NAD: Bogner Helios 100

[Rdodson]

Just got delivered. Beautiful. Can't wait to plug it in, and I'll post clips when I do!

Many thanks to Brad King!!

 

[xXDaveyJonesXx]

Congrats!

 

[mooncobra]

I want, I want, I need!

 

[Rdodson]

Just took it home and had a 15 minute "get to know ya" session.

In short, imagine the Blue channel of the XTC with MUCH less compression and the ability to drive it to Red channel levels of gain.

The clean channel is a Plexi-styled clean...imagine Jimi Hendrix. If you go 70s and Plex input it IS a an old Marshall methinks. The 80s mode is fun for low-volume jamming.

Very cool amp indeed. VERY quick and dirty Channel two video: https://youtu.be/L2iU2gikTDE

 

[legend71]

Would love to try one out someday

 

[Classic]

You've had it 5 hours - where are the clips?

Great score and very jealous.

 

[King Guitar]

Hey Ron,

Thanks again for the order! Enjoy!

Brad

 

[Rdodson]

You've had it 5 hours - where are the clips?

Great score and very jealous.

Dude - check out the link in my post above!

 

[glassjaw7]

Sounds awesome! How does it feel under the fingers compared to the 20th Shiva?

 

[glip22]

Sounds awesome! How does it feel under the fingers compared to the 20th Shiva?

Quite a bit stiffer but it's supposed to be. Like an older Plexi is stiffer.

 

[232cap]

Very curious now a clip of the 80's mode, btw your clip sounded good. I have one shipping in a few days.

 

[Rdodson]

80's is a little like the "mode" switch on the 20th Shiva but more Soldano-ish. The feel becomes less stiff (typical Zener). While this isn't the perfect cover band amp (that is the XTC), with all the different wys you can set this up it is very versatile. A Tele into the PLEX input on ch1 is awesome.

 

[Badronald]

Sounds great!

 

[krueger]

Welcome to the club! The Helios is so fun to play. Try some NOS preamp tubes as well

 

[WizardSouth-JP]

congrats - maybe one day I'll snag one, when they're readily available or used

 

[Rdodson]

I put NOS Yugo EIs in V1 & V2. Wow, a whole other dimension opened up. Very nice...will post a new video in the next few days.

 

[tonedog]

Congrats. I love the Helios. I have boxes full of tubes and have NOS Mullards , RCA and good old 80s Chinese AX7s. Been meaning to do some swapping but every time I play it, I cant stop long enough to take off the back panel and swap some out. I also have some NOS Fatboy Sylvania 6CA7s, Seimans and Mullard 34s. One of these days! Great amp!!

 

[LowDesertSludge]

Sounds really good. Great playing by the way. The GAS is killing me. I think about this amp quite a bit now. Hope to play through one soon.

 

[SLOgriff]

The Helios was a cool amp! More gain and more appealing than the new BE100 I recently played at GC. Hope to have another Helios after my wedding.

 

[Erock]

Sounds great man, congrats!

puts a smile on my face every time I fire mine up.