LUV U LONG TIME...

  • Thread starter Thread starter NowYou'rePlayingWithPower
  • Start date Start date
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
I remember reading in a thread you having an affinity for the Carvin pickups, and just thought the clip on tuner was just the cherry on top :ROFLMAO: o_O
Click to expand...

1000% - I love the old carvin pickups and I think they are super underrated

I have a mind to do some A+B comparisons and show the world how badass they sound

The clip-on tuner is perfect for taking glamor shots with my tele (strap up to my chin, naturally) so I can look like a TGP dork
 
7704A said:
Even better once @NowYou'rePlayingWithPower sends you those tan short shorts she forgot to add to the package.
Click to expand...

Just trinkets, no tan clothes in this household.
Unless desert camouflage is considered tan. :unsure:
Suppose maybe that's the official color of TGP/RT dual citizens?
 
DanTravis62 said:
It's perfect 🥺 👉👈

I need to find a grab-n-go 5 watt combo somewhere so I can take pics of "my new rig"
Click to expand...
1745100407854.png
 
DanTravis62 said:
1000% - I love the old carvin pickups and I think they are super underrated

I have a mind to do some A+B comparisons and show the world how badass they sound

The clip-on tuner is perfect for taking glamor shots with my tele (strap up to my chin, naturally) so I can look like a TGP dork
Click to expand...
My buddy had an old Carvin that sounded fanstastic, never considered it was the pickups.

Man, my strap is getting progressively shorter as I'm getting older. I'm starting to resemble the TGP dorks as age is catching up with my wrists. :no:
 
DanTravis62 said:
1000% - I love the old carvin pickups and I think they are super underrated

I have a mind to do some A+B comparisons and show the world how badass they sound

The clip-on tuner is perfect for taking glamor shots with my tele (strap up to my chin, naturally) so I can look like a TGP dork
Click to expand...
I have a HHS TL60 I had built in 1999. Fucking thing sounds killer. And it's easily the best action on any guitar I've ever had my hands on. I never understood why the Carvin fanbois all swapped the pickups out. I like them. A lot.
 
DanTravis62 said:
1000% - I love the old carvin pickups and I think they are super underrated

I have a mind to do some A+B comparisons and show the world how badass they sound

The clip-on tuner is perfect for taking glamor shots with my tele (strap up to my chin, naturally) so I can look like a TGP dork
Click to expand...
I know, right!

john 5 - Google Search Small.jpeg
 
Erock said:
My buddy had an old Carvin that sounded fanstastic, never considered it was the pickups.

Man, my strap is getting progressively shorter as I'm getting older. I'm starting to resemble the TGP dorks as age is catching up with my wrists. :no:
Click to expand...

Drink more water, stretch out, and get yourself a multiscale :ROFLMAO:

Floyd Eye said:
I have a HHS TL60 I had built in 1999. Fucking thing sounds killer. And it's easily the best action on any guitar I've ever had my hands on. I never understood why the Carvin fanbois all swapped the pickups out. I like them. A lot.
Click to expand...

One of the issues with Carvin guitars is that a lot of them (possibly all sans 7+ strings prior to Kiesel?) require modifying the pickup cavities to fit most other pickups. Could be wrong, but it was an issue on my 80s Carvins and 00s.
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
Drink more water, stretch out, and get yourself a multiscale :ROFLMAO:
Click to expand...

I've been doing the warm up thing the last couple years, it's something I never used to think about. I've been looking at those weird slanted fret guitars and the frets that look like Tetris blocks. Do they actually make it any easier on the wrists?

edit: I've been doing IT since about 93', so my wrists are shot from keyboards.
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
Drink more water, stretch out, and get yourself a multiscale :ROFLMAO:



One of the issues with Carvin guitars is that a lot of them (possibly all sans 7+ strings prior to Kiesel?) require modifying the pickup cavities to fit most other pickups. Could be wrong, but it was an issue on my 80s Carvins and 00s.
Click to expand...
I can't confirm or deny. Mine is a '99 Carvin 6 string Tele copy, but has never had anything in it but the stock pickups. 2 Hums and a single coil. The bridge hum has a coil tap. Pearl white with gold hardware. Fixed bridge and Sperzel locking tuners. Never felt the need to change anything.
 
Floyd Eye said:
I have a HHS TL60 I had built in 1999. Fucking thing sounds killer. And it's easily the best action on any guitar I've ever had my hands on. I never understood why the Carvin fanbois all swapped the pickups out. I like them. A lot.
Click to expand...

I couldn't agree more :dunno: I am one of the biggest pickup corksniffers on the planet, and I think a bunch of the carvin pickups sound great, full stop

I think it's honestly a psychosomatic thing

"This guitar is less expensive than it should be, as an american made guitar, therefore they had to cut costs somewhere, therefore they must have used shitty pickups"

Wherever Carvin/Kiesel were cutting costs, it certainly wasn't the pickups, because a bunch of them i've heard sounded bad-fucking-ass.

And being as i'm one of those insane people who can hear the difference between different models and magnets in blind tests, I think there's probably some mental gymnastics going on with everyone who switched them out on their Carvin/Kiesels.

I can certainly understand if you wanted a very specific tone out of the guitar, but in a lot of cases I think it was purely a mental thing.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top