Carr Sportsman amp

[sylnau]

What you guys think about them?
Any of you tried one?

No master volume... good for clean as a pedal base?

[rfurtkamp]

The guys I've seen who rave about the Carr stuff are mostly the blues lawyer types looking for guitar-cable-amp, and specs on it make me question how much headroom you're going to have realistically.

[SoaringTortoise]

If I might intercede on behalf of the defendant. It's a killer amp.

[popvulture]

I have a Carr Mercury—it's a gorgeous sounding amp, and VERY well made. Though I'm not a blues lawyer, rfurt's right about guitar - cable - amp. Sounds fine with pedals, but that's not really where it excels.

The Sportsman looks sort of like a lower wattage version of the Slant 6V, which I can say is an amazing amp that sounds excellent clean or dirty.

[sylnau]

how is the bass response at low volume?

[popvulture]

Can't speak for the Sportsman. The Mercury has a chimey bottom on cleaner settings, not super pronounced, but balanced. Gets squashy/flare-y the more into overdriven territory it gets, much in the same way a small tweed does.

[sylnau]

One store here in Quebec is listed on the Carr website.
I'll give them a visite next weekend.
But not sure they have them for real... they are more like a sax and other wind instrument dealer.

I'm getting tired of the Bogner Duende.

[popvulture]

Cool! Definitely worth a play, and will probably be significantly different than the Bogner.

[doommeow]

Moog in MTL usually has a bunch of Carr amps. Might want to give them a call.

The might be for blues dentists, but a Mercury is on my must buy list if I ever rob a bank / win the lottery / purposefully rackup obscene debt due to a death sentence / etc

[insubordination]

I believe JustNick has done a fair number of demos using a Carr Sportsman, might want to poke around his YouTube channel and see what pedals tend to sound like (not a great representation of how it sounds in person, of course). He tends to favor the Dusky or whatever, but I'm fairly certain the Sportsman has been in the mix the past couple years.

[sylnau]

This is not for blues, this for music. Things doesn't need to be categorise like that.
I'm looking for a nice little amp that will sound great at bedroom level and with a good bass response (oh yeah... that might mean bluesy... )

[The Eristic]

Wonderful amp. A good bit of BF Princeton Reverb vibe but holds together much better at volume, more fidelity, much more range and ludicrous build quality. If you want more body and bass, go with the 12" version. The Headroom control acts more or less like a Master Vol across most of its range, btw. Just leave it all the way up for maximum, erm, headroom.

[sylnau]

The store seems to have the Rambler only (but I will see on the weekend).
Rambler might be too loud for bedroom level.

[lost in music]

This is not normally my kinda thing, but I was intrigued by the duck graphic and went to their website to check out what other animals they might have made amps out of. Deer? Moose? Wild Boar? But every other amp they make is named after a car. Carr, geddit? Get fucked Carr Amplificaters.

[popvulture]

This is not for blues, this for music. Things doesn't need to be categorise like that.

I know—sometimes we just can't resist.