All right, I went and did it. I found and played the beast. sticker shock yes :smack: but feature and tone wise this thing is the bomb. its cleans are good for a el34 tube amp-there not Roland Jazz chorus good-but they are good and with a little reverb and a strat they are that much better. channel 2 will give you about any big rock tone you could want and there is plenty of gain with this channel. I had 4 store employees over with me and we were twisting nobs and tweakin tones and pushing the amp in every direction we could to see what tone we could get out of it. it has a wonderful clip and plenty of gain and the versitility is amazing. channel 3 is your compressed lead tone channel. it is more pronounced and compressed and ready to thrash up a storm-but its good tone not noisy buzzy trash and yet I got wonderfull feedback when I placed the guitar up to the head and wailed away on it. it realy is a great lead channel. I cant imagine useing too many pedals with this amp as it sounds good the way it is. you can also set the signal to hit the speaker hard-medium-or soft for each channel! meaning your cleans can be sparkly and hit the speaker soft and yet you can assign your lead channel to be thrashy and have the signal out of the amp hit your speaker hard to realy drive your speakers to great clip even at low volumn-say a small club or your house. when I played this amp I thought "finally! the tone Ive been searching for and the coolest usable features to boot" you can tell this amp was designed by someone who thought in terms of what players need. now my other stuff is going and ime headin right for this amp cuz it realy is that good. this amp is a classic like an old marshall plexi or fender baseman but you may get rid of your other classic amps cuz this thing pretty much renders most any other amp obsolete. you wont get the realy low rectifyer sound but frankly that sound- wile good by yourself or with just a bass and drummer-tends to be muddy and you will not cut thru like a el34 amp can and the bogner tone is so nice you will never want to go back. the only other amp ive heard that compares to the bogner is the Diezel amps but they are 1500 more and in my opinion I like the tone of the Bogner x-tasy as much or more. I guess ol GearJoneser was right-once youve heard the bogner you will be hooked :beerchug:
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