Behringer GX110 Ultraroc Combo

Features ohoy! My 2002/2003 amp has 99 effects settings with memory. Adjust the amount of effect, press and hold the effect-button on the amp, and it's stored. You can select if the effects should depend on channel setting or not. A lot of effects and settings to suit any guitar and style. All kinds of connections, even midi! I have tried it, but you will be able to get your sequencer to switch effects in the middle of a song. Metal footswitch included.

I use an 1980 Aria Les Paul copy with high-output humbuckers and a Yamaha APX 10 nylon string guitar. The amp works well with both guitars. There is some backgound hiss/noise, specially with the acoustic guitar. The amp settings are versatile, everyone should be able to find decent sounds that suit their way of playing. Huge range to the bass/mid/treble knobs. If you set them all to zero, the amp makes no sound at all. Distortion is mediocre solid state.

No problems, but I've only had it for a few weeks. Turn down volume when switching on/off to avoid loud pop. Looks well built, but be careful with the plastic knobs.

It's an affordable practice amp. It has a lot of features and settings. Jensen speaker, footswich. You will be able to find some great sounds and a lot of useless ones. I would compare it with Roland Cube 30.

Erm, this is just a followup to my review posted on 02/14/2003...

Although I stand by my assessment of the GX110's features and versatility, I regret to inform you that the same fault has reared it's head with the replacement amp, just two days after I posted the last review!! This time, though, the rumbling sound accompanying each note appears after playing for about 10 minutes. It also went la la the other day; when I turned it on, everything seemed to work, but no sound would come out. Turned it off, then on, and it started making guitar noises again, like nothing ever happened. I think I tempted fate by posting a review, emailing the shop to thank them for their service, and putting the packing in the loft...

I feel like a real git for bothering the dealer again, especially considering how helpful he was last time, and how it had to be shipped nearly 300 miles. Maybe I'll buy another amp from the range they stock, which covers all the major manufacturers. Might soften the blow. As for Behringer themselves, they need to have a serious word to their R&D or quality control boys and girls.

Great amp, when it's working correctly, which it seems is pretty rarely.

Bought in 2003. I think the amp was made as a more traditional-looking practice combo addition to the range which includes the bigger Blue Devil. The GX110 has shed-loads of features, read the other reviews. Footswitch is a great bonus. I only bought it as a practice amp, so my judgement is based on such expectations. I play anything from metal to bluegrass, so having a load of effects is great, even if some aren't all that inspiring. At the price it's incredible value. And contrary to one of the earlier reviews, you can nominate a separate effect for each channel, and switch the effect on or off using the footswitch, effectively giving you four different sound options without having to bend down to tweak the settings.

The clean sounds are great, and it suits my Yamaha APX6 acoustic well, too. Very little hum, especially through humbuckers. The cabinet simulation effects have a fair bit of extra hiss, though I think this is deliberate for authentic stack sounds. Even with the APX there's very little feedback, especially if you put a rolled up scarf in the soundhole! Distortion sounds are quite tight and smooth, but high-gain metal riffs or wailing sustain aren't catered for all that well. I may invest in a decent pedal at some point, like a Boss OD2, or possibly an Ibanez TS9, but I only use the amp for home practice, so it's not as if it's gonna kill me to wait until I can spare the cash. High volumes do produce a bit of breakup on clean, but I don't habitually max out my amp in my room. The effects are nice, although I think it might have been better to have fewer effects with more adjustability on each effect. I think it caters for most tastes, but any gigging musician wouldn't buy an amp like this for stage performance, and with that in mind, the effects are high-quality. There's an effects loop, anyway, so you can blend and modify the sounds using external units.

Tough call, this. I'm on my second one. The first one developed a sickly rumbling noise, which wasn't a blown speaker, as it was the same through headphones. The current one is going great guns at the moment, so fingers crossed. Build quality is pretty good, although it's a bit of a shame the knob spindles are plastic: care needed, although it's not the kind of amp which is going to spend its life on the road. It could probably do the occasional gig, through a PA, mind, but I wouldn't mosh near it in case I put a boot through it. Solo acoustic set, perhaps. There is a pretty unhealthy pop as you switch it off with the volume up, but which amp doesn't have this? Any sensible person turns the master volume down before switching any amp off, so you don't deafen yourself with feedback next time you switch it on with yout guitar in front of the speaker.

I haven't dealt with Behringer. I registered the amp online, but as I'm in the UK, my nearest office is in Germany! I'm not bothered about this, though: it's not as if much of the stuff you can buy in the UK is home grown these days (...yeah, ok, Marshall, Laney etc...I had to be different!). And besides, I received great service from www.gak.co.uk, who I bought the GX110 from. Very prompt delivery, and no hassle at all when the amp needed replacing. Like anything made overseas, just buy it from a helpful and trustworthy dealer.

Been playing for about six years. The Behringer is my third amp. Ive owned a Laney HCM25 which was brutally loud, but made funny noises and broke down, and a Fender Auto GT, which sounded nice and was well made, but had the cheapest pots on earth and very poor adjustability. The GX110 beats both on versatility, even if it couldn't cut through a live mix. It's good to be able to turn the volume and EQ knobs and see some effect, too. With most amps, useable home practice volume exists somewhere from 0-2 on the dial. With the Behringer, you haven't got to just nervously nudge the pots. The EQ is very adjustable. The footswitch feels pretty bulletproof, and yes, I know the switching has a slight delay, but would you seriously consider gigging with a cheap 30W practice amp? I find it quite amusing that you can use a MIDI pedalboard with it! Never gonna bother. I'm planning to do some recording with the GX110, what with the effects and simulated line-out. Should be great for making demos. I'd definitely buy it again while living with my parents. If I had my own house, I'd get something a bit bigger and louder, though.

Details have already been covered.

This amplifier, while it may suit some, doesn't suit me. It's acceptable at low volumes, but this thing can't handle its own volume! Yeah, yeah...I know if you dime an amp there will be a little breakup. But not this much! The clean channel's headroom is terrible. I've found that gigging with this amp is not smart. And no, I'm not trying to use it by itself. I'm just angling it right at my head on top of a big rack, and unable to hear myself over the stage volume.

Other than my problems, it's an okay practice amp.

Knob stems are cheap plastic - broke a couple off the first week I had it. Took a certified Behringer dealer in Sioux Falls a month and a half to fix two knobs at a cost of $45, and they didn't even use real behringer parts - Radioshack cheapos that don't match!

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It's a practice amp. Enough said.

I've owned the amp for around 4 months now, thought it was sliced bread when I first brought it. Loud enough for home use, loads of effects to play with and the speaker grill is catspiss proof.

Play an epiphone SG goth and a cheapo strat copy, the clean channel is really nice with a touch of reverb. Loved the overdrive at first but with time it started to sound a little artificial somehow. The delay is dissapointing as it seems to have a notch or click as the signal is mixed with the echo. Use a Boss BD-2 stomp box for beauty and a danelectro fab tone for the beast. Give it an 8 for the clean channel, reverb, chorus and flanger.

Power pops as mentioned by others, the clean channel volume has to be up around 8/9. Otherwise no problems as yet.

Never got around to sending the warranty off so I hope not to have to talk to behringer.

I've been playing under a year and as a first amp I'd say it was ideal. If stolen I'd probably buy another (devil you know, price, an all that). Still love the clean sound. Did I mention the grill is catspiss proof.

nice range of effects, good quality, not much possibility of tweaking the sounds but enough for a home amp (in my opinion!!).so everything's ok given the price

clear sound is fender-like, disto is well adapted to rock music/ blues but if you want to play metal, i would advice you to purchase a pedal.

i've had this amp for 7 month now, no problem so far but i only play at home or with friend and so i've never pushed the amp to the maximum (my max vol was 6-7/10). no crash of the effect processor up till now. there is even so a noise when i switch off the amp, unless i turn down the volume(,which i advice you to do !!).

never dealt with them, but seems to have a good reputation for the other products of the brand

i play the guitar for 8 year now. i play with a LAG hardmaster; i've had a peavey bandit, a marshall 8080. the beringher is the third i have bought and not the worst for the price. the only reproach is about the disto which has not enough gain for fat metal sound (even with good humbuker)

This amp has 99 digital effects and a footswitch. Clean channel and a distortion channel. Headphone & loudspeaker outputs and many more things :P Features are excellent for the price.

I use Jackson JS20 and usually only the humbucker. It's distortion could be a little heavier, but when you put the stack-effect on.. ahh it's so nice. It's hard to return to the normal distortion :P I play metal and rock, e.g. The Offspring and Iron Maiden and it has been good so far. I use this amp at home and I have realized that it's perfect for home use, but forget gigs or stuff. This amp is not loud, but perfect for practising at home. At least with my settings, the clean sound starts being distorted when you put much volume, but it stays clean enough. At least with the volume I play. (pretty "loud")

I've had the amp for six months or so now and I have not expirienced any problems. Worked great. As I said, this amp is for home use only.

I don't remember how long the warranty is.. Well the amp has worked, so I haven't contacted Behringer.

I have been playing only for one year, and this was my first amp. If the amp was stolen, I would buy it again, but not from my local store (so expensive). I like some of the effects and the overall. Very good for it's price! I recommend this amp if you are gonna buy your first amp or you just wan't some practice amp for home.

For the cost this is the most diverse amp I have seen. I like the footswitch and the ability to have effects stored on the clean and dirty channels to be different. Sounds pretty good too. Jensen speaker. It's not a 50's twin with a whole bunch of pedals A/B -d with a JC120 and the same stack of stompboxes but for an apartment jam amp I am so impressed.

I bought it because I needed something small to record with that day at a friends place. I had my homemade hardtail strat with p-90's from the ol' destroyed gibson (read; hum). Lined in thru a noise suppressor and it sounded great. Classic 80's solid state tones mixed with modern amp modelling. The effects are limited but....$150.00!!!! Get real!!!
Oh and it is loud. In a pinch You could keep up with a drummer .

What is that?

Ditto

Got it at American Music Seattle.
I was tempted to get the vox modeling amp for $600
I allready have a few tube amps of different size so this works perfect for my home use.
Did I say ?????? !!!!! $$150.00????

This 30 watt little mother was probably made in 2001. I bought it a couple months ago and have been tweaking around with it mostly in my house.
I use this for my own songwriting. Haven't really peformed any covers on it. It has enough features. What else can you expect for an amp of this price?
What I have noticed is it can be a pain to find the right volume setting. There's a master volume and a separate volume for each channel. You have to tweak around with the master sometimes after you click onto the channel.
This is a great amp for an acoustic (Fender GA45SCE) but it's prone to feedback. I think that may be more the guitar's fault though.
Two big reasons I bought this amp. It comes with a footswitch (For this price nobody else does that and it's not too ugly) and it has an out so you can run it through a pa. Why not run it through a PA? Give it a shot and see what it's capable of.
Power, yeah. This is apartment loud but not club loud. Know what I mean? It'll get you evicted but not by your drummer.
This thing is also light. You can take it anywhere.

The sounds go from great to ridiculous. But every model amp should provide some sounds that are lame and just stupid. You can almost simulate space ships with this thing. But hey, the designers don't know what you want to do so they give you options. I personally find the "stage" effect on the distortion channel especially tasty for a good grunge sound. For my acoustic I like the chorus and the delays. Even the flanger isn't bad. There's a lot more tweaking I have to do. I'm not a big effects type person so I don't really need all it provides. But I think it's competitive with a much more expensive Line 6 Spider. And why buy the Spider when you can get this for much less? Spiders suck on stage so it's not like it's gonna be a contest there.
Now some of the distortions are brutal. They can be lame. Some of the others are nice. The cabinets are pretty cool. It's not a tube but I think it'd do fine with some home recording, especially if you're just making demos.

I don't know if you can depend on it. I've read where it freezes like a computer. I did gig with it once at an open mic. Was three of us on stage, two guitars and a bass. My friend was using the Behringer and it just stopped playing. We were running it through a PA. I took it out of the PA and plugged straight into the amp and it was fine. I'm gonna have to try the PA thing again just to see what the deal is. Perhaps the PA channel quit.
I take care of my gear so I can't tell you how much abuse it takes.

I haven't dealt with them. I bought it from Mars and that kinda scares me with their bankruptcy and all. I'm probably screwed if it kaputzes.
The warranty, sheesh I forget. Read another review.

I've been playing several years. I'm in a forming band. We're still getting it together. I bought this as a tool that could be used in some potential situations. I also play my strat through it. If it were lost or stolen I'd probably get something else just for the sake of diversity and a new experience. Perhaps you should get a tube amp and just buy pedals. Or you could get a Yamaha Stomp box or a POD and play that through a PA or into your recorder. This is mostly a practice amp for shits and giggles.
I like the out and the footswitch. Those are pretty cool.
The amp has a distinctive smell to it. Especially when it's heated up. Friends come over and ask if I turned the heat on. Nope, it's just my Behringer and it's not even a tube.
The dialing from one effect to another is kind of a pain. That's not much fun.

New 2002 amp. Two channel with digital effects. Comes with foot pedal. Tons of digital effects. I bought this as a practice amp for a condo that I own in Florida. I have many tube amps up north and wanted something cheap to leave in my condo. Someone down below describes every feature this thing has so I won't bother.

I am in a band, it is a hobby for me. I play guitar every single day, it's like prozak for me. I needed to have an amp at my vacation home to fool around with. The criteria was simple, It had to be around $150.00 and sound halfway decent. This was an experience for me. I have at least 15 tube amps at home and I am what you would call a tone snob. I looked at all the cheap amps on the floor and I was about to give up when the salesman at MARS suggested this amp. I really liked it. I think for what it costs it is a great little amp. I found great sounds, I think the effects are cool, sure there are some lame ones out of the 99 offered, but there are cool ones too. The Jensen speaker delivers a nice full sound. I am on the 12th floor of a condo building so I don't need loud. I think it does a bangup job of tube emulation. For the money, I couldn't be happier with the tones this amp has.

OK, I read the other posts, mine has that pop that you guys are talking about, I make sure the volume is down when I turn it on. I am quite sure I will not have to worry about frying my speaker cause the condo comandos will kick my ass out before that happens. Mine never locked up like one guy said. I think you have to be realistic, this is a practice amp, you will be abusing it to death if you try to be heard over a drummer or other band mates. I think it is an awesome practise amp. There isn't alot of cheap stuff out there that has any kind of tone, this one is pretty unique.

If you were a beginner, this would be an awesome first amp. If you were like me and looking for something for low volume practice, cheap and sounding better than a pignose this is it. All my stuff is real big and heavy, the smallest amp I have is a 72' Fender Princeton Reverb. I wish I had another one of these GX110's in Jersey to move around from the deck to the garage to my office, to my friends house for song writing. I have at least 20 grand in music stuff and I say this is a cool little amp.