Bogner La Grange Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal with Independent Boost

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While the Vibrato controls are Intensity dial with 3-way Blend Switch, and Speed dial with 3-way Speed Multiplier toggle-switch. You have separate footswitches to engage Drive and Vibe.

Based off a Marshall Bluesbreaker, this mini pedal offers lower gain Marshall drive in a tidy enclosure.A popular and highly regarded emulation of a JCM amp, from a builder that’s grown a stellar reputation for manufacturing great-sounding Marshall-style amps (the pedal is said to be a compact version of the Friedman BE100 amp). This overdrive pedal utilizes a multistage distortion circuit that helps it feel and sound like a real tube amp. It is handmade in England and has true bypass for extra signal clarity in your rig.

The Bogner La Grange is an effects pedal that allows players to create the iconic 60s sound of British 'Plexi' amplifiers. The La Grange Pedal has an independent boost on-board, which can be used by itself via its footswitch, or it can be used with the main circuitry too. The boost can be controlled with its own knob, that adjusts the overall level of the effect. Other controls for the pedal, include Volume, Tone and Gain, as well as Channel Blend which simulates different channels of the amplifier. There are also 4 switches that offer increased flexibility for fine tuning your sound. The Gain switch lets players choose between medium, low and high gain, the Variac switch adds dynamic compression, Presence offers both high and low options, and finally Structure provides tight, fat or 'in the middle'. The Bogner La Grange features premium design and construction, with double sided gold-plated circuit boards, German WIMA and Japanese Nichicon capacitors, and Carling footswitches. A Plexi-style pedal with a slightly hotter bit of grit – that’s what Bogner likes to do. The variac switch might appeal to Van Halen fans as it lets you recreate the effect of starving a Plexi of some power to make it scream at lower volumes. The channel blend allows you to mix in two different decades of Plexi amps together and can give you access to an incredibly diverse world of sounds. I'm a fan of Lawrence Petross Design pedal - while I only have a price so far - including the earlier Eighty7 forerunner. I still intend to get at least the Seventy4, possibly even the Sixty8 too - all the compact edition ones. Premium construction with double sided gold-plated circuit boards, German WIMA & Japanese Nicicon Capacitors and Carling footswitches Interesting how there were a number of Plexi + RangeMaster / Boost style pedals this year - not just the two here (PlexiRanger and The Engine), but also the Nabla Custom 1987 V2 - and I will probably do a roundup early next year and include the Bogner La Grange too!A pedal that puts AC/DC’s Angus Young’s tone at your toe tips. Its high impedance input and circuit based on two premium dual opamps let the unadulterated sound of the gain stages uncompressed come through, while the Tone knob has a wide range that helps tailor the tone to any amp. This is arguably the first “amp in a box” pedal ever created and many of the pedals on this list wouldn’t be here today without it. The late 80’s stompbox found popularity after it was discontinued in the early 90’s and is still the “go to” dirt box for many players who want to add some British-tuned distortion to their rigs. The one pictured here is Version 2. A handmade pedal that uses the same circuit schematic (3-band EQ included) that you will find in the most famous British Amps from the 60’s, using transistors instead of vacuum tubes. V3 adds a three-voicing toggle switch and a I/II footswitch with a 6db boost difference, emulating the behavior of the classic JCM. A toggle named #34 activates a modded tone dear to Guns’n’Roses’ guitarist Slash.

Through a dazzling number of (hand-wired!) controls, this preamp pedal puts at your toe tips the tone of 5 of the most popular Marshall amps: JTM45, JMC800, 1959 SLP, 1987 X, and JVM. Two gain and 4 EQ knobs are integrated by switches offering 4 tone and 4 gain options, delivering hundreds of sonic possibilities. A very dynamic FET-based Plexi-style overdrive that can be used also as a clean boost at lower drive settings. It features a flexible three-band EQ section with a toggle switch to set the center frequency of the Mids knob (from low-mid to high-mid). Watts give you a lot of volume, but, for today’s standards, Plexi amps can’t really be considered “high-gain,” simply because they only had one volume knob (no preamp or gain stage), and could deliver lightly overdriven tones only when cranked up to ear-damaging levels. But don’t forget that distortion, in the ’60s, was a very new concept, and these were among the first amps designed to deliver it; the fact that they ended up in records by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton is a testament to their importance.This things cleans up really well with the guitar volume knob and there's a huge about of volume and gain on tap with the Boost circuit engaged, which I found great for solos and actually gives that early Angus lead sound.

In some ways my favourite favourite Blues Breaker voicing is to be found on the Wampler Pantheon, while that can't really compete with the extended user experience the Golden Boy provides. A Plexi-style preamp-style overdrive that emulates both the preamp and the tube power amp stage of the venerable Marshall series, offering the classic sonic character on the entire gain spectrum, from piano-like cleans, bright overdrive, and sizzling lead tones, always delivering the Plexi’s signature sparkly midrange.

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The JCM800 side benefits from 4-Band EQ including Presence, while the Plexi side is controlled by more conventional Volume, Tone and Drive mini-knobs. Next, we have the Volume, Tone, and (all the way to the right) Gain knobs, which all work as you would expect. But in between the Tone and Gain, the La Grange features a unique Channel Blend knob, which is where we begin to see the true versatility of the pedal. Essentially, this knob works as a mix control that simulates the two channels of a 4 input 67-69 Plexi; turn all the way to the left for the brighter, boosted "T" channel, all the way to the right for the more subdued "B" channel, or any combination in between. Better yet, leave it a 50/50 for an equal mix of both, not unlike using a jumper cable on a real Plexi (a common technique used to link both channels). A High-quality 3-knob Plexi-style overdrive with an extra boost build in the UK. It helps emulate the tone and harmonics of an EL34 output stage (the tube found in Plexi amps). It can also be used in combination with Marshall amps for extra voicing, tone sculpting and its separate Boost circuit, which has its own footswitch.