NGD: Carvin ST300

Steelrz13

Steelrz13

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I finally got my carvin recently and It's hands down one of the best guitars I've ever played. The playability on it is amazing. The action is really low just how I like it but without any buzz. The neck is great and I love the feel of the ebony board.

As for sound... Just as I expected amazing! Originally I thought I'd want to change the pickups but I've decided not to for now. They are actually pretty good pickups however they're not quite duncans... The neck gets a singing clear tone that I love for solos and the bridge pickup is the same way really clear but a little on the trebly side. With the active electronics you can get almost any tone. The active electronics are a great feature. When disengaged you get the classic passive humbucker tone but when engaged it adds way more clarity and a noticible jump in gain that can also be tweaked to add higher or lower amounts of gain. There is also coil taps and a phase switch that I don't really find to usefull.

The finish of this guitar is amazing and very high quality. Just look at the pictures!

I really could not be happier with this guitar. It's made exactly how I wanted with my specifications and plays and sounds as good as any guitar I've played simply becaus it's made just how I like. And the best part is it was a lot cheaper than a lot of other higher quality guitars.
 
Yeah I thought the back would be blue and black like the front and was originally pretty mad but I actually really like it now.
 
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****ing hottness.

But damn, man. Play around with those switches a lil more! I'd love to have tonal options readily available like that.
 
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I put a set of those S22's in my RG4
they sound great
which set did you get the "J" neck and "B" bridge?
 
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Steelrz13 said:
Yeah I thought the back would be blue and black like the front and was originally pretty mad but I actually really like it now.
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You would have had to specify that in your order. They will do them that way..

Thats gorgeous Bro! Carvins are excellent axes! Many of their pickups are great. I think people talk smack about their pups in forums because they are just parroting what they have read. Many Carvin players love their pups and I find they are better than most oem pups that come in guitars.
Anyhow, congrats and rock that thing!!
 
The coil taps are really useful I use them a lot but I really can't find many uses for the phase switch at this point.
 
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Hell yeah, I had the Bolt kit I made, trans blue like yours actually, The first thing I notice was the neck felt better than anything I held before. It had a M22SD in the bridge and two twin blades, pretty nice. Carvin needs to be a little more descriptive on there, well everything. I want to get a set of there pickups but the discriptions for each spend the time talking about the construction. When they do talk about the tone they are really vauge. Put a tone chart or something.
 
Bfeeney said:
Hell yeah, I had the Bolt kit I made, trans blue like yours actually, The first thing I notice was the neck felt better than anything I held before. It had a M22SD in the bridge and two twin blades, pretty nice. Carvin needs to be a little more descriptive on there, well everything. I want to get a set of there pickups but the discriptions for each spend the time talking about the construction. When they do talk about the tone they are really vauge. Put a tone chart or something.
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Here ya go.
http://www.carvinguitars.com/pickups/
 
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Wow, cool. I NEVER saw that. I even emailed them about that, they didn't include that link. Well cool, thanks
 
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Beautiful- you may find yourself with better chops cause of the ease of playing the Carvins.

I wonder -is the Guitar about as fat sounding as an SG or thinner/brighter and do you notice added sustain from the neck thru ?

I wonder if one of these in Mahogany or Koa would be as fat roughly as an SG but more sustain and versatility.......kind of like my old BC Rich Mockingbird was.

I have an H-S-S Bolt now that's very fat sounding with excellent sustain but wonder about another neck thru also.
 
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Mine actually is all mahogany and yes i think it sounds really close to an sg. The guitar definitely sustains a lot longer than my strat. that's all I really have to compare it to though. But I'd say the neck through really does make a noticeable difference in sustain.
 
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Love my Carvin bro, I have a CS4... it is one EXCEPTIONAL guitar and the playability is unreal. I am seriously considering a CT324 right now...
 
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