Behringer GX 112 Blue Devil

Feature have been reviewed here so no point in writing again...
2000 Made Amp. Very versatile medium amp...
I use this amp mainly at home, group jams and small gigs... for this purpose it has enough power (for some drummer I play with I would need a Marshall stack to hear myself but that's a different story).

I play anything between Jazz to Rock (No metal) using loads of guitars (Solids, Semis and Electro Acoustic).
I mainly like the Tube emulation sound - I do not use the Amp effects (that's what the GT-6 or various pedals I have is for)... All in all, great sounds clean or distorted.

So far so good !

Never Needed the folks in Behringer. The documentation on the site was great when I needed it. Looks like this company is doing great and is here to stay. It sure gives Line-6 a good run for the money :).

I have been playing for many years but I only switched to electric as a main playing guitar in the last 4-5 years. I have been suffering for serious G.A.S but I have to say that amp-wise I stuck with this baby for the last 2-3 years.
If it was lost I would get my head check first (who looses Amps), If it was stolen (I would kill the guy as there is no way he would take my amp without getting my beloved Yamaha SG with it - but I wouldn't cry on the amp as they are darn cheap !) I would check Behringer as a 1st option for thier new half a stack and head and there is never enough power for lead playing guitarist.

This particular blue devil was made in december 2003....got it from musicians friend for $150 brand new..it has lots of features many amplifiers in this price range dont have...a stereo line out,an effects loop, an auxilary out,headphone jack,and an effects processor with 99 presets,allof witch can be edited and saved.it has two channels, clean(heaven)..and overdrive (hell)...60 watts of power and a i2 inch jenson shark speaker

currently i am playing this amp with a bc rich kkv..i like to play various sorts of metal...the stock pick-ups sound very good thru this amp...it is queit at pretty much all sound levels and it is only noisy with a few of the effects,the clean channell stays clean and the overdrive has a very full and rich tone...the ''virtube'' technology seems to work well...the tone sounds similar to a tube amp...i have found most of the effects to be useful, all execpt for the wah, and some of the filters sound a bit funky...but the chorus,flanger,and delays sound good..this is a very versitile amp, it is great for rock,blues,and maybe jazz...i love to play metal so i use a d.o.d death metal petal in the loop so that gives me all the crunch i need...that ismy only real bitch about this amp...the distortion is good, nice and smooth,a very musical distortion...but you cant really dial in super heavy gain drenched tones. dont get me wrong,.this amp can get heavy...disturbed and static-x heavy...just not cannibal corpse and morbid angel heavy

i have had this rig of about 3 months now and ive played it full volume and it has never done anything wierd..i read some reviews where some cats said that this amp just ''died'' on them,i dnt know what the hell they were doing to it or what kind of set-up they had,but ive played this amp full fucking blast for 2 solid hours and it never ''died'' on me..the speaker seems to hold up well, and the cab is well made..the finish looks like its got water droplets on it so that looks sorta cool...none of the knobs have popped off and everything still seems to be wired nice and tight, i play this amp every day and so far it has not failed me..i suppose i could play a gig without a back up,if you use this amp the way it was intended it should not fail you.i

never had to contact behringer...they are a german company,so good fucking luck getting them on the line

i am a budding guitar player and i wanted an amp that had lots of features and and some effects, it lost a point because im a metal head and the distortion was good,it just wasnt SUPER heavy, but there is no way you could find a better amp for 150 bucks, it is a 60 watt amp, so unless your gonna use the line-out into a p.a., you can only get away with playing in small clubs, the e.q. is very sensetive and its easy to scoop out the mids and get a decent metal tone...all things considered this amp is great for the money...the only people who dont like it are the dickheads that think their jimi fucking hendrix and like to nit-pick everyting

My amp was manufactured in october 2000. Details are throughoutly well described below by others. It has 12" Jensen speaker, Heaven&Hell channels, 3 knob equalizer and 99 pre-effects. The effects are customizable in a few categories. I play 70's rock and bluesy stuff, wouldn't say the sounds it produces are ideal for those. I have used it as a practice amp, naturally it's got enough balls for that.

Due to my budget, I've played through the amp with cheap guitars. I can't say it sounds bad, but the sound of Heaven channel is not as warm as I would want, could be cleaner too. Distortion channel is its own story, very average. You can crank a lot of noise out from this amp, but I've never needed to test its limits. I've heard about people who use it on gigs. Makes a good back up amp. The digital effects must affect the quality, although they're a great addition as a whole. 99 is not the true number, most of them have been combined (wah&dist.) and all feature 2-5 variants. The real number of significantly different sounds is closer to 15, I think. Not to sound only critical, you CAN get out great tones with certain tricks.

I have not put it under heavy use. During the 3 years I've owned it, it has not shown any signs of malfunction. I would take it to a gig without a back up.

Has an excellent price/value -ratio. Besides GX112, I've only owned cheap practice amps and a few guitars. I like its customizable effects, you have free hands. I cant say the sound quality is awesome though. Even if you were less than satisfied with what it offers, you won't be crying over the money it cost.

My current Blue Devil was made in December 2002. My first one (defective)was made in July 2002. Very versatile amp. I play Metal (Fear Factory, Slayer, Slipknot. etc). Two channel amp with footswitch included. Despite what everyone says this IS a 60 watt amp with a decent 12" 70 watt Jensen speaker. (JCH 12/70) Includes built in 24 bit digital effects which I haven't used yet. My only complaint is that this amp has no "speaker out" jack. The shared EQ is very sensitive and gives a great deal of tonal control. The Hell or distortion channel is too muddy for my taste. If you want good distortion buy a foot pedal or effects processor. The Heaven channel is very tube like and sounds great with my Zoom processor for distortion and everything else. Overall, you cannot beat this amp for the price! Got mine for $206.00 with tax. Just be careful and do not connect the insert send to another amp. My first Blue Devil went up in smoke because of that. The store gave me another one. Whether it was a defective amp or just a bad signal routing I don't know but I haven't had any problems with my new Blue Devil and im not going to try the insert send trick again. Use the line-outs for that.

I play a 1986 Charvel model 4 with EMG active pickups. The combination of my guitar, effects and new Celestion Vintage 30 on the Blue Devil makes it sound much like a Mesa Boogie Mark III that I played on for seven years. When practicing the sound is remarkably consistent at most all volume levels. Be sure and check the clipping light when setting the Heaven and Hell volume levels so that you do not over saturate the preamp.

Now here is a trick if you want to make this amp roar like a lion!
Ok, the amp comes with a Jensen speaker which is not bad at all. However I needed more volume so I installed a Celestion Vintage 30 and now this amp screams!!!! You see, the Vintage 30 has a sensitivity rating of 100db and the jensen has a rating of 96db. Since the speaker sensitivity is higher on the Vintage 30 it makes the speaker more responsive and thus louder. So in turn, now this 60 watt amp sounds like a 120 watt amp with tube tone and for only $315 (speaker included). What an investment! I will give it a 9 because the amp is a little noisy at high volumes.

Built pretty solid. Haven't gigged with it yet but I will. Like I said the first one went up in smoke but I don't know if it was my fault or not. It was caused by either running another amp from the Insert Send jack, overheating or just faulty wiring. I've been told that the amp should not fry out on you for any reason like that but I haven't tried it on my new one and I have had no problems. I think this amp has a tendency to shut itself off when it is too hot but that is a good thing.

I got a reply from the tech support about 2 or 3 days after sending emails but I must say that their input was a disappointment. The first tech told me he had no knowledge that the Blue Devil was equipped with a Jensen. ??? So that should tell you something. The second tech was just confused and confusing. I will give them a 5 for effort.

I've been playing for 12 years and I have played through many amps. This is an excellent amp for the price but if you want to get super loud then install a Celestion Vintage 30 speaker and watch the walls vibrate. Good sound on the clean channel with a distortion pedal or processor. Didn't like the Hell channel.
Wish it had a Speaker Out.
Overall you cannot beat this amp for the price. Get one today.

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You should know 'em by now. Kudos, as usual, for providing the channel switching footswitch.

Clean channel is decent. Dirty channel, well, almost sucks. With a lot of effort and wasting your built-in effects for the basic tone of the amp, you can find something that is OK. Just so you know I'm not a Behringer basher - I first got a Vintager because the blue devil was out-of stock. I loved jamming on the vintager, but the tube picked up AM radio and hummed so badly that I couldn't use it (except at very high volumes). It was a blast, but it went back for the blue devil. The blue devil's sound is a disappointment. Now, I use a V-amp and various plug in modelers for recording and the blue devil only comes out for volume. But never for tone.

Good so far. Its twin with a tube (Vintager) had very bad hum and radio interference.

no experience

Keyboardist first, guitar second. maybe three serious years of playing disttibuted over twenty years.

Price is great, although Pignose has a full tube amp (6 tubes) for the same price. I'd probably go there in the future, and stick with a seperate modeler.

Most of my disiappointment comes from the fact that the Vintager was a much nicer sounding unit (barring the hum problem). And thats all that matters.

The gentleman I purchased this amp from said he had it a year, I just got it. I think the amp is very versitile, and could be used in a variety of situations, all though certainly not all. The amp has 2 channels, that share an EQ section, stereo sends and stereo aux returns with a pot to control the return level, nice touch. The only feature I find that would make it a better amp is that it desparately needs a tone control bank for the second channel. I intend to use this amp live but will likely use it in the studio as well, depending on how quiet it sounds through a mic, and direct. It is a 65 watt amp, and, I would think can easily be used for small clubs (the rythm guitar player in the band I am in used it last night for practice, and we play pretty loud in an acoustically terrible place, it seemed to more than cover the band turned about 1/2 way up. It also has a lot of extra gain past the 1/2 way point, which is not at all typical. Most amps by the time you crank the master 1/2 way have used most of their available power. This amp seems to have a pretty linear master gain. This is a solid state amp that sounds as if it may have FETs in it, the clean channel is almost tube like sounding, the dirty channel (hell) sounds pretty solid state, but, can be adjusted to get a reasonably hot sound without too much "buzz" if you play with it.

I use a variety of guitars, I play a variety of sounds. I prefer Japanese and Korean guitars, because the quality on them is better than anything else out there, and I am not into paying an extra 300 bucks for an intrument just to get a specific trademark on the headstock. I am in a band that does rock era stuff, mostly 50s and 60s, doowap and like that, so even though I play bass in the band, I of course play a lot of the songs at home on guitar. I also record music in the style of rock era, that music is late 60s, early 70s. The amp so far seems noisy in certain settings, like near my puter or a flourescent lamp, and the effects section is as noisy as most are, for example the chorus "swoosh" but, nothing out of the ordinary. The amp is a very good amp for clean fingerstyle type of music, and for blues. The dirty (hell) channel is a good channel to get hot gain from, but, the distortion is a broken up type of distortion if you crank it, kind of like the neil Young Crasy horse sound. I found that by keeping the "HEAT" control , which controls the amount of distortion, turned down, you can get nice sustain with a reasonably intelligeble sound. The distortion with "heat" cranked is brutal, and unpleasantly so, in my opinion it is not a desirable distortion. BUT as I say, with it turned to about 4 or less, it seems to do nicely.

I have other Behringer stuff, the stuff is cheap but top notch. I have some of their XM85oo mics, they are better than Shure 58s, and way cheap, I seen the drummer in the band drop one, and it still works. I have a behringer mixer and compressor gate, all are top notch and seem to be very sturdy, I suspect this amp is fairly dependable as well. I have not had it long enough to know, but pretty much anything made overseas anymore has superior dependability.

I tend to buy things that are made well, like I say, Japanese and Korean, so , customer support is not really an issue with me, I seldom have equipment failures and don't need it. Like I always say, a warrenty on a peice of paper is useless, the true warrenty is in the name.

I have been playing since the mid 60s, and have owned a ton of equipment over the years. I have a lot of gear now, for recording and for playing live. If I were to lose this amp for some reason, I think I would get another, depending on cost comparison. I mean, this thing is not even in the same ballpark with the new Vox amps that go between 700 and a grand, but that is not a fair comparison. This amp normally goes for around 200 bucks at musicians freind, I got it for 95 and 20 shipping. The thing I like about the amp is that it has a real nice jenson speaker, with a smartly designed cab that gives it a really deep and rich tone for its size. I really got it because my crate vintage club is way too much for a guy my age to be schlepping to jams and gigs. The amp is fairly compact, not realy heavy but also seems to not be frail. One thing I REALLY like about the amp is something I've seen noone else mention: When playing in a live setting, the knobs on most amps are in a straight line, and man, when you hit middle age bending over and trying to read control names when there are 15 of them laid out in a straight line is a bear. This amp has the controls laid out in an odd fashion , which when I first seen a pic of it I thought "YEAH how clever!" I can look at the amp and reach to exactly which control I want without even thinking about it. That is a VAST advantage onstage. I bought this amp without hearing it just on the basis that even if I had paid 200 for a new one, I could hardly lose on it, at worst it would have made a crappy amp that is good enough for practice and easy to carry, so, at the price I got it at, I was not expecting a lot, other than the fact that I am familiar with Behringers reputation for making superior products at absurdly low retail. I will probably use this amp more than my crate, which is easily a better amp for distorted sounds, being a tube amp, but the clean section in it is something I cannot wait to record with. I am sure that an external stomp grunge box ( I have a TR7 tube screamer, I bet that will be a nice combination) will make up for any defactits this amp has. The only thing I wish it had is a tone bank for the "HELL" channel, simply because, when I get the bass adjusted to be rich and full in the clean channel, with the neck pickup selected for blues, in the dirty channel the bass bottoms out, which is again, somewhat typical for most amps anyway, it is just that the second tone bank would remedy that. Actually, all it really needs is a bass control on the dirt channel.

My Model is a 2000 vintage. I bought it when I needed a repair on my Tech-21 Trademark 60. Some studio use and have been using it for live gigs for the past year and a half.

At the time I was doing studio work (demos) and this amp does not sound particulary good recording. I ran out of the headphone jack for the stereo effects. Of course, that's comparing to my TM 60 which cost me $550 so keep that in mind. The effects are pretty good...especially the verbs, delays and tremelo. The chorus efx have an annoying delay which make it sound like you have a very fast slapback on the effect. Me no like. I just use my CE-2 live...much prettier. The clean channel is fine and the Hell channel sounds ok if you wanna add crunch but I'd never use this channel as a "lead" sound. Don't let the "Virtube" logo fool you....this amp sounds totally transitor to me. I use a Blue Tube and Tube Screamer to get something that sounds musical on solos. I keep the "volume" setting all the way up and the "master volume" at around 1 o'clock for gigs. I have not experience the dropout that others here have described (knock on wood). I will try the "insert send" to "aux in" mod to see what that does. For $250 this amp does pretty good for me. My Trademark 60 is my "baby" and I really don't wanna bang it around on gigs. If this amp goes crap on me then I've got my money's worth in 3.5 years. If it hangs around for a few more years then my now 5-year-old will have a starter amp! If you look at this amp as a foundation using the clean channel and then get your tone using effects then this is a great deal. It would be painful to try and play a gig with this amp and just a chord.....tone suicide!

So far so good....play several gigs a week for the past year and a half. Just a few minor chips in the presswood casing. The "parameter" knob did get broken off....revealing the stems for the pots on this amp are made of PLASTIC!....geez guys....spend a few cents where it counts! I bought 2 pieces of Behringer studio gear which I truly hated the sound of and got rid of ASAP. I can't say that about this amp....it's doing it's job.

haven't dealt with them.

Don't know if I'd buy this amp again. I had limited money at the time and I might opt for a Tech-21 Trademark 20 over this thing knowing the direct out and basic tone are much better. If you don't need the effects than look at the Trademark series...closer to tube sound by far.

This is a second review of this amp after having it for over two years now. Features are still the same except for the fact that I picked up the Behringer FCB110 midi foot controller about a year ago. Do Yourself a favor and pick one of these up if you plan on taking advantage of the effects in the amp.

Still sounds just as good as the day I bought it. Oh yeah, there is a modification that others have suggested here by using a cord between "send" and "aux line in" DO IT! It takes the delay away from switching channels and effects. I was having the problem where I bought an Akai Headrush pedal to do some loop sampling and no matter which way I hooked this thing up, it would not capture the effect I was using in the Blue Devil. All I would get is a loop of straight guitar. I found the mod here and used it with the pedal between the "send" and 'aux line in", PROBLEM SOLVED! I now capture the effect plus whatever I do with the expression pedal on the midi controller. I guess it had something to do with how the amp proccesses effects through the head.

I have never had a problem (knock on wood)It's been a prince to me. I have played with multiple bands, moved residence three times and use it extensivly in my home studio. GREAT!

Haven't had to deal with them and hope to never have to.

Been playing 13 years now and this is the best amp I have ever owned, especially after I bought the midi foot controller pedal. I traded in all my other multi-effects pedals so I didn't even pay that much for the pedal. If this sthing broke, I would most definitely buy another, especially since they are $300 dollars CHEAPER then when I bought mine over 2 years ago. Maybe I will try the 2x12 combo next. I am with these guys for life.
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I bought my Behringer GX 112 Blue Devil in 2002 and received it in 2003 (backordered). It has it has a clean a distortion channel wtih built in effects and incluedes a pedal to switch between channels and to turn effect on/off.

I use an Epi LP Standard and a Fender Telecoustin. The Telecoustic sounds great. The Epi sounds pretty good. I'm not complaining. I also use a DigiTech RP 300 Effect Proccessor so i really don't use the built in effects to much, especially with my the Epi. Compared to the Effects Processor the built in effect are kind of weak. I do, however, like the built in reverb effects the amp has. The hell channel (distortion) also sounds pretty good.
The down side.
When the master volume is up to high the amp hums. solution... Put the gain all the way up and the amp wont hum as long as you keep the master at about +/- half way. The other thing is that the amp has crashed on me. It'll just go silent. I think it has to do with running it too long with the master volume to high. I don't know, but it happened at a live gig and I was sweeting bullets. Behringer... make the neccesary changes and it will get a 10.
The one thing that really sucks is volume. A little more power wouldn't hurt. It's loud at home but when your rockin' out it's not so loud.

With the exception of the suddenly dieing out incident, yes. I haul it around all the time in my beat up truck and it handles well. It always work well with the exception of two time (once in a live gig i might add)it has just died on me. When it does that i just turn of the effects pedal and then the amp, wait a second and turn everything back on and then it's working again.

havn't delt with Behringer or Same Day Music.

85% good. Acouple of flaws. Mainly that it's died on me and the volume isn't loud enough.

My Blue Devil is a 2001 model. After about 6 months I started Gigging & really put it to the 'test', and then I was not so enamored with it.
While it sounds awesome, when you crank it up it does sound a bit
transistory, and doesn't cut through the mix with other instruments that well. ALSO (VERY IMPORTANT) when you crank it up past 12:00 oclk
she craps out. The VOLUME cuts off & then comes back (until you LOWER the Volume Knob). Naturally this happened once during the warranty period & I though it was a faulty guitar cord. But after 6 months later & the warranty expired, I realized that it was the amp itself. READ ON It has nice features, don't get me wrong, but an amp that CUTS out during a live gig is embarrasing.

I play all types of music, mostly blues, & it sounds GOOD, especially when recording via line out. For live gigging the POWER is not there. It gets LOST IN THE MIX. ALSO when in the HELL channel, the master volume is turned up past 12:00 oclock, the AMP VOLUME cuts off (suddenly drops) & then comes back (until you LOWER the Volume Knob). The Heaven Channel is too low for practice even.

For live gigging the POWER is not there. It gets LOST IN THE MIX. ALSO when the master volume is turned up past 12:00 oclock,in the hell channel, the AMP VOLUME cuts off (suddenly drops) & then comes back (until you LOWER the Volume Knob). This PISSES ME OFF. Behringer gave me the old bullshit story of "If it's still under warranty Yada yada yada...so now (seeing I had it past the warranty period of 1 year) I
am Shit out of luck. Now here's the clincher. I got the names of several service centers in the U.S. They said it sounds like the
IC cicuits are overheating (Take note Behringer) & so the volume cuts off. It 'would" cost about $100.00 to fix, but I have to pay for shipping too. Minimum shipping cost is $40.00 each way, so we're talking about $180.00 total. I guess I will have to sell it, cause it pisses me off so much. I hope Behringer goes out of business.

Let me tell you again: When the master volume is turned up past 12:00 oclock,in the hell channel, the AMP VOLUME cuts off (suddenly drops) & then comes back (until you LOWER the Volume Knob). This PISSES ME OFF. Behringer gave me the old bullshit story of "If it's still under warranty Yada yada yada...so now (seeing I had it past the warranty period of 1 year) I
am Shit out of luck. Now here's the clincher. I got the names of several service centers in the U.S. They said it sounds like the
IC cicuits are overheating (Take note Behringer) & so the volume cuts off. It 'would" cost about $100.00 to fix, but I have to pay for shipping too. Minimum shipping cost is $40.00 each way, so we're talking about $180.00 total. I guess I will have to sell it, cause it pisses me off so much. I hope Behringer goes out of business.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest (i.e good), I rate this a "3". If the AMP didn't "cut" off (volume) while I was playing,
--a MAJOR design flaw-- I could live with the transistory sound, the
wattage limitations & the other flaws like the shittily made cabinet & the 2 second delay in channel switching (using the footpedal). I will SELL this amp for $150.00 (if you pay the shipping). If anyone knows a reputable repair shop in the Virginia area (USA) let me know. I must say that SHIT happens & Behringer makes SHIT happen. I will probably NEVER buy another Behringer product again as long as I live. You see, first impressions are very important. I didn't expect a Marshal, but I also expect the amp to STAY ON when I am gigging.