Bugera 333XL: The Thread

[Sloan]

FUCK THE WORLD

Today I bought a Bugera 333XL for $200 cold hard U.S. CASH.

I spent about 20 minutes bypassing a burned molex connector (known issue) and took it with me to practice with my country rock band for like 5 hours. Worked perfectly, but I really need the footswitch. This thing sounds pretty damn good y'all.



I love how service friendly this shit is. Look how beautifully it sits there with the tubes not touching anything. Fucking GREAT.
Also note the PIMPED chrome transformers. I LOL'D.



Here is the burned molex connector.
This is common when you use fucking plastic connectors where there's gonna be HEAVY SHIT happening. Right now, I just have the wires soldered to the posts on the bottom of the connector, but plan to directly solder them to the board when I get the time. I did notice however that all the connectors are glued pretty damn good. This amp is in no way built shitty like others have claimed. I have dicked on the insides of Marshalls and to me; this is on par or better than most of the Marshall stuff I've seen. Very clean and organized.


I anticipate doing some more 'road-ready' type of shit to this amp like hard wiring other components to the board. I also plan on getting some clips recorded too, so this will probably be bumped in the future.

[Sloan]

FYI: This is the Peavey JSX clone.

[Will]

Fuck some Molex connectors.

They were the main thing wrong with my Ampeg Jet when I got it. Every single one was loose and intermittent. I ended up hard-soldering all the wires as well.

[Haze]

I quite like these Bugera clones, will be interesting to hear some clips. The quality that i've seen has all been great

[Sloan]

for fucks sake, i can't find a footswitch for this bitch anywhere. some dude has one on ebay for liek $50, but fuck $50?!

[Bacchus]

I quite like these Bugera clones, will be interesting to hear some clips. The quality that i've seen has all been great

Aye. They've just started with these Ampeg clones too:

http://bugera-amps.com/EN/products/BVV3000.aspx\

I'm hoping they make a clone of the Ampeg 810 cab.

[Mike]

WANT

[Bacchus]

That's the one. Not much good without a cab, though, and I think it wouldn't look right on anything other than an 810.

I've carried enough Ampeg 810's on and off trucks and onto stages to know that it's not practical, even if they do put wheels on the bottom and a tilt back handle bar on the top.

[Mike]

Nah it'd look mint on a 4x10" or a 2x12"

[Bacchus]

I think I need to start thinking about getting another bass amp. The one I'm using (BacchusJim's) wasn't really loud enough at that audition last night. Anyway, that's another thread for another day.

[Sloan]

I removed the plastic pimp-plates or whatever, they come off easy with screws, the logo is like glued on so I didn't want to fuck with it (resell etc...).

Gut shots:

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Clean:
http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/5 ... _clean.mp3

Crunch:
http://bestnetworx.com/uploader/files/5 ... crunch.mp3

Lead:
Coming soon-ish...

Guitar: Gibson Goth Les Paul with an epiphone neck humbucker in the bridge. It's resistance measures at about 4.0 ohms. I prefer low output pickups.
Amp settings: all eq knobs are at 12:00, clean channel volume was attenuated to match the crunch channels volume almost exactly. No reverb.
Cab: Crate Blue Voodoo with GT-75's and WGS Veteran 30's in X pattern.
Mics: left bottom gt-75 = e609 & sm57 / right bottom v30 = i5 and studio projects b1

I didn't dick with mic placement, just put them up. These clips are just to give you a good general idea of the amp. Nothing fancy. Two hard panned takes.

[Sloan]

fuck, my uploader bandwidth exceeded?

[Sloan]

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[endsjustifymeans]

Guitar: Gibson Goth Les Paul with an epiphone neck humbucker in the bridge. It's resistance measures at about 4.0 ohms. I prefer low output pickups.

What did you do with the loud mouths?

[Sloan]

Guitar: Gibson Goth Les Paul with an epiphone neck humbucker in the bridge. It's resistance measures at about 4.0 ohms. I prefer low output pickups.

What did you do with the loud mouths?

they're still up for sale in the classifieds.

[Haze]

That combination of microphones and placement makes for one hell of a sound! cleans were nice but almost too brittle for my liking, the crunch was great though! Very cool amp

[endsjustifymeans]

Guitar: Gibson Goth Les Paul with an epiphone neck humbucker in the bridge. It's resistance measures at about 4.0 ohms. I prefer low output pickups.

What did you do with the loud mouths?

they're still up for sale in the classifieds.

Rolf! I called the loudmouth bridge and then never payed you.

PM me your paypal deets. Ah need that.

[Sloan]

That combination of microphones and placement makes for one hell of a sound! cleans were nice but almost too brittle for my liking, the crunch was great though! Very cool amp

I was just using the bridge humbucker on the cleans, if you go to the neck pickup, there's like a HUGE amount of bass. It does clean very very well. I only used it at one practice, but it fits very good in a full band situation without much tweaking. The eq is active which is new to me, like on the crunch channel if you turn the mids down it's almost like turning the bass and treble up, they all interact. Haven't found a use for the lead channel yet, there's a shit ton of gain there and this skank pickup wants to feedback super easy with it, the noise gate helps a bit.

[rlm2112]

Sounds pretty good! What kind of speakers are you using?

[Sloan]

Sounds pretty good! What kind of speakers are you using?

Crate Blue Voodoo cab with Celestion G12 75T's and WGS Veteran 30's.