Incoming NAD. Gonna be my last purchase for a long time.

[Hiwatts and Gibsons]

I've been eyeing these for quite a while, but was hemming and hawwing over it or a lunchbox sized head into an attenuator for low volume playing, or with an IR loaded for silent playing and recording in the future.
Well last night in the words of Marlon Brando Carvin made me an offer that I couldn't refuse when I saw a new full warranty openbox one for $150 under list on reverb through the Carvin store.



It kills a few birds with one stone nicely. I can grab it and a 1x12 for low volume playing, use it for silent playing and recording, and I had been thinking about setting up a small all metal all the time pedal board for using with my regular amps with just a clean boost, distortion pedal, and a wah. For the last one I can use the X1's clean channel as a clean boost into my amp with a footswitchable EQ for a more scooped metal clean tone, and have two good high gain tones on tap as well.

I'm really thinking now that running the cab emulated output into my Pigtronix Echolution 2 and then getting the signal panned left/right in stereo with some subtle delay for space will be awesome for headphone play and practice.

 

[misterwhizzy]

Nice! I’ll be waiting for a full review.

 

[Mincer]

What power amp will you be using?

 

[Securb]

I am tempted at that price, I would love to use it as a gain stage for my JC120. The amp has a lot of gain if that is anything like the amp at $150 it would make an over-the-top dirt stomp.

 

[Hiwatts and Gibsons]

What power amp will you be using?

Either the built in 1 watt poweramp into a cab, or feeding it to one of my amps, or two in stereo.

 

[Hiwatts and Gibsons]

I am tempted at that price, I would love to use it as a gain stage for my JC120. The amp has a lot of gain if that is anything like the amp at $150 it would make an over-the-top dirt stomp.

I was close to building a second pedal board just for metal, but this solves that issue. All I gotta do is slap a wah infront of it and I'm good to go.

 

[Securb]

The gain in the X1 will get you into metal territory with plenty to spare.

 

[80's_Thrash_Metal]

That's pretty cool. Carvin makes some good shit.

You can't even buy a distortion pedal for $150 these days.

 

[Artie]

That's pretty sweet and interesting. Never seen one before. Enjoy.

 

[Hiwatts and Gibsons]

That's pretty cool. Carvin makes some good ****.

You can't even buy a distortion pedal for $150 these days.

Not even used.

 

[Ascension]

Haven't had a chance to work with one of those yet. I have owned quite a few Carvin Amps over the years. The last X 100 series amps and a V 3 series amps were both absolute tone monsters. Post some thoughts on that one when you get it. I don't know much about what's going on with that side of the Kiesel family after the split up of the company and the family spat. I still know a bunch of folks on the Kiesel guitar side though.