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roger bayliss wrote:Bugera BC30 212 is fairly close in sound to an AC30 but not quite as full sounding I understand. Utube have examples to listen too. I think Behringher have something to do with these as they used to have them listed on their site for a while and their products are not always reliable but are cheap and good value.


How about these British made amps then ? anyone tried them ? Some are hand wired I believe.

http://www.haydenamps.com/products/#classic-series

Cotton Club 30 and 15 look nice EL84 amps

dave robinson wrote:It's possible that these Bugera amps are great sounding etc, but as one who has tried several different valve amps - boutique and otherwise, I have to concede that Vox was always the answer for Shadows music, followed by Fender (Blues DeVille in my case) and Mesa Boogie Mk III. The ones that I bought and tried were all eventually sold as I returned to the Vox - lesson learned. .

Didier wrote:

dave robinson wrote:It's possible that these Bugera amps are great sounding etc, but as one who has tried several different valve amps - boutique and otherwise, I have to concede that Vox was always the answer for Shadows music, followed by Fender (Blues DeVille in my case) and Mesa Boogie Mk III. The ones that I bought and tried were all eventually sold as I returned to the Vox - lesson learned. .

People who are interested by amps like Bugera are not professional musicians looking for the best, they only look for something as close as possible to Vox amps while being much less expensive...
And the Vox amps reliability being far from perfect, Bugera might not be worst...

Didier

Yeah right Didier, I'll stick to Vox if it's all the same to you.

dave robinson wrote:

Didier wrote:

dave robinson wrote:It's possible that these Bugera amps are great sounding etc, but as one who has tried several different valve amps - boutique and otherwise, I have to concede that Vox was always the answer for Shadows music, followed by Fender (Blues DeVille in my case) and Mesa Boogie Mk III. The ones that I bought and tried were all eventually sold as I returned to the Vox - lesson learned. .

People who are interested by amps like Bugera are not professional musicians looking for the best, they only look for something as close as possible to Vox amps while being much less expensive...
And the Vox amps reliability being far from perfect, Bugera might not be worst...

Didier

OK Didier, I'll stick to Vox if it's all the same to you.

dave robinson wrote:

Didier wrote:

dave robinson wrote:It's possible that these Bugera amps are great sounding etc, but as one who has tried several different valve amps - boutique and otherwise, I have to concede that Vox was always the answer for Shadows music, followed by Fender (Blues DeVille in my case) and Mesa Boogie Mk III. The ones that I bought and tried were all eventually sold as I returned to the Vox - lesson learned. .

People who are interested by amps like Bugera are not professional musicians looking for the best, they only look for something as close as possible to Vox amps while being much less expensive...
And the Vox amps reliability being far from perfect, Bugera might not be worst...

Didier

Yeah right Didier, I'll stick to Vox if it's all the same to you.