Quality of Carvin mixing consoles??

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Does anyone have experience with Carvin mixing consoles?? A band I work with is looking into a new board and it seems Carvin offers some very nice boards for several hundred $$ less than Mackies / Soundcraft / Alesis etc...

So are you saving money because you are buying direct or is the quality less than ideal?? Anyone here know??

Thanks!

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Yo Zip-a-Di-Doo-Da:]

I get a Carvin catalog about once a month but I've never bought anything from them. I am interested, though, in their Plug-filter box that will do wallwart plugs and regular plugs and it has a filter built in to supress line voltage noise. [But, I don't know if it works or not.]

I suggest you get Yorkville on the Web. Yorkville.com should get you there. They have a great line of stuff, including mixers. I bought the Yorkville YSM-one monitors -- absolutely great for the price. {Yea, verily, I don't sell them.}

They have good prices and from my chat with some dealers I buy from, Carvin may not be as good as their catalog.

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good quality for 100s less then alesis? alesis arent exactly the be all and end all mixers. yea the adat is great, but not their mixers at least what ive touched at GC and mars... unless as a mean cruel prank someone put peanut butter into every pot fader etc in all alesis mixers.
 
ya know...I bought the little Alesis 24 mixer, RA100 amp, and a pair of JBL TR125 speakers for our little church. The PA remains on most of the time, and for my bass (in direct), some direct in keyboards, and an acoustic plugged in, plus a half dozen vocal mics, the PA excells, is quiet (you don't hear any hiss with levels cranked). The mixer is a tad small to squeeze your fingers into, but I'd buy the same system again, for an identical situation. So, Alesis aint the *cats meow*, but to waste money for something better is just that...wasting money. I've used top end JBL stuff, Crown amps...and some other good stuff over the years, in much larger venues, but this little system stacks up just fine. A Behringer would have probably cut it too.....maybe!! ha!!
 
I have had some minimal experience with one of the Carvin boards and it appeared to be built well for travel. One thing that I would recommend is that you get some outboard mic preamps. The ones in the board were weak.

The board we were using was a little too noisy for studio use, but worked well for live sound. The noise seemed to come from the AUX returns no matter what was hooked to them, (if I remember correctly.) I know that Carvin makes a high end mixer, but I've never had a chance to check on out.
 
Thanks for the input...

So you know - the board would be for live only so I'm not looking for Neve...;)

Hey Misfit...

Do you remember which line of board you worked with which had the weak pres?? We are looking at the middle of the road concert series...thanks.

Yorkville...yeah! Almost forgot about checking them out...

Cool.

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It was a 16 channel board. I don't remember the exact name, but the guy I was working with said it was priced around six or seven hundred dollars.

I hope that narrows it down.
 
I have no experiance with purchasing Carven stuff at all, but I will relate this. Back in the 1980's when I was basicially into guitar playing only I took a trip out to CA to visit my bro. I was curious about Carvin guitars and guitar amps so my bro and I took a trip to the nearby Carvin factory. It turned out the guy in their "showroom" was also from Michigan, we chatted awhile and he showed me around the place. I remember being very impressed by the facility. They are definately NOT a fly-by-night type place, the workers I saw there were seriously into the stuff they were making.
After getting back to Michigan I thought about ordering a Carvin amp but ultimately wound up getting something else. Now, 20 years in a long time, however I would have no problem ordering from them if I saw something I liked.
 
"They are definately NOT a fly-by-night type place, the workers I saw there were seriously into the stuff they were making. "

Also very good to know...thanks man. I purchased a Carvin Electric guitar waaaayyy back in 1980 when they were a very new company. You know that ol' axe plays as well as the day I bought it. Something to be said for that...

I just haven't heard much about the mixers...

But...quality is quality......

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