Behringer LX1-112 V-Ampire

This amp has everything you would imagine for the price...
It's made mostly for rock...but suits well all the styles...for sure
If you've read the other reviews you know the features..
I only wish it was a 2x12" but thats history...it's great anyway!

My main guitar is a Fenix ML-40 with:
S.D. Jeff Beck Trembucker - Bridge
S.D. '59 - Neck

I play covers...this means...rock, pop, metal , latin...with this baby I can go from Anastacia to Velvet Revolver with the flick of a button...
Not noisy at all

This amp makes great clean sounds, great overdrive sounds, great metal sounds...everything

I don't understand you dumbs that gave such low reviews on this amp..I think you shouldn't play guitar...maybe many of you don't realy play guitar...just want to ruin Behringer's image...isn't it??
This amp is cheap and sounds very good...just not to mencion the versatility..
of course...if you have a very cheap guitar...and don't know how to tweak your tone...this amp will suck...
Don't forget...use the L2 setting...it'sthe only way to make the speaker on the V-ampire sound really good!
L2 makes the amp come alive..it turns off the damm digital speaker simulations...you don't need them to play live!
I would give 9 in this category but I will give 10 because of the idiots that give such bad ratings..I don't understand you people! don't you have ears..or maybe..brain?? maybe the freacking TUBES on your brain are blown...duhhh
Just one more thing...I use my boss GT-6 on the PRE-DSP loop of the v-ampire...I use some Fx from the GT-6 (that I use to control the V-ampire live) like wahs...comp...chorus. I don't use the delays or the reverb from the gt-6...they become to sensitive...but the ones on the V-ampire are good...

I don't have it long enough to tell about reliability ( but thats enough to havesome great tones coming out of it)
I will tell you someday!
The amp is beautiful and well finished..not a cheap piece of junk like some dumbs said!
I will give an 8 by now! for the look of it...

I've never deal directly with Behringer...but..great site!
And I'm a big fan of Behringer products...they give us..musicians..the chance of having some very cheap almost-professional gear that holds its own against high-priced gear and it's in many situations even more reliable...
I deal with Musifex (Loures, Portugal) and they are great..

I play semi-professionaly for almost 5 years...
If it were stolen or lost I would buy another...i'd like to have the Behringer GMX-212 V-tone...because of the Tech 21 Trademark kind of technology..but it is not as versatile as the V-ampire! I think analog modeling is still ahead of the digital modeling..but the digital modeling on the V-ampire is great...the digital modeling on my GT-6 (COSM) is worst and a little unnatural...
Don't get me wrong..the GT-6 is a great machine..but with the V-ampire you can shape great tones almost directly out of the box..if you have some ears and brain!
This is professional sounding with a practice amp price...unbeliveable
The only digital modeling amp that may hold it's own (I doubt it) against the V-ampire is the Line 6 Flextone 3 BUT the price is higher...and the reliability is weack...tipical on the Flextone's...
I'm loving this amp...there are other good amps...but the quality/price is very high..almost unbeliveable!
I hope that you have understand my english...i'm portuguese and i don't practise my english usually ;)
Buy this amp but make shure that you have..at least a good guitar..and don't forget: L2 setting is crucial!

Having owned the V-Ampire for more than a year now, I have the impression that some comments made about its sound are mostly a result of people using the wrong settings:

- If it sounds boxed up or does not have any crispness/edge to it, that is most likely the cab simulation being switched on, which is fine for direct recording but does not make sense when there is an actual guitar speaker. Pressing D+E to get into the configuration menu, using the up/down buttons to select configuration L2 and finally pressing exit will make the amp sound like it is supposed to. Perhaps Behringer should put a large removable sticker onto the amps, pointing out the importance of using the right configuration mode because this seems to be the most common problem with this amp, and when I played one in a shop recently, it was set to the wrong configuration as well.

- If the distorted sounds break up in their sustain, it is most likely that the noisegate is set too high and cuts off the notes early. Using a lower noisegate setting will cure this problem.

- Of course there are ways to make the distortion undefined: If you select one of the high-gain models (e.g. the Savage Beast), turn the gain all the way up, have the boost function active and select a compressor for your effect, the sound will definitely lack definition. Judicious use of settings on the other hand can produce sounds that are very sensitive to ones's playing. Additionally, if a guitar with a particularly high output is used, it may be a good idea to reduce global input gain.

Like any other amp, this one can sound bad when set up wrongly, and because it has more options than a two-channel no frills amp, there is also more room for error. On the other hand, setting it up properly is not rocket science either and will result some really nice sounds.

I am not giving a mark in this category or any of the others because I rated this amp in an earlier review.

Just a comment on the corner guards: The ones on my V-Ampire are certainly not aluminium, more likely steel.

I have used my V-Ampire for about a year now, for rehearsing as well as for gigging, and I am still very happy with its sound, versatility and transportability.

Btw, I have been playing for 17 years or so, and although that in itself does not mean much, I am definitely not a beginner who has not played through many other amps and therefore lacks a frame of reference.

IT's a 50 watt solid state modeling amp. Consists of dial in effects and amp modeling selections and An LCD program channel changer.

I don't know what some of these reviewers thought they were listening to for giving this amp such high marks but, what I heard was distortion that breaks apart during its sustain and a very boxed up sound. If I were comparing this to a practice amp, this amp would win out hands down. However, I was comparing it to such products as the POD 2.0 or and some fender stage amps and the V-ampire was simply not as good. It's distortion wasn't as powerfull or as clear and the reason for that is because it has low mid and bass response. Perhaps raising those eq's to 8 or 9 would get the amp to sound better but, then your left with little flexibility to get a higher frequency sound. This is a cheap version of Line 6 plain and simple.

Every thing about this amp reeks CHEAP, to its aluminum corner guards to its loosely fit dials which have gaps that make it appear that the red light dials project in the wrong spots.

I dont like this amp, If i were a beginner, I would be fooled into thinking the V-ampire is the best thing since sliced bread since a bad guitar player can hide behind the undefined distortion the V-ampire produces.
It does provide useable sounds but, it pales in comparison to line 6. The line 6 products produce the sharpe edgy sounds that are needed in order to bring out the finer details with guitar playing. some thing this behringer amp lacks.

Made in 2004 I guess. The amp is versatile for shredder. Only one channel? It's loaded with features as described below. The cavbinet is way to big, need to be about half the size.

I use a Les Paul Deluxe and an American Ash Strat. Most of the map models sound the same with the group. about 5 or 6 disticnt tones. The effects work well enuf, but I have to put my face right up next to it because I am an old tube geezer. I think they are trying to out-do Line 6 here with all the effects and amp models. The clean sounds are good, but rather tinny. No botton end, and almost no volume in clean channel? My Fender 12 watt tube amp is 5 times louder than this 50/100 amp.

Seems like cheesy particle board could fall aprt at any time.

Seems like good company, but they are in Germany, right?

Been playing a long time. As a tube geezer, I own moslty vintage stuff, so I Know what I plug into has to bring out the best. This amo has way too many gizmos and gadgets and I'm too lazy to stay up all night figuring it out. It's too big, too heavy, and what's the deal with needing another amp to get the 100 wats? That sucks. It's a cheap amp. I compared it to a line 6 Spider II and liked the simplicty of the Line 6, althought it also is a cheesy amp and sounded thin and tinny with no real bottom end. I also tried the Fender Princeton 650 DSP Series III and liked it's tone the best, although it cost $150 more than the Behringer. The price is the best think about this amp. Too flashy, too many gimmicks, not enough low-end tone, not enough power. As a fompus tube geezer once said, "Give me about 12 watts, decent gain, decent break-up, smooth creamy tube-saturated distortion, and spring reverb, and I'll give you a tone you will never get tired of" - me.

One of the reviews here correctly noted that the Behringer manual is not concise, and a bit of a pain to read. I created a quick 2 page reference that can be printed to one piece of paper that outlines all of the non-obvious controls. It is at the Yahoo V-Amp2 group in the files section.

Just bought my amp a few days ago (September 2004). This amp has all of the effects, amp modelling and cabinet simulation features of the v-amp 2 as well as a speaker, cabinet and 100 watt amp (100 mono or 2x50 stereo). I really am impresed with the amount of versatility it gives you to play such a wide variety of sounds. Some specs say 100w and some say 120w - not sure which is correct for my amp, but it does say 100 watts on the back.

I really like the way the presets work. Being able to save almost every setting on the amp (eq, volume, effects chosen, etc.) into one of the 125 presets is great. This feature alone makes the amp great for those who want to fine tune their perfect custom sound, and then save it not having to remember each setting. It is really easy to use.

You can adjust parameters directly on the amp, but you can use (and I really recommend that you do) the midi interface to view, change and save even more parameters for the amp and the 125 presets.

I use an early 90s Ibanez strat with a humbucker and two single pickups. The amp suits my and almost any music style - the modelling, effects and cab simulation really makes this a bunch of amps and sounds in one.

I do agree with others that the amp should have more volume. I've played a few other 100 watt amps and this one does seem quieter. Part of me thinks that it is the nature of the v-amp - you aren't getting an overdriven signal, you are getting a simulation of an overdriven signal at line levels - correct me if I'm wrong here, but that is my guess.

The amp is noisy on some settings, but programming the noise gate alleviates that.

I can't stress enough how important it is to use the computer software (from their website) to create your own personalized sounds. For my taste, a lot of the 125 default preset sounds are too processed and sound cheesy - but don't let this discourage you from buying this amp. Some of the default presets are very good. But I have been able to get my own sounds that I really like by adjusting things on the computer. I went throught the built-in presets, picked the 5 that I like best and thought sounded like me. I then fine tuned them on the computer, and voila... I can move between those 5 sounds with the footswitch. To change to another bank of five sounds, you use buttons on the amp. I like this better than changing between two channels and having to adjust the knobs each time you want to change sounds (like the GMX212 that I also was considering).

Maybe the presets and footswitch is not a big deal for a lot of people here, but for me it is. I am someone who has always played unamplified acoustic, and shyed away from the electric because I didn't like the sounds i could get out of my little 15 watt crate amp. Recently I have hooked up with a band that plays classic, and 70s to 90s rock, which is why I needed to get a new amp. The sounds and flexibility of this amp makes me want to learn and play more on the electric.

If you are only going to spend $500 canadian, this is the amp to buy. I tried the Line 6, and while it did seem louder (it was a 2x12), I did not like the sound of the Line 6 as much as the Behringer, especially some of the clean amps and the effects.

If it wasn't for the volume issue I would give this a 10.

Haven't had it long enough to say here. The fact that the knobs are plastic and don't seem as solid as some other amps doesn't give me the greatest feeling, but at the price, you can't go wrong.

Haven't dealt with them. However I'll give them a 9 because I love their website. It has a lot of relevant, helpful info that is well organized and easy to navigate, and the manufacturer's suggested retail price is their too which puts pressure on stores not to overcharge which I find a lot of the music stores here in Winnipeg, Canada do due to the smaller market and lack of competition.

I've been playing for about 10 years. I own a newer Washburn cutaway acoustic (2002), a Crate GX-15, an older fender acoustic now always tuned to open E with high action for playing slide, an old beat up Jaguar acoustic with burn marks on it from the campfire, and my name carved into it.

If it was lost or stolen, I would definitely buy it again - or maybe the head/cabinet version to hopefully get more volume out of it (I may end up buying a cabinet, soon I will try a friends to see if this thing can move some air). For the money it's great. If I had unlimited money, I would instead buy about 10 other amps, 5 or so effects, and a couple of speaker cabinets to give me better sound than the Behringer.

Hammerhart! Das Teil das alles, was ich brauche, in super Qualitat und zu diesem Preis! 31 Amp- und 15 Speaker-Modelle, dazu noch echt brauchbare Effekte. Die Nutzbarkeit der, qualitativ hochwertigen, Effekt-Section wird aber leider durch die bescheuerte Regelung der Modulationsgeschwindigkeit stark beeintrachtigt. Anstelle des Tasters sollte hier wirklich ein Poti zu Einsatz kommen. Au?erst praktisch sind die umfangreichen Ein- und Ausgange ? perfekt fur?s Recording. Die Verarbeitung ist optisch und technisch Beispielhaft. Robustes Gehause und auch die Potis machen einen super Eindruck. Auch innen ist er sehr sauber verarbeitet.

Ich spiele daruber eine selbstgebaute E-Gitarre im Les Paul-DC ? Style mit sehr starken Humbuckern. Der V-Ampire bringt mein Spiel(-Gefuhl) genau so ruber, wie ich das gerne mochte. Der Jensen-Speaker allein klingt mir allerdings etwas zu ?kalt? und er hat mir auch zuwenig Druck. Deshalb habe ich noch eine Zusatzbox mit einem 12'' Eminence Veteran drangeklemmt. Die Klarheit des Jensen, gepaart mit der Warme des Eminence klingt geil.
Welch super Leistung die Sound-Designer von Behringer geleistet haben, hort man vor allem uber die Line-Outs. Ehrlich gesagt, habe ich die allermeisten Modelle noch nie in Echt gespielt, aber soweit ich es beurteilen kann, sind sie alle sehr authentisch. Ich liebe vor allem die warmen, dynamischen Lead-Sounds, die man damit 'zaubern' kann.
Die Effekte sind allesamt gut. Besonders gefallen mir die verschiedenen Hall-Versionen und das Auto-Wah. Die anderen klingen zwar auch alle gut, ich nutze sie aber noch recht selten. Das wird sich aber sicher andern, wenn ich den Midi-Footcontroller habe, dann kann man alles viel besser steuern.
In der Not kann man uber den V-Ampire sogar recht passabel mit der E-Acoustic spielen und sogar singen. E-Bass habe ich noch nicht probiert.

Zur Zuverlassigkeit kann ich hier noch nichts sagen. Ich habe ihn erst seit 7 Monaten und noch nie allzu stark beansprucht.

Brauchte ich bis jetzt nicht.

'Ne volle 10! Das Preis/Leistungsverhaltnis vom V-Ampire ist echt super. Den gebe ich so schnell nicht wieder her! Fur unterwegs werde ich mir auch noch den kleinen V-Amp zulegen. Seit ich den V-Ampire habe, macht das Spielen noch mehr Spass.
Gro?es Lob an Behringer.

2004, too many features to list, forp the price its absolutely ridiculous. If i could give it an 11 in tthis category I would! I compared this to the Line 6 spider 2 series combos and they are night and dsay aprt as far as features go, the biggest one being thaty the Spider 1x12 has no extension speaker outlet which rteally blows if you want to gig with your small combo, the Vampire does!

OK, first off, I primarly uses a Peavey 5150 head with a Marshall 1960 4x12 cab, so Im used to a crunchy, high gain tube tone. I have been able to dial in a VERY usable, close sound with the Vampire by using the "brit hi gain" model( JCM 800) with the drive function on. ADD some reverb and a small dab of chorus and im in Van Halen heaven. I play in a VH tribute band so the real test was to take it to a gig, which I did last night. It sounded great, was plenty loud enough, in fact I have no idea what epeople are bithcing about as far as the volume for this unit is concerned. I had it turne dup just past halfway and with the PA it was fine. This "Test" made me realize more than ever that tone is 95% in your hands. I sounded the same playing through this as i did with my 5150, so I am led to beleive that a lot of people out ther who are so against digital/modeling amps simply cant really play....sorry guys, truth hurts. With this replace my 5150? NO, but I will be confident taking it to gigs where I dont want to hurt my back lugging around a half stack. I have yet to try this baby direct, but heard it sounds AMAzing going thru the board....we shall see..

Just got it, people say Behringer stuiff is crap, non reliable, made in China, etc..I will wait and see what happens

never dealt, but they are in Germany so I dont know about this one

Have to give a 10 for the overall because I have spent so much money on so many amps over teh years and this one seems to have the potentioal of being able to do what 10 of them combined can and then some.....for $300 bucks??!!! Who cares if it dies aftewr a year, just buy another one and you are still ahead of the game compared to spending $1000 plu like you would for a lot of amps. and by the way, Line 6 has NOTHING on this amp. Its way cheaper, has way more features and sounds much better and more realistic. What else can I say?

I believe the unit I purchased was made in 1993. It is very versatile.
I play in a classic rock band and the ability to cover clean to
heavy distortion is there. I have used this amp for the last year on gigs at clubs. If I could influence the design team at Behringer, I would ask for 2x the internal power and the ability to assemble the effects individually.

I use this amp with a us stratocaster with emg active pickups. In general this setup is very quiet even with the noise gate set at 25%
or less. This amp can create about any sound ever made with the exception of pitch-shifting. The clean patches are a bit weaker than
the distortion patches but I believe this can be evened out in the overall setup.

Last winter I left the amp in the equipment truck and 2x all the presets were lost (just a jumbled digital mess remained.) After replacing the interior backup battery and never letting the unit get cold again, the problem has never repeated itself. It has remained
reliable for gigs the last 9 months. This hard lesson though has inspired me to become adept using the setup software that is available on the behringer website. Saving and or restoring presets is simple using a computer/sound blaster soundcard and a couple of midi cables. I originally ordered the fcb1010 controller that did not work until behringer sent the free update chip. Once installed everything worked fine. At one point I thought the sound was a bit weak and the tuner was not working well. After borrowing a new cord, the sound was great and the tuner worked perfectly. I wonder how many people bashing this amp really have other problems or have not
invested the time to really understand it. The manual is a bit hard to interpret.

Behringer is very helpful and quick to help.

I have been playing for 30 years and the last 5 in a weekend band. If this were stolen I would have to replace it as it is my signature sound. I could not reproduce this with any of the marshall, hiwatt or other tube amps/effects that I have accumulated over the years. I run the amp on top of a 4x12 marshall cab using the right output to power
the right sise of the stereo image. It sounds very good but needs to run at 3/4 volume to keep up with our hard driving drummer. My solos are never quite powerful enough though. I tried an experiment at practice running the vampire direct line stereo outs through a compressor and 400 watt power amp then to a 4x12 stereo cabinet. NOW THAT IS WHAT I WISH THAT BEHRINGER COULD PROVIDE. Line 6 sells a head like that but I believe it costs 1600+ dollars. Overall, It takes a lot of time to understand how to use this effectively but once mastered I believe anyone would appreciate its capability.
ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE $299.00 PRICE TAG.

Where do I start? I bought this amp a little over a year ago, for the price of ?499.

This amp has everything a guitar player could ever need. There are so many features, it'll take a long time to process them all. There are some effects missing (like a pitch shifter), but as a complete package, it doesn't disappoint. If you also take the price into concideration, there's just nothing like it.

First of all, there's the amp-simulators. There are 32 of them, ranging from clean to over-the-top distortion. There's a good balance, but the emphasis seems to be on the hi-gain models. I'm not familiar with all the "real" amps, but almost all of them sound very musical and useable. A complete list can be found on http://www.v-amp.com.

You also get digital cabinet simulators (15 types), plus an analogue ultra-G 4x12'cab-sim.

Then there are the effects. There's REVERB (9 types), DELAY (3 types), CHORUS, FLANGER, PHASER, COMPRESSOR, TREMOLO, ROTARY, AUTO-WAH and PEDAL-WAH.

Also, there are lots of possible connections. There is a PRE_DSP EFFECTS LOOP (which can be used to record "clean" while listening to the "wet" sound). A stereo HEADPHONE jack, XLR BALANCED STEREO OUTPUTS, JACK-TYPE UNBALANCED STEREO OUTPUTS, 2-button FOOTSWITCH (included!!), MIDI IN-OUT, STEREO AUX IN (with volume knob), 2 SPEAKER OUTPUTS, and of course, one INSTRUMENT INPUT.

It's a 2X50 watts stereo amp, that works as a 50 watts mono amp through the supplied 12' Jensen speaker (8 ohm)

I don't know how Behringer has done it, but this amp really sounds awsome. I use a couple of Les Paul guitars, an Ibanez RG370 and an Ibanez SA160QM, both with Seymour Duncan Pick-ups. It sounds absolutely amazing, both with clean and distortion settings.

When I bought the amp, it was not my intention to buy it because of its simularities with the real amps. I bought it to create my own sound with it. I guess that's what this amp is best at. You can create some wonderful sounds with it that have never been heard before.

I play mostly progressive rock/metal, but we also have a cover band, where we play all kinds of styles, like blues, pop, rock and even folk. The V-ampire does everything with style.

Is it noisy? Not at all. I use it for recording in the studio, and it is the most quiet amp I have ever used in my 25 years of experience.It's also the best sounding and versatile amp I ever heard.

By using the Ultra-G cab-sim, you can have the best direct-to-mixer sound I've ever experienced! A digital cab-sim always sounds dry and not very "breathy". This is the solution I was looking for. It actually sounds like a 4x12' cab beeing mic'd. Very impressive indeed.

There is always a lively discussion on the net about which one is the best, Behringer or Line6. I guess it's a matter of taste, really, but this analogue speaker simulator takes the Behringer one step closer to making a digital machine sound like a real amp.

I've broken off one of the knobs once, but I could fix it myself without too many problems. Those knobs are NOT very sturdy, and a reason for concern! For the rest, this amp is reliable enough to take on the road.

I never had any problems with Behringer products, so I never had to deal with them.

I've been playing for 25 years, and have used many amps before. The Behringer V-ampire is the one I will keep. If it were stolen, I certainly would buy it again, although I would probably buy the newer head + cab model. Hell, I'll buy that anyway, and keep the V-ampire for home-use and back-up.

It's incredible what they have done with this amp, and I am very impressed with the overall value. I've compared it with different other models, like the Line6. Line 6 also make good amps, but they sound more "digital" to me. The difference, to me, lies with the Ultra-G speaker cab on the V-amp. When recording directly without a mike, the digital cabs from Line6 and Behringer (and others) don't sound very "lively". When you use the Ultra-G ANALOGUE cab-sim on the V-ampire, you really do hear the difference.

This is the best amp you can get for the money, it's as simple as that.