Point-To-Point

Premier Guitar reports on The Bloke, a new Carr amp model unveiled at NAMM 2012.

"As if the Rambler wasn't already the Black Hole of the few hours I savor away from the day job, I made the mistake of firing up that little blue amp at the local Guitars R Us. After beading at the brow and fumbling slack- jawed for plastic the Artemus followed me home. I tried to find a pickup/ pedal combo platter this carnivorous beast didn't like. Fuggetaboutit! When I woke up in the middle of the night my strat and TV Jones- festooned Collings were snuggled up next to it rubbing lotion on it and listening to Barry White records!" - Proud Artemus owner Bryan E.

The UK magazine Guitar & Bass features a Boutique Amp Roundup in their November 2011 issue. Six small combo amps from Matamp, Torres, Cornell, Bad Cat, Victoria, and Carr are compared. Which amp came out on top, you ask? Well, here's what they said: The Mercury is by far and away the most versatile amp in this roundup. If you could only take one amp to a recording session, you could be confident that you'd have all bases (short of death metal) covered. Quality costs, especially when you buy American, but valve amps don't come much better than this. - Guitar & Bass, November 2011 On newsstands now.

The Sportsman sound files have been posted to the Carr Amps website. The tracks were played and recorded by our friend Jason Barker using a Sportsman 1x12 combo with a Briggs Avatar and a Gibson ES-335. Here is a sample: Carrmouflage (2.42mb mp3) - Gibson ES-335 (humbuckers), Sportsman 1x12 combo Listen to the rest on the Sounds page!