Behringer AM100

Easy to use. Choose the kind of guitar You want and You will get a sound something in that area. IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AMP!
Tweak it for different amps.

Well.. I thinck this pedal responds well with a good amp (or directly into the PA mixer) I tried it some time ago with my Strat and a Behringer gmx212 and kicked it into a corner. Not a good expirience! Didn't sound anything like an acoustic guitar.
Today I went back to the corner and picked it up and tried it with my strat and a Peavey Valveking 112. What a difference! Playing Beatles "Blackbird" sounded crisp and clear and allmost like the real thing.
No doubt a real acoustic is better, but this would be ok at a gig.

Rating: With a gmx212: 2. With a Peavey valveking: 8
Now lets see 2+8 divided by 2 is 5!

Oh! Plastic case, cheap jack sockets Dosn't turn me on.
Using at a gig? Well at the price they can be bought for I'd buy another one as backup.

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Actually it's an Ok pedal when used with the right amp. I don't like the plastic thou.

NOt sure of all the parameters - but there a few choices so just turn the knobs
Manual? is limited just fiddle with it

I have tried it with a line 6 amd and a fender solid state
There seems to be a click when switching it off but not sure if this can be avoided yet
Guitars - Strat Plus, Yamaha Nylon, Godin Mandolin
Given the price it creates a good simulated acoustic on my electric - When using Mando or Nylon it actually gives a convincing acoustic sound right through a guitar amp EVEN when the amp has a bit of overdrive - Not like miking or an acoustic amp but when I want to just use an electric amp I want the option to get the acoustic sound, switch it off and then add whatever effects

It is plastic but it seems to hold up well - I FIND the battery compartment a little annoying - I like to just be able to get it open and stick a battery in - this is a little clunky and you need to poke both sides -LIVE I patch it into the board
TOo soon to know if reliable

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I play Rock/blues/fusion/mid-eastern/ americana for over 25 years - I did not want to buy the Boss (an acoustic amp is a better value) So far I would buy it again - I like to play Mando and switch between acoustic sound and Hendrix wailing - so far this sounds great BUT THE VOLUME/Level may need to be pumped and you should search for the best sound depending on the configuration I use AM - Digitech Synth Wah - Vol. - Wah - Sansamps - TS9 - Delay -
Tried it for OVER THE HILLS OPENING and it sounds great! For $20 - Let's see if it lasts - If you are using one amp for electric, it makes a great way of playing Nylon, Mandolin through that amp

Well, I cant believe Ive fallen for it again........you know Ive been playing for years and I must be an eternal optimist, because I believe the hype.......forever hopeful that its really possible to get something really decent for next to nothing.........CMON THATS NOT POSSIBLE.....THIS IS A CHEAPO PEDAL AIMED AT THE NOVICE. IF YOU WANT TO SOUND LIKE THE DECENT BOSS VERSION, THEN SAVE UP AND BUY THE BOSS ONE!!
Anyway enough of my rant........it does sort of sound a bit acoustic at very low volumes-no good playing louder though, and definately not giggable.Very easy to use though.

I play through a 1984 jap strat with fat 50's (great pups!) peavy all valve-marshall compressor-wah.
I found at low vol. this sounded quite good. All the sounds are fairly similar though. However, I bought this to add something different to my band-but this is absolutely rubbish in a band situation. Not very musical - muffled and doesnt cut through AT ALL. And definately does not sound anything like an acoustic guitar at volume!
If you can play and are in a band dont even bother and pls dont take notice of the good reviews here-these are written by beginners or bedroom players.

Would not use it at a gig. Would use it to add a dif. sound to my 8trk stuff.
very plastic and cheap feeling. I wouldnt trust this.

Dont know.

I play all types of music- 60's to present.
Been playing about 17yrs
Would not buy again.
Didnt like it-though the idea is great. Might try out the boss one if I can get one cheap enough.
I wish it sounded like an acoustic at volume.
Only buy if youre a beginner with no idea what a decent sound is like.

easy enough , not complicated but it'll take some time for u to pick the right sound that u need.

the sound of this pedal depends Mostly on ur guitar.. It may sound thin on lighter guitars , also the strings can change the sound , 0.8 it'll sound weak.. 0.11 it'll sound great , but there's that Hissss thing but u can hear it when ur playing..
it's the Best that u can get with 35$ ..i haven't tried the Boss Ac ..but i don't think that there's lot of difference... so if u want Prestige by boss... and if u'll buy something good and cheap buy this one.
Im Using this pedal Thru a Gibson LP-studio > Marshall DFX-100 and it sounds great..

everything was Made to be broken! so as long as u treat it well..it'll serve u well..

for 35$ it's the best u can get!

Easy enough to use. Because I'm a dumbass, it took me a couple of tries to realize that I needed to crank the tone knob on my guitar to really have the pedal sound like anything at all. The manual is helpful enough, but as with all pedals, you have to play with it yourself to get it sounding the way you want.

I play a standard American Tele through a 1x12" tube amp. It sounds OK, but tends to hiss a bit when it's engaged, regardless of the settings. It takes a lot of tweaking to get anything close to an "acoustic guitar" sound, but for $35, nobody expects an amazing sound. If you want your guitar to sound like an acoustic, then play an acoustic.

Everyone seems to dump on the Behringer pedals for being made of plastic. I know it's called a "stomp box," but how do you people treat your gear? If you're jumping up and down on your pedals hard enough to break them, perhaps an acoustic sound isn't really what you're looking for anyway. Maybe someday it'll break, but at about a quarter of the cost of the competing BOSS pedal, I say stick with the plastic and treat it with respect. So far I've had no problems with the Behringer pedals.

Again, it's not going to make your guitar sound really close to an acoustic, so bearing that in mind, it's a good deal. Would I replace it if were stolen? Maybe, or maybe I'd use that spot on my board for a new Behringer pedal. At $35 a pop (no matter what the effect), there's a cornucopia of sounds that I'm willing to try out and then throw away if they suck. The AM-100's OK, it's more of a novelty than anything.

Easy to use. Just plug and play. Got a good result straightaway.

As I have no experience of the BOSS Acoustic Simulator it's difficult for me to judge. All I know if that I'd been itching to have a go at one and when this thing turned up I jumped at the chance!

With the electric guitar set up (Tele and 80W Marshall Valvestate)it does hiss although I'm not going to complain too much about that as it was #13! However, plugging my electro-acoustic into the same set up eliminated all hiss. I haven't tried it through PA yet but I think it'll work out fine.

As for sound, it does well to imitate an acoustic guitar from electric but I might end up using it to enhance a deeper sound from my narrow bodied acoustic. Sounded quite good. For the price, amazing.

It's feels very study for a plastic pedal. The BOSS-type rubber base makes it feel nice and solid. The battery cover/pedal is an ingenious design and I don't have any qualms about it exploding.

For #13 I have to say it looks incredibly well made. It may not be a BOSS but at that price, you could buy a spare and still be in the money.

Wouldn't worry too much if it ever self-destructed....

I couldn't believe how cheap these Behringer pedals are and they seem great value to play about with. I was especially pleased that it fitted snugly into my BOSS pedal case (BCB-60), and was compatible with the power supply (although having the input on the side wasn't great design).

I was in a music store today and bumped in a full rack of Behringer pedals. I guessed that for the price each it had to suck, but I could not resist to take home two: the AB100 line switcher and the AM100 acoustic guitar modeler.

What shall I say about ease of use of this unit? It has one 4 way switch and 3 knobs. If you can't control this, you lack brains.

Well, what would you expect for 19 euro's? This won't turn your elecric guitar into an acoustic. But for just 19 euro's, the sound really surprised me. I took it home without trying it before buying. At home I put it in front of my Line6 Spider amp and was baffled. With the pedal engaged, I got a far better clean sound than just the clean channel of the amp. Tweaking the knobs helped me get "best sound". The settings are enhance at 2 o'cloeck and resonance at 10 o'clock. It's possible to really f**k up the sound with the wrong settings.

Who cares for this price?? I'll never take this on stage (because I am a bass player). I just use it at home while playing my electric guitar. Maybe I'll take it camping and throw it in the campfire afterwards for fun and buy a new one.

Again, when broken, this will be replaced by a new one. By buying one.

Usually I do not review a unit without first thoroughly testing it. Today I did. Let me just tell you this: for a mere 19 euro's, this is awesome value. Pro's will think this is just a toy. F**k the pro's. I like it and I'll keep it. To be honest, you probably don't want to record a full length album with this on all the time, but you're not going to anyway, don't you?

Try and buy or, like me, buy and then try. No regrets.

Somewhat easy to use. There are more settings on this vs the other pedals. That is a plus and takes a little learning.

This is used with a custom strat. SS practice amp. The different acoustic pikcup emulations are fun. I got this to play along with my wife's acoustic and blend some. It does a nice job of that.

Haven't had it long enough to tell.

None needed so far.

I really like the sound of this AM100. It does a fine job of getting the acoustic type attack and sustain. Well worth the money.

very easy to get a good sound out of this box. So easy, you don't need a manual at all.

This box give me a mixed feeling. When you use it for the acc. sounds it sounds very, very convincing. Maybe not a Taylor or not a Martin, but for on stage in the mix of a band you will get a very nice accoustic sound. Works only good with single coils! I play it with a strat. than the AM100 then a POD2.3 (setting with VoxAC30, no cab.) than in a flat PA amp. Selector switch works perfect. Four diff. sounds. I use the Large setting. It makes a great difference when you dial other settings. Enhance knob is working correct. when you turn to max, you will hear max high frequency's! I set the enhance and body about 12 to 2 o'clock. The output level is a bit weak, but I can easely compensate with the POD. There is some hiss but again with my POD's noisegate no problem. I have a electro/accoustic from Ibanez, which sounds acc. beautiful, but through a PA terrible. I tried to use is in the band but it didn't work. Feedback was also a problem. So I give this stompox for the very nice sound and nonfeedback a 9!!
Now the other side of this box. In bypass mode it totally sucks my guitarsound away. Not a TRUE BYPASS in this box, oh no. Boss, Marshall, Ibanez don't have this too. I am very fond of the sound of my guitar with Bill Lawrence pickups. When I use the stompbox in bypass mode my guitar sounds through a telephone!!!! So Behringer I'm sorry, for this I give the rating a 1!!! Totally unusable!! Read on in the overall rating! So it ends up with a 5.

don't know. I assume that I can depend on it, even with the plastic (ABS) box. Me and my son have a lot of Behringer stuff/things and never had a problem with it.
A 7 for the plastic box.

Never dealt with the company.

I was so Pi...off that this box don't have a real bypass, that I ripped the electronics out of the plastic box, made a real metall one and build in a REAL BYPASS. So now it is working very well. Nice acc. sounds AND nice bypass sounds!!! When Behringer had done this, maybe it wouldn't be so cheap but than they would have a winner!! If it was stolen, I run to the store and get a new one, ripp it off and make again a metall case and bypass for it. Very good electronics and good sound. So the overall rating in the condition that I have it now, a big 9! Fantastic value totally usable

Really easy to get a good sound out of this right out of the box. Since my guitar can get really, really bright, I just set it on "Jumbo," max out the "resonance" and cut all of the "enhance."

I'm using my Epiphone Chet Atkins SST (the one with Chet's sig on the headstock from Korea). I took it out of the packaging, popped a Monster 9V battery in there and ran it straight into my Marshall AS50R's acoustic input and it was like going from tinny to deep, huge, & inspirational tone! Oh, there is *some* hiss that is added to the signal, but if you accentuate your highs on the guitar, you can turn the treble down on the amp, and viola! No more hiss! Someone mentioned that running it through an FX loop would yeild no hiss. However, for me, there was more hiss using the FX loop of my amp.

I'd like to think so. It is plastic, so I'm planning to treat it with care. I'l probably just leave it engaged the entire time sitting on top of my amp for gigs. It's my only one, so yes. No backup.

Never have and hope I never will.

I play modern rock and acoustic shuffle in our worship band and blues on the side. This is basically my simplified worship leading rig: Chet SSt --> AM100 --> Marshall AS50R. If I'm aiming closer to perfection, I add all the modulation effects of my Digitech RP-1 in the FX loop. As I said, the tone is getting me much closer to "inspirational," and that's what I demand form my tone and gear. But I'm also on a budget, which is why I sprang for the AM100 instead of the BOSS version. As far as I can tell, I got a good pedal at a great price. My simplified electric rig is: '92 Japanese Squier Strat --> Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive --> Vox AD30VT. I also have an Epi J160e mostly for unplugged use leading worship in a living room setting or writing songs.