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.

The features of this amp are great, and for the price they are incredible.Behringer says the amp has 99 differnet effects, really its only around 20 different effects.I purchased the MIDI board and the effects are unbelievable, it truly lets me do what I need to do.
I play mostly heavy music e.g., Slayer Megadeth.I do recommend a distortion pedal, I bought a Hughes&Kettner Warp7 and it makes this baby scream.I am rating the features an 8, but for the price once again they are a ten.

I play a Dean Baby Z custom with seymour duncan mayhems, have a few others but this is my fav.Its sounds very good through the GX112, on clean and distortion, the distortion for this amp is subpar for me so a pedal is a MUST.I am rating it a 7 for the pussy distortion.

I only had this amp for 2 weeks, which I bought as a returned item from musiians friend.It worked excellent, then it stopped everything.No sound ,no humm, no nothing.I called musicaians friend and they would only give me a refund.I called Behringer and explained to the warranty dept. my issues.They handled everything greatly.I sent my amp, which they paid for the shipping, and was sent a brand new amp within 2 weeks.Hopefully, this amp will be more reliable.

I explained the problems I had in the reliabilty section, but for the customer service I would have to give them a 10.I always got responses quickly and they fixed my issue as soon as I sent the amp in to them.Behringer is truly committed to great customer service.

overall this amp is a great practice/recording amp.It is definitely not loud enough for big stages but it does its job well for a 60 watt amp.The effects are great(buy a MIDI board).If heavy music is your style, geta hughes and kettner warp 7 pedal and she will SCREAM.
Giving this amp a 7 overall for the problems I had, so far the new one is a great amp for the price.

Brand new amp, purchased off an online auction site (Trademe). Two channels - Heaven (Clean) and Hell (Drive). It has channel switching through use of a cheap and nasty footpedal which came with it. It has a great amount of other features, including an effects loop and a headphone jack, among others, which will come in handy if I ever use it in the studio. I use it for rehearsals and for small-scale gigs, and I also use it to amplify my acoustic guitars. It's not particularly powerful for it's rated wattage. My friend has a Fender Frontman 65R (which I don't particularly like) that can get much louder. The Blue Devil often gets lost in the mix and doesn't have enough grunt to compete with the lead guitarist's 100 Watt Marshall MGDFX. The Heaven channel is versatile, and I suppose that some of the low-gain settings on the Hell channel would be alright for blues, but to my ears the drive seems best suited to eighties hair metal (like old Bon Jovi) when pushed past the midway point. I play classic, hard rock, and for this purpose, it doesn't work. I have a BOSS GT-6 now and I get much more suitable drive tones out of that. There aren't really any features I'd add to it - I can't say I use all of the effects, since some of them are pretty crummy. The reverbs are beautiful, but the auto wah sounds like someone shaking a piece of cardboard.

I'm using a Tokai Les Paul Custom, with the two stock humbucker pickups (PAF-style: not bad, but nothing flash). The amplifier's clean sounds are absolutely beautiful - warm, sparkling and clear. Put a little reverb on there, and you can see why they call it the Heaven channel. However, as I said, the Hell channel just doesn't do it for me. It's a very distinct, unusual overdrive, which I find hard to classify. I would say it almost resembles distortion more than overdrive. It can get quite brutal, but not enough to satisfy nu-metallers. It's not noticeably noisy. For solid-state, and the clean alone, it's good. With the GT-6 running through it, it's excellent value for money, but it lacks power.

So far I've had no problems with the reliability of the amp, so I cannot comment. I can't afford to have a 'backup', at least not at the minute. It's treated me well so far, and I have done the same to it.

I haven't dealt with the company, so I can't really say. I've never had to get it repaired or whatnot, but I assume I'd just take it down to the local instrument shop, since they stock this brand.

I've been playing seriously for about a year now - I've played guitar for my own entertainment for about three years, but it's only recently that I've got into gigging. I own a BOSS GT-6, as I mentioned, which provides the meat of my tone, and I run this through the beautiful clean of the Blue Devil, which makes it sound particularly good. I can't say I would buy this amp again if stolen or lost, despite the value for money. If it was my first amp, for my style, I'd probably go with one of the Marshall MGDFX series, perhaps the 50 Watt one or up. At the moment, I'm on the lookout for a Marshall Jubilee 2555 or 2550, and will be upgrading to tube to get the sound I'm looking for. I love the Heaven channel on the Blue Devil, but hate the Hell. I compared it to a few entry-level amplifiers, including the Marshalls and the Fenders, and went with this. However, this is because I knew I was getting a GT-6, and wanted a nice clean sound to run it through (the GT-6 sounds like shit through an MGDFX). If you're not going to be using modelling sounds, though, go with a Marshall for your dirty sound. All in all, not bad for the cash, and with my GT-6 I get a nice tone. If you happen to be in a hair metal band, this could well be the perfect solid state amp for you.

Mine's from 2004, somebody had returned it 'cause they didn't like it. (I made sure it wasn't defective.) Features already discussed.
I got this because I didn't want to lug my Roland JC-60 to the rehearsal studio every week. I don't leave the Roland anywhere, it's too hard to replace.
I agree with those who say it's not that loud - I have to turn it up almost full to keep up with even 20-watt tube amps. However, I like the basic sounds it gives.

It has an Aux In for practicing to CD's, but I find it's somewhat muffled and hard to hear, at least with my CD Walkman plugged in.

I'm using it for classic rock and blues, mostly thru Teles, but I also use a Schecter C-1+ and it's OK too. I don't care for the distortion on the Hell channel that much, but I tried plugging an old DOD FX-55B Overdrive Plus into the clean channel, and I like the sounds I get that way. I use the Hell channel set at almost minimum distortion, and a couple of notches higher in volume than the clean channel, and I have pretty good rhythm and lead sounds thru the DOD pedal.

I don't use the effects much, I usually leave the selector on 1 to add some reverb.

It's nowhere near as well-built as my Roland. I'm sure if it got banged around a lot, something would break. That said, I've had it almost 2 years and it's never had a problem. As others have already said, "pretty good for what it costs."

The input jack feels awfully cheap when you plug a cable in, and I believe it's attached directly to the PCB, so I'd guess that's a common point of failure. But, I'm pretty good with electronics, and I could probably put in a better jack if I had to.

Never dealt with Behringer.

I like it, and it works well for me. I wouldn't depend on it as a gigging amp. Try running a bass-heavy dirt pedal ( Boss OD-3, DOD FX-55, etc) thru the clean channel if you don't like the distortion.
As long as you don't expect it to be the equivalent of a hand-built tube amp, it's a pretty good deal.

This amp is more versitale than your standard two channel solid state amp, however it is probably best suited for blues and rock. Others have stated the features so I won't be redundant. I wish that you could run the seperately from the other effects. Most of the effects are useable, however, the auto wah is too strange to use. I havn't used this amp on stage with a group yet, so at this point all evaluations are at practice level volumes. As others have stated, if you are playing anywhere other than a small room you may need a more powerful amp. It cranks, but not THAT loud. Considering the price, the features are pretty amazing. Price disregaurded, it is about a 6.

I run my epiphone LP standard with PRS McCarty humbuckers straight into the amp. The clean channel is pretty good. Nothing amazing like an AC30, but not bad in any way either. The gain channel is supprisingly non-solid state sounding. I wouldn't call it tube-like because the sound is too canned and synthetic sounding to deserve that title, however, it is not the standard wall of static that you hear out of crates either. The range of gain is pretty limited on this channel though. It really only covers from blues to classic rock. You would have to run an external unit to get into the range of gian in metal and most modern music. The two channels share the same eq wich kind of sucks. I think that two or three of the preset effects are eq, so you could run that, but you couldn't run any of the other effects while running that. This is a concern because the gain channel has some serious low end. I really like that, however, this makes it hard for me to hold the low end back while obtaining a clean tone with enough bass. This may be more of an issue for guitarists that use humbucker equipt guitars. I havn't tried a strat through it yet, but I would guess that this problem would be reduced. Most of the effects are decent, but not great. For instance, the chourouses sound good, but the range of depth and time controll is pretty limited. I really like this effect that they call magic drive. I think that it is really a phaser or something, but it sounds really cool. The delays are sweet too. Everything sounds better if you run it in stereo through another amp. Good stuff for the price. My main concern is that the amp does not like distortion pedals. I have an Ibanez Tube King overdrive pedal that uses a 12AX7 that sounds really good through other amps, but this amp does not like to be overdriven naturally at all. The pedal in front of the clean channel sounds less tube like than the built in gain of the amp. Thoguly dissapointing in this aspect. Overall, the amp deserves about a 9 for the price, but price asside I'll give it a 5.

I havn't giged with it but I'd trust it.

Havn't had to deal with them yet.

I've been playing just over five and a half years and have had the privlage of giging my friend's nice gear. This includes Amaerican series Fenders, a Marshall TSL throught a celestion loaded 1960B cab, a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier half stack, and others. I'm certantly not a maser of guitar, but I'm no noob either and I have a good ear for what sounds good. This amp is perfect for a serious beginer or others strapped for cash, like myself. Lots of fun features and it has some power. The price is the best part by far throgh. $130 for a 60 watt 1x12 with a Jensen speaker AND built in stereo effects, a series and paralell effects loop, and the included footswitch? That's insane my friend! For the price you can't do better and it deserves a solid 10. In conparison to other amps with no regaurd to price, I'll give it a 6.

I think this amp was made in 2001 but i am not sure. It has the jensen speaker and now the website advertises a shark speaker so i dont know???? I play Blues, rock, jazz, folk. I like all styles of music exept rap and metal. no offence. This amp works great for what i play. you know the features by now. it has plenty of power for me. i ieed to get any louder i will mic it.

i play mostly humbucking guitars and i have several semi-hollow models(although i am looking to get a satin strat soon). i play through a dunlop wah, boss ds-1, and a digitec overdrive. I think this amp sounds pretty good. I like to keep it clean but i dont hesitate to turn on the crunch. I dont use any other effects much but the ones on the amp sound ok. I have been keeping it on the compression preset and i am pretty happy with that. As for the other effects, they sound ok. nothing great, but remember i am not a big fan of them anyway. I will probaly use the delay some but other that that. One thing i dont like is the way the effect are set up. you can turn on only one at a time. some of the presets have mor than one on them but you cant pick. So, i ran a alesis nanoverb through the effects loop, and it sounds nice. I also hooked up by behringer v-amp to the stereo aux in and use a a-b selector at the end of my effects chain to change over. i really liek the way both sound. now i can get a bunh of tone from it. But back to the blue devil, it sounds great and you are not going to get anything that comes close for the price. the overdrive channel sounds good to. it is a true overdrive sound though. i go through a lot of these reviews all of the time and see these metal kids dogging out different distortion effects. if you have to add that much distortion to get a decent sound from your guitar, maybe you need some more practice.

Seems to be built very well(all of my other behringer products are very well made). i would depend on it for a gig and probaly will.

i own many behringer products and have never had to contact them.

i have been playing for about 9 years. i have played through many many amps and this one is nice. the price is unbelievable. it should cost hundreds more. i would replace it if it was stolen but lets hope that doesnt happen. i mainly like to play through my v-amp but i really like this amp. go with what you like. dont let some of these old schoolers tell you just because it doesnt say fender or marshall it is not any good. I would recomend this amp for any guitar player, who like me, is on a budget. very nice!! dude, look at the price. it is either this or a 15 watt crate. not a hard decision.

Manufactured in Oct 2002. This is one of the ones with the Jensen Speaker. They are supposed to be better than the ones with the Shark Speakers. I can't tell the difference tho. I bought this from Musicians Friend to replace a GX212 that arrived D.O.A. I am really glad I got it so far. The features are great and the sound is nice. While reading the reviews for most any amp, I have noticed that getting a good one is a lot of luck and whether it is a good one is based a lot on personal subjectivness, or choice. I think I ended up with a good one here. I have spent the first few days just playing with it and experimenting. So far I am really happy

Great. The only thing is it is made more for clean sounds. It gets a little fuzzy with a lot of distortion. The classic amp sound are the best through this baby.

So far so good. Well built and no problems so far. Only a few days old though. The knobs do feel cheap though, they could have used better plastic or metal on those.

I sent a email to Behgringer asking about amp covers. Even though they couldn't help me, they did answer within 24 hours. That was nice. No other needs to contact them.

I have been playing this time for a short while after many years of not. I use a Kona KE-1, and Oscar Schmidt OE30. Both sound great through the amp. We have also played a Fender Mustang, a old Harmony Tele copy and a couple other guitars through the amp. It made them all sound pretty good. If it were lost or stolen I would get a new one. It is the best bang for the buck going right now for a "modeling amp". None of the others can come close when weighing features, build and price. It's a keeper

you know the deal, it has some effects that are useable. the controls arent to hard to figure out, but can be a pain to switch effects on the fly.

i was using a hollowbody telecaster style guitar, with a single coil at the neck and a hb at the bridge, and an epiphone dot. the overall sound quality of this amp was just lacking. it sounded like i was playing through a pillow... the effects were useable, but the sound to start off with was just not well enough defined. i hate to rant about it but it was enough to make me buy a new amp.

it was built like a tank, i cant see any problems that would make it easy to break, exceptl that the knobs seem like they woould break off very easily, the shaft that holds the knob on is plastic..not metal like most.

never dealt with them but the manual is written in a somewhat confusing manner.

overall, it is a god enough amp if you want something loud with a lot of effects that dosent cost too much... if tone is something you really care about though you should seriously consider a vox valvetronix amp. a brand new blue devil costs about the same as a brand new vox ad30 and the tone dosent even compare.

A fairly versitile, 2 channel, DFX on board, footswitch included, 1x12 guitar combo amp. Behringer have jam packed features in this amp, but not with the kind of desirable quality that we would expect from a #219 amp. The amp is 60 Watt - enough power to play alone in bedroom, jam with mates, play in a band, and play in a fairly small gig.

I use an epiphone les paul gothic, through a boss MD-2 pedal (and sometimes a Boss SP-202 sampler). This amp has a good clean tone, especially with the reverb on. However, distortion is another matter! I feel that you really need to tweak the amp to perfection before you can get a mediocre distortion sound through it. (Maybe this is because i can't tweak settings well, but i think i can!!)This is why i have resorted to my MD-2 throught the clean channel for distortion (MD-2 is an amazing pedal, consider it!!!!!!!). At low volumes all the sound is ok - at very high levels, it does not carry the same quality as a Marshall or Fender (or even Peavey) amp.

It has never broken down. It is 100% dependable. It has a solid case.

I havent - because i didnt need to!

I have been playing for about 3 years. I dont think i would get another GX-112 because i havent connected to it in the same way as i have with my other gear. Behringer have put too much effort into feature, and not enough into quality. A great amp for everything up to small gigs, but nothing more. To get good distortion, an external pedal is a MUST.

The amp was manufactured in 2004. I won't go over the features since this has been discussed in great depth in previous posts. It is 60 watts and provides close to 60 watts of actual power. It plays small club venues well enough, but if I were to get another amp, it would be 2x12 120watts. (I would probably be saying I would need a 4x12 300watts if I had that!)

I play mostly Gibson style pair o' humbucker guitars but I do have one strat. Cheap humbuckers will lean to the bass side and sound muddy in the hell setting unless the overdrive is set low. Guitars with good humbuckers (dimarzio, SD) sound awesome in this amp. Strat style sounds very bright and clean no matter what channel used. There is little background noise with most instrument and cable combos, and when I bought one of those Fender california cables, my background noise ended, completely, finito! This amp can be used for about every style of play, taking into account its max of 60 watts. It suits my 60's, 70's, and 80's style of Rock along with the punk that I play. Distortion in the hell setting above 5 is raunchier than a bangkok madame unless used with strat/tele style pickups.

I would never gig without a backup. To do so is asking for failure. However, this amp has been used extensively and has never failed me. I will address this in the customer service section.

Here is the rub. I bought this amp from American Music Supply as a non-factory sealed unit (BIG MISTAKE!) I have since concluded that they simply resell returned units at a discounted price so that the customers will deal with the manufacturers warranty. I bought the amp and didn't have a chance to play it much because I am in the Marines and had to go someplace really crappy. After playing it for an hour, it got more and more silent. After a good cool down, it would play again, only to weaken again! I contacted the customer service at AMS, and since I had had it for over 45 days, I was told to deal with the manufacturer, whose contact information they provided. Behringer was forthright and gave me a return authorization and I sent the amp in for repair to a warranty service center (subcontractor). It was returned within a few weeks with a "failure to duplicate discrepancy", however, I got it to fail quickly enough. I sent it in again, and the warranty people were able to get it to fail. They explained that it was a cold solder joint, and they repaired it and sent it back. This time, it took me 6 hours, yet It failed again. I called behringer, and they told me to wait for a UPS prepaid sticker, box it up, and send it back to them free of charge, and they would send me a new one! I got the new one 6 months ago and I have been 100% happy with it. That is what I call customer service! Considering that no manufacturer makes perfect units all of the time, and the repair place said that they deal with every manufacturers goods, the company bent over backwards to make me a satisfied customer. I will buy from them again.

I have been strumming guitars since 1967. I have had nearly all brands of descent guitar and many of them are ones that I made myself. I would buy this unit again if my use remained the same since it fills this niche perfectly, however, my son is starting to gig so it may be a stack, then a couple of stacks! I like the many sounds that it produces, the power to size ratio, and the price. It simply does what it is designed to do cheaper than the other amps in its class. I am not saying that it is better, just provides a good bang to buck ratio. Behringer STANDS BY THEIR PRODUCTS. That is worth money in itself.

This one was made in 2004. Very versatile amp, has got a digital multieffects processor with 24 bit 46KHz sampling rate. Delay and echo effects are very real-like, and the other effects are also very good. The effects are: (digitally simulated) spring reverb, delay, tremolo, phaser, flanger, auto wah, LFO (Low Frequiency Oscillator) wah, chorus, rotary speaker, magic drive, pitch shifter, compressor, expander, guitar combo and speaker cabinet simulating. The effects are fixed and mixed into 99 factory presets, and can be edited in three parameters each, unfortunatelly it's not possible to change the order or combine the effects freely. Some effects are stereo (tremolo, delay, spring reverb and other reverbs, pitch shifter) but you can only enjoy the stereo effects fully, if you use headphones or use a stereo power amp. Has got two channels with independent effects and volume control, the EQ is unfortunatelly common on each of the two channels. Channels are: Heaven (clean) and Hell (distortion).

Heaven channel sounds very clean and nice, I love this amp. I have a korean stratocaster copy with 3 single coils, but this amp made my guitar sounds like a high-price, high quality instrument.
A play mostly classical rock 'n' roll (Bill Haley & The comets, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Danny & The Juniors, Dick Dale, The Drifters, The Coasters, The Platters....etc.). I use the Hell channel to get overdrive sounds, but I don't really use the distortion of this channel: I set the Hell channel's volume pot to maximum, and the gain is on zero, or very low, and I also use a self-made tube overdrive preamp through the effects loop, and this combination makes the amp souns like if I was in 1958. on a secondary school ball.
The amp hasn't got any noise or hum.
The speaker is a heavy-duty 12" Jensen JCH12/70.
The 60 Watts power of the amp is more than enough to manage small club concerts.

I have got this amp for a week, so I don't know if it's reliable or not, but I think it will last for a long time.

I didn't have to make contact with the company.

Very versatile amp. Mostly suitable for intermediate players 'cause of the really nice sound, the low price, the high power and the lots of effects.

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.