Behringer V-Amp 2

It's fairly easy to use. The LED's really help! But sometimes all the 2nd parameter things get a little hard to remember. I guess that's where the manual comes in.

OK, here is the downfall. I don't know if any longtime V-AMP owners have had this problem, but most of the time all of my patches now have this horible fuzz and low volume with a really bassey sound....YES ALL OF THEM! It doesn't matter if I wipe my sounds, and start again, it's full whacked! I do have to admit, that the sounds were half decent when I first got the unit. All the amp models are preset to certain cabinets. It's funny because if you try the other (non preset) cabinets to amp models, they don't sound that good. You could maybe only use 1-2 cabinets with a usable sound for each amp model. One more gripe (sorry for all the rambling), there is limited layering of effects. Now I understand you don't use phaser, compressor, delay and wah at once all the time, but it's nice to have that flexibility. I have owned a super cheap Zoom thing before, and even that had way better flexibility in the effects department.

Is it just me, or does everyone else's V-AMP work great at the start then go downhill! Firstly, it's very rare that my patches actually save when I turn the power off (yes, from the powerpoint first, then unplug the adaptor). Super frustrating, because I always have to dial them in again. Secondly, there is always some type of noise coming out of it, even if I have the noise gate full way up. Thirdly, all or most of the patches have a horible buzz going through it. And lastly, there is no on/off switch, what were they thinking? Maybe I bought a dud....I dunno!

I haven't tried to contact them. But one thing that is half decent, is that they have all the manuals readily available on the website.

I'm not very pleased with this unit. The only really great thing about it is that it comes with a bag and a small channel selector. Apart from that, this is a dog! If it were stolen, I wouldn't really care. I'm looking to sell it, hopefully I can get at least $100 AUS if I'm lucky. If you're looking for a similar (and cheap) option to this, get the POD 2.0.; It absolutely canes this in terms of sound. But I'm getting some cash flow soon, so I'll probably get a Tonelab SE or something like that.

The basic controls are easy and intuitive to use. The effects require some reading of the manual, but I found the explanations to be pretty straightforward. I didn't use the presets/banks much, but when I did, I found them a litle confusing. Using this thing manually like you would amp controls, its pretty simple.

I really liked the British Hi-Gain, BlackTwin, and JazzChorus sims. The chorus settings are decent, and the auto-wah great if you use it with the right distortion. I liked to use this direct (sounded great), and I thought it sounded good when plugged into my solid state amp (using the amp on a neutral setting).

Notice that I used past tense for some of my descriptions. I was a huge fan of this thing, it was perfect for my needs. But then I would occasionally get this horrible squealing tone that did not change from setting to setting. Rebooting the V-AMP would make this noise go away. This was after I had it for about 6 months. About a year after I had it, the horrible sound became permanent, and I haven't used it since. I would not use this thing in a gig without a backup, no way.

I didn't deal with customer support. When the unit failed, the warranty was up, and its so cheap that buying a new one was a better option than trying to get it fixed.

I play blues/Classic Rock. I have been playing guitar for 23 years. I own a Telecaster and a Les Paul. I have considered getting a new one, but the unreliability of my first one prevents me from pulling the trigger on another one. I loved everything about it when it was working. It certainly helped me make music; I was able to get a lot of great sounds from this thing, and found it very easy to tweak for just the right sound.

Minimal tweaking needed for decent tone. Editing is simple. No idea how to upgrade to new firmware.

Amp models sound great. Effects leave something to be desired.

AC adapter is not reliable. Unit tends to become very hot upon extended use (eg., teaching for 7 straight hours). Some software glitches.

Good basic unit for the price.

It took me a day to get used to it, was confused at first, not much experience with these types of gadgets, but quickly adapted and its not bad at all.

This box can take you on a historical journey of all the legendary rock heroes & amp sounds of the past, it's really an amazing piece of equipment.

It's all in here, and I mean ALL! Fender, Marshall, Mesa, Soldano, even the "boutique" amps like Matchless, Budda, and some I've never even heard of. Some of it sounds so good, I can almost "taste" the tone. If you play guitar, you probably understand what I mean by that. Some of the tube emulations are so sweet it almost brings tears to my eyes!

After using this for a day, I can honestly say that I don't understand why anybody would ever buy a "stand alone" stomp box, where you're getting maybe one or two particular amp settings or fx, when you can get this thing that has 32 very realistic amps and tons of cool fx settings for the same price of 1 stomp box!

Well, if you don't go out in your backyard and play football with it, I'd imagine it will be fine.

Yeah, it has a plastic case, but it pretty solidly built, I would not characterize it as "flimsy". It also has a really nice carrying case.

As far as gigging without backup, I'd always have a backup for anything. For this price, I'd carry two around.

I mostly play tele's and my Squier '51 through it, they sound great.

I play blues & classic rock.

If it had a drum machine, I'd marry it!

Do yourself a favor and try out one of these things, it's hard to believe how great it is for this price, or any price.

If you can't find a ton of tones that you enjoy in this, you should not be playing guitar.

Basically very easy to use, considering how much is jammed into this little box.
Open the manual and you're up and running in 10 minutes.
Editing, saving, copying is also super easy.

This is a cheap little plastic box. For that, it's amazing, period. You have believable simulations of lots of different amps and cabinets plus a basic supply of effects in an extremely portable small shell. Of course, a tube amp will always sound better - digital emulation sounds flat and artificial compared to the real thing, and you always have to fight with latency because of the digital conversion. Having said that, this little thing kicks the asses of many of its much more expensive colleagues, and in the wide array of preamp and cabinet possibilities everyone can find satisfying sounds. It is a perfect tool for quick recording and for gigging with public transport.

The pre-fx and distortions are good and definitely usable, even for professional studio productions if you're not Testament or Deep Purple. The problem starts when the tempo climbs beyond the standard metronome, where the inherent latency becomes destructive to your timing. Also, very dynamic music loses a dimension with this thing which is, well, only a simulation. In the beginning, I thought the V-Amp answered all my questions; 3 years later, I carry around 160 kg of equipment again if I need really good sound.

The post-fx (delay, chorus, reverb) range in quality from extremely basic to purely horrible, and should be seen as practise effects. Nevertheless, it's nice they are there to use them occasionally. If your standards aren't really high, you can go a long way with this thing, especially in recording. Live I found it works best when used without external preamp. And it's programmable and MIDI-controllable.

BTW: a MIDI footswitch drastically reduces the preset switching time, compared to the included up/down footswitch.

So, again, it's not Mesa Boogie or Eventide, but a good and very compact low budget all-in-system for everything except hi-end demands.

Basically dependable. There is a widespread problem though which many reviewers here report, which is the spontaneous loss of presets and erroneous sound behaviour. I experienced it as well after 2 years of frequent use, and I thought it's broken, but after I changed the battery inside it worked fine again. CHANGE THE BATTERY, GUYS!
And it is made from plastic, so try not to step on it :-)

Zero, actually. I have some other Behringer things, all with their little problems and annoyaces, and I never received any answer to any of my polite questions through their German website. These things, as value-for-money as they may be, all have issues that every user sooner or later stumbles over, and the fact that they don't even mention these obvious problems in their help section, let alone offer any solution or even answer their freaking emails is a fact that doesn't help this company at all. It's a shame, because otherwise their approach to music gear is commendable, but I got angry too many times trying to get their help. Customer support? Forget it, the worst ever.

All in all I give it an eight because it's still unbelievable what this little thing does. Know what to expect, and you'll enjoy it. Rehearse and play low-profile gigs without breaking your back. Work on the road. You want great sound? You'll need better stuff.

(As a side note I'd like to add that the shape is cute but very impractical and inefficient. What's wrong with a box?)

Very easy to use. Comes with a handy little foot-switch. Also, if you hook it up to your computer you can download software that allows you to upload new programmed sounds and edit from your computer. Extremely cool.

Like always, the sound you get is going to depend on your playing ability and your pickups and your guitar. This thing sounds really good. I think people that complain about the sounds just don't know how to use them. Very versatile and you can certainly sound like crap with it if you want, but you can sound great too.

No problems

No problems

This thing is amazing for the price. For like $200 you end up with more that you could get for $1500 fifteen years ago. Great value. You can't lose with this thing at that price.

Pretty straightforward controls...getting a basic solid tone is easy...accessing the different cabs/reverbs/gains levels is a bit annoying...adjusting effect parameters--which is quite limited, mind you, is also sort of annoying but easy once you get the hang of it.

I'm actually very baffled about the contributors who bash the sound it produces...between the numerous amp settings, the cabinet variations and the effects, getting a good sound, I've found, is very possible...cleans are quite clean and tight sounding and the heavies are very heavy (though they could have put a couple of obscenely heavy ones in there, too...the heaviest one is great, but could be a touch crunchier/more devastating)...I'm a metal guy so more options there would be good, but the spectrum of clean/blues/rock settings is very solid. To be honest, I really like the clean settings a lot...I find them snappy, glassy and tight with plenty of attack...don't know where other folks are getting their bad sounds from.

Seems pretty reliable...it never leaves my desk so I don't know...hard plastic construction would likely withstand a gig or two but I'd stay away from gigginb with it.

I have no experience with this.

I'm a metal/rock guy and it suits me just fine...having two little kids, it's a solid toy to just plug the phones in and jam when they go to bed...really, that's all I use it for, but I have plenty of fun dialing up mulitple tones...I can get anything I want...the effects are bothersome, however, with their lack of parameter flexibility, but for $94 I didn't expect too much...great variety of sounds to suit your mood.

Too many buttons with multiple functions, lot of useful settings are only accessible through MIDI and editor software. Too much functionality and too few buttons.

High gain sounds are OK, but the low-gain simulations are simply terrible. Everything sounds like mud. In addition, all amp models have an insane amount of bass. You have to turn the bass knob to zero on most models to get a decent sounds.

All the Fender, Vox and early Marshall amp models sound basically the same - like a really bad fuzz box.

It's cheap plastic. One of the knobs broke off. I managed to glue it back on, but I'd never take it to a gig.

Yet another gizmo that amazes you at first with the multitude of sounds and effects avaiable. Once you actually get down to do some serious work with it, you realize it all sounds crap.

You can get computer guitar plugins that also sound like crap, but are free...

It is really easy to use but I guess this aint the big point....

Using gibson lp standard premium plus and ..... .. but i guess this aint the big point.Disturbing noise at high gains,non interesting low gains,not bad effects.Dont know Why I bought it..

Play the Blues and Stoner Rock.Not good for sure 4 these styles but i cant imagine any kind of style that it would fit.Guess that most SOFTWARE amplifiers are Better!

It is very easy to use...But, honestly, too easy...There are some parameter missing. How about chorus rate or depth???You cannot edit effects...And every distortion in it has background LOUD noise...

Like I said, the sound quality is the worst...I do regret wasting money in this...I was finishing a recording of guitars in a project, I had to stop...I will NOT record with all this background noise in distortions!! The only way to use this is to put "pream bypass". You cannot use the AMP of the V-AMP, what is the purpose?...

I dont know, I have it for 1 week, and i want to sell it...The aspect and lights, and tuner are OK, the bag is also splendid...But...I wont play live with all this noise. I have no opinion in realiability, it never got to the garage...So, it wont see a stage!

I asked what the hell is going on, selling stuff with so much noise, and no one answered...This crap has so much noise using the amp section, and you cannot mix effects or edit their parameters (like said, chorus rate, depth, delay times, depth, feedback...

fuck!What will I do? I wont have money for anything else this year...Play live with my 5150 only.Crap.
Any one can help me? peterdavis@netcabo.pt

thks!

I play metal, gothic metal, and other stuff. It would be helpfull if i could change FX parameters and use this distortions without the background LOUD noise...