[Jonboy79]

Originally Posted by SLO-MAN

The other guitar player in our band recently bought a 333XL to replace his truely crappy sounding Marshall Valvestate. He brought it to rehearsal, and it was actually pretty good sounding. Not quite a Soldano, He he, but a huge improvement over the ValveState marshall POS.

Anyhow, he was pretty happy with it for about 3 weeks. At which point, it started making an intermittant crackling sound when the FX loop was being used. It got progressively worse to the point that the loop was unuseable. We changed tubes, and did all the basic trouble shooting stuff. No dice.

He took it back to GC, and they gave him a new one. Once again 3 weeks TO THE DAY, the lead channel decides to quit working. Smack the side of the cab, and it works for a few seconds, and then quits again.

He decides he's had enough, and takes it back for a refund. The sales guy tells him that he won't recomend these things to anyone now because most all of em come back, and it's just more work for them having to deal with a return, and an unhappy customer.

In the end, he got his money back, and bought a used JCM900 for $700 which is like 15 yrs old, and it's still working fine.

SLO

That's kind of weird because none of the GC's around me carry Bugeras, none of the salesmen found any in their system and their website mentions nothing about carrying them either. You sure he bought it at GC?