Bogner Ecstacy History

[TheGreatGreen]

I’ve had several Ecstasies.

2007 101b
1997 101b
2009 20th A
2014 20th B

...[XTC opinions]...

So I bought a 2007 XTC 101B not too long ago and I'm suddenly feeling a lot less FOMO about needing to try out other versions. Thanks!

Although I will say I played around on a new XTC 20th Anny with EL34's yesterday at a local store and thought it sounded fantastic. That Red channel is a monster. Also, it had a metal front which, combined with the gold plexi faceplate and newer tolex pattern Bogner uses, the “fancy swirl pattern" tolex or whatever it's called, made it look fantastic.

Also, hopefully my post here helps with the “is Bogner still in business?” question because the XTC 20th Anniv. I played was a brand new amp that arrived at the store about a week ago.

I remember when Bogner Brand arrived here in Brazil with all 20Th models. A friend of mine bought every model and I played them.
I was looking like a teenager to play the XTC and almost bought one without play it first.
Big disappointment, too congest like a blanket in front the cab.

Don't feel bad because that's how most people experience these amps when they first play them. There's a trick to them though. For whatever reason, Bogner decided to use a logarithmic pot for the Treble knob, which means the Treble control is basically almost all the way off until you hit about 1:30. The entire usable sweep of the Treble control happens between like 1:30 and 3:00. It's weird but if you know that and aren't afraid to crank the Treble on these amps, you’ll hear the "blanket" fall right off the cab when you do that.

 

[FourT6and2]

Oh you don’t have signatures turned on?

I don’t own a Helios/Helios Eclipse, but I do own a 1998 XTC 101B with class A/AB and stock Mercury Magnetics OT/PT.

Here’s a video of mine boosted with an SD-1:

That sounds wiiiiicked. Yeah the 101B I played the other day didn't sound like (even though yours is boosted, I can tell).

 

[glpg80]

That sounds wiiiiicked. Yeah the 101B I played the other day didn't sound like (even though yours is boosted, I can tell).

Took me like 2 weeks to dial this amp in and get rid of the blanket everyone talks about.

I hate the red channel on this amp - loose and grainy - very compressed. It also doesn’t take pedals well. The clean channel and blue channel are the cats meow - pissed off Marshall for days and EASY to play. Huge solid thumping bottom end. The amp is absolutely loud as all fucking get out with 525V loaded on the plates.