Bogner

Not only is this variant the best sounding Bogner I have ever heard, but it is easily one of the best channel switching amps I've ever had the pleasure of plugging in to. I find it extremely addictive and inspirational.....and....I've purchased one for myself.

If you are local, feel free to come by and plug in to my personal 20th Anniversary Shiva head and cab and hear this beast for yourself.

The combination of the standard Shiva's dual reverb control circuitry with the Anniversary Edition's KT88 power section, rear panel Excursion control, re-voiced preamp section and new "Modern" mode gives this amp a depth of tone, low-end breath and presence and versatility that is simply astounding.

From huge, glassy cleans with enormous low end to Classic Rock Crunch and all the way to Classic and Modern Metal this amp does it all with absolute perfection.

I can't recommend an amp any more highly than I recommend this one.

Highly Recommended!!™
Fat Fave Certified!

Pieces also available separately

• Head Price Only - $2727.00
• Oversized 212, Closed Back cab - $789.00

Not only is this variant the best sounding Bogner I have ever heard, but it is easily one of the best channel switching amps I've ever had the pleasure of plugging in to. I find it extremely addictive and inspirational.....and....I've purchased one for myself.

If you are local, feel free to come by and plug in to my personal 20th Anniversary Shiva head and cab and hear this beast for yourself.

The combination of the standard Shiva's dual reverb control circuitry with the Anniversary Edition's KT88 power section, rear panel Excursion control, re-voiced preamp section and new "Modern" mode gives this amp a depth of tone, low-end breath and presence and versatility that is simply astounding.

From huge, glassy cleans with enormous low end to Classic Rock Crunch and all the way to Classic and Modern Metal this amp does it all with absolute perfection.

I can't recommend an amp any more highly than I recommend this one.

Highly Recommended!!™
Stu's Fave

Don't let this amp's small size or low weight fool you; it's a serious tone machine offering perfect Texas Blues sounds with a Stratocaster® from pushed, fat cleans to girthy rhythm. The humbucker and P-90 tones are more aggressive with that Classic 70's Rock sound.

15 watts from a pair of 6V6 power tubes and designed to be used as s stand-alone amp or as a slave power amp for use in a stereo rig via its power amp input jack.

The controls couldn't be more simplistic. You have a Volume knob and a 4 position Schizo control which increases the amps overall mid thickness as you raise its position.

Celestion G12H30

42 Pounds

20.5"w x 10.5"d x 17.5"h

Highly Recommended!!™
Fat Fave Award for Excellence

My all time favorite 3 Channel amplifier taken to all new levels of perfection with a heavily tweaked tone circuit.

I bought an XTC 101B in 1994 and it was my main amp for many years, but over the past 4 or 5 years it just seemed to gradually lose some of its initial appeal and become slightly........dated sounding for lack of a better way of describing it. Still a great amp, but not as world leading as it had been for the first several years after its initial release.

The 20th Anniversary edition changes that and we now, once again, have a true world beater and class leader that I'd put up against *any* other three channel amplifier.

All three channels are remarkably improved including a Clean Channel that is absolutely gorgeous with big, bold, punchy tones that are thick yet complex with a wonderful feel. There is more shimmer up top, more glassiness and punch down low and more richness in the mids. Like combining the best of a Black Face Fender with the best of a late 60's Marshall 100 watter.

Channel 2, the channel that most folks bought the standard XTC for, is also more organic and natural with an overall, open, complex sonic quality that the previous XTC never quite achieved. None of the magic of the original's second channel has been lost, but everything about it has been improved.

Channel 3 has lost the extreme compression while retaining the infinite sustain of the XTC 101B making it much more useable and the perfect channel for singing solo work.

This is the best sounding, most versatile, multi-channel amp I have ever heard.

Specifications

• 100 watts from four 6L6 power tubes
• 3 Channels
• Plexi Mode for Channels 2 and 3
• Vintage/Modern mode for Channel 2
• Series/Parallel selectable FX loop
• Lo Gain/Hi Gain switch for Channels 2 and 3
• EQ switch for Channels 2 and 3 to bring various amounts of added top end gain in to different frequency ranges,
• Excursion switch to adjust the tightness of the low end via speaker travel.
• Dual Presence controls with assignable second presence
• Old/New (triode/pentode) switch on rear panel
• Full power/Half power switch on rear panel
• 7 button footswitch - CH1, CH2, CH3, CH1 Boost, CH2&3 Boost, FX Loop, Mute

Highly Recommended!!™

SN. 089653

Year of production: 2008

Condition: 100% As New

Street Price New: $2599.00

Savings: $350.00

We love the multiple personality of this amp:

With both channel's gains at about 9:00 to 9:30 you get two perfect channels for a more Classic Rock / Blues Rock tone.

With this setting, CH1 has all of the adjectives you'd normally apply to a Classic Late 60's Big Iron Marshall......Huge, Bold, Glassy, Punchy, Thick. CH2 is similar to the XTC Classic's Second Channel with a great level of gain that works for Rock and even overdriven Blues tones and definitely for lead work. The amp sounds *amazing* this way with a great Strat.

On the other hand......dial the gains up and you have incredibly thick crunch on CH1 that can morph in to a full on Metal tone very easily and CH2 can be dialed up for completely insane levels of gain that somehow never manage to get overly compressed or lose definition.....must be the Big Glass.

Dialed in for Hard Rock or Modern Metal, the low end is so intense and so tight that it can make you nauseous.

Two Channels of rock crushing distortion with wonderful articulation.

Infinite sustain without any mush or overly compressed lead tones.

This is a lot more amp, with much greater versatility than I would have ever expected based on my experience with the original Uber. 

Specifications:

• Two channel all tube design with Fiber optic backlight
• Global Depth, Presence and Master Volume
• Each channel has Independent: Volume, Gain, Bass, Treble, Middle, & Presence controls
• Tube buffered effects loop with mute switch
• Line-Out jack
• Foot-switchable channel switching and effects loop mute (footswitch included)
• 140 Watt KT88 Tube Power Amp Section

HIghly Recommended!!™

Limited Run of exact recreations of the original 4-Channel Fish preamp.

 Pair it with one of our Mesa Engineering Simul 2:90 power amps and a pair of Port City OS 112 Wave cabs for one awesome stereo rig or run it in to the fx loop return of any good, tube amplifier. All of our audio clips were recorded with my personal Fish run in to the fx loop return of my '94 Bogner Ecstasy.

Considered by many, including myself, to be the best preamp ever built, The Fish offers four channels ranging from some of the absolute best cleans you've ever heard to extreme shred and essentially everything in between.

Approximately 200 of these were built in the early days of Bogner between 1991 and 1993. I remember reading and re-reading the Guitar Player review of this preamp about 80 times just wishing I could afford one.

From Bogner's website:

Features

• 4 Channel all tube design with master volume and presence controls (back panel)
• Eight 12AX7 preamp tubes.
• Blue Anodized Front with white Chicken head knobs
• One front and one rear input, parallel dual outputs on back.

Country

• Volume
• Treble
• Middle
• Bass
• 3-position bright switch
• Sparkling clean sound for all musical styles.

Shark

• Balls (Gain)
• Treble
• Bass
• Volume
• 3-position bright switch
• Lower to Moderate gain. Very open sounding.

Strato

• Gain
• Volume
• Shared Treble, Middle and Bass controls with Brown channel
• High gain aggressive, tight

Brown

• Gain
• Volume
• Shared Treble, Middle and Bass controls with Strato channel
• Sound wise you can take a guess what Brown means. Fat high gain.

Artists

Like with all of Bogner's amplifiers, the “Fish” is used by a broad palette of different artists throughout all musical styles. Perhaps the most famous memory is that first “Alice in Chains” album, that opening opening riff…, Jerry Cantrell still uses the “Fish” today besides the Shiva and Uberschall. Heavy Rockers Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, Queensrych; Producers Mike Clink, Dave Jerden ; Country Nashville studio ace Brent Mason; Fusion - Jazzers Alan Holdsworth, Norman Brown, Larry Carlton all were on a “seafood diet” with the “Fish” . Larry Carlton even named one of his songs “Bogner” on his 1991 release “Renegade Gentleman”.