New Bugera amps.

[blackba]

http://www.bugera-amps.com/EN/products/MAGICIAN.aspx
Looks like a Mesa mark IV

http://www.bugera-amps.com/EN/products/TRIREC.aspx
Looks like a Mesa rectifier.

Both are not available in the USA or Canada according to the site. I wonder what Mesa will do about this.

 

[Phrygian]

Those guys seriously crack me up every time!

Wonder when they'll touch Bogner. Beware the Bugera BUGNER!

 

[dougiefresh]

$1029 is MSRP, should MAP at $699 or so.

 

[Digital Jams]

I saw those and was laughing my ass off, I do not think Mesa can do a thing about it due to the country.

Hell, the basement at NAMM have LP clones and Bugera was showing their rip-off stuff on the main floor maybe 50 yards away from marshall.

 

[droptrd]

 

[glpg80]

these guys are hilarious. peavey first, marshall second, now mesa. next thing you know they will be going after every boutique amplifier company that exists

 

[OldSkoolNJ]

 

[MARK1970]

I caught a you tube video of their V5 little combo amp and the damn thing blew while the guy was playing.

 

[Engllover]

Those guys seriously crack me up every time!

Wonder when they'll touch Bogner. Beware the Bugera BUGNER!

looks like they took Engls bar system for the trirec. it's the ESP of amp companies LOL

 

[glpg80]

esp of amp companies?

esp has been around for a very, very long time...... i dont get it

 

[bravedude2]

great amp for calling sperm whales.

 

[jerrydyer]

Im afraid to comment. Ive been suspended from gear page for my comments about bugera. Chinese mafia?

 

[D-Rock]

The contrast of opinions from various forums is interesting.
At UG and GW people love these amps. (age demo-graph I guess)
On this forum, players just shake their heads at the idea. (As do I)

 

[Strat+Marshall]

esp of amp companies?

esp has been around for a very, very long time...... i dont get it

They got big pretty much ripping off any design they could.

 

[glpg80]

esp of amp companies?

esp has been around for a very, very long time...... i dont get it

They got big pretty much ripping off any design they could.

but esp makes an excellent guitar though, they also made kramers until early 1993. it would seem revalent to this topic if the guitars sucked as much ass in build quality and wood choice, as bugeras do with amplifier design and originality.

 

[blackba]

The contrast of opinions from various forums is interesting.
At UG and GW people love these amps. (age demo-graph I guess)
On this forum, players just shake their heads at the idea. (As do I)

It is amazing the variation. At the TGP, there is a big clone debate. It got ugly.

I am glad to see this thread has kept civil. I was really surprised to see these amps I got to admit. I have seen another amp that had mark IV features built in France. That just seems like a really hard amp to duplicate.

 

[Strat+Marshall]

esp of amp companies?

esp has been around for a very, very long time...... i dont get it

They got big pretty much ripping off any design they could.

but esp makes an excellent guitar though, they also made kramers until early 1993. it would seem revalent to this topic if the guitars sucked as much ass in build quality and wood choice, as bugeras do with amplifier design and originality.

Yeah, there is not a real similarity in quality of product just originality of designs.

 

[robertkoa]

Wait ! I thought Mesa copied THEM!

Wasn't Randall Smith talking about how he based the original Mark 1 on the " classic Behringer circuit " that Leo Fender Copied as well on the Princetons and Twin Reverbs?

Then Leo copied the early Bugeras in the 50's and made the Bassman which Jim Marshall copied for HIS amps.

So ALL amps are based on Bugeras.

 

[glpg80]

then tell me why out of 6,000 members on this forum no one owns one?

unless there are closet bugera owners

 

[glassjaw7]

Can Booger really copy Mesa that blatantly and even call it the Trirec? I mean that is pretty weak. I'm amazed they can get away with it.