Behringer GX210 210 Combo

Behringer Amp made in 2002/3003. Bought 3rd hand - pawn shop special, paid $84.00 + tax. Previous owners used and abused. Nearly every knob broken (or replaced by dice???) This speaker was put through it's paces and then some. 99 effects +, has headphone jack, channel switching, plenty of power for a practice amp. I bought this amp to be a good practice amp... and it delivers! My ratings are based upon what the amp was intended to be... not vs. the ultimate ideal of an amplifier.

I play a Washburn Mercury Fat-Strat and a Fender Mexi-strat. I read the reviews on this site before buying it. I will say this... for a practice amp, this thing delivers EVERY sound you ever need. People who rated this amp a 8-9 because it only has 99 effects just don't know how to use the Parameter, Effect A, Effect B and Morphing knobs. True, this amp will NOT give you the best distortion and fuzz effects... but you rarely can expect an amp to give you that. Most serious players layer their effects. If you are using a distortion pedal in addition to this amp... you can get literally THOUSANDS of sounds. If you can't find your specific sound, then good luck looking pal. The GX210 isn't the be-all end-all amp... but used layered with any other effects pedal, the possibilities are endless. I give it a Nine only because a Ten is magnificent. The Behringer GX210 will not dissapoint.

I would never gig without a backup. This Behringer GX210 has been put through sheer hell. Knobs broken, cover torn... it was in pretty poor shape when I bought it for $84.00. It still has the original speakers and all electronics are in good working condition. That has to say something about the amplifier. The previous owners treated it badly, but with a little care and elbow grease, the amplifier is still in great shape. I won't abuse it, but will never question it's reliability. I only wish the knobs weren't so easily broken. The casing is well built.

Behringer... good company. I downloaded their user's manual on-line. Good customer support. Behringer is known for their relatively low prices and decent products. The GX210 amp is one of their better products.

I own several practice amps; Gorilla, Peavey, Fender and others. The Behringer GX210 is an amp in a class of it's own. The effects are decent. Anyone who says the 99 effects sound about the same has no ear. However, the effects themselves are not the final end-all. By using the Parameter and Effects A & B and morphing knobs... you can get just about any sound you would want from Angus Young to SRV. However, you will want to use this in cascade along with a distortion pedal, flanger, chorus or phaser. If you play a little, you can get ANY sound you even thought possible. I bought a 210 because I wanted the playability of a clean virtube 210, with getting the driven sound at relatively low volume. A 212 would be overwhelming in volume when it is just getting warmed up. Oh... if it ever came up missing, I would lay a serious curse on the one who took it. They would return it or else.

The other reviews here have a good run down of the features, so I won't repeat them here. I bought this mainly as a practice and recording amp. It was marketed as a "guitar workstation". It's got a slew of built in effects along with distortion. Its got a bunch of ins and outs to use the effects processor as a studio tool.

The sound is pretty good from two "special design" 10 inch Jensen speakers. It's not especially clear, but not to muddy either. You can get a lot of different sounds out of the 99 effects, but are limited to one at a time. There are a few coupled together like flange/reverb and chorus/delay, but mostly they are one at a time. You control various effect parameters with three front panel knobs. You can also overwrite the presets with your own parameters. But the included footpedal only turns the effects on and off. You'll need a MIDI controller to switch effects on the fly. Supposedly a MIDI pedal would also allow you to dynamically control the wah and some other effects. Otherwise your going to have to run back to your amp and scroll through 30 or 40 effects. Not practical playing live. There is also an annoying one second delay while switching effects. The distortion is only passable. It uses a morphing knob to alter the distortion characteristics. I only found settings from 7 to 9 really usable. The rest of the range was just too screechingly annoying. A Mid-Boost button makes it howl. I was glad that it came with a headphone out, but found that it was not usable due to buzzing. That's what I get for buying from a catalog without trying it first.

Here's where things go south. Of course, you get a 1 year warranty. After I owned this for about a year and a half, it started to pop. At first it was only once in a while and I thought it was just line noise. But at year five it sounds like a gieger counter at Chernobyl for the first few minutes its on. The only way to use it now is without any effects at all. Any attempt to get it fixed will cost more than a new amp, so it is basically disposable. I'll give it one point for every year that its worked reliably.

Since I bought it online, I can't just drop by the shop to have a counter monkey check it out. I've contacted a couple of the authorized service centers to see about getting the amp fixed, but by the time I pay to ship the amp and pay the minimum service fee, I would already come close to buying a new amp. A couple of local shops wouldn't touch it due to all the inbred digital crap. If I were going to buy another Behringer product, I'd check their website to make sure that an authorized service center was close by and I'd make sure my receipt was in a safe place.

This amp has been a lesson for me. Less is more. An amp should be an amp and effects should be effects and not mixed together. I liked the idea of an all-in-one unit at the time, but practically, it doesn't work that well. I probably won't buy anymore Behringer products. I have a couple of old Acoustic amps that needed some attention, but at the time, I thought my money was better spent buying new. I was wrong. The Acoustics have 10x the tone and just about anyone can repair them. I'll invest my money in repairing them and maybe a decent outboard pedal rig. I might try to salvage the Behringer by ripping out the amp and using the speakers as an extension cabinet or monitor.

The GX210 is a German Guitaramp with modeling effects. The effects are good, but there are only 2 parameters per effect. It has 2 channels, bad and very bad. The clean channel is reasenble but the distortion is terrible. It has an effects loop, headphone jack and more. This amp can be used for practising with a band, with 2x 30 watts you can hear yourself when someone's drumming.

As a said The clean channel is reasenble but the distortion is terrible. There is just one 3 bands equalizer for both channels so its impossible to let both channels sound good. My music style is Hardrock, and this amp is nog suitable for Rock. Maybe it can be used in an pop-coverband cause it has a lot of effects. But the distorion is not good enough to play anything louder. The clean channel allmost distorts a bit, but if you crank it up past volume-level 7 ( of 10 ) it's allmost distorts more than the distortion channel. I think the clean channel sounds best at 3 ( and thats not hard enough for any gig. It is possible to save a bit of the sound by only using the pre-amp of this amp and plug it on to an power-amp or the P.A.-system. Because the bad sound is for a great part caused by the power-amp section of this amp

You can not depend on this amp!!! After one year it just falls apart. The cnobs break off very easily. While playing gigs we had multiple times that the volume of the amp just increased a lot, without someone touching it, in the middle of the song. That is not cool when playing. My friend has the same amp, and he has the same problems as I have. At this time there barely comes sound out of his amp, even when the amp is cranked all up you don't hear mucht. While he used to be much louder. And both amps are just 1,5 years old....

Really not reliable

Never dealt with the customer support, I just sold the damn thing to a loser :P

I believe the thing came with one year warranty. Very clever to give just one year warranty, because after one year it starts to fall apart

Sold the damn thing after about 1,5 years. This thing is terrible, it just falls apart after 1 year. It looks like an reasenble deal cause the amp doesn't cost much but it isn't word the money. Its better to buy a good amp at once than buy a behringer guitaramp.
The poweramp-section of this amp is the most worce. The only way to get a good sound of it is by using the pre-amp sound trough the P.A., or through a good poweramp. What I also hate about the thing is that its possible to reset the amp!!! Reset an amp??? and yeah, sometimes you realy need to reset it, if you hit a wrong button, you dissable the footswitch. I've searched about 2 months what was wrong with my footswitch... That's not very user-friendly.

Bought in January 2004, so likely a 2003 model. 2 channel solid state amp with nice tube emulation. 2X30 watts thru 2 10's, stereo out's (which was actually kind of annoying when I plugged the amp directly into the sound system, because I only get one channel on the mixer board) Lots of presets, very good effects, though the one thing I really dislike is that you don't get several user presets, you only get the choice of effects on/off.

As i said before, great tube simulation. If you sit one of my tube amps (Peavey Bravo 112 or VTM 60 thru a Marshall 412), the difference is pretty clear. However, I feel the tube simulation is a lot closer than a Peavey or Crate in the same category (Which were the amps I was considering before buying this amp). Very fender-ish clean tone, sparkling clean with a nice, warm feel to the bottom end. Distortion is a bit weak for the kind of music I play (somewhere between post-hardcore and screamo), but I managed okay. I primarily play through my VTM now, which achieves about the same or maybe a little higher level of distortion, so I can't complain. After you turn the volume knob past 6 or so, there begins a rather unnatural sounding distortion, like it's produced by the speakers, not the amp itself. Never really had a reason to crank it that high, though, except for one show we played before I bought my Marshall. The clean channel is much more impressive than the distorted, as I didn't even need to sit my amps side by side to tell the difference. Overall, however, fantastic sound.

Highly reliable. Only thing I could complain about is the footswitch, which is plastic, but it never broke or cracked. Plus, you gotta cut costs somewhere for an item that's under $200 new.

Never dealt with. Don't think I'd need to.

Great amp, would highly recommend it for anyone. Great practice amp, will work for gigging smaller venues just fine. Played an epi Les Paul through it and sounded sweet. I've already had to sell it, but I might consider it again in the future as a gift for a budding guitarist or just to play around with. The main draw is the price, as you can't get a crap amp of this size/wattage for a similar price. Behringer makes high quality products, in my opinion. Our singer plays my Marshall MG100HDFX through a Behringer 412 cab, and it actually sounds crisper than through the Marshall cab I bought with it. If you're seriously considering buying this amp, then look no further.

I dont know about the year of this amp. 2003?. The styles i play is mostly bluesy, funky and jazzy stuff. The sounds that you can get from this amp are pretty cool. If you like Scofield, Mike Stern, Scott Henderson and you dont want to spend a lot of money in your gear, this is the amp for you. You can get really sweet and warms souns. It had a good auto wha, very cool delays and some other sounds like flangers, chorus and otcavers. You can get a pretty cool tube sound too. Now, if you are a metal kind of guy, you are nor gona like this one. The overdrive is not designed to play metal stuff.
The only problem i encounter in ths amp is the difficult to acces the differents sounds. You have to do it manually, so im going to give it a 9. But i must said i love this amp.

My guitar is a Cort. Dont really know the model, but i had two humbukers and a single coil in the middle position. I use a dunlop crybaby (Gp135? or something like that), a dod octaplus and a boss metalizer for more heavy stuff. Cool sounds in general. Very tube sound like. I love this amp, couse you can really get a bluesy tone if you want, and a jazzy-funky-scofield-chorus sound like too.

An (unfortuantely discontinued) 2003/2004 GX210 (I have two). Two channels w/Level (volume) only on Clean channel, Gain channel has Distortion (gain), "Morph", Presense and Level, master EQ section affecting both channels, Aux Input Level and Master Volume contrals. Effects section with 99 presets and controls for tweaking various effects settings. Lots of I/O options, capable of acting as a slave unit or powering external speakers/cabs. 60W (2x30W) passively cooled solid-state amp with very good tube emulation. Moderate weight, fairly easy to lug around. Stock speakers are custom designed Jensen 10/35's. Overall a very versatile amplifier PROVIDED ONE READS THE MANUAL and experiments enough to discover the true potential of this amp.

More than enough clean, warm power to play medium-small venues and for home/studio use. Capable of providing tones from very clean and loud to rather heavy distortion (with tweaking, as mentioned before) but a disortion pedal would be required for those who want over-the-top gonzo-style shredding. For us more moderate folk, this amp will easily cover everything from clean acoustic to hard rock.

Various I/O and MIDI control options make this a potentially very versatile amp. The only thing that irks me is that the ability to drive externals speakers/cabs or slave this as a powered cab for another preamp is limited because these two functions are combined in a single set of connectors (no chaining multiple amps) and can require having to make custom cables that won't be useful for any other purpose.

Using primarily with a Peavey Generation EXP Custom ACM (electric guitar with great acoustic emulation). Also extensively tested with various electric, acoustic/electric steel and nylon string guitars and even a bass guitar. This amp is played primarily for contemporary praise & worship in a medium-large venue and easily handles anything thrown at it. I normally set it up clean and loud and let a V-Amp 2 take care of distortion and effects just because it's easier to shift patches that way. However, if the V-Amp were to eat it in the middle of a set I could easily accomplish everything at the GX210.

As others here have mentioned, others have completely missed and as with any piece of gear with a plethora of options and features, it takes time to find out what this amp can do and how to make it do what you want. That time is very well spent and worth every second.

The clean channel is very clean yet warm with a very slight, natural compression. Mixed with a touch of chorus (recommend effects patch 36 with Parameter at 16, Effect A at 14 and Effect B at 22) works well for any clean guitar tone and I was rather shocked to discover how well it worked with acoustic guitars. Most "electric guitar" amps sound either very thin or very bassy with an A/E guitar but this one gives a (once again) clean, warm sound that's balanced and articulate even at higher volumes. At extreme volumes it developes a very "pumpy" sound and it becomes nearly impossible to control the dynamics of one's playing, but back it down just a little bit and it behaves very well. There can be a barely noticable hum (assuming 60Hz) from the amp's speakers but no more (and in many cases far less) than other amps. Lifting the ground on the input side of the amp is usually an easy fix for this.

The second channel offers two levels, if you will, of distortion. A very mild distortion is provided via the Distortion control. Punch in the "Mid Boost" button and the distortion can be cranked up several notches into the zone just past the far end of being useful for blues. Moderate settings using just the channel controls produce a clear, defined distortion with a singing, bell-like quality reminiscent of Santana and perfect for all sorts of leads, with a very controlable interaction between the guitar and the amp that never verges on real feedback. Properly set up, the tones that come from this amp with a neck humbucker are so tasty it's hard to describe. If you add the "Magic Drive" effect found in effect patch 69 to the mix, the distortion plants its feet very firmly in rock territory when the Gain channel is cranked. Some very tasty tones can be coaxed from the amp like this but it does get a bit noisey.

More tonal versatility is available via all the various built in effects which includes very usable and tastful versions of all the standard pedal effects plus a couple of combo/stack emulations. They're all pretty standard fare but sound very good, useful for any live situation and most recording situations that don't require very specific control over all effect parameters or the kind of tone that you can only get from a "1976 Barium-Impregnated Tube Gargler painted a Specific Shade of Purple running on a Ever So Slighty Discharged Carbon Cell 9-Volt Battery blessed by the Pope himself on the Second Thursday of the Month," know what I mean?

Bottom line: For clean and mildy distorted bluesy tones, find good tone is just a matter of playing with the knobs. You want something with a harder edge, you'll have to tweak a little more but it's there if you look. And if you can't find something to like about this amp (especially given it's price) you're either not trying or have already biased yourself against good equipment that's also a good value.

Never had any Behringer gear go south on me yet. As far as the cabinet and hardware go, this is easily as tough as anything else out there. A carpet covering would have been nice to show fewer of the dings that will inevitably come but only bass amps seem to get that treatment so no hit on Behringer for that. The knobs may potentially be a problem down the road as they are not heavy duty discrete pots. Instead they are PC board mounted pots, which typically aren't are tough overall and have plastic posts which are more likely to get snapped off as opposed to more resilient metal posts. That being said, as long as this amp is carried and protected as you would any decent piece of gear there's no reason it shouldn't last a lifetime.

Since I've never had to deal with them I can't really rate them.

Been playing for over 20 years. Okay, there was a 10-year gap in the middle of that, but anyway... Over the years I've owned lots of gear and had the chance to play lots of guitars through lots of amps. There are a lot of amps that have great character, regardless of being tube or solid state. Tone is tone, who cares what generated it as long as it sounds good? What many folks don't seem to get is that if you suck as a player, you'll suck just as much through a $10,000 hand built tube amp as you will through a $50 pawn shop special, and vice versa - great players don't feel the need to be tone snobs.

That being said, of the dozen or so amps I've owned and dozens more I've heard, the Behringer GX210 isn't the one I like the most, but that is NOT to say that it sucks. On the contrary, on a purely dollar-for-dollar, bang-for-the-buck basis it's on the top of the list! At under $200, grabbing one of these in decent shape from eBay or used somewhere is almost like stealing it. Want to record? This baby will deliver tasty tones direct to the board, but sounds so sweet mic'd up that it would be a shame not to do so. Want to play live? It's small enough to make a great practice amp but loud enough to play small venues on it's own. It's emulation of tube effects on the dynamics of your playing is spooky - close your eyes and you'll picture a Fender Twin sitting there in front of you. But open your wallet and you'll see the extra $1000 you'd have spent on that Fender.
Your call, dude.

Not sure of the age, but I got slightly used, 2/2005. I have played through many amps, this one is plenty loud, clean, and is very simple to set-up. Lots of line out options, 2 channels, plenty of onboard effects. I have read nearly all current reviews, and want to remind all owners or potential owners, Behringer states on their web site, "mild" distortion. If you want more, spend $99.00 on the V-amp2 or buy a pedal. If you want distortion in the amp itself, buy one designed for that purpose. Me, I wanted a clean, "Twin Reverb" sound, and it delivers. I lead worship for about 450-600, and it holds it's own. 30wx2 stereo, is plenty. If you need more easy fix, line out to your board, and use it only as you backline monitor. Face it folks, you can mic it like the old days, if you are going to fill an auditorium with sound, no matter the size of the amp, you will need your sound spread out....

I am playing a PEAVEY Generation EXP Piezo Quilt Top. It models a Martin D-28, has a Humbucker neck, single mid, hot rail at the bridge. This amp, reprduces the Acoustic very well, no need for a designated Acoustic Amp. I also does great with the Electric side. Once again, if you want heavy distortion, you will need some additional toys. However, this amp delivers all that it was designed to do. Mainly, to offer "twin" quality "tube" clarity sound. I use a Vamp2, feed my 210 with it, as it can give you any sound you want. It sounds great as a stand alone, the vamp just adds lot's more toys to an already solid amp

I own sevral Behringer Products, and so far they have proven road worthly, and very cost effective. I have a vamp since 2000, and it is still kick'n. I did buy the vamp2, as they are basicly giving them away for 99.00 bucks...

We had a speaker blow (our fault) in the Powered B300 PA Speakers, called support, and they got us to the techs, and the replacement is on the way. Note, 1 year warrany on all their gear.

30 years + as a gigging musician. I now lead Worship, and we play Christian blues/rock, along with acoustic styles, why I needed and wanted a clean amp. I own a Bandit 65, Bob Weir Ibanez 1977 Tree of Life, 1965 Guild Archtop, '78 Guild D-55 with Hot Dots, several 1934 Paramount Archtops equiped with DeArmond sliding Pick up, Fernandez Tele, and my workhors, 2004 Peavy Gen. Exp with Modeling ACM (Martin d-28) A couple of Euroracks, a UB2442FX and a UB2242FX, Nady KA-900 PWR AMPS,4 EVSX300's, Ensoniq Mr61, FENDER 250 Passport (small venues) I could keep listing. Anyway, my point is great gear, does not always have to set you back huge bucks.
The GX210, is for any player, a great tool, and great value. Don't go only for the name, test them out, play one, then play the high end unit, is there really that much (hundreds of dollars woth) of a difference. In my opoinion, there is not...

2 channels, 99 preset effects, 30 watts, 2 speakers, it's twin amp for all us poor people. awesome tweakablility, it's not neccessarily that i always get the sound i'm looking for. it's that i find sounds i didn't know i liked along the way and stick with those.

I'm playing an Ibanez Jet King 2 (2 humbuckers w/coil taps) in addition to a Les Paul Double Cut Plus through the amp. It produces a bit of hum but I live in the dorms of my University and it is 60-cycle hum hell here, so don't take that into consideration. I love this amp because I've always wanted my own twin amp and it delievered exactly what I was looking for. Beautiful stereo sound and a sweet overdrive that, by looking at the other reviews, seemingly only I like. THat's weird though because who's been playing since middle school (12 years) say that he loves the overdrive on this thing. It's so natural and warm, I guess that's what some people call tame. Look, if you wanna play metal, don't go for something that's supposed to be more like a Fender Twin Reverb than a Marshall stack.
Anywho, I play all styles, but I mostly play Post-Rock and Shoegazer type stuff (think Radiohead, Explosions In The Sky, etc.). This amp really fills the bill, I need crystal-clear clean channels for the sounds I want to make and a very natural reverb. Luckily, this thing has 16 very tweakable reverb settings from Spring to Ambience. I also loves me my overdrive and it gives me all I need to play some experimental blues (and I overdrive like hell when I play the blues).
Don't forget the Stereo capabilities, you can have your delay, tremolo, etc all come through in stereo. It's magic to record with.

I bought it used and have taken it on 'tour' (i.e. all the college parties in town) and boy does it hold up! It gets the crap kicked out of it when things get rockin and the amp just gets warmer with every inch of volume. It's amazingly quiet and has never given me any grief.

Behringer has always been there for my amp issues.

I've been playing for nearly 4 years. I've been playing bass for most of that, but I know what my sound is, just from having to hear a ton of guitarists I hated and a few guitarists that were a dream to jam with. I'd hate to lose this thing, it's the best value amp I ever purchased and it completes my equipment chain. If this amp isn't on the end of it, my gear sounds like crap. The only thing I wish I had from this amp is the higher end version of the amp, the GX212. I can imagine having that extra wattage makes this system top notch. Great value, great sound, no hassle, that's all I need. Thanks Behringer.

This amp was probobaly made in 2002 or 2003 but has since been sadly discontinued. I play noise rock ala Sonic Youth, Black Dice, MBV... etc. IT has 2 channels but i only use the clean the distortion channnel is pretty weak, but for mild overdrive is ok. It comes with a footswitch which is very easy to use, it switched into effects very smoothly. The effects are digital and are decent and easily customizable but I prefer vintage analog effects. I do wish it had the jack for external loudspeaker so one could hook it upto a cabinet. You can hook it up to another amp for more juice however.It has a headphone jack with switch works very well. It has 60 watts, I'd prefer a little more however it is just fine considering if i run it connected with another amp.

My main guitar is a mexican strat i usualy play on the neck and mid P/U's ( I do not have a bridge pickup, it has been removed). The amp has 2 10" Jensen speakers and they really sound great, one of the amps amazing bang for the buck type features. The amp is strong, i hacent blown any speakers or fuses yet and Ive owned it over a year now. I 've pushed some serious feedback thru it and it's been fine. The amps clean tone is superb it can get a bit more dirty when the volume is pushed, its not as clear as say a Roland Jazz 120 but consider the price difference.

Can you depend on it? YES. Yes i'd use it on a gig without a backup. The amp has never broken down.

I've never had to deal with them.

I've been playing off and on for 10 years, however very seriously for the last 2 years. If it was stolen or lost I'd get an obscure vintage amp or another behringer (the 120 watt 212) off EBAY. I own a bunch of effects and often run 3 distortions simultaneously. I love the speakers and tone of this amp, and enjoy the effects although I prefer stomp boxes and analog type effects over these digital amp effects, they're really not as bad as some say. But i do wish i got the 212.

It has a lot of features... You can dial in up to 99 very versatile 24 bit effects.
_________Do not buy this amp for the distortion because is sucks___________
Everything else is really good and easy to set.

I'm using a sz ibanez plugged in a dm4 and the distortion comes out well.
However the amp can not deliver a damn drop of decent distortion.
The clean channel is good even at high volumes however the sound is a bit digital...

I own it only for a couple of months but it seems that it can work pretty well under abusive use...

Don't know

This amp is good but won't beat the hell out of a mode four or a triple retifier...