Behringer GX 112 Blue Devil

This amp would get a 10 rating if it sounded like it was supposed to. It has two channels "Heaven" and "Hell." If you can't tell Heaven is supposed to be the clean channel and it sounds like crap. Hell is supposed to be the overdrive and it sounds like crap. Neither channel deserves the name. The Heaven channel would make you think that it is a really great sounding clean, but it is crap. The Hell channel you would think would make this awesome Dimebag Darrel or something like that distortion, but instead you get this really weak crappy sound that cannot even be described as an overdrive. I used to just use this amp with the "Hell" overdrive knob all the way down. This meant that I had two different clean channels with a different effects preset for each one. The effects themselves actually sound alright. If there was a way to just use this amp as a effects unit it would sound great. They tell you that it has "TransTube" technology that is supposed to make it sound like a tube amp. When you use the tube emulation feture it almost just seems to change the volume of it. It actually does improve the tone very very marginally, but what they don't tell you is that you can't use any of the other effects with it, so it is kind of useless. I hate digital effects anyway.

The sounds of the amp without the effects are really cheasy. It sounds like total crap. The effects themselves deserve a 10 rating for digital effects, but the rest of the amp gets a -8 so that makes a 2 rating.

I can't really rate this I only had it for 4 weeks, but everyone else that really pushes it and uses it at a gig says that it is crap.

Never dealt with them, but I did get to download the manual easily.

I sell on eBay so I bought this amp in a package. I got this amp a Washburn WG587 and a Behringer V-amp2(ironically the effects in the V-amp thing sounded like crap, but the amp models were okay exactly the opposite of this amp) for $250. It wasn't a bad deal. The Washburn WG587 and the V-amp2 got $300 together. However, after I bought the package from the guy I thought to just keep the amp and sell my current amp (a Laney GC30.) I did get $150 for my old amp, but it sounded way better than this amp. It would have been the biggest mistake ever when it comes to tone, but a friend told me that there was a used Laney in guitar center. I took this Behringer up there and traded it for a Laney GC50-A. Now I have an amp that has both acoustic and electric channels and WAAAAAYYYYYY better tone (I call it tone of the gods actually.) What's funny is guitar center gave me a $100 credit for the amp and it only sell for $40-$60 on eBay. The only good thing about this amp is that it helped me realize what effects that I do need and what I don't.

It is a 60w amp and it has 99 effect. Most of them are very good but some of them useless.Also I like the virtube technology.

I use this amp with my carvin dc400 and ibanez rg370dx and the clean channel has a realy nice clean.
Drive channel has a wonderful drive but you shouldn't try high gain becouse it is too noisy and it is not good. However, with low gain it has a really good drive. It is perfect for rock,jazz,blues but you can not play metal or hard things becouse it has a vintage amp character so its distortion is sucks.
It has 99 effects and most of them are really good but some effects are really useless.

I use this amp for over 2 years and it never fails and I always use it without backup.

I like my amp but now I am becoming a pro so I want to change it with a tube amp but for all these years I always like my amp and its sound.
If it were stolen or lost, I would buy a tube amp,but before this year If it were stolen or lost, I would buy anotherone..

Well, like they've all said, 2 channels (clean/dirty), 3-band EQ, digital FX, stereo line-outs, aux-in, headphone jack that cancels speaker, etc...

In *theory*, this thing should be all you need, ever. However, the '99' effects are actually 20 effects mix-matched (to allow more than one at a time, i.e. chorus+reverb), and switching between them without a midi board is cumbersome and annoying. The tweakability of (some of) the effects is pretty nice, though.

Mine came with Jensen speakers, which was nice.

I'm playing a semi-hollow 335-style Washburn and a Telecaster. Both sound decent through this amp.

Someone had complained that their clean channel got distorted beyond '4'; I do not have that problem. I do, however, see the amp's "limiter" light blip on if I'm banging on it excessively hard in the 6-7 range. Still sounds clean, though. Overall, the clean channel is actually it's strong point. It's warm, responsive and relatively transparent (it doesn't color your guitar like some cleans do).

The dirty channel seems to be the most common complaint. Most people don't dig it; it's actually pretty mellow, and doesn't really deserve the title of "hell". It sounds a lot warmer than your average solid-state distortion, but it still isn't as "pretty" as a tube amp's overdrive; it's somewhere in between. It's good for blues or rock, but if you want harder rock/metal sounds, you're going to have to add something else to the mix. I add some shred with a Korg FX processor and a few Boss fuzz/distortion stomp boxes in the FX loop, and it works great.

The reverbs are good; the phaser/flange is passable. A couple of other FX are okay, but I don't really use them. The noise gate successfully gates the noise. Wouldn't recommend much else... I mostly use my Korg for my FX (chorus, delay, wah, etc); the only ones I use on the amp itself are the noise gate on the dirty channel and reverb or phaser on the clean channel.

I gig with it, but that's out of necessity. If I had a different amp, I'd probably use that instead. I've heard a lot of bad things about the reliability of these amps, and it's made me paranoid. It's never broken down, though. Sounds exactly the same as when I got it.

No idea. Heard it's pretty crappy, though.

I've been playing for 6 years now; this is my third amp. If it were lost or stolen, I'd honestly probably try and find something better. No offence to it; it was a gift, and I do like the way it sounds. Being a solid-state and being in it's price range, it's great. But I think I want to buy a tube amp next.

my amp was a present,but truth told just blows.By itself it had weasle tone,with a processer by passing the pre-amp it was loud but not good.if it did what the book said it would do i would still have it.

weasle tone

i would not gig with it.EVER!! I just don't care.

THEY BLOW

I replaced it with a VOX 50 watt combo AD50VT,IT ROCKS!! I am glad no one ever stole it as I was able to trade it in for the VOX. Also I avoided the thief coming back and dropping it back on me.I love nothing about it.I hate everything about it.I wish it had TONE! BEHRINGER BLOWS

pretty easy to use but extremly heavy for a combi

poor compared to marshall and fender amps, the sound is not clean or rich and the distortion is too tinny. if you have a gibson guitar then it might be your thing but with a quality guitar like a fender of ibanez its not great, however the amp is chap compare to rivals

the power amp borad blew on mine just outside the waranty period so not great reliabilaty. i would not use this amp for anythig other than practice. i should point out it is chinese made

none existent from Behringer, thats the only way of putting it. when it broke gak.co.uk where i bought it from offerd to replace it, but the cost of postage, which i would have to pay was too high

because of poor sound and the fact it stoped working after just one year my view of the overall rating is not great. the price was good but as they say u get wat you pay for and i would recommend anyone buying an amp should pay the extra and get somthing like a marshall it will sound better and work for longer.

I have this amp for over one and a half year, and I use it for practicing. I like this amp, I think it's very good for the money I paid for it (about $320). But I don't want to write down the features, sound quality, etc..., because others already did this. I want to write about the technical side of the amp. After the warranty expired, I got a screwdriver in my hand, and started to disassemble the stuff. When I picked out the chassis, I stared for 5 minutes continuously. What I saw? Small PCBs (Printed Circuit Board, a.k.a.: circuit panel). The power amplifier circuit is on the same panel with the power supply circuit, and this is only 7 x 5 cm, and the power amplifier circuit only takes up the 15% of it. The power amplifier is based on an IC (Intagrated Circuit) LM3886T (http://www.ortodoxism.ro/datasheets/nationalsemiconductor/DS011833.PDF)
This IC produces 68 Watts of power at +/- 28V supply voltage, 4Ohm load, 38 Watts of power at +/- 28V, 8Ohm load, and 50 Watts at +/- 35V, 8Ohm.
I don't know, how much power comes out from the IC in the Behringer, but the label on the power transformer gives some information:

Pri: 115-230V 50/60Hz 110W
Sec: 10V 0.25A
52.5VCT 1.4A

The 52.5V is 26.25 + 26.25V, which is over 37V after rectifying and puffering. So it looks like the Blue Devil doesn't produce it's advertised 60 Watts, but gives 50 Watts which is still enough for small gigs and much more than enough for practicing.
After all, the whole circuitry is made precisely, and I think it will last for a long time. If not, I hope the repairing will be easy, because the whole construction is excellently built up.
Afterall, I offer this cheap, versatile and dependable combo for the ones who do not have much money, but wants a good mate for making music.

If anyone has questions about the technical side of this amp, or wants to look inside photos of the amplifier, just throw me a mail: flathead1932@yahoo.com

I rated this amp quite a while back, so this is just an update, with some interesting info.
First of all, I have been using this amp for small gigs and at a weekly jam at a small bar locally that draws in a lot of good talent. I normally use the Behringer with an effects board ( TS-7, compressor, chorus, volume pedal). I use a variety of guitars, but most often a Tradition Jerry Reid model ( telecaster style).
I have had 3 different occasions where I have been playing with very talented guitarists who were using fender rigs. All three times it was Telecasters and Fender 2x12 amps, and other musicians would walk right past the dudes with all of the big dollar fender stuff to tell me how impressed they are with the way my setup sounds. ( one guy plays a guitar style similar to Albert Lee and has an expesnive SKB rack of effects).
A dude has been showing up to the jams , he does a lot of Hendrix and other blues, and is using EMG active pickups in a strat. He was very curious about the amp, was quite impressed with the sound. I let him do a set using my amp, while I sat in the audience and DAMN! With those EMG pickups that little Behringer amp sounded HUGE. I have every intention of getting some active EMGs to use with this amp.
Secondly, I am not suggesting anyone do this, but I put a paralell output jack on this amp and built a matching cab with an old 15" alnico speaker. I understand this has ( I think) an LM 3886 chip in it, which gets hot when run at 4 ohms, so I cut a hole in the chasis and put a large 120v fan in it, and put a vent on one side of the cab ( out of the chasis area). I put a rocker switch on the front so I can turn the fan on when I use the 15 and go at 4 ohms.
The thing cranks when I use it like that. I am probably shortening the life of the chip, but hell, I only paid a little over 100 bucks for the thing, and if it blows putting in another chip is not that big of a deal.
My whole point is, this amp really cranks for smaller gigs. It projects well, and with the right pickups sounds REAL big. I couldn't believe it when I was first getting compliments about it, being as I am on stage with it when it is being used all the time I had not ever heard it until I let the guy at the jam use it. And you really don't know what an amp sounds like standing right in front of it on stage.

It gets compliments............

I have been driving it hard for quite a while now, made quite a few bucks with it at gigs....

who cares?

playing 41 years............

Very versatile thanks to the built-in FX and MIDI control. I'll spare you the specs since there are a lot of previous reviews. The AUX IN comes handy not only for practice: if you, like me, hava a MIDI guitar you can have the synth going through the AUX IN and MIX it with the guitar. Not that a single 12' speaker is perfect for synth, but it's good enough.

The clean channel sounds great. I like the gain channel too, you can get quite a lot of sounds out of it. It's not noisy. Perhaps it lacks character, but I see this amp more as a workhorse, and sound is good enough.
The FX are generic, but a lot of'em. You sure can get a good sound.

Had it for almost three years, no problem at all. Very well built and reliable.

As I mentioned in another Behringer review, they have been helpful in the past, but happily I didn't need actual support. I think they're quite good at backing their products.

A great amp, incredible deal if you consider the money. I don't know if I would replace it with the same if it gets stolen unless I'm short of money as I was when I bought this one: you get a multiFX and an amp: as i said before, a workhorse.
I wish it had separate EQ for each channel. That's why I don't give it a 10

2003 I guess is the year it was made, the feature on the amp are decent , but read on in this review before buying!!!!!

The amp has a decent sound,with the right pedals, as most any amp.The clean channel gets very distorted at anything over 4.
There is alot of variety in the sounds , but after the first few they all sounds the same.

NO!NO!NO!
I am on amp number 3 from the fine folks at behringer.The first one quit after a week of owning, they sent me a brand new one from the factory.It never worked , period.Finally, after over 2 months of waiting I got another one.The new seems ok, but its only been a few days.I would not recommend behringer amps to ANYONE.The price is great but you are much better off spending more on a line 6, or a smaller amp.These amps are very cheaply made, and it shows.I recommend looking elsewhere before buying.

Customer support was good when the first one went down, then when the second never worked, it was a hugely long drawn out process to get my situation resolved.

The feature are nice esp. for the price but being on #3 the reliability is awful.

This amp comes with a footswitch and effects loops... i'm personally not a fan of digital fx.
Two channels - clean and gain.

I use this guitar with a fender stang w/noiseless pups/Gibson L6s. The clean channel is ok, but the tone is flat and dull. No sparkle or life in the tone. Quiet for a 15" speaker.
The distorted channel is a disgrace. Absolutely no definition, makes loud random pops, gain knob does nothing, fizzy and harsh.
The effects are sterile and very, well, digital sounding. The flanger sucks... and not much delay time

I don't trust this amp. It's broke down on me three times in a row when i was practicing. one time the effects display displayed the number 0, which is not usually selectable.
The amp's cosmetics have already worn down, and i'm not harsh to it

It's cheap, and big for how cheap it is, but it's not worth it if you care at all about tone. Save up your money for a Vox VR-30 - it outclasses the behringer in every sense.