THE CORNFORD CARRERA

CARRERA

OVERVIEW:
Amplifier type: Combo
Wattage: 5-8 Watts
Speaker: Celestion Vintage 30
Reverb: Yes
Features: Switchable 8/9 pin power valves; FX loop

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THE CARRERA'S CONTROL PANEL

This amp is the ideal canvas for you to create your perfect guitar tone on. This little beauty with your favourite guitar & pedal selection plugged into it will rock your world!

The Cornford Carrera is low enough in power to get those searing solo sounds in either the home or studio, but it has the balls to work as a great small gigging amp. Such a versatile amp - you just switch the tubes around & all of a sudden it's like owning a new amp!

Unlike most modern tube amps, the Cornford Carrera features a Class A tube power section & is hand wired point to point, rather than using PCB's (printed circuit boards). This ensures that you get the absolute purest tube tone out of your tube amplifier.

THE REAR OF THE CARRERA

SWITCHABLE POWER VALVE TYPES - OCTAL OR 9 PIN

Here's what Cornford say about the Carrera Combo:

This is a 1x12 Celestion Vintage 30 loaded combo, with a 5-8 Watt, all tube, class A amp section, perfect for home and studio applications. All point to point hand soldered wiring, no PCB's in sight and full of fantastic guitar tones. 5 to 8 watts output, depending on the output valve used. Output stage is 1x9 pin valve base suitable for an EL84/6BQ5 valve, switchable to 1x8 pin Octal valve base suitable for any of the following valves - 6V6, 6L6/588, EL34, KT66, KT77, or KT88/6550.

The Cornford Carrera comes with 1xEL84 and 1x6V6 as standard. The preamp is 3x12AX7's as standard, interchangeable with ECC81/12AT7, EC882/12AU7, ECC803 and ECC83/12AX7 in any combination.

THE CARRERA HAS REAL SPRING REVERB

Guitarist Magazine gave this a 5 out of 5 review & awarded the Carrera with a "Guitarists Gold " award.

THE CARRERA HAS HI AND LO INPUTS AND fx LOOP

Guitarrista Spain also gave the Carrera its 5 Star Award.

Carrera - Story

Cornford's Harlequin became an instant hit with studios, and with guitarists with home set-ups who were fed up with synthetic sounds and who wanted real tone on their recordings. Six and a half years down the line comes the Carrera.

"It was as a direct result of pressure from our players," says Paul C. "They kept telling us they wanted a Harly, but with a few more features, like reverb and an effects loop, so we've bowed to their requests and come up with the Carrera. But we've added a couple of our own ideas to make it even more interesting."

The Carrera is a hand-built, point-to-point wired amp - "no PCBs of any sort" insists Paul - as well as the aforementioned reverb and effects loops, both entirely valve driven, Cornford has come up with an ingenious way to create different power ratings and tones from one amp.

THE CORNFORD CARRERA

Carrera - Specification