Description
The Wessex is Reinhold Bogner’s answer for players who treat overdrive as a serious tone tool, not just a gain stage. It spans a wide range of textures — from a pristine, uncolored boost that simply pushes your amp harder, to a thick, dynamically alive distortion that responds to pick attack and guitar volume the way a great tube amp does.
What sets it apart is the audio transformer wired directly into the circuit. Rather than relying on standard clipping alone, this transformer imparts a three-dimensional quality to the signal — the same kind of depth associated with vintage British mixing consoles and, unsurprisingly, Bogner’s own tube amplifiers. It’s a subtle but unmistakable difference in how the pedal sits in a mix: less flat, more alive.
A dedicated Treble/Bass control lets you dial in tightness and shape the low-end response, so the Wessex can sit comfortably in front of a clean amp for added sparkle or stack with your existing dirt for extra harmonic complexity. On a pedalboard, it works equally well as an always-on boost placed early in the chain or as a dedicated overdrive engaged for solos and choruses.
- Transformer-based circuit for a three-dimensional, amp-like tone
- Ranges from transparent boost to rich, dynamic distortion
- Treble/Bass knob for tightness and signature tone shaping
- Bogner’s signature voicing, now in a pedal format
If you’ve wanted a taste of Bogner’s amp character without a head and cab, the Wessex delivers it in a box built for the front of your signal chain.
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