Bugera amplifiers: do they sound CHEAP? - StrumentiMusicali.net

[@thulsadoomed]

I have a Bugera Trirec. Absolutely killer amp. You can get about any tone you want from it. It has two voicings for the clean channel and three for each of the two overdrive channels. It has a built in boost and power attenuator. I owned a 333xl as well. Never had any issues. Played them for years

[@Crunchifyable2]

I think the noise gate on the 333 XL is best for situations where you have noisy electrical circuits, ungrounded outlets, etc. Because it really kills the interference.

[@CalanReichel]

I owned the original back when it launched, and it was basically only useful for that. It is super nice for just cleaning up when you arent playing, but it isnt a tight gate, for sure!

[@Nightwinflyer]

I own the 1960 Infinium. Rock solid and great tones. Very quiet circuit wise. Very LOUD through a cab!

[@mayanmoon4616]

Hey just wanted to say your videos are awesome and quality is amazing! Cheers from USA.

[@TheGuitalian]

Hey thanks a lot, deeply appreciated!

[@richmeier]

I have a 333xl with Mesa boogie tubes. I love it

[@jmmore8238]

Hey Justin can you upload a vid with more info on that tube swap?

[@jSonTX]

Bought my 6262 when they first came out in 2k. Upgraded the tubes after a year and haven't changed a thing since. Suggest the Marshall 1960 angled cab or Mesa straight cab for live settings. Highly suggest for the price!

[@patrickhale424]

I've played Bugera amps and cabs. They're very competitive as far as price and build quality. As with any amp you have to find one that works for your particular situation. I think these guys will be around for many years to come barring any unforeseen catastrophe. This company is making it affordable for the average guitarist. Guitar players today don't realize how much easier it is to get good quality gear for relatively little money 🤑🤑💰💰

[@jgmopar]

I have the 1960 infinium and the trirec infinium. I like them. the 1960 is so darn loud though it doesnt get much use

[@tgchan]

They look amazing as well. Really good looking amps/ They know that people want to look at valves inside and they do not put a chunk of wood/metal/plastic over it so we can enjoy those glowing bastards. I really like my 6262 Infinium. I can play at night without any attenuator with 4x12 and no master volume!! I can barely reach 1/10 and it's +-85db so I have never heard it roaring yet but I bet it sounds even more amazing/ The only bad thing I can say about Bugera is that they footswitches are not available anywhere... and they have weird midi connector so you cannot find any substitutes for them... unfortunately. They are dead silent when switching channels though. Amazing for live playing. My Marshall DSL1 pops every single time you switch a channel... add some delay and you have c0cked up performance because some muppet have not designed it properly... I wish I could still buy TRIREC though :( they're not available anymore/

[@6dbthreshold]

Excellent videos and playing. Nice job! Keep it up -

[@TheGuitalian]

thanks! really appreciated

[@ragingskeptic9753]

I had a Bugera 333XL Infinium. It was loud af, but I never could get quite enough gain out of it for metal.

[@powerboon2k]

I liked that intro riff a lot.

[@TheGuitalian]

Thanks!

[@daniboooooo]

Hi! Great review!! Which one would you choose if you play thinks like red hot chili peppers but also metal?

[@Manzanium]

1969 definitely

[@leonthompson8988]

I think the 333 is more versatile for a wider range of styles. I own the v55 head which I use mostly with pedals. I haven't had any problems with it. I bought it used 3 or 4 years after they came out. I wish the older ones had more depth to the reverb like the newer ones. A button next to the reverb knob to change the depth or dwell would be great

[@Archlegan]

Fun fact: Bugera=Behringer, 6262=PV5150, 333=PVJSX, 333XL=PVXXX :) They sound so good and look so cheap because it's behringer, and the circuits are almost the same as those peavey amps. Love my 333xl

[@JosephCee]

no way do bugera amps look cheap, maybe they're cheap in price but that's it. they're build quality is better than quite a few more expensive amps. i have a g20 infinium and that thing looks and feels way more expensive than it is. the value you get is insane.

[@davidmarles9409]

They don't look cheap lol

[@Archlegan]

@davidmarles9409 compared to what they're emulating, they kinda do. Coming from a guy with a tri-rec, 333xl, and 6260. I like my bugeras but they don't look like a mesa or a 5150 etc. I'm not a big fan of the stock transformers in them either.

[@davidmarles9409]

@Archlegan I have a 6505+ and a 6262....they can't copy it exactly because it's patented. The stock transformers are fine. My 6262 is an old first edition. With proper bias adjustment I have never had an issue with anything. Built mine into a head from a combo.

[@Archlegan]

@davidmarles9409 I realize that. I'm an amp tech. They are cheap Chinese transformers though. Mercury magnetics offers some good upgrades. The magic starts and ends with the transformers. Sorry that I demand good quality for my money

[@YsAbTones]

the 6262 sounds pretty nice here, what cab IR did you use ?

[@robertmazurowski5974]

Regarding the 1960 amp, if you used the PPI Master volume it just does not sound that good. The Post Phase Inverter Master Volume makes the fizziness. That is the downside of this type of Master Volume, They allow to get distortion at lower volumes with the cost of added fizzyness.

[@littlebritain64]

Straight to the point review, thanks. I have a little powerful Bugera V55 Infinium combo. They say it is hard to fix because no service circuit map is available, especially for the bias infinium circuit. Do You think I will be in troubles since I have read there are lots of smd components, in case of repairing or just a good valve experienced technician would fix it? Does Bugera offers a repair service for Tuscany, Italy? Thanks!!👏👍

[@jeffersonmuniz317]

Hey man, nice video. Thank you! What speakers are you using?

[@TheGuitalian]

Thanks! Torpedo captor with Cab M sims

[@FulcrumsEdge]

333xl is a copy of the Peavey XXX, which is also what Joe Satreani used as the basis for the JSX.

[@Evowar05]

Not quite. 333 is XXX. 333XL is JSX.

[@iridium02]

My bugera 6262 is an amazing amp....

[@mauriziobiagini2825]

Great video!

[@NahNoWay]

I'm glad I found your channel, amazing playing, amazing reviews. I feel like you can make every amp sound better than any other youtuber, why is that? What cab do you use?

[@TheGuitalian]

Thanks Bruno, really appreciated. I will upload a more detailed video about my studio gear, but in short I use a torpedo captor with the torpedo cab m. basically a reactive load and a cab simulator, so no real cab in the recording. Many others use the same system, some use different brands, but it's pretty much the same concept

[@chuckconnors615]

I am looking @ a 333 XL on my local FaceBook Marketplace @ $200 with the factory foot pedal. I don't see where I could go wrong. My question to you is ..... If it turns out I don't like this, what could I expect for this amp to sell for on an EBay format / etc??? Thank You from HOUSTON..... I love the name Guitalian as my family name 2 generations ago were Vespucci / Federicco !!

[@TheGuitalian]

Thanks Chuck, honestly the used market is kind of crazy and unpredictable these days! Cheers to another Guitalian, then! ;)

[@Islandsoundzz]

If ever you have the opportunity, please review the Bugera G5, G20 & V22

[@TheGuitalian]

I’ll keep it in mind!

[@chaseadams5037]

I'm a Randall and BC Rich guy, so I probably won't change... I had a band mate that used Bugera... One day he turned up to practise without his amp because he said his amp just started smoking then stopped working 🤷 it was only a few months old... He took out a loan and got a Mesa.... Problem solved🤤🤷

[@mynameisvisutinnadda]

Oh boy the volume

[@vox1966]

I don’t know what speakers you used for 1960 butt try greenbacks it will bring out the sound of the amp better

[@Crunchifyable2]

I have two of the three and they're both amazing amps that will literally destroy most other amps in their price range. Because basically the circuits in the amp you know the $5 parts determine the sound. And the cheap amps from big name companies are always sabotaged. They don't want you to buy a $600 amp they want you to buy a $3,000 amp, and the difference between the two is probably $5 in parts.

[@Cebollas_Verdes_Rock]

hello friend. I'm Pablo from Buenos Aires.. a question of the three, the most valve 100% real clean sound is the 6262? I was about to buy the 333 and after this video it sounded very plastic hybrid to me? for clean hard rock the 6262 will be?

[@TheGuitalian]

They are all valve amps so I guess it depends on your tastes

[@GeorgeBonez]

I know it seems to be fashionable to hack on Bugera reverb but I think it’s actually pretty good. Oh well they’re my ears. Lol

[@levijessegonzalez3629]

how's the 1960 compare to your high end Marshall style amps? Fizzy on top end maybe because of the tubes? or maybe because it has more high end dialed in?

[@TheGuitalian]

I don't really know why, it can be many different things. My Mad Cat amp sounds a bit more creamy and "soft" than a marshall 1987x anyway. The Bugera doesn't sound bad at all but I like better the other two models

[@levijessegonzalez3629]

@@TheGuitalian I noticed my burgera 1960 has a "hard" attack sound. is that similar to a real Marshall?

[@TheGuitalian]

hard to say. If you're speaking about the fast hitting character, kind of unforgiving for the player is a common thing on high wattage amps, usually lower wattage amps are more saggy. However a classic Marshall 100 watt plexi is like a Mike Tyson punch on your chest :)

[@betolicks4071]

So 333xl infinium has 2 different inputs which is what I found most interesting wonder if putting a high output guitar with pickups would sound in the low input and what kind of sounds you could do

[@lovecraftmusic8717]

Low input just gives you much less distortion despite the pickups.

[@Archlegan]

So I have the 333XL and I have active pickups. I ran the low input just to try it and it sounds "almost" the same at lower volume. At high volume, it's trying to distort and overdrive less. On the forums I read one is attenuated and one is not and that's the function of it. Overall though no big difference in distortion or overdrive although I said it's less, it is less, but the 333xl wants to distort and overdrive anyways unless you're on the clean channel.

[@Crunchifyable2]

@@Archlegan it is attenuated a bit so you get less drive out of the various channels but it also is a little darker at least with passive pickups. High input generally sounds best unless you are accidentally driving a clean channel or you are trying to get you know edge of break up tone out of one of the dirty channels.

[@DCWelker]

Love my Trirec Infinium

[@TheGuitalian]

I’d like to try that one too

[@mvyper]

Too bad they don't make them anymore...

[@TheGuitalian]

Yep, too bad

[@Indobiker61]

I never played on a Bugera so i don't know how they respond. But if you could have only Bugera amp wich one would you choose? In my opinion they all sound sweet...

[@TheGuitalian]

Uhm, I'm torn between the 6262 and the 333xl. Maybe the 6262 in studio and the 333xl for live applications

[@richmeier]

I have the 333xl for the past 15 years. Wanted it to be a temporary amp head so I could save up for a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier. I fell in love with the amp and no price would sell it as it has done me for many gigs: never had to drop the money on a Mesa boogie

[@Philipmichaelmusic915]

Hello mate I’ve ordered the 339 es epiphone do you think the Bugera b22 or 60 would sound better or the katana mk2 100 ?

[@TheGuitalian]

I’d always go for tube amps, but I heard great things about katana, with effects etc. I think it’s not a fair comparison since they two different categories of products

[@Philipmichaelmusic915]

@@TheGuitalian okay fair enough if you were to chooose ? Lol

[@TheGuitalian]

I already have a lot of effects so I’d go for the valve amp

[@Philipmichaelmusic915]

@@TheGuitalian cool man thanks

[@wahivalleys3011]

What? Do they sound "cheap"? Since tone/sound/opinion is in the ear, how can this question exist? I've had a Bugera 333XL combo since they first came out, and it sounds killer. Sure, that's my opinion, but "cheap-sounding" is NOT a word I'd use to describe it. It's not an 80s Gorilla, but then again, to some people, Gorillas sound great! Now that I think aobut it, maybe that EVH guitar might sound cheap, but I don't think so. Wahi' Valleys

[@nomadronin7361]

How well does the 6262 do low volume? Like at home at night low volume? I know the Peavey 6505 can do it, just wondering if this one can as well.

[@WardenOfTerra]

Low volume? Why are you wanting a tube amp to play at low volume? You buy a tube amp to crank it. That's the entire point of the tech inside it.

[@ontologicaldiarrhea6582]

@@WardenOfTerra you don't want to crank power section on the metal hi-gain amps like 6262, it sounds worse when cranked

[@ontologicaldiarrhea6582]

@@WardenOfTerra you can't play it on really low volume either of course, it sounds muffled, but volume 0,8/10 is enough

[@kmfdm5]

its a tube amp, so likely not well. you need a solid state for low volume practice, that or an attenuator, but looking for a decent attenuator for a tube amp can be a challenge, because they often kill a lot of your eq spectrum. The bugera power soak is a decent one for under a hundred bucks, but ive heard mixed reviews on it

[@kmfdm5]

however if you're looking for decent cheap solid states to practice with, cant go wrong with a line 6 spyder series amp, the boss katana, any solid state joyo amp, or the peavey vypr. there's many more, but i'd say just look around. randall make some pretty decent solid states as well

[@lovecraftmusic8717]

È la prima volta che sento dei suoni credibili da dei cab sim, infatti pensavo avessi microfonato realmente una cassa ad hoc, invece poi scorso che era il Torpedo cab M (leggendo la descrizione). A tal proposito volevo chiederti se ricordi che simulazione di speaker avevi usato qui.

[@TheGuitalian]

Non ricordo esattamente, più o meno girano sempre le solite 3 o 4, la maggior parte con Greenback e recentemente una coi v30. Comunque c’era anche la versione in italiano di questo video sul mio altro canale ;)

[@lovecraftmusic8717]

@@TheGuitalian si, ho visto entrambi i video. Grazie comunque.

[@Turbo-D]

sound was ok but the big issue was the build quality, so much technical problems that they had to put them out of the marked

[@johnvalderrama9339]

That issue has been resolved I've had my 6262 infinium for 5 yrs only issue i had was phase inverter tube went out but pull it out put new one in and back to playing they are built solid and for the price you can't go wrong....alot of bang for the bucks

[@Turbo-D]

@@johnvalderrama9339 you had luck, many others just don`t, there are much better alternatives out there for even less 💰, cheers 🎸

[@WardenOfTerra]

A massive issue with Bugera is that they break VERY easily. Expect to do A LOT of maintenance and mind-numbing trouble shooting if you buy one of these. Believe me, I had a 6260, and a 6262 Inf, and both had something break within months of barely any use, with the 6262 Inf completely breaking down.

[@TheGuitalian]

I heard many different stories about it, with some people having a lot of troubles and other ma having 0 issues. They are probably not that consistent in terms of reliability

[@FulcrumsEdge]

Yeah no... I know that they have a reputation for "being cheap' and breaking or needing repair. I know that stories STILL abound of these things "catching fire". I've owned the 1990 infinium, the 6262 infinium, the 6260, the 333 combo and a G-20. I've not had a single issue other than I blew a fuse at a venue due to dirty power from the mains, funnily enough the amp was well built enough to survive the power surge, replaced fuse, and works like a champ still after 2 years later. They are about as bullet proof as they can be for around 500 dollars. The only major issue the Bugera line has ever had were manufacturing teething issues when they were first released due to contracted factories undercutting qc parameters and installing faulty tubes and poorly built transformers, resulting in very few isolated events where an amps power section would cook itself, however, based on the information I know of these teething issues were being addressed before the news of these issues ever caught traction with the public. This reputation is overwhelmingly unfair, especially considering the commonly known issues known with amp brands over the years from brands that have a lot "better" reputation, *cough* Ampeg, Marshall, etcetc *cough*. These commonly stated "reliability issues" are based on very few isolated events in the early inception of the bugera tube amps, in combination with being part of the Musictribe family under Behringer. Unless you've owned a single bugera amp and had unending issues with it, I'd be wise and avoid conversations that are founded in opinion and fed by gossip of the holier than thou's....

[@NARSteve]

@@FulcrumsEdge i have a V22 infinium head I bought used 3 years ago, and have not had any problems at all.

[@maxmustardman298]

a lot of the early models, even the new infinium editions, had issues from what Ive heard, and as was mentioned above, but Ive heard none of that about models that came out in the mid teens, at least in the German forums I roam around. Still I haven't head from people who seriously abused them "on the road" so to speak, that I wonder who actually did just that. Cant blame them bc the 1960, for instance, is such a pain to lug around, you wont believe it. SO the lack of actual critical reviews from people who played those things in all kinds of venues, in comparison to an actual 1959, is what makes it hard to gauge the quality of the amp in the long run, other than its price.

[@FulcrumsEdge]

@@maxmustardman298 all amp manufacturers have issues with reliability in tube amp production, it's the nature of the technology... Marshall, as an example, forever tarnished the reputation of the now proven and reliable as well as awesome sounding DSL100H & HR after the UK built JCM2000s were bonefied hunks of junk. Its easy to discard Bugera as comparable in reliability to higher priced amps, which they have managed to do a pretty good job at, regardless of peoples preconceived opinions about amps they've never set eyes on outside of KZbin. Like I said, I've owned quite a few of them, never had an issue, save one time, and it was not a manufacturing issue, a blown fuse on my 1990 Infinium, it suffered no other damage aside from needing a replacement fuse.

[@jessebreakspear6656]

the Infinium technology seems like a cool idea or is it just more crap that can go wrong? I wonder if its like computer controlled? or is it a trusty analog thing that will last for decades? don't know I guess time will tell. they sound fantastic though so they did do a great job cloning the original amps.

[@antoniocoss7940]

One thing that he doesn't emphasise enough about the Bugera 1960 is that the amp it's LOOOOOUUUUD, a very loud boi, even if you put the master volume on the back at it's lowest value, it is still very very loud. You won't be able to crank it up on your bedroom without letting your whole neighbourhood know that you are playing that amp, wich it's a shame because it sounds very good cranked up. I had to find out the hard way.

[@bluehole6019]

Really? That’s a shame, I was really hoping to get one when I heard about that master volume.

[@antoniocoss7940]

@@bluehole6019 I believe Orange offers a 15 Watt head (all tube), that can get you the same style of sound, i mean, if you want to use it at bedroom levels.

[@Powermad-bu4em]

Attenuators boys. Get yourself a decent attenuator. They’re worth every penny.

[@piotrkochanek2178]

I have 1960 infinium and 1990 not infinium . Both really ok but not super great. It s ok amps

[@emanuelebilli1483]

Credo che sia fallita, sono amplificatori che non vengono più prodotti oramai da anni. Non capisco perché comunque il video ha solo due anni ma sono oramai introvabili su ogni negozio mondiale. Avrà chiuso i battenti.

[@TheGuitalian]

Ci sono i link sotto al video

[@emanuelebilli1483]

Grazie! Si vede allora che non producono più la 1960