FRAMESHIFT mastermind Henning Pauly has issued the following update:

"In my search for my new guitar sound I came across an article in a guitar magazine in which Jeff Waters (ANNIHILATOR) talks about his new signature amp from a Polish company by the name of Laboga. I checked out their website at www.labogaamps.com and found that they have amazing sounding amps. After talking to David Laboga I travelled to the nearest dealer to check out their high gain monster, 'Mr. Hector', which is what the Jeff Waters Amp is built on, and the more classic 'Alligator'. I just loved the latter and since I need a great variety of sounds for my rather wide range of music I record I chose to swim with this elegant reptile.

This amp has an amazingly flexible clean channel which gives you everything from smooth jazzy tones to very clear high attack funk notes. It even goes into sweet distortion for slightly crunchy chords if you crank up the gain.

The second channel just lets your notes sing. It doesn't offer as much high gain as many modern amps but instead a VERY defined attack that is perfect for very precise riffing and amazing for any kind of rock or blues. It has a second gain control which you can change to with a footswitch. This kinda makes it a three channel amp since you have access to another gain setting on stage. It also has a nice reverb and a serial fx-loop.

I have the TWIN version of the amp which simply means it has seperate EQ sections for each channel. Technically this doesn't really matter too much for the studio work I do since I can alsways just change the controls, but of course it is easier that way.

You will hear the Laboga Alligator Twin a lot in the near future if you listen to my music and I am really looking forward to recording more with it. It has definitely survived its first test because it is the only amp we used on the new 7 SEALS album. Both guitar players, (Goetz and Dominick) played through the Alligator and loved it. Both of them arrived here with much more expensive amps which we turned on for just a few minutes and then never again because nothing could rival the Laboga.

Take some time and check out their website, they also make combo versions of the amp and have a very flexible custom shop."