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…the Artemus is very humbucker friendly – deliciously gritty. For the rock-and-roll Tele player, it’s hard to beat. The amp is well-conceived, highlighted by its cab design, and everything about it, including fit and finish, say
– Vintage Guitar, July 2011quality.
Artemus Review in Vintage Guitar, July 2011 (821kb pdf)
Guitar Planet produced two video reviews of the Mini Mercury – one using a Fender Stratocaster and the other with a ’59 Les Paul reissue. Have a look and listen:
Superchunk‘s Mac McCaughan used a Mercury when performing for their video “Crossed Wires”. He also used a Mercury at Superchunk’s recent show at Radio City Music Hall.
Photography by Matt Carr
Carr amplifiers will soon arrive at:
A couple of new places to get a Carr Amp:
Watch the Premier Guitar coverage of the Carr Amplifiers booth at NAMM 2011 where we showed off two new multi-pedal prototypes: reverb/tremolo/clean boost and analog delay/tremolo/clean boost. Both pedals feature tube signal-paths, point-to-point wiring, headphone/line outs, and Carr quality and craftsmanship.
Check it out on the Premier Guitar website: NAMM 2011 – Carr Amps Tube Multi Pedal Demos
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It has been almost 11 months since we made a video, but yesterday Steve got the bug and recorded this one with the help of Mike Kenlan working the camera. This episode is about different types of preamp tubes, and Steve offers some suggestions for substituting one tube type for another.
Steve wishes he had mentioned tube pin straighteners in the video. Many times the pins on NOS and even brand new current production tubes are bent and not aligned with the socket hole spacing. A pin straightener will fix mis-aligned pins, avoiding damage to the tube and socket.