Bugera V55 55W 1x12 Tube Guitar Combo Amp 

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The 6L6 is wired right and the 70 Watt Bugera speaker kicks serious righteous butt. No need to swap crap out on this baby, it is ready out of the box. Musician's Friend bent over backwards to get it up here to Alaska in time for our gig. Not only is the amp fantastic, so is Musicians Friend. I don't want to sound like a cheesy commercial but you cannot go wrong buying this Bugera or anything from them.
You can really dial in some nice sounds, if you want to use pedal effects, this is a perfect tube amp.
The onboard reverb compares with my 63 Fender Boss pedal. It sounds awesome in both pentatode and triode mode.
This is a solid amp, very good deal, especially for the price.
This amp will put you in hours long trances with its sweet tone, I can't stop playing it. If you are in the market for a tube amp, this has got to be the best bang for the buck.

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Musicians Friend bent over backwards and went out on a limb to make sure the amp would be here in time for our gig. Considering their price match Guarantee (plus another 10% off!) I would not buy my gear from anyone else, they have proven their loyalty, superiority and concern for the musician. I am going to buy another one of these Bugera V55 amplifiers, it is just THAT good.
I would give it a 10 if it would cook me breakfast. We have had some long discussions but to no avail.
I stand in front of this amp and play, it takes me to another world. The tones you can dial out of this amp are crazy good. It is like butter, on homeade bread.
You can go spend more for less if you want, or you could just spend more period. But why!? The twin 6L6 tubes with the triode and penatode modes will drop you off wherever you want to go. From warm, clean sounds all the way to thrasher metal death rock, without pedals! The best part is, this thing takes pedals like a fat kids takes candy. It LOVES pedals. If you like to play hard rock for example, this is your taxi to Sturgis. If you like to play the blues, this amp will make you too happy and you will forget how. Seriously, this amp does everything but cook your dinner.

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I've been using this amp for nearly a year. I use no pedals but only amp. This has good clean.
In my case, I like a gain chanel. Crunch sound is very good. but If you wanna play metal, you had better think again. I think humburker pickups are good at this amp, but single pickup and gain chanel is not good combination.

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This is a great buy for $500. it has an efects loop, 2 inputs, reverb, mid-boost, 2 channels, impedance selector, pentode/triode switch, and external speaker outputs. The only down sides are that it's heavy and the overdrive channel sounds like a Boss DS-1. The clean tone is the best part. The reverb is good. I'm really missing that spring reverb pop though. other than those things it's great!!!

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i bought this amp when it first came out. and, it did have issues, but i did my research and fixed it myself. there are 2 voltage regulators on the board that were overheating. the options were to replace the regulators or put heat sinks on the regulators. i did the latter and have had no problems since. i also retubed, this amp has great sounds, but you have to know your EQ. i suspect the voltage regulator issue has been addressed and i look forward to my next bugera purchase from musiciansfriend.com.

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Well, I got this as a free upgrade from just trying to buy the head, they were out of stock, so the company bumped me up to this for free, which I thought was a nice touch. So I pulled it out of the box, got it all hooked up, thought, sweet, then I let it warm up for a while. Then got her up and going, sounded pretty good for about thirty seconds, then grit, fuzz, blown fuze. Replaced it, but no sound ever came out again. So the manufacturer, good old berinhger(spelled wrong, don't care), replaced it. New one fired up, no big deal. Played about three shows, it sat around for three months while out of town, came home, used it for a few practices, was running it the other day, kept crackling, then it died. I FAIL TO UNDERSTAND! How quality control can be so spotty on these things! My bandmate has a V22, and has never had any problems, and he's had his for almost a year, i couldn't even make it 5 months. I'm done. I'm getting refunds on all my Bugera stuff, I'm even sending back the extension cab, just to avoid seeing the name on my stuff.

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Well, After 2 tries, I've come to the conclusion that bugera needs to return to the drawing board with this amp. Don't get me wrong, It's well built and the clean channel is excelent. Problems arise when the channels start switching all by themselves. Not to mention that everytime you switch from clean to overdrive the channel never sounds the same twice. It seems the pre amp tone section has been reserved for the clean channel. As the overdrive channel ignites you can here the tone slip away very quickly. I'm all most tempted to accuse Bugera of using part of the digital reverb circuit in this regard. I've used both amps with and without serial soaks. The same responce is clear. There issomething wrong with the gain stage in the overdrive channel.Also what is with that Intensly bright revrb led on the footswitch? It should have been the other way around. red for reverb blue for channel. There is such a current difference between the two that this could be the source of the channel problems. Somewhere in there they had to have used a digital switching device. Otherwise why would the channels start changing by themselves..HHHMMM. At any rate I have returned this second amp with some relief actualy. I think I will stick with the American versions of this type. As for it being a boutique amp. I am 58 years old and been playing since age 5. profesionaly since age 13. With all the amps I have owned (and that is a lot) I don't recall any amp sounding quite as starngely as this one. except for maybe my Plush 4000-G but then again that was a 400 watt monster diamond tuck and roll master piece of stupidness. I had to use a fender deluxe reverb as a pre amp for that one and I mean straight out the speaker jacks to the input channel without a problem. Now that was a boutique amp. Too bad they never really got off the ground. Sorry Jeff Beck your brainchild flopped due to the economy back then. In retrospect: I couldn't really afford a boutique back then nor now..I had to borrow amps back then Soldano being my fav. As for the Bugera V-55: If you want what some call a boutique sound I guess this is what you can get for the low end bucks. Also the overdrive channel does not like effects, distortion peds chourus anything like that. The clean swallows these effects like water and favors them quite nicely.

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I just picked up this amp last week and am blown away! It's so tweakable! I challenge anyone to test drive this amp and not walk away with a smile. It's voiced to sound like a vintage amp so I wouldn't trust it with metal, but with some knob turning you can dial up a vast array of tonalities. I was really set on a Fender amp, but all the amps I tested were too shrill, and I thought the reverb on the Fender Blues series of amps was too flat and uninteresting. This amp has digital reverb, but I think it sounds really good! Haven't tried the footswitch so can't comment on that. It's not a plug in and go kind of amp, it does require some tweaking to get it right, but man what a tone! I'll be exploring this amp for a long long time! Couldn't be happier, I found my dream amp!

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i live in england and had been looking for a valve amp for too long, considered fender, marshall, but price was an issue, bought this on a whim and what a result, i use a fender tele and with this amp i can do all i want. i am a blues player by heart but this amp does it all for what i need, blues, jazz, rock, not heavy metal but that's not my bag, realiability wise superb i have left it at venues after gigs in cold storage in rehersal rooms and it powers up every time. BUY THIS AMP. all the stuff about changing speakers and valves is all bull, it works perfectly out the box, and with the option to connect to any cab configeration its a winner, bit on the heavy side but it can do band practice, gigs of all sizes un micked and gives sweet pure guitar tone.ip let this baby warm up for 30mins and your readt to rock. peace out and rock. G. X

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What a buy! Bought the Bugera V22 as a home/small venue, tube amp. It has exceeded my expectations. The tonal capabilities are awesome-from totally clean to crunch-and everything in between. Very solid, strong sound. No pedals needed (it's better without them). The good looks don't hurt either. The only reason I didn't give it all 5's is the that the company is "new" (well-sort of) and long term reliability is an unknown. For this kind of sound at this price, I give the benefit of the doubt. It's a good bet that we will start seeing this amp in regular use in the clubs.