I got the Hot Rod (III) and a friend of mine has the Bugera V22. We will soon be able to compare them side by side ourselves. But aside from a one on one comparison I have to say: the Bugera sounds REALLY good on stage! It also takes pedals very well.
Excelente comparação. Dois amplificadores excelentes, o canal limpo deles então, perfeitos. Gostei mais do canal sujo do Bugera mas um Fender tem seu encanto e valor. Como eu uso o canal limpo, adoraria ter essas duas jóias comigo. Parabéns pelo excelente trabalho. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I have a love for Bugera as my main amp is a Bugera Trirec Infinium. It is such an underrated monster and so versatile. In this, I think I liked the Fender just slightly more, but, throw a celestion creamback and better tubes (Sovtek or Mullards are what I prefer. I use Sovteks in my Trirec). I think the Bugera could easily hold its own with these simple changes and I would really love to hear both amps boosted with a bluesdriver.
Ive bought sold traded every fender amp u can buy. Straight up fender amps the best. However I also have Bugera V5 5 watt....NOW....This amp could be called a "Fender Blues Junior, JUNIOR!!! Same 12ax7 and El84, just in a smaller package!!! Got vol and gain, tone n reverb....here's the thing, mines all stock, And hated it for months....thought about swapping pickups, tubes, speakers....nope all it needs is TIME!!!! The speaker in the Bug takes 6 months to fully break in, then it ",opens up to a world of tone". Now after it's broken in, sure, try some better valves, cause the speaker is excellent when we'll broken in!!!
I have the Bugera V5 5 watt and a Blues junior tweed. I play them in stereo sometimes.(I also have many other amps) but these two are nice and crunchy with a decent pedal board in front when need be. The Bugera is definitely an underrated amp. I would almost say it sounds a bit like mixing a Fender blues junior and a Fender Champ together in a small package. The Bugera works better with an EQ though. As someone who owns a Princeton reverb, a Hotrod 3, Marshal DSL, fender Champ and a blues junior.... the Bugera is a great amp, portable, loud, amazing mids and dark enough to give you some raunchiness when required plus comes at a fantastic price point. you cant go wrong with this amp if you like the sound.
Best is subjective. The Fender is a better quality amp hands down. In my oppinion, sounds slightly warmer. (My preference). The Bugera is hundreds of dollars cheaper, making it the clear winner for a budget minded musician that doesn't gig much.
Great Demo :)! To anyone trying to decide... I have the V22 and I've put in a set of TungSol power tubes (they come with bugera brand), mixed NOS, 5751 and JJ preamps and replaced the speaker with a broken in Eminence Swamp Thang. Sounds better but as you can hear (go back and listen 1:02 then 5:52) the bugera is more 2 dimensional, very clean and the fender is lots more musically complex and has a rich depth. My strat style guitar does sound good on the v22 clean but my tele is pretty harsh. Another thing to note is with the shared EQ switching to the dirt channel, when it doesn't have high gain will result in a lot of bass loss. It is a great little amp for the price tho and does take pedals well! In hindsight i would've saved a couple hundred more and bought a 2nd hand hot rod. I may sell it as i only play about 1 band gig a year, especially if i can dial a decent tone from my line 6 HD500. :)
@@DCWelker so sorry I only just saw this. I actually found a 2nd hand celestion alnico cream and sold the swamp thang it's amazing actually the amp is now sounding really good. Was looking also at the creamback.
Your amp - your freedom to do whatever you want with it, but I found that my Bugera V22 was lacking nothing with its original valves and Turbosound speaker after I put them back instead of Cannabis speaker and JJ valves it came with, aka "upgraded". If you want to tweak how your amp sounds - get an EQ pedal instead, it would give you tones you won't achieve with swapping your valves/speaker.
@@Phoenix_cataclysm_in_2040 Actually the Turbosound is supposed to take a while to break in but sound really good so I'm glad it worked for ya. I definitely found the cheap Chinese tubes noisy and brittle though. So I've settled on V1- jj5751 (tames fizz), V2- jj12ax7 & PI- GE NOS 12au7. Then the alnico cream. Once you try that speaker it becomes a yardstick for the rest. Unbelievable!!! Bought a 68 custom deluxe reverb ri but returned it as I preferred the bugera 🤷♂️
It's basically the cheapest all-tube 1x12 combo with 50W+. Hell, it's cheaper than just about any new 25W 1x12 tube combo. Considering that, it really doesn't sound too bad! That said, it's a Behringer - Bugera is just the label they put on their tube gear. So who knows what its reliability will be like....
My t5 has been a absolute tank. They seem to have by and large tightened up their qc I mercilessly beat my t5 with constantly cranking it all the way and it never has had a problem. Left it on for hours no issues. Overall great amp
One huge drawback for the Bugera - if something goes wrong with it after the warranty expires, then you might have an awful time finding an amp tech willing to work on it My former bandmate had a V22 that stopped working about 6 months after the warranty ended. Despite being located in a metropolitan area of 4.9 million people there were exactly ZERO amp techs willing to try to repair it. I would definitely recommend *verifying* you've got an amp tech in your area willing to work on Bugeras before purchasing one. This is a non-issue for the Fender.
Yep, absolutely. I had to fix this one - the PCB was black on black (impossible to trace voltages), had surface mount components, and had an auto-bias circuit. The auto bias failed, because it relied on the surface mount stuff which was fed by a 5v regulator that crapped out. Simple fix at that point, but diagnosing it and tracing things? Yeah nah.
It's actually not hard to fix in the sense that in that event the entire amp except for the auto biasing portion is just like any other modern amp. Through hole circuit board components. They're no different. The only thing is if something goes wrong with the power section. Cause of the auto biasing board being smd components yes that would be hard to fix and in that event it would be better to either find a board from another amp or what I would do which is just buy some terminal strips and wire it up like a standard fixed bias 6l6gc power section with a standard bias that's been around since the 60s. Sounds like he just took it to a lazy tech. I would've told your friend those were the two options and I would have been 100 percent willing to do it and I've only been working on (and designing and building amps) for a couple years now and even I know the solution to that
Bugera is a great amp.Boost settings help but you can dial in some great tones.overdrive channel kinda average but useable.I use pedals so not a big deal here.As good as the Fender and not as one person commented a budget amp for the not so gigging musician.This comes from the mouth of someone who has 5he Fender and is pissed off at the Bugeras capability.
Just a question. I mostly play jazz so cleans are most important for me. I mostly play at bedroom level. I cuurently have a VOX VT but I'm considering a switch to a real tube amp. I'm hesitationg a lot : Bugera V5 : looks great for bedroom level and maybe more. I'm not sure I need more power than that but it is a small speaker so I wonder if it is good enough Bugera V22 or V55 : more power and more features I don't need. 12 inch speaker is a nice point Hot Rod Deluxe : looks great but it has the Fender bug on volume pot and as I heard it is realy hard to get Something nice at bedroom level of this one. Sometimes I play with friends but never really loud. Can you give advise on how HRD and Bugera compare for cleans at low level ? Which would be best ? I find no local shop having Bugeras so it's hard for me to compare… Bernard
The Bugera has a master volume and a pentode/triode switch, so it was a lot easier to go quiet on it. The Fender is probably better for performing loud.
ive got the bugera v5 . its fine for low bedroom cleans, but it excels at loud overdrive. i'd go for bugera 22 so you get more clean headroom bc theres not much in the v5.
Il n’y a pas photo , la musicalité, la chaleur et les harmoniques du Fender sont faites pour votre type de jeu. Le Fender ne supporte pas la distorsion donc pas de gêne pour vous. Le Bugera est extrêmement rentable si on joue crunchy, overdrive. Dans tous les cas , préférez le v22 au v55. Musicalement
Bugera amps are the best. I love my 333 XL and I do not want to have another amp except Bugera. I'll soon get the V55, I just do not know whether as a combo or as a head.
Hi. I find my amp (Marshall origin 20) doesn't stay clean sounding when I turn the volume up loud enough for band rehearsals (drummer, bass, etc), but is more than loud enough when cranked with a bit of gain. What I really need is a clean sounding, loud amp that can be used for gigs where micing the amp is not an option. Would you say either of these amps fits the bill? Greetings from the UK.
Yeah, I'd say either amp would fit the bill for that, so whichever is cheaper or whichever you prefer would do it. On your side of the pond, maybe a Vox or a bigger Marshall would be cheaper? I love me some AC-30.
@@SlyMan420 Thanks for getting back to me. I've seen several secondhand hotrod deluxes for £350 or so, which is considerably cheaper than secondhand AC30s, so I think I'll go for the Fender. I believe they're quite a bit lighter, too. Take care, mate.
Bought myself a second hand Hot Rod Deluxe iii. Played my first gig with it on Saturday. Didn't even have to mic the thing! Loud as you like and stays nice and clean. Really pleased with it. Thanks for the advice, mate. Stay groovy.
straight away you can hear the fender is brighter ... (maybe more clarity to the ear in the highs) and a bell like chime to it that the v55 dose not have ... the v55 sounds a touch darker ... not that its a bad thing at all ...and all in all a good amp for the money :) ... i guess the fender sounds like a fender XD and the bugera sounds like one XD ....
I don't know if the settings just didn't suit the Fender but the high gain sounds were terrible. Very mushy and lacking definition. The more I see and hear fender equipment the more I honestly believe they are outclassed on so many fronts by better and cheaper gear from numerous companies. My Made in USA Strat is a different beast from my Yamaha Pacifica 610 but absolutely no better and actually not so versatile. A good player will make any gear sound good nowadays and a Fender name is sought after but not value for money nowadays.
@@SlyMan420 True yea. It does have a nice dirty channel but the shared eq is a killer. It's one or the other. What do you play through now? I've still got my V22 but just (late I know) bought a POD HD500. Just then had a play and it actually sounds pretty good.
Check out the Rivera behind my head, that's my main amp. Channel one is Marshall/Mesa territory, and channel 2 is Fender-style with switchable between Blackface and Tweed tonestacks. Non-shared tonestack!
relacion precio calidad, buguera v55, v22 no tiene competencia¡¡¡, el hot rod vale e900, el v22, e300. tengo el v22, le cambie el altavoz por un jensen c12q (e48) y el clean es un deluxe reverb¡¡¡¡¡¡
That's something I honestly never tried with it. The Fender obviously takes pedals very well. Clean channel isn't as good on the Bugera, but I imagine it'll do ok with a distortion pedal, or an overdrive on the dirt channel.
If you only use the clean channel get the deluxe its the best pedal platform. If you are a minimalist and dont like pedals or you want a loud amp to thrash get the bugera. Brittish clean tones are nothing to write home about for me
@@SlyMan420 when i said thrash i meant use and abuse lol not thrash music. But i can see how it came across that way. The bugera is 300 dollars cheaper more or less than a new deluxe and definitely gig worthy. I wish they made a fender deluxe model with no reverb or gain channel just a straight pedal platform amp.
@@DaveWalshMusic Ahh ok, re-reading it you came across perfectly, I was probably half asleep when I read it the first time. Agreed that Fender needs to release a modern Deluxe, that'd be fantastic.
If the SMD stuff was relegated to strictly the digital reverb, no problem. Sadly it's also part of the bias; that's the problem. Rest of the amp was fine iirc.
