So did you guys notice that...

[King Guitar]

Jerry seems like a solid person and business man. I have no worries that he and Mark will be sending out amps on a regular basis. I am just not sure about getting a std Cameron or a Surreal that is Jerrys clean and Cameron Hi Gain.

A top notch clean amp to do blues/old rock/edgy cleans is vital to my gig now. Not sure how many around here have plugged into Tone Kings, but the Metropolitan has a perfect clean channel. Excellent clean to slightly burnt clean. You don't just play it, you get inspired to play better by it. To get 95% of that in a channel switcher with a good rock amp on the other side would be excellent.... I would gladly drop coin on that.

Please post up any Cameron clips that could show the variety the amp is capable of. I have 3 amps now to hit those 3 bases.... Zinky, SLO, River KT. Going to one amp or two even, would be good.

I think the chic in my avatar will untie one of the three bows in her bikini for the first person to post a cleanish clip.

Thanks,

Softail.

I was one of Mark Bartels first ever dealers for his Tone King amps was he was making them out of the garage in 1993. I used to gig a Tone King Continental and loved it. The CCV isn't a Tone King on the clean side but it can get you 80 % of the way there and for a channel switcher it is as good as you are going to get IMO. With the gain bump switches you can slightly overdrive it and nail some SRV/JH type vibes as well. Don't think the CCV is just a metal amp. Its much more than that and is inspiring to play. One of those deals where you start playing riffs you never played before and they seem to be just being channeled from a really good guitar and/or a really good amp. Its kinda like that. No Joke. You may see me buy a ton of gear in the past but very rarely do you see me go crazy over it. Usually it just fades away...That is not my experience so far with this amp and I have about 20 solid hours on it so far. So far so good.

 

[dawnofdreamx97]

cool stuff.... There is a reason it still exists in my camp... simply nothing sounds as good, goes to tape, and moves air in a smooth , polite, non ear fatiguing way, that is so fucking pissed off and unique sounding at the same time...

nothing like it... it does everything great... and quite frankly the thing is fucking violent sounding lol
cheers Brad glad you got a good one!

 

[RedB4Black]

Actually I had one other CCV an early one and it sounded nothing like this one, must have been broken.

It is true, all else is going. The Cameron CCV100 made a few months ago is a freak show of tone. Believe me I have a history of trying everything. Some is Meh some is good, few are great. Nothing has sounded as good to me as the new CCV and a Port City 2x12 cab with Scumbacks (M75/H75).

It is the sound I have spend $100,000's of thousands of dollars looking for. I am all set with high gain amps. No gas. Will post clips this weekend. Selling all the extra stuff and buying a new truck for cash (Escalade ESV) with the money I had laying around in spare gear which is a eye opener WTF! .

As flakey as getting a CCV is, it really is the real deal. I have not heard better and god damn have heard allot.

That is all.

Do you still have a Mills? Ever tried the Scumbacks in one of those?

Had a Mills with V30's and it was a damn fine cabinet. For my money nothing sounds as good as the Port City with the Scumbacks do to the actual design of the thing. It really is a revolutionary cab design with the port and bass channel. Sounds Huge.

Sound as good as a 412?

 

[King Guitar]

Actually I had one other CCV an early one and it sounded nothing like this one, must have been broken.

It is true, all else is going. The Cameron CCV100 made a few months ago is a freak show of tone. Believe me I have a history of trying everything. Some is Meh some is good, few are great. Nothing has sounded as good to me as the new CCV and a Port City 2x12 cab with Scumbacks (M75/H75).

It is the sound I have spend $100,000's of thousands of dollars looking for. I am all set with high gain amps. No gas. Will post clips this weekend. Selling all the extra stuff and buying a new truck for cash (Escalade ESV) with the money I had laying around in spare gear which is a eye opener WTF! .

As flakey as getting a CCV is, it really is the real deal. I have not heard better and god damn have heard allot.

That is all.

Do you still have a Mills? Ever tried the Scumbacks in one of those?

Had a Mills with V30's and it was a damn fine cabinet. For my money nothing sounds as good as the Port City with the Scumbacks do to the actual design of the thing. It really is a revolutionary cab design with the port and bass channel. Sounds Huge.

Sound as good as a 412?

yes

 

[Nico]

You know what this means, a rise in demand and more wait times for the CCV...

 

[jmgman69]

You know what this means, a rise in demand and more wait times for the CCV...

nah they still suck................................................................................... hey jerry,put me on the list man

 

[johnpace2]

Man, I can't wait to get mine! I'm sooo close!

 

[dawnofdreamx97]

Man, I can't wait to get mine! I'm sooo close!

dude when you get yours we should play a show together and run stereo ccv's !

 

[johnpace2]

Man, I can't wait to get mine! I'm sooo close!

dude when you get yours we should play a show together and run stereo ccv's !

That would be awesome! I often wonder if you are scared about taking your ccv out. I bet you guard it with your life! I don't think I would dare let it out of my sight!!!

 

[steve_k]

Man, I can't wait to get mine! I'm sooo close!

dude when you get yours we should play a show together and run stereo ccv's !

That would be awesome! I often wonder if you are scared about taking your ccv out. I bet you guard it with your life! I don't think I would dare let it out of my sight!!!

This will usually keep people from messing with your shit........

 

[johnpace2]

LOL Steve!

 

[King Guitar]

Man, I can't wait to get mine! I'm sooo close!

dude when you get yours we should play a show together and run stereo ccv's !

I will drive down for the Show for the 3 guitar CCV attack!

 

[dawnofdreamx97]

yes!!! i couldn't even imagine....haha

 

[johnpace2]

Man, I can't wait to get mine! I'm sooo close!

dude when you get yours we should play a show together and run stereo ccv's !

I will drive down for the Show for the 3 guitar CCV attack!

 

[dawnofdreamx97]

Wait a second... I have an incredible idea.... New England Winter Amp Fest? ? ? ? whataya say boys?

apple cider, amps, guitars, and ear plugs away!!!!!!!

 

[jerrydyer]

Some people hate that fact that the CCV is the best amp for some....

That's funny.

Some people can't stand to see someone else happy. Or if you do something outside your 'age bracket'. Friends of mine in the over 40 crowd are just slayed by the fact I still like to plug in my old Skully in the Rivera KT and crank some metal....

In time I will probably get a standard CCV or Surreal variant from Jerry.

Not sure if you play much on the clean side. Can you post anything/something on the clean side out of the CCV?

Im going to at least do some VADO videso this weekend on the Hybrid 100 it is definately a unique amp. its hard to describe really. Clean Crunch and lead so all the bases are covered pretty well. It my clean channel that mark added a special design master and cut control to, the crunch and lead share the tone network but have very different feel. The lead is unmistakeably Cameron. I almost have it all blueprinted out and I started the second so I should be able to offer it up within a few months. The lead and crunch have different ways of adding gain than the CCV but both have seperate push pull pots for a lot of versatility.

 

[jasonP]

Nothing better then pumping an amp before you dump it.

 

[jcj]

Nothing better then pumping an amp before you dump it.

Who wouild that be?

 

[glassjaw7]

Ah Fuck! Cameron gas is creeping back again. It doesn't help matters when Mark calls me and we talk about new designs he is scheming up either.

Dave, Brad and anyone else who would like to comment: Can the CCV really nail the classic "plexi" ish tones? I know everyone is probably sick of plexi this and plexi that, but if an amp could cover that much ground and do it convincingly, it would pretty much be the best amp ever.

 

[jkdsteve]

CCV is still the holy grail......this thread not helping GAS.