Description
Since 1992, Bogner has hand-built the Ecstasy amplifier in small batches out of Los Angeles, and the blue channel remains the one players chase for its blend of classic rock crunch and Plexi-style sparkle. The Ecstasy Blue pedal takes that circuit off the amp chassis and puts it on your board, capturing the same tonal DNA in stompbox form — glassy when you back off the gain, ferociously saturated when you dig in.
Reinhold Bogner built this pedal around four discrete Class A gain stages, deliberately avoiding op-amps or diode clipping so the pedal behaves like a real tube stage rather than a typical overdrive circuit. Internally, the voltage is stepped up well beyond the standard 9V supply (battery or 9VDC adapter), giving the pedal a dynamic headroom and touch response that tracks your picking hand the way a tube amp does.
Because it’s essentially the blue channel’s preamp in a box, placement is straightforward: run it into a clean amp for full control over gain and voice, or stack it in front of an already-driven amp for extra push. The Structure, Mode, and Pre-Eq switches let you dial in specific eras and gain personalities of the Ecstasy line without touching another pedal.
- True bypass switching
- Boost function with independently lit volume and gain controls
- Master Controls: volume, treble, middle, bass, gain
- Variac On/Off switch for dropped-voltage compression feel
- Mode Switch: Plexi and Blue voicings for lower or higher gain
- Pre-Eq Switch (B1, N, B2) shaping openness and upper harmonics
- Structure Switch: 100, 101, 20th Anniversary EQ/gain profiles
- Input, output, and remote jacks; remote controls on/off and boost
- Low battery indicator LED
- Premium build: gold-plated double-sided PCBs, German WIMA and Japanese Nichicon capacitors, gold-plated relays, Carling switches
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