Carvin HF2 Holdsworth 'Fatboy' Demo

A demo of my new Carvin HF2. I had the two coil taps and phase switch options installed, otherwise standard HF2 options. First some noodling in D major to show off the clean tone, then a comparison of the pickups/taps/phase combinations, and then the distorted tone (with phase switch on) over the changes to "Alone Together."

Audio Path: HF2; Radial Tonebone Classic; Boss DD-5; Fender Deluxe Reverb; Audio Technica mic; M-Audio Fastrack; ProTools

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Carvin
• HF2
• Fatboy
• Allan
• Holdsworth
• guitar
• demo
• Jeremey
• Poparad

[doughboy777]

Hi, can you please tell us what woods your Carvin is made of? Is it the standard Alder body/neck & ebony fretboard?

[Poparad]

@doughboy777 All standard woods. Alder body, maple neck, ebony fingerboard.

[Major7Sharp5]

I tried to contact you though HCentral but couldn´t. Do you still have it. Reply to elbuzonderoberto@yahoo.com. Thanks!

[heidegger101]

this is the best demo of the Fatboy on youtube. Thanks so much for sharing the 250k pot idea. I spoke with Rick at Canton guitars-he makes instruments for Holdsworth, Tim Miller and Dan Acramore. All of their guitars are humbucking equipped with 250k pots. It is too bad the Carvin doesn't come stock with those pots since that is what Holdsworth actually uses. Anyway, thanks for the great demo!

[pobinr]

Just bought one of these. Lovin it. Did AH play an HF2 on None Too Soon ?

Sounds like he might have.

[Timotheedle]

@Poparad thanks I really appreciate it!!

[Poparad]

@Timotheedle The mini pots will be (should be) a direct replacement, so definitely go with them for ease and convenience. From what I gather, there's no difference in sound between mini and full size.

[Timotheedle]

@Poparad sorry to ask another question, but I'm looking at the pots online and there are mini pots available like you mentioned before about the mini pots that are already in there. would you recommend the mini pots--I'm not too keen on drilling to make the whole bigger.

[Poparad]

@Timotheedle Yeah, I don't have the synth one. The switches are coil taps and a phase switch, but that doesn't effect how the volume and tone pots are set up.

[Timotheedle]

@Poparad oh cool thanks--and I'm going to get a pro to put them in since my last attempt at electronics stuff with an older guitar didn't go too well, haha

oh, and do you think you have mini pots because you have the synth model? when I took the knobs off a while ago, they looked not very small. oh wait, that's not a synth model is it--it just has coil tap stuff or something? I have the standard electronics configuration