Bugera 6260 Infinitum w/ KT77'S - WOW

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I picked this amp up in like new condition for $280. I've been curious about them for years as a huge 5150 series fan, but have always been reluctant to pull the trigger due to their reliability issues, and also due to the fact that I own a bunch of the 5150 family of amps already.

I figured this was cheap enough and clean so it was worth a shot. My first impressions with the stock bugera tubes were, hey, this thing sounds pretty good. Obviously it's supposed to be a nearly identical clone of the 5150 but there are some differences at first blush.

The amp is definitely brighter, with less low end, probably due to the resonance being a fixed value and not being able to be adjusted. The amp has a lot of gain. Like, not usable past 1.5, even worse than a 5150 which already isn't great with the gain range.

I swapped somw jj kt77 in the power section and an assortment of different preamps in that are similar to what I run in my 5150 but I really dig the amp. Seems to have more of an aggressive upper mid section and slightly less cocked wah. Not as much sag as a 5150 so palm mutes are a little tighter. Gain is a little more grainy and not as smooth as a 5150, which I also like. It has its own slightly different character, and overall I'm happy I bought it.

Will it spontaneously combust mid-riff? I can only hope, because that would be metal as fuck.

 
thats like a $500 rig that can hang with anything. its cool youre digging that cab and funny youre playing old hatebreed, im from CT and knew boulder and bought mine off him when he quit hatebreed
 
RaceU4her said:
thats like a $500 rig that can hang with anything. its cool youre digging that cab and funny youre playing old hatebreed, im from CT and knew boulder and bought mine off him when he quit hatebreed
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Haha! That's cool man. Yeah I've been in the hardcore scene since I was a teenager. Erie, PA had a great hardcore scene in the late 90's and early 2000's. Came up right as Brothers Keeper, xDisciplex and Shockwave were all calling it quits and moving on. Old Hatebreed, Death Threat, 100 Demons Buried Alive, Turmoil and All Out War are some of my favorites from the era RIGHT BEFORE I was old enough to come around.
 
I picked up a 1960 Infinium head.. apart from the blocking distortion I get when I dime everything, I think it is a good sounding amp. Not crazy about no bias control but I guess if you don't want to bother with that stuff, it is convenient.
 
I prefer this demo to some demos of the actual 5150s. And like the real deal, I think it sounds best with the mids around 2-3.
 
Bad.Seed said:
Haha! That's cool man. Yeah I've been in the hardcore scene since I was a teenager. Erie, PA had a great hardcore scene in the late 90's and early 2000's. Came up right as Brothers Keeper, xDisciplex and Shockwave were all calling it quits and moving on. Old Hatebreed, Death Threat, 100 Demons Buried Alive, Turmoil and All Out War are some of my favorites from the era RIGHT BEFORE I was old enough to come around.
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ha, that was basically a weekly show here in like 2000. CT was literally right in the middle of the action back then, it was great having all these cities that each had their own thing going on within a couple hour drive either direction. i always heard eerie was cool back then, i never made it out that far though.
 
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