What's Your Dream Amp? - TGF Edition
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quite hard because I think in all honesty I own the amps I dreamed of growing up. I suppose now its not even so much how they sound, its because they're hard to find or expensive:
- Langner modded Marshall
- Gower modded Marshall
- Wizard MCII/MTL
- Friedman Naked
Pretty content with the fact that I know I can live without those, I don't think I'm that desperate. If money wasn't a thing, I'd still pick a 2203/Uberschall/Rectifier/5150 over those.
- Langner modded Marshall
- Gower modded Marshall
- Wizard MCII/MTL
- Friedman Naked
Pretty content with the fact that I know I can live without those, I don't think I'm that desperate. If money wasn't a thing, I'd still pick a 2203/Uberschall/Rectifier/5150 over those.
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2dor
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Think I'm now in about the same position tbh as far as amps go.
In between my Ceriatone heads and the Synergy/Salvation gear I have (not to mention plugins / digital gear), I don't find myself wanting for another amp.
...I am GAS-ing for a Bogner 4x12 front-loaded cab though
laxu
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I don't really have a dream amp that I'd like to buy. I have found that I like enough different ones that without modelers I'd probably have dedicated Fender, Vox and Marshall based rigs taking space.
Of the ones I owned, I think the Bogner Goldfinger 45 Superlead got pretty close.
I originally bought the 1x12 combo because it would have taken several months to get the head. I don't know if Bogner was hiding gold bullion in that combo chassis but it was as heavy as a Fender Super Reverb! So I took it apart, and built a headshell for it out of paulownia which reduced it to a svelte ~15 kg - nearly 5 kg less than the official plywood headshell.
I liked that it was kind of like a Fender Super Reverb, Marshall Superlead, JCM800 and Bogner Shiva all rolled into one depending on how you set the controls, switches etc. I liked that it did not need to be cranked to sound great, in fact it sounded worse like that.
I didn't like the splashy long tank spring reverb, having the boost controls in the back, or using a 7-pin DIN footswitch control instead of MIDI. I didn't like how you needed to adjust the volume on the OD channel depending on which of the 3 modes you set. The '81 mode got much more compressed and needed the most volume compensation. I mostly parked it on the '77 mode and used the boost for higher gain.
I sold mine because my BluGuitar Amp 1 ME can do those same tones in a fraction of the size, weight and cost, plus lower noise floor. I had a buyer lined up who was interested in the Bogner and boutique amps can be hard to sell if you want something different.
I do miss the clean channel with dedicated EQ though, that sounded better than the BluGuitar clean. That might lead me to get the BluGuitar Amp X since it rectifies that.
Of the ones I owned, I think the Bogner Goldfinger 45 Superlead got pretty close.
I originally bought the 1x12 combo because it would have taken several months to get the head. I don't know if Bogner was hiding gold bullion in that combo chassis but it was as heavy as a Fender Super Reverb! So I took it apart, and built a headshell for it out of paulownia which reduced it to a svelte ~15 kg - nearly 5 kg less than the official plywood headshell.
I liked that it was kind of like a Fender Super Reverb, Marshall Superlead, JCM800 and Bogner Shiva all rolled into one depending on how you set the controls, switches etc. I liked that it did not need to be cranked to sound great, in fact it sounded worse like that.
I didn't like the splashy long tank spring reverb, having the boost controls in the back, or using a 7-pin DIN footswitch control instead of MIDI. I didn't like how you needed to adjust the volume on the OD channel depending on which of the 3 modes you set. The '81 mode got much more compressed and needed the most volume compensation. I mostly parked it on the '77 mode and used the boost for higher gain.
I sold mine because my BluGuitar Amp 1 ME can do those same tones in a fraction of the size, weight and cost, plus lower noise floor. I had a buyer lined up who was interested in the Bogner and boutique amps can be hard to sell if you want something different.
I do miss the clean channel with dedicated EQ though, that sounded better than the BluGuitar clean. That might lead me to get the BluGuitar Amp X since it rectifies that.
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Add a Bassman to this and it’s pretty much my dream amp.
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I think it is hilarious how the most prevalent myth of the Mark series GEQ is to create a semblance of a V,
even when there is easy access to pictures like these.
Hahahaha I still V all my Mark EQ’s
Minus the low end, I usually drop that quite a bit.
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Needs black corners.I'll take the blue one please.
Achilles
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Boudoir Guitar
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"The accuracy with which they made this amp look like shit is truly astounding"
paisleywookiee
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I want Randy Smith and Thomas Blug to get into a room, and design me an amp with 100-200 watts, that's got three channels:
- Three modes of the Badlander
- Three modes of the Fillmore
- Three modes on Ch.3 of the Mark VII
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paisleywookiee
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THE TITLE SAID "DREAM", BRO.
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That would be one Messy/Booger of an amp!
Elf
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I wonder before why they don’t make one? 5K is still half of what some people are asking on the used market.
Achilles
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paisleywookiee
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As someone with no EE background at all, I think it’s perfectly feasible.
Stratzrus
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My tech has one sitting in his basement...along with a bunch of other amps and wall mounted guitars. It's a man cave dreams are made of.
