Bugera G5 Infinium Reviews

Do not Buy

I would type a better review if I ever receive a working unit or a refund so this will have to do. Right out of the box, this unit did not last even a few minutes. This unit had a defective reverb channel as well, it wouldn’t turn off even when you moved the knob. When the reverb was on, it would make a terrible repeating popping noise. Upon warming up the unit, the change tube light would go and no sound could be made when linked with a guitar. After changing the tubes, it would still be defective with the same problems. This all happened within warranty right out of the box. Don’t buy these, I thought they would be good upon previous reviews.

Great value for money!

1) The components are not of the highest quality. For example - the Treble/Mid/Bass pots all require a bit different force to move them. Not a big deal, but leaves an impression of a budget product, which this is. 2) To my ears, the tone is useable only if the morph pot is all the way in the "USA" section. 3) Clean tone is good enough, I have absolutely no complaints here. 4) The tone changes quite a bit depending on the amount of gain you have. Which is to be expected. Small amount of gain produces a very thin tone in my opinion. But I am sure it can be compensated by playing with the EQ a bit. Tone gets much better with full gain, but then you get...too much gain :) I have managed to find a tone I fully enjoy with the gain on 3/4 of the way and by tweaking the EQ section. 5) Reverb is digital, but sounds good. Having the ability to switch it on/off with a standard footswitch is an amazing feature. CONCLUSION: If you want a metal amp with lots of features for a small amount of money - I fully recommend this product. Even without an overdrive pedal, it produces a great sounding (but not very tight) distorted sound. And for 5 watts it is VERY loud :)

Excellent Practice, maybe small party amp -incredibly warm tone to Overdrive

This amp head is excellent for the price and solid quality. I played bands in college, a few of my friends broke and are world famous musicians. I am still at that intermediate advance stage, small gigs with buddy,s (Bugera V22). I wanted a practice amp that is loud enough for practice, but retains the exact 5 Watt sound at 1 and .01 watt. You can practice, write and really dig in at 1 watt and be able to hear what a 22watt amp head will sound like, and don’t get that “too loud” knock on the practice, sound studio door.

If you are looking for a tube practice amp, that can get loud, but emulate loud at 0.1 watts, this is the amp for you, great support too!

Useful but limited

I have one of these for home use and can't particularly fault it. It serves a purpose and is good for the price.

It definitely isn't the best sounding amp I've heard on it's own but takes pedals well and allows for quiet play.

You can take a DI out off the emulated cab on the back too for recording, which works in standby so you can do a little post-processing in your DAW to tidy it and play it over your monitors instead.

I would recommend doubling your budget and getting something better again but if you need a quick amp for home play and have a spare 8 ohm cab, this is fine.

Cheap but good

It has a beautiful sound over my expectation. The quality of the material is good

Perfect To start with in the Tube Amps world

I did a lot of research before taking he decision to buy the Bugera. It is not a mainstream brand at the moment however the brand is making serious efforts in producing good products. I Paired this amp head with a Jenson 10" speaker and I have to say the sound is great. On Clean channel it is very crisp and sustains well. On Drive it produces the distortion one would expect, nothing fancy but the classic distortion which you hear everywhere. I use the Reverb a lot as well which is subtle yet useful. I have been using it for 6 months now everyday and for the money it is more than worth it. it is also very well finished in terms of esthetics.

So far the only improvement I would like to have is to save the preference to switch on on Drive channel straightaway as opposed to have to enable it every time you turn on. however the pedal for reverb and gain is handy. I suggest one also buys the cover for it as it looks stylish and found it useful to protect from dust.

For the money I don't think you can get anything in the same quality level.

excellent sound from this head amp

I use this head amp to drive a preamp\power amp combo to 2 regular PA speakers. The power output from this head amp is really impressive. Selecting the biggest cabinet output on the back will really give you a lot of volume. I use a separate pedal for distortion, the included overdrive effect is not that 'metal' for me. So I set this headamp to 'clean'. The actual sound signature is very appealing, it is rather warm and full of low end bass, a sound I really enjoy. I know the tube sound because I use tubes for my hifi setup also. For me metal guitars sound best with a tube sound. The headphones output is great. The overall sound of this headamp is clean, powerful and addictive.

This is my very first guitar amp head, and I can say that it was worth the investment. You have a very nice clean warm tone, and with a bit of reverb you can quite reach a 'real', studio sound (I paired this with the Buger 112TS) . The drive channel is also nice and you can go from blues, crunch tones up to quite metal sounds. Recently I've been using it with several effects in the fx chain, and with a simple distortion pedal you can even reach quite djent-ish tones (I was also interested in getting such type of tones).

Pros:

-nice tones on both channels

-stand-by switch

-the 3 power switch which allows you to let your cool neighbors to sleep and the less cool to party all night long

-footswitch included

Cons:

-maybe the reverb sound a bit odd (to me) if you turn it above 12 o'clock, but is totally usable (you usually don't need that much)

Tube amp for the price of a pedal.

First time Bugera buyer. Didn't expect much of it, bought it with a voucher I still had laying around.

This lunchbox amp sounds better than a lot of transistor/modeling amps even in much higher price ranges IF you connect it with a descent pair of 12" speakers (V30, G12T75, greenbacks,.. ). At the American side of the morph knob, it almost sounded as if playing through a (small) 6505.

Cons: Not enough treble/presence to play more extreme forms of metal. Treble pot is really affects only the high mid frequencies and therefor it lacks presence, even with e.g. a TS9 in front of it.

Pro's: Features: a lot! For this price, to practice, or make some killer tones in your home recording studio, go for it.

Very good budjet tube amp.

This amp is great starter/bedroom practice amp for cheap price. The amp has a great sound for this price point and really exceeded my expectations.

Pros:

- Great sound for the price

- Compact

- Fx loop and EQ

Cons:

- Doesn't sound the best using high volume, but it is to be expected for this price point and size.

- Whilst having alot of customization (EQ etc.) it feels like it lacks a bit.

Honestly It's definetly worth for bedroom/practice use. The sounds are good enough that I don't need to upgrade in a long while.

Great amp for the price

Cheap, looks and sounds good. Perfect for bedroom/practice use or recording. Seems pretty well built and solid so far. Has good controls and gain, and sounds good at default (12'o clock) settings. The cabinet simulated output also sounds good for recording/ headphone practice.

Combine with pedals to make it a beast

Combined with some pedals and a 4x12 cab this amp really sounds like a beast.

I play Pantera; Carcass; Metallica; Steel Panther; Megadeth; Lamb of God and more through this amp. This amp combined with some overdrive; distortion; noisegate pedals this amp really will deliver what you need even at 0.1W and 1W this is loud enough for a bedroom. The 1W delivers the punch while the volume is not yet too high. 0.1W gives you a very nice volume to practice late while maintaining most of its heavy riffing or soloing character.

Pros:

-This price is insanely low for this piece of equipment

-A good basis for use of pedals (for example the harley benton Ultimate Drive to obtain a great metal sound while keeping it budget)

-A sturdy footswitch

-Feels well built for the price

Cons:

-Really needs pedals to come alive

Decent amp for overdrive, not for cleans

Overall amp sounds good with one major flaw (at least for me) - it lacks decent low end. So for overdrive it is very good, for strumming it is quite good too but it does poor job for more melodic music because low E string sounds very tight and lacks extension to the bass, so not so good for clean tones.

Bass knob has no effect from the middle position and it looks like that hardware just cuts low end intentionally - you cant add more bass with pedals too, if you pass music to line in it is filtered too - low end just erased. Headphones emulated output produces the same sound - without decent low end.

Pros

* decent build quality

* nice tremble and middle tones

* nice overdrive sound

Cons

* thin clean tone because very weak low end

Overall, it would be ideal amp, for home, if only it had more punch in low end. For me it is deal breaker because most of the time I use clean tones.

Good practice valve amp

Relatively limited, in sound shaping. Works extremely well with acoustic and semi acoustic guitars. Lack of finesse in the overall sound.

Incredible sound for a discount price

What can I say which hasn't already been said?

From the moment I first plugged into this amp I've been blown away with the quality of sound and value for money. Bugera is definitely doing something right!

It's hard to get a good idea of what this is capable of through youtube videos etc and I was really pleasantly surprised when I started using it. I was also worried about how much gain the amp would have but it's more than enough for rocking out some trash hits or heavier.

Tons of features - Sound on a budget

This little amp surprise me:

- It's Budget friendly

- It's well build. Most than expected. Specially at this price

- It's has two separate channels

- The include footswitch is very well made

- It has an FX Loop

- It's use 8 Ohms cab

- It's an real valve amp

- It has an inbuilt power soak

- It has an line in jack

- It's lightweight

- The only option witch is not include is the dust cover Bugera G5-PC (item number 384410) but it's cheap too

For the sound:

- The clean tone are pretty basic. It's not bad but I actually prefer Fender sound. Just personal preference

- The overdrice chanel is good.

In conclusion:

- It's actually a good surprise for an valve amp on a budget

- The sound of cannot reach the famous brand valve amp... but those one are way more expensive.

- I suppose it's where the miracle of having tons of features on a budget ends

- If you are looking for a practice / rehearsal valve amp, this could definitivly be the one

I bought this amp mostly for home practice about two years ago and i am very satisfied with my choice, Excellent clean tones, very good distorted sound. In my opinion having the opportunity to choose between us and uk overdrive tone is awesome. I will not elaborate in the features because there are many users who did that. I just wanna say that if you are interested in buying a low budget but high quality and sound amp you should certainly think of this one for sure.

p.s. I use it with a bugera 112ts and the i love the whole aesthetic they give to my room.

Great Amp

Great Amp, really good value for the money

Versatile amp with nice tone

Almost perfect amp, feature/price ratio is unbeatable.

For aggressive tones I lacks a bit of push when compared to Blackstar HT1R, but I believe it is just lacking blackstar's solid-state part, which is easily compensated with pedals.

With built-in Attenuator set to minimal 0.1Watt the sound gets muddy, but this allows to play at levels of a bedroom with other people sleeping in it! I haven't seen any other amp attenuating to 0.1Watt! With attenuator set to 1Watt the sound is much more clear.

I have no complaints about quality, but my use case is just to set it on the cabinet at home once and for all.

Clean channel is just there, nothing to be impressed with, without the 3 band eq even for the pedals use I prefer setting gain somewhere at minimum and still use overdrive channel.

One annoying thing is that when you switch it on it won't remember the channel set before and fall back to clean with reverb.

All in all, for the price you pay it's a no-brainer.

Great Valve Amp for Home Use

This is a great valve amp which I feel to be comparible with other more well known brands but certainly holds it own. It has some wonderful clean and crunch tones and with the built in reverb it can give you a wide range sounds. I bought this in conjunction with the 212TS which is equally a quality unit. For the mony I'd say its hard to beat.