Bugera G20 Infinium Head

My desert island amp. Beats out $40,000 worth of others

Let me start by saying i own a JMP-1, marsall el-34 100/100,Mesa Boogie triaxis. Mesa 295, mesa 2/100 rectifier,fender bassman, , fender blues deluxe, soldano, bogner ubershall, deizel, vht, roland jc-120, vox ac-30… numerous celestions… 100 guitars… 50 different pickuos… blah blah blah…. You get the picture right? Ive own it for 2 years now. Its built cheaply as possible but… ive had problems with mesa,marshall… none last forever. ALL amplifiers nowdays are made with Chinese parts, no matter where or who assembled them, Chinese parts. Tubes are the exception. Sounds VERY convincing like a Marshall plexi and 800. Does mesa mark 3 sound very well although not quite as clear. Clean channel is incredible. Sounds fender bassman. Clean channel with cranked gain plus telecaster= zeppllin 1&2. Take it from a tone snob with $40,000 worth if amps thats KNOWS what these amps sound like. For what you get this amp is still a bargain for $1500-$2000. Its a no brainer. Its also class A power which the blackstar is not. Means it doesn’t need a presence control because it doesn’t have a negative feedback loop. In other words it doesn’t sound dark and is very clear. I play Metallica with gain at noon. Effects loop means you can use the 20 watt power amp for a separate preamp . I have a peace hill fx ODS and a SSS. They sound incredible with this. Amplifiers manufacturing techniques are not as labor intensive. Theres no difference in point to point soldering than a circuit board sonically. It only has three tubes so it doesn’t cost a lot to put high-quality tubes on it.. be careful though the tube sockets are soldered directly onto the circuit board. This is how they can make it much cheaper.. people think because it’s cheap and it’s made in China can’t sound good and that is not the case. As I’ve said before, all the parts for all amplifiers nowadays come from China they may be assembled by hand in America or England or Germany, but the parts are all Chinese.. if you think the amplifier sounds bad take some guitar lessons.

Les lampes avec la tranquillité d'esprit du bias automatique

Rien ne remplace la dynamique et le rendu caractéristique des lampes. Mais il faut avouer que passer par la case "technicien" à chaque changement de "tubes" est coûteux et fastidieux.

Alors le circuit infinium qui règle le bias automatiquement en permanence, c'est un vrai bonheur.

Quant à la tête en elle-même, rien à dire, très bon son clair, son saturé digne des grands noms, boucle d'effets, prise casque, entrée mp3, etc. Jusqu'à la très bonne réverbe digitale.

Les moins, il y en a peu : il manque un canal crunch et une égalisation plus fournie du canal clair.

Je cherchais un 6260 moins puissant (j'ai revendu le mien, avec ses 120 watts il était bien trop puissant), le G20 n'en est pas très loin. Rapport qualité-prix imbattable.

Great product

I use it for band rehearsals and gigs. I play rock and hard rock. More than enough power and volume with V30 speakers. Even though our drumer plays like an animal I never set master volume more than 12 o`clock.

It takes pedals really well and a multifx also.

If it gets stolen or broken I would buy it again :)

great amp great value

This amp sounds amazing.

I use the clean as a pedal platform. to adjust the sound a bit I use an EQ pedal to shape the sound, as the tone knob might not always get you there.

The distortion sounds really good! With the USA/UK knob you can get a really nice blend!

The best thing is the cab simulation, you can plug it in to and mixing table or computer, switch on standby and you get the sound for recording without the need for a cabinet. It absolutely sound amazing!

OK but a bit dull with stock Valves

Wasn't overwhelmed with this amp I'm planning to change the stock valves and see what happens. Everything works as it should though :)

Versatile

If you're looking for a versatile amp for home recording or even for a bit of gigging, you could do a lot worse for the price.

I've had this amp for a bit over a year now and I have had no desire to buy a new one (which is a big compliment to this amp), I can get a good range of tones out of the amp without the use of pedals. I play a few different genres of music and have been repeatedly surprised at what this amp is capable of if you're willing to twiddle some knobs.

The OD section of the amp has a three knob tone stack that has a lot of range, when combined with the "morph" function (which seems to me to be a mid range shift sort of thing) you can dial in Marshall-esque tones, to scooped mids modern tones, to low gain bluesy fender-y tones. The max level of gain is probably a bit lower than some metal fans might desire, but I find most amps to be borderline unusable at max gain so this is fine by me.

The clean section doesn;t run through the same EQ as the gain section, it runs through a single "tone" knob, which at first I was not thrilled about until I realised there wasn't a position on that knob that didn't sound good and having separate tone settings for each channel is desirable.

This thing is built well and looks great to my eye. The newest Bugeras seem to be free from the issues that plagued the brand in the early days, the quality on this amp is excellent.

The only issue I have is that you can only turn the reverb on and off with the foot switch and that the stock tubes are very average.

Amazing value for money

Purchased this as a backup for my Marshall TSL122 that's becoming a little unreliable.

Realising I didn't need another 100W amp for the size gigs I'm doing and not having a lot of cash to spend, I thought I'd give this a try.

For the money this sounds amazing. The cleans are clear and bright and the overdrive can handle anything from classic rock to metal (almost!)

Build quality seems very sturdy and all the controls have a premium feel to them with a good resistance on the dials. It's fairly light as well, so good for lugging to practices.

It's plenty loud enough to keep up with my rock band at practices and pub/bar gigs. Not needed the volume much past halfway yet.

I'm sure there's better sounding amps out there, but for the money this is a fantastic bargain.

Great for Heavy Gainy music

I was hoping to get a 2 channel amp with great clean and great drive tone but in this case I've got a Clean that is very cold and "immediate" sounding, lacking tube sag and warmth. The Drive channel is better but still too "immediate". Maybe this is something shreeders need but for my playing I need more warmth and note that bloom rather than just jump into my face.

All in all, Bugera G20 is built like a butique amp and the quality is just sublime. I have the V5 and V55 so I know their quality and the V series is just fantastic sounding on the Clean channel, but their drive channels are nothing special and therefore I tried this G20 but its just too cold sounding for me. For playing live this tone will do just fine but for studio recirding not so much unless such colness is desired from a tube amp! I need warmth and blooming notes from my tube amps.

ALL you need

It is amazing ,i am playing it with a fender strat and 2 x12 cabinet with calestrion speakers and has very nice sound ,you can use it at home and also for rehershals if you have a band ,you can easily play live with the volume it can brings.It takes pedals very well .

You can do everything you want with this amp .

home and studio recordings home for practice ,live performances ,With that sound and price you should buy one only with buget up to 3 times you can find something better and that it is not for sure, i think it is not worth it to spend thousands of $ when you can buy this amp for less than 300,

i am a big fan of bugera .

Warted every singel cents.

Do you want a tube amp but you dont have tousends to spend? So buy one of these. Built quality is very good, it looks awesome. Sonds very nice on 1x12 vintage HB cab. Rewerb is enough for any stile.

Switch pedal looks much better like on pictures.!!!

Because its not a high gain amp for very heavy metal or harder styles you will need an effect pedal, but for classic rock or metal its perfect. Morph knob helps you to find the perfect blend you need for your music.

Send one for Eichpy42 to make a nice rewiev please. :-)