Description
Very rare Cornford Carrera combo amp in Oxblood tolex.
As you know if you are reading this, Cornford amps is out of business and these killer, hand-wired in England tube amps are nearly impossible to get a hold of. This one is in excellent condition and sounds awesome. Truly a unique design from a company that its a shame to say is no longer with us.
CARRERAOVERVIEW: |
 
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| 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! | |
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THE CARRERA’S CONTROL PANEL| 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. |
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SWITCHABLE POWER VALVE TYPES – OCTAL OR 9 PIN |
Here’s what Cornford say about the Carrera Combo:
This is a 1×12 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 1×9 pin valve base suitable for an EL84/6BQ5 valve, switchable to 1×8 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 |
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| Guitarrista Spain also gave the Carrera its 5 Star Award. |
Carrera – StoryCornford’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. |
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Carrera – Specification |
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| TYPE: | All valve, single channel, single ended Class A combo with solid-state rectification. Covered in Custom-made ox-blood vinyl. |
| OUTPUT POWER: | 5 to 8 Watts – depending on the output valve used. |
| POWER VALVES: | 1 x 9 pin valve base suitable for EL84/6BQ5, switchable to 1 x 8 pin octal valve base suitable for 6V6, 6L6/5881, EL34, KT66, KT77, KT88/6550. The Carrera comes with 1xEL84 and 1x 6V6 as standard. Switch to standby and leave for 10 seconds before switching valve bases. |
| PREAMP VALVES: | 3 x 12AX7s as standard, interchangeable with ECC81 / 12AT7 / ECC82 / 12AU7 / ECC803 / ECC83 / 12AX7 in any combination. |
| TOP PANEL: | From left to right: Hi and lo inputs, Effects send and return, gain, reverb, bass, middle, treble and master volume. 8/9 pin output valve switch, standby and mains on off switches. |
| BOTTOM PANEL: | Extension speaker socket, for 8 or 16 ohm extension cab (can be used with in conjunction with the internal speaker). Slave output, switchable output and preamp valves. |
| ACCESSORIES: | No. |
| EFFECTS LOOP: | Valve powered effects loop. |
| HARDWARE: | All corners, screws, cup washers, handle fixings etc. nickel plated. 16 gauge fully welded, powder coated chassis. Leather handle. Black cloth grille piped in cream. |
| CONSTRUCTION: | Totally handbuilt and point-to-point hand wired in the UK. No PCBs Of any sort. |
| TRANSFORMERS: | Custom designed in house and hand wound. |
| SPEAKER(S): | Single 12″ Celestion Vintage 30, 8 ohm. |
| REVERB: | Valve powered reverb (Accutronics 3-spring tank). |
| FOOTSWITCH: | No. |
| CABINET: | Solid pine with ply baffle board permanently dadoed into Cabinet. |
| DIMENSIONS: | 600 mm (W) 450 mm (H) 250 mm (D). |
| WEIGHT: | 21kg / 45lb. |
