I bought the bugera V22 amp about 2 weeks ago. It costs 349 dollars (United States) and it has 3x 12ax7 tubes and 2x el84 tubes.It is an all tube amp. It's is 22 watts and loud! Loud enough for gigging.
This amp has 2 channels (clean and drive.) The clean channel has a gain and a master volume. Unless you crank the master volume you won't get distortion! The gain dosen't do much unless the master volume is loud. It basically controls headroom. With the gain full up and the volume around five it starts to break up. Here it is a great blues setting. After that it gets more and more distorted like you'd expect from a tube amp. If you turn down the gain you get more headroom. If the amp just did this I would love it. You could get anywhere from Albert King to Led Zeppelin and great clean tones. If you want more gain that is when the drive channel comes in.
The drive channel has a volume, master volume and gain. the master volume is shared by both channels. The gain sounds unbelivable, under half. You can get Stevie Ray Vaughan to ZZ Top to AC/DC like this. After half it sounds better for hard rock and early heavy metal. If you want to play thrash or death metal get a good drive pedal.
This amp also has a Triode/ Pentode switch which makes the amp darker and softer or louder and brighter. It has a mid boost switch which is good for blues, but not much else and an EQ consisting of middle, treble, and bass. Finally, there is a digital reverb. This is the only part of it that I didn't like. It is almost too washy of a reverb. Above 4 it starts to get unusable. At three though it does its job and adds color to your tone. There are two inputs, bright and Normal. If your guitar has humbuckers use bright. It sounds much better.
This is the best valve amp out there for the price in my opinion. It has a rich warm tone and is at an unbelivalble price. I've played amps twice the price that don't sound as good as this. The V in its name stands for vintage and it lives up to that. It sounds like an amp out of the sixties.The best part is that while it has a vintage vibe it still sounds like its own amp. It is a mix between a Fender Deluxe and Vox AC30. It is reliable and I hear no tube rattle when cranked. I give this amp a 9 out of 10 because of the reverb. I would suggest this to anyone who wants a tube practice amp, someone who wants an amp for small/ medium gigs or a great sounding amp for recording.
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