Behringer GM108 V-Tone

15 Watts one channel solid state (practice) amp, 8'' speaker, input jack for guitar and CD, headphone jack, 3-way-switches for amp model (tweed, brit, californian), switch for drive level (clean, hi gain, hot), 3-way-switch for speaker model (flat, brit, californian).
5 controlls: drive, lo, mid, hi, level.
Thats it.
I miss an effect loop, e.g. to plug in a small tube preamp, i miss a footsitch for switching eg. between clean and hi gain/hot.
Apart fromthatit has all a small practice amp needs.

It sounds rathergood and versatile for a little(one chanell) practice amp. Of course it doesn't sound like a good amp, thats impossible with a cheap 8 inch speaker, but for a little, cheap and transportable practice amp it sounds good. It doesn't offer ultra clean sounds, even when switchesare on"tweed" and "clean" there is a little distortion, but i do not mind, because small tube amps sometimes show the same "clean" weakness.
The brit modell on high gain sounds rather good for a small practice amp, and the drive knob allows you to switch between crunchy and rather distorted.
Onebig minus is that clean sounds have a much lower volume than drive sounds, so if you switch between clean and drive, you have to readjust the output level.
Therefor the amp is unusable for fast switching between clean and overdrive. But that is acceptable for a(good sounding) one channel practice amp.
The 3-way EQ allows to adjust the sound in wide range,but be carfeully: controlls go too easy.

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If you regard the low price and the decent sound, it deserves 8 points.
With some more features forasimilar price it could be a 9.
My ratings regard the low price, of course the GM108 can't be compared to a samll tube amp with better speaker for some hundred bucks.

ok. this is an update of my review that i did a year ago. more detailed. back then, i was not really the tone conscious person i am today.
firstly, i haven't used the clean channel for a year, so i forgot how it sounded. today, i turned the gain to 3, turned the mode from "Hot" to "Clean". WOW. This clean tone is better than anything i have heard in person from an amp this small. In fact, this is better than my Marshall MG250DFX! i mean, imagine a nice warm clean with lovely punch and clarity. ooooh its lovely.
then, translate this punch and clarity onto full on high gain distortion and the result is the best distortion sound i have heard in person (aside from Opeth gigs!). On that note, this amp sound very Opeth.... the distortion is monster! and it can be changed from bright to dark tone using the "amp" selector switch.... From dimebag to Slayer to Opeth to lamb of god to anything that has a kileer high gain tone. it has power, balls, bass, and warmth.....
the EQ is actually quite responsive: the bass makes the ground shake around it, the mids dial more life into the tone (although having them on 1 doesn't kill the tone like most amps!) and the treble adds brightness and bite.

Here are my settings for my distortion: Gain:10 Low:8 Mid:5 Treble:8 master:3 and for the modeling section, it is as follows: AMP: "Calif." MODE: "Hot" Speaker: "U.K"

as i said in my last review, if you are thinking of buying this, do it. you WONT regret it!

of course i can depend on it! it has been a year since my last review, TWO years since i had it, it hasn't had a problem AT ALL. very reliable. obviously you wouldn't properly gig with this, but if you were driving an external speaker (for loudness), this amp would hold firm.
after 2 years of moving around from house to out-house (depending on where i practice), this baby still goes.

i would buy it again. and again. and again.
this amp has better tone than my 100W Marshall MG250DFX.... thats really all you need to know.
my guitars are: Dean Razorback, Yamaha Pacifica 112, Columbus Les Paul Lawsuit (early 1970s) and my trusty Vintage VS6 SG copy.
this amp sounds awesome with all of them, but the pickups in the VS6 kind of makes it sound wimpy. i knew i shouldn't have upgraded =D
i love everything about it. almost perfect clean to perfect distortion. definition, clarity, warmth, punch, power, balls... it has it all

A nice versatile practice amp. Nothing in its price range comes close.

Pretty impressive gain/distortion. Goes from clean to heavy and does the job nicely.

Seems sturdy enough. Wouldn't roll it down the stairs though.

I Picked this up for my apartment where my 5150 head/marshall lead 1960 cab is obviously too loud. I'm pretty blown away by how good this sounds. Hands down best bang for your buck. Has gain to spare and it's perfect for practicing. Rest assured this is a good purchase if you're in the market for a practice amp.

I've not yet had a chance to play any guitars through it - but I left in on with all knobs on full power setting for the night as a "burn-in". I have to say that my amp is VERY NOISY. With the Master and Drive knobs on 5 you already get a lot of hiss, and with all knobs on 10 you can hear it hissing from a room away. I had to remove it from my bedroom so I could sleep. Depending on its behaviour with an instrument plugged in I will probably try to get it replaced, or even go for a used Tech21 Trademark 10.

As far as build quality goes, this product seems to be right up "You-get-what-you-pay-for" street. The controls feel extremely light and flimsy, especially the knobs, which are also off-center. There are reasons for the low price besides the obvious exploitation of Chinese labour. I'd gladly go for a true German product at four times the price if there were any that compared, but there are none - just one American one.

Bought new, two-three weeks ago.
15 watts, analog modeling (think Tech21 Trademark), semi-open back, 15 watt - 4ohm - 8 inch Behringer speaker, gain, "amp" switch (california, british, tweed), "mode" switch (clean, hi gain, hot) and "speaker" switch (UK, US, flat), bass, middle, treble, master, headphones out, aux in, made in China. I think that for the price you really can't bitch about it needing more features. Sure, reverb would be nice, ext. speaker jack, fx-loop, channel switching... but i think that for practicing it has all that it needs.
To be honest, i think i like that it doesn't have all those extra things, i guess that if it had all those things i would be tweaking more, pluggin different things into it.. This way i just plug my guitar in it and play. The only thing i can complain is that the "clean" setting is much more silent than hot and hi-gain, but that's why they put master volume on it, just turn it up ;)

Wow. That's a good word to start here.
{This is going to be pretty long}
I was originally going for the Roland MicroCube, but at the last moment i lacked some money and didn't want to wait till i get some more money so i decided to go for this one, I haven't even tried it cause it's not available in my town... I read all the reviews overhere and decided to just order it.. this is not intended to be my main amp, just something small, lightweight and something that sounds good on super low levels and what i can carry around my flat when i practice, so i was willing to sacrifice tone for portability and price.. when it got here i realized that i didn't sacrifice anything, it sounds simply stunning. I think it sounds much better than those little Marshalls (VS15, MG15RCD, MG15DFX..), Roland Microcube and Cube15, Kustom, Laney, Fender.. actually, i couldn't find anything in the ~200euro price range that sounded this good. I use a Gibson Les Paul Studio with stock pickups...
This amp doesn't just sound good for the price, it really sounds good!
It's very versatile, so i'll just cover a couple of "basic" sounds available:

- for clean i use tweed-clean-uk - i'm mostly a hard-rock/metal/blues player so clean channel isn't that important to me. It sounds good nonetheless, but it's pretty silent compared to hi-gain and hot so you have to turn the master volume level a bit.. turning the gain up gives it little dirtyness, but really little, it stays very clean

- for bluesy crunch i use tweed/hi gain/us, i love this sound. Very very good, reminiscent of SRV, it's got definition and it really "bites" if you dig in with your pick..

- for hard-rock crunch i use british/hi gain/uk, i does that ac/dc_type crunch very well too.. putting gain on about 2-3 is more than enough..

- for metal chugging i use mostly california/hi-gain/us. This is where this amp really shines, imho. It's got a lot of gain available, you could probably do death-metal type sounds (if you wanted).. I was (and still am) amazed how much bass this little thing has, and it sounds really tight, not flubby or boomy, and that's not something you expect from a 1*8", open back practice amp! Simply put, the bass is tight, the mids are fat and the highs are razor-like sharp.
Also, it sounds natural, like a tube amp (more like a tube amp than a modelling amp), and you can hear every single note within a chord... it's very silent, there's no annoying hissing or fizzing, dead silent, even with gain maxed. The cool thing is that with just a flick of the switch from california to tweed you go from metal to blues...

Does it sounds like a mesa/marshall/fender? Absolutelly not, but it sounds good and that's what it matters, not how good is it mimicing the "real" amps.. imagine california mode being darker and having more gain than the british and tweed having more twang and less gain.. "hot" has more gain than the "hi-gain" but it's also brighter, "us" has more bass and that low-end punch while the "uk" setting is more mid-heavy, "flat" sounds, well flat, i use it very rarely...
but also it's very important how your bass/mid/treble controls are set cause they are really touch sensitive and you can actually hear the difference if your treble control is on 5 or 6, that's really rare on these small practice amps.. amazing. And, yes, don't get fooled by it's size, it can get really loud, i rarely put the master volume above 2.5. Like someone overhere said, this amp really shouldn't sound this good for this price.

Well, i don't intend to use it on gigs.. It seems solidly build - for home use. I've had their v-amp2 and never had any problems with it.

I've contacted Behringer a couple of times over email, they always responded within 24 hours and were very helpful and polite

I've been playing for about 9 years, mostly hard-rock, metal and some blues. I own a Gibson Les Paul Studio, Mesa/Boogie Studio .22+ and Boss GE-7 (which i use in the loop of the M/B). I bought this amp to use it for practicing at home and it serves that purpose extremely well. Can get super-silent (for playing in the middle of the night), you can connect headphones to it but it can also get fairly loud (when you're home alone ;)). It won't do gigs cause it was not meant for that, and no, it won't replace my Mesa, but for home wankery you'd hard pressed to find anything better, especially for the price. If it was stolen or something, i would buy it again for sure, i haven't find an amp that sounded this good for this price. I love absolutely everything about this amp, i don't hate anything, i don't miss anything. I compared it to those little Marshalls, Rolands, Kustoms, Laneys, Fenders and in my opinion it sound better than all of those.
If you want clips, you can go to my homepage (www.mrmot.tk), i did one with it (more to come), you can hear for yourself, it records amazingly.
I know that this review is pretty "glowing" but i can assure you, i don't work for behringer or anything like that, this amp is just really good, try it for yourself, it's very inspiring and since i've had it, i've been playing more than ever. Best 80 euros i've ever spent.

definately more than a no frills practice amp, the amp modeling/gain/speaker emulation combined with the 3 band eq open it up to a decent variety of sounds. The clean channel is weak, but I really don't care for the sound of a clean 15 watt solid state amp anyway. reverb would be nice but for the price it can not be beat.

I use several different guitars and the humbuckers sound better to me than the single coils. I can get a whole plethora of sounds through this(the pdf downloadable manual even has a place to write down the settings you use so you can easily dial them in again)I can amuse myself for hours. Almost all the noises I get from the amp are being created by me, very little white noise added by the amp.

I don't gig, I noodle at home and anticipate this amp will last past my attention span.

bought used don't know about customer support. Amp is only 60 bucks new, probably worth taking a chance on even without a warranty

I have been messing around on the guitar for over 25 years and I wish this amp was available when I was getting started. For just trying out ideas or learning new stuff at home, I don't think you can spend a better $60 on a new amp, if you can find a used one for $20 its a no brainer(just don't pay $25 shipping like most on-line auction sellers charge). just a great amp to have at home or the office or to leave at a friends house so you have an amp when the inspiration hits. I am totally sold on this amp for the money. Is it as good as a marshall stack or a fender twin? I can carry it with one hand and can turn it up without bothering the neighbors, so maybe.........

Versatility is the real asset of this amp. It brags about the "27 different settings" (although one of the settings produces no sound), but it can actually do even more than that. With the customizable low/mid/high volumes and overdrive control, you get enormous choice with what sound you want. No effects or anything, but i wouldn't need them anyways. The clean sounds are definitely quieter, you need at least a bit of gain to hear. The amp is also plenty powerful, although since its just a home amp for me, and i use headphones, i don't personally care. The headphones, by the way, work really for me, if you get the earmuff style ones, you almost forget your wearing them.

I'm using a fender fat strat, which has a lot of versatility on its own. But fat pickups or not, this amp could fake the crunch if you needed it to (so it says on the box). If the volume cracks 5 you do get a bit of background white noise (noticeable on headphones), but it's not serious, and once your playing the sound quality is really solid. The distortion has various degrees, and there is surely one to your liking.

I've only had it a little while, i'm not overwhelmed by its apparent durability, but i do imagine it would last as long as you needed it to. I would never take it to a gig, its not that loud, and i understand it "walks away" if the volume is high enough

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I've been playing a little over a year, but only recently with electric guitars. I don't have that much experience, but i know what sounds good. This amp will let you do what you want; it won't stand in your way, but it also won't do anything special to make you sound better than you are. It has everything i need, its the perfect amp for me.

This amp absolutely rocks. You can really simply change it with a few clicks of switches from a grinding hardcore metal sound, to a light overdrive, then to a warm crystal clear sound. it also works well with the Strat copy that was bought with this amp, also made by behringer.
It also features a small amount of switch operated effects on the control panel!

i have a vintage VS6 (SG copy) with Wilkinson pickups on the neck and bridge, and this amp sounds like a beauty. As i said earlier, the amp's distortion is beefy, and can be reduced and increased to your desire. It has a very user friendly volume control so no problems there, even with high volume clean tone.
Very clear sound, very very good for a practice amp!
It is only a 15W, but it packs a great power!

Very well built. strong, sturdy, perfect for taking places to practice. No back panel, which is kinda annoying, as it can get awkward when holding it by your side (knees hit Speaker!), but it is not usually a problem... It has never broken down in any form-a very reliable amp!

Havent used services, but very good website!

A great overall practice amp for 15W! never breaks, great sound, amazing amp! it can even outdrown the drums in our band!

BUY IT! IT IS THE BEST 15W PRACTICE AMP I OR ANYONE ELSE WILL EVER FIND!

I miss Reverb a little but, but otherwise it's OK.

I'm using kinda Les Paul guitar with H-H pickups and quite satisfying sound. I bought this combo for home practising, I keep the volume knob in low positions.

The sound of this amp is just TERRIFIC and very versatile. Ampmodeling makes a good job, I especially like Californian Hot sound with UK speaker. There are many kinds of sound, from blues to metal. Even with de-tuned guitar, which I use, the sound is dynamic and clear. I'm not sure if this combo keeps its qualities at high-level volume, but it undoubtedly suits my needs of home practice.

The sound of this thing is simply unbelievable for its price.

I've only had this combo for 2 months, so I can't write anything about durability a reliability. No problems so far.

No experiences so far.

I haven't ever heard better 15W combo like this. Most of other 15watts sounds horrible and distortions are often completely wrong. But GM108 is different, it really sounds like if it's stronger than poor 15watt. I definitely would buy it again.

Date Code: 05 01
Input, LineIn, Headphone Out(mutes speaker) jacks
15W solid state
8" 20W Behringer 8G20B4 speaker

drive, low-mid-high eq, master volume
analog modeling: 3 amps (tweed, british, californian), 3 modes (clean, hi gain, hot), 3 speakers (flat, uk, us)

it's a practice amp. that's whay I bought it. wanted to use it at home. but it's so loud, I hardly can turn the master volume at 2 when using an amp-sim. so I just go with the tweed, clean and flat setting and use an external distortion pedal

8 - because it hast nearly all you need for practise purpose but it's "too loud" ;)

I play ma LesPauls through this amp. high output with the bridge pu. nice crunchy sounds. I love the british settings ( with hi gain and uk speaker). distortion is okay, ultra high nu metal sounds are not that great but wtf are you expecting? for that amount of money it sounds awesome!

time will tell

playing for 8 years or so and mostly at th rehearsal room or on stage. so I needed something for home usage cause virtual amps did not saitsfy me... it's a great amp for practise and jam sessions, maybe even homerecording (for riffs or a clean input signal).