Behringer BXL 3000

Amp is great for my country/gospel style. Could use more power for five and six string basses. As far as adjustments go, there's really not much. Unless you plan to use this for country or Gospel, get something else. I like mine, but like I said, I like it for MY style.

Good clean sound. Has a rattle that the front cover makes and I have taken the cover off to be sure and it stopped. I cannot for the life of me figure out why it rattles, but it is only heard standing right next to it playing SOLO. Clean channel distotrs at high volume. Speaker is half the watts of the amp. Onece I get a new speaker this may well be the greatest amp for the buck, but this speaker cannot handle the amp. Behringer knows this now and knew it when they made the amp. That's why they get a 4 here!

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They get a five for being stupid. If you're going to make a product with features and with high wattage, make sure EVERYTHING matches and works before you ship it out the door.
Again, don't misunderstand me, if you're looking for the perfect amp for church, this is a real steal.

It has two channels, the first being clean, and the second with overdrive, which took some playing around with to get it to sound decent, but works well enough. For drive, I prefer to go through a Russian Big Muff Pi anyway, so no complaints there. There's a 7-band EQ which I found quite useful. The "ultrabass" function is a little useless, but I suppose usable if you're trying to get a sort of dark and muddled sound. The compressor is probably less than ideal, but still occasionally useful, although I don't often use it for the music I play anyway. It comes with a footswitch that switches between channels, as well as toggling the rather useless octave generator.

It's got one 1/4 inch input, a 1/4 inch headphone jack, a DI out (which I don't use), 1/4 inch line out, FX in/out, and a stereo in (so you can play along to you mp3 player or plug it into you computer with the correct cable.

As far as features I wish it had, really just a better compressor and some reverb would have been nice. Also, it would have been nice if the footswitch could be used to toggle the EQ and compressor as well.

I use the amp at home, as well as lugging it around to jam (beware, it weights almost 70 lbs.) and can be slightly awkward to carry around.

I had to play around with the settings for a while before I got the sound I wanted, but I suppose it just comes down to taste. I play it through an Iceman bass (ICB 200), and works for pretty much all the music I play (some jazz, a lot of Muse, and my own compositions). The clean does seem to lose a small amount of clarity when cranked all the way up, but I really have no experience playing it at that volume with other people, so I can't say whether it would even be noticeable or not.

Supposedly it's 300 watts, but it doesn't seem like it to me, although maybe that's because I'm thinking of the ear piercing sound produced by a 300 watt overdriven guitar amp.

Haven't had any problems with it so far, and if I dropped it, I would worry a lot more about the floor than the amp. It's got sturdy construction, that's for sure. I haven't really had it long enough to give it an accurate rating, but I'm pretty sure it would be safe to gig with without needing a backup, although of course a backup never hurts (except perhaps the wallet).

Never needed to.

Although I just started playing bass, I've played guitar for the past 10 years, so I have a lot more musical experience not specific to bass. If it was stolen, I would probably hunt it down and then drop it on whoever stole it. If I lost it, I would probably look around at other bass amps in the price range, but there's a good chance I would buy it again. In my search for an amp, it was certainly the most full featured amps in the price range, and one of the only ones with a 15 inch speaker. Definitely was well worth what I paid for it.

I bought this amp new in Germany through Thomann Musikhaus, a large mail order firm. It has only one channel, "300" watts into 4 ohms through a built in 15" speaker. There is a headphone out jack, and bizarrely, no extra speaker output! Since the onboard speaker is 4 ohms, you couldn't attach another cabinet anyway without pushing the ohmage too low. So I think this is really a 150 watt amp.
There is a compressor which sounds marginal at best, and a octave generator which sounds aweful and is unusable. It's also heavy and a backbreaker to move for such a small amp.

I play several Fender type basses, and play classic rock, progressive and country.
This amp sounds terrible! I have a small Behringer mixer I use with PC recording software which I love, so I thought this would be as good (it's 6 years old and maybe quality has slipped - not sure).
The sound is grainy and undefined. It sounds nowhere near a 300 watt amp and sounds honestly more like a 65 watt amp! The only way to get any volume other than a quiet couph is to use the compressor, and then you're stuck with compressed tone which I don't much like anyway.
The knobs on the front panel seem to be "monolithic" which is not real pots but just sliding pieces of metalized plastic over a PC board. They have no resistance and no real feeling of reactivity as you use them.
The "ultrabass" feature is just a crappy sounding octave generator which craps out on the high strings (?!?) So if you try to use it to solo (which I wouldn't recommend anyway) it stops working above the 12th fret!

Haven't used it enough to break it.

This amp is unfortunately far less than a glorified practice amp, and I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. As soon as possible I'm selling it and going back to Carvin or Peavey, which both sound a thousand times better. I'm still surprised because the much smaller Behringer 300 practice amp sounded far better in the store where I tried it. I think it's an issue of more features - crappier amp.