Amp today - Gone Tomorrow

[Dakine]

Well,
the Mesa Road King is ney more!

It was just, well, not me :)
Sure it is a swiss army knife but y'know.

So, bought for good price and sold for same, no loss/regrets.




So, now what?



Well Hunter has a 'clubmate'.
I now have a 2007 Bogner Shiva EL34 combo with all the new mods!


This thing IS the tone in my head (and only got it today, read only 4 hours playing thus far, not even hooked up my V30 Bogner cube to it yet).


Built like a tank, cannot find a bad tone, basically sex in black tolex  8)

[Kilby]

Gizmo boy, are you ever going to be happy with any amp that you own ?

When are you going to learn that the Nanohead is the one true amp ;)

Enjoy the bogner

Rob...

[Dakine]

LOL

Rob, this is the cool thing, to me the Shiva is somewhat like a Grown Up nano, honestly it's THAT good.

Funny but had no trouble getting the tones I wanted straight away and all the while was thinking Nano. :)

[Kilby]

Is that with the standard Tele or the flathead ? as I don't think that Hunter has done any single coil clips with his (prepares to be proved wrong)

[noodleplugerine]

Dakine.

You go through more gear in a week, then I have so far in my life =(

I'm oh so jealous. Wish I could get to take all this LUSH gear home.

[Dakine]

Is that with the standard Tele or the flathead ? as I don't think that Hunter has done any single coil clips with his (prepares to be proved wrong)

Flathead, clean, precise, direct yet cool.

PRS, more vintage, organic, chewy :)

Thats not even testing the Rev. G's tuna can yet  Or the BB Preamp I asked the fatman in red for . Or indeed the V30 cube.

Tele (single coil, gone bye bye :)) did'nt ya get me email matey?

Nick

[Dakine]

Dakine.

You go through more gear in a week, then I have so far in my life =(

I'm oh so jealous. Wish I could get to take all this LUSH gear home.

actually I basically 'flipped' the Road King, then found a new Shiva owned by a dealer in some financial pinch ;)

[hamfist]

Congrats on the amp.

Strangely, I played a Shiva (EL34 version) for the first time yesterday. Really nice drive channel. I could certainly have lived with it. But the clean channel was not to my liking - very, very clean and hi-fi. I like a bit of hair and balls on my cleans.
  All in all, I thought it was a really good amp, but (thankfully) was not going to tempt me to part with my current rig.

[Twinfan]

Interesting what you say about the Shiva Alan - I'd love to try one to compare with my JTM45/HT Dual rig...

[Ratrod]

Well,
the Mesa Road King is ney more!

It was just, well, not me :)
Sure it is a swiss army knife but y'know.

Same here. I'm selling my Ampeg for the same reason. When it's sold I'll probably go for a Fender Bandmaster Reverb.

[hunter]

Welcome to the Club!

Two tips from an accomplished Shiviatic:

1. Try this on the clean chnnel: Drive full, Bass and Treble on "0". It's a nice "clean-ish" sound with a bit of hair on it

2. Get an Xotic RC booster. Try Gain 9 AM, Vol 1 PM, Treb and Bass both 11 AM.
It's basically what should have been built in into the Shiva as additional gain boost, but Reinhold forgot it 8)
No but trust me, it really is the perfect companion if you want to push the drive channel into a smoother higain territory a la XTC without it mudding out.

Really happy to have a Shiva companion in this forum and looking forward to some awesome clips!

[sambo]

Nice one Nick!



Can't wait to see how it sounds- ('cause clips are expected of course  :D )

[Dakine]

The clean channel is so divine (esp. with the spring reverb) I find myself in more unknown territory by playing it ALOT, it's almost a Mystic exp.

Hunter, will try. Am actually gonna try a BB Preamp me thinks rather than an AC/RC. Not tryed my Gibbons Tuna Can just yet either.

I don't 'hear' any of the amp as hi-fi, hard to describe, sounds like tone in my head from thousands of recordings and concerts, kinda real/professional. The clean channel is sooooooo REAL guess it takes bit of getting used to. Now hi-fi is the Herbert to me, so much so it feels false playing it (to my ears in my humble opinion).

Just wish it came with a 'trunk monkey' to carry it, darn this combo is heavy. Least Bogner offer a head cab for conversion if so desire.

[Dakine]

gratuitous sex shot  :P

[Mr Ed]

Sure it is a swiss army knife but y'know.

"Jack of all trades but master of none" as they say?