This is my full and thorough look at the Bogner Ecstasy Mini Amp Head!

After getting a very quick preview of this amp at 42 Gear Street Three in summer of 2021, I was itching to get a proper look at it with my guitars and recording rig, and here are the results.

Get the Bogner Ecstasy Mini Amp Head here: [ Ссылка ]

For those unfamiliar with the concept, the Ecstasy Mini is part of Boutique Amps Distribution’s Mini Amp range, where they take classic tube amp heads and shrink them down into tiny packages with correspondingly tiny price tags.

The Ecstasy Mini is their take on the full-sized iconic Ecstasy amp. This petite version costs around €299 (or around $300 in North America), and it’s solid state – rather than tube – with a 30-watt Class D power amp. Despite one having one channel, the Ecstasy Mini promises plenty of versatility, and alongside the three-band EQ and Volume, Presence and Gain controls, you also have Variac (which boosts the gain and lowers the volume a bit – it’s an Eddie Van Halen thing!), Gain, Mid Frequency and Pre-EQ switches to further tweak the tones to your liking.

In this video, I try and get as many different tones out of the Ecstasy Mini as I can using my Fender Telecaster (for single coil tones) and my humbucker-equipped Epiphone Les Paul. Don’t expect any proper cleans (although I do try!) but I also cover classic rock, indie, alt rock, punk, progressive rock, and some metal too, and at the end I also do a nice loop with each guitar where we tweak the Ecstasy Mini’s controls to see what extremes it’ll get to!


Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:18 Introduction to the Bogner Ecstasy Mini
01:25 Specs and features
02:35 Today’s rig and recording setup

Classic rock sounds
02:59 Reference tone – all knobs at 12 o’clock
03:14 Classic rock rhythm tone
03:49 Groovy classic rock riff
04:15 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
04:48 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff

Indie rock sounds
05:11 Indie rock rhythm tone
05:40 Indie octave chords
06:08 Edgy indie rock chords
06:36 Upbeat indie rock barre chords
07:02 Indie rock octave riff
07:27 Southern rock picked arpeggios
07:49 Clean tone test: droning open indie pop chords

Heavier overdrive sounds
08:16 Classic hard rock riff
08:52 Glam rock riff
09:20 Airbourne inspired hard rock riff
10:05 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
10:41 Alternative rock riff
11:06 Pop punk riff w/palm muting
11:33 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
12:02 Pop punk melodic lead sound
12:18 Less Than Jake inspired punk riff

High gain sounds (all in Drop D tuning)
12:41 Progressive rock riff
13:14 Modern hard rock palm muted riff
13:39 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff
14:11 Metal chugging riff
14:45 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
15:10 Hardcore punk riff
15:26 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff
15:39 Lead sounds
16:04 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff


16:41 Fender Telecaster hard rock loop with amp tweaking
19:00 Epiphone Les Paul chugging loop with amp tweaking

21:19 My thoughts on the Ecstasy Mini
22:10 What I like: looks
22:49 What I like: tones and versatility
24:30 What I don’t like: no clean sounds
25:05 What I don’t like: lack of connectivity
26:01 It can be complex to dial tones in
26:54 What I don’t like: the power supply
27:10 I would love a footswitch option on this amp
27:44 Final conclusions on the Ecstasy Mini
28:36 Your feedback wanted and goodbye


My setup was as follows: I ran the Ecstasy Mini into the ENGL Cabloader pedal (which I used as a DI and a cabinet simulator). This went into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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ENGL Cabloader: [ Ссылка ]
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!): [ Ссылка ]
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Enjoy!


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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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