Behringer AC112 Vintager 112 Combo

Basicly it's a beginner's thing! Don't forget!
What you get out from this amp is not what you should have forever, but something quite good enough, to start up your first experiences with loud strumming.
The whole "system" is digital, sings through a tube, the amp is a hybrid anyway, the tube gives a bit of warmness only, but it's hard to tell.
You get a footswich to it in the package, with which you can change from clean channel to overdrive, there's an unfortunatel quite long drop out when you stomp on it to start up a solo, quite pity and obvious to the audience. It's got a gain knob, and a master to the OD channel, as the clean channel has a master too, and the whole amp a main master knob.

It used to be kind of a modern issue in it's time, back in 2003 when I bought it, midi(never used it), headphone out, stereo line out, line in (for cd player to rehease...) so you can have it at home on the headphones, not disturbing the neighbourhood, and with a good portable case, you can take it with you, it's way much lighter than an "adult's combo", if you can consider a Fender Twin, or so...
Easily affordable for one man to carry.

The EQ is not a real standard, you've got to rehearse a lot with it, until you get the sound out of it that you like, not sure that you would ever find it actually. Better to say, as time passes by, you will find out what misses from the sound. A real characteristic tubesound is missing from this amp, quite unreal, bit "low-cost digital age" sound. No problem with digital technic, but this thing is way too cheaply made to sound nice.
Treble, mid, bass to each channel and presence with the main-master, that feels like it works sometimes, other times it doesn't sound to control too much, I keep it on 9 out of 10 since i've got it.

The effects are a nice try from these guys at Behringer, but it's useless if you don't buy the expensive upgraded footswitch that can control it, otherwise with the single-package-switch you can only control one effect on/off, that you select manually on the amp with knobs. As digital effects, there is a bit of drop out when you switch from one effect to an other.
I only use the compressor effect, that is not really a compressor , but gives some sustain to a single coil guitar. With my humbucking pickups it even overdrives a bit on the clean channel sometimes, so there ican't use compressing with this amp generally.
Noise is what i mostly hear only with the OD channel, as usual with single coil, but you know, single-coil-noise can be smooth or disturbing. This is the disturbing kind.
The OD channel is not bad, but it has a peak leve that it can't fly above, it's hard to descibe, but it's again this realness problem, it's good for an out busting solo, but it's still not a real tube OD channel sound.

Sorry guys, but here my opinion is the worst.
In the first week of buying it one of the treble knobs broke down, so i can't control treble over the OD channel anymore, which I fortunately never had to, if I'd turn it above 10 out of 10, it would sound miserable, but i hate this soft-plastic built solution.
The effect display cracked in the 2 month of having the amp, mistically while travelling with it in a psofessional, custom made case, which I think if I wouldn't have had made soon, the amp would have had it's first birthday in the trash.

On the other hand, it's really important to tell, that it still works, I played over 500 really heavy gigs with it, travelled around thousands of miles and also made the hardest job perfectly: playing for a month, everyday on a boat between Sweden and Finland, where the waves are the most unkind in the world, and the playtimes are 6 hours (yes that's true!) per day. Thank God, it's still working, I had no prblem during the journey, and ever since then...I knock on wood...!

Haven't dealt with them.

Extreme cons:
The features are not bad, but the sound that you get with them is under "OK".
Soft-plastic has been used as a main material while building it, and it makes it losing its price too fast, casts you away from some features.
Without the extended footcontrol board, that's half the price of the amp itself, you can forget about using the effects.
After I bought it, and i got to professional circles of musicians soon, they started poking me with "Hey, You play Behringer, he?What about buying a guitaramp?!", out of the cheap quality, it even sounds cheap.

Extreme PROs:
Pro kind of point of view, that I used not to keep in mind while i was young: it's not heavy at all compared to its 60 watts that sing loud enough to fill up the stage, not to being a lost peep on a loud stage.
I had my first big gigs with this amp, and it's been a real good thought to play through a tube for this price in those times, today I bless that it really never left me alone on the stage, it works after 4 years of intensive usage, but with a bit more mature ear I shout for a Fender Twin.

-60 Watts Solid State with a Tube Power Amp
-99 Presets, all slightly customizable
-2 Channels, Clean and Overdrive

The sheer number of effects here is outstanding. I'm not sure what it is, probably close to 30.

Let's just say it has a solid amount of features to keep you busy.

This is truly where this amp shines. I'm not being biased, but this amp is easy on the ears in every way. I play Technical Death and Black Metal through a Keeley Modded Metal Zone and Ibanez RG570. Alone this amp doesn't cut it for those genres, but the tone it gets through a good distortion pedal with a boost from its overdrive channel is smooth. It almost sounds all tube at times. That's probably its only downfall, it isn't all tube, but for the price you pay it blows its competition out of the water.

At high volumes theres a bit of unwanted hissing with high gain. Virtually none on the clean channel. No more than most other amps.

To be honest it feels a bit flimsy at times. It will probably break one day, and they aren't made anymore so I couldn't replace it with another. And I wouldn't do any important gigs without a backup. The amp itself has never failed me, however the cheap Channel Selector pedal it came with stopped working rather quickly and for seemingly no reason.

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I've been playing guitar for 4 years now, this is my only amp, but i've used many others. I also own a Yamaha Classical and Acoustic as well as a cheap Samick Superstrat. If this amp were stolen i'd cry then save up for a Mesa/Boogie Mark IV combo.

I must say when I first received this amp I didn't like it. I couldn't quickly obtain a nice tone (Mostly due to my inexperience and lack of better distortion) and I knew Behringer was a 'budget company'. But when I found the right mixture of distortion with the amps beautiful Reverb and Delay I was in love. Puts many tube amps to shame.

I do wish this amp could save effects, but it doesn't take long to learn how to quickly achieve your favorite tones, and if you ever wanted to seriously gig and record with it you could buy the seperate Behringer pedal to do so.

Behringer has surprised me. Keep up the good work!

Most of the other reviews date this amp to about '02-'04 so that's close enough for me. I have been so thrilled with this amp as I'm a keyboard guy who is now being allowed to play the guitar by his band mates (no they're not ogres) and I'm finally able to find the tones I've been looking for. It's a simple 2 channel amp with the DSP effects onboard. It does have a tube preamp which warms up the tone significantly without all the noise that a tube amp will give you. I've played in enough bands and with enough guitar players to know how much noise is too much and what is acceptable and this bad boy doesn't have the hiss. My only (and I stress "only") minor complaint is that you can't seem to stack up too many effects, but for a simple rhythm man like myself, that's pretty minor.

After playing though pre-amp pedals from Digitech (yes the RP series), this amp is so nice on the ears. The gain channel can go from very moist, thick overdrive to a nice heavy distortion with just the turn of the gain knob. It doesn't have that over-the-top psycho distortion, so it's probably not for metal guys (and girls...sorry), but my style ranges from (and we're a Christian band) Journey through to Night Ranger and on to Survivor (remember I'm the piano player), so it does exactly what I need it to do.

I love the question "Would you gig with it without a backup?" My friends NEVER gig without a backup! I'm pretty sure, however, that this little tank (it's got some weight) is no fading daisy. I haven't had to get it serviced so I can't really answer that question adequately. If I have to, I'll post another review.

Never dealt with Behringer (but they have a nice website...very user friendly).

After 10 years of trying to get better on the guitar (laugh if you will), I think I'm starting to make some headway and this amp was sort of a present to myself for making some strides. My guitars aren't anything to write home about, but they get the job done (Oscar Schmidt Delta King, and Lotus Strat copy with Floyd Rose trem).
I think Behringer has discontinued this model (but not sure), got mine used, but if you're looking for a warm tube-y kinda tone with some extras, and you can get a good price I'd say go for it, it won't dissapoint

Most of the commenters suggested the amp was made around 2002-03.
The amp comes with two channels, built in digital effects, effect loops, head phone jack, foot switch, midi in/out line out, etc. The amp is 60 watts, tube pre-amp, solid state amp. I've had the amp for less than a year to replace a Marshall AVT 100 combo that I lost. I have not use the amp for giging just for home practice. The amp's sound and price is what prompted me to buy it. In my opinion it is very versatile in sound for the bucks I paid.

Now my style of playing range from Jazz, R&B, Classic Rock, and Alternative. So what kind of sounds do I get from this amp? Excellent clean sounds come through the clean channel once you've dialed in your EQ (Treble, Mid, Bass), and tweak a any of the reverb to your liking. This distortion can crank deliver a good tone for an amp in this price range. You've got to tweak, and tweak, and experiment to find the sound you want. In other words "I'll make it do what it do". The Jensen speaker on this amp is wonderful! I played the amp two or three times in the store before I came back months later to buy it. I have three guitars I use this amp with; a Schecter C1 Classic, natural quilted maple top, w/satin gold hardware, grover tuners, Tone-Pro bridge, and Seymour duncans pick ups (JB in the bridge, '57 in the neck); a Epiphone Emperor II, Joe Pazz model, tobacco sunburst, w/gold hardware, (stock pickups for now); a Epiphone Les Paul Custom, alpine white, w/gold hardware, (stock pickups for now). The Schecter is an absolute joy to play through this amp! The Duncans just makes this amp sound all the much better! The Emperor is does a good job with stock pick ups through the amp, after tweaking the knobs I can produce some good jazz tones. I have not played the Les Paul Custom through the amp yet.

Like the reviewers before me stated, respect the amp and take care of it and it will take care of you. I say this because I broke the input jack by accident. It was clearly my fault because while I was plugged in I tilted the amp forwards towards me (as I was sitting down), so I could see the effects module. The amp slipped from my clumsy hand and fell on it's face, yanking the guitar jack cable hard enough to break the guitar input. The metal ring around the input jack is screwed to a plastic insert, the plastic insert broke. But the damn thing still played!! Not even a scratchy, shorting, popping sound ever came from the result of this mishap!! Until I fixed it (so the guitar jack cable could be stable in the input again), I just ran the cable under amp's carrying handle so I wouldn't yank the input around. This amp was even stolen from me from a home break in while I was at work! Detectives found it in a local pawn shop and returned it to me. She fired right up with no problem. The amp is no creampuff, but it isn't a tank either so use common sense and take care of it.

Never had to deal with them so far. I've bought other products from this company and haven't had a problem yet. Good sign.

I've been playing for 30 years, both guitar and bass. I've owned a lot of equipment over the years as well as guitars. My main pedals have always been Boss, I now have a Boss GT8 mulit effect floor box which I love and suits my needs!! (My Boss GT6 was never recovered from the break in.) By the way when I gave my opinion of the sound of the amp I did so without the use of pedals or any other external effects. I love the amp and was upset that it was stolen. I'm glad I got it back because I know it is discontinued and would be hard to find in stores again. (I don't do used gear, not everyone takes good care of their stuff, not so much is a scratch or ding on my guitar.) Plus I got it at the "discontinued" price for $225! I feel confident I can use this amp gigging, reason I'm not doing it now is that I'm not playing with anyone at this time. This a fantastic amp to own in this price range. The built in effects are great even though I prefer my Boss GT8.

I believe this amp was made in 2003. I play rock, funk, jazz, country, blues, and combinations of all of these styles. I perform in venues ranging from small clubs to arenas. The 60 watts is enough power for me, as I mic the amp if I need PA reinforcement. I have found this amp to be adequate in meeting 90% of my needs. Having only two channels is limiting, in terms of gain variety, but I get the "in between" sounds by rolling my volume back when using the distorted channel. I use the Behringer FCB 1010 midi foot controller with this amp which provides a considerable amount of control. I had to program all of my presets from square one, but I tend to do that with any product I purchase. Behringer provides plenty of features with the midi capability, stereo effects loop, headphone jack, lines out, and included footswitch. I don't like the "drop out" that occurs when changing presets, but for the money I'll deal with it. Seamless switching is great, and maybe Behringer will figur that out in the future. I will admit that many people are shocked when they find out I'm playing through a Behringer amp. However, I am of the mind set that your sound is ultimately in your hands, not the gear you use.

This amp has decent clean and dirty sounds. It doesn't have extreme distortion, but it's plenty for me. I set the mid to 10, the treble to 8, and the bass to 5. This may seem odd to some, but I've spent a lot of time messing with this amp, and this is how it sounds best to me. In fact it reminds of the way you have to set a Fender Deluxe Reverb to get the best sound. I have no problem keeping the clean channel "clean", even at high volumes. The loudest I tend to run this amp is with master on 8. The distorted channel is a bit "hissy" when the master is cranked up, but not unacceptably so. I did start to get a nasty low end rattle at one point with this amp. I checked all the screws on the top panel and found some had loosened up. After I retightened them, the rattle was gone. I now check them periodically to make sure they are tight. The 24 bit effects sound very clean. I get pretty heavily into tweaking them and have had many compliments on the quality of my sound. The only problem I have is with a slight loss of signal when using certain effects. I remedied this by reprogramming the volumes of each preset to match the lowest output preset.

I have had two problems with this amp: 1)A rattle that I was able to fix after finding loose screws, 2)On a handful of occasions I have lost all signal. After turning the amp off and on again, it reset itself - most likely a glitch in the digital processing section of the amp.

I went to college to study music. I've been playing for 24 years. I own a boutique amp hand made by Bruce Egnater, a pre CBS Fender Deluxe Reverb, and a Guild Thunder I. I often tell people that the Vintager 112 is the best $150 dollars I've ever spent on a piece of music gear. I've done at least 250 gigs with this amp in the last three years and it's still rockin'. I know it's not made anymore, so I'd probably be out of luck if I needed a new one.

My Behringer was made in 2002 and i also purchased it then as well...
Well all i have for this amp nothing but PRAISE and i will tell you why shortly...
The build quality is great "made in Germany" what needs to be said from here-Built to last...
Plastic pots well you have build it to a price i suppose but having said this if you respect the amp well it will respect you back ten fold...
I play blues SRV, Albert King, BB KIng etc....as stated by others previously this amp sounds great when cranked...
I dont use the OD channel as i dont require that type of crunch in my playing, but having said that you can get some lovely old tones from bands like Cream, Bad Company you know those vintage rock sounds...

I use a Stratocaster & Telecaster these are Project guitars all custom built...The Srat uses Fender shop 1969 Re-issues and Tele uses overwound Seymour Duncan in the bridge position...Pretty Standard...
I have never heard this amp rattle or buzz... I play 2-3 times a week and this amp has never failed me in the 4 years...I want to tell people how i get a beautiful SRV blues sound out of this amp... In addition i also a Behringer Vintage Tube Overdrive TO-800 which is a replica of a Ibanez tube screamer TS-808...I also Behringer EQ pedal-EQ700 model and a Behringer HellBabe Wah-HB-01... Now what doesa that say for behringer products....Now my settings on the clean channel of this amp are as follows... Volume-8 Bass-5 Mid-4 Treble-10 M/Volume-6maybe7... This is the basis of the sound now the guitar master volume should be on about 6-7 for ongoing playing then juiced to 10 for lead soloing... i set the amp to Effect 21 and adjust effect1 knob up to 15 and pull back effect2 knob back to 5....Sounds confusing but it's not trust me....Now to get that fender Glassy Tone that SRV was famous for just tweak EQ with more high's and leave the rest of EQ fairly standard please adjust levels on EQ a little if needed to suit your own guitar's charcteristics but please leave the treble frequency up high for that sharpness...The fantastic features of this amps design is that although the amp as a whole looks quite digital the channels are actually based on old analog wiring....What does this mean- Well the clean sound breaks up beautifully into the loveliest overdrive all by itself, allowing the amp to do the work it was designed to do.... I use the overdrive pedal so as not to change the characteristics of my tone but giving me that dirtier bite i need for SRV type solo's...Hellbabe Wah pedal just for JIMI feel... You know what i mean people....
Man i have played at shows where people have checked out type of equiptment i use to create that sound...The fact that Behringer Amps and Pedals are not that prolific in Australia...People would laugh if i told them what this stuff cost's.... Way to go Behringer...

As i said earlier it has never let me down in 4 years and probably wont ever.... I have total faith in this amp, i also have a 100watt fender FM 212 which is again a solid state amp which i keep as a spare for shows, this belongs to a friend of mine who to this day cant understand why i would use A Behringer as apposed to his Fender, it's a fender for goodness sakes-well truth be known - although the Fender FM 212 has a lovely ultra clean sound, the problem is that it doesn't breakup as volumed is applied, adding pedals then changes the tone and then me become very unhappy man....PS the reverb on the Fender is a little soft....

Never had an issue with this amp yet...Have e-mailed Behringer on some accessories once for itl, although they didnt have any were still quick in answering my enquiries...

The only thing i would like to have on this amp is perhaps another 12" Speaker, only to put some height into this lovely amp as i need to place it on a box for gigs...When you tweak this baby up for clean bluesy tones and drive it hard man how good is that 12" Jensen vintager spk....
This amp is the THE BOMB....

PS i do not work for Behringer....
Wouldn't mind though?????

This Amp is Great as it is,it would be perfect though with just a reverb,2x12 speakers and 2 tubes for the same price.

I play a jackson dxmg with emg humbuckers,and it sounds like an old strat.Who ever said this is not an amp for metal is largely mistaken.I use an analog distortion pedal to get my metal sound and I'm really happy with it.

Just got it

I hated it at first but two days later i found my sound and just can't go back to any amp I used to play.
I wish they build the same amp only stronger 2x12 speakers with 2 stages tubes no dsp for the same buck.
THIS WOULD BE PERFECT!

Couple of years old, I think. Comes with a footswitch that feels a bit "spongy" and doesn't give a distinct "switching click".
It would be nice if the the footswitch had indicator lights for clean/overdrive channel and effect on/off.
It would also be nice with higher output, like 100 Watts.
If Behringer could make an all tube amp with similar EFX and 2 x 12" speakers at "Behringer price", I would be interested.

I have played a Squier Standard Fat Tele through it. Sounds good with the single coil as well as the hummer.
Suits my music style well (60s rock and Shadows type instrumentals).
I mostly use clean sound with or without delay and slight overdrive with and without delay. This amp can produce these sounds to my liking.
The clean channel doesn't seem to be as loud as the overdrive channel.
The EFX largely seem OK. I have mostly used the delay.

Seems dependable.
I have used it on a gig and it came through OK.
Would need more Watts to play in a big place, though.

Played for some 40 years.
Bought this amp recently for my daughter.
If it were lost, we might get another one, or some other Behringer model.

This is the second amp with built in EFX for us. My daughter had a Roland Microcube before. Before we bought the AC112, she tried a Vox AD30VT. However, we think that the AC112 gives better bang for the buck!

I bought this new in 2005 from Musician's Friend in the warehouse boneyard. It had a broken pot knob that was easily epoxied on. Found it to rattle, so I took it back and bought another one in the box. No rattle, just good clean sounds and an amazing value. Plenty of effects and volume. I've got several vintage amps; Fender, Gretsch, Princeton and Valco. This one has replaced them all as my gig amp. The 1010 Foot Controller is a must but it cost more then the amp!

I use several different guitars; Gretsch Anniversary, Strat and a Tele. The Telecaster is custom made and just screams with this amp. We play mostly R&B, Blues and Classic Rock and it suits them just fine. 99 different sounds and most are useable. I had to try a few different settings at first but I found this amp to fit my needs rather well.

No problems at all. I haven't ever brought a back up amp.

No need to contact any support or service.

I've had it in regular use for over six months without incident. I will buy another. It is the most versatile, best sounding and absolutely the greatest value I've found in quite some time.

Same as other reviews. Channel switching delay is only snag. I have another tube preamp pedal i will have to use for gigs to switch during the song. Other than that, lots of features!

I play everything including lots of original. This amp is best for rock, especially vintage stuff. Killer for Beatles, and other jangle rock stuff. Good blues amp as well. Not meant for metal! Variety of tones is a little limited but that works for me just fine. The tones it gets are absolutely tops. Sounds like a much more expensive amp.

Don't know yet.

don't know yet

At the price I paid from Musicians Friend, this was the steal of my music career. It wasn't even a blem. I just happened to grab the last one they had. This is the best soudning amp I have played through other than a Mesa Boogie I once had..including Marshalls, Fenders, Roland and many others.