I hardly use the 500 watts I have at my disposal, so I can't even begin to imagine how loud the 3600 watts is. Though companies have been known to exaggerate.
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the NEW bugera 3600 watt amp
- Thread starter Sylex's Bassist
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Peak wattage rating are bulls**t IMO.
And I played one and it it sounded... not bad but not OK either. Take in mind it was in a 6*10 eden cab.
Could do the trick for a teen who wants to impress friends and who doesn't know better...
+1. I bridged my 1200-watt amp once for a big outdoor gig with very little PA support and got yelled at for being to loud. Otherwise I use one channel @400 Watts and still get asked to turn that thing down.
Would a usable volume on the Bugera be like halfway between 0 and 1?
Or "My amp blew up long before it had a chance to blow up my..."
Don't know. I have had great success using Behringer recording gear. But.. I have heard enough horror stories to worry me. I am thinking maybe I just got lucky.
Or "My amp blew up long before it had a chance to blow up my..."
Don't know. I have had great success using Behringer recording gear. But.. I have heard enough horror stories to worry me. I am thinking maybe I just got lucky.
You can only use that amp when you are not on the stage next to it 
But hey, it reminds me of the rockband in 'The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy' whose memebers play their instruments in a space ship in orbit around the planet where they are gigging ... we are almost there!
And by the way: Behringer gear for recording and PA is considered very decent so I wouldn't worry too much about that ...
peak power... heh...
just FWIW---- there is NO WAY to produce 3600 watts of output from *anything* plugged into a 15 amp outlet. not even for a millisecond (peak power). unless we are talking about a step-up transformer or something (not an instrument amplifier), and even then i am not sure how that would add up.
15A * 120 VAC = 1800 watts (from the wall). and while i am neither a scientist or an electrician, i am 99.99% certain that "continuous" draw needs to be at 80% or less of the circuit's maximum rating to be safe and reliable. wonder what the bugera says right next to the power plug socket?
just FWIW---- there is NO WAY to produce 3600 watts of output from *anything* plugged into a 15 amp outlet. not even for a millisecond (peak power). unless we are talking about a step-up transformer or something (not an instrument amplifier), and even then i am not sure how that would add up.
15A * 120 VAC = 1800 watts (from the wall). and while i am neither a scientist or an electrician, i am 99.99% certain that "continuous" draw needs to be at 80% or less of the circuit's maximum rating to be safe and reliable. wonder what the bugera says right next to the power plug socket?
I have found that I could play in metal bands with a hard hitting drummer with 300w with no issue.
...and never getting the volume past three or four. Get everything eq'ed right and you won't have to fight to be heard.
If you combine that much wattage with Behringer's "famous" engineering, I wouldn't be surprised if that piece of junk behaved more like a nuke than they advertise. 
I'll never forget the review of a Behringer Ultrabass on Musician's Friend where a guy said that his amp burned his house down and ruined his life.
I'll never forget the review of a Behringer Ultrabass on Musician's Friend where a guy said that his amp burned his house down and ruined his life.
Truth! Finally!
Car audio companies do this all the time with their amplifiers. Even the bigger companies like Sony, Kenwood, and Pioneer do it. I'm at my store right now, looking at a car amplifier that says "800 Watts" on it. Actual RMS power? 250 Watts. But it gets even more crooked than that! Most of these manufacturers include a spec sheet where they test that particular amplifier to "prove" that it can put out what they say it can (RMS). A close examination of these specs reveals that almost EVERY SINGLE ONE of these companies runs their "tests" at 14.4 Volts. What's a car's electrical system operate at? 12 Volts. That works out to around a 20% loss in the real world. Clever, huh?
A peak power number is the most useless rating anyone could give, and seems to exist solely as a marketing tool to impress people who don't know any better.
I will derail no more!
Hmm, looks like a ripoff of the Ampeg SVT-4.
I'm sure it will be heard in garages all over the world very soon.
I'm sure it will be heard in garages all over the world very soon.
If you combine that much wattage with Behringer's "famous" engineering, I wouldn't be surprised if that piece of junk behaved more like a nuke than they advertise.
I'll never forget the review of a Behringer Ultrabass on Musician's Friend where a guy said that his amp burned his house down and ruined his life.
I was wondering if they picked that name for a reason.
Am I the only one that noticed that Behringer took a head they already produced (that was 1200 watts) and put a new name and tripled the wattage?
