Engl Screamer 50 112 Combo

The ammp was made in 2008. It has 2 channels and 2 different gain settings for each channel.

I give it a seven as it does not have in built effects, but i dont want them anyhows

I did my 1st gig with it last night and my band were very impressed. It is plenty loud enough for a small venue and in my experience if you play a bigger venue it will be mic'ed up. Although the amp was loud enough, the sound man wanted to see what it's line out was like and he loved it. It has a feature that allows you turn down the signal and we got a good lvl for his desk very easily.
I found that this amp really suits my play style (alt folk rock). I mainly kept it on channel one, on the high gain setting and just played softly to get my cleans and then "dug in" as the songs got bigger - it breaks up nicely. The best thing about this amp is the solo/lead sound. It really cut through the band when they were all playing hard and the feedback tones are creepy and very controlable.
the distortion is suited to classic-heavy rock but not metal.

Only just got this amp, but in the showroom i tried an Orange Rocker (one of the volume controls had fallen off) a Blackstar A15(was fizzing when i turned it on) and this one (nothing wrong with it). The Rocker sounded good, but the broken bit put me off!

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I have been playing for 13 years and gigging for 12 of them, i would say that last night felt new.

It sounds great with Strat's and Les Paul's

the only thing i would say bad about this amp is that it does not come with a channel select foot pedal. And they told me in the shop that it would cost over ??120 for it! I was lucky to discover that you dont have to have the engl one and i am using a cheap Laney one to go between channels and it works fine - i just cant boost or get rid of the reverb.

See the Engl site for all the features. I use this amp at home for practise where it sounds great. I also have done several gigs with the amp. Never had a problem being heard.

Sound quality is lovely at bedroom levels. At practise it can be a little on the harsh side. Sounds much better through an external closed back cab like the Engl 112V

Very reliable...never let me down.

never dealt with them

If it were stolen I wouldn't buy again....sorry Engl but it's just too harsh for my liking. Has too much ice pick highs for my liking which are hard to dial out....This ain't a problem though with an external cab...sounds much better.

Only one EQ for 4 channels seems not enough, though it's not a problem, the presence knob helps to make the difference between clean and lead. Few knobs but in the end 5 have all I want for 4 channels - I use all with my band, clean for verses, cruch for bridges, soft or heavy lead for refrains and solos - with VLS for more volume for solos.
The Reverb is briliant. Great combo!\
And looks like an Angel ...

I own an Ibanez RG 2570 EVSL with DiMarzio IBZ pickups - it sound absolutely great on this amp - from sparkling cleans to heavy riffs and a hollowbody Washburn - wow! You can hear the amp crying! I use it on soft and heart breaking songs.
I play rock with blues, funk, folk, influences an this baby is perfect.
Clean - with BOSS CE-5 and the build in reverb is absolutely beautiful - very clear, and crispy, every note is defined, warm, very responsive (I played on a Fender combo before and I liked very much his clean - the SCREAMER is more sweet and powerful at the same time) I LOVE IT!
Crunch - you want blues or jazz? keep the gain at 10 and you have all you ever dreamed - with soft picking you have a well defined clean and when you're punching the strings you'll get distorted - BEAUTIFUL! With the gain above 12 you get vintage rock - very warm, a lot of sustain (even on FLOYD ROSE TREMOLOS !) And my hollowbody Washburn is in Heaven!
Lead Lo Gain - This is why I buyed this combo... Words are useless... Warm, solid, well defined (agressive if you want it) the Presence knob (again) is doing his job. My band is so excited about this channel... This is the sound we want it and I was looking for years.
Lead Hi Gain - the same as above, but more... :) You should have seen my face... When I've bring the Screamer first at the rehersal and play some metal riffs my band was stunted - Another photo missing :)

Not so noisy as expected, at very Hi Volume feedbacks - but I did't expect otherwise, but very useful feedback - my guitar loves it... i would never buy a noisereduction pedal with this baby - not needed (maybe because I don't need over 2'o clock gain - more than enough for me).

My guitars are crying now in the solos... with crystal hot tears.

To soon to say. I hope it won't let me down. It's german made and they have a very good reputation about reliability.
Looks very solid.

Before I buyed this I send an email to Engl with some question and the reply came next day, very explicit. THIS IS CUSTOMER SUPPORT.
RESPECT!

I studied Piano in music school. I play guitar since 1993 (15 years now). I use a gigboard with MORLEY wah, BOSS LS-2 line selector, BOSS CE-5 chorus, BOSS DD-20 delay(I use it through the combo's loop), BOSS TU-2 tuner.
If stolen? I would cry a river... I live in Romania and I made a bank credit for this baby(and few other stuff - like ENGL Z-5 floorboard, spare tubes, etc...) I would pay the bank for the next 3 years... so I hope it will stay with me. But in case of stolen (after crying and depression) I would try to buy it again.
I love this combo, I only heared on youtube (THANK YOU YUCCA !) and read all the reviews to ENGL SCREAMER on this site (THANK YOU HARMONY-CENTRAL !) but when it comes to me and I started to play I realise that is just as I expected AND EVEN MORE!
I don't have very much experience with tube amps (like others) but I don't have any reason to search something else. ENGL SCREAMER is everything I ever dreamed. I am so proud now with my "Angel"...

quite simple, all you need.

After 2 years, I quit with the screamer, dont get me wrong its a professionall Amp and the sound is also just good but to sterile and flat for me nowadays. Of course I changed the tubes and the Speaker but it dont please me, so its a keeper sure but not my main Amp anylonger its just at home now... Its a real "strong" amp, the louder it goes the more it screams, but physicaly the 1x12 size of the amp cant move much air to satisfiy tone so use extention cabs!! Its amazing for some Satriani or Dream Theater stuff ad a 4 x 12 cab and you can nail Metallica or Korn sounds. Its just a matter of taste, so maybe it will work for you Metalhead ;-)
I played many guitars over it and they all sound good and unique.
The reverb is workabel, fine.

It never let my down and I play 2 - 4 Gigs the week and practise a lot. So well made Engl.

Never dealed with but I think they are in Bavaria / Germany with the distribution over Koch Amps Bochum !!

All in all I will keep him for some "heavy Rock attacks", or as a Backup for gigs and for toying in the studio.
If you are a Mesa Boogie fan but dont has the money, than test one of these.
I play abaout 20 years now and have / had many equipment. This amp dont realy help my making music, becouse its all in youre hands and soul, but for a cheap&good allround amp this can work. Test it and make youre choose ?? This here its just me. So.......

lots of revues aboutr this amp so i will keep it short...
Lots of useable features. Will cover most styles of music.

very trebly, harsh sounding and unresponsive. The thing just sounds dead

had it for over three years, its done over 250 gigs, its on all day every day and its begining to become very unreliable, gettin through caps at an astounding rate. listen to your clean sound and if there is an underlying crackle....SELL IT

its all gone wrong outside of the warranty

probably ok for home use but its not sturdy enough for the road...oh yea it sounds crap too. i would pay someone to steal it!!!!!

PS.. I tried an orange thunderverb 50 today...do yourself a favour and check em out

2 channels with boost, one eq for both channels, fx loop with level knob, other useful stuffs. I give 5 not for the single eq (i like simplicity) but for the absence of a MIDI interface for the pedalboard. The original pedalboard is too expensive, and the stereo jack switches are to be connected to 2 double common switches, which are unconfortable if you're on stage and you need one single push to both change the channel and, for instance, activate the reverb.
Furthermore I think that at least 2 different knobs for clean volume and crunch gain had to be appreciated.

I would like to give to the reader my actual impression about this amp's tone, without being influenced by the fact that I'm the owner of this stuff.

Well... Since the moment I tried this amp, I thought all discussion and dissertations about how fine or terrible are clean channel on different amps were only matter for cheaters... Since that moment, I thought all clean channels were very similar, from low budget to medium-high budget amps (never tried a Bogner:)).

I was wrong. Once I tried the Screamer, I found a very different clean sound. Impressive punch, still producing clear notes even at high volume levels. The sound is very bright, defined, and controlled. I never thought to be able to appreciate those aspects (I played for many years but I never seriously dealed with tone construction).

Crunch channel is affected by the clean volume (which works as gain for the crunch). This is a costrain of the simplicity of this amp.

Lead and Boosted channels are very fine. The sound is compressed, punched, and "clear", i.e. it is not lost when all the band is playing.

I give 8. I like it very much but I'm sure there are much better pieces of equipment (e.g. Bogner) which are able to offer even better tone. Anyway, I think that if in the future I will need a more powerful amp, my first choice will be an ENGL head.

No problem so far

Hope this will remain a mystery.

Since one year something has changed in my playing style. In the past I was looking for great versatility, I had racks and pedals, I had the H&K Switchblade with a lot of effects, 128 memories and an absolute control of channels. Now I sold them all, I'm playing only with my guitar, a Carl Martin compressor, a tuner, and the amp. Period. That's very satisfactory.

This is why I give 8. Pure tones are what I'm looking for so far, and this amp is perfect for me - less knobs and more tone -. I don't actually care about the few features which it offers, even if the vote had could be raised to 9 with a couple of knobs more :)

German made, 4 channels, awesome reverb.
Valve all the way.

Ok. I did extensive research before I bought this amp. I read practically every online review that had been written and I listened non-stop to the youtube videos showing what sounds it could make (Well worth a listen by the way, Juca you kick ass). No matter what speaker set-up you have for your pc, NOTHING can replicate the sheer amount of awesome which comes out of this amp as soon as you hit a chord. The clean is absolutely insane. "Ringing like a bell" does not do it justice - its rediculously responsive, transparant and warm at the same time. It blows the absolute socks off any clean i've ever come across. Boosting the gain is slightly dodgy though, and this is my only real complaint with the machine. As long as you have your clean gain setting pretty high, just before it starts to break up, the extra gain boost gives you a very usable ACDC raw rock tone. As long as you pick hard then its fine. If your gain isn't already quite high though you do tend to get a pretty weedy version of the clean channel with a little bit more breakup. The overdrive channels melt my face repeatedly. The standard drive channel is everything you could possibly want for rhythm - palm muting is exceptionally tight and precussive. Boost the gain and things get sometimes uncomfortably gainy. There is definately enough gain here for anyone playing anything. High notes sing exceptionally clearly and last forever. The biggest difference between this amp and others within a comparable price range is that notes never get lost in the fuzz. You can let a low E ring with insane gain, and just noodle your way up the neck and you can hear every note perfectly. This amp is just so far above all the competition.

The outside of the amp is covered in a kinda slightly squidgy material which is pretty nice to stroke if your into that kind of thing. But it does tear if your not careful and can end up looking a bit pants. Just take care and you'll be fine. The grill is made of metal, its small, and its bloody heavy - its built like a miniture bomb shelter. If another war happens, just get inside it.

warrenty lasts a year i think which is fairly standard. Haven't owned it for long but nothing's happened to it yet. Fingers crossed it'll stay that way.

Been playing for aboot 7 years now and i've got a Gibby Les Paul Deluxe which i've pimped out with some Seymour Duncan Mini-Buckers (S-2 bridge and S-1 neck).
My only major beef with this piece of kit is the footswitch. Why does it have to be sold seperately, and why is it so rediculously bloody expensive! ??120 for something im going to stamp on repeatedly is just stupid. I'll probably end up buying it at some point but im kind've broke since i bought this :(

Since about half a year now, I own an Engl Screamer 50 112 Combo tube amp.
I think for an amp in his price range (??? 1000 Euro), the Screamer is extremely versatile, especially considering that it only has one EQ (separate controls for Bass, Mid, Treble) for the clean and the gain channels.
All in all it features four channels: Clean low gain, Clean high gain, Lead low gain and Lead High Gain. Other features: An effects channel (the rate of the wet signal can be adapted!), Master Volume A/B, Brilliance-Switch for the Clean Channel and a Lead Presence control.
I bought it together with a special Engl footswitch (M5 I think), with which you can separately access all four channels, activate the built-in reverb and switch between Master volume A and B.

I'm mostly using the amp with my Ibanez Jem550 as well as an old Strat and a Gibson LP Standard. I mostly use it for all kinds of standard rock stuff, but I'm sure you could also play all kinds of music with it. I'm not sure if it's brutal enough for metal and hardcore either.
I bought it together with a Engl 4x12 cabinet to give it more balls and have used it only in this combination, but it also sounds great without the cabinet. I don't use much effects with it, I have a compressor, a delay, and a CryBaby, that's it, the rest of the various sounds I make just with the volume cntrol of the guitar and the Engl footswitch I bought for the amp.
As for the stuff I'm playing with it, I love its sound, I think it's the perfect combination between a great clean channel and a great lead channel. The clean tone is nice and shiny and stays like that even at high volumes (at least that's how I want it, if you twist the controls a bit, you can also get a lead tone already with the clean channel), the lead channel has enough balls and you can easily "make it sing" but even when playing chords in the Lead high gain channel the individual notes can be heard, the sounds stays very transparent. And with the Master A/B-switch you always have the option to kick it up one more gear.
What I don't really like is the Clean high gain channel. It comes in handy sometimes, but for a crunchy tone I'd rather use the Lead low gain channel and turn down the volume on the guitar.
The noise when using the lead channel is ok, I think. Not exactly silent, but not too bad, either.

Only used it for one gig and practice so far, no problems whatsoever.

Haven't needed it so far.

To make it short: I love this baby. It's easy to use, but still versatile, it's loud enough for any venue (especially with the 4x12 cabinet I use with it) and the sound gives me goose bumps every time I turn it on. It's my first tube amp and I think it spoiled me for all other amps I might use in the future.

50 watt tube amp, loud as hell, haven't even got the master volume up over 1.5 yet. 2 channels (clean and distortion), with 2 different voicings on both channels. On the clean, the sound gets a little dirty, 70's style distortion. And on the distortion channel, the gain increases radically. The two channels share the same eq-sections, which is the downside of this amp, I must say. Nothing that really bothers me, but could have been separated, only for simplicitys sake.
Oh, and the clean channel has a bright switch too, which is good.
One thing I must say about the eq-section is that it is very responsive.
On other words, the sound drastically changes when you control the eq, which is really good, and that's a thing I missed with other amps.

This is exactly what I have been looking for. An extremely versatile tube amp. This thing can produce those deep, thick jazz leads, as well as chewing metal rhytms and soaring fusion leads. Everything you can imagine, to a very resonable price. I have owned so many amplifiers this summer, in the search for the ultimate. To name those: Fender Cyber-Champ, Peavey Windsor, Peavey Classic 30, Hughes & Kettner and Mesa Boogie Express 5:50. The ENGL Screamer 50 blows those away.
I use this amp with an Ibanez SZ 2020 FM, which is a really heavy guitar with mahogany body. I get a really nice tone with it. I am sure it will sound very nice with Telecasters and such.

I depend on it, because if this reason. When I had bought this amp, I returned home and was carrying it inside, when I dropped it on a stone stairway. It sounded awful, and I got scared as hell, thinking that the tubes had broke. But no, the thing kept on working. So this is like a god damn tank

Have never been in touch with them, so I can't tell.

I have been playing 4 and a half year, and I must say that I have found MY tone. As I said, I have owned a lot of amps, and this thing is good.
If it was stolen, I'd cry my eyes out. You get addicted to the ENGL Screamer.
Go buy it, I don't think you will be disappointed.

Not sure when mine was made, bought it 4 weeks ago new. 4 channels with a shared eq. This is the most versitile amp I have ever owned, i play jazz, blues up to hard rock and a bit of Metal. For a small combo, this is one loud amp(50 watt valve after all). A seperate eq for the clean channel would be nice, though you have to be pretty radical with the tone controls to get anything approaching a bad sound on any of the channels. One thing though, you have to pay extra for the superb footswitch, $400 Australian.

The clean on this amp is beautiful. I have a Twin and side by side they are similar, I prefer the clean on the Engl, it has a beautiful transparency to it and the warmth of the valves is all ways there. The second channel (boosted clean) can give you a great ACDC crunch or a nice bluesy lead. Playing in a 7o's rock band, i find i use channel 3 the most, sounds a lot like a JCM 800 i used to own. Channel 4 (boosted 3) is the high gain channel, i find this is great for solos and the modern high gain stuff. I think for me the most astonishing thing about this amp is that you can play it quietly and still get a great over drive sound, right down to virtually nothing! Couldn't do that with my 50 watt JCM 800 combo, nor my Rivera R100 combo, or the Pro tube Twin, they all had to be cranked. How do they do it? Its like it has a built in attenuater. I walked into the music shop determined to buy a good solid state half stack because of this reason. The salesman, after letting me play through their good range of solid state amps steered me in the direction of this little Engl, no contest! The second brilliant thing about this amp is that you can get a clean to rivel a Twin and change channels and have a choice of three great overdrives, what else in this price range can do that? My Rivera could but only after making my ears bleed and at a much higher price.

The build quality reminds me of the Rivera, very well put together and should last for years, makes the Fender look shoddy. Apart from that, only had it 4 weeks.

Been playing for about 10 years. I play a Mex strat with Lace sensors in it and it sounds superb. If it was stolen I would cry, track the bastard down and throw my Twin at him, and get another Screamer 50. Buy one, you won't be disapointed.