Engl Screamer 50 112 Combo

50 Watt Tube Amp, 4 Channels (Clean, Crunch, Lead 1 and Lead 2), FX Loop, 2 x 8 Ohm, 2 x 16 Ohm. 2 Standard Footswitch Inputs, 1 ENGL Z5 (Custom) Footswitch Port. Master EQ for all 4 Channels. I use this amp for practice, jamming and small gigs.

At the moment im running an Ibanez Artcore ( Semi Hollow, Humbuckers ) through a Boss TU-2. The Clean Channel is surprisingly good, with a very warm tube tone. The Crunch and Lead channels are where this amp really shines. A tight bottom end, Quite adequate Mids and Clear Shimmering highs really give this amp its unique ENGL tone. Its produces very little unwanted noise even at maximum volumes.

Had been serviced ( Tubes replaced etc ) 3 months prior to purchase, and has shown no signs of use since ive owned it. Id prefer to have a backup amp available at a gig, although im quite sure i can trust this amp to withstand the most demanding of shows.

Havent had to contact ENGL.

I?ve been playing for approximately 4 years, its good to finally have an amp I don?t feel I will outgrow. If it were lost of stolen, id defiantly look into buying another, although I doubt I could find one for the price I have paid.

I bought that amp in 2004 at Musik Schmidt in Frankfurt Germany.
All the faetures where mentioned before - so let me just repeat, that this amp definitly got everything it takes.
The Screamer 50 Combo should always be bought together with the Z5 pedal.
The pedal does not only offer the easy switch between clean, crunch, light and heavy distortion and reverb, but it also offers two differnt levels of master volume for each of these sound settings - the pedal is absolutly worth the money (150 Euro).

The sound of this amp is incredible - great clean sounds, different levels of distorted sounds. It sounds clear and naturally warm too, it's a great amp that really bites distorted. The amp does not cover mistakes, so it's not that easy to play and sound good.
The guitars I use with that amp are Patrick Eggle Berlin Pro, Gibson Les Paul Classic and Gibson Les Paul 1954 Oxblood J.B.
All these guitars sound great with the Sreamer 50 Combo, but the Patrick Eggle is specially wonderful at the clean sounds on this amp - really good.

Like mentioned before, it's build like a tank and it looks awesome. Everybody who saw that amp, loved it on first sight just for the looks.

My first Screamer 50 Combo had bothering vibrations at low notes played without distortion at high volume levels. So I went to the store - Musik Schmidt in Frankfurt Germany - and they replaced it in no time without any further questions - great service!
The new one worked without any problem.

I love that amp for the sounds, the quality, the looks and size. It's a great amp that I would always buy again together with the Z5 pedel.

Bought from Chandler Guitars, Kew, Richmond, London.

I won't waste time repeating everyone else on this section but lets just say this amp has everything i will ever need (aside from effects, but then built in effects are often poop).

At present i use a PRS Santana SEII, which still has the factory pickups. These pickups had previously sounded pretty muddy and lifeless but the bright setting on this engl really helped. My musical styles vary from hard rock/ metal to blues and chillout stuff - the engl suits all of these really well and the only time something will actually not sound good is when you play a bum note or something. My only qualm with the sound would be that when cranked up about half way, the dirty lead channel has a bit too much bite and not enough beef, but this could be due to my guitar or possibly my lack of an EQ pedal (maybe i could look into changing the speaker?). That said, its hardly something to moan about and i much prefer it to a muddy toneless marshall sound, and its still fairly brutal.
The isn't noisy at all, except for the sweet feedback when you crank it up, which i obviously don't want to change... the clean channel is still clean when loud, and the boosted clean channel sounds really nice - not quite overdriven as such, but when the strings are played with a bit of muscle you get a juicy crunchy type sound.

To be honest i've only owned this amp for about 3 weeks but as everyone else has said, it is built like a tank, and weighs about the same too. I'm not expecting to have any problems in the near/ distant future.

Haven't dealt with them yet, but i think it came with a 2 year warranty so thats pretty good. Also, all of the company information was nicely presented on the shiny leaflets included in the amp. I was also informed by the shop that engl are really good with their customers so i'll give it another 9.

I've been playing since i was 7 (im now 18), and this is the first 'real' amp ive ever owned - up until now i've just been borrowing other people's, or using practice amps/ multi effects through stereos.

I went into the shop and asked the guy to show me some amps that had a sweet clean sound but also a meaty, brutal dirty sound, and at first he directed me to the engl screamer head, but i was really after a combo so i instantly plugged in to the screamer combo and pretty much knew this was the amp for me. I was only really wanting to spend about 500 max, but i couldn't let this go so i cracked into the money i'd been saving up for a car.

If this amp was stolen, i would almost definately replace it or get the screamer head and a fat cab. I love it's versatility, tone, feel, and the way it feels like it was made specially for me. I don't hate anything about it except it ridiculous weight, but when i have a car that wont be a problem.

In the shop, i tried almost every marshall combo they had (dfx series, jcm 800, 900, and 2000, and some others i cant remember). i also tried out some crappy line 6 combos which i thought were worthy of being dropped from a great height. i tried a couple of fender amps, and they weren't really best for all my styles. The only other amp in the same kind of league as this amp is the cheaper Laney LC50, which is really nice, but has a colder tone, no clean boost, and the dirty channel is not really built for metal/ hard rock.

I guess i wish it came with the Z5 footswitch but i guess thats asking a bit much, just means i have to use a marshall stereo footswitch until i can save up but thats alright for now.

All in all, this is f***ing sweet and i would recommend the amp and/or the engl name to anyone.

I guess you already know the features, so...the only thing I can say is that this beast suits the music I play perfectly. I play everything from pop music to heavy metal and this amp is versatile enough to do the job. The bad thing is that the footswitch is sold apart and it costs a lot, so...

I play a Strat plus. The clean channel is very good for an high gain amp: with the right setting you can get a fenderish tone easily, and reverb is superlative. The crunch channel is good but not the best crunch channel I've heard..however with the right stomp (I use a Fulltone Fulldrive II) the result is similar to a typical Marshall crunch. The soft lead is perfect for hard rock and the heavy lead is the channel for metal. The distortion is very brutal but different from the iper-compressed Mesa distortion, it's more "open", not too much compressed...if you want the nu-metal sound this amp is not good for you. However, at this price i doubt you can get more...

It seems reliable, but I've had it only for six months so I don't know

Never dealt with them, sorry.

I've been playing for 12 years and I've tried many tube amps. In my opinion for this price this is one of the best combo you can find. Only I wish it had another speaker, but nothing it's perfect...

The Amp was built in 2003. German Tube Amp :) Its fits on every style i play, mostly Death Metal, Black Metal, Rock, Industrial. 4 channels: clean, crunch, soft lead, heavy lead, heavy lead via gain lo/hi.
It doesnt have a Headphone jack but a FX-Loop. I mostly use the amp at home but only on 0,7 or something. Its BRUTALLY LOUD!

I Use 3 Different Guitars. A Ibanez K-7 with Blaze Custom, J&D 7 String and a Epiphone Les Pauls. It sounds Great with every Guitar. The Heavy Lead Channle is so damn Brutal.. you wouldnt belive it. The Clean is awesome.. didnt heard a better one. At high volumes it just gets godlike. Nothing can stop you.. i only say.. Recto Killer.

Its built like a tank.. and it weights also like one :)

Never dealt with em.. But heard that the service is great.. Its German.. not a crappy japanese one

I would never get a Recto since i have this amp. Its just great..
If it were stolen i would kill the guy and eat him.

Built in 2003...all the features have been listed in other reviews so I won't waste space going over it all again. But for me, this amp has everything I need.

A Strat Plus Deluxe and a Gretsch Tennessee Rose. All the gain I need and loads of clean headroom. This amp is loud enough for any stage. I could only improve matters by getting an extension 4x12 to give more depth, etc. But that's not a criticism of the amp, only getting around the limitations imposed by a single 12" speaker in an open-backed cabnited.

Haven't had it long enough to really comment, except to say that mine works 'out of the box'.

Haven't had to test this area yet.

I've been playing for over 30 years and have used amps from Fender, Vox, Marshall, Peavey, Laney, you name it....

I've also tested Boogies, plus many other exotic offerings, and none give me quite the same thrill as this map does. It may be a question of taste at the end of the day but this is certainly my flavour.

I must admit the store salesperson is entirely responsible for me choosing this amp. I previously would not have entertained an Engl..simple because it didn't figure in my list of acceptable 'names', you know what I'm talking about. However, all that has changed since the guy pushed me in the Engl direction. I am eternally grateful to him.

Made in 2002. Fits anything from jazz to hard rock.

4 channels. Only 1 eq, 2 volumeknobs, 1 mastervolume, Reverb, lead presence. No headphone input, a speaker simulated output, effect loop with level adjustment.

If you buy the Engl Z-5 pedal, you'll will have an VLS-function. You can switch between to mastervolumelevels. Great feature. (the pedal is a bit expensive, but is worth all the money)

My neighbors miss the headphone socket, and it's something irritation with only 1 eq, but it's sounds great! - no matter one. Very simple, it's hard to do something wrong.

I use a Ibanez AM100 with Gibson '57 pickups. I play mostly jazz and blues/rock - great sounds! My guitar is a semihollow, so no metalsounds. Have tried it with other more hardrockaxes - great sound too.

The clean: Very clean - something like a Fender Hotrod. But more like hmmm ENGL! If you turn up the clean and the master down, it can crank up nicely.

The crunch: The sound of rock! - great channel. Great for leadblues, and some fusion.

Soft lead: Great lead, fits rock very well. Not muddy at all.

Heavy Lead: Great sustain, very creamy sounding. Can be used for a lot of lead (and I will never use it for anything else) - but metal freaks can proberly use for rythm.

All in all reproduces what you play mercilessly, you can hear all your mistakes - and that's was a problem in the beginning, but has helped me to play better. So it's great...can get the best out of you. GREAT SOUNDS!

I have used it for gigs without a backup - no problems. Once my other guitarrist dropped a coke on the pedal. I washed it with water and soap - works like it was new.

Bought at Aage Jensen, DK. With this amp I got great service. There hasn't been any problems, but the man at the shop told me, that they almost never have problems with Engl-amps. He could only remember one, who had a defect reverb tube or something (I'm no techical freak)

I've playing guitar since I was 8 years, electric guitar since I was 14. I'm 18 now, and have now played pretty seriusly for about 1 year - started about when I bought the amp.

I don't even have a distortionpedal, cause this amps really rocks!

If it was stolen, I would cry - and buy another amp. Maybe this one, or maybe a cheaper one. Sometimes I actually feel, I'm not good enough for the amp - but I'm also a modest boy..:-)

This Model was made in 2002.
4 Channel, all valve amp - Clean, Crunch, Soft Lead and Heavy Lead. Spring reverb, effects loop, line out and sockets for extension cab and foot switches.

Two main shortcommings of the amp are the lack of a headphone socket and the fact that the foot switch for channel switching, reverb etc is not included (and is VERY expensive - #115)

take two points off for what is otherwise a very good amp

WOW
I went into the shop to decide between a Vox Valvestate and a Marshall AVT150 - the guy in the shop said rather than buy a solid state amp that was trying to sound like a valve amp, why not try the real thing. I tried it and was blown away. The Vox and the Marshall could not even try to come close to this amp - I played it for an hour in the shop then played each of the others for about a minute each - they just could touch this amp - the tone is superb.

I play a Les Paul and an Ibanez Ergodyne and I like classic rock sounds which this amp produces perfectly - and VERY loudly as well.

Both the Valvestate and the Valvetronix are very good amps and give a very good approximation of a valve amp, but they DO NOT compare to the real thing - i cannot repeat that enough - this amp sounds like heaven!! - if i could give it an 11, I would.

Haven't had it that long so can't comment - my only worry is the valves - I carry it VERY gently and ALLWAYS carry spares - haven't needed them yet though

no contact as yet, but the guitar shop rates them very highly

Have been playing for 10 years and have had a number of solid state amps - mainly Laneys and have never got "THE SOUND" - I've got it now though. The guy in the shop is a professional musician and owns 7 Marshalls - he is still going to get one of these though. As I said, my only gripes are the lack of a headphone socket and the price of the foot switch - its very solidly built though.

Made in 2001. All valve amp. Four channels - clean, crunch, soft lead, heavy lead, with separate gain controls for the clean/crunch channel and the lead channels. It has a very nice reverb, effects loop, and an adjustable master volume accessable through a footswitch. The controls are very easy and very sensitive to adjustment. I suppose the only thing I would want in terms of features would be separate Eq for the clean channel, however this can be overcome by placing one or more eq pedals in the effects loop.

I am using a 1992 Les Paul standard, and a 2002 American series Stratocaster. I run the guitar into a TS-9 Tube Screamer with all dials on set about 10:00 o'clock (I like the compression and the edge I get from the tube screamer.) I have a Boss eq pedal in the effects loop - bass and treble boosted with scooped mids. I use good quality leads. I play AC/DC, Led Zep, Neil Young, Cream etc.

Clean channel: This channel is really nice with the stratocaster. With clean channels I like just a bit sting in the sound, so a bit of gain here or over-drive from the tube screamer produces are very workable sound. While shopping around for a new amp I tried the Fender Pro Tube series amps. The clean channel on these amps is just simply amazing. (The distortion channel was OK but nothing special, a bit weak for my taste) I think most people would agree - Fender set the standard for clean channels, you cannot beat a good Fender clean sound. While you might come close, you wont beat it.) Having said that I was surprised at how nice the Engl's clean channel sounded. I would say it is about 85-90% as good as the Fender (not bad considering you are comparing with a sound that has been perfected over a long peiod.) It is very open and has a nice bite when you dig in.
Crunch channel: This is where you will be surprised. This channel really kicks ass. Turn up the gain and it sounds like a Marshall Plexi. I think Engl have said to themselves what is the best sounding crunch amp going and can we better it - Yes they can! This is the channel where you can play all of the classic 70s and 80s rock sounds - AC/DC, Zep etc. This channel has alot of head-room - stand back. This channel sounds great with stuff like "Highway to Hell" "Stairway to Heaven" and "Sweet Home Alabama", "Run like Hell".

Soft Lead: I don't use this channel much. I suppose I have not really explored the possibilities, because the heavy lead channel sounds so damn good. I am sure there are alot of songs/styles that would suit this channel.

Heavy Lead: OK this is where the amp really excels. This channel defines the Engl sound. Open chords sound really well defined (best I have heard on any amp. I compared the Screamer with a Mesa Boogie Nomad 45 combo. The Mesa had a nice clean channel - the Screamer's clean channel was very close to the Mesa. The distortion channel was a different story. When I played the Mesa I was expecting wonderful things to happen. However, I didn't say to myself 'Yes this is the sound I have been searching for..." It was OK, but pretty ordinary. On the other hand, when I played the Screamer, I said "YES YES YES"! I couldn't beleive it. I kept on trying the Mesa and coming back to Engl. There was no comparison - the Screamer sounded alot better. Here we go again, I am thinking Engl have done it again.... outdone what is often considered one of the best sounding distortion amps. So what we have is the best of everything - a very close Fender black face (clean channel), a better sounding Marshall Plexi (crunch channel) a better sounding Mesa (distortion channel). I would say that these are not copies but rather interpretations with a unique Engl sound. Make no mistake the Engl has its own voice.

So far OK.

I have sent 3 emails to Engl, received a reply for one.

I have been playing for 30 years. I have had 2 Marshall JCM 900s (dual reverb and SLX) before this. Marshall has one great sound and that is it. (Although the Marshall distortion can sound very muddy at times.) If that is all you want, well then that is great. However if you want every song you play to sound fantastic, think about getting an Engl. The Screamer is very versatile. It has obviously been designed with one thing in mind - great tone in each channel. Congratulations to Engl. I don't think you will find a better sounding combo for the money. I hope I will have this amp for a very long time.

Allright, mine was a 2001 model, features like mentioned before. 50 tube watts, which even are too loud to be able to play at a master volume 5, my bandmembers get blown away. Shame, now I only get pre-amp distortion.Engl traded it for a 2002 model due to strange hum.

We play popular (hard)rock and pop with the band, and I like to play some cool funk. Guitars: Blade Strat, Yamaha Pacifica with Seymour Duncans and an '78 Ibanez Mucisian. The Screamer suits it all. Just want some more EQ, and seperated for clean and lead channel. Strikes me that I have to turn up the volume of the lead channel to 8 or 9 to get a simular volume to the clean channel at 5.

The vinyl sucks badly. It ets hurt just by lookin at it. The amp itself rules in sound, but my amp suddenly had terrible hum, not due to the tubes which were changed immediatly after my complaint. So I got a new amp! Is that service or what!

Never got any answers from Engl's website, but at the store it's unbelieveble. My amp had noise problems. After first changing the end tubes, which was'nt adequate, the store just gave me a new amp and send mine to Engle. I will only buy Engle in the future!

Play for some 15 years, play Rock, Rockabilly, Funk, Soul and Disco. Even nice vintage sounds are possible with the internal reverb and a little slap back echo from may TC G-Major. Lead distortion sings superbly and with a Strat, some chorus and perhaps a little EQ from the G-major you'll get that funky stuff. Just love the crunch.