Recent content by Cynical

"As much as technology can currently allow" would be a flexible EQ pedal. I like the VFE Standout for such purposes.

My experience is that neck throughs aren't as bright as bolt-ons (and this is coming from someone with the most boat-anchor neck through that you've ever imagined -- a 25.5" maple neck ebony fretboard BC Rich Beast [full sized, not Son Of Beast] with maple wings, as well as a neck-through Kiesel...

Do you mean "you haven't heard a guitar bright enough to make a dark-sounding bridge pickup work in well in the bridge", or do you mean "I haven't heard a guitar bright enough to make a high-output bridge pickup not sound really dark in the neck?" The latter, I'd agree with entirely (a TZ in...

"Overly bright" would be a lot of Ibanez RGs or the '90s MIJ Jacksons. Bolt on, floating trems (both Ibanez's Edge and Jackson's licensed Floyd of the late '90s tend to be brighter than an OFR), maple neck, some bright body wood, lightweight kind of guitars. They were put on a lot of Ibanez...

Tone Zone in the neck?!?! Good lord, that's going to be mud city; that's a bridge pickup, and a very dark one at that. It's a pickup designed specifically to be a "problem solver" for overly-bright guitars without having as much output as most pickups that do that (like an Invader or War Pig)...

Judging from "poplar Jackson", I'm guessing that was a bolt-on (because they used poplar in the MIJ pro series)? If so, that's *a lot* brighter than any PRS is ever going to be -- my KE-3 is the brightest guitar I've ever played and specifically requires really dark pickups (to put it into...

If you want dark, that would be the Tone Zone, although it might be somewhat *too* dark in a PRS.

I rarely post in this thread because the answer would be "my Bogner Twin Jet" basically every day, but recently I've really been enjoying what channel 1 of that monster dishes out. While the lesser compression compared to channel 2 means it doesn't quite sound as great on sustained pinch...

So, it's been well over two hours -- what've you got?

The Recto and SLO haven't had identical preamps since Rev C; the similarities there are overstated. And the Snorkler has never done weird stuff to the Marshall power section like the Recto did.

https://www.scribd.com/document/416098004/Bogner-Snorkler-Mod-Draft1 You can see for yourself -- it's standard Plexi values, with a switchable extra resistor on the treble circuit. Common mod from back in the day, loads of dudes were doing this to Plexis. Knowing Bogner, it probably has an...

Where are you finding a Snorkler for $1500 USD?!?! I'd be shocked if someone could differentiate a Snorkler and a Quick Rod on Gear 2 in a blind shootout, FWIW, based on the schematics. They're *that* similar.

I'd just get a Splawn Quick Rod. Same circuit, about half the price on the used market.

Yeah, the Helios and the Snorkler are very different takes on the "modded Marshall" archetype, and aren't even really mods of the same base Marshall. The Eclipse in particular is a 2203 base with clipping diodes and some other bells and whistles; the Snorkler is a 1959 mod, not a 2203 mod, and...

BTW, I just did a bit of research, and if you want to try it without paying Bogner prices, the Splawn Quickrod is nearly component-for-component identical, and can be had for <$2000 all day.