| I'm trying desperately to finish up a few things so that I may go
on vacation without feeling much guilt, so my review will have to
be quick.
Oddly enough, the two most outstanding features of this guitar are
somewhat of a surprise. The two outstanding features is that it
has incredible natural sustain and the intonation is exceptional.
The electronics are good but not mind boggling. It's got four pickups:
2 humbuckers, two single coil (although my guess is that the single
coil pickups are those humbucking strat replacements). There's
switching on the thing sorta allows you three basic modes which
you can get to easily:
1) Multi-purpose mode - allows you many combinations of the
4 pickups
2) Lead mode - a switch that basically adds the lead humbucker
into whatever you've got going.
3) Clean mode - which cancels everything except one of the
single coil pickups.
It's a nice blue color. The tuners are good. There is a REAL
Steve Morse autograph on the headstock which also includes the
symbols "24/50" which means that this guitar is number 24 of the
50 that were made.
Now what I'm about to say may surprise you, but it really is what
I expected all along:
> Is the Carvin destined for a new career as a bookend?
Nope. In fact, it will still be my "main" guitar. The Morse model
(despite all those pickups) just doesn't have the variety, versatility
and the ability to tap these qualities in "real-time" that the Carvin
has.
The Carvin never had the sustain and intonation that the Morse
guitar has, and right now the thing is in REALLY sad shape, but now
that I have another guitar, I might just be able to part with the
Carvin long enough to have the problems fixed.
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