Behringer GM110 Combo

30 watts 10" speaker, amp modeling. NO CHANNEL SWITCHING, that sucks.

I play hearder rock to soft pretty numbers. I love the sound of this thing! The ability to change sounds is very cool, the sound you are looking for is always there. THe tweed is great for softer music, but the cali model with the brit eq is great for harder music.

Haven't played it enough to know. BUT I have a habit of sitting on my amps, since the controls are on the top I've destroied a few cords.

Never called them. But I think it has a year and a half warranty.

Love it, wish it was louder. UNBEATABLE PRICE (even new).

I've done a review before, now let's see what happened(suspense)...
No,it still works perfectly! I run this with a behringer ultraroc in stereo as power amps for my sansamp gt-2, or my acoustic. I like the fact that it is very quiet cos i let them run all day.
The sounds of this amp are very bad except for the clean settings, and the guilty one calls dynamizer. This circuitry ruins everything, it compresses all the time and nothing is usable, really.
So please buy something else except you will change the speaker, bypass the preamp and take big risks with the reliability of those vintagers... I also use a marshall mg15cdr and there is absolutely no comparison, believe me!

Behringer Vintager GM110, manufactured 2003. Made in the Far East.
Versatile?, Oh yes. I'm primarily a classic rock head with punk leanings. It fits perfectly thus far. Not had it long, doubtless GAS will set in again soon.
Single channel amp with effects loop, DI, external speaker, GND lift and headphone jack. Gain and level controls along with bass mid and treble. The neat bit is the amp modelling.. Non tube analogue amp.

Playing an SG, and it suits me best on British, hi-gain and UK settings for amp mode and speaker respectively. It sounds lovely. Creamy, at the point of distortion. Gentle picking produces a nice 'crackly' sound, bash harder and, well, tonight Jeremy, I -am- Angus Young ( in my dreams ). The clean side of things is remarkably clean, and the distortion can be pushed through just right to metal and beyond. I have no use for that much distortion.

Seems well built. Not had it very long so cant comment on that.
Better constructed than the Marshall MG15DFX it replaces.

Not had to use them. Doubt I'd get much from them. Rather not rate yet.

I really am blown away by it so far, and do not regret buying it.
I really like the sounds it helps me make. I like the control layout.
On my MG15DFX, the only effect I used was reverb. I kinda miss that, but will buy a reverb unit to use with it. Other than that, for its price, it wipes the floor with Marshall MG series if you just want sound, and the Marshalls sound superb. This is just one notch better if you'd rather have amp modelling and let your effects processor take care of the rest. At 30watts rated output, and being capable of driving an external speaker, I intend gigging with it.
So far, a solid 9 overall.

as everyone else has explained, great features for the money

well, im blown away, this amp should not sound this good for the money, but it does !!!, the clean channel is round and warm, the overdrives are sweet and respond well to pick attack, i cant believe it, i bought it for in the house but this amp is gonna earn its #89 on stage. i owned a tech 21 trademark 60 for a few years, this is (in my humble opinion) better to me, better harmonics and sustain,although the 60 was louder, but i never turned it up loud anyway. best money i have ever spent on gear.

havnt had it long, but it looks well built.

ive played for 23 years, owned some good gear and crap,ive been through the digital thing, valve amps, (which are great) but most people dont need more than this, i know of pro's playing out using little amps like this, hidden behing there marshall cabs (just for show). this amp has to be the bargain of the century, it seems a direct rip off of the tech 21 trademark 10, but costs a third of the money, if the tech 21 sounds better, it cant be much

I won't repeat what has been said again and again. I will just say that it's amazing the many features they managed to package and at this price! The only thing I'd love to see is a reverb, but with the FX loop I can just plug in my favourite FX-processor, so no worries. I don't like the fact that right above the headphone socket there's another similar socket for an external speaker... I don't think my headphones will like it very much if I plug into the wrong socket by mistake. The ext speaker socket should have been located elsewhere... but it's a minor niggle.
Top marks for features... connectability, wow...

I admit I haven't been using this amp too long, but I am amazed at how good it sounds. The tweed setting does some nice cleans. I haven't found the lovely tones other reviewers mention, maybe I haven't tried hard enough... I have a Fender Vibrochamp whose clean sound I rate highly, and the Behringer doesn't quite approach that. Both my Laney VC50 and Electar Century 60RD have better clean sounds... but then I chose those amps partly because of their clean sounds... and both have 12" speakers, so that may also contribute. Having said this, I am trying to be picky, the clean sounds are nice, don't get me wrong, just not amazing, in my opinion. Now, still in the tweed setting, we add more overdrive and use the hig gain setting, and my telecaster loves this, very bluesy... excellent sounds.
The British amp emulation (a la Marshall) is very well made. In the clean setting you get great crunch, AC/DC all the way! full body crunch that responds very well to picking dynamics. Then increase the drive and switch to hi-gain, and... well, it's the typical marshall rock sound you've heard in so many records. get your wah out and pretend you're Michael Schenker! :)
The California setting is very very thick, I haven't experimented a lot with this yet (I'm taken by the Marshall emulation) but I'd describe it as similar to the British one, but a bit less "angular". And thicker. It would do a good Santana.
I find I like best the British with the UK speaker setting, and the others with the US (unsurprisingly?) although the flat setting can be interesting to tame a bit the thickness in the California model...
So many good sounds in this amp, it deserves a 9. Even the headphone out sounds pretty decent, while in most amps it sounds just terrible!
It seems it can be quite loud if required, although not as much as I was expecting for a 30W amp. Both my 50W and 60W amps are noticeably louder, and there shouldn't be that big a difference. It's probably due to the speaker: it's sweet souunding, but probably not the most efficient type.
I got it for home use, and for that it's plenty loud, but it sounds also great at lower and neighbour-friendly volumes.

At this price... I'd imagine it doesn't use the best components... so time will tell how reliable it is. However, at this price, I'd just get out and buy another if it breaks after a few years. #80 new??? How do they do it???

I haven't contacted them personally, but one of their top guys came to our forum to answer some questions about another Behringer product and subsequently posted some very useful updates to the manual... plus they seem to listen, as some of the suggestions raised at the forun for improvements were addressed and publisehed within a few months. I was very impressed and left me a good feeling about the company and the way they look after their customers.

I've been playing for about 15 years and I've own a host of amps and stuff. There were no amps like this when I was starting, that's for sure. This is a dream. Sure, it is not the best sounding amp in the world, but to this ears it sounds pretty good... and at this price, suddenly it sounds a whole lot better! :) I love the sound of my valve Laney VC50, and even my Electar Century 60RD (change the speaker to a Celestion Century, and it's a new amp, try it!)... my Fender Vibrochamp is just so creamy, and beautiful clean sounds... But none of them can give me such range of GREAT sounds in one simple small package, compact, and light.
It's the ideal practice amp, with enough connection possibilities to expand it to recording/live direct into a desk/PA, the FX loop, external speaker socket... and no valves to die on you either :)
I bought it without trying, based on reputation and price alone (there are many pedals that cost more than this amp!) thinking that if I didn't like it I'd just eBay it... well, eBay can wait. And wait. And wait some more :)

brand new in the box, made in china. features have been listed in other reviews. the only usable setting i find is the tweed, clean, us setting. i play classic and modern blues, so this is fine. the british and calif settings are very noisey... sounds like a sick peavey rage. the speaker is crap, but usable for now until i can get a good one. 30w is enough power for what i am doing. reverb would be nice, but with the xlr out to the board this is no major issue. hey the little devil only cost 109.00.

i have one guitar, a stratocaster with stock pickups and an srv neck. it works well with my guitar on the clean setting, as i said the brit and calif settings are useless for my style. they are so bad i can't even call it "distortion" in a musical sense, noise is more the term. i love the sound on clean, so this is no problem for me. i use it wide open and control the tone and volume from the guitar.

seems very well built, for 100 bucks it is one of the best deals on the planet. it is new so i can't say how long it will last, but for the price of a stomp box, what do you want.

have had behringer mixers and never any trouble, if i need service i will go to the store i got it from, they treat me right every time.

i have been playing 35 years, have lots of amps, mostly older ones with tubes, fenders, marshalls, etc. it won't get lost or stolen, but i would buy one again. love the clean sound and the low price, hate the noise on all other settings. i have either had or used evey amp there is, so for me to buy this is a big compliment to behringer. needs a better speaker. i have used this amp at gigs with no problems being heard, we are a 3 piece unmiked blues band, except of course the vocals, mostly small 100-200 seat clubs.

Read the many positive reviews below for a good understanding of this amp's most prominent audio features. I'll instead make specific mention of the back panel, which is truly amazing at this price point. There are dedicated 1/4" jacks for effects-loop send & return, headphone and external speaker. There is a lo-z preamp-out XLR jack with its own Ground Lift switch. AC power is provided though a standard appliance-style recessed 3-prong jack so you can obtain a spare or replacement AC cable for a couple of bucks just about anywhere. Plugging into either the headphone or external speaker jacks mutes the internal speaker, which makes sense. You can also use the effects-send alone as a hi-z preamp-out instead of or in addition to the lo-z XLR preamp-out. You can use the effects-return alone to go directly to the amplifier stage, an uncommon but sometimes handy option. So not only is this a small combo that is musically versatile, it gives you tremendous control on how you direct its sound.

Like others, I really like the sound and feel of this amp. As noted below, this is a clone of Tech 21's Trademark 10, the amp version of their popular GT-2 amp-modeler stompbox. I have used a GT-2 regularly for years and while it's true that the GM-110 does sound different than the GT-2, it still sounds terrific in its own right. I actually prefer the GM-110's Speaker Sims to the GT-2's Mic Placement options.

I bought this amp solely for its clean sound (Tweed) but I've found many good distorted settings too. For $100 I'm not complaining, but a bit more sheen on the high end would make it absolutely sparkle. Also, there is a bit of built-in compression that I'm pretty sure is part of Behringer's "Virtual Modeling" approach to emulating tube amp feel. It's not in any way bad, I just wasn't used to it (since I usually run a compressor stompbox up front for clean playing).

The first time I ran this wide open for more than 5 minutes at a time I began to smell something electric. Not burning, just electric, like electric trains if you know what I mean. Since it went away, and nothing came of it, I'm betting that some component inside just got warm for the very first time and evaporated some unimportant filmy coating somewhere. Even so, it was unsettling, somewhat indicative that this particular unit never got an QC check at the factory. At this price it's probably cheaper for Behringer to just replace a defective unit rather than establish a QC process and who can blame them if that's the case? But because of this, I'd consider using this amp without a backup only after using it for several months, or maybe even years, without anything going wrong.

Behringer is a German company and, taking into account the location and time differences, makes me wonder if access to customer service will be difficult. Still, they have a good website and I'll give them the benefit of doubt that they would promptly respond to Emails from non-European owners. Otherwise, I have no opinion in this topic, and I hope I never do.

If it cost $200 this amp would be worth every penny to those who seek a good practice or recording amp. At $100 it's a no-brainer. Thanks to its well-implemented features I think nearly anyone can find some way to use it ? probably everyone reading this at some point paid more for a stompbox that they didn't use that much. 30 watts into a 10" Jensen speaker gives it a serious advantage over any combos employing an 8" speaker (even those with proud monikers like Orange, Vox and Tech 21). It gets even bigger when using a good extension speaker, I've tried it using a closed-back 2x12 and it approaches the point of being usable with a band. If this little number doesn't crap out after 5 or 10 years I'll consider it the smartest money I ever spent on equipment.

Quite a bit of features here. You have 3 different brackets of 3 selectable modes = 27 combinations of amp type, speaker type, and channel type. This also has a very good 3 band EQ.

I must say, for $99, I am certainly, profoundly surprised. This thing kicks out more power and better tone than ANY other Fender, Marshall, Peavey, or Crate amp in the $300 to $400 range. This thing sounds SOOO sweet on a Fender clean, and when you switch it to a dirty channel, you want to scream TONE.


Plenty of features, you'll have fun arranging the EQ and the amp combinations to get the sound you want.

I currently am using a couple different setups with this amp. Since I have no power supply, and 9v batteries are expensive, I have to preserve power by only plugging one or two effects in at a time. I either use a 1993 Fender Stratocaster or a 1973 Ventura SG Copy (my dad's) with a Boss SD-1 or some other modulation effects (EH Small Stone, Morley Wah, Boss CE-5, Dano Corned Beef Reverb, Zoom 505II).

Whether I use the Strat or the SG depends on what I'm playing. Some songs that I write have a Fender hard rock sound, and others have the crunch of an SG when there's some powerchords involved.

I have fallen in LOVE with the tone I get from this amp. The first couple months I had it, I threatened to sell it because I could not get a decent distorted tone out of it no matter how hard I tried. Soon I found that fiddling with the EQ and linking it with my Boss SD-1 gave it a kick in the pants that I'll never regret being curious for.


Here's the breakdown on what I can get from the selections I find most useful :


Fender (Tweed) -- Clean -- U.S. = A VERY VERY nice clean sound, it absolutely sparkles, and I bet any professional would have a very hard time distinguishing between the nice warm analog sound of this amp, and a $500 grade A Tube Amp. It sounds so tube-like, it's unbelieveable. But don't take my word for it, try it yourself.

Fender (tweed) -- Hot -- U.S. = I write more poppy slower-paced rock songs on this setting. It replicates that Fender clean "breaking up" sound perfectly. I can get a good Pablo Honey/The Bends era Radiohead tone with this setting and a Strat or a Tele. I usually have my Boss SD-1 linked to this, and when I get to the chorus, I kick on the SD-1 for more drive, and it is a TONE to *die* for. Once again, great setting. Mess around with the drive knob for more flexablility.


Marshall (British) -- Clean -- U.S. = Great setting for nice, hot, british drive. I don't use this as often as the others, but it has it's place.

Marshall (British) -- Hot -- U.S. = Here's where I bust out the SG. I almost cried when I tried this with the SG and the Boss SD-1 linked up. I thought single coils were good, but man, if you want stinging leads and CRUNCH for your rhythm, man oh man, do NOT hesitate! This was EXACTLY what I have been looking for, and I vow to never buy another dirt box unless I find something better than this, which I probably won't! Simply AMAZING for AC/DC Angus Young stuff, Van Halen, Thin Lizzy, or even good ol' early 90's alternative.


while I don't use the Mesa channel that much, I can describe it to you as a slightly more rounded off version of the Marshall channel. It has slightly more bass response and a thicker tone. Great distortion, but I find more tone in a british amp than a californian one.

Like I said, with a decent setup and this amp, you can get almost any tone you want. If you want SUPERIOR tone, take my advice and get a Boss SD-1...never have I had so much fun with a dirtbox before chaining these two together.

In other words, EXCELLENT SOUND once you tweak it and expirament with it. If you don't get the sound you want at first, hang in there...you'll get it. It took me 2 months to find my tone on this amp, and now I don't regret a single bit of it.

Built like a rock. The $99 price tag scares me though...an amp this good at that price just HAS to have some sort of issue...but, I have yet to find anything wrong with this amp. I've owned mine for 2 months and I bought it new, so we'll have to see.

Behringer is a German company. I've never dealt with them, and I'm sure they're hard to get ahold of. No Comment.

I've been playing for a little over a year and I own three guitars, and I use one of my dad's (the SG). I also use his Kustom 250 watt Head and Cab, but that thing has a tendency to squeal when you plug it in (I almost lost my hearing yesterday because it squealed...the kids outside could hear it). I have 6 effects pedals, because I'm a pedal geek.

This amp is simply AMAZING for all that it provides with it's astounding price tag. I would dare anyone who was skeptical to place this next to a $399 Marshall MGDFX 30 or 50 watt amp or a $369 Fender Blues Junior and see if they could tell the difference. And the best thing? It's ANALOG. Yes, WARM, THICK, FUZZY ANALOG sound. This shuts out every digital amp out there for tone. I doubt someone could tell the difference between this and a nice tube amp had they been blindfolded and not told which amp was being played through. That's honestly how good the tone is on this baby.

I get a REALLY nice clean sound with my Fender Stratocaster, and I'm going to replace the pickups with some '57 reissues as soon as I can buy a soldering iron. After that, I will be LOADED with tone. Okay, so maybe I'll buy a Fender '72 Reissue Thinline Tele and a Gibson Les Paul. Then I'll have all I need for years to come.

An Amp like this proves that you don't need to spend a fortune on botique gear to get the sound you want. May I say it again? TONE, TONE, TONE.

Man, o, man, this is one hell of an amp. Like all the others mentioned, the three main simulations, three mode and three speakers are absolutly amazing. I can get the squeeky clean sound, to the down and dirty blues sound, to the crunch of the bri-rock sound. it's just great.

30 watts, about 20 lbs.

The sounds are absolutly perfect. I won't need a distortion pedal ever to fit the distortion i want. I have enough with the 27 possable amp combinations and the wide gain range. I didnt find any problems with buzzing or anything near the computer. no gripes with the clean sound (no gain, tweed, clean, flat).

I havn't gigged with it yet, but im pretty sure it can handle most of the venues i play, by myself or with the band. I am pleased with what i got as a practice amp. No maintainance needed.

Dunno, i never had a problem.

Best possable amp for $100. It's 30 watts of sound for $100. That it an amazing value in itself. Ontop of that, you have all the sounds you want from a single amp. It emulates three classic amps and with the gain, you can get all the distortion you could ever want for rock n roll.

mmm,looks a lot like tech's stuff, only it has no reverb(the trademark 10 has not a good one,so...). It is well done, pretty, and convenient:fuse accessible without tools, fx loop, xlr di out. 100% analog, good for the tone. One channel only, 3bd eq(quite effective) and a very low price:-)

I use humbucking guitars, or acoustic jazz box. I like gutsy clean sound and savage drive, and smooth acoustic tone. This amp delivers, it is versatile, has a very effective equalizer. I own a gt-2 for years,and I was curious for a comparison. Well, it's not the same by far. The gt-2 sounds better, more natural, more drive options, more alive, far better except for the clean sound. The behringer is tighter and more modern style, and it's eq so effective. I mean, with a good clean sound you just put your favorite distortion box and you have the perfect amp! I use a korg classic overdrive and it is amazing, and with my sans amp classic it's even better. What more do you want? I have to state this is a very quiet amp, no background hiss at all, but I use it on a clean setting. The drive settings are far too synthetic and heavy (impossible to have a SRV sound with it), and frankly horrible. Get a gt-2 if you like this very design.
No mark because 10 for the clean and nothing for the drive settings.

No tubes, not much components, big PSU, I have it 9months now and it works perfectly. I use the clean setting so I dig more in it and it stands well. I also own, or have owned, a lot of their products and never had a problem. I hope not to have any,

...because their support is a big big joke. And a bad one. I mailed them without getting any answer, and the only time I got one it was completely off subject. Behringer sucks, period

I play since around15years, mostly electric 7strings(since 92) and fretless bass.I think this amp is a fine choice I made, I replaced the speaker to suit my needs. I put a danelectro corned beef reverb in the loop and it sounds very organic, particular... With a digitech digiverb the sound gets thinier, not good at all so back to the dano.
With my acoustic I just plug it in my zoom 504 mark2 and in the return of the loop and it sounds very good.
The only complaint I have is that the level needed to drive the power amp("return"socket) is high so you have to put a powerful device to get the maximum headroom available.
Yes, I would purchase it again, given its price