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Any amp with built in pyro is sure to endear you to audiences, bandmates, and venues.

I half want one now!

................Bugera is seeming like a bad idea now.

I always though the 333XL sounded really great for guitar but I hear so many bad things on the web

Say it with me:
Jet. City.

Cheap, sounds great, won't catch fire.

my $0.02:

used to work in a store that sold Bugeras. I've left before we got the Marshall and Mesa clone amps, but I tried lots of these Peavey clones and also the vintage-ish ones.

Cleans were kind of "stock" and bland, but acceptable, the dirt... well the higain channels had this weird treble, kind of reminded me of the weird and nasty treble of JCM900, the kind you can't dial out. But that's something that could be reduced by choosing the right speakers and valves i'd say. The worse things are the MASSIVE problems with reliability (never ever seen as many amps returned), distribution (couldn't get a new batch throughout the whole summer and at other ties, batches were kind of random and insufficient) and sometimes i felt like the volume didn't really match the declared power of the amps

GardenoftheDead wrote:Say it with me:
Jet. City.

Cheap, sounds great, won't catch fire.

Yep. Only problem I know of is the circuit error on the third gain stage in the Picovalve. (Swap a 12AT7 for V2 or put in a 1M ohm resistor to ground at the input of the third stage, instead of the mis-wiring where the 1M is in series. I've heard that the chassis mounted tube sockets make this one easy.)

I just wish they had more than one amp with a channel at vintage gain.

GardenoftheDead wrote:Say it with me:
Jet. City.

Cheap, sounds great, won't catch fire.

I totally forgot about the JCA50H. I'm gonna have to try me one. I dug my JCA20H, but it wasn't enough.

The higher wattage heads are a differ sort of beast. One really clean channel and one metalz channel.

rfurtkamp wrote:What's not to love?

Any amp with built in pyro is sure to endear you to audiences, bandmates, and venues.

I half want one now!

coming soon, bugera 'great white' model...

GardenoftheDead wrote:The higher wattage heads are a differ sort of beast. One really clean channel and one metalz channel.

Ah, good to know, that kills it for me. I'd consider taking the 100 watt one for a spin, but I hate it when amps stay too clean all the way up the volume range. I want it to overdrive at a reasonable level. And hi-gain channels always sound like poo. (to me)

The main thing I like about the 1960 is that by the time you're up around 5 on the normal channel, it's pretty dirty.

I've heard something like 70% of them used to be returned for defects...would avoid.