Carr Mercury Exotic

The Hottest thing next to the Sun

We found that this piece really captures what we all wanted from a Marshall but have never heard in such a compact, magical, and sonically viable platform. This amplifier really is a bit of British Magic in a bottle! From the minute you fire her up you know there is something special. The ability to jump the "channels" together with the flip of a switch is a dream and do not even get us started on the attenuator. This piece of mechanical magic also allows for a great spin on what the best of the British with the always missing reverb!
We here at Casino adore a proper reverb and the Mercury V does not disappoint! 

Personally, Baxter here at Casino uses one of these as his personal home amplifier. His quote was "I love my Mercury! It has become my favorite home amplifier by far. I can finally get those Marshall sounds I was never happy with through a Marshall and at a volume that does not annihilate everyone in my small home!"

This truly is a special amplifier and has the sculpting ability to go from clear cleans to roaring leads with the turn of a dial. If you are looking for a British powerhouse, with reverb, in a small package...then look no further. The boys from North Carolina nailed this one and knocked it out of the park!

From Carr:

The Mercury V reinvents a long-standing Carr platform to deliver snarling Marshall-esque British tones with a highly evolved feature set and surprising versatility. From thick cleans, to punchy midrangey crunch, to wailing roar, it’s all here with attitude to spare. Rendered in a supremely portable package and able to nail all reduced-volume requirements, the Mercury V brings stack-like sonic thunder to the rehearsal room, studio, and club stage.

In 2003 Vintage Guitar magazine’s cover story declared the original Mercury the ‘Tone of the Gods.’ Its bigger brother the Mercury V now configures that directivity and touch sensitivity into an even more fully-featured, breathtakingly versatile design enabling a broad range of gain structures, voicing capabilities and output levels to tackle just about any genre or playing style.

Based on a pair of 6V6GT power tubes for a full-throated 16 watts, the Mercury V harnesses an ingeniously original preamp circuit featuring dual Volume controls (for High and Low voicings), a three-position Boost switch, and a three-knob EQ stage to kick out a dynamic range of distinctly English tones. The results included everything from pushed ’60s cleans, to chunky ’70s rock, right into’80s and ’90s crunch and singing leads, and even scorching high-gain sizzle. The internally paired High and Low channels can be run in parallel like a jumpered four-hole classic, or switched to cascade in series, taking the gain levels off the charts and into the 21st century. An onboard attenuator—Carr’s forte—can be switched in to take the firepower anywhere from 4 watts down to a mere whisper, and there’s a post-power amp Line Out to send it to the PA or into your recording interface for tracking. Add lush tube-returned spring reverb, and there’s a wealth of multi-dimensional tone packed into this remarkably compact combo.

It’s all put together with the top-quality parts and construction that Carr is famous for, including in-house crafted dovetailed solid North Carolina yellow pine cabinets, military and NASA-grade power supply components, and trenchant mid-Century signal elements rendered in true point-to-point wiring.

The Carr Facts:

16 Watts full output ---- (Perfect Power)

3 Position Boost switch - British 60s thru 90s output tube overdrive - (Authentic)

Dual Volume controls – Classic Parallel or Modded Series toggle- (Big Stick)

Built-in switchable attenuator 16/3 to 0 watts- (Ultra Useful)

Analysis Plus and Transparent cable - (Super Conductive)

3 Band Tone Stack – Treble, Mid, Bass - (Control)

Recording/PA Line Out - (Effective Communicator) 

Celestion Creamback M-65 12”speaker - (Pistonic)

Custom Carr Transformers – (American)

All NC yellow pine cabinet - (Wood)

Spring/Tube Reverb - (Aquatic)

2) 6V6 4) 12AX7 – (Trusted)

Construction: Hand wired point-to-point in the USA

Components: Custom USA made transformers, Solen Fast Cap Film Power Supply, US-made Jupiter signal capacitors, carbon comp resistors, and more

Power: 16 watts 

Channels: One (with two blendable Volume controls)

Tubes: four 12AX7, two 6V6GT

Controls: High and Low Volume, three-way Boost, Reverb, Treble, Mid, Bass, Attenuator, Line Out

Switches: Parallel/Series switch, three-position Boost, Attenuator in/out, on/off/standby

Features: All-tube spring reverb, Boost switch, built-in attenuator, 8-Ohm speaker out, line out

Cabinet: Hand-crafted from solid pine, dovetail-jointed and uniquely styled

Speakers: Celestion Creamback M65 12"

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