a standard 100 watt Boogie/Twin Reverb type, but the Carvin preamp has active EQ and a different overdrive structure. I could never get a decent OD sound out of it, but the clean sound was good. I used to use it for backline for touring bands I did sound for. A jazz cello player used it once and was skeptical to say the least, but by the end of the show he said it was "happening."

 

[boogietone]

I used to have an Ampeg VT60 and someone once referred to it as a Mesa MK copy. Cool little amp.
I much prefer my MKIV though.

 

[sixtonoize]

The Carvin X-series is nothing like the Mark series.
They're more like a poorly-voiced Marshall with active EQ.

People just think that they're copies because the cosmetics are similar.
This is not true.

 

[lyman]

I'll bet it kicks ***. I had an Acoustic 65 watt, 2 channel tube combo that was great. It was from the mid-eighties, no C+, but it was a great amp nonetheless. Weighed a ton too!

I think Mesa even threatened legal action against Acoustic Control Corp. over that one...supposedly some of the circuit design was a little too similar!