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ENGL is a German company that makes high end tube amplifiers for electric guitars. Over the years ENGL succeeded in getting a global player role in this market. Nowadays, the company competes with the leading edge like Marshall and Mesa Boogie.

Noted users are Ritchie Blackmore (of Deep Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore's Night), Scorpions, Phil Campbell (of Motörhead), Steve Morse (of Deep Purple, Dixie Dregs and others), Victor Smolski (guitarist of Rage), Both Necrophagist guitarists, HammerFall, Nocturnal Rites, Dimmu Borgir, Paul Landers (of Rammstein) and Opeth (on earlier records)

1 Current Amplifier Models
2 External links

[edit] Current Amplifier Models

[edit] Blackmore

The full name of the Blackmore is the Ritchie Blackmore Signature E650. The design is based on the Engl Savage 120 with modified voicing to suit the style of former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.
The amplifier head features 4 channels: clean, crunch, lead and heavy lead. There is a shared passive 3 band equalizer, mid contour switch, bright switch and 2 master volume controls.
There is one effects loop post preamp with a control for adjusting between serial and parallel operation.
The power amp section is a 100 watt class A/B design featuring one ECC 83 and four 5881 tubes. The preamp section features a further three ECC 83 tubes.

[edit] Classic

There are 3 models in the Classic range.
Classic Head E 355 C
Classic Combo 2 x 10" E 350 C
Classic Combo 2 x 12" E 358 C

[edit] Fireball

The Fireball E 625 is a 2 channel guitar amplifier head. The design takes a no frills approach with less control options compared to similar products in the Engl range. Its lead and clean channels share a gain control and 3-band equalizer, which can make optimizing the sound of each channel at the same difficult. It is favored by some, however, for its simplicity and ease of use, while retaining the tone that ENGL is known for.

[edit] Invader

The Invader 150 E 640 is the newest product from Engl.
The design features 4 channels, each capable of producing a wide range of tones, differing from traditional designs of having dedicated clean and lead channels.
The power amp design is 150 watts produced by six EL34 tubes with a depth and presence control.
The preamp features separate gain and volume controls for each of the 4 channels, each featuring a dedicated 3 band passive eq, powered by four ECC 83 tubes.
The amp also features 2 parallel effects loops and a noise gate.

[edit] Powerball

The Powerball(E 645) is a 100 watts amp with four channels (Clean/Crunch/Lo-Lead/Hi-lead) These are divided into 2 main channels(channel 1-clean/crunch, channel 2-Lo-Lead/Hi-Lead), each with its own gain control and 3 band e.q (4 band in the case of channel one as it has independent treble controls for the clean and crunch modes) the 4 channels all have their own master volume, added to 2 master volumes (switchable only by footswitch) and the bottom and bright controls (adding bass or treble boosts respectively) for clean/crunch channels and independent bottom controls for the Lo-Lead and Hi-Lead channels. Poweramp presence and depth controls are also included, tailoring the poweramps high and low frequency response respectively. Furthermore, there is the option to switch between open mode, less pronouned mids giving a more vintage sound, and focused mode, a much tighter, more mid-rich sound - noticeably more modern sounding, that affect all channels (independent mid contols for these 2 modes are given on channel 2 - Lo-Lead/Hi-Lead).

It is equipped with 4 6L6 tubes and 4 ECC83 tubes.

[edit] Savage 120

Another seminal ENGL Amplifier head, and the basis for the Ritchie Blackmore signature amplifier. It is much more versitile than its succesor the Blackmore, with much greater control over the 4 channels as they are divided into 2 main channels(channel 1-clean/crunch 1, channel 2-crunch 2/lead) each with eq controls, a common ENGL theme, also present on the Powerball and SE models. The 2 main channels each have their own gain control, as well as a further control for the crunch 1 and lead channels, to add extra gain and shape the tone further. There is also a further boost on the lead channel available. There are 2 switchable master volumes and 2 switchable presence controls. There is also a HiBalance control, tailoring the high frequency response even further in relation to the control on the relevant treble setting. powered by: preamp: v1-ECC83/7025 F.Q, v2/v3/v4-ECC83/12AX7 selected, v5/v6-ECC83/12AX7 standard poweramp: v7/v8-KT88 Matched pair

[edit] Screamer

[edit] Sovereign

[edit] Special Edition

[edit] Thunder

The ENGL Thunder 50 is a 50 watt all tube amplifier available in head or 1x12" speaker open back combo form. HEAD: Its a 3 channel amplifier (clean/crunch/lead) but all channels share gain and e.q. controls and only crunch and lead channels have volume controls, clean is effectively always at maximum and can only be controlled relative to the crunch and lead channels via the master volume. Front panels controls are: Gain knob, crunch/lead selector button, bass knob, middle knob,treble knob/crunch volume knob, lead volume knob, clean/crunch selector button, master volume. Channel switching is done via the 2 selector buttons, the clean/lead controls the basic channel switching: from clean in the out position-LED is not lit-to crunch or lead in the in position-LED is lit-(crunch if the crunch/lead selector is out-LED is not lit- and lead if the crunch/lead selector is in-LED is lit). COMBO: The combo is available in 2 models, the 'drive' model-also known as the 'Sean Moffat' model, specifications as above, and the reverb version which sacrifices the crunch volume control for a spring reverb control, all other specs are identical. The combos use 1 12" Celestion Vintage 30 speaker. Footswitching can be done via a 2-way button footswitch (Engl make the Z-3 and Z-4 footswitches, the Z-3 being constructed of plastic and the more expensive Z-4 using a metal casing and also using status LEDs for both footswitch functions) the 2 footbuttons each correspond to a selector switch on the amp faceplate.