Behringer AM100

Easy as any pedal. The packaging makes it very convenient to store as the card slides open to put the pedal in and out, assuming you remove the staples when you first get it, and don't rip it open. The DC jack for external power is on the input cable side which I would prefer on the top. A right angle plug on your patch cable could cover the DC jack depending on how you place the cable. Still totally usable.

I am using an Ibanez GRX40 (Strat style with H-S-S) with a solid state Randall amp. I found it very easy to get a variety of sounds out of it. I found that using the humbucker into it is a bit too much input and will cause it to distort the treble with harder strumming. Backing down on the guitar volume control prevents this. Single pickups sound better to me and still allow for a lot of sound choices. I generally run the enhance and resonance controls between 12 and 2 o'clock and like the top two switch positions. Given the price, I have to give it a 10.

Looks very sturdy and reasonably reliable for a $20 pedal. Like almost any pedal, if you drop it on the knobs or step on the knobs controls I'm sure they would break in short order.

Never dealt with them, but I have a variety of Behringer stuff and have had no trouble with any of it.

I lead a worship band, playing a variety of styles. In the middle of a set, I needed to be able to immediately get an acoustic sound without changing guitars. This pedal fit the bill perfectly.

My Overall rating has to be a 10!! Purchased online at music123.com with FREE shipping. The whole new line of low-cost stompboxes from Behringer are a great value in my opinion. I have several and find they compare well with the way-overpriced $100 pedals we were trained to pay for all these years !!

If I lost, I would buy again immediately.

This unit lacks significant instructions but to dial the sound type is easy enough.

I have tried this unit using an Ibanez Artcore AF75 and a Gibson les Paul Jr Special through a Crate GX60. This pedal makes a huge amount of noise if plugged from the guitar into the pedal then into the amp but when I plugged it into the effects loop the noise greatly reduced and the unit became pleasurable. much like an acoustic guitar the guage of the strings makes a big difference, with .009s thin and twangy with .011s much, much more convincing.

It is made out of plastic but it looks Ok

I called up Behringer to complain about the noise they tried to be helpful but it was me who figured out that if you used it in the effects loop the noise dissapeared.

I play classic rock and was looking for a quick change to an acoustic sound on stage. It seams like the pedal is an OK value but what bothers me is the need for the effects loop. If your amp doesn't have one the pedal is useless. On the other hand If you knew this info before you bought it could represent a a very good pedal and a very nice value.

Not terribly complicated but not as easy as other pedals to get a nice sound out of it. I just got this a week ago and haven't bothered with the manual, though I'm already familiar with the Boss version of this, which is definitely, er, similar.

I started with all the knobs dimed and it sounded very awful. I backed them all back here and there and started to get something reasonable. I had to try a lot of different combinations before I settled on setting that I've decided is as good as it's going to get. Not puzzling at all, just not "magic" right out of the box.

It sounds pretty much like the Boss version, only weaker, meaning it's not a great acoustic modeller (nor is Boss's, IMO). There are some decent acoustic modelling patches in some multi-fx units I've tried here and there, but even the better ones can leave something to be desired, though I imagine anyone and everyone knows this is the reality, so I won't get into it further. It changes your sound all right, gives it "acoustic" flavor, but no substitute, sound-wise, for the real thing.

I must stress that the pedal is weak. Even with the "Level" dimmed it cuts my signal. Bumping up the other settings helps but also whacks out the EQ in ugly ways, and adds hiss. I know it's supposed to change the sound from "electric" to "acoustic" but it can really knock the balls off your signal and tone. My actual acoustic guitar belts out my playing with balls. This doesn't. I don't know any other way to put it.

About the hiss, and more about the sound: Was terrible at first. I've tinkered with this new pedal every night for a week now, and I've gotten better results now, but it took some trial and error. For one, I had to put a battery in it to get the fidelity in a usable range. Both power sources I used (Boss & Visual Sound) gave me horrible hiss. With a battery, it's much better. Also, it WILL clip if you hit it with too much signal. I had it after my boost pedal and it distorted awfully. Now it first in my chain, which is, again, much better.

The mode switch doesn't do much at all. Changes the tone slightly, but no one setting is discernably 'better' than the others. You just pick one and forget it.

So: IF you go easy on the "Enhance" and "RES" (which at high settings will whack out the sound, and not in a good way), and IF you use a guitar and amp that aren't sensitive to hiss (or, better yet, go with a DI box), and IF you use a battery, and IF you don't put it after any FX that raise the signal level, and IF you dime the "Level" knob so there's little no volume drop, THEN you have yourself a nice little pedal that gives you a whole other "acoustic" gear to switch to at the stomp of your toe.

Not what I'd call a great sounding pedal, but a nice flavor if set well.

Errrr... it's all plastic and feels it. When you switch it on/off there's a plastic-on-plastic 'snap' to it that's not very reassuring, but to be fair it hasn't failed to engage or disengage once so far, not in the least, so maybe it's stronger than first impressions would have you believe.

I got this for recording, for experimenting with tones, so it'll receive the loving, in-studio treatment exclusively. I honestly don't imagine falling in love with the sound enough to ever feel like I'd need it at a gig.

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I would never use this seriously or as an actual substitute for an acoustic guitar, but it's kinda cool for what it is, considering the price. I got this 'cause I like processing sound and variety in tones, and it was cheap.

I wish the fidelity was better. It's kind of a toy, nothing more. Not unusable though, once set correctly, and actually can be nice in ideal conditions. I looking forward to trying it with different instruments than guitar, just for fun.

Really easy to use: you've a switch for the 4 modes, three knobs about the volume and resonances. Just turn the last two knobs a few and you'll find all the sounds you need

Well, it's not like a "real" acoustic, it's a great imitation anyway!! It's better than more acoustic sounds from piezo pickup on electric guitar. If you have the possibility to place a Eq after this pedal you'll be able to get a real cool acoustic sound...
There's only a thing that leave me a bit disappointed: the Enhance control produce a bit of noise....

It's a cheap pedal... The sound it's really great, the body not so much: it's all plastic and the In-Out outputs don't have the "classic" screwnut...
Replacing battery it's a bad thing: you've to find a small pointed thing to push the hinges, and the room for the battery isn't so large...
Anyway it seem strong: unless you drop it or jump on it the pedal should work well for a lot....

Behringer it's a really good company, I already use other Behringer products and I've never had a single problem... I hope for this pedal will be the same...

Apart from the little bit of noise and the plastic, this pedal it's a fantastic thing!!

1 switch (4 modes Standard, Large, Piezo & Bright)
3 Knobs - Level (output level), Enhance (i.e. amount of brilliance added) and Res(onance) (i.e. resonence of the acoustic guitar body)

Enhance is strange, it seems to get duller as it goes to max (not what I was expecting).

Res is great for filling out the sound.

Ok, I wasn't expecting it to actually sound like an acoustic as such (other acoustic modellers don't sound much like one either to be fair).

Using the pedal on its own into a really nice clean setting on my Amp (line 6 Flextone 2) and using an Epiphone Les Paul the guitar sounded great, I then turned the pedal on and got a lovely full sound. Turn the pedal off and my once great sounding clean sound, now sounds thin and wimpy. Turn the pedal back on and it sounds full again.

I also used it with a V-amp pro on various settins with similar results.

I used in in conjunction with other modulation effects, (this pedal before the modulation) and it sounds good. Less good afterwards (obviously).

My only gripe though, is that it has noticable noise when switched on (even the missus noticed it). I'm not sure I'd use it for recording. I might use it live though.

I've only had it a day, but it is very plasticy. I've stomped on it a couple of times and not deprssed it enough so it either never went on or never went off (operator error).

This doesn't really bother me, since it is mounted on a pedal board so is unlikely to be kicked around too much.

Getting into the battery compartment is a bit strange, you have to insert a biro into the pedal hinges. Which is fine at home. Maybe difficult to find two biros on stage though when using batteries.

I own \ have owned quite a few bits of Behringer gear over the years and the only thing that has even not worked was a V-amp I dropped and smashed a knob off. So that was my own fault.

For #13 if this broke I'd just buy a new one. (It'll cost more to repair it than buy a new one) and use the casing to house a home made effect or something.

Overall, I never thought this would remotely sound as nice as a miked up acoustic guitar, however I'm liking what it does to fill out my guitar sound. I'm slightly disappointed with how noisy it is.

I final thing which I like and may use later is that it has two outputs (Out and direct out). When you use both outputs the pedal acts like an A\B box, So when the pedal is activated, you get the affected signal through the out and the direct out is muted. When the pedal is de-activated the out is muted and the direct out plays the uneffected signal.

Acoustic Modeller - 4 modes Standard, Large, Piezo, Bright, LEVEL. ENHANCE ( its like a harmonic treble thing) and RES (adds bass and fatness, gives the sound body.
Easy to use

I sounds the same if not better than the boss. I tried an les Paul, very good, A tele, and ES355 which is the best of them.
Each guitar has its only sound through this pedal, more so than just played normally. This pedal really does enhance the sound. It takes the MID out and gives it more of a bass treble curve. Only used this for an hour, but its sounds as good as a acoustic pickup. I have a Taylor and wanted to get lazy by using an electric. This pedal is for me. It sounds like the boss maybe better. I haven't used one but have heard it used many times. So would like someone to A/B this. But if you are thinking about it Get it. Its fine.

Plastic. not as strong as a danelectro but still ok better than a cheap 'O Arion. Click sounds like a micro switch like on a game pad so should last years as long as you don't stamp on it, I don't so it will be fine. Anyway its #15 I'd get another one.
I might get more so i can set up each guitar. I love this pedal!

for the price it has to be a 10 its sound good. It wont make it sound like a real acoustic, but then again a real acoustic sounds fake with a piezo anyway, so to me it sounds the same. Its really about what guitar you want to play live, I want to play my ES355 and switch it half way to an electric. that what this pedal is for. forget Boss too. why spend all that money when you can get this.