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gritstogroats
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Had a big itch to scratch regarding amps and will also be posting lichtlaerm audio. Well we'd all like to think of it as an itch or something playful. But really it's more like having pinworms. Except fun!
With the review
To start i haven't played the bogner. It's how I imagine bogners sound but no idea.
Aesthetics: no complaints. Transformer looks a bit funny but the amp itself is light af. The dimensions are perfect for stacking stuff above and below too. The dude has a lot of colors he ran through all of them with me for another amp coming up. This one is black with gold front panel.
Back panel 4 8 16 ohm jacks. Switch to adjust from 50 to 25 watts. Footswitch. Fx loop which worked/sounded fine. Everything feels well connected.
Front
2 channels. Each have their own eq, channel volume, and gain. And global presence, resonance, and master volume.
Clean channel Idk why. I went in thinking it would be stiff, dull. But nope. Actually has a pretty good feel to it. Eq gives you some versatility. It gets a good british clean and american clean how you dial. And I think the crab dude should feel pretty good about it.
Gain channel it took me a few weeks to become acquainted. It's different then what I'm used to. Whether that's a bogner or crab thing idk.
Not mesa sounding but I get mesa vibes in the sense. The gain seems to impact eq a bit. And the presence sometimes reminds me of rectifiers at orange vintage. You have a millimeter where it switches from cool to sizzle to fizzy.
Mids and resonance are really important tools here. Resonance doesn't get boomy it helps shape tone the way God intended.
Have a good resonance high presence. Treble and mids 2 o clock ish. Bass at 10. Marshall British sounds. Crank the gain get more modern. More bass can make it squishier to doom/stoner level.
I was surprised the overlap of sounds I could get to other British amps. The other surprise was adjusting resonance in particular. Fiddling with eq it felt like having a 3 way feel knob or nfb adjustment.
Takes pedals well overall so no issues on gain channel. I won't be adding a metal zone to clean but takes ods well. That said. On gain channel it doesn't really add any value imo. It's all in the eq dialing
Last note it does good low volume. But it really opens up high volume and brings out more high end (so using less). The 25 to 50 watt power switches comes in handy. I imagine the 100 watts amp version of this is a fuck tone tone.
For <1000 dollars us. I couldn't NOT say yes to this.
I have a marcus on the way soon. Now mesas. I've played. Marcus turns out the way I think. Given this experience. This dude can expect me to order 5 more assuming prices don't increase with everything going on.
For sounds. I have free time this weekend and will see if I can do something.
With the review
To start i haven't played the bogner. It's how I imagine bogners sound but no idea.
Aesthetics: no complaints. Transformer looks a bit funny but the amp itself is light af. The dimensions are perfect for stacking stuff above and below too. The dude has a lot of colors he ran through all of them with me for another amp coming up. This one is black with gold front panel.
Back panel 4 8 16 ohm jacks. Switch to adjust from 50 to 25 watts. Footswitch. Fx loop which worked/sounded fine. Everything feels well connected.
Front
2 channels. Each have their own eq, channel volume, and gain. And global presence, resonance, and master volume.
Clean channel Idk why. I went in thinking it would be stiff, dull. But nope. Actually has a pretty good feel to it. Eq gives you some versatility. It gets a good british clean and american clean how you dial. And I think the crab dude should feel pretty good about it.
Gain channel it took me a few weeks to become acquainted. It's different then what I'm used to. Whether that's a bogner or crab thing idk.
Not mesa sounding but I get mesa vibes in the sense. The gain seems to impact eq a bit. And the presence sometimes reminds me of rectifiers at orange vintage. You have a millimeter where it switches from cool to sizzle to fizzy.
Mids and resonance are really important tools here. Resonance doesn't get boomy it helps shape tone the way God intended.
Have a good resonance high presence. Treble and mids 2 o clock ish. Bass at 10. Marshall British sounds. Crank the gain get more modern. More bass can make it squishier to doom/stoner level.
I was surprised the overlap of sounds I could get to other British amps. The other surprise was adjusting resonance in particular. Fiddling with eq it felt like having a 3 way feel knob or nfb adjustment.
Takes pedals well overall so no issues on gain channel. I won't be adding a metal zone to clean but takes ods well. That said. On gain channel it doesn't really add any value imo. It's all in the eq dialing
Last note it does good low volume. But it really opens up high volume and brings out more high end (so using less). The 25 to 50 watt power switches comes in handy. I imagine the 100 watts amp version of this is a fuck tone tone.
For <1000 dollars us. I couldn't NOT say yes to this.
I have a marcus on the way soon. Now mesas. I've played. Marcus turns out the way I think. Given this experience. This dude can expect me to order 5 more assuming prices don't increase with everything going on.
For sounds. I have free time this weekend and will see if I can do something.