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So i have to bring the green monster (dual Rec Rack) to get fixed. Remember my post where i said i played it for five minutes and it sounded great. well that night i noticed that the channel LED's kept flipping back and forth, i just thought i had a crappy cable between the pedal and the amp and i was getting noise. Anyway to make things short i get back from my little NY vacation, all ready to play, turn it on and neither channel light comes on. Then i plug in my chord and no sound. To make things short i can hear the tubes humming, but it is like something is fucked up in the input stage. Anyway i email the guy i bought it from and told him it came in broken so he is gonna pay for the repair. I just told him it didnt work from the beginning, it was easier that way, obvious there was something wrong with it. Oh and yes i tried changing preamp tubes, nothing fixed it. So anyway today i bring it to Pro Tech in MD to get fixed and that is right next to Washington Music (chucks). This is where i played that charvel star, see my review under american charvels.
Anyway while iam there i decided to try out amps that i normaly cant because Craptar center does not carry them. So there i try out a Bogner Uber, Bogner Ectasy EL34 version and a Hughes and Ketner Tri-amp. So here is my reviews of the 3 amps. All three were played through the same cab, a bogner, the guy said it was V30's, but i have a feeling it was mixed or something, sounded like it had 75's as well. I am pretty sure it was a slant cab, which according to Bogners website that is either greenbacks or v30's and only the uber straight cab is mixed, so maybe it was a straight.
Uber- Great distortion, sucky clean, very limited to basically one sound, but it does that one sound well! However i think it had too much bottom end for me (did i just say that).
Ecstasy- Holy fucking shit, now i know why people rave about these amps, great heavy distortion, i liked it better then the uber! But the plexi mode was also to die for, hell i never even tried out clean, i was in love with the other two channels. I didnt even get to play with all the little switches, shit i didnt know what half of them were for! I can only imagine what this amp sounds like with the 6L6's.
Tri-amp- To me this is the most under rated amp out there! Great distortion, the heavy in my opinion blew away both the bogners. The distortion on Channel 1B was great plexi type, not as good as the bogner, but it was good enough. The distortion on both channel 2's was great and so was channel 3A, however Channel 3B just fucking rocked.
To sum it up, if i had to choose it would be a tough toss up between the Bogner Ecstacy and the Tri-amp. The tri-amp is more versitile with channels and being able to switch between all six, however the bogners plexi was to die for, and the heavy distortion was not as good as the tri-amps, but if you didnt have the two to compare you would be in tonal heaven.
Anyway while iam there i decided to try out amps that i normaly cant because Craptar center does not carry them. So there i try out a Bogner Uber, Bogner Ectasy EL34 version and a Hughes and Ketner Tri-amp. So here is my reviews of the 3 amps. All three were played through the same cab, a bogner, the guy said it was V30's, but i have a feeling it was mixed or something, sounded like it had 75's as well. I am pretty sure it was a slant cab, which according to Bogners website that is either greenbacks or v30's and only the uber straight cab is mixed, so maybe it was a straight.
Uber- Great distortion, sucky clean, very limited to basically one sound, but it does that one sound well! However i think it had too much bottom end for me (did i just say that).
Ecstasy- Holy fucking shit, now i know why people rave about these amps, great heavy distortion, i liked it better then the uber! But the plexi mode was also to die for, hell i never even tried out clean, i was in love with the other two channels. I didnt even get to play with all the little switches, shit i didnt know what half of them were for! I can only imagine what this amp sounds like with the 6L6's.
Tri-amp- To me this is the most under rated amp out there! Great distortion, the heavy in my opinion blew away both the bogners. The distortion on Channel 1B was great plexi type, not as good as the bogner, but it was good enough. The distortion on both channel 2's was great and so was channel 3A, however Channel 3B just fucking rocked.
To sum it up, if i had to choose it would be a tough toss up between the Bogner Ecstacy and the Tri-amp. The tri-amp is more versitile with channels and being able to switch between all six, however the bogners plexi was to die for, and the heavy distortion was not as good as the tri-amps, but if you didnt have the two to compare you would be in tonal heaven.
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