The fear and GAS and panic rising when...

Boudoir Guitar said:
@JiveTurkey 's Strat says "absolutely not"
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Hell Yeah absolutely Gorgeous especially with Ebony Board

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What makes Carr amps stand out? Clips sound great and the Super Bee seems like it's got its own thing going on, but the others are basically cooler Fenders...? Is it mostly the tolex and the trapezoids shapes or is there something more?
 
yeky83 said:
What makes Carr amps stand out? Clips sound great and the Super Bee seems like it's got its own thing going on, but the others are basically cooler Fenders...? Is it mostly the tolex and the trapezoids shapes or is there something more?
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Whilst many of the Carrs do visually appeal to me, it's not really about looks or fancy tolex at all.

I just would like a Fenderish amp that's made of better quality than the ones that Fender makes with a couple of affordances / improvements or twists on the source designs. Carr does make a Marshally / Bluesbreaker style amp too: Mercury V.

The issue has always been that "Fender gonna Fender", perhaps now more than ever. i.e. they cut (frankly stupid) corners on even their premium handwired amps in order to save a few bucks and then charge more than Carr and other boutique builders (in many cases).

But not just Carr; same is true for Louis Electric, Headstrong, 3rd Power and others. All of them use better transformers and components than Fender. Carr make their own cabinets and those cabs look to be best of breed to me (from photographs).

Headstrong makes an almost exact copy (not the logo) of a vintage Princeton Reverb that is better in tone and quality than the current handwired offering from Fender for example, at a marginally lower price point.
 
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yeky83 said:
What makes Carr amps stand out? Clips sound great and the Super Bee seems like it's got its own thing going on, but the others are basically cooler Fenders...? Is it mostly the tolex and the trapezoids shapes or is there something more?
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The power scaling stuff I don’t understand works really well.

They look even better in person than online which I don’t find to be the case all that often with boutique stuff.

North Carolina, born and raised up, take your shirt off, twist it around your head, spin it like a helicopter.
 
Boudoir Guitar said:
The power scaling stuff I don’t understand works really well.
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By the looks of it, their latest designs (e.g. Super Bee) use speaker voice coils to add loads for power scaling. Benson and Silktone use similar approaches. You can clearly see what looks like voice coils in the amp gut shots.

The older Sportsman design uses a PPIMV, I think... but it sounds like a really good one.

But yes, I forgot to mention the power scaling in my reply to @yeky83 - that's also attractive, given that so far I've always bought Fender and Fender-style NMV amps and I want low power options with great tone.
 
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@Gearzilla I also love the idea of the Carr Impala that you own by the way; but it's way more than I need right now. Looking at low power options!
 
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