Bogner Helios Eclipse - The Most Modded Marshall EVER!

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6 күн бұрын

In today's video, Paul Drew and James Ivey from The Studio Rats are checking out the amp with the most gain EVER! the Bogner Helios Eclipse.
This Marshall style amp has a few tricks up its sleeve, 3 channels from pristine clean to more filth than comes out the back of farm yard animals!
These amps are incredibly pricey but if you are looking for that classic BOGNER type tone, check out the BOGNER ECSTASY PEDAL below
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Here is what Bogner says about this monster of an amp.
BOGNER took the roots of the Helios through a sonic time machine to create a more modern version. Even though they are brothers by sharing the same power amp design, the pre amp circuit and control layout makes them essentially two different amplifiers, each with it's own purpose and valid applications.
The Eclipse utilizes up to 6 gain stages which go far beyond 11.
You are welcome! Enjoy! And try to keep it legal!
The ECLIPSE features the same hand-wired construction with three direct accessible channels via the included foot controller. The tube buffered effects loop has been reworked so pedal effects can handle the added gain stages of channel 2 and 3. The two gain channels each have two individual 3 position switches to tailor the gain structure for a variety of tones and feels.
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.

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@IamMusicNerd 3 күн бұрын

Bogner makes killer amps. Even their Synergy modules sound epic. I love the Ecstasy.

@geneparmesan8827 4 күн бұрын

The bogner amps are on another level

@DavidMorley 5 күн бұрын

I love the Bogner international range. Killer amps, as is the Atma.

@nekkon1989 5 күн бұрын

I LOVED the clean tones.

@louderthangod 4 күн бұрын

This and the Silver Jubilee are two amps I’d love to try with my rig and style. I’m just glad there are still 100 watt tube heads being made for those of us that use lower tunings and need to go loud for our projects.

@GearSafari 5 күн бұрын

Beast of an amp 🔥

@tomford8286 5 күн бұрын

Paul, you are such a great player and get great tone!! I wish I could play and sound like you!!

@TheStudioRats 5 күн бұрын

Cheers Tim, it’s much appreciated. There’s a lot of mistakes you don’t get to see.😀

@JJJohnsom 4 күн бұрын

Don’t forget that Goldfinger when you went guitar shopping. You two loved it.

@TheStudioRats 4 күн бұрын

Yeah there’s one for sale not too far away as well.

@glennmartin4232 4 күн бұрын

Sounds awesome. It’s a gain monster.

@peevee605 4 күн бұрын

Luke plays them. Moderate overdrive, cleans when he rolls off the volume and high gain when he adds an overdrive or stack two.

@hemmelight 3 күн бұрын

The regular Helios, specifically.

@lostwoods 12 сағат бұрын

Would love to get your thoughts on the regular Helios! Have read a lot about how the Eclipse version doesn't quite have the magic of the regular Helios 50 and 100.

@rudigerk 5 күн бұрын

To my Ears it has a bit of that Rockman Sizzle.

@jakebenigni 4 күн бұрын

i would say that has more to do with the load box/ speaker emulation that they are using. it is the same on most amps they try. not that it is bad, but not just a character to the helios.

@lostinpa-dadenduro7555 5 күн бұрын

Putting in a request: if you guys could get your hands on the Bogner Atma head, it’s an extremely interesting design that could make for a great video and captures.

@chrislestermusic 5 күн бұрын

I’m running an Atma through a Fryette PS100 and it smokes. Turns it into a real beast.

@JJJohnsom 4 күн бұрын

I have one too. It’s a great little amp with lots of options.

@davider1877 4 күн бұрын

sounds awesome! are you planning on doing a tonex capture for this?

@DBroce 5 күн бұрын

Hail Satin and Hair. A great sound, ready for the capture. I’ll add the noise gate.

@TheStudioRats 5 күн бұрын

Looking good Dave!

@reverb508 2 күн бұрын

I own the regular Helios and it is insane. The only thing I don't like about it is that you can't switch between the plexi and hot channels. You have to plug your cable into one or the other. Kinda sucks if you want to have a dedicated clean and dirty tone.

@babetopaz 5 күн бұрын

Overdrive channel is way too much, I've just bought a Marshall Studio JTM 20, I've owned all sorts of Marshalls and clones over the years and this little amp is the best amp I've ever owned, stick a Nobels On the front and, Heaven!

@srh361 5 күн бұрын

I honestly loved the overdrive channel

@danharding9136 4 күн бұрын

Sorry but Marshall don’t make good amps anymore. Friedman took the best of Marshall and added searing tones at low volumes, effects loop and master volumes

@brandonboe2286 3 күн бұрын

@@danharding9136 Agreed Marshall is using Vietnamese trans and parts in their English amps now. May as well just buy the DSL series at least that is honest. Old English Marshalls yes. Anything past 2005 or so no way.

@johnp1908 4 күн бұрын

I have the 50 watt bogner Helios (regular version not eclipse) and it’s probably the version most people would prefer because it has a 70s mode in addition to the 80s and a plexi input. The 70s mode is really the highlight of the amp with a higher output humbucker. Kind of a perfect jmp/jcm sound. I think the eclipse has some diode clipping in it which might be leading to that overly modern sound maybe?

@Funkybassuk 5 күн бұрын

“More nasty than this man’s shirt” 😂 Oh boy - what a thumbnail. Very cool amp - and very nice clean channel indeed!

@peterschaefer1665 4 күн бұрын

Eclipse + is meant to be a sol channel. Hense the midrange.

@MrSpike7590 4 күн бұрын

They took the website down. There's an email address for service and parts.

@Dave-rk2nl 4 күн бұрын

I like it!!!!!!!

@lostinpa-dadenduro7555 5 күн бұрын

Were you playing Summer of 69 by Brian Adams at the start? The first chord hit me like that.

@jcugnoni 5 күн бұрын

Very interesting amp. Except the eclipse mode that seem complete overkill; I think it sound pretty great in your demos. Did not know this amp and it is an nice , simpler alternative to the Ecstasy. It reminds me a bit the Ceriatone Yeti / Chupacabra which offers a wide variety of modded Marshall tones.

@hillsmith 4 күн бұрын

Too much gain, sure, but my old ears still get a bit of note definition in the high gain modes. That’s a thing. Still, were money no issue I’d buy it for the clean channel! 😎

@harrybee3093 4 күн бұрын

I would be very happy if you can capture the German Amp Ampete One.

@fredmanteghian5913 4 күн бұрын

Too much tinny sounding distortion for me. It sounds like an even more obnoxious Egnator Renegade with a bright Egnator Tourmaster 2x12 cab. Somehow I manage to get an OK jazz tone off the clean channel, but honestly it only gets used because it’s one of two amps in ”that” room. Ironically, the other amp in that room is a Bogner Chinese combo from the late 90s I think, that isn’t half bad on clean (total trash on drive though). My best amps are a 97 JTM45 head, 65 Bassman head, and a Friedman Runt. I I just the JTM with its “honest” amp drive and thump and wonderful clean up.

@tomminystrom 3 күн бұрын

You need YJM pickups with that amp, humbucking but sounds like single coil (or like a single coil), or perhaps less hot Dimarzio HS-3. That Gibson sounded too dark, Fender was better but too noisy.

@hollywoodactress 5 күн бұрын

I love high gain amps but I am not sure on this one. It could be the speakers I am listening back on, it just has way too much gain. Do you know how lukather dials them in ?

@JJJohnsom 4 күн бұрын

There’s a rig rundown in Luke’s amps with his tech and he explains.

@SonicAttack 5 күн бұрын

I had the Helios 100 for a bit, it had some killer tones in it but the transformer buzzed like hell and the effects loop was dogshit. I miss it, but it was hard to live with.

@hybridnoisebloom 4 күн бұрын

That 'eclipse' setting with the nasally tone is the same thing I hear in my Bogner La Grange. It's maddening, horrible sounding, hard to dial out.

@chopperdeath 4 күн бұрын

Why doesn’t Bogner have a website?

@finishin.my.coffee8780 2 күн бұрын

I've always wanted a Bogner but could never afford one, save for that little mini Ecstasy solid state head. I just can't bring myself to buy one of those, though, because they're so damn ugly. If they looked like this Helios or even the Uberschall, definitely. Instead, it looks like my old Egnater Tweaker lol. This amp sounds great, though.

@brandoz28 5 күн бұрын

So….ToneX capture?

@DigitalViperGaming 4 күн бұрын

Paul, is that Strat an HSS or SSS model?

@TheStudioRats 4 күн бұрын

sss

@DigitalViperGaming 4 күн бұрын

@@TheStudioRats That guitar definitely has the “mojo.”

@SluggerStark 4 күн бұрын

I had the regular Eclipse. Stayed 90% of the time in "70's mode" which is like a modded JMP. 80's mode, with the extra gain + diode clipping was just too compressed and mushy for how I play. The Eclipse....6 gain stages....waaay too much. Most of these modern amps with more than 4 gain stages trying to do the whole "boosted tone without a boost" thing are waaaay overgained, too compressed and too filtered. They feel like crap to play. I would take a late 70's JMP with a good boost all day long and get all the aggression and great feel and ounch those amps have.

@WakadooPlaypen 5 күн бұрын

Way too much gain. I have a 101B and a 3435 in a bi weekly love hate relationship, but I find myself reaching for the A.N. WOverdrive V2 more often these days.

@TheStudioRats 5 күн бұрын

agreed!

@brianlittle9202 5 күн бұрын

I think its clean tones are nice but its gain is shit. I would take my EVH 5150 with it's EL34s it can do whatever that amp can and has 10xs the gain any day

@TheStudioRats 5 күн бұрын

Most people like what they have

@brianlittle9202 5 күн бұрын

@@TheStudioRats Well once/ if they can finally afford it. It took me 6 months to pay the $1100 my head costs. Anything with tubes in it cost so much anymore. I don't know what that head costs but I'm sure it's not cheap either

@JJJohnsom 4 күн бұрын

@@brianlittle9202after Covid it seemed like amps and guitars went up about $1,000 more.

@horstzankl5709 5 күн бұрын

Too much noise and a thin, scratchy sound. Even a DSL-1 or DSL-20 sounds better to me at a fraction of the price and is more noiseless. Kitschy frontplate, poor harmonics reproduction and highly overpriced too for my taste. But I anyway never have been a Bogner fan. More gain not necessarily means a better tone... Also this is not at all a good (hot-rod) Marshall sound for me, at least not, if you take an Arredondo modded Variac Plexi as the scale.