Behringer GM110 Combo

Identical speck to all others.Very versatile for practice or studio.But not gigging

I tried my first Gm110 out of curiosity and was knocked over by the flexibilty of the tone controls.You dont get any of that horrible buzzy tranny fizz like you do with some Practice amps(for example the Marshall MG series).The only time the amp will sound really horrible is if you pile too much gain and volume on....you will then get digital like clipping.
Make no mistake this amp does sound very valve like at low to mid volumes.Even the tone/eq controls behave like a tube amp.On most tranny amps when you turn down the treble on gain it still sounds fizzy/buzzy and horrible.....not with this baby.

I had to try 3 of these to find the best one......because at first i thought the solid state clipping at high volumes was a fault(some are worse than others).Apart from this......so far so good.But do try as many as possible as quality control with behringer stuff does seem to be in question

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I cant believe that some people rate the awful sounding marshall MG series amps as being better that these.Ive been playing 20 years have a host of gear.......and i'm very happy with my new purchase.

There are a whole host of outputs on this amp: speaker output, onboard speaker output, FX send, headphones. First things first, regardless of what the manual says they all have the same basic tone coming thru them. I have checked the speaker outputs with a load box and confirmed this. The basic tone from the preamp is a speaker simulated sound, there is no way to defeat the cab emulation as its inherit to the preamp circuit.

Remember that is a clone of a Tech21 product: All Tech21 products use custom made flat response, full range speakers in their amps (eg, similar to hi-fi speakers in frequency), not guitar speakers. So why the hell did Behringer put a guitar speaker in there?!?

If you don't understand about cab-sims and the difference between mid voiced guitar speakers and flat response speakers then I'll summarise; Behringer the tone of this amp sounds like there's a blanket over the cab - or else your listening to the amp from the other side of a door or something! It is so dull and boomy I cant believe no one picked up on this at Behringer. The only explanation I can think of is they deliberately put a guitar speaker in there to get round Tech21's copywrite?

The output from the preamp is very good for a speaker sim'd output. I would say its just marginally better that the POD or other similar units. I prefer the GM110 DI as it has more treble than other units do (eg. POD when used DI with cab sim). Also the unit has very good dynamics and responds noticably better than all digital preamps I've tried.

I took the amp to a local music shop and plugged the speaker output into some guitar cabs; sounded the same. Then I plugged the speaker output into a full range PA cab and there was the sound you'd expect that everyone raves about Tech21 for!

I then started experimenting with different speakers. I tried:

H&H Invader, sounded same dullness as stock speaker.
Another higher spec Jensen, sounded same dullness as stock speaker.
A no-name aluminium cone full range speaker (up to 10Khz). The tone was starting to get there, some treble started coming thru but the tone with the speaker was far to abrasive, it gave me a headache!
A no-name full-range 8" speaker with hi-freq whizzer cone (up to 15Khz). The best so far. Its got a decent amount of treble (still not quite up to the brightness of any other amp) but the amp sounds distant and has little power. However it is usable like this and for a cheapo practice amp sounds fine. The Tech21 preamp in this thing deserves much better!

I guess the only way to get this amp working as it should is to contact Eminence (who make Tech21's speakers) and get a 10" speaker that has the same freqency characteristics as the 8 or 12 inch speakers they supply to Tech21. Else get a PowerEngine and run the combo thru that.

I sent the first amp back as it sounded so dull I thought there must have been a problem with it. When the second arrived the same I started to realise what was going on with Behringers incorrect choice of speaker as per above.

The amp looks a very impressive solid construction. The only gripe I have is the speaker terminations are soldered onto the speaker rather than Behringer fitting sockets to the speaker cable.

I have been playing guitar over 10 years, teach, owned tons of gear (Marshall heads and combos, Laney, GT-6, Digitech, Zoom, Line6 amps and FX etc.).

The amp itself is unusable for me on its own unless you can find a speaker to match. I've made it usable compared to the stock speaker, but its still not very good.

But it does sound good for recording or running thru a PA. I guess what your getting is a Sansamp GT2 pedal, but in a combo format for half price (#85). Such a shame Behringer didnt pop another #15 on the asking price and put a custom voiced speaker in there to match the preamp output.

If you play Jazz and want a warm (dull) sound then I guess you'll love this amp. If you want a modern rock sound with any kind of h

Purchased mine a few months ago. I'm using it for harp and basically set it for as clean a sound as possible since it distorts even at that setting when running a mic and harp through it.

At my gigs I can usually crank the level all the way up and put the drive at about 9 o'clock before it begins to feed back on me. I put the amp in front of me angled upward so I'm basically using it like an onstage monitor for my harp. It would not be loud enough to mic properly but since it has the LXR direct out it works great for my purposes.

Well....it's a Behringer so after 3 gigs it went kaput! No power...no sound...no nothing. I couldn't find the fuse on this thing but one of the other reviewers explains how to access it in the AC port. I like the good ol' days when you could actually FIND the fuse in an amp. Since I bought it from Musicians Friend I just contacted them and they sent a FedEx label via email and I shipped it back and got a new one in about one week. The replacement has worked fine for about 2 months now. Behringer seems to be very "hit and miss" with their amps...you either get a good one that'll work for a long time or you get the "lemon special". The fact that this amp only costs $100 makes the risk worth it in my opinion.

apparently they don't have any....it's cheaper to send out new amps than repair them when they're this cheap.

If I get a year or two out of this amp then it was probably worth the cost. If you have the money then you should probably get the Trademark 10 from Tech21 and have a bit more reliability to fall back on. I think everyone has to admit that the price of this amp along with the direct out feature are what is driving folks to buy it. It's a breakthrough for sure in that area. I definitely buy another if it was stolen etc. You just have to be prepared for a possible shipback and not stress over it.

I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THIS GM110 NOT HAVING REVERB. BUT THEN I USE A YAMAHA DG STOMP PEDAL WITH ALL THE EFFECTS I WANT. THE AMP IS SO SWEET/CLEAN/RICH SOUNDING AS WELL AS GOOD DISTORTION,ADN THAT WONDERFUL OVERDRIVE SOUND I HAVE UNFORTUNATELY BECOME ADDICTED TO AT THE EXPENSE OF MY HEARING. THIS AMP DOES THAT SOUND,AT LOW VOLUME,HOW DO THEY DO IT??

I USE A 59 JAZZMASTER,A YAMAHA AES 800 , A GIBSON 330 WITH P-90'S, A COUPLE EPIPHONES, AND A STRAT WITH THE STANDARD PICKUPS FOR 1988. MY GIBSON 330 CAN MAKE THE SPEAKER POP ONCE IN A WHILE,BUT IT MAY BE THE PREAMP I USE ON DISTORTION SOUND? THE SPEAKER MAY NOT BE UP TO WHAT THE AMP CAN PUT OUT,ESPECIALLY USING A PREAMP TO PUSH THINGS A BIT.
THE BEHRINGER GM 110 IS QUIET. MY CRATE DX 212 I JUST GOT RID OF WAS NOT QUIET. IT HISSED LIKE A PISSED OFF SNAKE ON MOST SETTINGS.
I HAD OLD FENDER SUPER REVERBS, THAT JUST SAT,BECAUSE I DONT PLAY OUT ANYMORE(GOT TIRED OF GETTING IN AT 4AM SMELLING LIKE AN ASHTRAY) SO I WAS LOOKING FOR AN AMP THAT DID IT ALL AT LOW VOLUME FOR HOME USE ONLY. I BOUGHT A CRATE DX212 DIGITAL AMP THAT HAD MANY EFFECTS/AND 2 12" SPEAKERS. BUT I FOUND MYSELF MISSING THAT FENDER SUPER REVERB SOUND AT HIGH VOLUME. I PREFER 10" SPEAKERS FOR THAT CUTTING CRISP SOUND,AND THE CRATE FOR ALL ITS BELLS AND WHISTLES, IT DIDNT HAVE THE HIGHS. SO I DID SOME READING,AND DECIDED TO BUY A TECH 21 TRADEMARK 10. I CALLED THE LOCAL PLACE TO BUY MUSIC STORE AND ASKED IF THEY HAD A TECH 21. THE GUY AT THE STORE SAID,"WE CAN GET YOU ONE,BUT WE STOPPED STOCKING THE TRADEMARK 10 BECAUSE OF THE BEHRINGER GM110,WHICH IS A SHAMELESS COPY OF THE TECH 21,BUT WITH A LARGER SPEAKER AND MORE WATTS FOR $99 INSTEAD OF $249 FOR THE TECH 21. SO I STOPPED INTO THE STORE THAT NIGHT,TRIED IT,AND I LIKED IT. I BOUGHT ONE ON THE SPOT. I GOT IT HOME TRIED IT FOR A WHILE,IT WAS GOOD,GOOD ENOUGH. BUT I LATER PLUGGED IN MY YAMAHA DG STOMP PREAMP AND ADDED SOME DELAY,REVERB,DIFFERENT CAB MODELS,CHORUS, AND I WAS,AND AM STILL FLABBERGASTED. I CANT BELIEVE THE SOUND THIS THING KICKS OUT. IT SOUNDS JUST LIKE A FENDER SUPER TURNED UP BUT,WITHOUT HURTING MY EARS(MY EARS RING ALL THE TIME FROM ME BLASTING MY EARS OFF ALL THOSE YEARS. THE RINGING SUCKS,ESPECIALLY WHEN I AM TRYING TO SLEEP WHEN IT IS REALLY QUIET,. DONT DO THAT TO YOUR HEARING) THIS AMP GETS ALL THE DISTORTED/GRUNGE/CLEAN(I DONT DO CLEAN) / AND THIS AMP HAS FULL MEATY LOW RICH TONE AS WELL AS CUTTING CRISP RICH SOUND THAT YOU CAN ONLY GET FROM 10" SPEAKERS. I SOLD THE CRATE WITH ALL THE DIGITAL GIZMO'S AND ITS 2'12" SPEAKERS. THIS BEHRINGER GM110 IS MORE THAN ENOUGH AMP FOR ME. I USE IT WITH MY ROLAND GR-1 SYNTH AND WHAT CAN I SAY. I LOVE THIS THING. I PLAY MUCH LONGER THAN I USE TO. I JUST COULDNT GET INTO IT BEFORE WHEN I THOUGHT I MIGHT BE "BOTHERING" THE NEIGHBORS,SO I DIDNT PLAY,AT ALL USUALLY BEFORE I GOT THIS BEHRINGER GM110. HEADPHONES ARE OK,BUT I PREFER TO HEAR THAT SPEAKER WORKING HARD. I THINK IT WILL TAKE MONTHS TO LEARN ALL THE DIFFERENT SOUNDS THIS AMP IS CAPABLE OF. THE RANGE SO SOUNDS IS WIDER THAN ANY OF THE AMPS I EVER HAD,AND THE FENDERS HAD THE BEST SOUND OF ALL THE AMPS I HAD,TILL NOW.
THE MUSIC STYLES I LIKE -HUMMMM--- STEVE VAI- JOE SATRIANI - YINGWIE- PAGE - EDDIE VAN HALEN - OLD CREAM/CLAPTON SOUND - HENDRIX,NEVER HEARD ANYONE DO HENDRIX WELL AND I DONT TRY EITHER,I JUST ENJOY LISTENING TO THE ORIGINAL- USUALLY WITH MY MOUTH OPENED. ALL THOSE LITTLE IN BETWEEN LICKS HE HAD- THEY JUST FLOWED...

I HAVE READ THAT SOME BEHRINGER GM 110'S AND OTHER BEHRINGER STUFF HAS CRAPPY CONTROL SHAFTS THAT CAN BREAK EASILY,AND A COUPLE GUYS BOUGHT AMPS THAT DIDNT EVEN WORK WHEN THEY GOT THEM HOME. BUT, I DO KNOW FROM PAST EXP,THAT AMPS WITH THE CONTROLS ON THE TOP OF THE AMP,OR EVEN OF THE FRONT,CAN GET BUMPED. LIKE CARS, EVERYONE HAS A DIFFERENT WAY TO TAKE CARE OF OR TREAT STUFF. I HAVE HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH MY GM110 BUT I DONT TAKE IT OUT,AND I HAVE ONLY HAD IT FOR 3 MONTHS TO DATE.

DONT KNOW NEVER NEEDED THEM
EVEN IF THE AMP BLOWS UP AFTER JUST A YEAR, SO WHAT, I WOULD JUST BUY ANOTHER ONE AT THIS PRICE.

BEEN PLAYING SINCE 64. I HAVE HAD LOTS OF AMPS,FENDER SUPERS,DELUXE,BANDMASTER, A BLONDE BASSMAN(THAT I SOLD FOR $100.IN PERFECT CONDITION,BECAUSE IT DIDNT HAVE REVERB)VIBROLUX REVERB, AMPEG SUPER REVERB, HARMONY,CRATES,VOX,GIBSON,ACOUSTIC,TRAYNOR,MAGNATONE, THATS ALL I CAN REMEMBER OF THE AMPS. BUT OF THEM ALL,THIS AMP IS THE EQUAL ON TONES,AND SOUNDS IF NOT VOLUMES FOR ME AT THIS TIME. LOTS OF GREAT SOUND,WITHOUT ALL THE HARMFUL LOUDNESS. MY OLDER AMPS NEEDED TO BE PUSHED TO GET THEM TO GET TO THE SWEET SOUNDING DISTORTIONS. THE BEHRINGER IS FANTASTIC,YOU GOTTA HAVE ONE.

Thomann 110 euro
i'm a student from germany, so please excuse any faults !!
Best value for money. A lot of features and nice sounds. Very Versatile but not noisy enough to jam with it.No seperate footswitch jack. If you want to change the sounds without using the knobs on the amp, you will have to buy the v-amp plus the FCB pedal; together 300 euro

sounds great but it's not loud enough to jam with. I use this amp with a fat strat copy. No chance to cope with drums.A friend of mine uses a shitty peavey rage 158, but its as loud as this Behringer-amp although it has only 15 watt (8 watt sinus) !!!.

i played with it about two weeks and it broke down.
i gave it back to Thomann; and again, after one week!!! it broke down !!!
it's a nice amp but you can't depend on it.

Send me another one. Very friendly and helpful

its a great silent amp ;if it works

okay, okay, okay. here's my THIRD review to follow up on the one i posted about four or five reviews down.

turns out the problem was the capacitor. for those who have a gm110 that has died on you, listen up. check in the back where the powercord feeds into (the plug-in cord for lamens terms). now carefully with either your fingernail or a flathead screwdriver, pry open that little compartment that is right above the three prong input on your amp. once you have that open, take out the fuse. Is it cloudy inside? if so, then your fuse is blown. take the blown fuse down to your local electronics store or music store, and ask them if they have another one of "these" (give the fuse to the assistant) and if not, have it ordered. I was told that a "slow-blow" fuse works to absorb the shock, but if you put a slow-blow in an amp, the power surge will go directly from your amp into your equipment. NOT GOOD. Just get a regular fuse for your amp, which costs anywhere from twenty five cents to a dollar.

I replaced the fuse in mine, and I'd like to say that my amp is working perfectly as the day I bought it.

I hope I helped somebody out with this review! God Bless!

This is a fairly new model, as far as I know. When I heard about it, I just had to get it. A 30-watt analog modeling amp at $99? It sounded too good to be true. But, it wasn't, and I couldn't be happier with my purchase. The settings are all very useful. 3 amp settings (California, British, Tweed), drive settings (Hot, Hi-Gain, Clean) and Speaker settings (US, UK, Flat). Everything else is pretty simple - Drive, Volume, 3-Band EQ. It does have a Direct Out with GroundLift for recording, and a really nice tube-type compression, as well as an effects loop. Equipped with a Jensen vintage-type speaker. It works really well for everything I had in mind. However, no real channel switching - but it's not a problem for me.

I run a SX Strat with Rio Grande pickups into this amp, and I'm very happy with the sounds. The California setting is very full, the British is very biting, but retains some fullness, and the Tweed...well the Tweed is just awesome. It is very accurate in the respect that it dirties up when you push more volume into it. The Jensen speaker works well, though I'd consider putting a Celestion in there. The 30 watts is plenty loud for what I use it for, and it has a DI connection if I have to use it with a PA. This amp works really well for anything, considering its modeling capabilities, but I tend to use the tweed the most just because it sounds so damn good. The clean channel is pretty good, although my Rio Grandes push the hell out of it. The amp is a little noisy, not as much as Crate amps, but not Fender-quiet. But my building does have a really annoying 60-cycle thing going on, so that's probably the problem. I'd say in a different environment this amp would perform better. However, like I said, I couldn't be happier with the sound as of now. a lush sounding clean channel, and fat, dirty distortion as driven as you would ever need it to be.

I would say that this amp is pretty durable. The handle is thick, it has nice and useful chrome corners, and it is freakin' heavy, leading me to believe it is plywood. It seems durable enough for normal gig use, but probably not a lot of road abouse. The controls are plastic, after all. I have a qualm with the cord coming out the top, too...I tend to like it coming out of the front better - it doesn't break as easily. I'd use it without backup, though. Although I probably wouldn't crank it for fear of overloading the fuse. But if it breaks, it's cheap enough to get another one easy.

Heven't dealt with the company yet. Not sure if it has a warranty. Probably won't need it anyway. It might cost more to have it fixed than to just get another.

I am very happy with this amp. If it were stolen, I'd just get another one, it's so cheap. I could get two for the cost of a search-and-rescue campaign. For the price, the sound is truly awesome. No complaints here.

Dec 2003 production model. Clone of Tech 21 Trademark amp. It's basically a Tech 21 / Sansamp in a 30 watt amp. Great little amp with some killer sounds. Very useful tones.

As said above, very useful tones. Clean to hard overdrive, along with tone controls, you should be able to dial in most anything you can imagine in the overdrive/distortion realm.

Here's the problem. Only had it a week, and it already is crapping out. I read about this beforehand, took my chances, and I lost. Started with a headphone jack problem, then the distortions started going away, and now it only has clean tones and is running at about 1/4 volume that it used to run at. It's going back to where it came from. Behringer obviously needs to work out the bugs on this one. I'm not the first one this has happened to. Read the other reviews below! BEWARE!

Don't know....not going to even bother. I've only had it a week, it's the dealers problem. They will probably have better luck at a dealer getting some results out of Behringer.

Great idea.....poor quality control. I know it's a cheap amp, and yes the old saying is true, you get what you pay for. Too bad Behringer can't put more quality control into their products. I only give it a 5 here, because of poor quality control...the amp and idea of the amp itself is stellar...a grand ripoff of Tech 21.
Oh well, you buy a Le Car, hoping for a Cadillac, welll...you know how that tale ends.

bought new in november 2003,

this is a second review of this amp, love it to bits, found new sounds and spent a lot of tweaking to get my sound, i honestly believe this amp will be a future classic !!!!

well, after 2 weeks ownership, the sound went off, lights were on but no sound, took it back to the dealer (sound control, newcastle, england) and they did not have another, so sent it off for repair, came back 2 weeks later and havn't had a problem, i use it 2 hours a day everyday, used it for few practices and recording in the studio, and it has been great

dealer was very good

apart from the fault which is now fixed, it has been great, great sound and portable, ive used it in to my guitarport, with the speaker simm switched off and the amp on the guitarport switched off and use the cab sims on the guitarport, got great results. an almost perfect little amp

I already posted a review for this amp a few months back, when I bought it. This is just an update to mention that it's the best #80 I've spent in music gear.
I recently used it in a jam (drummer, bass, other guitars), and it held its own alright volume-wise, although running probably at 80-90%.
At the end someone asked "so what is that amp, is it valve?".
Yes, sure, there are better sounding amps out there. I know. Like the lovely Laney LC30. But long may last the Vintager... I don't think I'll feel the need of getting another amp for a long while. Small enough, light enough, loud enough for most purposes. And... you miss the reverb like I do? Then get a cheap Zoom 505 off eBay and put it on the FX loop. The pedal even fits inside the cabinet so you could attach it there permanently.
Excellent amp.