Guitar Carvin NS 1

The Nylon Synth Access guitar offers the flavor of a nylon string acoustic with the addition of MIDI synth access. The NS1 features Carvins expert custom shop guitar design. Action, playability and comfort is guaranteed to please any guitarist. The onboard piezo pickup can be used with or without a MIDI/Synth interface. By simply plugging a standard guitar cable into the NS1, you are able to play the guitar through any acoustic amp or PA. The active EQ circuits allow for full bottom end which will fool the audience and guitarist into thinking this is a full size acoustic body. The EQ features a Mid Sweep that brings incredible EQ power to dial in the perfect acoustic tone on any amplification system.

The real magic comes when you plug the NS1 into a guitar synth module using a 13 pin cable. The Hexaphonic pickup sends a signal of each string as well as a summed signal, out via this cable. This provides both synth and acoustic sounds to be created using the one 13-pin cable. The NS1 has a stacked volume control so the player can define the volume of both the piezo acoustic sound and MIDI synth access sound separately. A mini toggle switch provides onboard scrolling of MIDI synth patches when connected to a synth module.

Carvin worked very closely with Graph Tech when developing the pickup system on the NS1. The NS1 offers the newest and fastest MIDI access available. Gone are the days of slow MIDI guitar synths, the NS1 offers the newest cutting edge technology to bring together an awesome sounding acoustic piezo system together with the fastest MIDI access tracking. This is accomplished by allowing the hexaphonic signal of each string to be converted to MIDI by the outboard synth module, rather than converting inside the guitar. This yields the fastest tracking and the best acoustic tone all in one guitar.

The NS1 took 2 years to develop. Carvin, Graph Tech and top Billboard jazz guitarist, Steve Oliver all worked together to bring this instrument to life. Steve has been playing the original NS1 prototype on the road for almost a year. This guitar has proven to be both a valuable studio instrument as well as road worthy.

NS1 FEATURES:

• 4A Flame Maple top
• Wood body binding effect on edge of flame maple top
• Mahogany neck thru body (smooth neck heel)
• Chambered Mahogany body
• Ebony Fingerboard with semi-flat 20” radius
• 25.5 inch scale with 21 Medium-Jumbo Frets
• Pickup: Graphtech Hexaphonic
  • -Graph Tech pre-amp electronics
  • -stacked volumes for Hexaphonic Midi Access and piezo acoustic
  • -stacked treble and bass cut/boost controls
  • -stacked mid cut/boost and mid sweep controls
  • -outputs: 1/4 inch piezo acoustic
• 13-pin Hexaphonic output that is MIDI compatible with synth controllers such as the Roland GR33TM, VG88TM and VBassTM, Roland GI-20TM, Axon100TM and many more.
• Gold Plated Hardware and Carvin logo
• Neck width at nut: 1.88 inch at 21ST fret: 2.38 inch
• Body thickness: 1.95”
• Body width: 14”
• Guitar weight: 6.75 Lb.