Behringer TO800 Vintage Tube Overdrive

Too easy to use. Only three knobs: drive, tone and level.

I just plugged my cheap les paul copy in this pedal and plug it on my Peavey Bandit amp. Great sound for blues and classic rock. The sound of the 60's and 70's. Rich and deep. A great pedal for who don't have money to buy a good valve amplifier and use its overdrive. Very very close to the Ibanez Tube Screamer 808, that costs so much money. I think the pedal could has a bit more punch, but Ibanez TS doesn't has too.

The plastic chassis doesn't look so strong, but I think it's strong enough to use at home (except you have the weight of an elephant). If you don't abuse it, the pedal doesn't will broke, I guess. The knobs looks fragile and the jacks are made of plastic, so I cannot give a better note for reliability. I hope don't have problems with the pedal in the future, 'cause it has a very good sound.

I don't know. Never tried to talk with the company.

For a blues or classic rock sound, it's so good, with an incredible price. The same sound of the expensive Ibanez Tube Screamer, but costs a few bucks. Great price and great tone even. If it were stolen, I would buy another as soon as possible. A bargain.

Three knobs - Drive - Tone - Level - IMHO very easy to use

As a DIY Amp Tech I modded the preamp stage of my typical 60s Fender channel. I added a 12AX7 tube to be driven by the first two stages. (like a Fender Champ II - Rivera series). If you ever heard this driven tube sound (it's incredible dynamic even at living room at 10 pm volume settings) you know what to expect. This is exactly the same sound. I just couldn't believe my ears but the TO800 is as warm and responseful to the players attack like the tube amp. Got its name "Tube Overdrive" with justification. It wouldn't change the guitars overall sound. Tone control is very effective. Don't know if it sounds like its paragon (TS808) but it sure sounds amazing.

It's made to step on it. Should be reliable at least for this. Didn't have a look at the battery compartment cause I use it with power supply unit.

I play blues and R&B with a 62 RI Strat through several selfmade amps with Blackface or british channels. Sometimes modded as I mentioned above. I bought the TO800 to keep the clean channel at low settings and crunch it up with this pedal for some SRV stuff. The british channel gets more sustain when used with it. Great improvement.

Self Explanatory

Awsome,great blues tone!

Fine, never had a problem

I play blues and blues rock for 25 years. (Albert King, SRV, Otis Rush, Freddie King) I wanted a TS9 clone without breaking the bank, and I could not be happier! This pedal is awsome for the money! when I heard it all I could say was wow! It is by and far one of the best overdrives I have used. It gives you the subtle tube breakup and a very "warm" tone without compromising the original tone of your guitar. I play this through a Peavey Delta Blues, I use a Fender 50, and 60's RI strat, and a Gibson ES335. Compared to other overdrives on the market, You could buy 2 of these and still have lunch money leftover. Great Job Behringer! Know this, tone is a very subjective matter. What sounds good to me may sound like crap to you! Try something before you buy it and use what sounds good to you. Don't fall prey to the maketing hype. Just because a pro endorses a certain product does not mean it's the right one for you. Let your ear be the judge!

Well after being in the market for a decent overdriver I did a bit of research on the net and here and at Harmony central.Budget not really a problem,my options were quite open.I got my hands on a Behringer TO800 Vintage Tube Overdriver with no expectations.$48AUD I could use it as a door stop if it was no good.How wrong was I!Plugged it in and there was no noise,cranked up the overdrive and still no noticable noise.Matched the effect tone to the clean sound and let her rip!I was overwhelmed.Behringer is supposed to be cheap and nasty but this thing is just great!NO noise YES!No noise!I thought this has to be bullshit at $48AUD.I'm blown away!Finally someone is making good effects to rival the big boys at a fraction of the price.

I use a couple of custom class A valve amps for my stage set up,so I am not going to compromise my sound to save a few bucks.I play Supro's,National,Fender lap steels and a Strat through my set up.TheTO008 is compatable with them all.Just bringing in the TO008 for that extra edge when needed.

Plastic,cheap construction.Only time will tell.

I love it.If it were lost or stolen i would buy another one straight away.For$48AUD i could carry a couple of spares.I know Behringer have had it's fair share of quality control issues so I would try it out before I would buy.I heard a few ordainary tube screamers and blues drivers,but have also heard and used some beauties.

3 Knobs. Gain Tone and Volume. Starying with all controlls at 12:00 is a decent setting. You wont have a big jump in volume when you kick it on. Fine tweak to match your amp

I had a TS back in the 70s to 80s and gave it away because I was board with the sound. I like this one better because it does have a tiny bit of clean coming through which nearly eliminates the oscilations that can occur when youre not in perfect tune. It also has the right FQ responce to match just about any guitar Gets great Harmonics. I own a ton of effects and like the sound when I run this earley in the chain after compression and run it into other overdrive units. It makes a Marshall Governor sound real good. Its extremely quiet, and works well with alot of types of music.

Mine came with the knobs a littel to easy to turn. U found some rubber washers to put over the knobs that are great. Once I have my setting I leave them alone, just on and off. They keep the settings where I set them. All pedals should have a lock knob feature. I have no problems with any of their stuff. If I did break it during a gig I have 4 or more other types of drive on my board so it would only be an inconvience.

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I've been playing 40 years this week. Dam has it been that long. I'm also an electronic tech. I love variety and this one fits that nitch I needed. No one pedal will do the job when youre playing live or recording. This ones better than most especially for the price.

Very easy. Very versatile as relevant degrees of overdrive is found on all settings of "drive".

MIM 50's classic tele modded to S-1 switching -> to800 -> Kustom Tube 12A. Not noisy at all. Very versatile in all drive settings. Very playable and responsive overdrive

ABS plastic cover seems reliable. Battery compartment accessibility is bad, but works. I'm afraid to breaj the lid some day.

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I play Rock. I preferred this unit to a distortion unit (Behringer DM100), since the TO800 is more responsive to my playing style. The DM100, by the way, seems to be a nice unit. The distortion effect of the DM100, however, is very uniform to any input (does not respond to changes/lowerings of playing style - which I guess is common for all distortion units), and I like the responsive feel.

Simple, classic (BOSS type) design, which makes it easy to use right out of the box. My pedal did not come with a manual, but it is available free at behringer.com. With controls this simple who needs a manual anyway, eh?

Truthfully for $20 I did not expect much, even after reading some of the glowing reviews here at harmony central and reviews posted on several of the internet retailers. Wow! Was I pleasently suprised. I am a Stevie Ray tone junkie and this baby does it pretty damn good. It comes as close as to vintage TS-9/TS-808 as I have heard, and for a LOT LESS. Drive at 9 o'clock, Level at 12 0'clock, and tone at 2 o'clock is SRV bliss on my Powerhouse Strat using the neck pick-up and running into pretty much any decent tube or even tube/hybrid amp that I've tried it on (Vox, Z-Vex, even sounds good with my Behringer AC 112 Vintager, an underrated amp IMHO). I'm also a huge fan of the Brent Mason, Brad Paisley "twang" sound, and with my 50's re-issue Tele (and a compressor) I can dial up that "edge of distortion" clean sound with great sustain and punch. Crank up the drive and it's vintage "Marshall mayhem", thick, cascading overdrive/distortion that you can EQ (using amp and pedals' Tone control) to just about any rock guitar sound you might need. Of course like any OD pedal this will get noisey if you max out all controls or a combination of them, but I have found that compared to other much more expensive pedals the TO-800 is as quiet or quieter.

Case made of fairly heavy looking and feeling plastic. I would and will gig with it without a backup. Dependability will prove or disprove itself over next year. So far, so good.

I have never dealt with Behringer support, nor has this pedal been repaired or upgraded.

I play everything from bluegrass gospel to hard rock/metal (old school metal like early Metallica, Iron Maiden, not this techno sounding crap they call metal these days, i.e. NIN, Marilyn Manson). I began playing about 24 years ago (started playing at 14, quit and sold all my guitars and equipment at 19, then began playing again about 4 years ago in a church group)and this is one the best values I've ever come across. The TO-800 has become my main overdrive pedal and I would be a fool not to replace it if it were stolen or lost. I also own a DOD YJM 308 Preamp/Overdrive, but to my ears the Behringer sounds warmer, bigger, richer, just plain better.

this one is very easy to use, just three knobs and there you go.

i don't use a lot of overdive with my pedal, i just have it crank up my amp (line6 flextone, really nice amp btw.) i use an amp-setting which is almost overdriven, with the to 800 it will be overdriven.

easy to adjust, no need to look at the (ridiculous) manual.

sound quality is simply amazing! i gives my amp a very nice, smooth, leadtone. sustain is great (even with my ibanez blazer, a strat copy), stilll your tone doesn't loose any definition.

of course this is a one trick pony, only thing it does is beefing up a lead-tone. expect nothing more. but what is does, it does in a great way.

only problem is when you switch off the unit, it seems you miss some high tones then. maybe i will get a true-bypass some nice day.

if it were the lead tone only i would rate this one an 8 or even 9. but as it isn't true bypass i give it a 7

no, you can't really depend on it, plastic as it is.

just get an extra one for 23 euro's.

with a spare to 800 you will never get into any problems. so with an extra investment, i rate it 10!

no idea, i don't care either for 23 euro's

just get a spare one (i haven't got one so far, but i will), try and bypass it and this is the best buy you will ever get in guitar land.

i have played for quite some time (10+ years), our band plays classic rock and this unit is great for rock.
i will surely invest in more behringers, the b0 100, even though my flextone has got so many tones already.

Very simple, straightforward pedal. It has Drive (adjusts gain or amount of overdrive), Tone, and Level (adjusts volume). The manual does not go into much more detail than I just told you, no suggested settings or anything like that. It is very easy to get great tones out of this pedal.

This baby gets a 10 for sound quality easy. If the ratings went to 20 I would give it a 20. But you've got to know how to use it. It is an overdrive pedal, not a distortion pedal. I really believe the best use for this pedal is a boost for solos. It does get a nice bluesy overdrive that could be used for rhythm guitar, but in my opinion it is best to have an overdrive or distortion pedal you love for rhythm, and then use the TO800 to boost for a fanstastic solo with super-smooth, creamy, violin-type tone with fantastic sustain. This pedal really sounds that good. I use a 80's ProCo Rat for my overdrive with the gain set about 1/3. I do not like hyper-distortions that sound like tearing paper. I like some bite and crunch in my rhythm guitar tone. My guitars are a Gibson LP Studio and Fender American Strat into a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. This pedal also sounds great boosting a clean tone. It will push your amp into those great tube saturation tones. Great dynamics and sustain, and even feedback if you are into that. I love it.

I believe this is a pedal that has to be played at volume to really bring out the great tone. At bedroom volume it sounds very good. But get the volume up and it comes alive and sounds fantastic. I play in a Classic Rock band. First gig I used this pedal our other guitarist came over and asked me what I was using different. He got right down and studied my pedalboard. I almost laughed and told him it was this cheap little green pedal. This pedal got his attention and he has good gear and great tone himself.

I tried the classic Tubescreamer settings with Drive to Min, Tone all the way counter-clockwise (bass), and Level on Max. It sounded good, but did not cut through enough for me. I turned Drive and Tone to about 12 o'clock position and this thing took off and blew me away. It sounds so good you can hardly play poorly if you tried.

But you gotta know how to use it. I have a friend who plays in a band with a TS808 and it just sounds horrible, muffled and muddy. He leaves it on all the time with poor settings and just ruins his tone in my opinion. You gotta know what you are doing.

Well, here's where the pedal suffers. It really does feel pretty cheap and flimsy. If you dropped it on a hard surface it would probably shatter into 10 pieces. The knobs turn very easy and have no resitance to them at all. But to their credit, all controls are very responsive. Still, I don't think I'll have any problems with it. I leave it on my pedalboard at all times, so I am not connecting or disconnecting cords, and I have a One Spot powering all my pedals, so I don't have to bother with the poorly designed battery compartment. I don't stomp on my stompboxes, so I almost never have problem with any of my gear. If you treat this pedal with respect it should last. I will probably buy another as a backup though just in case. I want a couple more anyway, stock up while you can.

Never dealt with Behringer, but I own a lot of Behringer PA gear and have never had a single problem with anything. There are lots of folks who put Behringer down, most likely competitors who are feeling the crunch. I would recommend Behringer gear to anybody, it's been very good to me. So if they want to sell good reliable gear at a great cost-savings, I consider that excellent support.

This pedal gets a 10 easy. It really sounds amazing and the price is incredible too. Yeah, it's built kinda cheap, but who cares? I have been playing 30+ years and played in many bands, Classic Rock at present. This is by far the best sounding pedal for a solo boost I have ever heard.

Simple use. A gain knob, tone knob, and output. If you can't figure out, you're probably not ready to be playing guitar.

Absolutely delicious! You can get everything from a slight crunch to thicken up some bar chords to a huge meaty drive sound. Very warm. Interesting thing that has been mentioned in other reviews: when you have the gain all the way, you can hear a little bit of clean signal mixed in with it. I didn't like it at first, but it grows on you. It keeps the sound intelligible.

I have a lot of Behringer gear, and have never had any problems. I could reasonably see the plastic casing breaking, though.

Again, I have lots of Behringer gear, and have never once needed support. The best support is a good product.

Great price, great sound, great addition to a pedal board.