Behringer GMX210 V-Tone

Made 2005, 2 ch solid state amp with effects, 2 x10in Jensen spkrs. I use this amp mainly in British hi-gain/hot mode with assigned reverb effect number 12 or with one of the delay settings?
I would say this amp is best suited for anything from blues thru to metal but if its a loud clean sound you are after, forget it!!

Anyone who wants more features in this thing for the money must be deluded. You couldn't pack more into an amplifier for the $.

Have used this thing at rehearsals with a loud drummer and it has no problem being heard. Loads of power thru the British mode settings.

Suits s/coil or humbuckers. Seems to be noisy whenoverdriven, though this may be due to the wiring in the house, as it isnt apparent at rehearsal.
Good saturated tube emulation sounds to be had all the way up to metal. The EQ controls are very effective and make a big difference to overall tone.
Heres the thing - I cant believe people rave about the Tweed clean sound in the amp, to me it is a waste of time. Unless Behringer have changed things in the past few years since this was made. It is just not possible to get a loud clean sound at all, puts out about 1 watt in comparison with the hot amp modes.

Absolutely reliable, no issues in 4 years at all.

Not needed.

Been playing a long time, owned lots of valve amps and for just sitting around and plugging in, try one of these. There cant be many amps out there that sound this good for so few $!
Just love the British Hot mode, hate the clean mode cause it just hasn't got any volume to it. You could have it set to 10 and the Hot channel would be at around 2 to 3 to balance the volumes, enough said.

Can you gig with it? Maybe not, due to the above volume disparity when in Tweed mode. If you are playing heavier style music, it would be up to the job.

I'll tell you the guy that said buy it yesterday was dead on.I bought it just to have a little amp in the living room to jam on and low and behold this little amp kicks but.I've always hated solid state amps till i played this one.After a few tweeks the clean channel sounded better then the vos blues jr i just sold.

I use a lp and a strat w/texas specials and a frankie and all sound great through this amp.It can go from VH to SRV in other words if you can't find a your tone with this....It is noisy on the dirt channel but nothing worse then the vos i had or the supersonic i still have.But most of all i really love the clean channel and the stereo effects.The bugera 2x10's are not bad at all i was thinking before i got it i was going to change out the speakers but no need they sound great.I'm tempted to use it at are next gig it sounds that good.BTW it has a cool little footswitch that comes with it.

don't know yet just got it but will update

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I've been playing and gigging for 30 yrs and have played many amps and this one is a winner.Will it replace my Supersonic? No!If were stolen i'd buy another in a heartbeat.To me this a great little amp with great tube tone and plenty volume for small gigs and my living room.Buy it tweek it you can't go wrong.The only thing that would worrie me is the plastic stems on the controls, people have complained they have broken off and i can see that happening if your rough with your gear.

2- channel with footswitch for channels and effects
2 x 10" Jensen Special speakers, open back cabinet
numerous effects selectable one at a time. on/off button.
Tuner on amp

The sound was tweaked to match my $1200 Marshal best it could.
all the EQ at max...the effect set to 90 (compressor)..there was a familiar modeling going on. I was impressed.
Sound is a 7..but for the money a 10

I had to fix this thing and wound up having to tear into.
I came upon it because it was deemed broken and I fixed it. Just basic stuff like the cheaper input plug everyone seems to be putting on the amps these days! Why won't they spend the extra $2!! We'll all pay the extra $2 for a good input jack!!

not needed

I guess for the money its pretty loaded.
I imagine a lot of kids wind up getting pissed because basic things like the input jack stops working so it renders the amp useless to non-repair types...so for that a 4.

Mine's brand new - 1 week old, so I figure it was made this year. All the features have been covered, so I won't be redundant. All I can say is after 45 years of playing guitar and every amp out there, that Fender, Marshall, Peavey and VOX better get it together or Behringer is going to take over. This amp is just friggin loaded with features for the price and it is AWESOME! I will play anything you want to play and no effect pedals are needed because it comes with a footswitch. Even has a tuner.

This amp just totally blew me away. It's solid state, but you can't tell it by listening to it. All that's missing is the light show that the tube amps put on. Acoustic sounds, clean blues, dirty blues, blues rock, classic rock, electric folk, funk, hard rock, metal - you name it and you got it with this amp. It's only 30 watts with 2 10 inch Jenson speakers but it is ever bit loud enough to gig with - nearly as loud as my old VOX AC 30. Clean channel stays clean and the distortion can be as brutal as you want it. I'm mostly a strat person, but I have my strats set up - 1 with 3 single coils, texas specials, 1 with 3 single coils, vintage noiseless, 1 with a mighty mite mother bucker at the bridge and two texas specials for the middle and neck and one with two mighty mite mother buckers. I also have an Epiphone Pro that's been modified for the EVH look with one single Golden Age humbucker at the bridge. All of these guitars are excellent guitars and this amp sounds just incredible with all of them - single coils, humbuckers, it don't matter. I play blues, blues rock, classic rock, hard rock and have my metal moods and I'm not easily impressed by gear. But, like I said - this amp blew me away and it is I repeat LOUD.

Only had it about a week and I take care of my stuff but looks like it's built like a tank.

Never dealt with them.

Been playing 45 years. I've got way too much gear to list. Not being a braggart, but all kinds of friends and family have given me stuff, I've bought guitars and amps at yard sales and fixed them up and over the last 35 years of adulthood, I've pretty much tried to buy one guitar a year and an amp every other year. Some of them I keep, when I don't want to keep them, I donate them to the church. Some of them I get just to donate. I love his amp - period. Best bang fo buck - period.

The features of this amp for the price are incredible 99 effects (only one at a time which kinda sucks just my opinion though), 60 watts, two 10" bugera speakers which sound great, 3 amp models, 3 speaker models and 3 gain modes and 2 channels. Okay well i play all kinds of rock anywhere from coldplay to slayer and metallica and this amp alongside my ibanez rg321 can do it all. Back to the effects, those in themself are amazing but i just wish u could use more than one at once and this beast also comes with a footswitch oh i almost forgot it has a built in tuner. best features vs. price on the market

ok now listen good the first thing i would like to say to all you TONE-SNOBS IS THAT BEHRINGERS REP ISN'T BAD BECAUSE OF SOUND QUALITY IT IS THAT THEY ARENT THE MOST SONICALLY CONSISTENT eg. one might sound completely different to the other so but the good ones sound f*&$#g great. Mine is a good one actually great one as said before i play coldplay to metallica and this is great i have had mine 18 months and once the speakers "break in" it sounds beatiful. On the tweed you get a beatiful sparkly clean, flip the tweed mode to the hot mode and put the bass on 4 (it has a lot of bass) mids on ten and treble on ten and you would be fooled into thinking you were playing a fender hot rod deluxe, trust me people have been fooled. Okay now getting into classic rock (AC/DC, guns n roses) this is the closest you are gonna come to a marshall without actually having a marshall logo on your amp. (bass 3, mids 10, treb 10, brit, hot, uk speaker). seriously this amp sounds tubey put in the setting i just said use the bridge h'bucker tone right down and you have a November rain solo sound. Ok getting heavy (Calif, hot, u.s speaker) i love this sound it doesnt sound as tubey as the others but i love this. It is a lovely rich and tight distortion i would say i use this most for rhythm but i use the marshall tone for a lead sound because it cuts through more. the worst thing is that it is noisy not clean only distorted (but i think thats the powerpoint i use-near the computer) but use the compressor to completely reduce buzz hum feedback and its great you wouldn't know it was on. it is more than enough to satisfy mine and my agro ibanez's needs and if you want people to compliment you on your tone use this and you cant go wrong.

i cant really say to much about the reliability but as i said i got a good one. if you are considering getting a new amp but are a bit strapped for cash check this out but play a couple of the same amp to make sure you get a good one (not a bad one that people bag behringer for but dw its only really tone-snobs with their overpriced gear and big egos that bag behringer anyways) SO DONT BUY ONLINE. PHYSICALLY GO TO YOUR LOCAL SHOP AND GET THE BEST SOUNDING ONE THEY HAVE TRUST ME YOU WONT BE SORRY! my rating is low because with behringer you dont really know what your gonna get but do as i say and purchase the amp you try and you cannot go wrong. PLEASE dont buy overpriced crap consider this amp.

havent dealt with behringer but the warranty it came with was twelve months

i have been playing guitar for about 4 years now and i used to own a ashton 40 watt combo sold that to get this and man was i happy. basically i love the tube like sound of the british and tweed settings and the lovely fluid drive of the calif oh yeah and if you want a the foo fighters best of you guitar tone at the start use this on a clean calif setting with the speaker on u.k and you'll be happy. if it were stolen (which i would hope not) i would probably save up and get a real tube amp peavey classic 30 or valveking but i will never trade it in or sell it because i love the tone and hopefully one day i can do a bit of recording with it and the only real critism i have is that most tonesnobs have never played behringer gear but they bag it and give them a bad name. just because something is cheap (like this) doesn't mean it is crap and because something is expensive doesn't necessarily mean it is good.
Also i wish you could use multiple effects at the same time but honestly that is the only downer because it is easily loud enough to play a gig. but do yourself a favour and try this amp before buying an expensive overpriced thing that your gonna get sick of, because remember this has 99 effects A+ chorus, reverb, delay and compressor and 27 possible sound combinations (well thats what the website says) before you even turn a knob. just try behringer forget about tone snobbery and let your ears do the work for you ps. it only gets better because once the speakers have broken in those highs really sparkle and it actually literally sounds like you are playing a fender hot rod deluxe, the genuine marshall sorry british mode sounds exactly like a crunchy marshall clean or dirty the clean also breaks up a bit if you play hard like me which i like and the calif is buitiful for the heavy distortion not really solos just rhythm i use the british for lead. but anyways thats all for now. DONT SNOB BEHRINGER especially if youve never played them, but do yourself a favour and get a good sounding one of these and you will be happy

Amp was made in 2007 probably somewhere in far east asia
yes, it is well versitile enough for my playing style. I mostly play classic rock sounding stuff, not covers, just the stuff I write sounds like it. The sounds I'm usually going for range from clean Mark Knopfler to dirty stuff like 80s KISS and the Scorpions. This amp can easily handle it, it's got 2 channels which is enough for me, and it has a bunch of DSP effects. it comes with a footswitch and it has an AUX in/out and MIDI input along with a headphone jack.

The main thing I wish this amp had was real spring reverb. I just like it. I'm not a huge fan of all the digital effects, I just bought it cuz it's cheap and big for its price. there are 100 or so effects on this thing, and I probably use about 5 of them all. I guess it's pretty versitile, but only iif you don't like to tweak your tone, you just let the manufacturer set a binch of presets. 2 10 inch Jensen speakers

This amp is the best souding solid state amp ever. The cleans are absolutely gorgeous on the tweed setting (it has a tweed setting, British setting (Marshall Wannabe) and American (just a more fat sounding distortion) The tweed setting is meant to emulate that clear fender sound, and it does a great job, and then you kick it into overdrive and you get that characteristic warm tube sound (but a little thin which sucks a bit)

I think the distortion on this amp is perfect for me. Most people seem to hate this amps distortion, but I absolutely love it, it's smooth and punchy and the highs and mids and lows are all very defined, especially when you play chords, but it has excellent sustain as well. You can't get a very metal saturated distortion sound, so I wouldn't recommend this for any of you metalheads out there, but the sustain is still great on it without too much gain (although that might just be the hard-ash body with a brass nut and steel saddles talking)

I play a homemade strat through it (homemade, not ab- warmoth/mighty mite frankenstein, a homemade fat strat) the pickups I uuse are two fender american strat single coils in the neck and mid and a gibson paf style in the bridge. the amp is never too noisy when I use the hum, but at higher volumes and with distortion and single coils, that's where this amp has issues. when clean though, there is little to no noise at any volume, but I wouldn't know about on stage cuz I haven't gigged it yet. for the money though, this think fucking screams! I will warn you though, this amp can seriously get really really loud. it will shake the house at 4/10 volume, so be careful.

yeah, thats one of those things that sucks about this amp. the knobs are really cheap and want to break. just be careful, or you can replace them, suit yourself. I think it will last though, it's pretty durable. just don't drop it. it's heavy

never had to talk to them. warranty is 5 years

great buy, I got this one for 1/3 of the price, and if your a newly gigging musician and need a cheap amp that has a lot of balls, this is the one for you. that is, iff you can handle what most people would call "weak distortion" but I think it's fine, I don't even use my DS-1 any more cuz the distortion on this is much much better, very warm but clear. I love this amp and I plan on buying a speaker extension to get it even more loud!

Well we all know how excited behringer got over this little amp... and its not all undue. 99 effects presets, stereo power amps, amp modelling, speaker modelling, and distortion modelling. Tons of features, and that's really where this amp shines, unfortunately its a little superficial. The good thing about this amp though is that it has about a million jacks in the back, including AUX Input, which is probably the most useful feature on this amp.

Even though this was my first gigging amp and i have since graduated to better things, i still use this amp ALL THE TIME, because I stick the ext. speaker jack from my 1x12 5 Watt Class A combo into the AUX Input jack of my 2x10 behringer, giving me 65 watts of class-A fury! This way I can also run the amps in stereo giving me a natural chorusing effect. I can be more technical about this setup, just e-mail me. But in short, you can simply pickup a Valve Jr. for $100 and add it to this amp (using this amp as a powered extension cab) and for $300 you have a pretty awesome rig :).

Okay I use a few pedals with this amp (Tube Overdrive---->Crybaby----->USA BIG MUFF PI), and I play through them with my Fender Telecaster, and a HSS Frankenstrat I put together. The first thing you notice is that this amp is extremely noisy (even with humbuckers). The sound was very dissapointing. There are a few sweet spots in the amp, but most of them are achieved through the help of pedals, and the rest get noisy and lose their clean when you turn them up. There isn't enough low-end to the sound...not enough to satisfy my big muff anyway. The cleans are very muddy and not crisp at all, unless you play the british setting with the speaker model on flat, and the treble and mids all the way up, while utilizing the expanding model. This gets you a LITTLE bit close to a vox sound, but nowhere near as good as a vox ad50vt (which i think is a GREAT alternative to this amp). I don't play with lots of distortion, but I noticed that even with low amounts of overdrive, this amp gets very hissy, and there isn't enough drive to play metal without getting loads of feedback. The "TWEED" channel is horrible. It sounds very un-fender, and is extremely quiet and muddy.
I mainly play a mix of blues, jazz fusion and alternative rock, and this amp falls short for me, I can get a pretty good fusion setting with the #38 chorus preset and running my tube OD with the amps drive on about 6 and the treble and mids cranked with bass on about 6.

You would think this amp would be reliable wouldn't you? Solid state after all... but I really just don't think behringer puts enough build quality behind these amps. It broke down on me once during a gig, and it was a terrible experience. I don't have any reservations about using it as a backup in the future and running it stereo with my other amp (a Carvin Vintage 16).

Never dealt with them, I don't speak german :).

But I always say the best customer service is to make a good product.

On the bright side, I bought it from AMS, who backed it up for an extra year (so that's two years including behringer's warranty).

I've been playing for about 5 years, and I've been gigging a lot. I own the pedals I've listed already, plus my Telecaster and Frankenstrat, and a Carvin vintage 16 amp. If I could re-make this decision, I would probably have sprung for a little more and got a Valvetronix amp or just got my Vintage 16..... or I would look around the used amp market. I think if I replace this amp, I will replace it with an avatar 2x12 extension cab with celestions and a Marshall Lead 100 Mosfet (apparently they are indestructable) or a Crate Power Block (because it is extremely portable). Obviously those wouldn't be my main amps, just part of my stereo tandem. I think you are much better off putting together a halfstack with a used Marshall Mosfet head (they are about $150 on ebay) and a cheap 4x12 cabinet. Then if you ever want to upgrade, you can get a new head, and upgrade the speakers in the cab. I don't regret buying this amp, since I found an unlikely use for it, but it isn't the best thing in the world, it is a decent value. If it were lost, I would get a Marshall or Powerblock and an extension cab.

Tons of features. I bought mine just last week. I already have a Peavey Classic30, a Fender Hotrod Deluxe and a Vox PathFinder. I'm looking for an amp that's plug and play and has great distortion at low volumes. It's a hassle for me to setup my pedals everytime i come home from work just to play guitar and i can't get decent distortion with my tube amps at low volumes.

This is really great as a practice amp. Great tone and low noise. Great for recording also. I read in previous reviews that this amp is noisy when the gain is turned all the way up. I think they are using bad cables or poorly sheilded guitars. This amp is so quiet at full gain. I have a sample MP3 demo of this amp (using the amp's line out to my M-Audio audio interface) here ->
The tones are great, perfect for rock and metal.

I have an couple of Ibanez (rg2550, rg7620, rg450gxwh, s370, rg370), Washburns and Yamaha guitars with various DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan pickups. I play rock and practicing some shred stuff.

This amp is perfect for practicing and recording. But for band rehersals and gigs, i'll will still use my Keeley pedals and tube amps.

I bought this three days ago. I was planning to get a Vamp2 but instead i got this amp. There was some minor cosmetic flaw that i found. At the back of the amp some of the material covering the wood was peeling off. A little fix of rubber cement and it's perfect.

I wish i wont mess with them in the near future. (fingers crossed) :)

I've been playing for 10 years. I have a couple of guitars and some tube amps. If this amp was stolen or lost, i'll bet the GMX212 instead. This amp is so cheap. I was not expecting to get great tones from this amp.

Bought the amp in December of 2005. Extremely versitile amp.I bought this amp 6 months ago, and have been very pleased with its performance. Lately, I've been using it and an Alesis 8 USB as a portable PA for small 'acoustic' gigs, with remarkably favorable results. It also works fairly well as a stereo monitor for bigger rooms. This is all possible because of the stereo Aux in with trim control - nice touch, Behringer.

As a straight ahead guitar amp, it delivers the goods as well. The V-tone analog modeling does a surprisingly good job of approximating the sounds of Fender, Marshall, and Mesa amps. It isn't the loudest amp (the clean Fender setting is particularly anemic), and it isn't going to fool anyone into thinking that it's a Marshall or a Mesa. But I've run across plenty of more expensive amps and digital modeling pedals that didn't sound as good. It's true stereo, and has two separate channels with assignable onboard effects. It includes a footswitch to switch channels and toggle effects. Plenty of ins and outs in back, including MIDI for effects control(!).

It has been rock solid through 6 months of constant use.

N/A - Never dealt with the Behrenger customer support.

Each control provides useful adjustments to the overall sound, which can range from crystal clean to slightly warm tube (not perfect, but very nice none the less), to punchy crunch or sustaining overdrive. It has the added flexiblity of being used as a stereo monitor or small PA in more intimate settings. It's a great amp at an amazing price, particularly suited for practice, recording, or small gigs.

Got this not quite a year ago and made in 2005, I settled on this one after a test drive with a Gibson ES-335 both for the price and the fact that it cut through all the other playing going on around me. I also has all the recording and line out features I would expect from a more 'upscale' pro rig. At the time I was using a Digitech RP7 processor and I rate this a 9 because the only thing that did not thrill me after a time was the sound of this amp with it looped. I've since gotten deeper into the onboard effects and with the addition of Behringer's FCB1010 Midi Controller, I can now retire the RP7 from gigging.

I'm playing a variety of guitars and styles with this rig, mainly a fat old 1980 Washburn Falcon with original electronics and DiMarzio SD pick-ups, which with this amp I can squeeze the finest prog-style distortion sustain out of. It took me a little bit of time to get the 'clean' side tailored to my liking, but as a previous reviewer said, keep in mind that tweed doesn't always mean clean. That being said, the warm growling tweed tone of this bugger turned up is also excellent...

We're almost a year in and this thing travels with me about 100 miles twice a week. It's a rock.

Haven't tested it yet and hope I don't have to. I registered my warranties (also for the controller) online, which I think is good service in itself these days and the card included has the s/n and bar code right on it, so it would appear they're paying attention.

I've been playing for almost 37 years now and recently did a brief tour of duty working for Washburn/Randall (Us Music Corp.). As far as solid-state amps, I have gone from the Peavy Musician to the Lab Series L5 and through a number of Marshalls including the original Valvestate 800. The Behringer definitely is the best of the lot yet in terms of affordability, durability and flexiblity for both small to medium gigging and recording. I look forward to teaming it up with a GMX212 very soon.