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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: choucas09 on January 20, 2010, 10:03:00 PM

Title: NAD
Post by: choucas09 on January 20, 2010, 10:03:00 PM

Bogner Alchemist 1x12. £609 delivered from Soundslive.

(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc119/jage7/DSC02125.jpg)

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Post by: Lew on January 20, 2010, 10:14:47 PM

Sweeet. Nice VHT guitar too  :-p

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Post by: Ted 'N' Leo on January 20, 2010, 10:59:11 PM

I've heard good things about those Bogners! Nice one!

And awesome guitar!

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Post by: Johnny Mac on January 20, 2010, 10:59:46 PM

Nice looking combo and guitar  8)

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Post by: FernandoDuarte on January 20, 2010, 11:17:51 PM

Cool!

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Post by: Andrew W on January 20, 2010, 11:31:41 PM

I am jealous of both the new amp and the guitar.  Very nice.

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Post by: choucas09 on January 21, 2010, 01:34:13 AM

The guitar cost £150 new. I'm planning a major overhaul when I sell my Taylor. Everything will be changed except the body.

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Post by: 38thBeatle on January 21, 2010, 06:18:31 AM

Looks good to me.

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Post by: exoslime on January 21, 2010, 02:50:43 PM

cool

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Post by: Dr. Stein on January 21, 2010, 02:55:24 PM

Personally, I hate the guitar, but congrats on the amp.

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Post by: Denim n Leather on January 21, 2010, 03:05:22 PM

Very nice amp, and very nice Linn Majik/Classik, too (can't tell in that photo).

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Post by: choucas09 on January 21, 2010, 03:49:54 PM

Well spotted D&L it's the Classik.

I knew the guitar would excite a bit of interest. Acrylic is a surprisingly good tone "wood". Well worth hunting out for an unusual guitar project. Bloody heavy though, that thing weighs 12 pounds.

As for the amp I'm not sure I'm going to keep it (7 days approval). It's a pretty awesome amp, but it's too dark for my playing especially on the gain channel. However last night my nephew came round and played it for 3 hours and was absolutely blown away with it and is seriously considering getting one. He's got a handwired Marshall and a 74 Fender Twin been in loads of bands and lectures in electric guitar playing so his opinion carries some weight. I'll give it a couple of days then make my decision. Thanks for the comments. If I keep it I'll post some clips.

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Post by: Herbie the Rad Dorklift on January 21, 2010, 04:07:12 PM

Let us know how you get on, I personally think they're a blight on the Bogner name...

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Post by: hunter on January 21, 2010, 04:26:17 PM

Looks sweet, gotta love Reinhold's amps, congrats!

Soundslive have some amazing deals these days, I also just bought an amp off them, a real steal!

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Post by: Herbie the Rad Dorklift on January 21, 2010, 04:27:53 PM

The clean channels are supposed to be nice, but I heard the drive channel was very thin and uninspiring... maybe it's because the bloke who reviewed it had an XTC 101b too :D

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Post by: choucas09 on January 21, 2010, 04:59:48 PM

I wouldn't call it thin. Here's a quick clip.
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8652502

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Post by: Herbie the Rad Dorklift on January 22, 2010, 09:49:48 AM

So are you happy with it? That's what matters obviously :)

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Post by: choucas09 on January 30, 2010, 02:37:34 PM

Well after a lot of soul searching I sent it back. Basically I loved the clean/crunch channel, but didn't like the gain channel. It took effects really well and it's own were good too. To be honest I'm not sure if I shouldn't have kept it as it was a hell of an amp for the money and sounded good right down to below TV levels believe it or not.

Meanwhile I've been given this 74 Twin Reverb on long term loan and it's clean tone is enchanting, but it doesn't like drive pedals.
(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc119/jage7/DSC02128.jpg)