Behringer BG412H 412 Cabinet

The cab has has a stereo (2x200 watts 8-ohm) and mono (400 watts 16ohms) with a jack to go to another cabinet, a lot of features for a cabinet...

I'm using the cabinet for brutal metal, rock and blues.
When I first got it sounded like shit (with distortion), cleans were fine, scooping the distortion helps when you get the cabinet. I have a Behringer EP1500 power amp, so I get 280 watts, I blasted the amp and played through the cabinet for 2 hours. The cab didn't quiver at all and it was amazing to hear the sound break in, I could hear it getting louder and louder, till I thought I was going to suffer from permanent hearing loss! When you get it allow for the sound to settle in the speakers, then you'll notice less highs (however the cab has some excellent highs), and a shitload of bass (at very low volumes it has the ability to shake your house a little) and nice mids.

It's been a few weeks since I've had it, and as long as you don't overdrive your amp (clip) then the speakers aren't going to out!
I have a very loud setup too loud to handle for our ears really, and the cab handles it fine, no farting or anything, Behringer puts out a very professional product for a great price, there's no cab that can rival it at the price. It looks great, one of the best looking cabs I've ever seen, the only thing rivaling would be the Randalls, but I think these look cooler, the Randalls look a little like shit haha.

I've been playing for 4 years, I have my trusty power amp, my rackmount EQ 27-band which is my preamp, a Rocktron Metal Planet, Boss Noise Supressor, Rocktron Short Timer delay (all great products otherwise they wouldnt be in my setup.. believe me, I'm picky!) and a Washburn with Bill Lawrence L500R/L500XL pickups.

I'd recommend it to kids who dont have a lot of money, or professionals who have the balls to use something new and impress the hell out of people!

i dont know, its a cab. What features do cabs have besides making your ears bleed?

ehh...I ren it through my crate gt212. It did allright, considering i used a regular instrument cable to connect it....oops!! almost blew my crate up lol. I used this at my drummers house. so did my friend. I cant judge this cab by my playing experience cuz i used a normal cable, but my friend pluged his xxl head into it and it sounded fine. he used a SPEAKER cable, so his wasnt all shitty. The cab handled the power, and the low end was fine!! im sick of all these retards saying it has no low end. We palm mute, and there wes no fart when we did it. This thing sounded good, and has plenty of power to spare.

ya. This thing looks cool too.

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its a prettt good cabinet if ur in a band that is playing small to medium gigs.

8 ohm stereo switchable to 16 ohm mono. 400 watts.
Jensen Speakers. Metal grill that actually doesn't vibrate!
Heres the cool part.... you can set the switch to stereo(8 ohms) and run two short speaker cables to a patching adapter, and viola, you have a 4 ohm 400 watt mono cab. Just make sure to use quality cables and a good high power adapter capable of speaker levels.

At first use, it did sound a little brittle and very bright on treble. It seemed to lack a little on the low end side. This was before the speakers were broke in.

Give it a month or two to settle in, and run it 4 ohms mono, I'm sure that you will be happy with the results.

I've used many different amps into this cab and it always sounds good. It seems to like the high power tube amps.

I'm not going to mention amp brands, but I have used many top name amps into this cab with good to excellent results. 300 watt solid state amps....no problem. Very tight and articulate with awesome low end chunk. 100 to 120 watt tube amps.....awesome.

I'm currently using this cab in the 4 ohm setup in stereo with another high quality 4 ohm cab, both being fed from a Peavey Classic 120/120 tube power amp. The sound and stereo seperation sounds awesome. It's louder than most people can handle. I have to use dual attenuators (hot plates) to reduce the sound levels to stage and club levels.

I have also compared these cabs with the high end (high dollar) cabs and this setup comes very close and sometimes even better to the sound quality of cabs costing 5 to 10 times as much. For the $200 that i spent on this I am very pleased.

I think you could make this cab work for any musical style. It works for me and I play everything from clean, bluesy, hard rock to extreme metal.

I've had bandmates try their setups thru this cab, and actually it has sounded better to them. One guy even sold hid old cab, bought a full stack of these and had money left over. So he bought a couple of those thin cloth grill covers to cover up the brand name. It looks cool and sounds great, what more could you want?

Ruggedly built. Heavy. Seems to be of quality construction. I've pounded this cab with some very high watt amps. It's like the more abuse it gets, the better it sounds.

Never had to use them yet. They seem to have their s**t together as far as their website and customer support.

For the price I paid for mine, I'm very happy. I wish I had bought a few more before they raised the price. Still a great bargain for $229. I'm not going to say that it's the best cab I've ever heard, It's not. But it does sound great, enough to keep up with the big boys, and the cost/quality ratio beats the big names hands down.

see above. nothing spectacular.

used with ...esp ec-1000, fender tele delux (not mine), heads used are crate blue voodoo 120h, marshall ugh...hmm some solid state thats fairy crappy.
i f-ing love the the BV through it, i know alot of people hate BV's but i recording with the combo and it was exactly what i was looking for. i got a ghetto version of In Utereo that i love. the hi's are pristine. the mids clear and lows, well they are there but not in full force, but i also use a head not known for it's lows. but i think they are satisfactory.
i personally like the hi's better than the marshall 1960. the 1960 has a better range of lows, but thats probably more speakers than wood. but then jensens are magic.

i broke it! the left input jack, i was slamming it into my car trunk. so i deserved it i guess. but it was a work horse up until then.

havn't tried to fix it yet. but the problem is simple.

best bang for the buck guitar cab out there. compare it, if you can afford it, get one with a marshall 1960 and a/b them. i bet you'll be surprised

It's a 4x12 speakers cabinet with 4 Custom Made (what is this?)original Jensen 100watts.
2x 8 ohm stereo, 16 ohm mono.
400watts (RMS?)

No good! My DiMarzio PU e the MT-2 are too bad for this cabinet.
NO GOOD FOR METAL and HARD ROCK. You can pump up the volume on your Tube Head but your guitar will be a ghost in the band pratice.
Good for popmusic!

Good.

I don't Know!

I'm playing for 15 years, metal and metal, some blues, with Marshall Vs100r combo, Torque T50L and now with a Marshall 1960A Cab + Stinger 100 Head, V-Amp2 at home.
I love the Behringer Cab's look, the lowest price(!!!), but I hate the quality of this product about the sound.

Bought new in late 2003. The cab is supposed to have Shark speakers but mine (ordered from American Music Supply) came with a "Jensen Speaker Equipped" tag attached and I haven't opened the back of the cab to verify. Four hundred watts, and having the casters is especially nice because this thing is a beast.

I had never heard anything about this company when I bought this cab but I was on a budget and took a chance. So far I'm very pleased. I've had it for about 6 months and it has been used in a band situation pretty consistently. I use a Peavey Supreme XL head through it and I have no problem being heard and cutting through my band, which is a 5-piece that plays Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, etc...I would agree with some of the other posts that say this puts out some added treble ( I play a solid state head so that probably has something to do with it), but I've noticed recently the speakers seem to be getting that "broken in" feel and sound, and it's getting a bit more "normal". I have yet to play live with this so we'll see what sound engineers say but the guys in my band are impressed (and they're all pretty good musicians in their 20s and 30s). I would also say that there were times where I cranked my amp almost all the way up and there was no farting out from the speakers. The cab seemed perfectly capable of handling any amount of power and volume thrown at it. It also seems to project really well, too. Clean sounds are impressive,too, with a lot of bottom end but also some nice sparkle.

It weighs a lot and I'm so glad it comes with casters. Workmanship seems on par with other cabs I've owned in the past (Carvin, Peavey 5150).

Haven't dealt with them.

Overall, I'm impressed with this cabinet. I've been playing for 21 years, and I still think Celestians are the best speakers for guitar cabs, but I don't have any complaints about this Behringer. I play with a lot of distortion and play pretty loud, and I just plug in and rock out without worrying about being overshadowed by my other guitarist (who plays a tube amp). This is a good bargain. Incidentally, I paid $199 for mine in December of 2003, and now (June '04) the price is up to $229, so it seems like the company's popularity is increasing. Better grab 'em while they're still inexpensive.

This cab wasn't versatile with my vampire, but is since I have a peavey xxx head. It's just a basic cab, you can switch it from mono to stereo. Alot of people haven't got good responses with this amp, the vampire sucked through it, but the xxx has an on board eq for each of the gain channels such as ultra, and crunch.

I am using an epiphone les paul custom, and a peavey xxx head. The amp pushes the cab just as I would want it to push any other cab, it handles well. I thought about buying a new cab, before I bought the xxx head, because I tried it with my v-ampire and didn't like its sounds, but with the xxx head it made me happy. I am into hardcore, metal, and metal/core as well has emo, post hardcore, and emocore(all these freaking names, makes music confusing. I am into bands such as avenged sevenfold, evergreen terrace, glasseater, killswitch engage, thrice, senses fail, Afi. This cab works well with my head, and suits my styles perfectly.

I can depend on it, its built decently. I am planning on getting another cab to run both of them, but haven't decided yet, what to get. Definantly not a crate, or ibanez, so maybe a marshall, or something with celestions in them.

Talked to some representatives, and they were very helpful on a footswitch , never talked to them about the cab.

I have been playing for almost 6 years. I own an epiphone les paul custom, a peavey 120 watt all tube head(see review), a behringer v-ampire(see review), an ibanez rg570, an ibanez chorus/flanger CF7, and other crap not worth mentioning.

I bought this Cab new a couple of months ago .Used with the right head or power amp it IS loud But thats really about it............. I also liked the 8/16 ohm option & It looked really cool and seems to be extremely well made.......read on............

I play mainly rock stuff. This cab is OK for clean type sounds but it sucks Big-time when u crank up the GAIN, or you want the warmth & versatility of a 300w marshall etc. Unfortunately, I have to agree with the guy who said these cabs are made to be used with an EQ (and by someone who knows what they are doing, such as an engineer), When the sound guy in a 600 capacity arena asks.."what the fuck is wrong with your amp sound"?. You know there is a problem...I ended up re-speakering it with Celestion G12T 75s hand hey presto, classic warm & rich sound. Sorry Behringer I thought this would sound as good as my V-ampire, But Marshall are kicking the shit out ouf you on this one!!!!

THERE ARE FOUR BRAND NEW JENSON JCH12/70'S HERE IF SOME ONE WANTS TO MAKE ME AN OFFER!!!!

Built like a brick shithouse ...say no more....... I ended up keeping the cab instead of buying an empty marshall!!!!!!

The castor,s do seem to go wonky after a couple of weeks...SHOPPING TROLLY SYNDROME!!!

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I bought this cab as it was cheap!!..........I know !!.......... D'OH!!!I was using this with a Godin LGX-T, marshall 9100, Behringer Composer pro compressor, boss GX 700 & a Korg DTr 1 tuner. (Also a JCM 900 Head, to see if the power amp was the problem) I ended up buying a Stereo 15 band EQ, to try to rectify the sound problems , but to no avail. When I used my marshall 20/20/1960a 4x12 it was like a breath of fresh air, compared the Behringer Set up UNTILL THE NEW SPEAKERS CAME!!!!!!!!

A small piece of advice, which has always served me well...when trying to set up an amp, or buying a new one, find a place where u can test it from about 15-20 feet away & turn it up (even in a music shop, if they dont like it, Fuck them, Go to another one where u get what u want for your hard earned cash) !!!!! Thats what the audience hear, not the bedroom sound, that sounds brill & then somehow disappears when the volume is turned up!!!!

TRUST ME ...THIS WORKS!!

THERE ARE FOUR BRAND NEW JENSON JCH12/70'S HERE IF SOME ONE WANTS TO MAKE ME AN OFFER!!!!

4x12 shark speakers, switch for stereo or mono operation

I recommend this cab for clean sounds or slightly overdriven sounds only. I use a Marshall TSL head & a Les Paul w/EMG pickups. At high gain, this cab puts out very grindy distortion without much balls or definition. At first I thought it was the amp, so I upgraded the tubes. Then after constant amp EQing and still no improvement, I switched out the cab and that did the trick. I do NOT recommend this cab to anyone who plays metal, hard rock, thrash, etc.

Well built and tough.

Never dealt with em.

I've been playing for 10 years and this is the worst cab for metal/hard rock that I've used. Though it looks badass, it can't handle high gain very well. Save up some more $$$ and buy a cab that's worth keeping.

BUY THE MODEL WITH THE JENSEN SPEAKERS.
400 watts RMS
4 x 12's
16 ohms mono
8 ohms x 2 stereo

BUY THE SAME MODEL CABINET BUT WITH THE JENSEN SPEAKERS.

Unless you plan to pump 200 Watts into this cabinet it's not goig to perform in the low end AT ALL.

At first this cabs highs were overbearing eventually they mellowed. Unfortunately they kept on mellowing in general until I had 4 12 inch speakers that sounded like some twangy 50's pussy telecaster speaker. An EQ did prove these speakers to be able to perform but their flat frequency response is shit. I really hate to modify this speaker circuit but I will.

BUY THE SAME MODEL CABINET BUT WITH THE JENSEN SPEAKERS. IT IS THE FINEST CABINET I HAVE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE!!! THE JENSENS THEY'RE USING ARE A MODERN DAY GUITAR SPEAKER IN SOUND AND PERFORMANCE. SIMPLY PUT, THEY WIPE THE FLOOR WITH ANYTHING ELSE. I NOW KNOW WHY JENSEN HAS BEEN SAID TO BE THE FINEST GUITAR SPEAKER IN THE WORLD. HELL, THE ONES THEY USE ARE EVEN MADE IN ITALY.

Anyhow I'll ad a choke to the circuit and for the time being that will beef up the sound of these shitty shark speakers. They can perform but I'm about simplicity and I don't want to mod the circuit or use an EQ but for now I have no other choice.

200 lbs
It's built like a tank. It not only looks better than any other cabinet on the market, it's built stronger!

!!BUY THE SAME MODEL CABINET BUT WITH THE JENSEN SPEAKERS!!
I'm literally crying over this mistake. I wish I had had a meezly $50 more to spend. I couldn't buy EACH of those Jensen speakers for $50. I'm betting at least $70 or $80 USD each. Meanwhile 50 bucks more would have gotten me all 4. I'm crushed!!

With this kind of wattage and the performance being so mellow at low wattages I am under the impression these cabs were more so designed for guitar sound re-enforcement. Likely an amp system with an EQ which is going to shape the sound these speakers put out being their flat frequency response is VERY VERY mellow and somewhat wimpy. ....None the less I will say they can perform under the right circumstances.

This cabinet is fine but they shouldn't even offer it with these speakers. It should be $200-$225 and ONLY be available with the Jensen speakers. I'm floored by the Jensens....They had the bass and power of a subwoofer while producing bright and rich mids and highs. Not to mention they just had a very warm sound in general.

The Behringer Sharks have a great classic tone I will give them that but that's all they have as is. Granted the right head, using an EQ or simply adding an inductor to the speaker circuit will beef up the bass and improve the sound but I'm angry I have to do this. Not to mention that unless an EQ was used the Jensens have a natural sound 10 times better then these. The mids are no longer anything to desire and the highs are all these speakers have.(un-EQ'd even here they let you down)

Again I will say an EQ made these speakers sound beautiful. From an engineers standing point, these speakers are made for a VERY VERY tight sound. They were meant to be used with an EQ with a lot of bandwidth control and a lot of gain.

Lastly I'll say maybe it's a question of wattage. Each speaker is getting 30 watts RMS. I mean even with the same signal, sending 400 watts RMS through this cabinet would take the bass it had and multiply it by 4 or 5 times maybe even a little more. Figure 4 speakers, wattage is more than tripled and for that many 12's it is a small enclosure.
Like I said, they seem more like sound re-enforcement and with the right amp and EQ combination, what guitarist wouldn't rather use a small army of 4x12 cabs instead of running through the P.A.????

.....Looks like instead of a bottom cabinet I'll have 2 tops. I want the Jensen version regardless of what can be done to this model. I guess if I were wanting to custom load a cabinet there would have been no other choice. I'll buy another one for certain but it will have the JENSEN speakers....did I mention the JENSENS?

Oh well tops look cooler than bottoms anyway.