| The 1960s witnessed the creation of amp designs destined to remain the
choice of guitarists for centuries to come. Those that survived may
have very different flavors, but they all have one thing in common:
they respond very dynamically to the player’s nuances. BUGERA captures
these amps’ musicality in a stunning 1x12 combo(V55) and amp head
(V55HD) whose modern touches put a wider palette of vintage voicings at
your fingertips. With a proud pair of 6L6 power valves in the output
stage, the V55HD bathes your guitar in clean Cali
Dressed in classic two-tone
vinyl, running on one power and one preamp valve and featuring
bone-simple controls, the BUGERA V5 looks like a carefully constructed
nostalgia trip. In fact, in many ways, it is! But plug into this
beautiful little amp and you’ll not only find a sound that’s caked in
real vintage raunch, but also modern features that take this sound to
places it couldn’t go—until now.
Big Sound, Small Package
Rock
music brings to mind amplifiers as big as skyscrapers, dishing out
irreversible ear damage at ruthless volumes. But a studio secret among
guitar greats is that little low-watt valve combos like the V5 can be
maxed out for red-hot overdriven tone without blowing fuses or
incurring any property damage.
The
V5 is a living, breathing homage to those half-pint screamers of the
past, but with two very important improvements. See, this amp may be
small, but 5 watts in Valvesville is still loud as hell when it’s
sitting in your bedroom. That’s why the V5 features a switchable power
attenuator that allows you to run 5, 1 or 0.1 Watts. An attenuator
reduces the amplitude of a signal without changing its sound. That
means you can still drive the valves into banshee-league fury, but
without waking up the neighbors.
Finding
a headphone out jack on an all-valve guitar amp is incredibly rare
because the integration requires loading the output transformer and
filtering the signal for a loudspeaker simulation. (Translation: it’s a
pain in the ass!) But in true BUGERA fashion, we’ve gone the extra mile
to allow you some late night practicing. Just plug in a pair of
headphones to the 1/4" phones jack on the back panel, and you’re ready
to keep the V5’s all-valve sound all to yourself. Then again, if it’s
more volume you need, the V5 has a 1/4" Speaker Out jack that allows
you to connect an additional speaker with a minimum impedance of 4
Ohms. This dangerous dandy also features the same studio-caliber
digital reverb found in its bigger BUGERA brothers. The spring reverb
found in the V5’s post-war predecessors sounds lovely, but is delicate
and expensive to repair. The V5’s modern update gives you an equally
mesmerizing vintage reverb sound without the wallet-draining vintage
reliability.
Little Wonder
With
the V5 in your home or studio, your tonal woes are over. It bears the
true sound of an antique 5W valve amp, it’s built to survive abuse, and
its price tag is tons lighter than the ones you’ ll find tied to its
elders. Adopt a V5 today and get ready to pack 60 years of sonic
inspiration into your recording or practice sessions.
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