Behringer Bass V-Amp Pro

The unit was easy to use out of the box and allowed me to make adjustments while playing live easily.
patches edited easily and saved easily.
The manual was easy to read except the color reference was wrong.
This was an up-graded unit.

I am using a 62 Jaz re-issue and a new Modulus. The unit is noisy even with nothing plugged in. The chorus and funk effects are distorted on lower notes I have stopped using the effects on the unit
I am using a SWR 750 and a 4x10 Eden cabinet. The distortion channels are great and have a lot of control

I have been burned by this unit. It does not hold it's memory after being moved and if there is the slightest voltage drop, it shuts down and does not allow any play through the DI.
I paid under $250.00 and still didn't get value on the unit.

I called and got blown off.
O would love to get .50 back from someone on the unit

I play Classic Rock, I need a higher quality unit. This is great for a non-pro player.
I have been playing for 32 years. I have way too much gear to list and would not replace this if it were stolen. I have already replaced the unit with an Agular pre-amp. I chose this unit because I needed something that day and it was cheap.
If you need a pre-amp save your money and spend the $1,000.00+ on a good unit.

Easy to use, the manual is OK. I bought this about 2 months ago so I think it's the latest revision.

I use mainly Fender basses and a Gibson Thunderbird bass. I've played my '72 Precision mostly through this unit. I also use a Line6 Bass POD (kidney version), and use both exclusively for recording. I have a GK 700RB for live work.

When I first got this unit, I oohed and ahhed over the presets. I also liked the I/O options and the price. But after a few projects I found the the presets didn't sound nearly as nice when mixed with other instruments. It's a universal recording truth that the bass sound will change as you add other sounds. OTOH, the Line6 doesn't sound all that impressive by itself, but hold up in a mix much better. At any rate, I found the Behringer to be a bit muddy and indistinguishable in a mix. After years of tweaking gadgets, I won't spend a lot of time fiddling with a box. If I can't get it fairly quickly I tend to move on, so I can't testify to a truly researched and tweaked patch. Maybe it sounds great tweaked, I don't know. The Line6 tends to need minimal tweakage and is friendlier to adjust in a mix.

The biggest exception to the above is my Gibson Thunderbird played through the "Boney" preset. Sounds _real_ close to a John Entwhistle sound. I think that alone makes it worth the keeping.

It comes on every time I hit the switch. Don't know much about Behringer reliability, most of my gear is more "pro" oriented (no arrogance intended).

Unknown. If it broke I'd probably throw it in the "closet of broken toys". It'd be cheaper to buy another one than to send this on in for repairs ;)

The "Boney" preset is basically the reason I keep this unit active. I don't need an Entwhistle-like sound that often, but it's the closest thing to it in a modeling box I've found. As for the rest of the sounds, well, I haven't really gotten consistent results. The Precision bass sounds really lost but my Jazz basses do a little better. The Thunderbird either sounds great or terrible, but they all tend to muddify in the mix. Given a little patience on my part, I think I could probably get some decent sounds out of this thing, but I've gotten lazy after tweaking innumurable little electronic boxes over the years.

Out of the box it's very easy to use and to dial up a sound. the patches are easily editable, also very easy to store....you do it once by the book and you know it all.

I bought this thing just with one idea in mind (SVT PRO Preamp) and I am not fully satisfied with the preamp.....other wise you get a lot of great sounds easily....much better than my VF-1 and very much easier...sometimes I get a pop when switching the patches but it's not buggin me. I am using it with a sort of custom Jazz bass with an EMG 35DC and then through a Warwick pro fet 4, but I am thinking of changing the warwick to a stereo power amp and Bi-amping it. Until now the sound I really want hasn't shown(I would like Pantera like sound) but i have got a great sound anyway.

I cannot say anything about reliability....had it only for a week, but my other FCB 1010 midi controller has been serving me great so...

I prefer it than my other Boss... you can get lots of different great sound from deepest sounds to high trebly ones. I say I would buy it again not for the truth of the preams it features but for the great sound you can get with it

First things first: this is not as easy to use as they say it is meant to be. There's an awful lot of knobs and buttons, so no matter what there's going to be a lot of fiddling around until you get the sound you want. Editing can be a bit difficult without the MIDI to your pc; if you do hook it up its as easy as you could want it. But again, a lot of fiddling around is needed to get results that you like.

What I wanted when i got this product was something that would give me a variety of sounds. I'm not exactly an authority on the exact sounds of various amps, I just try to achieve the sounds of various players (which of course is affected by your bass and playing style) but I have managed to reach John Myung's sound and Cliff Burtons mad distortion. Does a good impression of Roger Glover's sound as well... and you can get a nice funk sound too with the various models. Overall, it sounds pretty damn good. The FX are good, decent. I just wanted something to add balls to my rig and this does the job pretty well. A solid 8.

Well its made of metal and seems built like a tank. It's been banged about in car boots and scratched here and there and still works like new. And sits on top of my amp head for hours without any ill effects, so as long as you're as careful with it as you should be with any music equipment, it shouldn't present any problems.

Can't say... apparently, according to what i've heard, their USA Support is useless and their European support is excellent... havn't dealt with them myself but since i live in Europe i guess i get the better bargin...

For my various rock and metal needs, it fits the bill quite well. Good FX, nice sounding models, a variety of tones achievable, able to take any Spinal Tap-like disasters reasonably well. In the studio it makes a good direct recording tool, and according to what others have told me it does a reasonably convincing job of imitating the amps the makers claim it to be able to. The Tube Preamp setting is useful and sounds pretty cool, and the Mesa imitation sounds excellent too. I use this with my Hartke 4000 head, and the combination allows me to dial virtually any sound i want it to. However, having said that, if you want that full, balls-out, Ampeg/ Sovtek tube sound, get a tube amp. This sort of equipment is meant for recording stuff easily and using in live situations for those of us who cannot afford the classic amps. But I'm not complaining, i get the sound i want...

Pro
- Editing software makes patch edits much easier
- some of the effects are good
- many options for connection

Con
- Manual is mostly useless, some features are left out
- Adjusting patches thru the front panel is a bit complex

Pro
- it's pretty

Con
- pre-amp is extremely noisy, with nothing plugged in and using headphones there is a tremendous amount of crap in the signal. I tried every combination of possible adjustments to no avail. If modeling hiss and rumble is your goal, this is the unit for you
- As the bass string signal decays a good deal of random signal noise shows up
- presets are pretty much useless assortment bad noises

I e-mailed Behringer with concerns about the first unit I bought and received a prompt reply, unfortunately they told me the noise was due to faulty manufacture and that I should return it for another. The second one was just as bad. Kudos for the quick reply, dings for being wrong.

I have returned one to try a second and now it's going back (thank you Musicians Friend). I wanted a pre-amp to help massage some nice tones out of a Sound Gear 885 and Hartke amp. I really wanted to like this unit but all it does is add noise.

It is very easy to use, especially if you have a Midi Interface so you can tweak with your computer screen. The Manual could be a little better explained, specially due to all the knobs - bottons that you have to press if you don't have a computer interface. It has an excellent explanation of the connections type so you can match impedances and achieve a better sound.

I use a LTD B105 5 string bass. I am not a bass player, although I need to lay down some bass tracks. It is a very nice unit, allowing you to have different configurations for live and recording uses. For example you can choose between A stereo Amp+Cab+FX output, or an Amp+Cab+FX mono + Direct. It ain't noisy, the FX are so so, compared to my Lexicon MPX G2, but usable. The bass models sound good, I have no idea if they sound like the originals, but you can get a wide pallette of tone colors, from ultra low, to growling mids. I also had the Bass Pod, to me this one has better tones to my ears, at almost half the price in a rack format with TR 1/4 Unbalanced outputs, XLR Blaanced, S/PDI, and more.

Seems nicely built. Haven't had any problems with it so far.

I like hard rock, and grunge. This unit can give you a wide variety of tones.