hey mike...
i had been a carvin guy for 15 years... had at least 7 or 8 of their bass guitars and 6 strings, a slew of amps/p.a.'s, whatever... couple months ago i ordered their tiltback rc-210 combo bass amp, with the r600 head... it was a dog. initially, great tone and features but in the middle of the first gig i used it on, it started sounding like a farters convention and fizzled out! i sent the head back after making sure the speakers were o.k... after 5 weeks, they send me the head back... i plug it in and in the middle of the second gig on that one... it went dark and died. i told carvin i wanted to return it and get a refund... in the meantime, i had to buy something else so i got a workingman's 15 combo swr... and that little amp kicks some serious butt! to shorten the carvin saga, they refused to refund me anything and sent me a new head which also petered out... got so hot i burned myself on the front plate... so now i'm stuck with a piece of junk that is useless... so, i'm flaming carvin every chance i get... i got rid of all the carvin stuff i had and i'm telling everyone to be aware, very aware of their slipping, shoddy quality and their customer service is the pits. here's an observation by an engineer who looked at that tilt back amp... the puny little fan in the amp is not sufficient enough to cool the unit and it's parked deep inside the cabinet with no way to get any ventilation... especially if it's tilted back... all the heat simply rises back to the head. very stupid design. just my 2 cents...
rock on,
chevy

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