I just ordered my 1st mail order amp (unseen, unheard, unplayed). Its a Bugera BXD 15A combo. I'm excited but also stressed. Never had much luck buying sight unseen. Does anyone have one of these? What are your thoughts on the amp? Thanks!
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Welcome to the forum. All I know is what I've seen in promotional youtube videos which are all one sided. I hope it's what you envisioned and rock on !!!
Never played one, however, from the price I think you will be OK. No one makes junk and stays in business, i.e. they all are in competition with each other and a $300 15 watt amp must have some added value over a $100 15 watt starter amp, or they could not keep selling it for $300.
Now if you want to get into tone and stuff like that, that is what the extra $200 should be giving you and as I have never had one you will have to wait on the posts of users.
My first amp was a Fender Rumble 15 1x8" 15 Watt job for just over $100. I still have it and it and I are doing fine together.
Relax you made a good choice, enjoy your new amp. Happy trails...
Now if you want to get into tone and stuff like that, that is what the extra $200 should be giving you and as I have never had one you will have to wait on the posts of users.
My first amp was a Fender Rumble 15 1x8" 15 Watt job for just over $100. I still have it and it and I are doing fine together.
Relax you made a good choice, enjoy your new amp. Happy trails...
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1000 Bugera/Behringer watts = approximately 200-250 Watts rms
It will be a nice amp for practice and gigging in small venues.
It will be a nice amp for practice and gigging in small venues.
That's pretty much the vision I have. I need something portable, loud, and good quality that can hold its own with a 3-4 piece band. Thanks!
Depends on the band.
Portable, yup.
Loud, there's no definition of loud. I think yours is less loud than most if you think one 15 and 250w is going to do the job. That's based on my experience in garages with Messrs 50w Marshall stack et al.
Good Quality is not traditionally Auntie B's specialty. Based on my experiences of B failure.
Zombie thread post - sorry. Might be irrelevant now, but I tried one of the BDX combos a couple weeks ago. I can confidently say it was the worst combo I've tried in the last 20 years (out of at least a dozen). I can't fathom how they made such a bad sounding combo. I was really just there to try a Warwick 5 and the combo was what the store had set up (big mistake! That place knew 0 about basses). It sounded so awful (e.g., breaking up at low input *and* output levels, etc.) that I unplugged it and found a cheap Ampeg combo to plug into. Night and day, and I only give the Ampeg entry levels an 8/10 for sound. But the Bugera gets a generous 1/10. It's tilted so I wouldn't even be able use it as an amp stand or coffee table. I can't think how anyone would make use this piece of junk - maybe a stage prop for a metal band to set on fire or kick around for theatrical effect?
I don't usually trash gear - nowadays you can find plenty of decent if not stand-out stuff from all sorts of manufacturers. I own some bargain gear from Donner, Caline etc. and have no problem with them - if it works it works. I had no preconception about Bugera - totally willing to give that combo a chance. I was frankly appalled.
The Warwick (some pimped out Corvette 5) wasn't great either, but *it* wasn't the problem with the sound. I couldn't even tell how good the Warwick was through the Bugera. That combo totally killed any interest in the brand.
I don't usually trash gear - nowadays you can find plenty of decent if not stand-out stuff from all sorts of manufacturers. I own some bargain gear from Donner, Caline etc. and have no problem with them - if it works it works. I had no preconception about Bugera - totally willing to give that combo a chance. I was frankly appalled.
The Warwick (some pimped out Corvette 5) wasn't great either, but *it* wasn't the problem with the sound. I couldn't even tell how good the Warwick was through the Bugera. That combo totally killed any interest in the brand.
