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Blackstar Carmen Vandenberg CV30 combo

Blackstar Carmen Vandenberg CV30 combo  ·  Source: Blackstar

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Boss just announced a new signature model for Bones UK and Jeff Beck guitarist Carmen Vandenberg. The CV30 is a two channel 30-Watt combo, and should be able to cover clean to drive tones nicely.

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Blackstar Carmen Vandenberg CV30

Carmen Vandenberg has a new 30-Watt combo out with Blackstar called the CV30. The amp is based around a set of ECC83 preamp tubes, with a pair of 6L6 tubes in the output section, and packs a single 1 x 12″ Celestion Seventy-80 speaker. A two-way footswitch is included in the price.

Blackstar Carmen Vandenberg CV30 top panel

Blackstar Carmen Vandenberg CV30 top panel

American to British

This two channel combo comes with four voices: American Clean, British Clean, Classic Overdrive and Modern Overdrive, which, I would imagine, should be enough tonal options for most players. Plus, 30-Watts is plenty of useable power for a combo if you want to gig with it.

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Twin Channel

Channel 1 has controls for Volume and Tone, whereas Channel Two has Gain, Bass, Middle, Treble and ISF controls. Blackstar’s Infinite Shape Feature gets you from an American sounding voicing through to a more British voice, with the option to blend the two. There’s an onboard reverb too.

Blackstar Carmen Vandenberg CV30

Blackstar Carmen Vandenberg CV30

Limited Run

Unfortunately, there are only going to be 130 amps available worldwide, which is a shame as they look pretty decent and very gig-able. Each amp will come with a hand-signed certificate by Carmen.

RRP – $999

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Blackstar Carmen Vandenberg CV30 combo

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