Behringer V-Amp 2

Had mine for about 2 years. Easy to use, easy to edit patches, great manual.

Sound quality is great. This was my first processor, and for a married guy with kids, the v-amp fit the bill. Used to jam occassionally through fx loop of Behringer GX210. Pretty good sound and flexibility for $350 total. Mostly used through headphones, and it sounds fantastic.

Uh oh...there go all my presets and the thing sounds "tinny." Factory reset...and it happens again. Reliability is far from stellar: battery life sucks, no off switch? plastic casing? switch delay?

I recently "upgraded" to a used Digitech GNX3 for $150. All the options of the v-amp..w/an 8-track recorder, drum machine, looper, and bass sims!!!

You kidding me? The GN3 rocks plugged into my fx loop, through phones or recorded to computer.

N/A - just traded mine in for something more reliable. Great starter processor.

Play metal/rock/pop...what ever suits my fancy. Been playing for about 10 years, just for self entertainment. Sound quality on the v-amp is pretty good, particularly for $100.

However, I'm totally stoked with the GNX3. The addition of a looper, bass sims and drum machine make "jamming" at home SO much more fun.

the v-amp is quite easy to use, but you definetly need to read the manual first(common sense). Editing patches is very easy. you can get a good sound out of it quite easily aswell. The manual is very good it tells you everything about it and how to use it.

The sound qualities good, but some of the distortions sound very muddy if you crank it up, i'm using a good guitar aswell, an ibanez S470. it can be very noisy aswell, but the noise gate does quite a good job at the noise at bay. I'm using it with a peavy combo and it sounds good. The modulations are a O.K but sometimes aren't powerful enough.Personally, i think it sounds better than a POD.

so far it has been very reliable, no knobs missings,no LED's gone and no cracks in the plastic. But i've heard on some reviews that
the saved patches will start to corrupt. Now i've had mine for nearly 2 years and that hasn't happened yet, but i'm not looking forward to it if it does. If i was to gig with it i think i would take a backup just in case if the patches started to sound crap.

never needed them.

overall i think it's very good for the money. I play mostly yngwie or randy rhoads style and it covers the stuff quite well. If it were to get stolen i think i would probably replace it with an effect unit worth about 190-200 pounds. For the money it's outstanding.

It was fine, I enjoyed using it. It wasn't fool proof, since there are a lot of options, but I think Behringer did a good job on the usability aspect.

The reason I bought this thing was because my Fender Princeton Chorus amp (Which I regret buying BTW, not good for me) is to powerful to play in my apartment...I couldn't even turn the volume onto 2! I just wanted something I could use in my apartment to fool around with, nothing too serious.

I really liked the way it sounded. I didn't get the a nice warm sound using headphones, but I don't know if it would have been better if I'd had a better set (I was using $50 Sony MDR-7502).

I got good results hooking this up to my shelf system home stereo. I could produce some rocking sounds and it sounded pretty warm, not digital.

I did get a few chances to hook it up to my amp, and it sounded fine. I was overall happy with the sound.

Mine broke, so I can't give it high marks for reliability.

I'm not really sure what went wrong, but I think others had the same experience. The memory seems to be fried it now sounds like shit. If I reset to the defaults, and start looping through the presets, they are all over the place too, so I know it's fried.

Unfortunetly, I didn't really use it too much during the warranty period because I was swamped with projects at worked, but had I spent more time with it, I probobly would have been able to return it.

As far as the physical durability, it's fairly durable. It's not made of steel, but it's nice and light yet still tough. For the price range, it's impressive.

Make sure you send in your warranty card! I'm not all that pissed about the whole thing since it wasn't that expensive, and I think if I had my act together I would have been able to get it replaced.

I don't know. Like I said, I didnt' have my act together.

This unit is really an amazing value. It's $99 USD now, which makes it an incredible buy I think, considering I was amazed it was only $139 when I bought it shortly after it was released. If that's what your wanting to spend, go buy it now, don't wait!

One more thing, the kit bag and pedal really put the icing on the cake. It's so easy to store and take with you.

I find it easy to get tones suitable for home recording/demo grade recordings, but ultimately a good tube amp and microphone still sound better. I have a home studio, and do all the production/engineering for our 4 piece rock band, plus I record my friends stuff as well. Some of the V-amp2 sounds are definitely better than others. My personal favorites are the Marshall high gain and the Fender Bassman. I've created 2 patches using the Bassman, one with crunch, and another with less gain that souns clean until you play heavy,when it breaks up nicely. I generally bypass the effects on my own presets, but will use them when the song calls for it. I find that experimenting with different cabinet and reverb sims will yield a better sound when creating presets. I don't find it difficult to make my own presets. The manual is adequate, but the information is sometimes scattered on different pages. Better organization might make for an easier read, but the manual isn't tha big to begin with, so I can usually find what I need pretty quickly.

I have 3 good electric guitars- a '87 Les Paul Custom, a '00 American Strat, and an '02 Epiphone Dot Deluxe. By far the Les Paul gets played the most,especially live. The other 2 are used more for recording, and so are actually more likely to be played through the V-amp2. My only real amp is a Mesa Boogie Mk IV, which is great and versitile on its own. The V-amp2 gets used mostly for tones that are unavailable on the Boogie, as the Boogie obviously sounds better. It should for the price. Effects on the V-amp2 are okay, but not nearly as good as my friends Vox tone lab. Again, they are not in the same price league, but more $ does seem to equal better sound. Im not hung up on apeing other artists sounds, But the U2 "Street w/o name" and David Gilmour "crazy diamond" sounds are convincing and useable. All in all, it's definitely worth $125.

I have read some of the other reviews of this product on this website, and find that I'm having the same problem as some of the other users. All of the presets will just "lose it", and sound flat and lifeless. One of your other reviewers called it an AM radio sound. I've heard AM radios sound better than the V-amp2 when this happens. The only solution is to Default back to the factory presets(the manual describes how-pretty easy), but then I lose all my own presets. I've only gigged live with the V-amp2 once, and of course this happened then. It took 10 minutes of stage time to regain a facimilie of what I had before. Very frustrating. There is also a delay when switching patches(about a second of silence!), so I had to anticipate solos and loud sections, and switch before I normally would. Besides these problems, overall reliability has been good-no problems yet with worn out buttons or broken jacks, but the plastic case is suspect. When gigging, it's best to leave it at home.

No need yet...

I'm a meat and potatos Rocker, and have been playing for 20 years. I also like folk, but this is an electric guitar product. I've never plugged my acoustic into it. The best thing about the V-amp2 is its value for the money. Yes, more expensive units(POD,Tone-Lab etc.)sound better, but this is great for the money. Analyze your budget and needs- the V-amp2 could be what you're looking for. For the price, it works well for me. If it were stolen,and I was on a tight budget, I would buy it again, but if I had more $, I would probably upgrade to something else.

i give it a 8 coz its really easy to use this.a 9 if i can edit patches or effects thorougly without the need for a computer! the manual is ok but really good though but one you figure it out even a kid can use this.

OH I LOVE THE SOUND THATS COMING FROM THIS BABY! I LOVE ALL THE MARSHALLS,SOLDANO,RECTIFIER, ETC THAT THEY PUT IN THERE. BUT NOT THE V-AMP MODELS.IM USING MY PARKER NITEFLY SA, FENDER STRAT 62 RE-ISSUE, IBANEZ EARLY 80'S RG420 WITH EMG PICK UP,S-S-HUM CONFIG.SQUIER STRAT JAPAN SILVER SERIES.CUSTOM MADE ES335 COPY,OVATION ACOUSTIC.THE VERY GOOD THING ABOUT IT IS THAT THE GUITAR IM USING MAINTAIN ITS OWN CHARACTERISTIC OR SOUND WHEN PLUG INTO THE V-AMP!KNOWING THE SOUND EACH OF MY GUITAR IS CAPABLE OF ITS EASY FOR ME TO FIND THE SOUND IM LOOKING FOR. COOL!

IT IS QUITE NOISY ON HI GAIN SETTINGS BUT THE NOISE GATE CAN CLEAR THAT UP.BUT WHEN USING IT WITH EMG EQUIPPED GUITARS?? MAN ITS A KILLER! YOU HAVE TO HEAR IT!ESPECIALLY ON CLEAN SOUNDS USING THE TUBE PRE AMP SETTING!TRY IT !

HERE IN THE PHILLIPINES WE DONT BRING OUR OWN AMPS TO A GIG OR TO A BAR. WE USE WHAT THEY HAVE AND LOTS OF TIMES ITS A PIECE OF CRAP!I USUALLY GO DIRECT ON BOARD WITH A DIRECT BOX AND BOOM!!!!! IM FLYING!! HA HA

THE EFFECTS ARE REALLY GOOD! I LOVE THE CHORUS!COMPRESSOR! BUT I HATE THE PHASER.AND OF COURSE THE MEAT POTATO!! DISTORTIONS!

IM REALLY NOT INTO GETTING SOUNDS OF MY FAVORITE ARTIST BUT WITH THE SOUNDS THATS IN MY HEAD.BUT YOU CAN WITH THIS THING. SRV,VAIs ARE EASY.

IM PLAYING 5 TO 6X A WEEK! WITH 3 SETS OF EACH.I HAVE TO PLUG AND UNPLUG 3X EVERY GIG. IVE BEEN DOING THIS 10 MONTHS!! AND THIS MOTHERF??KER IS STILL KICKING ASS.

WITH THAT SAID I THINK ITS DEPENDABLE WHEN USING IN LIVE SITUATIONS.IT WORKS FOR ME, SO IM SURE IT WILL WORK FOR OTHERS AS WELL.BUT NOT FOR EVERYBODY HA HA

DONT NEED THEM YET.

BEING IN PERFORMING BAND "CHILLWORX". WE PLAY ROCK,RnB STUFF,pop,ETC I HAVE BEEN PLAYING FOR ALMOST 20 YRS AND OWNED ALOT OF GEARS AND STUFF.I'VE BEEN USING MY DIGITECH 2101,V-TWIN,TUBE KING 999 ETC..BUT RIGHT NOW V-AMP 2 IS MY BABY.

WELL ONE THING I LOVE ABOUT IT IS THAT ITS EASY TO BRING ALONG WITH THE CARRYING BAG.I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT EXCEPT THAT ITS MADE OF BRITTLE PLASTIC.GOTTA BE CAREFUL WITH. AND THE NEED FOR A COMPUTER FOR PROGRAMMING!HATE THAT ALOT! WELL I DONT BRING A COMPUTER WHEN GIGGING. DO YOU?

MY FRIEND HAS A POD AND I TELL TOU THAT ITS A 50-60 RATING! SO GO GET ONE NOW!

99% of the factory patches are worthless. Editing patches isn't much harder than turning pots on a normal amp, rather OK. Very difficult to get a passable sound for recording, especially high-gain sounds. 9 out of 10 amp models sound really flat and unrealistic. The "Brit Hi-Gain" is just about the only hi-gain amp that is at all possible to use for recording.

Using with an Ibanez RG, directly into computer or headphones most of the time. Don't use it in front of an amp, it wasn't made for it.

Most of the built-in effects and reverbs are pretty weak. Half adequate, but nothing that will make you excited and inspire playing. Can get good clean sounds, but as said, distortion ranges from utter swill to "almost passable in a mix full of other instruments".

I play metal, and all/most of the high-gain amps sound flat, dead. They don't breathe or feel like a real amp at all. No heaviness, no bite, no nothing... The Brit Hi-Gain can sound OK with a change of cabinet sim and post-EQ.

Absolutely not dependable. Piece of fucking plastic. At least two knobs have broken off. After a while, the arrow and patch selection buttons stop responding to presses unless pressed EXTREMELY HARD. Also, after a while, this will -- for no apparent reason -- lose all patches AND/OR have all amp sims break down into something that sounds like a broken auto-wah played through AM radio, or something. The ONLY solution when this bug happens is to reset all the patches. Recently, my unit has decided to make it IMPOSSIBLE to reset the patches when this happens (about every week. This unit WILL and DOES lose all patches after a while, battery good or not.) so what I have to do to reset patches now is open the unit up (five screws) and remove the battery so that the unit loses its memory and resets itself. I recently did this, and it worked as usual for about 2 minutes before breaking down into the AM radio fuzz sound. The whole procedure again. I WOULD have thrown this out the fucking window by now, but there's one particular sound my band needs out of this unit for recording; hence, I keep it. I can't use it for practicing or anything anymore, it's practically a paperweight as it is now.

Would ABSOLUTELY not use it for a gig, recording or anything else. Well, before it started acting up I might have, but this WILL not last more than a year or two before gradually turning unusable. I have no idea why. Others have had the same kind of experience I have. Get a POD instead.

Mailed them about the AM radio patch reset deal. Received a completely useless e-mail stating basically that they wouldn't do anything about it.

Owned it for a few years, it says it was made in December 2002. Now this unit is HALF DECENT for as long as it works, it's cheaper than a POD and it sure as fuck SOUNDS cheaper too; it has some OK sounds for recording demos at home, but basically worthless for anything more serious due to its absolute shit reliablility and very flat sounds which makes it much more of an inspiration killer than something that actually helps in the creation of music. I'd get an idea, then poke around with the V-Amp for 30 minutes first trying to get it to work correctly, then trying to find a sound which doesn't sound like absolute bollocks; needless to say after that any inspiration is gone and only V-Amp-induced frustration remains. NOT RECOMMENDED. Spend the extra few dollars on a POD2.0 instead.

Inicialmente, o usuario pode sentir alguma dificuldade para uso mas, depois de algumas mexidas tudo se resolve. Qualquer duvida e sempre bom ter o manual de instruc?es a m?o, apesar do mesmo ser escrito em portugues para Portugal. Com certeza e bem menos complicado do que programar uma pedaleira da Digitech como o RP-12, por exemplo. Tem a dificuldade normal de qualquer pedaleira ou multi-efeitos.

Ja usei pedais da boss e outras marcas, ja tive Zoom 9002, 9000, 2020, 505, 606 e tive oportunidade de usar pedaleiras da Digitech. A qualidade do som das distorc?es e simulac?es de amplificadores e alto-falantes e muito boa, principalmente comparando-se com equipamentos bem mais caros. Os sons de Mesa Boogie, Marshall e Fender e Roland JC 120, s?o bem proximos dos reais. Os outros efeitos s?o muito bons tambem. O que se deve ter em conta ao adquirir o equipamento e a relac?o custo-beneficio. O V-AMP2 e um equipamento com qualidade profissional e fica muito bom se usado em conjunto com a FCB1010, a pedaleira mid da Behringer.

A construc?o e em um tipo de material plastico bastante duro, mas n?o sei se aguenta quedas (n?o quero testar). Por curiosidade (alias, faco isso com todos os meus equipamentos) abria a carcaca e pude observar que se restringe a uma pequena placa de circuitos e um chip muito bem acomodados. Aconselho a usa-lo com cuidado (evitar quedas) e em lugares ventilados (ele esquenta bastante).

A Behringer oferece um site muito bem montado e os programas para atualizac?o da EPROM do equipamento.

Eu toco ha 18 anos. O meu equipamento hoje e: 1 Fender Squier Stratocaster Japonesa 1990, toda original, branca (igual a do Jimi Hendrix), uma Charvel/Jackson CXM-DLX preta com captadores Duncan Design Duplos e single (meio) Kent Armstrong e uma Ibanez RG 350-DX, amplificadores Crate GX-120 e Warmmusic 108 GT, X-VAMP e pedais S3 Fortes (clone do GT2 Sansamp, pedal de volume Korg. Ja usei muita coisa como disse acima e realmente, o V-AMP2 me surpreendeu na qualidade do som e relac?o custo-beneficio. Caras e bem simples: tenho todos os efeitos que sempres quis ter e 32 amplicadores que sempre sonhei em tocar mas nunca teria dinheiro pra tanto.
Um abraco!

I found that this unit has a lot of great features, but for me it was a little difficult getting used to accessing them.
I do not like the manual. I found it was not concise and easy to navigate.

I use a custom built Strat copy with EMG's and a Peavey T-60. I can say this is the most fun I have had in years. I love the sounds and I am looking forward to testing it on a large touring PA system. Effects are not perfect, but they are very good. For me the light to medium overdriven sounds are the best. Very punchy and full. Clean sounds are pretty good, but not excellent. Heavily overdriven sounds are pretty good as well especially if you back off the gain a little. Really the only complaint I have is that the unit is a little noisy but the built in gate helps resolve this very well.

No real opinion yet other than to say that I would not want to drop it on a concrete floor!!!

Never dealt with them

I have been playing guitar a little over 30 years now, and I really enjoy this little unit. I play southern rock, Blues, MOR and country. As with any unit, you will need to take some time to get what you want from it. Tweaking sound is a process that never ends and is always evolving along with personal preferences. I am convinced this unit will deliver to my satisfaction any sound I will require. Especially for what I paid for it. I will recommend this unit to anyone who cares to ask my opinion.

Achei a pedaleira muito boa. E uma excelente opc?o para quem n?o tem grana pra comprar um grande amplificador ou uma pedaleira das mais caras. N?o achei muito facil de usar, mas uma leitura detalhada do manual resolve qualquer parada. Ja tive uma Zoom GFX-5 e uma Digitech RP-300 e esta pedaleira da show nas outras. A Behringer n?o e melhor do que a POD, mas custa 1/3 do preco. As simulac?es de amplificadores s?o muito boas e os patches de fabrica tem muito bom gosto. Um VAMP2 novo esta custando uns R$600,00 e por este preco vc n?o compra nada melhor. A versatilidade para shows e um pouco prejudicada por n?o ter uma pedaleira de varios pedais, mas pode ser usada com um FC1010 e ai da show.

Vamos ser sinceros... Reverb todo mundo faz, Delay todo mundo faz, Phaser muitas tem, Flanger ent?o ha dezenas. DISTORC?O e OVERDRIVE e o que conta pra diferenciar uma pedaleira de outra. Esta pedaleira tem uma gama de efeitos de distorc?o e simulac?o de amplificadores muito boa. Tambem n?o vamos achar que esta pedaleira e melhor que um Marshall JCM 900, MesaBoogie, Mark IV, Soldano, Vox e etc. A quest?o e o custo-beneficio. Comparando precos e produtos ela e vantajosa com certeza.

N?o achei muito resistente, mas tambem eu n?o exponho meus produtos a condic?es insanas de uso.

Toco ha 20 anos. Ja tive Epiphone, Cort, Washburn, Eagle, Condor, Gianinni e etc. Hoje tenho uma Fender Double Fat-Strat Americana e acho que o som e muito bom. Ja usei, Marshall, Fender, Staner, Meteoro, Warm Music e etc. Hoje tenho um Marshall Vasvestate 8080 e acho que o som e muito bom. Com esta pedaleira, as possibilidades de sons se multiplicaram por 1000.

Once you get the hang of it.. its not that bad.. I wish you could do some more of Nice effects stuff.. but for 100 bucks.. its a good starter.. oor back up

Not bad when 3/4 of the way up on max volume.. hardly any when you have the right effects.

I can't say i can depend on it. Its not road worthy.. i play about 2 shows a week and this think just keeps on like canceling out on me.. all the sounds go crazy.. i like it.. but i keep spending hours on makeing the sounds just perfect and they cancel out on me.. kinda sucks when that happens right before a show ehne i go to plug it in..

I cant find any help for it..

its good for lighter stuff. the distortion can sound nice but not great.... effects id like more versitility... tones,,, good but not great.. im a perfectionist in music.. and i dont think this can help me reach it.. even tho it was 100 bucks.. well i guess i cant complain.. haha oh well. you buy stuff you learn..