Bugera V5 Infinium 5-stars Reviews

A great tube amp for the money

I bought this amp for home practice and recording, and was really impressed by what I got. The overall build quality and looks of the amp is very nice. The possibility to turn the effect down to 1W and 0,1W is a great feature living in an apartment.

The sound of this amp is what really blew me away. The clean sound is as close as I ever experienced to "Fender clean" and it sounds amazing. Turn it up to push the tubes a bit and it starts to break up very nice. I do not have any experience with the drive/distorted sound of this amp since I use effects for my dirty sounds but with external drive effects the speaker sounds great. The built in reverb is a lot better than I expected for the price of this amp and I does the job just fine.

The only thing that I might miss in this amp is an effects loop, but as far as I have experienced plugging effects between the guitar and amp works fine. This amp might not be loud enough to play with a band, so personally I would have bought something more powerful for that purpose.

All in all I am very satisfied with the Bugera V5 Infinium for both practice and recording. I love the warm tube sound of it and i do believe this amp is the best value for money. If you are looking for a good tube amp for practice or recording I will strongly recommend this amp.

Great

Just a great little amp, cranked up with the guitar straight in on the 1w setting is perfect ... as long as you don't have close neighbours & on the 5w .. this thing blows some air out.

very pleased & so is my back !

Absolute bargain for the money.. don't know how they do it, very pleased indeed.

Amazing valve amp

Probably the best option for a home studio for a guitar player.

Forget amp simulations and digital, the quality of this Bugera is superb.

Plugged your guitar to this and immediately obtain creamy vintage tones and warm drive.

The reverb is also really nice (spring type).

If you need a practice amp or even a boutique one for a home studio, you should definitely try this one.

Great Amp

This amp is small and easy to carry. It has, for its size, a really warm wonderful tone. A superb practice amp that you can also use in your apartment.

Perfect practice amp with mature sound

This one is LOUD, but attenuation feature makes it perfect for home use.

Very good sound: clean, light crunch.

With pedals (booster/overdrive) becomes crazy with an aggressive, thin rock-solid sound.

The only disadvantage is a very light buzz sound from power transformer at 5W setting (but no buzz at all at lower values).

Definitely recommended.

Great for alternative rock, western, blues (not a good metal amp!)

Find it very versatile, despite the few buttons to change the sound (just one tone button, instead of the regular bass/mid/treble).

What some find muddy, I find dark (good).

Just some minor rattle due to the valve cage not being properly screwed or something. I just removed it... it's fine.

It's has an AMAZING quality/price relation!

I mean, for this money, I never found anything that comes close to this.

I use it with a gretsch 2420T and I could hardly have found a sound that suits me more (I mean, what I want at the moment).

Great for vintage sounds, western stuff, blues, alternative rock.

Not so much for metal, I'd say. At least with this speaker.

Anyway, try it (or, at least, listen to A LOT of video/audio reviews), cause it's very particular and some people may not like the sound.

High quality amp for serious practice

This is a great amp for serious practice and I highly recommend it. The construction quality is very high, it has classic clean and overdriven tube sounds and the controls have a nice feel and the right ranges. The power output is more than adequate for my needs and the tone allows me to hear the subtleties of my technique and external effects. I chose the V5 in preference to many others at similar and lower prices that have nominally better specifications (higher power, more effects, amp modelling, drum machines, USB connection, etc) and am very pleased with my decision.

I bought the bundle.

Been looking for a good little valve amp for home use, and perhaps small gigs.Feels well made,i like the style of it, and you can create a lot of classic sounds from it- from clean to smooth break - up, and its quite loud considering its 5w. You can vary the output, i just leave it at 5w as i play mostly clean.Speaker seems ok, plenty of bass, a warm sound to this amp.The reverb is good enough. So, ok, this aint a fender champ custom or whatever, but its good value- i got the cover as well, and it does the job.Great,fab bit of gear!

Very nice practice tube amp

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!

Bugera V5 infinium

It has taken a long time and a lot of patience, trying to find the right amp to

play at home; used with a strat , this little chap is brilliant - almost fender clean

through to a classic crunch distortion, nice reverb too ( up to 4 anyway ); not so

hot with a Les Paul , clean ok, but crank the gain and it becomes a bit dark and

mushy. However, there is a simple mod to cure this !

Overall, IMO, this is a tremendous practice amp; VHT, Laney, Vox - all good, but

for lower volume playing, this is hard to beat.

A great Blues amp.

I have had a Marshall MV50 for years and, these days, it never gets used. It is just way too loud for home use. I also have a rack with a Marshall JMP 1 valve preamp. This gets over the "too loud" issue but, by the time you add external speakers, power amp and the inevitable rack effects it is bulky and inconvenient to move.

The Bugera (or "Bug", as it has been christened) is completely different. It is deceptively small and light and will happily sit on a table or desk.

I was after an amp I could just grab, plug into, and play where ever I am in the house or elsewhere. This fits the bill superbly. The controls are ridiculously simple but hit the tone I am looking for. Other set ups have rows of knobs and switches but seldom seem to nail the sound I want, and I just give up looking.

This is billed as a vintage amp and the description fits it well. Great Blues tones with a Strat, but if you are in to shredding look elsewhere.

It has wonderful warm, creamy tones that seem to cascade honey over your ear parts. The reverb adds depth without being intrusive, and the tone rolls off the highs very nicely. The gain drive is perhaps a little less than I might have hoped , but I have only used it at the 0.1 Watt setting with volume around 2 or 3, so probably unfair to be definitive.

Naked, with just a Strat, it achieves great "Wind Cries Mary" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" type driven sounds, which are probably grittier than they may seem due to my lack of volume. It, none the less, has ample valve compression and dynamics - the whole reason we buy a valve amp. It does "cleans" without getting too thin and jangley. And you would swear it had bigger than its 8" speaker.

It is probably best naked and, as a result, seems to flatter a level of playing which can cope without hiding behind a barrage of effects. Indeed, it doesn't seem to like effects. I tried it with a Mooer Blues Crab which seemed to do little but make it sound a bit crabby. Even just using a looper can give a muddy, undefined "Wall of Sound" feel.

So, if you are hankering after the old time "man (or woman) an amp and a guitar" - plug in and play where ever, jump on a freight train with a bottle of JD and a scabby dog for company, or pull up a rocking chair on the porch and let the music cascade over you... this is the best value for money you can get.

If anything the amps only fault is it is too cheap. If it were stupidly expensive it would be revered as a connoisseurs boutique amp. It will flatter skill, technique and feel but would not do a novice any favours at all.

Amazing amp!

I simply loved this amp, it has a great valve sound.

This amp has an amazing feature, the attenuator which you can set for 5w that brings all of what this amp can give you (tons a volume, believe me! It's incredible how loud this little thing can get), 1w that will saturate the valve a bit more, then at 0.5w you will get less sound but you will get a great tone and drive.

The vintage drive sound is amazing! If you turn the gain all the way up, you will have a soft and well defined vintage drive.

The reverb is digital, but it does the job perfectly well!

If you are looking for a valve amp to have at home, or even for small gigs, this is from far the best option available today.