Behringer GX110 Ultraroc Combo

All the features covered in other reviews, and I haven't had the chance to try all the effects as mine died after about 4 hours of use.

Breaks up around 4, clean sucked, would rather have 3-4 good effects than 100 poor ones (but I only got to check ot 30 or so before it died).

After 4 hours it died when changing the effect.

Terrible, been 8 weeks, 7 emails for warranty service ignored by support@behiringer.com, only support numbers to call are overseas (just an address for behringer USA). Called Germany 3 times, twice disconnected while on hold, and once told to call US number, but they hung up before I could ask for it !!!! dumkoffs!!!! So I am just to assume that their products are junk and the warranty/support are just window dressing to suck you in as they provide none.

Been playing 22 years, have had many equipment 'problems' over the years, and they have always been resolved in a timely manner. I understand that there are lemons and thought I might have received one, but the total lack of support from the dealer (told me I had to obtain warranty service) and Behringer (they just plainly ignore you), so I would never buy another behringer product, nor could I reccomend one in good conscince to anyone.

Solid state amp with 10" speaker + effect rack. Speaker simulated and headphones out, aux in. Ext. speaker jack and fx loop provided.I bought it because it offers great miked sounds at low levels, as well as good direct recording features.

I use this strictly for recording. My opinions are strictly based on that. Having said that, it's a terrific amp. i don't want volume and I do not need to switch between sounds instantly either. I play all kinds of music, use a Fender Strat and usually go for a sound that's uncoloured and lets you hear the string, wood and different picking attacks, regardless of the amount of distortion used. I'm almost there with this amp! Really! The only sound I can't get is scoped Metallica kind of sounds, which I couldn't care less about anyway.
The clean channel is kinda tubey and has a sweet sound. The distiortion is very good on it's own too. BUT - to get Strat transparency and be able to go from Sultans of swing to SRV to Malmsteen by simply turning the guitar's volume, I plug in my Boss OS-2.
I use it on the dist channel with gain set to zero on the amp.
The pedal is set to max gain, no dist and treble set to 3 o'clock ,compensated by cutting treble to about 3 on the amp.
(I could have used any pedal, as long as it gave added gain and treble)
The bottom line is: the amp provides a base of spongy od sound with a tubey character. And it welcomes pedals! Far from all amps do this.
If you need clarity to top things, just boost the input with whatever you've got.
Well - this gives me a superb Strat tone for quiet recordings.
I've searched for this sound a long time and used everything from tube amps to POD and everything in between. Now I'm satisfied, especially considering the price! If people saw this as an alternative to POD, they'd be viewing the amp in it's right context.
And the effects are great. You can't tweak them much, but your basic smorgasbord is there and behaves like expected.

Don't know. Won't be taking it out so I guess it will be OK.

Haven't dealt with them.

I've been playng for 25 years in different settings. I've been recording at home for the last 6 years and I've set out to find a good sound at an affordable price that is suitable for this. I'd definately buy this again. It's lineout is more than fine for clean sounds. And the miked distorted, basic rock n'roll sounds are far better than anything I've achieved going direct, and better than most amps I've had. Including the hyped POD, Tech 21 products and so on. I've even run my acoustic through it and recorded direct with an acceptable result.
I guess it wouldn't cut a gig or rehearsal because of it's small size, but as I said - this is not how I use. If that's your concern - check out the new 2x12 combo they offer.

Where to start. Two channels, OD and clean footswitchable. Comes with metal footswitch for channel switching and effects. 10" Jensen special design speaker with tiny magnet. Usual bass, treble, mid controls. However, both channels use same tone controls. OD channel cannot use effects, at least on mine. Effects (99) cannot be combined with each other or with OD. Bummer. Effects include almost everything you can think of, including some weird stuff. Not much power, I have mine set on 7 all the time. Tons of jacks on back for ext. speaker, headphones, DI out, MIDI in, FX loop in/out. Oh yeah, it has wet/dry mix control, perhaps the amps best feature. Way more features than it should have at this price. It's got a friggen computer brain!

Two ratings here: Clean channel - 9 It will never sound like a tube amp, but sounds better than most transistor amps. Not as good as my Marshall though. Effects vary widely. WTF is auto-wah? It sucks. Chorus sounds ok with acoustic guitar, but my strat doesn't do so well. I use Seymour Duncan PUPs. Tremelo sounds very 60's like, cool.
Reverbs are digital-sounding, but editable. Delays and pitch-shifters work well, I use them a lot. Flanger is barely noticable, weak. Compressor and expander sound like crap.
OD channel: Some good sounds, but beware, my single coils get the 60 cycle hum louder than the amp itself on the OD channel, so single coils are unusable with the OD channel. Humbucks, like my Duncans are silent. Silent I tell you! It's a shame you can't use effects on the OD channel. I would love the pitch-shitter with the gain cranked to ten! Even the clean channel is noisy when the volume is cranked with humbucks. Clean channel will sound slightly crunchy when cranked. Bass response is very good overall. Tone control settings have a huge impact on the sound. Overall, it never sounds muddy or harsh and the OD sounds great with buckers. Clean sounds good with singles or buckers, effects are very clean. I hooked a piezo tweeter to the extra lugs on the Jensen and my Taylor sounded very natural, an unexpected bonus. I tried my Fender P-bass through it and it sounded good too, but I didn't crank it past 7.

Well, it all smashed up when it arrived. But it was mostly MF's fault (Musician's Fiend). It was loose in a huge box with no packing inside. Shame on you MF! I'll never buy from there again. The plastic corners were all broken. They should be made of steel, not plastic. The digital readout got confused when I was editing effects. It makes an extremely loud popping noise when turned on and off, indicative of a faulty power supply design.

No luck yet, I'll keep trying.

You get a lot for $170.00, just buy from MF. I will be gigging with this amp soon, and using it in my studio with my Duncanized strat. Sounds as good as or better than little Fender Champion 30, although not as loud. You can always upgrade the speaker with a Celestion Vintage 30 for $80.00. DSP effects are a lot of fun, something there for the whole family. I plan on using it with my Acoustic on small gigs. I am very impressed with this amp's DSP, although it gets confused easily and forgets sometimes. Oh well, it's only human. If it weren't for the noise and lack of effects on OD, i would give it a 10 here. It needs a longer AC cord (only 5ft). Instead of a master volume control, it should have a master reverb control. Master volume is not necessary. This would allow room for about 50 more effects since reverb is used in about 50% of the presets. I would like more control of the modulation effects, such as flange, tremelo, phaser.
The chorus will never sound like the analog chorus on my Marshall, and the reverb will never sound like the spring reverb in my Marshall or Fender, and the OD will never sound like a Marshall, and the clean channel will never sound as warm as a tube amp. It has a sound all its own, and it's a good sound. The price is rediculously low.

2001, 30 watt, 10" Jensen, built in efects

Can't get a good scooped metal sound, speaker farts out when you turn it up to 3 with full gain, and is not even very loud. My 20 watt Crate was louder. Clean channel clips out before it gets loud at all. Nice effects. May have a blown speaker.

Maybe I just got a bad one with a blown speaker or something, but where was quality control? didn't they plug it in before they shipped it? This gives me a very negative opinion of the new mass produced Jensen Chicago Speakers, I shipped it back the second day I had it...

Never talked with Behringer but American Musical Supply was great to deal with. They asked me if I wanted to try another one, I said once was enough, no thanks.

I am using a ESP,Ernie Ball Music Man, and American Standard Strat. Amps are Crate, Kustom "which sounds awesome" and a 5150 Stack, Rack effects. I wish someone local sold them so I could have listened to it first to see if I just got a dud. I was going to get some Behringer rack mounted effects for guitar, but now I am re-thinking that.

GX110, all the features covered in previous reviews. I was buying this amp for my 13 yo nephew who has been playing for a yr or so (beginner), and the description/price seemed good so after checking the reviews I got one.... after all it had to be better than what he had... which was one of those belt strap things.

Was to be used with a strat I gave him, but the 40 min I spent playing around and checking out the effects was with a LP signature, a fat strat, and a stratacuostic, and I was suprisingly 'impressed' with this amp. For the features/price thought it would be perfect for my nephew, you can get a pretty decent array of sounds (clean, distorted, etc) which I thought would be great for a beginner to expermint with and keep his interest.

Well heres thae bad news... I played it 40 min, a couple of hours later my nephew came over for his bday, and we fired it up. After playing it for about 5 min he changed effects and the display LED's 'locked up' and the amp was 'dead'... figured as it has a micro inside, and it is low cost (hey my flextone 'locks' up sometimes under midi control) just 'reboot' it... so cycled power, and it came back up. After a few min more min of use when changing effects again the same thing occured... but this time it would not power back up... DEAD. I took it apart to check for the obvious loose wires/fried components etc, but nothing was obvious... and as a note here I do have to say the manafacturing quality of the amp was very high (I'am an EE and although I don't design amps I do design electronic systems/assemblys for industrial use), so I will assume that I just got a 'lemon', but don't know if I will receive a replacement to judge against (see below) so I will leave this a 'no opinion' as it is microprocessor controlled... and the other reviews are good.. so I'll give the benifit of doub't to Behringer here.

Well I bought it off eBay as new from Music123.com, the shipping to me was $25, $18 to send it back and now they want another $25 to ship a replacement... but spending $70 bucks on shipping for a $130 amp is crazy, especially if the replacement dies it'll just cost me another $50 bucks... so I'am cutting my losses now, and will probally buy a used peavey for him. I buy alot of equipment off eBay and this is the first time I've been 'gouged' with shipping costs on defective equipment sold as new, usually a company will work with you to keep your bussiness... oh yeah, I did call Behringer, they told me to go through the seller for replacement, or I could send it to WA for service, which again would be even higher round trip shipping.

I've been playing over 25 years, I mostly use line 6 heads/amps lately, but have aquired/collected most the classics over the years, guitars too. Though the amp impressed me at first as a good alternative for a beginner because of the wide array of effects, but not enough to really get another one, or pay the shipping to have a replacement sent to me for that matter... I'll probally just get a him a used peavey transformer 112.

Purchased less than a month ago, November, 2001. Still Learning it. Lots of features and a manual that assumes some previous effects experience. There are 99 built-in preset effects that can be tweaked and saved by the user. Clean and Distortion channel can both use effects or not as desired. Too many features to list. I like that I can play a mic or cd through it, too.

I'm a new player with a SSH pickup layout on a cheap guitar so I have little to compare it with but I play mostly rock and alternative and it is working out fine so far. No problems with sound at any volume. In my limited experience I think it sounds great.

Gig? Hah. I gotta learn to play first. But seriously, this thing seems like it will last me forever or as long as I need it. Very sturdy. Quality construction. Electronics seem to be self-contained, though, so if it ever were to break I doubt I could fix it myself. It is too new for a real opinion but so far so good.

Never used support for any problems but I did register on the company's website, which was simple and well laid out. The company seems to be interested in looking good to its customers.

I just got my first electric guitar when I got this amp, though I've had an acoustic for several years. I like it so far. If it were stolen or lost, I'd buy a Behringer again. Which model would depend on money. I chose this amp after looking at everything under $200 and determining that this one has more features and wattage than anything else I could have bought new.

I didnt see too much on the net about this amp but it sure looked interesting. Effects, 10" speaker (Jensen) and 30 watts with TUBE simulation. Clean and Dirty channel. Like the inputs for RCA jack type line inputs on the back. I sometimes use this for my SY77 keyboard and the sound is actually quite good. Effects editing is limited but I like the wide range of styles. I figure if you want picky editing etc spend more or just hook up with the send/return FX loop. Footswitch is a bonus too.

Lots of variety with the FX settings (31) and 99 presets. Jazz to distortion to clean etc. Clean channel sounds nice too. Clean channel very quite (humbucker guitar) distortion channel hums a little but not bad.

Looks built pretty good. Nice looking unit for sure. Little more "classic" than the big brother "BLUE DEVIL".

Never dealt with em. Hope I dont have to.

Id buy this thing again in an instant if it was stolen. Love it. Just what I was looking for - an inexpensive unit, good sound, fx. Comparing to CRATE or the FENDERS I think its better. May not be the kill all for perfect tone (its good in my opinoin) but heck its <$200 WITH FX and it sounds great! what more do you want?

This is a new amp. I live in Wales and could not find a stockist. I bought mine over the internet. No one i know has one. This amp is great. It has two channels onboard effects and a free footswitch. Great value for money. For a full list of spec see manufacturers website. This was my second amp. Upgraded my little practice amp for something bigger. I use this when practicing in my room and when playing with my band. It is loud enough to compete with the drummer. Not loud enough for gigs really although external speakers can be added. I was looking for a fifty but settled on this as it is quite small and light. The effects also are great. There are presets that can be customised.

I use a standard fender. I play everything from blues to rock and grunge. As you would expect from any guitar with single coils it can get a little noisey. My advice is get as far away as possible. Two metres sorts out the slight hum. Any guitar with humbuckers it is silent. The amp seems to suit all styles of play and the effects make it even more versitile. There is a good clean channel that performs consistantly at all volumes and the distorted channel is also good for this.

I have not had the amp long. If it let me down this early i would bin it although this hasnt happened and its rugged design and quality parts make me feel it will go on and on. my rating is an educated guess.

Never dealt with the customer service. Wouldnt thought you would need to especially if you buy from a trust worthy retailer.

I have tried many amps and would say this is unbelievable especialy for the price tag. If this is going to be a new trend in amp prices then the big names may have to sit up and take notice. Worth a go. Beats anything in the price range and the extra's are great. A footswitch included, A built in effects processor all for the tiny cost of under 200 dollers. I will certainly be looking at behringers larger amplifiers in this range when i feel i need a bigger amp. If they are half the quality that the gx110 is they will be a good buy.

If you are looking for a smaller practice/warm-up amp that you can also record with, is LOADED with features, and can be had for under $200 (yeah, I know that's asking for a lot) - look no further! I play mostly rock and blues but it seems as though the GX-110 will work well for any style. This amp features (as listed by Behringer):
* Powerful 30 Watt RMS Guitar Workstation with authentic VIRTUBE ? tube simulation
* Original 35 Watt vintage 10" JENSEN guitar speaker model JCH10/35
* Two independent channels with separate volume controls and effects
* CLEAN channel delivers clean and slightly distorted tube-type sounds
* OVERDRIVE channel offers a broad range of modern crunch to high-gain sounds
* Classical 3-band EQ with that excellent sound
* 24-bit stereo multi-effects processor with extremely high-resolution 24-bit AD/DA converters
* 31 original VIRTUALIZER ? and MODULIZER ? presets with outstanding effects such as Reverb, Delay,
Phaser, Chorus, Flanger, Pitch Shifter, Speaker Simulation, Rotary Speaker, Magic Drive, Compressor,
Expander, Wah-Wah, Tube Emulator and various effect combinations
* 99 easy-to-edit user presets
* FX MIX parameter can be stored in each preset
* Adjustable AUX input for playback or other line-level signals (e.g. CD player, drum computer)
* Frequency-corrected line output for recording and live applications
* Insert facility for external effects devices (stomp boxes, wah-wah pedals, etc.)
* GX110 comes with footswitch FS112 for channel selection and effect bypass
* Complete MIDI implementation for channel and effect selection as well as real time control
* Master volume control and frequency-corrected stereo headphones output
* Additional 8 Ohm speaker output (built-in speaker is muted automatically)
* Extremely rugged construction ensures long life even under the most demanding conditions
* Robust power supply ensures excellent transient response

I also have a 1976 Peavey Classic (original owner) and play a Standard Strat and now a new DeArmond M-72 (recently reviewed). To have the Peavey match the versatility of this amp I would need a peddle and rack array that would put Eric Johnson's rig to shame! It is like having 12 different amps at your disposal. You want EJ's type of melodic smoothness it's there, if you want some Angus Young power crunch just choose another preset, need some Dean DeLeo grunge you got it!
Clean channel stays clean all the way up the volume scale while the distortion comes through even at low volumes. And all of it is finely adjustable via the FX mix and the 3-band EQ. Slight hum comes through on the Strat (expected on a single coil axe) and it is dead quiet on the dual h/b M-72.
My only complaint, and it is quite minor considering the value here, is that there is a slight (half beat) delay when switching channels or using the FX switches on the included footswitch. It just means you need to anticipate the change a bit - something I got used to by the second day of use.

I have no idea at this time, but it certainly seems ruggedly built. As opposed to some of the complaints I have read about the GX-112's construction, the cabinet is built with solid 3/4" wood (NOT pressed) and covered with the typical faux-leather vinyl. The corners are reinforced with heavy-duty rubber corners. All in all, it looks like it will take quite a beating and will keep on going. My rating here is obviously based on my expectations.

Never dealt with Behringer. But if anything goes wrong I know that WLA Music will stand behind it - those guys are great!

After owning two Peavey's (I also have a practice 20 that just died - hence, this purchase) I wanted to try something different. And, boy, am I glad I did! For features at this price point it just can't be beat. All the guitar guys at WLA Music were drooling over this puppy when it came in (thanks for standing guard over it, Glenn) since it was the first one they had received - now I know why. Behringer is shortly coming out with a twin 60W stereo version of this amp with even more features and a 4x12 cabinet to match - I can't wait!
I may be the first on the block with this new toy - but I won't be alone for long.