The Bogner Snorkler REBORN!!! Michael Nielsen

braintheory said:
The one I had not too long ago may have been the same one. If so, the amp really transforms a lot when turning the mids down a ton. Went from bloated mids and flubby, not great, to being a lot clearer, tighter and more balanced. Needed to be loud too. A lot of Bogner’s can be very weird to dial in with their eq’s vs other amps, especially the Uber’s (used to not be a fan). As far as Marshall’s mods go it was imo one of the better ones I had (I’ve pretty much tried all besides Morin). I’d even choose it over most Cameron’s I’ve had or tried, but a very different type of flavor, but a more unique one, not just another Jose thing. I’m actually looking forward to this Snorkler a lot. As long as it doesn’t have that awful filtered/cardboardy quality like the UU and many other recent amps I don’t see what can go wrong and could be potentially even be the best amp they’ve made since the Rev 1 Uber 23 years ago now (imo their last truly special amp). Wishful thinking, but imo not too far fetched. And I’m not at all an AIC fan of their music or sound. I just like any gear that sounds good independent of artist associations

I don’t agree with respect to today’s amps. There’s a few exceptions like Wizards, Naylor, Alessandro, Gjika and Ronin that are as in their own ways as good as the greats of vintage amps, but most recent amps IME going through such a rabbit hole of these “boutique” ones sound in direct comparison to me so sterile and boring and very few even are new sounds, but rather filtered sounding versions of sounds we heard decades ago with some modern convenient features (but worse quality tone). I wasn’t even born when most of those great vintage amps came out, but it seems more so that most of the best amps are behind us and that they’re trying now to get as close as they can to that but with more practicality/flexibility. I’d rather they just come out with something that sounds as good as it can without that extraneous stuff or better yet something new AND good and without the filtered/sterile crap many modern high gainers especially suffer from

I’ve not been impressed with most mods either. Besides Langner, Cameron, Bogner, and a few others I had, most of them to me sounded worse than simply a good stock ‘70’s JMP2203/4 boosted with my Klon. Cameron says himself it’s very hard to mod a Marshall to sound better than that
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Did you grab it out of Dallas?

A lot of these new amp dudes can offer up the vintage tones with switches to go between different sounds, like bass/lead spec, different cathode bypass caps, to give you the best of the those old sounds in one amp. Then "massage" (@RedPlated) from there. Also offer up some new territory.
I agree about a Klon into an old Marshall, which is why I still have that. But also appreciate the newer stuff. It's all subjective. My friends hate stock Marshalls with a pedal.
 
crwnedblasphemy said:
I saw Reza’s video first. I always note to myself his demos sound on the bright side cuz he uses creamback alnicos in his 4x12 usually.
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My Alnico Cream in person sound smooth and more dark leaning imo. It’s I think just his way of recording his demos. His older demoes with V30’s have the same bright/harsher type of sound
 
LPMojoGL said:
Did you grab it out of Dallas?

A lot of these new amp dudes can offer up the vintage tones with switches to go between different sounds, like bass/lead spec, different cathode bypass caps, to give you the best of the those old sounds in one amp. Then "massage" (@RedPlated
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I got it from a seller in Illinois, but I think one of the previous owners may have been somewhere in Texas. I can double check that through older listings of it. I know other guys also with Bogner modded Marshall’s that will tell you the same as me about them. They’re one of the few IME actually cool mods, not just another Jose variety that sounds worse than a stock Marshall boosted, but needs some less conventional settings to sound their best

The problem is none that I’ve tried (probably shouldn’t mention some out of respect) truly offered vintage tones IME when comparing side by side with vintage Marshall’s, Fenders or Vox’s. None that I’vd played at all truly capture the more raw, organic quality, which is a lot of what really separates the qualities IME typically heard in vintage vs modern amps. They capture the overall flavor very well, but sound to me filtered/sterile or neutered comparatively. This has been the basis of the “from concentrate” vs fresh squeezed oj analogy I use all the time in describing these things because they capture the flavor, but not what actually makes them to me special or inspiring. Like I said before, it’s great that they have so much flexibility/features, but the quality of tone (especially the little details you hear around the notes) needs to be there, so I’d much rather see them get that part right first before trying to add “improvements”

On the other hand, some of the modern amps I mentioned have some actually unique sounds to them and while they’re not organic or raw/unfiltered or warm the same way vintage amps are, they’re pretty damn good for something recent made
 
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EXPcustom said:
This was the original Snorkler clip I posted over 10 years ago on YouTube. Mark restored this amp I found in Germany for me. That’s his playing through all the settings.



From the same recording “session”:

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Since MC touched it, this amp shall now be known as the Snorter
 
thegame said:
Since MC touched it, this amp shall now be known as the Snorter
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