Adambomb
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(I returned the regular Shiva in pic and got 20th Anni with Reverb.)
HELLO! New to the forums and Bogner. Really glad to own one! Well here is the story... sorry it's so long.
Went to Nashville for 2 days with my R9, Mesa Mark V, and Mesa 2x12 cab wanting to find the right combination of amp and speakers fot the R9. The Mark V just has this bitty harshness that I've tried hard to dial out with the R9 but just couldn't. Thr MKV still sounds great with other guitars, but I was looking for a medium gain old school sounding "Marshall" type amp with good cleans. BTW I still have the V for now but traded the Mesa 2x12, just didn't like the Mesa 2x12 through much of any amp I owned.
So I must have went to about every shop in Nashville over 2 days wheeling around all my equipment in shops AB'ing and demoing, pretty much pissing everybody off, but I was determined to find the right combination of amp and speaker with the R9. I played several Marshall's, 78 Plexi, JCM 800, Germino Club 40, Freidman Brown Eye and Dirty Shitley (DS is the best one channel gain driven amp I've ever heard, but wasn't spending that kind of money), all the Slawns, a 65 amps SOHO, 79' Orange head, just too many amps to name.
Well I did first find the best sounding speaker cab "for me" and was the Bogner Oversized 2x12 w/V30's. So played most the amps at GC through that. I'm not much on Guitar Center but man I've never seen as good of selection this month in Nashville like I did this past weekend. Guess tax time everyone trading and selling. The best overdrive rockin amp through the 2x12 was the Freidman Dirty Shirley. Plugged the Shirley through the Mesa 2x12 and just too ear piercing. And I had to have 2 Ch's and amp that great OD and cleans. After playing a used Shiva, a reverb model, and out of box non-reverb model I liked the fresh out of box Bogner Shiva non-reverb. Oh man the reverb sounded good. But didn't want to drop $400 more for reverb. UPDATE: Well I tried the 20th Anni more w/reverb and took the plung with $700 for the 20th w/Reverb. Best sounding reverb I've ever heard. Way better than the tank on my Mark V.
The Shiva cleans vs Mark V was just better in my book. Simply beautiful sounding and really shimmering smooth. Then switching from Ch1 to Ch2 on the Shiva was just a really good balance. On Ch2 was just so smooth and with great harmonics. And had plenty of gain with my R9' (with Custom Bucker neck & BKP Mule in bridge).
I was determined to be sure and in love with the tone of an amp with the R9 and I know I've found it in the Bogner Shiva 20th. The Mark V will be up for sale soon. Though this pic would give you an ideo of what I've found to be the best setup I've ever had or heard and very blessed. I can't even dial in a bad tone with the Shiva.
Since I loved the regular Shiva with EL34's so much but feel more in love with the features on the 20th Shiva after finding out I can put EL34's in the 20th Shiva, thats exactly what I did. It's one snip of a bias resistor and a rebias to 29-31ma and it kills!!!
HELLO! New to the forums and Bogner. Really glad to own one! Well here is the story... sorry it's so long.
Went to Nashville for 2 days with my R9, Mesa Mark V, and Mesa 2x12 cab wanting to find the right combination of amp and speakers fot the R9. The Mark V just has this bitty harshness that I've tried hard to dial out with the R9 but just couldn't. Thr MKV still sounds great with other guitars, but I was looking for a medium gain old school sounding "Marshall" type amp with good cleans. BTW I still have the V for now but traded the Mesa 2x12, just didn't like the Mesa 2x12 through much of any amp I owned.
So I must have went to about every shop in Nashville over 2 days wheeling around all my equipment in shops AB'ing and demoing, pretty much pissing everybody off, but I was determined to find the right combination of amp and speaker with the R9. I played several Marshall's, 78 Plexi, JCM 800, Germino Club 40, Freidman Brown Eye and Dirty Shitley (DS is the best one channel gain driven amp I've ever heard, but wasn't spending that kind of money), all the Slawns, a 65 amps SOHO, 79' Orange head, just too many amps to name.
Well I did first find the best sounding speaker cab "for me" and was the Bogner Oversized 2x12 w/V30's. So played most the amps at GC through that. I'm not much on Guitar Center but man I've never seen as good of selection this month in Nashville like I did this past weekend. Guess tax time everyone trading and selling. The best overdrive rockin amp through the 2x12 was the Freidman Dirty Shirley. Plugged the Shirley through the Mesa 2x12 and just too ear piercing. And I had to have 2 Ch's and amp that great OD and cleans. After playing a used Shiva, a reverb model, and out of box non-reverb model I liked the fresh out of box Bogner Shiva non-reverb. Oh man the reverb sounded good. But didn't want to drop $400 more for reverb. UPDATE: Well I tried the 20th Anni more w/reverb and took the plung with $700 for the 20th w/Reverb. Best sounding reverb I've ever heard. Way better than the tank on my Mark V.
The Shiva cleans vs Mark V was just better in my book. Simply beautiful sounding and really shimmering smooth. Then switching from Ch1 to Ch2 on the Shiva was just a really good balance. On Ch2 was just so smooth and with great harmonics. And had plenty of gain with my R9' (with Custom Bucker neck & BKP Mule in bridge).
I was determined to be sure and in love with the tone of an amp with the R9 and I know I've found it in the Bogner Shiva 20th. The Mark V will be up for sale soon. Though this pic would give you an ideo of what I've found to be the best setup I've ever had or heard and very blessed. I can't even dial in a bad tone with the Shiva.
Since I loved the regular Shiva with EL34's so much but feel more in love with the features on the 20th Shiva after finding out I can put EL34's in the 20th Shiva, thats exactly what I did. It's one snip of a bias resistor and a rebias to 29-31ma and it kills!!!
