Bugera bass heads?

Reverend

Thomman have what looks like a copy of an SVT ss head for about £160. Our bassist needs something with -plenty of beef - anyone tried these?

Any thoughts?

fretmeister

RacerDeth / Vainmaiden / Nick has one.

Reckons it's very good, really beefy.

ICBM

Nah… you don't want that… you want… THIS

http://www.thomann.de/gb/bugera_btx3600_nuke.htm

Look at the power… and the price!

I assume they're discounted because no-one bought them. Admittedly finding a cabinet that will handle it could be the problem, although there's no way that power rating can be genuine RMS (… sorry Dave!). The maximum mains input power can only be 2300W because it has a 10A-rate IEC power connector, so the true output can't be over 2000W and probably a bit less than that.

Still a *lot*of beef, though.

Reverend

Pulled the trigger on the nuke. The clips sounded ok and for £160 it's a no brainer. As long as it has enough beef to match my jmp 2203 then we are laughing.

DLM

fretmeister said:

RacerDeth / Vainmaiden / Nick has one.

Reckons it's very good, really beefy.

@fretmeister @RacerDeth How the devil is Nick? Does that mean he's still playing?

ICBM

Reverend said:

Pulled the trigger on the nuke. The clips sounded ok and for £160 it's a no brainer. As long as it has enough beef to match my jmp 2203 then we are laughing.

Assuming you have a cab - or more likely two - that will handle up to 2000W, yes…

Reverend

Usually will be using svt cabs I'd imagine. Won't be any need to crank this up too high.

Bucket

"The Nuke" is one hell of a name for an amp.

fretmeister

DLM said:

fretmeister said:

RacerDeth / Vainmaiden / Nick has one.

Reckons it's very good, really beefy.

@fretmeister @RacerDeth How the devil is Nick? Does that mean he's still playing?

He's fine! He's playing and experimenting with pickups and he's playing a bit more bass these days.

And he spends a lot of time painting those tiny die-cast models he likes. 

DLM

@fretmeister

Thanks! If I ever make it over to FB I'll look him up.

StageStruck

My dad has a couple of those bass heads (badged Behringer, but the same thing). Both are incredibly good value, though I'd say the Ashdown knock-off sounded better than the Ampeg one. The Ampeg one was stupidly heavy to lift, considering it was mainly empty box though

ICBM

StageStruck said:

Both are incredibly good value, though I'd say the Ashdown knock-off sounded better than the Ampeg one.

The Ashdown knock-off is better made than an Ashdown too!

Although as jpfamps said, that's perhaps not setting the bar very high… but they are quite decent in fact.