Yamaha DG60-112

Pretty well covered. I love having a full set of tone controls for each channel, and having the "1" and "2" settings for each setting to me they seem like a Gibson and a Fender setting for each one (e.g. one is darker and one is more treble which works well for switching between guitar types.) Love the split mids too.

The weakness is the speaker. I replaced mine with a Celestion and it brought the amp alive. Gobs more bass and a light tighter sound. Less "boxy" too. I wouldn't have given this amp the time of day being a gear snob, but a couple years ago I was at a Guitar Center and in the closed room with all the spendy axes they had one of these sitting atop a Bogner Shiva. I was tinkering with the Shiva and plugged in this thing for a lark. I was shocked. It was a hoot. Where was this amp when I was 15? Two completely independent channels, some groovy distortion and overdrive, independent reverb for each channel, lot's of settings and no BS digital interface to fool with - knobs baby, knobs! I twist a knob and get what I want - I don't want to program the bloody thing. Anyhow, it's been a great utility amp, and not a bad acoustic guitar amp. Pre-speaker it's a 6.5, post speaker change a solid, proud 8.

Once the speaker is gone a trooper. Oddly enough the speaker wasn't even cranked down, you could almost take the nuts off by finger torque. Solid state, one would imagine it's similar to Peavey reliability.

Jimminy X-mas, for the price of a decent pedal, here is a heckuva good sounding amp. These really deserve a look. If you stumble into a used one grab it and throw a newer speaker in there. For value it's a 10, nothing could touch the flexibility and tone of this thing at the price I got it. I have a gaggle of Fenders, a Vox, etc and still am pretty impressed by this one.

2 Channels with 8 different amp settings. Each channel having a master, trebble, bass, mid high, mid low and reverb. Doesnt have a foot switch to change between channels, but you can buy one. Has effects loop with blend nob, line out/headphone jack. Speaker mute switch. I think it should have come with a foot switch.

The first thing I thought when the guy showed me the amp, "60 watts!!! I am not buying this tini amp". But little did I know...

OK, play with a Hohner Les Paul with Seymore Duncan high output bridge and medium/high neck. My music style is Metal and it fits my style well.

I was originally wanting to buy a Marshall MG250DFX. I also considered a Crate GTX212 and a Fender 212. I tryed this Yamaha by chance, I never even considered it. But when I played on it! WOW!!! It was really something. It felt like I was playing on a tube amp. Tone was awsome. Then, I plugged into the Marhslall 250. Um... what a let down. Really. Then tryed the Fender, then the Crate. And believe me, the yamaha amp sounds really good. For Metal/Hard Rock, this amp kicks some serious ass.

Then, I though to myselft, well, the amp sounds good but its just a 60watt. So, I compared it to the 100watt Marshall. I played both on 9/10. I could not believe my ears!!! The Marshall Struggled while the Yamaha still sounded clear. Believe me! The thing with the Marshall, it starts sounding struggling when it is on high volume, while the yamaha still sounds strong on high. This amp is seriously loud (And clear when loud).

The amp can make all sorts of different sounds. You really have alot of power to cusomize your sound. It has a hummm but now nearly as much as the Marhsall has.

The clean channel is still perfect on high volumes. As I said above, this amp handles high volume well. Really well.

The distortion is really good. Still trying to decide whether I prefer the MT-2 on it.

I have only had it for 3 days. I will submit another review in 6 months or so.

Have not used it yet.

I have been playing for 5 years. I have a Hohner Les Paul, Boss ME-30, Boss Metal Zone, J/Dunlop Cry Baby, Heath 60watt 212 and of cource the Yamaha DG60 112. If it were stolen or lost, I would have to buy it again. Because the amps that I compared it too (Crate GTX212, Crate GTX112, Marshall MG250DFX, Marshall MG100DFX, Fender 212) this amp is better.

All I have to say is, try this thing. Personally, I think that this Yamaha is under rated, and the Marshall is over rated. The crate is quite nice but lacks alot of features and doesnt have as nice tone as the yamaha.

I will submit another review when I have had it for 6 months.

Here's my two year status report on this amp ...

After two years of punishing this sturdy little amp (see my review from May 2001 down below) I do find I'm still wanting a few features: a linked channel switch and reverb footswitch port would be nice (why two separate connections requiring two separate footswitches?); an alternate speaker out for use in driving an extension cab would be IDEAL; rear-mounted PA outs for going direct; maybe a footswitchable effects loop but I go back and forth on that one.

I find this amp is versatile enough to use to play many styles of music, and also versatile enough to use different guitars and keep each guitar's character intact.

I'm still playing all kinds of stuff with it, though I gravitate towards rock a la Foo Fighters, Tool, Hum, My Bloody Valentine, U2, all the good stuff.

After two years this thing is holding up well - noise comes mostly from my pedals and not the amp itself. On extreme gain settings the distortion has some wicked hiss to it but what amp doesn't without some kind of noise gate? On the clean tones there's a bit of a hiss that can wash out the last few blips of delay or echo.

I've found my favorite sounds are two of the factory settings, actually. The "everyday clean" from Clean2 and the "overdrive accentuating the lows and highs" from Drive2. I settled in on those almost by accident through my own tweaking - I guess if I read the manual two years ago I would've had instant gratification. :) I find the Drive2 to be the best channel for my music style, when I use an overdrive or booster (I have a Nick Greer Sonic Boom fronting the input) in conjunction with the Drive2 channel it's heaven for me. Big sound at moderate volumes and just the right amount of oomph from riffing chop to lead sustain.

I really like the sound of this amp. For what it is - a practice amp and a home recording tool - it's still great.

However ... I can't give it a 10 because of it's serious predisposition to guitars with humbuckers and the fact I can't find a useful dirty tone from the Drive1, Lead1, or Lead2 channel. There's too much midrange skank in there for me. Maybe for some guys that's cool, but I like my EQ to be very smiley face in shape and those channels just don't work for me ...

... as does using this amp with single coils. I find to get the same thick sound as humbuckers through Drive2 I have to use single coils through Lead2. Playing through anything less than dimed out gain on Lead2 with my Warmoth Strat with Texas Specials results in high end to the point it's piercing and unmusical. I've tried many different settings on the amp and with pedals and I just can't come to a happy resolution.

It has always powered on and all the functions have always worked.

I've never needed Yamaha customer support in the two years I've played through this amp, and since I bookmarked the website I have access to the manual when I need it.

After two years, still a great amp for the money and the reason it's used, still a good value and still sounds great with my humbucker equipped guitars which is what I play most of the time.

Made in 2000? This amp is versatile, in that it sounds not very good in alot of sounds. 2 channels are great but getting the optional footswitch is difficult and definitely special order. If this is really so much better than the other modeling amps than they must really be terrible, and it has been a long time since I regularly used an old solid state amp, but the "acoustic" brand 100 watter with tremolo I used to play, I remember i sounding much better than this. (it was a 6x10 piggy back though. The Yamaha has about enough power to play over drums, although I have not been in a band for a long time and have not done that.

I play it with a fender old tex mex strat, a fender standard telecaster and a jay turser strat (which has a troublesome neck, but sounds good.) I don;t find it noisy. I wanted a no maintenance, light, simple powerful amp and after reading the reviews here a couple years ago (about) I shopped around and guitar center said they would sell me one for $299. which sounded like a deal and a half, but There is no comparison to a tube amp. I am so stupid, I might try to buy a better speaker ( although I personally have no problem with fender tube amps through an eminence speaker which is what I read Yamaha use) I may even build a solid wood cabinet with glued cut joints and see how that works, I really would like to hear this amp sound good, but to me, it just never gets there. I want to be easy, but I don't like it.

I think you can depend on it. That is why I bought it. I have a marshall JCM 900 100 watt combo with 1 12. It was not my first choice, but when I realized I needed another nice tube amp, it was available at a good price. The only contrast I would draw, is that that marshall sounds so much more like an amp is supposed to sound, but after a lot of play these last couple years, it is starting to crackle and hum, so it is time to replace tubes and celan it up a little. Tubes are expnsive and maintenance is time consuming. I am older now and I have more money and stuff, but when I was younger and broke and gigging alot, I couldn't always pull that kind of thing off, that is why I bought the Yamaha, so let's rate it great for reliability.

SUre they are fine, I personally never have time to deal with manufacturers on stuff. I used to always buy used, so I am in the habit of hiring guys to fix stuff, I am the wrong person to ask.

I have played 20 years, I began on a fender champ which my dad gave me when I was 13 years old and I had a department store electric guitar. I jammed that thing with a drummer and did not realize how spoiled I was. Since then I have owned a few fender amps, an acoustic solid state when I was broke and needed something, Now I have a Marshall 100 W JCM 900 combo, and electar 10 watt chinese tube amp which I prefer plugging into over the Yamaha (which should tell you alot.) I am now mostly an acoustic bluegrass player, but I like to play rock on electric guitar for my own edification in my jam room. I realize that "It is not the arrow it is the indian" and if you mess around with the Yamaha, you can get something that sounds pretty good, but the second you plug into any piece of crap chinese tube amp alongside it, you'll realize the Yamaha sucks. I am a fan of new technology and a fan of buying cheap stuff that works, I am a fan of Yamaha and now I have a pain in my arse because I bought this piece of crap for what turned out to be all the wrong reasons. I will say these other players who reviewd tis amp positively must be much better than I am to make this thing sing, and my hat is off to them. This amp would not have inspired me as a beginner.

This amp will cover many styles and do some very well. The amp
has 2 channels each with 8 amp types. Effects loop with blend
control. Headphone & lineout jack. This amp isn't as loud watt
4 watt as a tube amp, but is loud enough for club gigs and a
drummer no problem.

This is where the Yamaha scores high and the reason I bought
this amp. TONE! It is simply the best non-tube amp I've ever
played. Not to mention I got it for $245.00 used. I mostly use
the Crunch 1/Gain 4 for most of my stuff. And set the B
channel with crunch 1/but Gain 7 for a Steely Dan/Calton
type sound. The Dive setting can do Class A stuff well--not my
gig--Also the Lead channels have enough gain for most--but to
much grit for me. The cleans aren't what I'd hoped for--not bad
but not the amps shinning points. Crunch 1's tones are worth the price of admission alone. P.S. The Reverb kicks ass. Very good for digital.

Construction is not bad, but could be better.

I've had good experiences with Yamaha.

Been playing a long time and own some really nice gear including
new and old tube amps. This is a big leap forward solid state and digital tecnologies. I think if Yamaha continued to deep'n and expand this line as well as beef up the build quality (i.e. plywood cab instead of glue-wood/maybe a vintage 30 speaker) they would have a real winning line of amps on their hands. Overall very nice amp
for the money.

Good features, no way to program presets though.

Sounds good with humbuckers or single coils but each needs to
be dialed for the guitar being played. Nice clean and edge
distortion sounds. Really heavy sounds at high volume tend to
crap out the speaker. Clean and medium grit can go gig loud
no problem. Reverb is pretty sweet for a spring sim, can even
do surf if jacked up. Over all it's a nice amp with a good usable
veriety of sounds. Not to mention no mantainence. Honest 8!

Be hard to tell. N/O

Never delt with them. N/O

Sounds better in my opinion then many of the other options
that are non-tube. Very close in sound to a tube amp and
about 85-90% of the feel. Does Fender and Marshall/Solando
sounds very well, even for a purest I can reherse and sit
in with this amp No problem.

Good features for a little combo amp. Needs more power, and better
speaker/cabinet.

This amp sounds very goood for a digital amp, but (yes there a but)
the speaker and the cabinet don't live up to the rest of the design--
amp could use a few more watts too! Sounds good at practice to small
gig levels, but from there on it starts to crap out and the speaker/cabinet rattles. AMP MAKERS TAKE NOTE!!!!! Partical board is NOT good cabinet making material. --But the new Vox Valvetronic and AC30 R.I. both use partical board--so do alot of other companies.
But come on! do you really think in twenty more years people are going to be going out of their way to find vintage partical board
for the 2000 era digital modeling cab sound? I hope we never get that stupid as a culture. Companies go out of their way to make designs that are extremely cheap to build but still do a decent job.
Compair to my vintage Fenders (and I'm not just talking tone here)
this this will never fetch a collector's price, because 1.) The amp
is make out of cheap crap. and 2.) It can't even come close to the
volume or tone my fenders put out.
This amp DSP tones are very impressive, its too bad Yamaha chose to
make these amps so dam cheap, there made in Tiwain for God sakes. It suprizes me that Bramhall Jr. and Allen Holdworth are playing these
amps. If I had the kind of resorces those guys do, I'd be using much
better gear than this. This amp is not bad,it's real pretty good for what it is. Just a shame it never saw a good plywood or pine cab with
a HiFI speaker like EV,JBL,or Celestion Century.
P.S. I did put an EVM12L in the amp and it did inprove the tone
and would have given more headroom, but (here we go again) the cab
rattled at about the same volume as with the stock Eminence, so
it's a design problem with the cab. Like I said earlier--CHEAP
MATERIALS!!!!

Looking at the rest of the build quality, I'd have a hard time saying.
This is definitly a disposable amp, not a 20 year collector. Good
back up or practice amp. No tube killer.

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This amp reminds me of Bose stereos. They're good designs made with
cheap materials. If it wasn't for these big companies design teams
they would be fucked. Cheap designs with cheap materials?--It could happen....... Peavy,crate,pignose????? O.K. it's already happened,
but you know what I mean. The only reason this is any kind of a success is because of the guy who designed the amp models. Yamaha's
execution of the building of this product is typical and sad. Corp.
america/ The World Inc. sucks. They're even fucking up the quality of music gear. An amp built 40 year ago--is built better,sounds better,and will last the test of time. This thing will soon be just another cheap amp nobody wants. Could have been something totally
different. Something cool!
Yamaha We'd rather pay more, and get more. Quite try to cut corners, there is NO way to build a great cheap amp.

No effects other than reverb, but all the stuff most giggers need.

Very, very good sounding-It doesn't out do my 64 Princeton Reverb
but then this amp can make way more sounds than the Princeton. It's
amazing Yamaha captured so much of the things I like in a tube amp
with totally alien like electronics. Lots of people seem to be saying
what these amps don't do, (like the way people bitched about digital recording when it first appeared, and now it is used through out the
Pro market) but this is really cool stuff. In years to come these
types of amps will probibly be the majority of the market too. Don't
worry guys! There will always be tube freeks lurking,cause they DO
sound soo dam good. Be smart! take it all in. There's good and bad
in all this music stuff. Exploit the strenths! Great amp!

Don't know yet, but I've had good luck with Yamaha.

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I've been playing 15 years (I'm 31) and I still to this day own
some great tube amps. Love them! But I also live in Bigfork MT
and in the winter it can get down to -20 and tube amps don't like going into that kind of cold after playing very hot for hours. Had
many repairs related to that problem, and finally decided to try
the best of the modeling amps. Yamaha IS the best for sound,feel,
price. It will be a great winter and dive bar gig amp. Not the same to a "T" as a tube amp, but I Love it! Still a great sounding amp overall. Exellent value.

It wasn't my amp, but from what I could tell it was nicely equipped. BeingI digital modeling amp I think it should have a few built in effects. They may make a model with them, but I don't know.

I was pleasantly suprised, being the tube purist I am. I used it in the studio to lay some scratch tracks down before setting up my rig, and I got a very good sound. I play mainly metal, but this thing can do a decent job at anything. I heard quite a few finished products the engineer at the studio had down of many different styles of music and they all sounded pretty good. I'll say this one thing too, any fan of metal knows Carcass's Heartwork album has arguably one of the best metal tones; high gainy and tight with a sweet hint of tube drag. The engineer nailed the sound with that Yamaha. Know the amp doesn't feel like a tube amp, but it does a good job of giving a tube sound to tape. A little hissy as others have said. I wouldn't want to gig with it, because play mainly metal and those little combo amps always end sounding like crap when drive them hard with alot of distortion. But I think for other styles it would suit well. I would say definetly geared toward studio or practicing where you don't have to crank it.

I don't own it, but the owner has had it for a couple of years with no problems

Never takled to them.

Like I said I'm partial to tubes, and I'm still partial to tubes after playing this amp. But I still was impressed by this amps sounds. I do plan on getting a better practice amp soon and if I could find a used one for a good price I'd grab it up. If I was buying new I'd definetly listen out to what else there is that's equally equipped.

Made 2000 or 2001. I play lead in a Beatles and other 60's cover band, and this amp is versatile enough for my playing. What little extra bit of versatility I need I get from one multi-effect pedal. The amp has 2 channel swithching, either from the front panel or from an optional footswitch. Each channel has completely independent control settings, including separate reverb settings. The reverb is also footswitchable in/out (note, a single or dual generic footswitch from Mars is a lot cheaper than the footswitch from Yamaha). There is an effects loop with a blend control, so that you can mix your signal anywhere from a full dry, unaffected signal to a full wet, affected signal (and any mix in between). There is also an unbalanced combination headphone jack/line out jack which outputs +4dbm. The one feature I wish it had was an external speaker jack. The unit has a single Eminence Legend V12 speaker, 8 ohm. I contacted Yamaha regarding connecting an external speaker jack. They advised me that the electronics of the unit would not hold up to driving a 4 ohm load long term. The solution I am looking at is putting in two external speaker jacks desingned to be used at the same time. The first would be in series with the existing speaker, to hook up a second 1-12" 8 ohm cabinet (custom made to duplicate the dimensions of the Yamaha S112 speaker cabinet, loaded with a Legend V12) that this amp would sit on top of. That would get the main speaker and the controls.up closer to me. That would give me a 16 ohm speaker system, theoretically cutting the power output of the amp down to 30 watts. Then a second external speaker jack would be wired in parallel, for the purpose of connecting a 2-12" 16 ohm speker cabinet (an Avatar G212, which is factory loaded with the Legend V12. The standard wiring is 4 ohm, but the owner of the company has advised me that it can be purchased wired 16 ohm at no additional charge) which would sit on the other side of the stage. The two 16 ohm systems in parallel would bring the overall impedance back down to 8 ohms, making the amp electronics happy, bringing the power back up to the rated 60 watts, and would give my sound more dispersion around the stage for the rest of the band to hear. Volume for the audience, even with the 1-12" speaker, has not been a problem, but getting the rest of the band to hear me has been. Our PA system is not elaborate enough (yet, we'll get there soon) to run my guitar through the PA (and monitors), so this is my solution for now. It would have been a lot easier if Yamaha would have used tougher components that would have held up to a 4 ohm load... The amp does have enough power for me, primarily because our band focuses on being quiet enough for small venues and allowing the audience to actually carry on a conversation. I am competing with a rhythm guitar playing through a Pathfinder and a bass throught a T-25, and of course the drummer. Finally, it would be very cool if this unit also had a tremolo... It loses a point because nothing is perfect (hence, all my ratings will start from 9, and go down from there), it loses a point for no ext speaker jack, and it loses a point for no trem...

I use a 78 Gibson Les Paul Custom and a 2001 Epiphone Dot, both with the stock pickups (the Dot is going to upgraded to DiMarzio PAF's). Most of my playing is single note leads, and the sound of this amp suits my needs. It is a little noisy; I wouldn't use it for recording. But for live performing, the noise is never heard. The clean channel can be forced into the early stages of distortion by turning up the gain, but can also get clean volume. From a Beatles cover point of view, this amp is capable of a lot more distortion than I will ever need... Loses a point for the slight noise.

This is the fourth Yamaha amp I have had in 22 years, and one of the other units I purchased 19 years ago and still have today. I have never had a failure with any of them.

Yamaha tech support via the internet was very prompt at calling me back on the phone to answer my questions regarding the feasibility of installing an external speaker jack. The tech I talked to even called me back again the next day to correct some of the information he gave me after talking to some other techs. They also told me which Eminence speaker model the unit was loaded with. And, they mailed me the service manual for the older Yamaha amp I still have (I think that cost me all of $5). However, I have since tried to contact them with further questions, and they have not responded. Lose a point for not getting back to me on further questions.

I have been playing since 1969, when I was 9 years old, but up until about a year ago I was strictly a rhythm player. My gear includes an LP Custom, Epi Dot, Yamaha G100-212 amp, a Zoom GFX-707, and a Dano Tuna Melt tremolo. If the amp were stolen, I would probably buy the same model again. I love the 16 voices which all sound like a progression of the same amp. That means I can build a sound of my own on this amp rather than jumping all around trying to copy other peoples sounds. I hate the fact that Yamaha did not build it sturdy enough to support 4 ohms (it is pretty much a standard in the solid state amp world that an 8 ohm amp will support 4 ohm). When I purchased this I compared it to a Vox Cambridge 30-210, which sounded too flat to me, and a small Marshall 50 watt solid state combo(sorry don't remember the model number) which was way too agressive on the distortion for my needs, you could get either plain clean, or way too much distortion. Much too difficult to get subtle amount of distortion. Oh, yeah, another major factor that led me to this amp was it's weight and my age. My first Yamaha was a G100-412. Weighed 97 pounds. The G100-212 weighs 64 pounds. I'm getting too old to carry around this sh*t! The DG60-112 weighs only 40 pounds. It is light enough that I can carry it around for a practice amp, and ballsy enough that I can get by without the extra cabs if I want and still use it go gig. Loses a point again for the 4 ohm/external speaker jack thing.