Bogner Goldfinger 45 (SOLD)

SOLD
This amp has such an amazing clean tone, an even better very traditional cranked Marshall Plexi sound (in bedroom volume level too) and a fantastic high-gain hot rodded Marshall sound too…a typical Eddie Van Halen brown sound (well Reinhold Bogner knows how to achieve killer overdriven sounds as he built amps for Eddie Van Halen, Steve Lukather, Steve Vai and tons of other big names in California!)! Reinhold Bogner is a legendary boutique amplifier builder.

Check my demo video with it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1vIBDdKY2o

This head is in absolute mint, unused condition, and not a single mark on it, not even on the footswitch.

This is one of his latest designs:
The Goldfinger is a two channel vintage voiced guitar amplifier with the common Bogner flexibility. Each channel, one called Alpha, the other Omega, features multiple controls and switches to customize the sound to your personal preference. The combination of the channels with the availability of a pre and post effects loop makes this amplifier a Guitar System which lets you route your guitar signal as needed without degrading the original audio signal.
The Goldfinger is based around the rich harmonic textures of the 6V6 tube, “they have this nice warm dirt with a creamy break up at fairly low volumes, sing like EL34’s but have more chime for cleaner bell like tones”.
A power amp with the finesse of a Bull Rider, you know “the art of hanging loose, hanging just as tight”, combined with the many sonic fragrances of the pre amp circuit and you have a complex harmonic Universe at your service!
A quartet of 6V6’s is used to have 45W of clean headroom available but power can be scaled down to 30, 18 and 9 watts.
I said “people will have to take their time to dial this amp in” Reinhold replied with raised voice “It’s not just an amp, it’s a Guitar System!”
Features:
Two channel Tube Amplifier
Choice of variable Boost or Pre FX-Loop
Boost or Pre FX-Loop individually footswitchable for each channel
Footswitch controllable tube buffered series or parallel Post FX-Loop
Footswitch controllable spring reverb*
Alpha Ch.: Bass, Middle, Treble, gain & Loudness controls, Pre & Post Bright switches
Omega Ch.: Bass, Middle, Treble, Gain EQ, Gain & Loudness controls, 69/80 mode switch
High and Low + Half power switch for 4 different power settings between 9 and 45 watts.
Functions on footswitch: alpha/omega ch. select, alpha boost/pre-fx, omega boost/pre-fx, reverb, post-fx
Available as Head or 1×12 open back combo
Matching 1×12 open and 2×12 open or closed speaker cabinets
The post effects loop is the more common found loop between pre amp and power amp. The loop can be operated in series or parallel and has a level switch to be set accordingly to the effects unit used. Parallel mode lets you mix your effects via a control to the pure dry signal. Series takes the entire dry signal and routes it through your effects unit, series can also be used as a volume boost.

The pre effects loop is unique and a first in amplifier designs. Actually not a first for Reinhold, in 1995 he designed and produced a 60 unit run of the hand wired Caveman Amplifier which featured a tube buffered pre effects loop. While this loop worked well and served its purpose for the 100% pure sound you still had to plug the guitar directly in to the channel inputs. After rethinking the problem Reinhold came up with the a new pre loop design which is featured for the first time in the Goldfinger.
The problem is solved, if the pre loop is not engaged the amplifier will only see the guitar straight without going through any switches or relais. This means if your guitar is plugged straight into the Goldfingers input and any other effect pedals, units, loopers, routers etc… you would normally use between guitar and amplifier are hooked up to the loop of the Goldfingers you have a 100% pure guitar tone. Please note there is no buffer circuit involved weather the loop is on or off. This means if you do like your signal buffered through your pedals you would need to use an external unit just like you would with any other amp.

In any shops in the UK or EU this amp would cost you £2000++ however you can have this ABSOLUTE MINT head for £1400!!! SOLD