What's up everyone? And welcome to 'Will It Chug?'
The video series where I take a piece of amplifier or guitar gear equipment
And see how long it will take for me to make it chug
Today we're trying out the Bugera G5 Infinium
Now, Bugera is an amplifier brand that was spawned from Behringer
When was this? Like 2012 I remember, when they became a thing.
And they started copying some real, like, legit amplifiers
You know, they had the S...
The 333, which I think was a copy of the Peavey XXX amplifier
They also had like a Tri-Rec
Which was somewhat inspired by a Triple Rectifier or something like that
These were available for a little while and then boom
They were from the face of the Earth, probably sued
Or something like that, cease and desist
I don't know
The G5 Infinium has been around for almost 5 years I think, even more
Much like the other Bugera amplifiers I've tried, it' very non expensive
This right here is 200 euros from Thomann
It's a 5 watt amplifier and it's not a... I mean, if you look at the back
There... you can see into the amplifier
And it's basically empty in there
There's like one preamp tube and then there's a... sort of like a power amplifier tube
But I am gonna try it out today and see if I can make it chug...
Within a couple of seconds
And you know...
From further investigations, I've been watching the pre-phase
Is that what we call it? The layout of this thing.
And you know, seeing all of these...
It kind of reminds me of a Blackstar
Not saying it's a copy of a Blackstar, but I...
I think it's a copy of a Blackstar basically
You have a morph button even
Which morphs from USA to UK
Which is kinda like what Blackstar are doing with their amplifiers
So yeah, I don't know man
I'm using this AB1.6G today, going straight into the Bugera...
... G5 Infinium, and that goes into my beloved Mesa oversized cabinet
That's a Neumann TLM102 microphone over there, a condenser microphone and I also have 2 stereo microphones over there
I've just unpacked this thing
Are you guys ready? I hope it makes sounds
Ok, let's go
Power's on
Great, ok
Will It Chug
Dead sound...
Oh, it has to warm up, ok
♫ Free-o Free-o Free-o Free-o Free-o ♫
Ok
Channel... there we go
Holy shit, it chugged
And that was pretty quick too
It might have taken longer time for you to make it chug
But right here what was that? Like 7 or 8 seconds?
Ok, let's turn it up a little bit
That's actually not too bad, that sounds pretty good
Ok, so let's go a little bit into detail
We have a tone stack right here: bass, middle, treble
Ouch
Alright...
We have to try the Morph
Right now we are at the US of A, let's go over to the UK
Across the Atlantic
Doesn't sound that good
Nah I did not like it
If I scoop the mids maybe?
Nope
Let's go back to the US of A
There you go, listen to that, ok
Even more so...
Dude, it actually doesn't sound half bad
Ok, gain is at maximum right now
Haha sorry
Oh reverb holy shit, then we can shred for days
Ok shit man... Dude...
Uh... gain? Tone?
Oh, tone, ok
That's the clean channel
So, the clean channel is a little bit...
I would've probably desired a little bit more
Maybe a... you know, a full-blown EQ
But the tone knob, it limits it a little bit
Whops
Uh you know, I would love to be able to do something more with clean channel right there
But you know...
For 200 euros man...
Holy shit man
This had me actually pleasantly surprised
It's not the best sound I've heard in the world
But it definitely doing it, man, it's chugging alright
But I think for the price...
It actually delivers a pretty good sound
I must say
You still have to take into account that it's 5 watts, wh-
What type of 5 watts that is, is that...
... tube power 5 watts? I have no idea.
Let's... let me just turn it up real quick and see how that fares
Ok, that's pretty loud
It probably won't hold in a rehearsal situation
Unless you're like playing with a drummer that has an electric drumkit or something like that
But just to sit around and have fun...
Sure man, I mean...
Right now obviously the Mesa Boogie cabinet is overkill
For this Bugera right here
I mean, this is a 200 euro amplifier head right here
And this is more like a 1500 / 1600 euro cabinet
So yeah
Obviously they don't really match up in terms of price
But I think it sounds absolutely kickass
There you go, Will It Chug?
It was a long time no Bugera for me, the G5 Infinium
Holy shit man, I would definitely recommend this to someone that you know...
A little bit lower on budget and you know, just wants something to...
Uh... yeah
Shit
Should I try it out with an overdrive just to try? I mean, I have to.
I mean, what if it sounds super kickass with an overdrive?
Then it's a good deal I might say, ok hang on
Alright, I've just hooked up this Fortin 33 pedal right here, let's try that out
Maybe it's too much, maybe it's too little, who knows?
Alright, sounds good with that as well, there you go
Will It Chug? Yes, it did chug.
How many seconds? Like, 8.
Thank you, bye.