Carvin MTS 3200 All Tube Guitar Head - USA

Carvin MTS 3200 All Tube Guitar Head

RMS Power: 50 or 100 watts
Output Impedance: 4, 8 & 16Ω
Input Impedance: 100,000Ω
Tone Controls: BASS: 80Hz
Both Channels: MID: 600-700Hz TREBLE: 11k Hz
Ch 1 Sensitivity: 1mV for clipping
Ch 2 Sensitivity: 16mV for full output
Channels: 2—switching
Voiced Line Out: 1.5 VAC @ 100 watts RMS
Preamp Tubes: 5—12AX7's (dual stage)
Power Amp Tubes: 4—5881's (power pentode)
USA Model: 120VAC, 300VA
Cabinet Size: 24.25W x 10.5H x 9.5"D
Cabinet: 7-ply poplar wood
Net Weight: 35 lbs

Made in the USA!

This head is in great shape. Fully tested and played in our shop. Setup with Svetlana 6L6GC power tubes. All JJ preamp tubes except 1 Tungsol. No footswitch came in with this amp. 

"The MTS3200 design criteria was to build an all-tube guitar amp that sounded better than anything else on the market. This meant that the MTS3200 was going to be totally new from the ground up and that it was going to be an all tube design with no IC's or transistors.

Carvin has long known about the effects of miss-loading a guitar pickup which can cause high frequency loss. The MTS3200 guards against this loss with its ultra high input impedance. Also, we considered the capacitance of the average shielded guitar cable which can reduce the high frequency response of your guitar pickups. Unlike other amplifiers, we purposely avoided adding capacitance anywhere in the preamp to control high frequency oscillations. Instead, we controlled oscillations through careful component layout and lead placement allowing its shimmering highs to be reproduced.

The equalization of the clean and overdrive channel is designed to offer clarity to your instrument. Special mud-cutting circuits eliminate the unwanted sounds in the 500 to 700 Hz range which normally take away the tone definition of your instrument. You will also take notice of the clean channels PRESENCE switch which adds acoustic voicing to your instrument. This switch boosts only the guitars very highest harmonics which are in the 10k Hz range instead of the normal 3K Hz of a bright switch. The PRESENCE control on the lead channel is designed to adjust the "edge" on your sound. It's dynamic range allows for super-smooth sounds or an edge for your lead channel to reach out."

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