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Henriksen "The Bud" Guitar Amp

Henriksen "The Bud" Guitar Amp

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For musicians who value portability as much as performance, Henriksen’s “The Bud” has a lot to offer. This feature-rich, 120-watt amp delivers cleaner-than-clean tone from your electric or acoustic guitar—and at 9 inches on each side of the cube and just 17 pounds, it’s easy to bring to every gig Read More

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Banjobob
0
Dec 10, 2017
One of the guys I gig with has "the Bud"...after working with him on a job, I decided to get rid of my old and very expensive and 37 lb. amp and to buy a Bud! Best sounding, best giging amp for smaller venues that I've ever used in my fourty years of playing.
tostejohn
1
Jul 4, 2016
I have no personal experience with this Henriksen amp. It may be a fine product. The elusive yet all important "sound quality " may be stellar and make it worth the price. In my experience: a small, portable, loud, reliable, good sounding amp is the ZT Lunchbox. It has fewer features; it's also less expensive.
infy
5
Jun 30, 2016
So, this is a solid state amp for clean players. It falls under that category of 'portable' Jazz amps. But what exactly is the technology that this amp offers that makes it command the price of standard amps that are 'staple' now like the Fender Bassbreaker, Hot Rod Deluxe, Roland Blues Cube, Jazz Chorus, Egnater Tweaker, Marshall DSL40c and the like?
Wattage doesn't equate to volume at all, the fact that this is 150W doesn't actually mean anything. In fact, I guarantee a Fender Blues Junior III 15W or the Bassbreaker 15W would be far louder.
I'm just confused by the vague video and spec, as to what the actual selling point of this amp is? It can't just be the non-standard EQ that drives the price up by $500-600. It seems like it's just a standard solid state amp with a non standard EQ and overall, fairly sub-standard I/O.
oldgearhead
233
Jul 1, 2016
Or a 65 Twin Reverb reissue, which is what I have.
infy
5
Jul 1, 2016
I don't mean to undermine everything you just said but I'm going to undermine everything you just said. I have no foul intentions but I can't allow you to blindly lie in my face as a guitarist of 15 years.
I think you'd be surprised how loud a Fender amp can get and still be crystal clean. I have a USA Hot Rod Deluxe 40W 1x12 and I can't even turn it past 1 and that is gigging volume. That's volume efficiency. Yes, it's heavy. Yes, it's a stadium amp. Yes, it's cheaper. I won't go citing the massive list of Jazz artists that use Fender amps because it would encompass this entire post, but you get the picture.
A 15W Bassbreaker wouldn't just be louder, clean, because of any misconception in wattage discrepancy, it would be louder because it has a larger, more efficient speaker. A 12" ceramic magnet Celestion V-Type none the less, that speaker on its own is $100, the Eminence Beta 6.5" speaker found in this amp is only $60 of the cost, again making me question where the money actually goes in this amp.
The speaker in this amp is not a guitar voiced speaker, it is a speaker you would find in an Active PA system as a Bass or Midrange driver. But don't listen to me on that, here's the spec sheet. http://www.eminence.com/speakers/speaker-detail/?model=Beta_6A
Also, the alternatives use Valves, which means you get a beautiful, dynamic harmonic response. This is something solid state amps can not do.
Not gonna lie, I don't need to own either amp to say that this wouldn't even come close to the volume of the 15W Bassbreaker, clean, purely based on the speaker size. I've played enough small speakers to know. This is an amp aimed directly at the small-gigs-only Jazz artists with more money than sense, it was a fad started at last years Spring NAMM show and it didn't catch on. This is not the only amp in this category that didn't catch on and is 'on sale' now.
If I was a Jazz artist and I was going for beautiful cleans for small gigs, I'd be going with the all-new for this year Roland 'JC-40' Stereo Jazz Chorus 2x10" 40W. Yes, Roland brought it back. It's a better amp in all regards bar portability.
If you want something that does this job of being a perfectly clean representation of what you are producing, do yourself a favour and buy a small active PA, because that's all this is.
Sorry.
WALRUSWHISKERS
49
Jun 30, 2016
.......but this one goes to 11!
Chan
11
Jun 29, 2016
Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
oldgearhead
233
Jul 1, 2016
ChanFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Up to eleven,” also phrased as “these go to eleven,” is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the movie This Is Spinal Tap, where guitarist Nigel Tufnel proudly demonstrates an amplifier whose volume knob is marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten.
The 11 markings just seem to be marketing nonsense.
Chan
11
Jul 1, 2016
oldgearheadYeah - what I posted is the direct quote from the movie when Nigel shows off that particular feature from his amplifiers.
ssotangkur
2
Jun 29, 2016
This amp is really good cuz the volume knob goes up to 11, not just 10 like on lesser amps.
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I don't mean to undermine everything you just said but I'm going to undermine everything you just said. I have no foul intentions but I can't allow you to blindly lie in my face as a guitarist of 15 years. I think you'd be surprised how loud a Fender amp can get and still be crystal clean. I have a USA Hot Rod Deluxe 40W 1x12 and I can't even turn it past 1 and that is gigging volume. That's volume efficiency. Yes, it's heavy. Yes, it's a stadium amp. Yes, it's cheaper. I won't go citing the massive list of Jazz artists that use Fender amps because it would encompass this entire post, but you get the picture. A 15W Bassbreaker wouldn't just be louder, clean, because of any misconception in wattage discrepancy, it would be louder because it has a larger, more efficient speaker. A 12" ceramic magnet Celestion V-Type none the less, that speaker on its own is $100, the Eminence Beta 6.5" speaker found in this amp is only $60 of the cost, again making me question where the money actually goes in this amp. The speaker in this amp is not a guitar voiced speaker, it is a speaker you would find in an Active PA system as a Bass or Midrange driver. But don't listen to me on that, here's the spec sheet. http://www.eminence.com/speakers/speaker-detail/?model=Beta_6A Also, the alternatives use Valves, which means you get a beautiful, dynamic harmonic response. This is something solid state amps can not do. Not gonna lie, I don't need to own either amp to say that this wouldn't even come close to the volume of the 15W Bassbreaker, clean, purely based on the speaker size. I've played enough small speakers to know. This is an amp aimed directly at the small-gigs-only Jazz artists with more money than sense, it was a fad started at last years Spring NAMM show and it didn't catch on. This is not the only amp in this category that didn't catch on and is 'on sale' now. If I was a Jazz artist and I was going for beautiful cleans for small gigs, I'd be going with the all-new for this year Roland 'JC-40' Stereo Jazz Chorus 2x10" 40W. Yes, Roland brought it back. It's a better amp in all regards bar portability. If you want something that does this job of being a perfectly clean representation of what you are producing, do yourself a favour and buy a small active PA, because that's all this is. Sorry.
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