JV Strat + Vox TL + Carvin Nomad Clip

[Ocifer]

Finally got some time off work to play and mess around a bit more with the mic I got off a family friend. Here's the JV doing some more nasty sounds. Playing could be a bit less sloppy, but I improvised a take around Floyd's "Time".

JV Strat clip - time
lo-fi URL: http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=4283056&q=lo
hi-fi URL: http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=4283056&q=hi

EDIT: The amp is a Carvin Bel-Air, not a Nomad. My mistake.

 

[Ocifer]

Re: JV Strat + Vox TL + Carvin Nomad Clip

bump

 

[Wattage]

Re: JV Strat + Vox TL + Carvin Nomad Clip

Playing was a bit rough but you got a real good tone going on there.

 

[Ocifer]

Re: JV Strat + Vox TL + Carvin Nomad Clip

Thanks for the compliments. All my clips lately have been rough wank sessions, I should really record a tune or jam over a BT.

Even though I'm getting some DiMarzios (like cursing in this forum, I know) for the JV, I'm definetely holding on to the Tex-Mex pickups in this thing. I've never heard stock strat pickups that sounded good distorted. Too bad about the hum, though.

 

[StrangeSound]

Re: JV Strat + Vox TL + Carvin Nomad Clip

I liked the playing very much..I think that the record quality makes it sound rough..but smooth playing otherwise!

 

[BluesGuyJ]

Re: JV Strat + Vox TL + Carvin Nomad Clip

What are you throwing in there for Dimarzios?

Good tone and playing.

That amp sounds nice, aren't those only like 18 watts?

 

[Wattage]

Re: JV Strat + Vox TL + Carvin Nomad Clip

No reason to change those pups at all.

 

[Ocifer]

Re: JV Strat + Vox TL + Carvin Nomad Clip

What are you throwing in there for Dimarzios?

Good tone and playing.

That amp sounds nice, aren't those only like 18 watts?

The Carvin Bel-Air (not the Nomad, that was a typo) is a 50-watter with two Celestion G12 v30s. It's got 5 12AX7s and four EL84. On the clip it was running at about 1.5/10 volume. I've run it full-out before and the clean channel is gorgeous! It's almost a mix between a Fender and Vox clean, as it's got that EL84 vibe but it still has the balls a Fender brings.

What they say about the dirty channel is true: it can get a bit muddy, but I plan on doing a few simple mods to it (which I've heard make the amp sound like a 10).

The nomad is a 50-watter as well, with one Celestion G12 v30.

The tex-mex p'ups sound good but they do hum as single coils do. I'm planning on playing out a lot more in the future, and I'd like the guitar a bit quieter. I'm throwing in a DiMarzio Virtual PAF (F-Spaced) into the bridge, and some noiseless SCs into the neck and middle (I'm leaning toward the new Area 58s or 61s). I've found that I really dig the versitility of an HSS guitar. Might put a coil tab switch on the Virtual PAF or maybe go for a "neck-pickup-on-in-series" via a push-pull knob.

I really like the tex-mex pickups, though. I'm thinking of keeping them and putting them in my Godin strat (going to try series wiring a la Brian May and make into a project).

EDIT: Oh, and the Vox TL has been bashed to hell for its distorted sounds, but to me it sounds amazing once you put it through a tube amp.