NPD... bogner lagrange!

[newholland]

ya know... i literally JUST bought a bogner wessex, and not being a giant user of pedals, that thing kinda broke something. it acts in a lotta ways like an actual amp at volumes that work for me right now. so i found this and said.. ya know... i'm not a marshall guy, but every demo ive heard sounds great, and if it acts right, im sure i can get something useful outa it.


um. that was a WILD understatement.

what an unreal experience this pedal is. i have genuinely struggled to get BAD sounds out of it!

yeah it sounds marshally. i play so not in a standard tuning rock sorta way, so i figured maybe its be a bad fit cause i dont really do ac/dc or classic rock at ALL.. but not even a little bit. its just a great usable rock sound. duh. and theres a TON of ways to get there. and i can dial it in for an absurdly dry solid state amp, a mesa mark, a single ended 10 watter and have not too much or too little give. and it feels good.

the control on the guitar volume is every bit as good as a loud NMV amp.

i played straight for two hours last night just grinning all the while.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Nice! I've always wondered about these. Always heard great things. What tuning do you play in, per chance?

 

[newholland]

i use a couple- but since im also a banjo player- ill use a dadgae a bunch because it really messes with traditional voicings!

 

[JiveTurkey]

Does this thing work in the FX return and act as a full blown preamp?

 

[newholland]

i havent

Does this thing work in the FX return and act as a full blown preamp?

i havent run it that way yet- but the eq throw is well beyond whatd be necessary for negotiating most guitar amps- so you could likely dial it in for going into a console or a straight PA amp and get ut to work pretty well. i dial it between 11 and 1 oclock - so id bet you could.

 

[EOengineer]

The most amp-like gain pedal I’ve used is the big Bogner Ecstasy Blue and I’ve almost pulled the trigger on one of these a dozen times. Seems like it would equally at home driving a Superlead as it would be adding a British sounding gain channel to a deluxe reverb.

 

[newholland]

The most amp-like gain pedal I’ve used is the big Bogner Ecstasy Blue and I’ve almost pulled the trigger on one of these a dozen times. Seems like it would equally at home driving a Superlead as it would be adding a British sounding gain channel to a deluxe reverb.

inhave a coupla friends whove used bogners and always kinda figured nah... those guys use way more gain than i do... but i keep hearing them and thinking.. wait..wut?


the blue is sposed to be like jmp level iirc- im not sure how different this is- maybe brighter? but regardless- so far its super solid. still trying to find my exact best use case- but its a ball trying. i havent even tried the high gain setting yet cause halfway on medium is like way beyond what i need basically ever.

the wessex is super cool as well- but it acts more like a really good always on sorta thing by comparison. its like 'base amp plus'.. this is more like an amp sttaightway. id be curious to hear yer take in the blue!

 

[EOengineer]

inhave a coupla friends whove used bogners and always kinda figured nah... those guys use way more gain than i do... but i keep hearing them and thinking.. wait..wut?


the blue is sposed to be like jmp level iirc- im not sure how different this is- maybe brighter? but regardless- so far its super solid. still trying to find my exact best use case- but its a ball trying. i havent even tried the high gain setting yet cause halfway on medium is like way beyond what i need basically ever.

the wessex is super cool as well- but it acts more like a really good always on sorta thing by comparison. its like 'base amp plus'.. this is more like an amp sttaightway. id be curious to hear yer take in the blue!

The Blue is awesome. It can be Plexi-ish or basically mimic the ecstasy blue channel. Not a massive fire breather…which would be the Red pedal.

The Blue is perfectly capable of being a boost but IMO it’s so amp like that I typically use it to add a gain channel to my Princeton or Deluxe Reverb. In that setup I think most people would be hard pressed to identify the sound as being derived from a pedal. There’s a similar amount of adjustability as you’re Lagrange. I imagine there’s some overlap between the two.

 

[newholland]

The Blue is awesome. It can be Plexi-ish or basically mimic the ecstasy blue channel. Not a massive fire breather…which would be the Red pedal.

The Blue is perfectly capable of being a boost but IMO it’s so amp like that I typically use it to add a gain channel to my Princeton or Deluxe Reverb. In that setup I think most people would be hard pressed to identify the sound as being derived from a pedal. There’s a similar amount of adjustability as you’re Lagrange. I imagine there’s some overlap between the two.

yeah kinda what im thinking too. ive been setting it up for practice at home as the full tilt meltdown boost setting 10 on my guitar volume- sorta normal full gain at 7, and down from there as usable cleaner tones and i havent found much fault yet besides negotiating the upper mids of a marshall- but thats just cause i never had one!

its super cool to find pedals that can do THAT.

 

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