Bugera V22 Infinium Reviews

Bugera v22

Great Amp for the money. Class looking. Plenty loud and not too heavy to carry around.

Good Tube Amp

Cheap Tube Amp but not cheap at all sound wise. It has this singing ability the tubes bring for fraction of the price.

Make sure you tighten every single screw on it, and then you shall be fine ;)

Great Clean Channel but

The dirty channel on this is pretty poor. This makes a great pedal platform as it has lots of headroom. On board reverb was garbage but I used a pedal. I hear they have changed the reverb recently and that it is better but please check.

Plenty of head room and clean volume. This is eminently gigable.

This thing weighs a ton and is large. In the end I sold it and bought a smaller vox tube amp and then sold that for a Fender Deluxe solid state.

Recommend the amp to be used as a clean pedal platform, you need a cheap rig and don't mind the weight.

Great for rehearsal and gigs in small venues, also great for recording live sound in the studio.

This is a very cool amplifier.

Great build quality, great sound. I doubt that you can find something more functional and of high quality for such a price.

Even at low volumes, it produces excellent sound. I was worried that it would be too loud for the house, but it is very flexible in setting.

So much sound for the buck

Love the sound and features of this amp. It meets all my demands for a sound that's warm, "alive" and easily manageable. The second channel delivers an extremely pleasant overdrive. Despite it's "only" 22W I still owe it a go at full volume. It's the perfect match for my DeArmond Hollow Body guitar. When the money is there I'll definitely buy a second for stereo effects. Just can't wait.

very nice sound, with low drive

the problem is that there is a little noise buzzing only even if the guitar wasn't plugged

Great amp with few minuses

Amp looks beatifull, even my wife liked it.

Sound is a little metal in the beggining but when it warms up sound much warmer.

Beautiful clean sound and very, very loud.

It would be perfect amp for using with pedals but i found a problem and had to return it, it does not have headphones jack.

For me headphones are a must have and I was very sad when i had to return it :(

After considering other tube amps combos for home hobby playing, I decided for this one. It has definetly not the sound od Princenton Reverb from Fender, but for 320 Eur, it is a good value.

With the external overdrive box or through the own overdrive chanel it gives the real rock experience and sound.

Playing the clear tones without any effects as in jazz music or similar, I would say, the sound is a bit doubtful. You have to work with setting to get the tone you desire.

My feeling is that the higher tones sounds, as the loudspeaker was made from old aluminium cooking pot. :-(

Of course, all regarding tones is rather about the feeling of your own ear.

The box of the amp seems to be solid, the knobs durable, footswitch made of metal as well, the diods in footswitch produce reasonable light and I am pretty happy with this amp.

If considering any kind of upgrade of this amp, the change of the Turbosound louspeaker seems to be an option.

I can reccomend this amp for those, they wish to have first tube amp experience, and save money at same time.

Cool tube amp

Great looking and sounding Amp, worth the money that you pay for it. Only con is the wieght of that thing, you really should have a strong arms to move it)

excellent build

good quality m impressive..

Good combo

Valuable product for this price range.

it is very happy

the sound is excellent, it is possible to play from blues to, metal.

Great Amp

Love the amp - I especially like the clean channel - I use the amp in a home studio environment - works perfectly - love the quality of sound. The overdrive channel is a bit muddy but that could be improved with better high end valves (tubes)

Good for the money, but not for the sound..

Used mainly in my home, playing rock music, rhythm guitar, with a squier affinity telecaster.

The problem is that the amp is very muddy with the turbosound speaker. Connected to a cabin with celestion speaker had better and more open sound.

Pros: A lot of features, decent reverb, clean sound remains "clean" even in high level (cleans dont break easily), has a master volume, great level of volume.

Cons: Muddy sound, very difficult to dial to a good tone, it does not take the pedals well, very heavy.

As i said before, the pain in this amp is the muddy sound that cause the turbosound speaker. If you change it with a better speaker, you will have an open and more tasty tone. Or you could take the bugera v22 head and a good cabin for it to have better results.

Great sounding Amp

I have bought this amp almost 5 years ago and still like it a lot!

One of the preamp tubes was a bit microphonic when it arrived, so I replaced it with a JJ (and since then ii have replaced all tubes with JJ). Contrary to the early versions of the V22 this seams very well built and have never had any problems with it. The only thing I would change on the amp is the reverb. It doesn't sound bad, but it doesn't sound great either. I never turn the reverb past 2 or 3 and than it's fine, but don't expect a Fenderish surf-reverb. And a minor detail is the master volume is pre-fx loop, meaning if you turn it down, your effects might not get a healthy signal level. At normal playing volumes this should not be a problem.

The base tone of this amp is really nice and warm, both for home use and gigging.

Not Bad

This is a good amp, however there was some issues the first time I played with. An annoying buzz almost all the time especially playing chords. Than after I found out what the problem is (just google bugera v22 infinium buzz) I realized that this a common problem with this amps so I searched for the valves wiggle them a little and it almost fix the problem because it seams that it cames with cheap valves wich I will replace later. But after that it sounds really good and the buzz just hapens in a few notes here and there. So after the inital punch I realize that, for the money it's a good amp. And with effects it sounds delicious.On the clean channel I pluged a MXR ZW Overdrive and it sounds awsome the same in the distorted channel. With a nice sounding reverb and with lots of volume one can play home, studio or stage with no problem

Great Value

I just love this Amp... It just has a great tome and is so flexible with the way you can dial in the tones you want....great with Tele's Strats and just so good with Humbucker guitars....its now my number on Amp in my collection.......Love It......

Absolute Treasure.

This amp is so extremely satisfying that i even want to have another one! Bugera really showed me that price and quality aren't often the same. I use the amp for everything from rock to funk to jazz to metal, and it handles everything really well. I really can't think of any cons, because the amp itself, is one big pro.

Versatile and affordable

I dont think you can fully appreciate this amp without putting some decent preamp tubes in,for the stock ones make it noisy and the gain channel sharp and introduces abnormal levels of treble.

Its loud enough for gigs and it can do house noise levels too.

Great cleans, takes pedals very well, no issues with the loop, the gain channel has a vintage character (a lot of compression) that some people may not like

(personally I like it with a boost) but you can always use pedals, good speaker,

Pentode-triode mode and the two imputs allow you to get more sounds but I dont use them that much,

The reverb is pretty decent for a natural sound around 4,

and finally a mid boost for some Marshall like sounds.

Add to that its low cost in contrast with what it offers and its worth the investment.

But in the other hand I do get a rattle sometimes,many people complain about the gain channel being unusable which I dont agree with and its vintage character which limits the sounds you can get out of it to some extent.