Behringer GM110 Combo

2008, features are listed below somewhere. The amp sounds great for all kinds of metal, hard rock, blues, etc. Just about anything one could imagine. It has one channel that switches into 3 different amps, 3 different modes, and 3 different speaker simulations. Has an fx loop, a speaker out (for a speaker cabinet) and a headphone jack. Drive knob, 3 switches as stated above, and a low, mid, high, and volume knob. I am impressed with the sounds you can get out of this amp without anything added. A good clean tone and a great heavy tone. This amp pounds 30 watts through a 10 inch speaker. It gets very loud, very much what I wanted for jamming out alone in the house. The only reason I give it an 8 is because it lacked a reverb function, BUT this is a good thing in a way. I don't think a simple spring reverb would be that helpful. Just opt to buy the Behringer Digital Reverb pedal for about 25 bucks extra and make this amp come alive!

I used a Schecter C-1 with Seymour Duncan Designed Blackout pickups (active). The amp can possibly get ringy if left with the volume on, just like every other amp. It has a ton of variety, 27 setting options in total. The Tweed (Fender) amp sounds pretty good on the flat speaker mode which is no simulation, and on the gain channel with a bit of drive for a nice blues sound. The Cali (Mesa) setting on Hot and US speaker sounds incredible for Death, Doom, Black, or any kind of metal you are looking for. The British (Marshall) setting is pretty good for all kinds of rock and even thrash. The clean channel is very clean if the drive is kept down (duh). The Distortion is isn't a mega over the top Dimebag type gain or anything. It sounds good put on the clean channel and the Mesa amp with a distortion pedal for chunky gain like Dimebag and similar. Of course I like to have a nice controlled gain without a bunch of fuzz, and this amp gives just that. Plenty of balls. Sounds GREAT for a practice amp with the Behringer Digital Reverb DR100 pedal. Get that to go with this and you'll have a bunch of good tones to play around with and tweak. 10 considering the price. Too bad this amp is hard to find now since it has been discontinued. But maybe the GMX100 will be alright instead of this.

It seems pretty solid to me. But I don't plan on gigging with this, maybe taking to a friends house at most. But I don't kick my equipment around like some hothead or child. 10.

Haven't had to deal with them.

I've been playing for over 10 years and this is the best amp i've owned that was under 100 bucks. Great for any beginner (With a little knowledge of how to use gain properly) or anyone looking for an affordable practice amp to jam on. Like I said. Reverb would be nice, but it would be limited. Maybe a chorus or something, but that's asking a bit much for under 100.

The usual tone controls plus the 3 amp models, 3 gain levels and 3 speaker simulations. Headphone, XLR & speaker out on the rear plus effects loop. Pretty good for a practice amp. I bought it because I needed something with a headphone jack. It seems quite loud and I think it could keep with a reasonable drummer in a casual jamming (basement or garage) situation.

I play a G&L ASAT and Hamer Special with P90s. There are lots of usable sounds if you play around a little. The clean is pretty nice but not real loud compared to the higher gain sounds. For me the best sounds are on the clean setting with the gain control turned up or the hi-gain setting with the gain turned down then dial in what you want with the tone controls. There is very little difference between the hi-gain and hot settings. My favorites are the tweed clean and the British hi-gain. The "Calif"ornia setting also has some cool sounds.

I replaced the Jensen Mod speaker with an Eminence Legend. Didn't affect the distorted sounds much but the clean is better. The Jensen is pretty inefficient so the speaker swap probably had the same effect as doubling the power.

If I put on my "tube snob" hat, it doesn't sound that great. If I put in my "I appreciate a versatile amp" hat, it sounds just fine. I have not tried any other modeling or multi-sound amps (Vox Valvetronix, Fender Cyber or DSP, etc.) so I can't say how it compares to those.

Bought used 4 months ago. It's 4 years old and everything works so I assume it pretty reliable. Haven't taken it out of my basement since I got it.

The manual is on the website. That's all I've needed.

I currently own 3 tube amps and have sold 4 others. The blackface Fender sound is my favorite sound. I play mostly for my own amusement but used to jam frequently with others. Wish I had this little guy back when I was lugging my 45# Fender to other people's houses.

For what it is, it's a great little amp. It doesn't really sound like a tube amp (at least not like my tube amps) but so what? If you are playing with others or jamming with your CDs or MP3s, it will be just fine. It might even be gig-worthy in a small club, especially if you plugged it into a larger speaker cab.

It keeps aming me. I tried another speaker today. After the 50s Jensens and celestion greenbacks 25s. Damn that little 10" Jensen sounds fine! Really close to the Jensens. I started playing a set neck 'Les Paul" with a P90 neck and a Marzio 13,6? ohm static and I can see that mixing ande matching guitars, pickups, speakers and amps... tonestacks, is going to be interesting. My other amps are Fender Twin '68. Fender Deluxe '85(Great amp, esp for SRV), but I really love this Behr. I want a bunch more...

Yes

errrrr (plasic shfts on pots... they break!)

no idea

Long

Hello everybody... as there are so much reviews about this little beast, I??ve decided to put a different kind of post here :-)

If you wanna hear about detailed features, just take a look at the other reviews... this one will mainly talk about tweaking it!!!

(By the way, my first post here was about how to modify a Laney TF-700 or any Valvestate-type / real tube amp. That was basically that you can replace almost any ECCxx preamplifier tube with almost any other type of ECCxx. Each one gives its own gain factor/sound character... so play with pre tube types/brands and you??ll surely find "your" sound!)

It is a clear copy of a Tech 21 amp (based on their previous SANS-AMP three-channel preamplifier), you know that Behringer uses to "take some inspiration" on other brand??s products... :-P

It has got three switches and some pots :-), if you wanna know what do they do... once again, take a look below! I just want to share with you a cool trick which I discovered by pure casuality! Just keep on reading:

As I bought it used, I soon realized that the BASS tone control was broken... but not exactly out of use, it simply was able to do 360?? turns (do you already get the idea? :-D). This is the bad/good thing about the pots used by Behringer... why??? keep on reading! It still worked, and when you adjusted it on its "unoperating" position it simply got disconnected from the circuitry. Then the sound was almost free of low-end, but not just this... just a different character, more "vintage-like". I found it funny and never replaced it, simply used this new feature as another available sound choice. After two years using the amp that way, yesterday I decided to do the same to the MID and TREBLE pots... call me crazy, but it works! If you make them turn beyond its operating limits (CAREFULLY!), they??ll do a little "crack" sound and it is done, you??ve got a modified amp with very few efforts :-D. It can feel a bit scratchy, so simply make some more 360?? turns and it will be completely done. Anyway, I??m sure this little "bulk" left inside the pot will disappear with some hours of use... so let time do its work!

By the way, I guess it won??t compromise its normal operation/durability, as tone circuits simply process the sound signal... so there isn??t any danger of overloads, overheating, etc.

When you disconnect one of the controls you should expect to make disappear its own frequencies range... but not only this, it also changes a bit the overall sound. So now you??ve got three more "switches" added to an already complete, versatile machine... a lotta more combinations to go mad with it!

I won??t encourage anybody to do the same with GAIN and LEVEL controls... But if you try it, tell me!!! :-D (I guess it wouldn??t be a good idea)

So that??s all about modifications... except the way I??m using it! just keep on reading.

Well, I NEVER had the chance to get connected to a real Mesa Boogie, nor a tube Marshall/Fender... so I won??t make any comparison to the "real things"!!! I??ll simply say that it sounds nice in almost any setting you choose, and they??re quite more than a few... EQ controls really work over the sound, a fact that just don??t always happen with any amp.

Quite decent clean tones (specially on TWEED mode), and truely working distortions. There are a lot of switch combinations available, so it would be difficult not to focus its sound quite close to what you??ve got in mind!

A friend of mine told me that it is one of the coolest, closest-to-tube small amps he had heard, but anyway he also told me that it keeps the solid state "plastic" character, you know what I mean... I own some humble, obscure brand, small tube amps and I noticed it, too. So compared to a good tube amp it should surely fall in some kinda shame. Hey, but it sounds ok... specially for the price paid!!!

By the way, I recorded a few guitar licks directly to an ISIS PC sound module and it sounded quite real and warm. So it could be a cool tool for home recording (you can avoid the mic and all its usual troubles, although it??ll surely sound lotta better using it!). I guess that connection straight to a PA system won??t work badly, too.

I??ve frequently used this thing since three years ago, when I bought it USED... so I believe it passed the durability test wery well!!!

The box seems to be a real tank (it is heavy, at least!), but I took the circuitry out of it to use it as a head for my 4x12" while practicing with my r??n??r band :-D. So it hasn??t suffered too much kicks, falls etc...

The circuitry chassis should be quite hard, as I HAVEN??T put it into any box by now! :-D I mean, I??ve always used it as an amplifier head but simply "as it is" without any packaging... I simply pulled off the built-in spk lead, as you can connect any cabinet to the "aux spk" output (I swear I??ll make a home-made box some day, as it is quite a crappy way for making use of it!!!) It has the input transformer placed on its basis, but it isn??t a big trouble as I simply use one of its plain sides as its actual basis. Not too much safe to use that way, I know, but it works quite well placed onto any speaker cabinet! You just have to take some care with the guitar lead, as if you pull it the amp can jump out of its place... by the way, it suffered some falls and it still works nicely. So a round 10 for this.

Although user manual says you should use only 8 ohm speakers, or you may damage the output stage, I??m using it connected to a 8", 4 ohm, vintage AlNiCo recycled speaker (this one put into a convenient open-back box!!! :-D) and it works really nice. Maybe I??m lucky and other units could burn out, but I??m doing it since some months ago, during more than three hours a session, and nothing bad happened. Actually, as you low spk impedance down to a half it sounds even louder and wilder :-) So take note good of this if you wanna get some more watts from this tank! So I??ll give it just a 20 for this :-D

Never dealt with Behringer but although its products reputation (mentioned on other reviews), it seems to be a serious company and some of their products are quite cool for the prices. But as I never dealt with them, just look at the other reviews for this...

Really happy for this buy... It is the 1.1 version, so it is a collectable piece in some way! :-P

If you find one of them, give it a try,,, if you don??t own a pile of tube amps it will be a nice piece of gear. As I told you, a cool machine for tweaking it and/or trying crazy inventions!

That??s all, folks! Have a nice lifetime with music (and DIY/tweaking! :-D)

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This is a small follow up review. I have this amp for over two years, but I was afraid of trying it out pushing a bit harder due to this is a Behringer wich brand has sometimes bad reputation (I don't know, but some people are allways saying that.) Now I put all the switches up to the highest position, and all the pots up to 10. (The overall volume was set to 6). And I must say I was really amaized! I allways knew, that this amp is a good sounding one, but I did not know I have such a good sounding amp! It's not about how loud this can be! I am talking about the tone it pushes out! It sounds great on low volume, moderate settings, but if you push it a little more, it sounds unbelievable: singing shiny, bueatufull. Pushes out some solo tones I used to hear from Steve Vai. I was just standing there listening to my amp, and listening to a Marshall MG100 DFX at the same time, and I think this little amp has nothing to worry about beside those big brothers, like a MG 100! And this amp was just 130 EUR!!! It's loud on the distorsion positions, and sounds very nice, and costs that little! I am so glad I have this! This amp is Highly Recommended!!! After two years of using it this can surprise me again and again! I almost don't believe I have it! But wow, I do really have it.
Ok It's not a full tube amp, but it worth several times what it costs! Try to find this value for this little money! I doubt you can!

For a $60 amp, the features are fine. The amp provides the tone flavours, YOU provide everything else. The dial layout is good - full-range EQ, Gain ("Drive") and Volume. Also the three V-Tone switches, for amp mode, gain mode, and speaker compensation. No on-board reverb or other effects exist - hence, the price discount. However, there's an FX loop that works fine for plugging in whatever you want - chorus, delay, reverb, etc. The amp is SMALL and LIGHT - but, make no mistake ... it plays well. This amp makes me a believer in modeling amp's. My hat is off to Behringer for being the "Common Man's Electronics Company" ... low price with BIG performance.

This little amp is a TONE MONSTER. One of my favorite techniques with it is to set to "Tweed / Clean", and boost the incoming signal with an EQ pedal plus an OD like my DC Womanizer. This baby will absolutely SCREAM...and beautifully too. The other amp model settings are excellent as well....they're very strong and LOUD, with excellent tonal quality. Smooth blues, AC/DC, Gary Moore, Robben Ford, '80's metal ... they're all on-tap, either directly, or with some subtle help from your effects chain. I play a Strat, Les Paul Custom, and Semi-HB with Hum's through this baby, and all of them play great. I've gone full-circle over the years with amp's .... i currently have all-tube, hybrid and SS amp's, as well as modelling SS's, and my favorite amp is a good modeller. THIS AMP IS A GOOD MODELLER....and costs less than most stomp's !

Behringer has dis-continued / replaced this model with its new small-end V-Tone, which i'm sure is very good. I picked my GM110 up right after it was dis-continued, and got a discount on it to boot, on top of its low price. The replacement model, i believe, has a scaled-down effects circuit, which is nice to have, but of course raises the price. Still, it's hard to beat this Behringer V-Tone technology at the price. The amp design is simple and easy to use, yet very effective. I've cranked this baby UP way loud, MANY times, and even dropped it down a flight of steps (accidently i assure you), and i just can't kill it! It's the Toyota Corolla of amp's.

No opinion.

Excellent price, excellent performance ... a grand slam for the guitar warrior. You won't rock a statium, but you'll rock your walls....guaranteed. Save the big rig's for when they're required ... for small-to-moderate play, i recommend V-Tone. "Nuf Said".

the modeling combinations give lots of possibilities. Spring reverb or even any reverb would have been nice but would have bumped the price up so cant complain really. Fx send and return means I can add my own reverb unit which I do for gigs. Good amount of features for blues and rock.

only an 8 with the stock speaker. The magnet is very light and almost laughable compared to the Celestion vintage 10 that I put in. Having said that the stock sound coming out of such a crap speaker was good. The celestion replacement colours the sound, as you might expect from celestion, but definitely to my tastes. I now use the clean for most stuff with a little gain and the celestion to colour it. beautifull. Sound quality is also helped by a well made cabinet. Proper nuts holding the speaker in place, over engineered heavily chromed corner protectors, extra glues wedges instide for rigidity, very practicle leather strap, it goes on. Built like a tank.

I bought this used 5 days ago, it has clearly been well played and loved so I can only assume it is reliable

good web site, never had to contact them for this or any other product of theirs that I have

Ideal amp for me. I play blues and some rock & roll in pubs and clubs. 30w is loud enough. Would use DI out if more volume needed at gigs -ground lift on this feature is a nice addition in case of mains hum. Behringer have thought of everything here and kept the price down bt including a passable speaker. Trade up to a better speaker and you've got yourself an excellent gigging combo thats as cheap as chips.

This is a 'current' 2006 offering from Behringer, but may now be discontinued, according to e-tailers web sites. After obtaining a used model(loaner) for evaluation, I have tried to order this amp from several e-tailers, and this amp appears to be no longer available in the United States (maybe discontinued or taken off the market) as of December 2006.

The Amp sounds good at low home practice volumes, if you like 'dry' tone.' No channel switching or 'vox-like' attenuator, nor are there any tubes in the amp. All solid-state.

What is missing is a spring reverb tank like the Tech-21 or Orange Crush 15/30R have. That makes a big difference for 'vintage' players playing old-school rock, country, rock-a-billy, jazz.

I have to give this amp a 3, because I think I will get either the Tech-21 or Orange analog modeling amp with a real spring reverb tank.

As a standard of reference, Tech-21 and Orange have really, good cleans and easy to dial in mild tube-like overdrive/crunch. And their reverb tanks make the amps very, very nice sounding for all styles of music.

The GM110, by comparison is a bit harder to dial in the mild tube distortion, and the cleans are not quite as clear and articulate. The tone is acceptable, however, if you don't need vintage reverb to go with the vintage amp.

Because the GM110 lacks a vintage spring reverb tank, I found it less desirable to play for long periods of time. Sometimes I like to play w/out reverb, but most of the time I simply want to dial it way down vs. turn it completely off/dry.

Again without reverb, and because the cleans and mild distortions are not quite at the 'reference standard' I have to rate this amp a 3.

Behringer is known for their very low prices, and with a one year warranty, you should be fine. I have experienced good reliability with my other Behringer products.

Some of the parts are plastic, high-volume, lower cost components. That's not necessarily bad, if you take care of the unit and don't kick it around.

However, at a very low price the GM110 may fit your needs for practice, as long as you don't need that spring reverb tank. I know a few folks with jazz hollowbody guitars (which have their own resonance) that never use reverb and would find the tone of this amp acceptable.

Customer support is responsive, but the support options are limited.

The 1 year warranty is good enough for the lower priced Behringer products.

I own fender (and other) tube amps and the Behringer V-amp modeling combo (LX-210). I like them all, but I am still shopping for a more portable 'vintage' combo for travel and home practice / recording. Right now the Tech-21 and Orange 30R are on my short list.

The GM110 would be on my short list if it had an analog spring reverb tank like the others.

The GM110 would move up on my short list if it had a 12" speaker as well.

A GM112R with a 12" speaker, analog spring reverb, and keeping or improving 'vintage' cosmetics (chicken-head knobs, silver grill cloth, or tweed cover / brown grill cloth) would put the amp back on the top of my short list. Behringer could build one of these at higher volume and deliver it at a better cost than many others, and gain quite a loyal following from the 'vintage' seasoned musicians.

Overall, since I like other Behringer products, and have had good results with the other products, I would rate the GM110 (as is) a 5.

If you can still get one for the $60.00 price tag, and can live without reverb, then you may want to view an overall rating of 6 to 7 as more appropriate.

I simply will not use a small combo that doesn't have an authentic vintage reverb tank.

For a "practice" amp, this is a great buy. It's portable and functional. The Volume/Drive combo gives a wide range of distortion possibilities. The 3-dial EQ works well. The Amp / Mode / Speaker switches are great and work well to sculpt tones ... not just for 'show', or a selling point. My Strat sounds really good through this baby. I can get any degree of clean-to-distorted overdrive i need in order to fit into a practice/play-along mix. I bought this version over the "108" model primarily because of the larger speaker, not really because of the higher wattage. 15 vs. 30 watts is not much of an issue when considering a practice amp ... this baby can get LOUD, to be sure, and i'm sure the the "smaller" model can too. When i'm "gigging" to Albert King, i've got more than enough loudness. (Hint: no on-board reverb, but don't be put off ... the TONE will carry you through.)

IMO, this amp has excellent sound....especially considering the size & price. My Strat has great tonal range through this box. I can play totally clean, through all manner of crunch-to-flat out distorted wailing. And, i can maintain the Strat's characteristic sounds, which is great to me, since the Strat is one of THE most beautiful-sounding guitars known to mankind. I can always find a tone that fits in well with my practice/play-along venues. (BTW ... my 1976 LP Custom sounds good TOO!) It's clearly no "rig" (and certainly not meant to be); at $70, there's pretty much no beating this baby. At the same price, with vastly more features and a larger speaker, it puts that 8" Marshall box to shame! REMEMBER - this is a PRACTICE amp ... don't let your expectations run away. With a level head, you'll see that $70 buys much more than you ever thought possible. (It's not fair to compare apples to oranges, per se ... BUT ... just consider that last stomp you bought for $150, then realize that you can own an entire amp for lesss than half the price, with GREATER tonal range to boot.)

Haven't had any problems (yet). I like Behringer's approach to product development ... if their QC matches their ambitions, then i've got a winner!

No Opinion.

Said it all above. $70 buys you a great package. If you're looking for a highly functional & portable amp that can actually sound GOOD, look no further....you've FOUND it.

New 2006 Model with a Bugera 10" Speaker
Play light jazz and Country
Wish it had a seperate channel for a mic.
Use it for small gigs and the 30 watts is ample.
Sounds very TUBIE

As you can see it has lots of emulations already reviewed
I am playing it thru an L5 Gibson and a Songbird Deluxe with fishman
It handles them both nicely
Clean right thru both pickups range

Too soon to tell but it is built VERY Rugged............. workmanship looks pretty German no mater where they had it built its a 1st class cabinet with stunning looks.............

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I have played for 25 years and own Fender amps in the past.
I would run to the phone if it where stolen and order another
As far as I know there is NO amp made that can hold a candle to this little amp for this money and very very few at three times this money . It has high dollar sound and quality for a 10amp tinhorn price tag . These have to be the extreame buy in an Amplifier at the moment.

This is my third coming up for this amp! Now I had it for four months, and I am absolutely blown away! I have several gigs behind with this small amp, and sometimes I just stand there and think: how can this litle box sound so good? Tonight I played with the band, and this was the second time I told to myself: this little amp sounds better than a Marshall MG100DFX, which costs four times as much! The sound is shiny, and is living! I cant find words to describe how good it sounds, and this is not becouse I am not an english speaking guy.
I am very, very happy with this amp. I use a bad squier with this (that has a very nice neck!!!) and after I shielded, and potted the stock single coils, it sounds fantastic. I use only an adjustable volume pedal, so I get a little dirty, and great lead tone at once. No clicking, stepping, and tweaking around the whole stuff! I just plug in, and play! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
In a few week I will get a new Ibanez SAS 36, and I am sure that after I plug it in this small Behringer, my jaws will just hit the ground! But anyway, this happens nowadays every time I play on this amp!

Just use the Di out of this amp, or place a good mic in front of the speaker, and go into a PA system, and all of your audience's jaws will surely hit the ground! Unbelievable sound is coming out of this amp. Unbelievable!
I've played guitar for over 20 years. I had Hohner, and Peavey amps, and played on Marshalls, and Hiwatts, Kustoms, Rozz etc, other people had - I am shure that they ar very, very good amps, but I just do not need non of those big brands! I am not dreaming of a several thousand dollars' BIG, FAMOUS amp, or stack: the sound of my dreams is right now at my feet! OK, may be this opinion will be changed some years after, but now this is the case!
If it was lost, or stolen I will buy this again, or, the bigger brother: the GMX 212. Or both!

1 channel
3 amp models, 3 distortion modes and 3 cabinet models
Controls- Gain, 3 band EQ and volume
30 watts RMS @ 4 Ohms
10 inch Jensen speaker..MOD model
Black face speaker cloth
Black face control panel
Effects loop, XLR output, headphones out, speaker out
Ground lift switch
Vintage style jewel power light
Black Tolex covering, chrome corners, heavy duty vintage style handle

Sound quality is impressive, especially for being a small combo marketed as an entry level amp. It may as well be a tube amp from 30-40 years ago. Response is great even without a pedal to overdrive it. The sustain decay is really smooth and the midrange gives that nice vocal honking sound. Bass is nice and ballsy and it will cover every style and most any tone you desire. Metal, blues, rock, country etc.etc.etc.

Cleans are really good but it's easy to drive it into clipping, even without a pedal pushing your signal.

The modeling selection is what sets this amp apart from others within it's league/specs. You get basically Mesa, Marshall or Fender amp and cab models as well as 3 modes of distortion. Set them however you like because you really can't go wrong.

The treble EQ could be a little better though, it jumps frequency at about 7 and up. It's adds a nice treble punch and sparkle but it could be a bit better if set at 10 Khz all the way up the dial. The Jensens are also a darker toned speaker. Their overall tone is gutteral and bassy. Just a dark tone but I guess that's a nice change at times.
A different speaker and stable treble control would jump this amp to perfection.

I use it as it is and also to drive a custom built 4x10 cabinet which is does pretty well. The 4x10 cab is loaded with 2 Jensen MOD's and 2 subs. The volume isn't deafening but certainly close enough and easily loud enough to gig. Just playing it as it is explains why hard rock players 30 years ago used smaller amps for recording.

The only MAJOR flaw I can point out is when you kill the volume on your intrument, it can give a little electrical spattering distortion it otherwise doesn't when receiving a signal. It's probably picking it up from other devices in my room.

There's a few of these in my family and the oldest ones survived a few years now without a single issue and has been carted around plenty(by a teenager).
It weighs a ton for such a small amp. All the V-Tone series amps do. It's geared as an entry level practice amp but really should handle the abuse of the road and gigging.
German engineered, manufactured in Asia..really it's just a clone of the American Tech21's Sansamp circuits.

I've either owned or played it all. This is probably the best small combo you can buy, especially at this price. It's loud, versatile and most importantly, it responds and sounds great. Unless you guy high end tube which generally means the best of everything is being used, it can't be beat. This is probably THE most critical review I've ever written.

The first series looked nicer and a bit more vintage with the silver face cosmetics, chicken head knobs and high luster chrome paneling but considering that you can now pick it up at about half the cost and it's the exact same guts inside, I guess it's not a major issue.

A brighter speaker and treble control would perfect it but it's damn close already. I don't care for the factory speakers dark/dismal overtone. A lot of gear nowa days is pretty top notch or just needs a lil work or mods to make it so and price can mean nothing or everything. All a good player should care about is performance, reliability and sound quality anyway and this covers all 3. OUt of the entire V-Tone line including the head model, I think this is by far the best. The other models have major volume issues, NO WAY are they pushing anywhere near the wattage clamed. I'm more than willing to believe this is cranking 30 watts RMS though. The big brother models..probably about 60-65 regardless of what's claimed.

I've pushed this amp on beginners, I've pushed this amp on seasoned pros. No matter what level or type of player, you just can't go wrong.

It's a follow up review of my previously written thoughts. I still like this little amp. The three band EQ is just great! These three knobs (bass, mid, high) shapes a lot of the basic sounds. Sometimes I feel that it gives some punch to even the amount of the distortion/gain. Any ciond of tones are available here! I just imagine what the bigger GMX 212 can do with two chanels and separate FX presets!
This GM 110 is a single-chanel amp, but reacts very good to the tweaking of the volume pot of the guitar, so I can play either almost clean, dirty and lead tones with the same amp, mode, and cabinet settings, in the same pickup position.

I am very happy I have this little amp. I made gigs with it, and someone just came to me and said: "I don't know: so little luggage and sounds just that big! I seriously got thinking about this."

That's enough for me. Good rep. for me.

I have had this amp for about 2 weeks. Normally I would wait longer to do a review on a product but I think this amp is gonna be discontinued. So I wanted to give some advice to the Frugal minded beginners out there. I feel this amp would normally be priced at about 150 or so. Now it is on sale for $69. SO consider it for your next or first amp. I dare anyone to compare this amp to any amp that costs under $120.

I assume this amp was made in 2005 or 2006 cuz I just bought it. Then clean lacks a LOT of volume. The distortion has plenty of volume. With 3 amp models, British being my favorite w/Dist. and Tweed in clean. There is a headphone jack, effects loop, but no channel switching. I wish it had channel switching, this is probably the reason for the low volume on the clean settings. I don't gig and very rarely do I jam with friends but for bedroom play this thing rocks.

30 watts, 10" Jensen Speaker Nice Distortion Models.
Very good EQ.

Great distortions. I get a great Metallica sound using the Brit setting and the Gain on high, the EQ set to High on 10, Low on 10, and Mid on 1. Amazingly this with a Mexi-Strat with single coils Pups.

As I said earlier, the clean is very very weak. You can make up for this a little bit by increasing the amps gain, but it effects how clean the tone is, so there is a trade off there.

The EQ is very effective. You can change almost any setting by one degree and the difference is audible, besides the price this is my biggest surprise with this amp.

This amp is a little noisy and pops when you change the amp models. The noise isn't bad but the pops can get a little annoying; definitely not a deal breaker though. I always wondered what people were talking about when they said Strats hum. Cuz mine never did. Well with this amp it does. LOL.

I haven't had this thing cranked up too high, about 4 or 5. But at that levels its plenty loud enough for me.

Well its built like a brick house. I feel that it is solid. Although I would recommend not putting pressure on the knobs, as they are probably not re-enforced with bolts. I found this out with my crate, it has the knob/pots using the solder only with no re-enforced bolts. This lead to my distortion channel on my Crate being damaged. I have read that more expensive amps have this but I cannot verify it. WIll it last, I have no idea. For $69 bucks at musiciansfriend.com I can risk it.

No idea about Customer Support. Hopefully I will never know. More than likely if it breaks, I will fix it.

As I said before, this rating is to get Frugal and beginner guitarist to check out this amp. I feel that it is the deal of the century for Gtar amps. Amps with this much power and speaker size just do not come along every day for under 70 bucks. I have only played this amp a few times in the 2 week period and will be playing it alot in the future and will review it again at a later date.

I have a 94 Mexi-Strat. Danelectro Fab Distortion, Crate GX-30M amp.

If lost or stolen, I would probably save my money and get a more expensive amp or a Line 6 Pod to go with my Crate. Afterall, this amp does not have my ideal tone but it does have some great tones and the price is Maddening.

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This is the closest yet to a tube amp sound. Not only that, but to be able to get so many sounds out of one amp is astonishing. Generally, a tube amp is still better. But - this will make a great sound at very low volume for an absurd price. Tube amps don't sound good worked below a certain level. In the store when I first tried it, I looked in the back as I was doubtful it was solid state.

For 100 euros this is the best value amp possible. I chose this over a Fender Blues junior as it is one sixth of the price yet sounds 90% as good and will make loads of other sounds as well. For home playing even the Blues Junior is too loud. This amp will make a brilliant sound at talking level.

unit made in 2003, looks like china and this thing has many features i would never expected to see on a amp at this price. plus ext. loop, xlr out and cab speaker out 4 ohm and a headphone out [note speaker out snuffs out cab speaker]. it's a 30 watt solid status unit that can really power up a 2/12 cab with no problem.also it has, as other reviews stated, analog simulations that can sound as good [and note boys and girls i said sound as good as tubes] it is a single ch.with no rev.or b.s. effects.just a great practice amp for studio,bedroom,garage,patio.built like brick s.h. with a cabinet that looks like it was handmade in italy. and i may take it out for some small jobs and auditions. truly one smokin amp.

i've played this using a tele ,strat and a martin with a s.d. pickup.sound is awesome, just great. what i was looking for was a simple in bedroom amp that i would'nt keep blowin away my family and neighbors with.i was thinkin and looked at the small fenders s.s. and tube and for the price features and reviews took a look at the gm110,and never looked back.i've been playin for over 40 big ones and the sound and features on this amp rival my fenders my rivera and line 6 .i can load up the front end with my pedal board and achieve tones that i can only get with my amps pushin full speed.workin the unit clean is really nice or filthy,just create your settings. and tone is the game .this is what we look for [is this the grail?]i do jazz runs with this to, country,rock and da blues srv, mann--i it can't say enough about this beast.

i've been an electronic tech and heavy equipment mechanic for a long time and i know design and manufacturing quality and this pup has it all!God bless the guys who build these things ,cause i see a lot of pride and love here [ok tuck in your shirts]i'll step down.and i would take this in the with me on a job as a primary or backup.

behringer products are used by my band and me with never a problem in quality or reliability. octaleban these people do good work.

if this unit was ever takin away ,i would replace asap.it keeps me happy and that's my story and i'm stickin to it.

Well there's 85 reviews on this little amp, but I think I've got some observations that will help someone along the way trying to make a purchasing decision...

The features are well-described here. I'm a guitar teacher and I see lots of crummy, little practice amps. I wanted a cheap amp to keep at my studio at an arts center for lessons. I play acoustic, solidbody electric, and an archtop. I needed something that had a decent tone, not too loud, and could handle a good clean tone for jazz and a good overdrive tone for my solidbody guitar. This filled the bill perfectly.

This thing costs $69.00 at Musician's Friend. They shipped it for $7.95 and it got to me in two days.

The amp is solidly built. The knobs and controls don't feel cheap like a lot of practice amps do. The controls have a lot of tonal flexibility. Someone described the handle as cheap, but it seems solid enough to me. It's way lighter than a tube amp and less fragile. It looks nice, too...a nice vintage looking design. I like the way the knobs are on top; they're easy to read, easy to access, and the little "Fender-y" red gem light is a classy touch. I'm also impressed with the back panel, effects loop, and the XLR output with the ground lift switch. That's incredibly useful. I hadn't planned on gigging with the amp, but I'm impressed enough with it that I'd consider it.

My "primary" tone is clean/archtop guitar. This little amp nails that clean tube tone for straight jazz. The EQ is functional enough to control feedback. I was pleasantly surprised that the amp had enough "poop" to have feedback be a concern. My main amp for this style is a small PA system, which is super clean. Most guitar amps are voiced with too much bass nowadays, which makes for problems on an archtop. The lack of reverb isn't a huge problem for this style. I'm very pleased that it maintains the character of the archtop's voice.

I have cranked it up with my Alvarez strat clone. I was surprised at how loud the amp is. I didn't experience the "rumbling" that some guys mentioned. That may be an issue if you're doing the downtuning and over-the-top distortion that is so common in current music. I could get anything from a good "Gimme Three Steps" sound to a singing "Santana" tone using the simple, easy-to-use controls. There's a surprisingly good Vox-like sound on one of the settings that inspired me to play "Day Tripper" and some other old Beatles tunes. Overall, the amp was pretty quiet.

Reliability: seems sturdy enough to take the usual amount of abuse. I haven't had any need for service yet. If it broke, I'd just go buy another one.

Never had to deal with them. It's made by a German company...that usually means quality and professionalism.

Overall rating: I've been playing for over 30 years. I've owned Marshalls, Fenders, and have pretty much lost interest in most modern amps. I don't like a lot of bells and whistles. I have a rack with effects for any fancy stuff. I just want an amp that is clean and doesn't color the tone too much. The little Behringer fills the bill perfectly. The speaker emulations are useful and I appreciate having the flat setting as an option. The gain stages and amp models are useful and don't require programming. I don't need channel switching or anything fancy.

All in all, I wanted the simplicity of a vintage amp without bells and whistles. I wanted something cheap, so I could leave it in a relatively public place and not worry about it. I wanted a range of tones that I could use for a lesson studio environment. I'd recommend the amp to any guitar teacher for his or her studio. Most of all, I'm in disbelief that this thing only cost me $69! It sounds as good as amps that cost three times as much.

This is a small combo amp, made in Korea I think in this year (2006). A small, but good amp for the price - someone might say. I say it's not good for the price, but it is agood as it is! - soundwise! This is for rock music, but has nice clean tones too. The distortions of it are just very great!!! I use tu listen to Internet blues radio stations, and Wow - I hear those great guitar tones, what my little amp produces here in my room! That's enough!
This amp has anly one chanel - this is a bit of a backdraw. I mean I wish it had a separated clean chanel - footswitchable. But it has a nice back panel: DI otu for feeding ingto any PA system, an FX send/return for external units (I use a ZOOM 504 acoustic pedal wich has ext. pedal in jack - so I can play nice bluesy and rock stuff with WAH control!) This amp has also headphone out, and est. speaker out. All the outs are frequency corrected (except, the eszt. speaker of course). This little brother should have a reverb in built - it should be a good idea!
The amp can produse 27 basic sounds: 3 amp types + 3 gain setting + 3 kind of cabinets. Plus you have a gain, bass, middle and high control potmeters and a master volume! (This is worth the price already!), wich shape the tone in a very wide range!

I give a 9 Becouse of tha missing independent clean channel and reverb. Anyway it"'s a very good sounding, nive lokking, and very cheap amp!

I use a crappy, badly assambled Squier stratocaster with this small amp. Sounds fantastic - anyway it has bad, very noisy pickups. I've fund some good blues tones!! I don't know if this amp is weather noisy or not, 'couse my guitar makes loud noise alone. But I trhink there won't be any problems of this kinds!
You cak easily feel the difference between the basic sounds. I am not shure this is for the most black and todeath metal stile, but I think, that with a kittle tweaking it can take care of the most kind of musical tastes.
The clean is nice, but a little bit weak volumewise. So I use on tweed+high gain position, kept the gain knob low.

I know, bBehronger has a bad reputation, but opther sai: no problem. I try to depend on it. Built lik a brick, feels heavy enough, solidely assembled. I have it for two weaks, and playd just a few hours, so we'll se, what comes.

Nice website - anyway: I nevr dealt with them. People say Behringer just replace broken down amps with a new one without a hiss ...

I like the size! I wanted a little amp with this kind of 30 Watts power, but in a compact, movable size, and good sound. This delievers it. So I say: it is a good amp!

1.Do you know what year the amp was made in?
-2004.

2.Is the amp versatile enough for you and the styles of music you play? What are those styles?
-yes is very versatile, I play metal, industrial an psychodelic.

3.How many channels? Does it have channel switching? Effects loops? Headphone jack?
-1 chanel, 1 effects loops, and 1 headphone jack.

4.Where do you use this amp? Does it have enough power for you?
- in home studio and small gigs

1.What guitar and pickup styles are you using it with?
-yamaha rgx520fz and ibanez sz520qm with humbackers.

2.How does it suit your music style (and what is that style)?
-great, my styl is industrial metal.

3.Is it noisy?
- no

4.What kind of sounds can the amp make? How much variety?
-like tube amp

5.How brutal is the distortion?
-is fantastic

1.Can you depend on it? Would you use it on a gig without a backup?
-yes!

2.Has the amp ever broken down? Because of neglect of
regular servicing (as in tubes), or just plain neglect?
-no!

not have dealt with the company

1.How long have you been playing? What other gear do you own?
- 17 years, I have plenty of gear.

2.If it were stolen or lost, would you buy it again or get something else?
-yes!

3.what do you love about it? What do you hate?
- I love all about it. except one chanet, should be switched !

4.Did you compare it to other products? Why did you choose this one?
-I chose therefore this because sound has the prettiest and was inexpensive

Made in 2004

Versatile..Amazingly so!

Single imput...2 channel?..It has a footswitch that allows you to switch from the "clean" to "dirty" channel

It has more than enough features..and more than some who cost much more! See all the reviews above for features.

Practising ..and gigging...Just go and buy this amp!!..for the price..YOU CANT GO WRONG!!

This thing sounds good with ALL my guitars!!...single coils,humbuckers, P-90s...piezo accoustics...this is the bomb!

I play American roots music, reggae and other Caribbean sounds, country, blues, Hendrix...you cam always find a sound from this little marvel that will suffice and make you shake your head in amazement!

I really love the clean setting/channel..I am a fan of the strat single coils sound...STP READING AND GO SHOPPING!

No problems so far...practise and gigging...only thing is, when switched on ..you get a disconcerting "frump!" through the speaker..even with the volumes "off"...but it has'nt caused any problems so far...

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I have been playing close to 30 years..I own or have owned mainly peavy stuff (Bravo, classic tube, studio pro 112, line 6 POD ll..(another good value for money tool!)..and many many guitars...mainly single coils of various makes..but also humbuckers..Heritage and Washburn HD 30(excellent value too!)Finally...STOP WASTING TIME..BUY ONE OF THESE..at the price that this thing is offered..they need the volume to keep making these things..OH!..i like it better than their 50/60? watt offering of the same line..i've tried one but...well.. this lil fella did the trick...just add a good mike for live sounds..or use the tape out to the house or recording console....

2005. Drive, Amp model switch, Gain Level switch, Speaker switch and Bass, Mid, Treb, and Master. Pretty normal for a small amp. But...Effects Loop, Speaker Out, and Direct Out w/speaker compensation and Ground Lift.. No other amp at this price range comes close to the features. Which would not matter if it didn't sound good, but this one sounds very good in certain uses. Looks pretty good too. I cut the middle of the Behringer logo plate out and stuck it back together so now mine just says Beer.

A quick story... I got this just for the price and because I've always had some Behringer stuff around, and I know they build things well. I played this for a while and didn't really like the sound through the speaker, as the Flat setting (which is supposed to be used when using the speaker) didn't seem too lively or exciting. I mean it sounds good, but not crazy good. I hooked up the XLR Direct Out to my digital recorder, did some recording, got busy and forgot about it. A week later I put this amp on Ebay for $50 bucks. A week and a couple days later I was listening to some of my recordings and when I heard the Behringer recording I was like, "What the f-- was that!" Oh yeah, that little Behringer amp. Fortunately no one had bid, so I quick yanked it off Ebay because it's a direct recording monster. I have NEVER heard an amp that direct records as well as this thing. The speaker sound isn't great, but go direct and you've got a Mesa Rectifier, a Marshall JCM, and a passable clean sound. So, it's got a home after all. Oh yeah, the effects loop actually works, which is not always the case on small amps.

For $99, if it lasts for a while I'll be happy. But truthfully, I've never had a Behringer product break except for one volume pot on a little mixer. Their stuff is very well built, and this is no exception. In fact, I really don't know how they can build and ship this amp for $99 and still make a profit, but I guess that's their problem. So far, so good on this one. It doesn't look or feel like it would be less reliable than other brands, so I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Never dealt with them, and probably wouldn't try if this thing fries.

For $99 bucks it's just beyond anything you can get. It sounds awesome when going direct, and if you hook it up to a different speaker that sounds good too. I have hooked this up to a Celestion Vintage 30 8 Ohm, and it sounds really good. However, I will not be using this amp live any time soon, because people would laugh at me. But... I will be using it in my studio for heavy distorted Mesa/Marshall type sounds because the same people who would laugh at this amp if they saw it, are awestruck by the recorded sounds it can produce. People can be stupid, as we all know. I hope this helps some of you make a decision on this amp. I've been playing for 25 years and have had a lot of amps.

My GM110 was made in 2005 (if I understand the serial number). As a knock off of the Tech 21 Trademark 30 (something I've wanted for awhile but couldn't afford), it has all the features I was looking for. The amp is VERY versatile in a studio setting, as the active EQ works very well with the drive and speaker sim character switches to provide a wide range of usable tones, from sparkling cleans to very dynamic metal sounds.

Live, the amp is, technically, only one channel, which would seem to limit its usefulness. However it has several benefits. One: it is very touch sensitive. Dial in a crunchy lead tone, back off your guitar's volume knob, and voila, you have a two channel amp (like back in the old days)! More usefully, the amp has a nice effects loop. I looped in my Digitech RP-50 (a $50 multieffector), which lets me add in chorus, delay, reverb etc. to help flesh out the tone. The RP-50 is true bypass, so I can shut it off when I don't need it. The final step in my tone recipe is a Behringer GDI-21 (their knock-off of the Tech 21 SansAmp GT. I used to have a GT, and the Behringer sounds exactly the same to me. I put that in FRONT of the amp (it is also true bypass) and step on it for a volume boost, or dramatically different sound for leads. It works best if the amp is set cleaner, and the pedal gives the grind, but your mileage may vary. The amp is not super loud, but the GDI-21 gives a serious kick in the slats to the volume department.

The amp sounds awesome through headphones (it is the best headphone amp I've ever had), is loud enough for playing in the house or with friends, and for gigging it would be fine if miked, if the output was routed to the board, or if plugged into a speaker cabinet, or if the drummer wasn't Ginger Baker.

I use this with my 1989 American Standard Strat with Lace Sensors, my 2000 Carvin DC-127 with Carvin humbuckers, and with my Agile AL-3000 with P-90's. Each guitar sounds like itself, and each pickup combination sounds great. Unlike other amps, which sometimes take away the guitar's tone, the Behringer stuff (like the Tech 21 gear it is based on) only enhances your tone. I have fallen in love with my Strat again, thanks to this gear.

Some of the higher gain settings are rather noisy, but that is to be expected. It is only noticeable when you aren't playing. Also the RP-50 has a noise gate, which can help.

This seems pretty sturdy, and the owner of the music store says he has sold lots, with no returns. I have to send the warranty card to Germany (yikes!), but I'm sure that if it broke it would either be fixed or replaced.

I have never dealt with the company. The warranty is one year.

I've been playing for 18 years or so, and this is part of my plan to scale down to smaller, lighter, less expensive gear. This amp, the Digitech pedal and the Behringer pedal (which fit in the back for carrying) weigh less than 30 pounds, and sound great. More significantly the total cost is less than $200 for a 1X10 30 watt amp. I am very happy with it, and am enjoying the process of playing with it, and finding my tones. There is a great site out there with settings for the Trademark 10 amp which seem to apply, but because the Tech 21 uses chicken head knobs with a center detent, and my amp uses 0-10 knobs it makes it a little hard to suss out the settings. But using my ears helps more than using my eyes, and I am very happy with this little guy.

Finally, I am very pleased with it on the cosmetic front. It is a black amp with Marshall style white piping around a black cloth grille. It came with a garish logo screwed onto the front that hawked the "analog modeling", but when I unscrewed it, you would never know it had been there. Now, it looks like a classy little blackface amp. Kudos to Behringer for their design.

I've owned this amp for about 3 years now. The only thing I have to say is that this amp loves humbuckers.

On the other hand it will take single coil guitars and eat them for lunch.

If you must get this amp, make sure you have a nice guitar with some warm, fat humbuckers, or else you will probably be severely disappointed. I've used this amp with a '57 Strat, a couple SGs, a Fender Toronado, and a Telecaster. This amp failed to deliver on single coil equipped guitars, but on the SGs and the Toronado it sounded beautiful.

I will say it again. Humbuckers are a must.

Died on me once. Problem solved.

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Not sure of the year but mine is one of the 'newer' looking ones with black grillcloth and 'regular' knobs instead of chicken-head knobs. Doesn't bother me because the sound is the same as the 'older' ones and that is what matters. The amp is very versitle. I can get tones that sound to me like other amps and tones off of records. Most importantly to me I can get MY sound of of this little puppy which has not been easy for me to do with any amp, transistor or tube. Once you play with the switches and understand what they do to the sound I think it is easy to tweak the amp to get any tone you want. Its no harder really than using a stompbox.

10! 10! 10! It may just be me, but I have trouble getting the tone I want out of a lot of amps. This amp and its companion the GDI21 have no problem delivering that tone in spades as well as a host of other great tones! I am a huge fan of the Edge, but I've never wanted to spring for a AC30, nor do I really think that amp would fit what I am doing. To my ears I can dial in a slightly overdriven clean tone on this amp no problem and then use my pedals to drive it harder. Did I mention that this thing reacts great with pedals? I keep wanting to think that I am missing something that this thing and the GDI21 don't sound as great as they do, but when I play I just can't deny the evidence. I began to think that perhaps any new transistor amp could sound this good until I bought a B-52 halfstack which had great reviews. The B-52 sounded good but it didn't have the tube-like mojo that this and the GDI21 have. Running the GDI21 into the front end on a clean setting made the amp sound better on every channel. In the end I ended up running the GDI21 into the poweramp section of the B-52 bypassing the preamp section of the B-52 all together so I could have a 200watt version of this amp. I think the B-52 probably would have sounded fine if I had not been spoiled by this analog modeling technology! I use a humbucker guitar BTW.

I can't say just yet, sorry. I do own other Behringer products and so far no problems. Based on reviews of Behringer products I've read here I think they occasionally have quality control issues which means if you get a bad one it goes bad quickly and all you have to do is exchange it for another one. If you get a good one you should not have any trouble. It looks as solid as any other equipment I own.

Can't say. I like their website!

10! 10! 10! Sorry folks, I just love this amp too much, price not considered, and then when you factor in the price, oh boy! I do need to mention that this technology was developed by Tech 21. If you like the sound of this amp or the GDI21 then you should check them out as their products are probably more reliable (there are original sansamps still going strong!), they look cool, and they are the ones who pioneered this analog modeling stuff. Behringer has made this technology (and many others) very affordable. I am on a very tight budget but I need professional sound and performance. If I ever get to the point when I am making more money I will buy the Tech 21 stuff. In a way Behringer has turned me onto Tech 21 because I would have never believed that this solid state technology could sound so good, better than some tube amps I've played! And with the price of Tech 21 stuff I probably would have just bought some sort of tube amp instead. But now I am of the opinion that I may prefer this analog modeling to most tube amps. In the end I don't care if it doesn't sound like a tube amp, all I care is that it sounds good, and this thing sounds good!

The Gm110 I bought new from ZZounds.com, it was made in July of 2004 according to the date code on the little sticker on the back of the amp. It is very versatile with all the features I need, except for reverb I use a Zoom GFX-707 in the effects loop, works very well for this. Only 1 channel but has switches for the diferent emulations, I may design and install my own footswitch just to switch between clean and high gain after the warranty expires, in case I short something out, but I shouldn't have a problem I'm an electronics tech. I have only used the amp so far for practice and it's loud enough to damage my hearing on all settings. It's a solid state amplifier but it emulates the tube sound very well.

I've used a Samick Telly copy with a Bill Lawrence Humbucker as the neck pickup and a stock Duncan Designed middle pickup and the stock Duncan single coil bridge pickup.
It suits my musical style perfectly which is a mix of vintage country,and vintage mild rock, Jim Croce, Gordon Lightfoot, John Denver, Glen Campbell and I also play a little Santana, Hendrix, Moody Blues and Eagles early songs, my main style is rhythm guitar and backing myself singing, but I do like to take off occasionally and pick some lead fill in riffs.This amp can do it all from clean to dirty you name it and it can do it with just a little tweaking. You can get as much distortion as you want and get good crisp clean sound also.

Since I've only had it a few days I can't give an opionion on releability yet.

Don't know , I hope I'll never need any. It only has a 1 year warranty.

I've been playing on and off for over 39 years and I've owned several different amps, Peavey Classic 50 that I had to repair several times because it had a tendency to burn resistors up in the tube power section, So I sold it and then owned a Crate 30 watt for several years and then sold it and bought a Peavey Bandit solid state amp and it was ok but I never liked the sound I got from it so I traded it for a Peavey Heritage VTX which I still have and just recently repaired the power supply and replaced most of the capacitors in it and it is sounding good again. But this little Behringer Amp sounds better than the Peavey and I'll probably run the XLR output thru the Peavey Heritage Power Amp if I ever go somewhere to play and need to damage someone's hearing. I've tried it already and it works great. Right now if the Behringer was stolen I'd file an insurance claim and try to get another one. I do wish it had a foot switch but like I said I may design my own down the road someday if I get to where I just have to have one. I've read some of the other reviews about problems with this Behringer amp especially the farting sound when the volume is turned way up, well I guess I've got a good one because mine hasn't done that but once and it was when I turned it up while I was feeding the XLR into my PC's Sound card and when I turned the master gain down just slightly it went away. This amp is loud enough to really damage your hearing on all the settings even the tweed, like I said I must have gotten a very good one, that was assembled on a Tuesday.This amp records very well and I still find myself wanting to look for the tubes in it though I know it doesn't have any it just sounds like a tube amp to me, I love the sound and my wife said that she liked the sound as compared to the Peavey Heritage. For the price I don't think it can be beat.