V5 Infinium : Very nice practice tube amp

9 years ago

Very well built, solid feel to it. The speaker sounds huge even though its only 8". Lots of clean headroom on this amp which sounds awesome. The Gain can sound a bit muffled but I use only the clean sound and then rub OD into it for rumble.

Did I say this amp looks very fancy indeed. Even my wife loves it and she is not into music.

The Tone knob is uselfull. Would be great to have an FX Loop because I have difficulties to make my Mooer Reecho delay sound good.

The power attenuator is working fine but I can achieve bedroom level on the 5Watt easily if playing clean /which I always do anyway). The attenuator is useful for those cranking up the Gain knob.

Single coil/P90 pups seems to sound much better than humbuckers on this amp to my ears.

The sound of this amp is very warm and creamy I simply enjoy playing with it. Yet to record with Bugera V5 and once I do I will update this review.

If you are on a budget like me and want a home/recording tube amp this one is a no brainer.

EDIT; I have swapped the Turbosound Blue speaker with the Jensen C8R after reading many being happy wwith this mod. I tried it and I diidnt like that sound at all. Too hard sounding (too rigid) so I've put back in the stock speaker which sounds MUCH better. Sure this amp's tone knob would benefit from more treble but that can be remedied with an EQ pedal. Fantastic amp!

Image Bugera V5 Infinium

Technical Data

  • Manufactured by Bugera
  • Released in 2014
  • Average price : $284
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