Bogner Burnley Distortion Pedal Reviews
Give your sound a shot in the arm with the Bogner Burnley distortion pedal. Reinhold Bogner, legendary amp designer, is known for creating some of the best-sounding amp-based distortion tones in rock history, and the Burnley brings those great distortion tones to your pedalboard. Using a Rupert Neve designed transformer, this pedal delivers lush, smooth tone with amazing touch sensitivity and impeccable sound quality. Burnley can conjure everything from mild distortion to British-flavored, high-gain mayhem. And a Fat/Tight switch lets you choose either a tighter metal feel or looser rock feel for your distortion. Sweetwater knows that great-sounding guitar tone is important to you, and we're confident that the Bogner Burnley distortion can do the job!
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Highest Rated Reviews
pure tone magic
I recently purchased this from Sweetwater as a demo. Don't know why the person who demoed it did not like it. I was able to test this pedal at Sweetwater while I happened to be in the Fort Wayne area. Sounded great through the Marshall I tested it on. This pedal just sounds plain amazing through my amp. The pedal sounds fantastic and I have tried 6 different guitars through it and they all sound amazing. EQ has a very nice range as does gain. This is being ran through the clean channel of a Soldano SLO100 with KT66's every note and chord come the with great clarity. This has become my favorite Dist. pedal, I also own a JHS AT, OCD and MOJOMOJO they all sound excellent but the burnley just seems to sound more polished. Also this pedal sounds well being pushed by MOJOMOJO.
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The neve transformer texture creates a very full, saturated distortion that is harmonically thick, musical, and exactly what you'd want in a lead pedal.
This thing records perfectly.
Has Some Magic
Very versatile and responsive and covers a wider range of OD to distortion. To my ear it has a punchy aggressive tone (when cranked) but is smooth, harmonically rich, and fat sounding over a wide range. Works very well with volume knob on guitar. I was previously using two good pedals that were the current reigning champions that had kicked all other pedals off my board. One was a mid-level drive OD and the other was a very high gain distortion pedal. This Bogner can do the job of both for me and convincingly, and better. It is now kicking those two pedals off the board because I can get my two tones just with the guitar volume knob now.
I think the transformer makes a huge difference in the tone and feel of the pedal, the tone is full and rich and has a lot of body. Some say the pedal is dark sounding but I don't think that it is and the tone knob is very responsive anyhow if you like it really bright. I am finding single notes in the high register are fatter sounding, not tinny or ice picky.
I also ran this into one of the new SD powerstage solid state pedal board amps and this pedal also worked very well into a solid state power section, so whatever this pedal is doing it seems to work well with whatever you put it into. That solid state amp by itself was pretty good as far as solid state amps go, but with this pedal it becomes very convincing in tone and feel.
Overall, very pleased and it is replacing some very nice other pedals.
Burnley
I've bought and sold more distortion pedals than I can remember, including the Bogner red pedal. As we all know, the pedals very rarely sound as good through our own gear. Most sound tinny or too bassy. Some sound great, but when you compared it to your real amp, it sounded a bit sterile. Not so with this Burnley. Very addictive to play with lots of real tube character and response. I'm running it through the clean channel of my pedal loving Carvin X100B with a built in EQ which helps. The Burnley in low gain also excels with another boost pedal in front, allowing quite a spectrum of gain dynamics. It does sound better with the bright switch on my amp engaged. I have the Atma head on order, and thought this pedal would probably be just a side bar demo and return, but at this point, I believe it may be the best distortion pedal I've owned, and actually sounds better than 2 of my other amps! This pedal is not for you metal guys, but for the rest of you that love great dynamic complex harmonics and 70's or 80's hard rock, you'll love it. Would have rated it a 5, but mine had (2) stripped back plate screws, which really surprised me. Must have been a first run thing. Of course Sweetwater is replacing it free, they are the best. This pedal is a definite keeper.
The darkness falls...
Pros:
- Rich, full and smooth drive.
- Plenty of volume on tap.
- Useful fat/tight switch.
- Very dynamically responsive.
Cons:
- DARK with my guitar/setup (I've heard this complaint from several other reviewers as well; I have the tone knob cranked and my guitar is inherently bright but the pedal still kills a bit too much high end).
Overall, I seriously wanted to like this pedal more (Pete Thorn's demo makes it sound absolutely killer), but it just doesn't work that well for me. Your mileage may vary.
