Engl Screamer 50 112 Combo

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.

You already know the features from the other reviews. And Im not here to fill inn any info on the amps features. Its a simple amp with all the esentials to tune in a good sound for most tastes.

I see this amp as an simple, no bullshit and straight forward amp,
just turn it on and pley. If you try this amp, just turn it on, set the bass, middle and treble to 12o' clock and you will most definately get a good sound.

The amp has only one eq, which isnt necessary a drawback. It needs more fiddeling to get a good sound from both clean and dist channels.
Since there is only one eq there is 4 drive modes rather than 4 channels.

The clean is just awsome, I love this channel. Its just so open and bright, and if you use your guitars tone pot-meter you can get a wide variety of sounds very easy.

I dont tend to use the pushed clean mode, but I use the HiGain a lot.
And both of them are really awsome, it kicks your ass and slaps you in the face every time. When turned up loud (and the amp can get loud as hell for its size) its just raw power. I felt like I had been touched by something evil the first time I turned this baby up.

I recon with the 4 different drive modes the amp can suit a wide array of different styles and sound. I personally have used this amp for metal, rock, blues and jazz, and it worked beautifully for every one of thoes styles.

This amp just has to experienced, it will blow you away. And if you try this amp in a store, please ask them to play it loud becaus thats the way its supposed to be played.

Iv had this amp for 2 years now. The first year I used it daily and I would transport it to and from bandpractice once a week, and sometimes moore. And it has never dissappointed, just plug in, turn on and theres that awsome sound.

The second year I owned it I was in military service, so it just stood at home collecting dust. And me and my Screamer is at our 3rd year, and its still going strong. Iv changed the power-tubes to a couple of Mesa & Boogie because the tubes that comes stock with the amp might be old and brittle. So after the change the amp got a little more powerful sound. I havnt changed the pre-amp tubes yet.

This amp is build like a German Tiger tank, you can drag around and it will just keep on giving you those great tones.

I havnt been in contact with Engl yet, but after what Iv heard from other people they are true Germans. The will help you with your problems and fix your amp at a moments notice.

Iv been playing guitar for 6 years now. And I bought this amp a couple of years ago, just after I had bought a Gibson Explorer. And those two together is my dream team.

If this amp were lost or stolen I would by a new one as soon as I could afford it. And if Im going to buy a new amp in the feature it will only be a bigger and louder Engl, like the Powerball.

I love that this amp is a simple and straith forward amp, it just works and its sound is just utterly pleasing. The only minor issue with this amp is that it is heavy as hell, about 30kg. But that isnt and issue. I love this amp so much that I just have to get stronger so that I can carry it around ;P

If you have questions about this amp, please mail me.

I personally don???t know what year my amp was made, and to be honest I don???t care!
But I do care whether this amp is versatile enough for me and the music styles I play. AND IT IS!!! I play from pop-funk-disco to melodic-poser rock and SCREAMER rocks in every style!! It has four switchable channels and an extra feature called V.L.S. which distincts this amp further compared with other combos. This VLS feature simply raises the amount of volume whenever you want and on whatever level you want!!! Your solos can finally be heard!! To be able to fully control the channels and reverb I use the Z-5 Custom Footswitch by Horst Langer (Great construction too) I use SCREAMER in studio and live applications and never let me down. It???s far more than 50 watts in your ear and your bandmates. And it???s build like a tank as many keep saying.

This amp can make a wide variety of sounds. From sparkling clean to vintage ones, from massive crunchy sound to Super Lead situations (if u know what I mean!). I use it both with Fender Stratocaster 60th Anniversary (also see my review on this) and Gibson Les Studio Plus. The results are awesome! (Keep in mind different EQ settings-TOTAL DIFFERENT GUITARS). SCREAMER definitely suits the music style I mentioned above, and it has a regular noise at VERY high levels as all amps on that level.

Until now Screamer never let me down, and I would use it without a backup. I depend on it 100% and as I said before it???s built like a DEUTCHE TANK!

I???ve never dealt with ENGL. My local dealer gave me 2 years full warranty so I???m happy for it. Also the authorized service is 10 minutes far from my home!

I???ve been playing for about 15 years and I have been the owner of several tube amps including Marshall DSL, TSL, Randall e.t.c. SCREAMER is by far the most versatile and high featured amp I???ve owned. The sound is just as pros keep saying HIGH END!
Retains its value, and is by far the best amp in his category or combos valuing two times more. Screamer outputs exactly whatever you input. So if you are not able to control your Green ones, you???d better try sth else. It???s a pretty Brit sound amp I could say with a character of high gain American ones. All these made and assembled in Germany by a group of people calling themselves ENGL Team. Somewhat like a custom one or not?
If it were stolen I would buy it again as Screamer head! I wish it was patched with midi options!!

This is a 50 watt,4 channel(with Footswitch)all tube amp. 6L6 Power tubes, 12 AX7 Pre amp tubes. Ch1-Clean, Ch2-Blues-AC/DC Crunch, Ch3-Heavy Crunch Overdrive, Ch4-Super Crunch Overdrive,Creamy Saturation. Footswitchable Spring Reverb. Footswitchable Adjustable Boost for each channel. Adjustabel Effects Loop. This amp can handle any gig from club to stage.

Clean channel is pretty good. Very Fender like but could use a little more headroom. Channel two can get you the AC/DC crunch easily with a Les Paul or awesome Stevie Ray tones with a Strat. Channel three can grind for classic rock or heavy blues. I have used this channel alot for rhythm and solos. Channel four is just all out sustain city for lead work. Overall I would give this amp a 9 for sound quality.

I've had this amp for almost a year with no problems.

Never had to call them

The only flaw of this amp is the Clean channel headroom...it just distorts a little too soon for my tastes. I sold my Marshall JCM900, JCM200 DSL, and a Mesa Single Rectifier Head after I got this amp. It can do it all and then some. I highly recommend you try one out(if you can find one in a store)They are definately worth a listen.