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Mad-Mike · 16th January 2009

My main Gigging Amplifier is a Bugera 333XL I bought this past July, it's been great till recently....Unfortunately, the 333XL has plastic Jacks....the bane of my Amplifier owning existence!

Last night I went almost 100% full blown Kurt Cobain on stage because the god damned thing's speaker outputs came loose and would not output. Then I found out the cable was also a part of the problem....good thing I have a better made (eg. HOME MADE) replacement at home that is also shorter and allows more bandwidth.

The rest of it was all my own dumb fault....getting frustrated and smashing a guitar stand to smithereens, and landed on the footswitch cable, cut all but the white wire (I have a 6262 footswitch that the sometimes cocky and arrogant guy who sold it to me claims is the "right one" for the amp...bull!). Had to rewire that and wrap it in electrical tape.

Many have bitched about the plastic knobs, I speared the midrange knob on the clean channel with the headstock of my Fender Jaguar...well, I can say those passed the durability test with flying colors.

I've never had any real problems with Behringer's stuff, just the Bugera. I'm thinking of working on a "road ready" mod kit for this thing, since it would be a great gigging amp, if only it were not for the shoddy plastic output jacks. Problem will be isolating the hot ground from the chassis, since I think that's the reason for the plastic jacks on the front, but I think I can work that problem out (fiberglass isolators). Still does not reach Peavey crap level, at least my high gain input works despite losing the nut and the external portion of the input jack, unlike my old Peavey Rage 158 that I had when I was starting out, where I wound up cannibalizing it's own Headphone and Line-In Jacks every weekend to get a working input.

Otherwise, there's not much to complain about, I got 6 months with no problems out of the original tubes, and it's been beat around quite a bit in the back of several trucks and still looks new and sounds great. But god, I don't EVER want to go through another gig where my sound cuts out due to bad input/output jacks and cables. I've got enough problems with Chinese made alarm clocks as it is, I don't need guitar gear giving me hell too.

16th January 2009	#8
Mad-Mike Gear interested Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 4	My main Gigging Amplifier is a Bugera 333XL I bought this past July, it's been great till recently....Unfortunately, the 333XL has plastic Jacks....the bane of my Amplifier owning existence! Last night I went almost 100% full blown Kurt Cobain on stage because the god damned thing's speaker outputs came loose and would not output. Then I found out the cable was also a part of the problem....good thing I have a better made (eg. HOME MADE) replacement at home that is also shorter and allows more bandwidth. The rest of it was all my own dumb fault....getting frustrated and smashing a guitar stand to smithereens, and landed on the footswitch cable, cut all but the white wire (I have a 6262 footswitch that the sometimes cocky and arrogant guy who sold it to me claims is the "right one" for the amp...bull!). Had to rewire that and wrap it in electrical tape. Many have bitched about the plastic knobs, I speared the midrange knob on the clean channel with the headstock of my Fender Jaguar...well, I can say those passed the durability test with flying colors. I've never had any real problems with Behringer's stuff, just the Bugera. I'm thinking of working on a "road ready" mod kit for this thing, since it would be a great gigging amp, if only it were not for the shoddy plastic output jacks. Problem will be isolating the hot ground from the chassis, since I think that's the reason for the plastic jacks on the front, but I think I can work that problem out (fiberglass isolators). Still does not reach Peavey crap level, at least my high gain input works despite losing the nut and the external portion of the input jack, unlike my old Peavey Rage 158 that I had when I was starting out, where I wound up cannibalizing it's own Headphone and Line-In Jacks every weekend to get a working input. Otherwise, there's not much to complain about, I got 6 months with no problems out of the original tubes, and it's been beat around quite a bit in the back of several trucks and still looks new and sounds great. But god, I don't EVER want to go through another gig where my sound cuts out due to bad input/output jacks and cables. I've got enough problems with Chinese made alarm clocks as it is, I don't need guitar gear giving me hell too.