20th Anniversary Bogner Ecstasy profile set
If you want to know the entire Ecstasy story better than I can rephrase it - go here:
For those who just want the highlights, the 20th Anniversary Ecstasy is a celebration of Bogner's anniversary in the amplification business and is their flagship model. List price on one is a whopping $4739 USD. It's a three channel, all tube amp, with custom Sozo capacitors, 100 6L6 powered watts, and an amp versatile enough to be used in many genres of music from Country to Metal. After auditioning several different cabinets including a stock Bogner 4x12 Slant, I chose a 1972 Marshall straight cab with stock celestion speakers.
Following microphones were used for these profiles, along with general tonalities:
MXL144 Ribbon - very dark tone
Telefunken M81 - medium tone
Heil PR20 - a little bright
Vintage USA Shure Unidyne III SM57 - bright and a bit of fizz
i5+ MXL144 Ribbon together - Bright with nice lows
i5+MXL 144 Ribbon out of phase - Bright with nice lows and scooped midrange
Audix i5 - very bright
For those who just want the highlights, the 20th Anniversary Ecstasy is a celebration of Bogner's anniversary in the amplification business and is their flagship model. List price on one is a whopping $4739 USD. It's a three channel, all tube amp, with custom Sozo capacitors, 100 6L6 powered watts, and an amp versatile enough to be used in many genres of music from Country to Metal. After auditioning several different cabinets including a stock Bogner 4x12 Slant, I chose a 1972 Marshall straight cab with stock celestion speakers.
Following microphones were used for these profiles, along with general tonalities:
MXL144 Ribbon - very dark tone
Telefunken M81 - medium tone
Heil PR20 - a little bright
Vintage USA Shure Unidyne III SM57 - bright and a bit of fizz
i5+ MXL144 Ribbon together - Bright with nice lows
i5+MXL 144 Ribbon out of phase - Bright with nice lows and scooped midrange
Audix i5 - very bright
And of course, several different amplifier settings. The Bogner is such a complex amp with so many different settings that I tried to find the best ones and give a good variety. I found 8 Blue, 8 Red, 5 Green and 3 Plexi that I liked. Each amp setting is multiplied by the seven microphone settings above - giving 56 Blue, 56 Red, 35 green and 21 Plexi tones. Every profile will not work for every guitar but you should be able to easily find tones to compliment different styles of music and types of guitars and pickups. Settings include typical gain/volume and bass/mid/treble/presence settings, but also include Excursion, Structure, Boost, Pre EQ, old or new, and even the plexi mode.
Sound clip starts with Green Clean, some slightly broken up chords, Plexi mode, then Blue and finally, metal meltdown with the Red channel. There are some slight overlaps between channels, mainly the top of Blue's gain and the Bottom of Red's but each is distinct and has it's own tonality.
First delayed guitar is an Anderson Drop Top (same guitar used for profilng) - it's profile 04 Red, using a Heil PR20 microphone
Left guitar is a Gibson Les Paul (all maple including fingerboard) running profile 04 Red,Ribbon mic out of phase with an i5 Audix
Right guitar is the Anderson again, profile 08 Blue SM57 mic. Bass is a Charvel neck through using one of my Sansamp profiles.
Left guitar is a Gibson Les Paul (all maple including fingerboard) running profile 04 Red,Ribbon mic out of phase with an i5 Audix
Right guitar is the Anderson again, profile 08 Blue SM57 mic. Bass is a Charvel neck through using one of my Sansamp profiles.
Below is a list of each amp setting - note that each channel is different and all were varied except for the half power mode.
A larger jpg of this file is included in the amp profile sets along with images of the amp and notes.
A larger jpg of this file is included in the amp profile sets along with images of the amp and notes.
Bogner 20th anniversary XTC full profile set
Complete profile set of the amp, including Red, Blue, Green channels and plexi mode. 7 different microphones or combinations thereof and 24 different amp settings completely documented for a total of 168 profiles from Crystal clean to full on Metal and everything in between. Amplifier profiled lists for well over $4k new and cabinet used was a vintage and rare stock 1972 Marshall straight cab. 21 Plexi mode profiles included here are NOT available anywhere else.
Bogner 20th anniversary Green Channel set
35 profiles of the Bogner 20th anniversary XTC green channel ONLY. 7 microphones x 5 different amp settings. All amp settings documented in profile set along with photographs of the amp profiled.
Bogner 20th anniversary Blue channel profile set
Blue channel profile set ONLY. 56 total profiles, 7 different microphone and combinations and eight different amp settings, all documented in profile set with pictures of amp profiled.
Bogner 20th Ecstasy Red Channel profiles
This profile set is of the red channel ONLY. 56 total profiles - 7 different microphone combinations and eight different amp settings. All amp settings documented within profile set along with images of the amp used.