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Reinhold Bogner is a German native who moved to Los Angeles and used his electrical engineering skills to become the LA Guru who customises amplifiers for the LA rock elite and session musicians. Bogner has performed customisations for Steve Stevens, Dan Huff, Allan Holdsworth, Mike Landau and Steve Vai all of who sought out his skill at modifying and custom building their amps.
In collaboration with Line 6 Bogner has chiefly been responsible for developing the Spider Valve series of amplifiers which combines amp modelling with some great high quality effects. Bognor is not just a gizmo geek, he has a tremendous working knowledge of vintage and modern amp designs, he's an inventor, a craftsman, a brilliant and respected engineer, and best of all he has a reputation for having a great set of ears.
The great thing about this particular line of modelling amps is that Valve technology as well as morphing software is used in the modelling process to bring an element of realism to the modelling architecture - the Line 6 modelling software feeds a pair of 12AX7 preamp tubes.
The first tube is set up as a cascading gain stage, with each stage contributing to the harmonic complexity that vintage amp players love. This subsequently feeds the master volume which hits the next 12AX7 valve configured as a phase splitter which is followed by Sovtek 5881WXT/6L6 valve. There’s 2 x 6L6’s as output valves for 40 watts of class AB power in the combos, and 4 x 6L6’s for 100 watts of class AB power in the amp head.
There are 16 amp models featuring some of the world’s finest classic amplifier configurations, to further enhance the tonal options there’s an additional 7 high quality effects and a degree of tonal amendment options that include Presence, Drive, Bass, Middle and Treble.
The Amp models range from the classic Hi-Watt amps of the 1960’s used by The Who, through to the legendary Fender Twin Reverbs of the 1970’s and stopping off at all stations en route to Marshall, Mesa Boogie, Vox and Soldano – each with a variable option. All of the 300+ pre-sets have been created by the cream of LA's session musicians including Tim Pierce, Matt Scanell and Michael Ripoli ...
The 20 SMART effects include Tape Echo, Sweep Echo, Standard Delay (all with Tap Tempo) Chorus/Flanger, Phaser, Tremolo, and Reverb and three effects can be used simultaneously. There are also 36 user programmable channels, a front panel guitar tuner and the combo uses a single 12” Premium Celestion Vintage 30 speaker, not to mention an XLR direct line out for studio recording.