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This Thing is a Beast!!I bought this amp as a back-up. Normally play a modded Sovtek mig 60+ a Plexi reissue. the sovtek was in the shop. So I read the reviews on the Bugera 1960 infinium & figured it was worth it just because I could switch the tubes around w/o biasinig. Boy was I right. It came in & I was shocked at how it sounded out of box. Loud & proud. It sounded alot like my plexi. It's not as complex as the plexi but, it's only 1/4 of the price!! Then I changed out the tubes(Pre:1 mullard & 2 E-harm 12ax7) & one power amp( svetlana el34) & the Amp Just came to life!! Smooth but with just enough bite, full but not to bassy. very well rounded in general.This amp has quite a bite of gain. At first I put all 3 e-harm 12ax7 in and it was to much gain for my use. So, the addtion of the mullard in the # 1 position & that tamed the overall sound. Bottom Line..Best value on the market today. If you are willing to do the work & change around the tubes(the best part). You can really bring it life!!

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I have this amp running through Greenbacks. I'm a Strat player. Everyone knows how great these things sound dimed. If you crank these, they will perfectly emulate Van Halen tones. As you turn it down, you get 80's rock, down to AC/DC, Zeppelin, etc. What I'm doing at the moment is playing with the volume down a bit. I'm using the channels in parallel. I have ch 2 on about 2, and Ch 1 just barely on to where it gives it some high end. It has a beautiful clean tone(at 2, it's band volume). It sounds very much like a Blackface Twin. It's just very sparkly. However you use them, these amps sound great. It's insane tone for the money. I cannot recommend them enough. I also have the 1990, and it's awesome, as well. If you are wanting a 4 hole 'Plexi' amp, then just get the 1960. It nails it. It will scratch that itch. The effects loop works great. The Rhoads mod is great, also. You don't have to jump the channels, it's done for you. Only thing is, if you want the Plexi overdrive, Van Halen, etc., you need an attenuator, or some kind of reactive load. It's insanely loud. The master volume in the back just doesn't sound right. It takes the power tube distortion out of the equation. Don't plan on using it. Bugera makes an attenuator for cheap. Go ahead and get it.

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I owned the first 1960 Bugera model and had to use a power brake to play at normal volume levels...The volume was just too loud in that amp. When Bugera redesigned the 1960 and may have corrected issues people like me had after owning it. Problems solved with the NEW model...They added great feature like a phase invertor that acts like a master volume but it actually never cuts the volume completely off rather it will drop the volume down to sound like a 5 watt amp. The cascaded mod is very interesting. A amp company did this to Rhandy's amp because he wanted more gain in his amp. It works just like that. The cascade mod uses the second channel as a main gain and the first adds girth. It's opposite to the how the first channel now works adding an internal jump to both. No need for a jump cable anymore to blend volumes, its already been done internally. This amp is a great bargain for what you get...It's not point to point wiring but the fact that they now include a self bias circuit with their infinium system which tells you when a power tube is bad is worth buying. This is testimonial the Infinium system works...I bought four EL34 replacement tubes and one turned out to be bad...I had two 6L6GC laying around so I tried two new EL34 and two 6L6GC tubes... The light went off indicating the tubes all worked and the amp sounds excellent...Yes you can blend tubes in this amp it works...

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Great value, great price point, great tone and should be bought by every serious musician. If you don't like it, return it. $500 is well worth buying for any amp head just to try out. The Bugera 1960 Infinium is one of the best amp deals out there!

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I have to say this head has by far surpassed all of my expectations!!! From the way it looks to the way it sounds is just so amazing!! And the service here at Zzounds is so Awesome!! Love doing business with Zzounds!!

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So I've own this amp for a month now and put 10 hrs or so on it and I must say this amp is impressive. I've always wanted that Marshall Plexi all tube sound and this is it. Now this amp doesn't have the nicest finish. But its whats in side that counts on this amp. The material that covers the out side is poorly fitted on the corners of the amp. The logos/badges on the other hand look great. Knobs and switches feel nice and firm. So if you don't care about looks but you do care about performance/sound this is it. I can pull Hendrix, Stevie , Page and Gilmore with this amp and some peddles easy. The head room is amazing. It goes from loud to stupid real fast. The FX loop has a bypass and a db boost too along with a master volume on the back . These are just a few of the things I like about there's plenty of more nice touches on this amp. All in all Bugera has made a nice amp here. I was on the fence for 2 weeks before I order this amp. I was holding out for a Marshall or Fender but I count see spending $1500 + on a Marshall or $1000 for a 25w Fender that I will take it out to play it and it get beat up while moving it.

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Firstly, I've owned at least one of every higher end tube amp at one time or another... there were some that were great, others so so, and most not so great IMO. I've had plexi's from many years, JMP's, JCM800's, etc. My most beloved was a 1982 JCM 800 2204 50w. Well, it got stolen, and shortly after I took a 5 year hiatus from music. Fast forward to now... I got back into the game and needed an amp just to mess around with, well for the price I figured I couldn't go wrong here, so I got the 1960. WOW!!!!!!!!!!! I simply cannot believe this thing cost 400 bucks. It sounds just like many of the old plexi's I had. I was searching reviews trying to figure out what amount of gain this thing was capable of and was unsuccessful, so here you go... With the cascaded gain and master volume, it can get up to a 2204/2203 JCM800 with a clean boost turned wide open in front of it... which is pretty gainy. Beautiful, actually.... it just SINGS. I have an eleven rack that I run straight into the FX loop for high gain stuff IT CRUSHES. Better than any bogner or recto I've had, in my opinion of course... just because the tweaking of the 11r is endless. I can't say enough good things about it really... I've tried a few other high gain bugera's and was just not that impressed... I guess tube high gain is just too hard for them to copy... If you're on the fence on the 1960... don't be.

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I recently sold all of my gear due to financial problems. All I ever wanted was an Amp that had that Plexi sound. I was doing research on amps when I saw on youtube this Bugera amp. Needless to say I was hooked! Amazing Tone no need for pedals and perfect for my budget.

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This a great amp very simple controls how I like them to be.This sucker is loud Reallly loud but keeps it's tone quality at higher volume. The head is actually bigger than it looks in the picture the same size as the old marshall plexi. This amp is a steal the master volume in the back helps a ton but it can still be louder great lows crisp high it's a very versatile amp for volume and genre style not sure for the heavier gain

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I have Friedmans I have vintage Marshalls I have Marshall clones I have 5150s and Fenders modelers pedals racks the list goes on. This amp absolutely nails the Plexi vibe to the point where it actually sounds more like a vintage Marshall than any of my other amps. They really hit it out of the park with this one. Manufacturer support is all but nonexistent but the seller supports this amp well. It's mainly a blues/classic rock amp with stuff like AC/DC and Guns n' Roses being its main core sound you can instantly identify. Make sure you use the right speakers before you dismiss this amp!!!! Real Celestion or other high end speaker required!!! Rock on!!! \m/

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I own an original Plexi and this amp is an exact clone. Very flexible with the master vol mod. Easily got classic AC/DC, Van Halen, and all of the other 70s hard rock sounds. Manual is lacking, check YouTube for tips on dialing in sounds.

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I originally use Line 6 equipment because of flexibility along with extensive effects, sound quality yet wanted a pure tube power amp for the vintage tone. My research was extensive and price didn't really play a role, I was prepared to spend as much as was needed to satisfy my tone habit, my addiction. Power, Vintage, Plexi, and British tone all played a role in my choice, almost purchased a 1959 reissue but decided this amp had what I needed. Out of the box and with a guitar with SD vintage pickups I was awed by the clear crisp tones I was hearing, I had planned to hear a warmer sound by other reviews but with this amp the clear tones can be brought to match the bell like cleans of the Vox yet the heavy compressed lows that are felt with any Marshall around! Not bad because I thought I would also be a Vox NT50 head to get those bell like cleans, no need this amp right out of the box does it all, a true Plexi. I ordered extra power JJ tubes for experimentation along with a set of ECC83 that are known to give more breakup crunch or gain, so according to some mixing the EL83's with 6L6's is better set up but not seeing it myself unless I use my active pickups. To conclude, I have to say overall I'm not sure why you would spend a lot for a plexi style amp when its a "Bugera 1960 Infinium" that satisfies the addiction! Yes, I am a tone addict!

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I got it delivered yesterday and i haven't stopped yet. All the sound i ever wanted in one amp..

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I bought this amp from zZounds, they seem to be the only one to actually carry this excelent sounding amp. I really like the tone in this amp but I wanted to try mix matching 6L6 and EL34 tubes at the same time. This amp allows for cross pollination of tubes and sounds amazing doing this. I am very happy with the tone out of the box but ecstatic that this amp offers so much for under $500. Check out my demo on YouTube JBM8863 see and listen to my full reviews playing through this excelent amp.

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Better than all the Marshall amps and features it was designed to imitate. Simply Brilliant. And the ability to mix and match tubes takes this amp to a whole new sonic dimension and level of sound tuning. Don't miss this amp!

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Wow, this amps held up great. Waited for a few months to write a review so I could be 100 percent sure I liked it as much as I thought I did when I first unboxed it. I can assure you I do! Wasn't expecting much considering the price, but this thing can easily keep up with a 70s Marshall JMP right out of the box. The one and only issue I've had with this amp is the preamp tubes going microphonic, as expected because I run this thing on 10. Replacing the stock tubes with higher quality just made this amp impress me even more. I still haven't replaced the power tubes, the infium system works.

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Ordered this from zZounds and within an hour of powering it on for the first time, it developed a fizzy sound with no response from the tone controls and then the power tubes starting red plating. Took it to an amp tech who diagnosed it as a faulty power transformer. This was on a brand new amp. Even more frustrating, zZounds charged me for the return shipping on this turd. That will be last dime I spend at zZounds and I'll never buy another Bugera product.

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