Bogner 412ST cabinet

It's a straight 412 cab with black tolex and grill and loaded with V-30's. it has one 16ohm input. nice and simple.

When i first tried a Bogner 412, it was the best sounding cab i'd ever heard, so i really wanted to get one but had no need for one really... but then i ordered a Bogner XTC, so i also went ahead and got one of these... it's still the best sounding cab i've ever heard, and i really like it with the V-30's. i'd also like to try out some other speakers in it in the future just to see how they'd sound, but it's no rush since it sounds soo amazing with the current speakers.

it's built extremely well and is solid as a rock.

They're very helpful and nice, great customer support!

I haven't played every single cab on the planet, but i've played quite a few and Bogner cabs are the best i've played through. that's all i have to say.

Black tolex, black grill, white piping and logo.
I play metal. Some of my favorites tones are Dimebag's, Nevermore's on Dead Heart in a Dead world, and pretty much any new Testament.
It's wired to 16 ohms and has four V-30's up in it.
All the cosmetics are perfect. I was lucky enough to find a mint all black Bogner for $600. I just get lucky with cabs. Got a VHT for $475 a while back. Anyway...

I'm using a les paul classic with an emg 81 in the bridge and a '79 les paul custom with a trembucker saraceno in the bridge. They're going straight into a 5150 head. I've been using my VHT 4x12 for months now. Since the other guitarist in my band got another cab, I've been in need of a full stack. He plays a modded jcm 800 with two 1960A cabs. That shit is loud and I wasn't really keeping up. My friend's band practices with us and his half stack is right next to mine. Lately I've been plugging into his cab as well. It's a Marshall 1960 vintage. Paired with the tight bass response of my VHT, the vintage projects my tone through the opposite wall of the space. I can hear myself fine even though both cabs are on the floor. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that since the Bogner is modeled after a late sixties Marshall and it's even better quality than the vintage 1960, I can't lose. This thing will tear your ass cheeks off if you stand in front of it. Sorry, can't really come up with anything more descriptive than that.

I plan on crawling inside of it so I can go over Niagara falls in the early spring.

Never had to deal with them yet.

Kick ass. If you're lucky to get one at a good price or rich enough to buy them like they were Crate cabs, get one.

Update on cabinets.

Well after having my new Bogner 4x12 I reviewed here for a while, I decided to get another cabinet for recording purposes. Since my studio is in my basement and the air conditioning does not work down there, I bought a second Bogner 4x12. The problem is, since it is so hot in the basement in summer, we run a bunch of fans. The mics pick up the fan noise and make a wooshing noise. So I got a second Bogner 4x12 to put in another room to record with. So I play and use the original cabinet so I can hear myself and use the second cabinet to record with. HERE IS THE PROBLEM...I purchased a slant cabinet the first time, figuring it was the thing to do. Then when I went to get a second cabinet, they only had straight cabinets in stock. Since I liked the look of the slant better, I was disappointed, but figured who cares, it is a recording cabinet. The sales person told me that a straight cabinet sounds fuller and would record better anyway, since it would not have the phase cancelization problems slant cabinets create. So I bought the straight cabinet. Well I got home and hooked it up, to my disappointment, IT SOUNDS A LOT BETTER, than my slant cabinet does. The bummer is, I ordered my slant cabinetin a custom color, so I got it now for better or worse. The straight cabinet is much fuller and does not have the upper midrange dominance the slant seems to possess.

I called Shawn at Bogner and he told me that what I was hearing was NOT more bass in the straight cabinet but more midrange in the slant. He said get an EQ and cut the upper midrange around 1.5 and that would make the slant sound more like the straight. So I did, and it took some tweaking above and blow 1.5, but I got it to sound fantastic. The bummer is, I have to constantly compare what I am hearing in my reference cabinet to what the recording cabinet is really doing, since you can never get them both 100% alike.

Bogner is a great company, in fact, I justpicked up an 101B Extascy two days ago. Although I have a Diezel on order, I always wanted a 101B so when it was there, I got it too.

New, vintage 30 Celestion speakers. 13 ply plywood that is rock solid. I will use with either my 25 space rack system, or my new Diezel amp when it arrives from Germany. If you want the best amp in the world, check out the Diezels. I went looking for a VHT cabinet and a Bogner Extascy amp, wound up that the Bogner 4x12 and Diezel amp were the best soounding combination in the universe.

Like the best Marshall cabinet in the world. Solves a problem I was having with cabinet farting when playing low harmonics w/ heavy distortion settings. Still retains all the great V30 sound, jsut more and tighter bottom.

Can't say, but Bogner has a great reputation. Besides, how cah you screw up a speaker cabinet other than user error?

Shawn at Bogner was great.

Fantastic. It is amazing that for 15 years I hav never overally considered the speaker CABINET as a part of the sound you hear. I have changed amps, guitars, effects and everything else along the way. I always used Marshall cabinets, and decided on the Vintage 30's a long time ago. It never was thought that a better wood in the cabinet's construction would effect tone so much. I am going to have to try to start comparing batteries next!

the cabinet is brand new and was built just days before i picked it up.

constructionally, it's styled after a 1968 metal-handle marshall 412, and it is made of baltic birch ply with a straight front. speakers are four celestion vintage 30's.

i'm using the cabinet with a bogner ecstasy 101B head, and it's a wonderful match. i prefer the sound of straight-front 412's to that of their slant-front counterparts, anyway. the straights have more bottom end and a bigger overall tone to them, in part because half of the speakers aren't being angled up towards your face.

as i mentioned in my review of the ecstasy 101B head, i use the amp primarily for dirty tones, and the cabinet is a wonderful fit for the head. the tone and vibe of the combination is a big, rich, woody dirty tone--the top end has aggressiveness but is very sweet, and there is plenty of midrange complexity to the cabinet. there is also a very pronounced bottom end to the tone.

compared to the mesa recto 412 cabinet i had, the bogner has a more balanced tone. it's less exaggerated in the bottom, has more midrange, and has a less aggressive top end. the mesa recto cab was more scooped and more modern, whereas the bogner has the vibe of an old marshall cabinet--i had an early '70s marshall slant cabinet for years.


What guitar and pickup styles are you using it with?How does it suit your music style (and what is that style)?Is it noisy? On what settings, and in what environments?What kind of sounds can the amp make? How much variety?Is the clean channel distorted at high volumes? In what settings?How brutal is the distortion?

i play fairly loudly--the bogner head generally runs at about 10:00 to 10:30 on the master volume on the red channel--and i haven't had any problems with the cabinet rattling or woofing out. i've never had problems with any 412 cabinet in terms of reliability, and i wouldn't expect the bogner to be any different, though it's really too early to tell.

i would, however, love to hear the sound of the head with TWO of their 412's, and i might be looking for a slant version to combine with the straight cabinet i have.

as i mentioned above, sean at bogner has always been helpful when i called, and i never got the feeling that i was rushed.

i've been playing guitar 16 years and have owned a lot of gear--i've always played just about everything out there.

several others have said that bogner makes the finest cabinets around, and i'd have to agree. of course, tone is subjective, but i've heard literally a dozen 412 cabinets with vintage 30's in them, and the bogner is the most refined and most balanced of all them.