Carvin Pickups.

[JamesL]

What's everyone's thoughts on Carvin Pickups?

For the most part I love the products they put out, I have one guitar (with it's stock pickups-AMAZING) I have the V3 head, The SX300 head, the BR 600 head and cab... and most recently I bought three single coils to put in a new Warmoth build I will have completed in the morning...

Thought I'd see what kind of responses I'd get.

 

[shanejw]

I'm a big fan of Carvin stuff as well, although I haven't heard any of their guitars.  I've had a full MTS 3200 stack for about 10 years now, and will never buy anything else.  I've heard people bash them but I like to form my own opinion.  Let me know how you like them.

 

[Superlizard]

The Carvin DC150 which you see in my avatar came with c22's.

I found them to be a bit too scooped in the mids and too hot (measured about 13K), so I sold them on Ebay.

A5 magnets in humbuckers aren't my style - I dig A2's.

Have SD Seth Lovers in there now; which I originally intended to do anyways (dig them nickel covers).

One other thing - their humbuckers are slightly smaller than the normal... had to rout out a few sixteenths inches width to fit the Seths in there.

I'm sure they're very good for modern stuff, however.  Just ain't my bag.

 

[GoDrex]

I wasn't impressed by them when I had a V200.

 

[JamesL]

Here's more on the project...


http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=5613.0

 

[Shandrazar]

What's everyone's thoughts on Carvin Pickups?

For the most part I love the products they put out, I have one guitar (with it's stock pickups-AMAZING) I have the V3 head, The SX300 head, the BR 600 head and cab... and most recently I bought three single coils to put in a new Warmoth build I will have completed in the morning...

Thought I'd see what kind of responses I'd get.

I'm the proud owner of a CS6 with the S22 pickups and I like them.  On the Carvin boards there seem to be two distinct camps.  One loves the stock pickups, and the other replaces them the instant the guitar leaves the box.