I have changed since buying my Bogner..........

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It is amazing, what a different place in my life I am since buying my 20th anniversary Shiva. When I bought I was just about to enter a major shift in my playing. Funny, when i bought the Shiva, I thought it might lack some gain for me, and maybe not be aggressive enough. At the time, I was close to getting a 20th XTC. I was also more into heavier music.
Well, fast forward a few years and I am more the guy who would rather have a strat and a Vox AC 30 than a Les Paul and XTC.

That said, I still love my Shiva, but for different reasons, I play more clean and light to mid gain, and these days, for me, most amps have too much gain so the amount of gain on the Shiva in modern mode is about perfect although I rarely get above noon these days on the gain. So, my Shiva baby has been through the end of my heavy days and the beginning of a new phase of my musical life. I would even entertain selling the Shiva in favor of a Goldfinger. I have also become more of a "keep it simple guy". I love my PWE Event Horizon when I got it, and it still sounds magical and is sooooo fun to play! But, I really like to keep it simple these days, and it has almost as many knobs as the XTC! Give me one channel and a responsive guitar and I am good. That is another thing where I scored on the Shiva, few knobs, set and forget. The Ecstacy gives me a headache in that regard. I would get little use out of a 3 channel amp these days. Things change, people change, but Bogner is always there for me. :)

10 years ago I would rather play Metallica or Alice in Chains and have a rum and coke. These days I'd rather play some Matthew Sweet and drink a soda, LOL (quit drinking 5 years ago). :)

Not sure why I wrote all this....bored, I guess?
 
richedie":3l7msowa said:
It is amazing, what a different place in my life I am since buying my 20th anniversary Shiva. When I bought I was just about to enter a major shift in my playing. Funny, when i bought the Shiva, I thought it might lack some gain for me, and maybe not be aggressive enough. At the time, I was close to getting a 20th XTC. I was also more into heavier music.
Well, fast forward a few years and I am more the guy who would rather have a strat and a Vox AC 30 than a Les Paul and XTC.

That said, I still love my Shiva, but for different reasons, I play more clean and light to mid gain, and these days, for me, most amps have too much gain so the amount of gain on the Shiva in modern mode is about perfect although I rarely get above noon these days on the gain. So, my Shiva baby has been through the end of my heavy days and the beginning of a new phase of my musical life. I would even entertain selling the Shiva in favor of a Goldfinger. I have also become more of a "keep it simple guy". I love my PWE Event Horizon when I got it, and it still sounds magical and is sooooo fun to play! But, I really like to keep it simple these days, and it has almost as many knobs as the XTC! Give me one channel and a responsive guitar and I am good. That is another thing where I scored on the Shiva, few knobs, set and forget. The Ecstacy gives me a headache in that regard. I would get little use out of a 3 channel amp these days. Things change, people change, but Bogner is always there for me. :)

10 years ago I would rather play Metallica or Alice in Chains and have a rum and coke. These days I'd rather play some Matthew Sweet and drink a soda, LOL (quit drinking 5 years ago). :)

Not sure why I wrote all this....bored, I guess?
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its time you move onto TGP, haha. Just kidding. I love Strats and lighter gain so much. Though I go back and forth tons that neither has lost their appeal to me
 
Maybe I have lost so much testosterone at age 42 that I lost all desire for aggressive or heavy music. Haha. Then again, right now I have never been better as a natural bodybuilder and fitness athlete. So, who knows.
 
richedie":wylcvsc1 said:
Maybe I have lost so much testosterone at age 42 that I lost all desire for aggressive or heavy music. Haha. Then again, right now I have never been better as a natural bodybuilder and fitness athlete. So, who knows.
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its a typical progression really. I didn't get a strat untill a few years ago, and just love it. it has a sound and vibe, specially at lower gain that I just love and can't get the same out of my humbucker guitars. just nice and open. But even in my heavier music, I find myself pulling the gain back, just much more clarity
 
I used to be such a gain freak and the more options, the more channels the better. Now it is the opposite. I had a chance to buy a 2007 XTC 101b for 1900 because he is a good friend of mine, but I turned it down. Not my thing any longer. Next amp will be a single channel monster.
 
Ya, typical progression but dude, hats off to the no drinking. If this was because you had to quit, good work :thumbsup:

I too am 42 (almost) and into fitness, no drinking, no druggin', but I'll tell ya this, I still hammer out the gainier raunch whenever I can, as often as I can, it just so HAPPENS that I've got some more fluidy bluesy semi-clean stuff happening on the left and right as well :lol: :LOL:

Finding yer tone is a very very rewarding thing. There's a reason I'm in this sub-forum spewing about my 20thA-X, and there's a reason I'm in the Diezel sub-forum spewing about my Hagen. That's it - done.

Peace,
Mojo :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:
 
No, I didn't have to quit drinking. I just didn't want to waste my money and I never liked it anyway, plus it made me soft when it came to bodybuilding. I believe I am much wiser too, LOL....I won't spend more than $1000 on an amp. My next purchase is a used Electradyne. One of the best amps I have ever played.
 
Good for you, tastes do change over time. It sounds like the Shiva is now perfect for you. :)
 
The new Shiva still does the modern brutal tones if EQed that way, it is just not my thing these days. And if I do, Shiva, PWE and Electradyne handle it easily.
 
I love the Bogner stuff. But I really get your progression.

The most wonderful one-channel amp I have ever played was a Metropolous '68 SL 12000.

Awesome. Could do jazz, mid-gain, AND the EVH type saturation (at the cost of eardrums).
 
This is the reason why I feel that the standard Shiva is such a nice sounding amp, it has it's own flavor and really excels at the mid-gain sound. I do like the 20th version, but I feel that it is a very different sounding amp. The factory installed excursion control really helps, too. You can get those nice Mark Knopfler/Strat tones out of that amp. I do love my 101b(s), Ubershall and 20th/101b hybrid amps as well. They are all good, it is just a matter of fitting the particular amp towards the music that you are playing.
 
Brendon Small (Dethklok) is using one for the new season of Metalocalypse. He seems to really like the mid gain stuff for the music he writes.
 
I have some new low to mid gain amps. Bogner New Yorker is a great 50s to 60s style amp.

I don't know how much age has to do with the gain love. I just bought a MKIIC that I am sending to Mike B at Mesa to have converted to a C+. Still love me some high gain.

At 52 I still have no loss of love for some good stripper metal. I went and saw My Darkest Days and they played the hell out of Porn Star Dancin'...

Rock on there OP! Glad you found your tone. Bogner is a great one.
 
Still love the 20th Shiva, it does it all!!!! Thick low mids, and still has enough upper mids to cut.
Love my PWE as well which satisfies my XTC urge in a 2 channel package, and have a Splawn on the way.
 
I used a Hughes & Kettner TriAmp MK II as my main head for years until I scored my first Splawn Quick Rod. I was sold after hearing that amp, and while I may dabble with others (Diezel, Hughes & Kettner, Ceriatone, even Marshall) Splawn is my go-to and believe it or not my backup/alternative sounds come from Jet City Amps (JCA100HDM, JCA100H, JCA22H) and Jet City cabs (JCA24S).

The best advice I ever got was from someone at Splawn... "Choose your tone and dial it in with your EARS, not your EYES! What a wonderful revelation!

Cheers,
 
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