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11-22-2012, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | | | Awesome score Woody! You were lucky to find one like that used. I bought an Icon when they first came out and I still enjoy it.
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11-22-2012, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by EagleMoon  I played an Icon at GC one time and just loved the feel and looks of the bass. Sounded nice too, though pretty modern. My main bass is 7.3 lbs. so almost anything is heavy compared to that.  | 7.3 lbs?!!! That's guitar territory!
My Icon is alder bodied and weighs 8.7 lbs.
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11-22-2012, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by MysticMichael What a beaut! 
I've got a couple of Icons myself. Love 'em!
MM | The SBs get all the attention but the Icon definitely has its own thing going and I actually prefer it soundwise. I liked the tone immediately upon first playing it, which is always a good sign.
Recently, I brought it to a music store to try out an amp and another customer commented on how nice it looked. But Woody's is even nicer!
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11-22-2012, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Bass Viking
7.3 lbs?!!! That's guitar territory!
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| Wash that keyboard out! 
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11-22-2012, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Bass Viking Recently, I brought it to a music store to try out an amp and another customer commented on how nice it looked. But Woody's is even nicer! | I don't think mine is nicer, just different. 
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11-22-2012, 10:31 PM
|  | Registered abuser of all frequencies under 1K | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Suffern, NY USA | | | That is gorgeous. Carvin makes beautiful basses with a sound that matches |
11-22-2012, 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Bass Viking The SBs get all the attention but the Icon definitely has its own thing going and I actually prefer it soundwise. I liked the tone immediately upon first playing it, which is always a good sign. | Apparently there are a lot of players who are really into the whole retro/vintage thing - which demand the SB more or less fulfills. That's cool. To my surprise, I even picked up an SB5000 myself - for special applications.
But I'm with you on the Icon. For Carvin's first foray into the neck-through hi-fi soapbar world, they've done a fine job. The medium-narrow string spacing makes it very playable - at least for fingerstyle & pickstyle. It's nicely balanced, weight-wise, with an ergonomic shape that's pleasing to the eye. Everything about it just shouts, "Modern!" Sort of reminds me of a hybrid of a Tobias and a Cort - but probably nicer than either.
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11-23-2012, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by MysticMichael Apparently there are a lot of players who are really into the whole retro/vintage thing - which demand the SB more or less fulfills. That's cool. To my surprise, I even picked up an SB5000 myself - for special applications.
MM | Plus it's a Jazz bass, the most popular bass of all time. I wonder when Carvin will come out with their version of a Precision?
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11-24-2012, 04:57 PM
| | Supporting Member and fetch player | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Colorado, USA | | All of us who are Carvin fans have been waiting for an eternity for a Carvin P and/or PJ.
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11-24-2012, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in the maritimes. | | | How would you describe the sound of the Carvin soap bars? I've been looking into Carvin for a fretless build sometime in the (distant) future.
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11-24-2012, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by WoodyG3 All of us who are Carvin fans have been waiting for an eternity for a Carvin P and/or PJ. | What I would like to see them create is a Warwick style bass without the Warwick price. 
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11-24-2012, 06:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: DENCO | | Woody GMoney,
I told you once and I'll say it again...that's one bad a$$ Icon you got there. Simply outstanding. Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodyG3 All of us who are Carvin fans have been waiting for an eternity for a Carvin P and/or PJ. | It seems it would take a prominent bassist to get his/her sig model and demand those configs. There's been many request for P and/or PJ for years, but...
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11-24-2012, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by El-Bob How would you describe the sound of the Carvin soap bars? I've been looking into Carvin for a fretless build sometime in the (distant) future. | I'll give it a try. Soapbars are kind of a more smooth sound, and less aggressive, than Carvin's single coils. You can still get a kind of low growl. I guess most people would call them a "modern" sound.
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11-26-2012, 12:17 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Brubaker Guitars | | | | | Nice bass. If you're going to upgrade the pickups consider some Bart Quad coils (classic) and an aggie obp3 and you will be killing. The classic series have a more open and bright tone. I already know that Bart makes a pickup that will fit as I did research when I was considering an icon 5 with the pickup and pre upgrade I suggested.
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11-26-2012, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by El-Bob How would you describe the sound of the Carvin soap bars? I've been looking into Carvin for a fretless build sometime in the (distant) future. | Definitely a rather smooth, rather refined tone. Very detailed & articulate. "Hi-fi" is the word that comes to mind, if that hasn't been worn out yet. 
( Shameless plug: I happen to have a set of Carvin's Bromberg soap bar humbuckers for sale right now. Very similar, if not identical in tone to the standard Icon soap bar humbuckers - but with the very cool 14-inch radiused top. Priced competitively as well. I have a custom set of these in my Bromberg fretless 5 - and they sound great!  )
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12-11-2012, 07:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Denver, Colorado | | | Beautiful bass, Woody. Enjoy.
I really dig my walnut Icon.
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