Behringer GM110 Combo

This amp is absolutely loaded with features, probably some 40ish features... there are 99 presets, but many of them are like different types of an effect... slow delay, medium delay, fast delay, etc. Its plenty versatile, and it feels loud for a 30 watt amp. has two channels, has channel switching on footswitch along with effect button. One gripe is between going from clean to distortion there is a slight delay, like a click for it to hit, its not instant. I dont use a bunch of the features, but some features i really like such as cabinet stack simulations. I am mainly a bedroom player with this thing.

I use this with a PRS Tremonti and with any practice amp, it sounds kinda weak. Im really into Mesa Dual Rectifiers, but for a practice amp, I got this. The distortion sounds the same pretty much with any guitar youll put into it, and the clean is alright, nothing special, but not bad. The clean channel will distort at higher volumes, and the distortion gets crappy sounding at higher volumes. The distortion is nice though, if you adjust it right.

I have never has a problem with it, solid state amp...

never dealt with...

Ive been playing 3 years, and heres my rig: PRS Tremonti - Shure Diversity Wireless Guitar System - Mark Tremonti Power Wah - Behringer Ultraroc GX110. If it were lost or stolen, I might try a different practice amp. One thing I learned, is that amps with built in effects are not all they seem to be. Do not be swayed by built in effects when buying amps, look more for better distortion sounds. Chances are you wont use majority of your effects, except for line 6 stuff, they have good built in effects, but otherwise, try not to be swayed by amps having built in effects. I love its distortion sounds when its dialed in right, but I hate how it sounds at higher volumes. I compared it with the Crate 15 watt model, and I choose this one because of the effects. Now im not sure which I would have rather gotten. For a practice amp, consider this thing or some cheap crate amps, but for bedroom playing, its not a bad deal. Feel free to email me with any questions.

Bought new from American Musical Supply 7/03,came factory-sealed, double boxed. This review is written in context that (a) I use it primarily for writing and demos in a home recording studio and (b)the amp is designed and intended to be a practice amp, but obviously also a recording amp, or to be plugged thru a PA-board or slave into an amped cabinet if you wanted to gig with it somewhere bigger than a small club/bar, or your band rehearses in a live set-up or at ear-bleed levels. A couple a reviews said they use the Phones out as a line-out for recording. I tried this and got nothing but a distorted lo-gain signal, with an instro cable or a stereo,or a TRS cable. Wouldn't get a clean signal in my Mackie 1402VLZ board. I'll try to find out from Behringer if there's something wrong, but I don't really care, because the D.I. is the bomb anyway, so to play and record silently, I just plug phones in anyway to kill the speaker, and go with the phones from my board,or my studio monitors at low volume. If you want to send the Lo-Z to a 1/4" input,like on a Tascam or Fostex 4-tack, get a $20 transformer from Radio Shack. It's a mic-level signal, so for a digital recorder with a lo-z in, go there,if you don't mess going thru a board.

I was attracted by the price/features factor. The Vintager GM-110 is exactly what I need, at an incredible C-note price. Nothing comes close: 30 watts, 10" speaker vs. the usual 15w/8" for 100 bucks or so.

This puppy uses a matrix of 3 amp models, 3 speaker sounds, and 3 gain modes, with a Drive control to 'tune' the senstivity of your ax's PUP's to the pre-amp stage, followed by bass-mid-trebs that are really active filters, true volume controls for each of the frequency ranges, affecting the overall preamp volume before the master level. It all adds up to an incredible tone-generator tool that you customize to match whatever guitar you plug in, electric or acoustic, hot humbuckers, vintage PAF's, strat, tele single coils, whatever.

For recording or board/slave use, the Lo-Z D.I. w/ Ground Lift on this amp is indispensable. Taps out post-fx loop, which is another feature I wanted, since I didn't want or need the half-baked digital fx other amps in this class pack; I have all of those I need, fully operative versions, outboard. And if you do, why would you want to practice without your gig set-up,other than that hernia-inducing amp/stack? And, the D.I. doesn't mute the speaker (the headphone and/or speaker outs do), so you can still mic this guy as well, for big, big sound, live or recorded) or stage-monitor with it. No reverb,if you have outboard fx, not needed. The only thing it lacks as a practice amp is aux-in to practice with a tape or cd; not an issue for me, I can put that thru my board w/ the amp. But that's not practical for most folks. No channel switching? For home recording, not an issue. Maybe for gigging. Maybe. The fx-loop creates some options if ya think about it. Again: Practice/home use Amp by design and intent.

The amp is really well-built, the open back exposes the 10" Jensen to danger, but hey...if you wanna take this out to gigs, use some of the dough you saved and get a case or cover for it. Metal corners won't crap out like most amps crummy plastic ones, and it's nice-looking, if you care about that, like maybe to impress your girl (or boy) friend, or if your pad lacks decor and you're going for a 60's theme.

After 40 years, I have an arsenal of every 6 & 12-string electric (even a lap steel) and acoustic/electric (even a lap steel and nylon string, but no 7-string, although there's a Muscimaster short-scale bass in there)type that covers most guitar sounds from the 60's and beyond, styles basically rock,r&b,country, anything but metal, thrash. That said, I'll try to summarize the amp/spker/gain matrix's versatility: it handles everything I do, and some I didn't think I would.

Personally, I stick mostly to the Tweed (Fender)/Clean, and depending on the guitar, the US 2x12 open cab or UK 4x12 closed. The 'Flat' spker is the Jensen, but really,I think it's the 'uncolored' preamp with the D.I. You get pristine clean at low drive, and start to get crunch/dirt at about 10-12 o'clock, depending on the PUP's of the ax. As a review or 2 have said, Tweed seems to lack some high end treble. I'd read that, and what I thought would work to fix that does, like a charm: plug an EQ into the fx loop as first one, before any delay or mod. I use a 20 yr-old blue MXR 10-band. With this, you just tweak whatever frequency you still think needs some boost or cut at the pre-amp stage. (Try this with any amp, peeps...).

Another trick I found is a compressor(MXR Dyna-comp, again, vintage, analog)just after the EQ in the loop). That said, I also found I don't think I need it. This amp, analog and so 'tube-like' in the natural harmonics and dynamic response to your attack syle that I think, as another reviewer said, there's tubes hiding in there. I think the lack of treble thing is due to the amp's 'warmth' and 'body'. There is no solid-state shrillness to the distortion (is that why it's not a 'thrasher's amp'?).

The Brit (Marshall) setting barks, snarls, growls, especially with the UK spkr setting. Even on 'clean',with Drive cranked. In fact, even with Drive all the way down,w/ Single coils, you won't get a glassy clean sound, there's a touch of edge. Marshall? Go to 'Hot' or 'Hi-gain' with this and depending on where you put the 'Drive' and your EQ's, you'll get all the distortion, smooth or hard, you want.

The Calif (Mesa) setting is the best I've tried, because all the digital versions of this seem to just go to the rectified distortion end of things. This one, you can get Carlton to Santana. Just mess with the matrix, your guitar's PUP's, vol and tone, too.

For all/any of the settings: the EQ's are active, and react tightly to just slight adjustments. If you try hard enough, you'll find what you want.

Naturally, at the max drive/gain settings, there's some hiss. But if you're up there, how ya gonna hear it above the din?

Only had this a week. I'm not worried. It seems rugged enough, lacks all the digital computerized garbage that will crash and burn,so I think it's going to be less likely to self-destruct than those types of amps. I don't gig out anymore,except for a jam session here and there, fill-in/sub stuff. I'm juut an old fart retired warhorse that's teaching his kids and grandkids to play, and write and play to maintain my sanity,what's left of it. I use it at home, I treat my stuff with care. I've got ancient sutff around here that still works like new. I'll give it an 8 here, just 'cuz my crystal ball is foggy at the moment.

Lots of knocks about Behringer in other reviews, and I don't care. I bought this from AMS because they add a 2nd year to the mfr's warranty at no charge. The boxes are in my garage. If it breaks, which I doubt, they'll handle it. If it dies after 2 years, I'll have gotten my $99 worth, I'll find another one, but I'll bet it will cost more than $99 bucks.

I think I covered just about everything in the other areas. Just add: I looked at every amp I could in the $100-$250 range, with $150 or less my goal. Nothing by Peavey, Fender, Crate, Zoom, Marshall, Roland, Ibanez, Kustom, Yamaha matches this for a simple to operate, pure tone generating workstation for the foundation of your sound, with 30 watts, 10" Jensen, Lo-Z D.I., FX loop, Speaker Out, and Phones out, not at any price, let alone 100 bucks. The only one is the Tech 21 Trademark 10. The brand name snob appeal and reverb, with lower power, aren't worth $150 to me. Roldand's Cube 30 ($225) has the 30w and 10" spker, good modeling, but the FX are gimmicks and useless to me. I 'grew up' playing through tube Fenders (Deluxe, Twin, Super, Tremolux, Bandmaster), and later had a Peavey Mace in the late 70's. 'Retired' 20 years ago, sold all those (dumb shit). I've 'suffered' thru a stream of solid state 'practice' or small gig amps, Fenders,Peaveys Marshalls, even Crates since then. Nothing was 'verstile' enough. Until this amp, searching for 'the holy grail' to record with, I'd gotten a DigiTech Genesis 1 Desktop modeler for $99, and that's not bad, and it's dumb enough with knobs instead of readouts and programs for me to handle, but there's still some weaknesses. My recorder (Boss BR-532) has digital COSM models, again, not the worst, but I hate the rocket science, and neither of those, while OK for the studio, are practical to gig with, what little I do. But I'm not about to shell out $250 bucks With this Vintager GM-110, I got just what I needed and wanted. Say it again: for 100 bucks!

This amp has all the necessary features I ask for in an amp, plus some.

I use this amp for a cover band.
There are many great sounds in this amp. Sounds range from country to blues to classic metal.
There is a bit of hiss on some settings, but I've never seen an amp that didn't have some hiss or buzz.
My only gripe is the Tweed settings on Clean are a little low on the volume. The sounds are great, just much softer than any other setting.

This amp's sounds are geared more toward classic stuff. Nu metal freaks should look elsewhere. This amp is more "old fart" oriented.

I give this amp's sounds a 10. This is far and away the best small amp I've ever owned.

So far so good. The control panel seems to be mounted a little flimsy, but who knows. For the classic sounds and the power/weight ratio, I'll cope with it.

The handle seems a little weak, too. I'll replace it with a beefier one if it breaks.

A 5 for the unknown reliability factor.

I don't know how the support is. I have to show respect to any company that can make a cool product for such little money.

5 again for the "middle of the road."

I've been playing for 17 years or so. I own some really expensive stuff and I own some cheap stuff. I'm not a gear snob.

If this amp was stolen, I'd get another before Behringer starts charging more.

The sounds and the features sell this amp. The only thing I don't really like is the weak handle and the slightly lower volume on one setting.

IMO, this is the best small amp going. It's very flexible, but you have to work for it. Easy with the EQ knobs, they seem to be active filters and make huge variations in sound with just small adjustments. The sounds have great dynamics. Work your playing technique to vary the sound/feel. This is not a thrasher's amp. This amp, like other good amps needs to be worked by the player to get the sweet sounds out of it.

This blows all other amps in this price range out of the water. Hell, it blows out amps three times the cost!

Let me copy and paste a review from somebody a couple months ago:

Here is where things become interesting. In paper, this amp has much potential and can deliver many tones. In practice, the amp is rather limited. First of all, some of the settings are extremely quiet with no volume at all, making them almost unusable. Clean sounds are very nice, and the amp responds dynamically to your playing. Thanks to the good quality speaker, you get very clear, crystal sound. However, when you set drive to 10 you realize that the amp just won't get dirty. Distortion is too weak and disappointing for any aggressive playing, as a matter of fact even a digital modeller through the effects loop will not sound ok, something which I would attribute to its natural lack of sustain. With 2 of the 3 amps I tried extensively, I also noticed something very annoying: When pushing the amp into distortion, its circuit gets mad and starts giving very annoying sound artifacts. For example, after a few notes at the 12-15 fret space I would get something like a static sparkle, while a hammer-on at 7-10 fret space would end into a horrible hollow sound like wind blowing through a broken window. The 3rd amp I tried would not show exactly this behaviour, but was "almost there"


While things sound better through a good distortion pedal like Metal Zone, this amp shows a luck of sustain, while the sound feels too compressed and tight, as if they tried to push its sustain as far as they could.


Simply put, my impression is that the analog modelling implimented in this amp cannot cope with heavy distortion. This makes it pretty useless for me, but others who prefer clean styles have found it excellent.


Anyway, I believe this amp is handicapped in some way. When I first listened to it, I was impressed as its clean sounds are really brilliant. Upping drive also gives you good sounds, but still not distorted. Then, after playing with it for a few days, you realize sound is too compressed and the first impression wears out.

The handle (rubber+threads) got torn apart after minimum use.

Contacted the support team (e-mail). Let's see how well they respond.

See other reviews - this has been very well covered before. A 9 for extremely complete connections (speaker out, effect loop and emulated headphone output + XLR output ... for 117 ? ??? incredible) but less sound options than expected (was expected much though ;-).
Oh, and cute too.

Guitars used: Fender Telecaster HMT, Blade R4 with Lace Sensor Hot Golds, Washburn HB35 with Seth Lovers, DeArmond M75T and Gordon Smith .

PROS : - sound very good thru the speaker output (I'm using a 1x12 Celestion Vintage 30 closed cab)- with the help of the Vintage 30 high sensitivity, it's perfectly loud enough for little gigs, as long as you don't need much clean headroom
- sound amazing while pushing a tube power amp (I've plugged the loop send to the loop return of two amps: one Laney TTH20 with 2xEL84 and one Seymour Duncan Convertible 100 with 4xEL34); totally tube-like , VERY impressive.
- very good Marshall emulation, one of the best I've heard, really (better than the POD's one IMHO - I did compare); I had a Marshall JMP-1 preamp in the past and this thing smokes it - very close from my old JMP and JCM900.
- good Boogie emulation (I'm less of a boogie guy and have nothing except the POD to compare; sound more like a classic boogie than a recto if you see what I mean).
- ok loop (no volume control but hey - 117 ?) ; I prefer that option than the usually useless crappy on-board reverb in this price range (and above...).
- very good speaker-emulated output! at least the headphone one, cause I still haven't tried the XLR in a board or PA but I suppose it is the same than the headphone output and this one sound great! I was a bit afraid cos usually overdriven sounds sucks with headphones but here no, it's perfect. Impressive considering the price ( btw, I've seen people saying "it's a Vamp in a combo" : that's totally wrong, the Vamp is digital and this combo is analogic, go back study a bit of physic folks).

CONS: - the stock speaker is rather weak; it is ok for low volume practice but has an annoying high-mids honk at medium to high volume and the treble are quite aggressive. Once you've tried an external speaker, it's hard to get back so I'll probably swap the stock one for a new speaker (celestion vintage 10 or a weber).
- I don't like the Fender emulation (I know how a fender is supposed to sound, thx to my much regretted Princeton and Twin reverb); the sparkle ain't there, no crystal sounds and a bit muddy too; and the overdriver "fender" sounds are bad. I know some like it though, so it's maybe me?
- as I said before the Marshall and Boogie emulations are great, but even with the gain set very low, on the clean setting, the sound is already overdriven, there's not this "clean about to break into crunch" sound ; still you can achieve it with your guitar volume or a volume pedal.
- the Clean and Hot settings are my favorites (with Marshall and Boogie amps), but I don't appreciate the Higain setting as much - still good though.
- noise. There's a bit yes, especially on the Marshall setting, but nothing annoying while you're playing.

So a 10 for the Marshall emulation, a 9 for the Boogie and a 6 for the Fender.
A 9 for the Clean and Hot settings, a 7 for the Higain.
A 3 for the flat setting , a 10 for the 4x12" and a 8 for the 2x12" open back (sound good but rather like another closed back than an open back IMHO).
A 6 for the stock speaker, a 9 for the external speaker and a 10 when used as a preamp to drive a tube power amp.

So it's a 8.

Can't say, have it since two days.

Can't say.

Been playing since 26 years and have owned most of the famous amps (Marshall JMP, JCM900 and JMP-1, Vox AC15 and 30 , Fender Princeton reverb and Twin reverb ); I still have a '63 Vox AC15, a Laney TTH20, a Seymour Duncan Convertible 100 and a Vox BMS. I play classic rock and blues-rock (let's say Led Zep, Rory Gallagher and this kind of stuff).
I was looking for an amp with a good Marshall sound at low volume and this one fit the bill perfectly and have much more than that to offer.

It is not perfect (so-so stock speaker, weak fender emulation - IMHO -) but for 117 euros ??? I can't believe it, and when I remember the practice amps 20-30 years ago ... today's young guns are damn lucky!

Considering the price, it's a well-deserved 10, no doubts about it.

This is a 2002 GM110. Single channel with analog modeling of 3 amps, 3 cabinets and 3 modes. You can download the manual from the Behringer website. Simple, straightforward practice amp with effects circuit that I plug my Korg PX4 into. Also has an external speaker connection and a headphone jack as well as the XLR out for recording.

All the basic stuff I need and no extra stuff I don't want to pay for.

Using it with a 93 fat Strat ultra with Fender Lace pickups.

Not alot of sound variety but the good basic options are there. Distortion is nice and the sound range is good. Really all you need for someone like me who's starting out and wants to try a little of everthing.

Certainly NOT a metal amp. More than loud enough however.

Can't say, haven't had it long enough. I also don't push it either. Seems surprisingly of good build quality considering the price!

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Compared to other 30 watt amps it is an exceptional value. Just as much basic amp as required. Considered the Roland, Marshall and Crate. These seemed like good amps as well but considerably more money mostly for features I didn't need given that I can run my Pandora PX4 through the Behringer.

I would buy another if stolen.

good features.

OK but noisy.30 w for 99$ is too good though.

unlike fender no 5 yr warrantity.

no

30w ,jenson,25 lbs,efx loop,xlr out-well they are too good.features beat the hell out of fender,marshall,crate.although it's a noisy amp and no good treble,it's still a steal.Frontman 25 r has great fenderish clean,bluesy good OD and footswith for live(which is important)and can scream as loud and GM 110 but not as sensitive as GM for expression.long live Beringer!just clear the noiz problem add a footswith and sell it for 130.

The GM110 is a single channel 30 watt combo with amp & speaker emulation, which I bought as a practise amplifier for home use. I also was attracted by the DI XLR out feature with ground lift, as a PC recording option or for going directly to the PA live. It also has a headphone and speaker out, and an effects loop, a very impressive array of features given the modest price.

I used this amplifier with a MIM fat strat and an Ibanez 540P, both HSS guitars. Playing mainly rock & blues on the strat I was pleased with the sound of the amplifier. I found the British and Tweed emulation settings the most pleasing with Hi Gain. For the Clean setting the Tweed emulation sounded pretty good. Tweaking the tone controls has a noticeable effect, I'm sure that most people could find a decent sound on this. The amp is certainly loud enough for home use. I used the DI out sucessfully to record to my PC.

Reliability is the big problem with this amplifier. It worked for 3 weeks then went completely dead. The power light came on but the amp remained completely silent. You could not depend on it for a gig (or anything else for that matter!)

The amplifier went direct back to the seller for a refund, I did not deal with customer support. The amp comes with a 1 year warranty, which you can further extend by sending off a warranty card.I would recommend that you do this.

I have been playing for 17 years and have previously owned Peavey, Fender and Marshall amps. I was looking to buy a Tech21 Trademark 10 as a practice amp but was put off by the price. Since the GM110 is a clone of the Trademark 10 at 1/3rd of the price I bought one. I liked the amplifier a lot (especially the price) but it seems that you get what you pay for, and corners have been cut on reliability. I would not have minded if mine was stolen, I could have claimed on the insurance and not had the hassle of returning it to the shop.

3-band active eq, three speaker configurations, and three amp models.

This amp sounds wonderful by itself. And I know it doesn't have channel switching, so I try to use an overdrive pedal as a boost to go from semi-clean to loud and dirty. Well, it seems to get this strange sound with all my distortion pedals when i run them hard into this amp. it sounds like the amp distortion doesn't like to mix with other distortions. the only one i can make sound decent is my boss sd-1, because it's super-smoothe and midrangey.

GM-110. It really ROCKS! Sounding like an "adult" tube combo it costs even less than 15Wt frontman. The front panel looks like Sansamp GT-2 but
it sounds differ. Very nice home combo. However, it can be rather loud (30Wt).
It's very easy to get right sound. No "sand".
But it has one serious "minus" - not much HIGH freq-s and not very "sharp" sound. Also it is a little bit noisy.
I play with Ibanez RG-570 (v7/s1/DM tonezone) and this combo doesn't "kill" my guitar. Also I have all-tube amp at home. But I prefer gm-110.
Using phone-out (XLR DI-out) you get very pretty speaker-simulation wich is quite close to the "alive" gm-110 sound.
I use BOSS RV-2 (rever/delay) pedal and it's almost enough for me.

"Tweed" (fender bassman/TWIN) chanel gives you clean sound or CRUNCH!
I've never met solide-state amps with tube-like crunch before.
"Californian" (mesa-boogie) chanel sound fat/dark but gives you much sustain for solo-playing, for example.
"British" (marshall) chanel is my favourite one. Depending on the knob "gain" position you can get ~plexi-sound and much heavy.

I've used many s/s, "hybryd", all-tube amps, digital combo-modeling devices, sans-amp clones and I can say that this combo is ideal for home-playing and quite rehearsals.
And remember that it is a COMBO. No digital devices (pod/v-amp) will not
give you such dymanic while playing. Also you can not learn correct playing with this digital suxx - you'll get asynchronous arms etc.