News & Events

Guitar legend Steve Vai and Carvin Audio are excited to announce the new Steve Vai Legacy DRIVE Preamp Pedal! Take your tone anywhere with the versatility and portability of the Legacy Drive pedal.

Steve Vai wanted his Legacy tube tone in a format he could pack in a carry-on, so Carvin Audio worked with Steve to create the new Legacy Drive pedal. The Legacy Drive Pedal features:

Guitar legend Steve Vai makes an exciting video announcement that something new is coming soon. 

Carvin Audio is nominated for 3 categories in the 2017 ProSoundWeb & Live Sound International Reader's Choice Awards. Vote for Carvin Audio in these 3 categories:

Experience a superior audio performance and easy deployment with VELA, a vertically engineered line array element with a unique design that combines line array and column array technologies. VELA systems quickly adapt to your needs from private events to regional performance-sized systems. Each VELA is a full range single cabinet system, but with just four cabinets forms an array of over ten feet. VELA’s unique design produces fuller audio spectrum array projection with fewer cabinets than a standard line array. The internal 2500W amplifier with preset digital processing and SlideLock™ flyware ensure a quick setup and easy deployment.

If you will be in the Los Angeles area on October 1 or 2, make sure you visit Carvin Audio at the LA Amp Show in Room 1010. We will have our guitar amps at the show for you to demo, and we are offering a 10% discount for all purchases made at the show.

In 2016 Carvin Audio is celebrating 70 years of helping our customers sound great!  We are on a mission to help you get the best possible sound through personalized service, education, and our American built products. We are continuing the legacy of founder Lowell Kiesel, which began in 1946.

DJs can come hear how Carvin Audio will revolutionize their business at the 2016 Mobile Beat Show in Las Vegas on March 15-16. Visit Ballroom T7 at the show to hear Carvin Audio’s TRC Active Column Array Systems, which range from 2,500 watts – 10,000 watts, and are perfect for the DJ who wants to be known for their high quality audio performance. DJs can demo Carvin Audio’s S600 Battery Powered System, which gives them the freedom to take their system anywhere. Also on demo will be the TRX3210A Active Line Array System, TRX3218 Subwoofers, TRX2115A Active 15-Inch Speaker, and the SCx1253 800W 3-Way Speaker.

See us at NAMM 2016 at our new booth location in hall A
Booth #6590

NAMM 2016 Carvin line array demo room at the Hilton. 
Where: Hilton California ballroom
Times:
Thursday & Friday 11:30am - 1:30pm
Saturday 12:00 - 2:00pm

Hear our TRx3210 line array, TRC column systems, monitors and Subwoofers

In 1985 Carvin Audio gear was used by Pepsi in a commercial. See the commercial were Vinnie Moore's riffs and Carvin Audio gear open the bottle.

Carvin Audio hosted an event exclusively for DJs with BPMsupreme.com and Pitbull Audio Monday night, May 18th, in Downtown San Diego.