I have this amp and find it to be the best value in low watt tube amps. Not only a great bang for your buck, but price aside, I dig this amp. With or without pedals, for what I play (just about everything but metal), it really shines as a bedroom amp, recording amp or a small venue club amp.

Your playing is great

One of the best reviewers of guitar gear on youtube this guy.

I love mIne. I tried every small low watt tube amp made and for the money this is the best one.

Great amp. I have it myself. Takes pedals extremely well too! I found best results using it as a head into a 12" speaker cabinet.

These are a great sounding little tube practice amp

Sounds very nice. I really like these bugera amps. I expected the little speaker to sound weak but it sounds awesome.

HE NEEDS TO DO MORE OF THAT!!!!!!!!!!!

I just love that bluesy sound :D

I have one and it beats amps 2 and 3 times the price. Well worth the money.

@einaroneeye Remember that 5 watts is about equivalent to a trumpet being blasted. It is enough to get you punted from an apartment. Attenuating 5 watts is a great idea to get some grunt out of that little thing.

@ehnzoh Yes it is. I have this amp and it works with pedals very nicely.

@Acidrain1993 thanks a ton man. yes, you answered my question pretty well. and thanks for being so nice about it. i'm kinda sick of people who think they're badass with their bad grammar and insults laced through their comments. nice to see the change from that. again, thanks a bunch.

Love this vid. love that amp.

Great sound in a little box ;D I just want that amp..

thanks for the video! now I have to buy one of these things ¬¬

I like this one. it has some nice twang to it

i want this amp now

Have one. Recommend upgrading the speaker to the Eminence 820H. I understand the the Infinium has a better stock speaker, but for the original V5, I can attest that the 820H was a worthwhile upgrade to warm it up and make it sound a bit less boxy. I'm not sure if there was a downside on speaker break up.

@einaroneeye My Cub Head has a "

nice sound i buy it

Pushing the 'magical digital reverb'!

Hi Paul is a pleasure to greet you, Apropos of miniamps.. please make a demo about ENGL Gigmaster 15W (Combo or Head) Thank you!

Please do a review of the Bugera V-55 Combo Amp. How are Bugera's speakers? I know they make them in house but I've always heard you need to upgrade them to make the amp really shine.

Video quality is great, is this going to be the new standard for GW?

that axe is awesome

old video but damn i love that old Charvel!

Hi. did you change the guitar neck? it looks wider than usual . also the nut.

Is it auto-bias like the infinium model ?

this is way better then my 15W amp.

@1994fishcake this one is rendered in 1080p, I dont mean to brag, but my PC-Monitor combo are high end, and the 480p video usually looks very pixellated on full-screen.

yup my V5 sounds like that

@NHBluesMan dude listen to Behind those eyes by 3 doors down it seems a little similar.

What is the name of the beautiful guitar. I think I saw it in another video too.

@pivotduke2 No it just says that on the Headstock

@Ningirsutyr The whole idea of an amp like this is keeping it small and simple. A full T/M/B EQ would make it bigger and more complicated... and there is a headphone jack on the back.

The attenuator is a pretty cool feature, however I am not totally sure I see the necessity on such a small combo amp. I could certainly see where it would be great on a 50 or 100w amp...

@seankenny08 are you saying that 5 watts would be to powerful?

First of all thanks for great reviews, however I think you should try to demo this thing with lespaul, can pull out some nice ring and bluesy dirt ring on mids kinda Jimmy Reed-ish. For telle or strat I find best thing is V55 from bugeras small series as it has this twang and thump, especially with GT12 AX7 Russian tube in 2 or 3rd position. However this Bugger'as rattles as crazy out of the box, at leas mine V5, so build quality is kinda concern as the support too as one tube was microphonic ant bugera preomissed to send replacement, nearly 3 weeks ago, and so far nothing happened...

Hi guitarworld.. just asking.. is this amp good putting pedals in front of it?

Nice!

In a sub-$300 price point, this isn't bad. I still prefer the Marshall Class A ($399) or the Vox AC30VR ($599), but YMMV. The only real question is durability. Do Bugeras hold up to heavy use? I have no experience with them, so that's why I'm asking.

does a Boss DS-1 sound good with this?

Does this have a output for headphones or di ?

This is a good sounding Practice amp. It would be bad ass if you could use a 2x12 speaker cab with it.

@DMSProduktions Paul was a tiny bit short on his demo by not stating that. Good heads up

sweet intro to the world of tube amps right ?

@ThieleM Like I wrote the other guy, that makes sense. Guess I was not taking that into account. Thanks.

@MrBarkingsheep It is a Charvel..

I have a DS-1 and I find that true :P

@ZepIV Maybe it's just me but having a TMB EQ is not an option but a must for me on any amp to be able to tailor the tone according to the situation. So I believe that I wouldn't have any problem with such complication ;/ I just don't like the "take it or leave it" attitude whichever company that might be..

I have the V5's bigger brother the V22 and im not going to compare Bugera with Matchless, Soldano, Marshall, Mesa Boogie, or another company. All ive ever wanted in an amp is one that my guitar will shine through and the V22 makes my Guitar wail even at Bedroom level. I even use my Line 6 HD500 as a pre-amp making any amp on there sound great plus you can have a makeshift Roland JC120 by adding chorus. Dont mistake Bugera for something that its not. Sure its not a $1200 amp but it does the job

hey guys. i don't really know much about tube amps. i always use solid state amps but my dad has a Marshall JVM tube amp that sounds freaking awesome. i'm thinking about getting into tube amps. but i notice... the ratings on wattage HAVE to be different between tube amps and solid state amps. cause NOBODY buys a 15 watt amp for gigs (referring to an Ibanez head). so what is the sort of ratio of wattage between tube amps and solid state? or does it vary? sorry i probably sound like a total noob

01:06 that is the best tone you will get out of this amp.

Its a decent little dirt box, I think it mostly gets its bad reputation from noobs using it with solid state shit like a Marshall MG or L6 Spider. Now a modded DS-1, those are lovely.

im about to spend $550 on the bugera 6262 head, is it worth it?

@rrgert4 I don't now where you are buying but they are on musicians friend for 39.49 new all day.

@rrgert4 it is very true. Go try something above $50. You will here a big difference. The DS-1 is so cheap.

digitech hod head sounds much better than ds-1 and costs almost half less, not to mention mixer out which is emulated so it can sound quite nice even on little amps.

@SGTSHOOTnMISS All there videos are like this except live events.

Not only that, I live on Joe Satriani's pedal board, and have since day 1. hehe

Pauly Bugera rock star !

@sportsportsport explain it

I love Charvels.

You said it drives the reverb? Does the digital reverb respond to push and touch? Haha

@pierrefranco7 It's not a review, it's a demo.

I want your job :D

@2:44 "When you push it at its full 5 watts you start to drive the reverb and that's where the magic happens". So digital reverbs are the source of tube amp mojo....interesting.

Does the intro of the vid sound like something from Creed or is it just me?

what happened to all the metal reviews? There has only been classic rock reviews for a while now

I have this amp. It's ok for a bedroom amp but that's about it.

@DistortedV12 It's a Charvel.

@poplepo3 Practice and recording.

What the Fender Champion 600 should have been.

esta tocando una de Ciro y los persas jajaja #ChisteArgento

Super ! Peut on jouer du jazz avec merci beaucoup jp

@DMSProduktions might be, never heard an 5150 but there are way better amps for clean :P

@cs2sasuke741 Charvelle So-Cal Style 1 2H

Best comment I've ever read

paul has a very odd picking technique, but still rocks ! looks like his giving u the finger all the time xD

guitarworld discovered HD....

for the love of god play a prs through more stuff, proper review. hell even a fender, charvel is just gonna overdrive the hell out of everything.

@Zagorulez a $1000 mic will do that..

@rickyjshiznit i own it, if you want to kick the devils ass it's nice but sucks for clean ;)

it sounds like it's actually more than only 5watts

The audio from this video seems sweetened, the amp doesn't sound like that when I tried it.

im gonna shoot that chorus pedal.

shouldn't you show the Bugera amp when you're playing, instead of you playing a Charvel guitar, and some road cases, since that is the subject here?

Sounds like authentic spring reverb? Noooo! I've got the amp and to get an almost authentic spring reverb sound I had to buy an Oceans 11 pedal. The reverb in the amp is comparable with the Skysurfer pedal, not very spring like. It's a shame Paul isn't honest in his demonstration. I can't imagine he's never heard a real spring reverb. And yes I know the difference between a built in spring tank and a separate spring reverb like from Fender.

Sounds more like a plate Reverb.

@MysterioFan02 Boss DS-1 does not sound good with anything.

the only reason i didn't pull the trigger and bought this amp

@R1COtheB3AST jajaj It reminded me to show television jajajjaja Cheaters!! jaja

more hours in school does make a speller better :)

I think I like this. No, I don't think that. I'm sure I like this amp. DO WANT!

Just one problem with Paul : with him, every gear is good ! Where's crticism ???

cut his hair?

Meh. I think, for bedroom amps at least, modeling amps have taken over the roost.

Even if it's a 5W amp, I don't get the point of not putting any EQ knobs on an amp :/ Besides, when it's already only 5W they could have saved themselves from a big hassle by putting a headphone jack instead of an attenuator..

This amp sounds to much bright .... Not warm enough ! :-((