Clash of the Mini-Titans - Mesa Mini Rec vs Carvin V3M (Pt2)

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Clash of the Mini-Titans - Mesa Mini Rec vs Carvin V3M (Pt2)

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I'm pleased to announce that the next review on http://www.sixstringsamurai.co.nz is just around the corner!

I was interested in addressing the relatively recent trend in lunchbox amps, and Jansen was kind enough to provide a review unit of the Carvin V3M for me to compare to the Mesa Boogie Mini Rec I already own. I figured it was a good match, since a lot of the cheaper lunchboxes cover one or two bases at the exclusion of others, while these two seem to be up there as a new breed of fully-featured mini amps.

Anyway - if I've scheduled it correctly, Part 1 of the review should appear tomorrow morning sometime. I'm slowly still adding functionality to the site as I go, and have just added email subscription facilities, so I'd really appreciate it if you would skip over to the site briefly to enter your details! That's all you'll have to do, you don't have to confirm or reply or any crap like that.

And magically, when the first part of the review gets published, you'll receive a note in your inbox :)

Thanks again to Simon and Jansen, as well as Matt for rushing the Audix i5 down to me (even though the couriers fucked that plan up :crazy: )

Edit: Part 2 is now out.

Part 1: http://sixstringsamurai.co.nz/2012/05/1 ... rectifier/
Part 2: http://sixstringsamurai.co.nz/2012/05/1 ... unchboxes/
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So the V3M is a head as well? The size of the box made me think it was going to be a combo.
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Haha nah, I got the combo version - but am reviewing it as a "head", since the stock speaker wasn't broken in, and I ran both through my Mesa Thiele cab just to be consistent. Haven't had the weather for a sweet photo op, so stock pics for now, but the final part of the review should have some proper pics.
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mmm, can't read as the site keeps freezing my browser up...
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It's those annoying little flying facebook buttons!
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Is it really??

Works fine for me - I'll try and disable that, see if it works better now. What browser are you using, G?
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Too embarrased...IE but, ya know, at work etc
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Hahaha. IE see...

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If thats what you want, you should use the animated twitter bird. Its fucking awful.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/anm ... tter-bird/
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No probs on ie7 at work here. Apart from, y'know, being on ie7...
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BG wrote:If thats what you want, you should use the animated twitter bird. Its fucking awful.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/anm ... tter-bird/
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yeah, we were going to write one that shits as it flies around...
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Facebook needs an animal mascot that can fight the Shwitter bird.
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the 777 thing is funny, I'm pretty sure ace frehley does that (but he keeps everything on 7)
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