Yamaha DG60-112

I really see no reason to add to the feature descriptions for this amp, since it has been reviewed extensively. Suffice it to say that I find it impressive, and very useful. I honestly think that it is a huge mistake to call this a "modeling amp". The 8 selections on the two channels come across to me more as just basic templates of generic sounds; you are left to tweak them to your own preference. To my way of thinking this is not modeling. They make no pretense in trying to replicate a Marshall sound or a Fender sound. The big reason I like this unit is that it makes it easy to come up with your own sound.

I just got the amp, but after fiddling around with it, I'm very pleased. It will produce a usable tone for virtually any application. Some racket on the higher gain settings, but this is to be expected. I don't get why everyone ******* about the stock speaker, since I find it more than adequate. Remarkable amount of low end grunt for an open-backed cabinet. My only beef is that the digital reverb gets a little weird at high settings, but this is a minor complaint.

Are you kidding? Yamaha ANYTHING is built like a tank. You can't miss.

No experience, but given their reputation and longevity, I would expect the best.

I have now been playing the guitar for 39 years, 30 of them professionally. I have gigged clubs, toured with national acts, and spent countless weekends doing studio recording. Amps come, and they go. I would rate this as one of the top ten that I've owned. If I find another one, I'll buy it.

It's a pretty basic amp with regards to features. Has reverb, which is ok. The overdrive/distortion is pretty good for a small amp. There are 2 clean channels, and four overdrive/distortion channels. Good variety of tones. The feature that I like the most is the high and low input jacks which helps make just about any guitar match the amp. Also has a effects loop which I have never had to use.

This is where I personally feel this amp shines. When I first saw the amp, I kind of had the typical preconception that it was a pathetic little thing that didn't even deserve my attention. Actually, my friend bought this amp four or five years before I eventually bought it from him. It sat in his closet for a couple of years before I decided we should try it at a jam. We play loud prog-rock and I've never had issues getting lost in the mix of the band. I play an American tele and use multiple effects. The best thing I find about the amp is that my guitar sounds like a tele, and my effects sound like they are supposed to, even without using the effects loop.

I've jammed and gigged with it for almost three years now and have never had a issue. I play a lot of shows and actually sold my Traynor 4*10 tube combo amp (which I loved) after I started using this. I hated carrying around the heavy Traynor and I spend a lot less time at my chiropractor now because of the fact that the Yamaha is so much more compact.

Never dealt with them.

I have to give this a 9 because it has been a tank for me and I love the sound. If it broke I would definitely try to replace it, but these are hard to find where I live. I'm actually looking to buy another one exactly like this to keep at my friend???s house where we jam, if I can ever find one.

This amplifier was made in 2001 or 2002. I bought it used for $380 in 2005. It is a 60 watt solid state "modeling" amplifer. I say this becuase,although it has different amplifer models,it doesn't allow you to truly tweak them.

It's not bad,but not great either. The stock speaker is trash with far too much bass response and no midrange. Also,the amplifer models are somewhat sub-par. They are close but they don't capture the magic of what they are trying to emulate. The cleans and crunches are nice and I now use it as an acoustic amp for my Parker Fly Deluxe.

Again,it's not bad but not great. The speaker rattles around inside the amp and the pots are cheap. I gigged it a lot during late 2005-mid 2007 and it held up but not without replacement of a master volume pot among other things.

Yamaha makes a fine product but their customer support is somewhat lacking. I haven't used them myself but I have heard some horror stories. They don't seem to remember what products they used to make.[I emailed them for info on my prototype Yamaha RGX 1212s and it has been 6 months now.]

I am 13 and have been playing for 10 years.Overall,it makes a decent practice amp but after a while,you need to move on. It was starting to be overpowered at band practices and I needed something else. I now use it as an acoustic amp for my Parker Fly Deluxe.

60 watts, solid state, one 12" speaker, footswitchable dual channel with independent reverb. Effects loop and line out with speaker simulator. Extremely flexible EQ section: Treble, Hi Mid, Lo Mid, Bass and Presence. Mine has a Celestion G12T-100 speaker, not the OEM Eminence speaker.

The DG60 has different amp types labled "Clean", "Crunch", "Drive" and "Lead". There are two of each type, with one being brighter and more "in your face" than the other. Controls for Gain and Master Level. Nice clean tones, and everything from subtle breakup to exploding amp distortion. This is a modeling amp, not a tube amp and I dont think it's really fair to compare the two side by side. IMHO though, Yamaha DG series are the best modeling amps and come the closest to emulating the response of a real tube amp. Allan Holdsworth uses DG series amps, enough said..

It is only 60 watts so it is not extremely loud, but it does have a line out. What's great about it is that you can get killer, full sounding cranked amp tones at low volumes, and using the hi and lo mid controls you can get a ton of different variations. I love having the two totally independent channels. The reverb is very good for a digital emulation. There is no patch storage so you have to remember your settings (or write them down). I like the "analog" look, no LED readout, just knobs to twist, and it does not have motorized knobs like the DG80.

I love the sounds, although it seems to be a very bright sounding amp, most of the time I have to crank the Presence all the way down and the Treble to about 2 or 3. The previous owner put in a Celestion G12T-100 speaker, so I'm wondering if it is the speaker. I plan on trying some different speakers in it to to try to tame the high end a little. I am using guitars with single coil pickups, it may sound less bright with humbuckers but I dont own a guitar with humbuckers to test it.

Dont know, but solid state is pretty reliable.

I own several tube amps, Fender and Laney. I bought the DG60 because I like the DG Series (I own a DG Stomp also), and wanted a portable and versatile amp that wasn't built like a toy. The DG60 delivers. I've never played through a dual channel combo that had this much flexibility in sounds. I doubt I would gig with it, unless I could slave it to another amp for more volume, but for practice and recording, it kicks butt. The only thing I wish it had is built in delay and chorus.

If you can't get a good sound out of this amp then you really shouldn't be playing guitar.

Update to my previous review. Ummm... I should've read the manual. With high output pickups, use the low input jack! This came to me in a dream. I tried it and it worked. Then I found the info in the manual. Doh! I take back what I said about shrillness. If you plug you guitar into the appropriate jack, this amp sounds fantastic, even with the stock speaker. My apologies for the misinformation. What a great little amp!

Still never had a problem with it.

For the money - 10. Compared to all other decent amps I've played (Fender Twin Reverb, Fender Bassman, Mesa Mk II copy) it's still a 10!

i purchased the Yamaha DG60-112 used in a second hand shop for $290. It is one the first digital simulating amps on the market, but i guess they did not seek to actively seek to have the all too frequent amp simulation settings, but rather is an amp with the ability and flexibility to allow the used to find a sound that suits him, covering a very broad spectrum. would be a great amp for a session muso.

Seeing it in the store, i recalled that Guitar player magazine gave it rave reviews. trying it, i realised why. the amp was made in around 2000 and provides two identical channels, however each channel is able to be voiced to whatever you wish, the number of amp sounds and distortions available are huge. playing a mixture of hard 70's rock, swamp, blues and some Jazz this amp covers the pallet nicely. channel switching is obtained easily using a simple foot switch. the equalisation on the amp is its heart and its strength, enabling the player to tailor his sound perfectly depending on his style, guitar and genre. the hi and low Mid controls are the best things about the amp simply they enable the amp to sound so different with even minor changes.

I guess the only amp sound i cant get is the sound of a VOXAC30, but i am not complaining, since i already have one of those. most fender, marshall, boggie and hi-gain stack sounds are avaiable on the unit. AND..... it does not sound simulated at all!!!!!

it has 60 watts of power and its plenty for my needs. the only thing i wish this amp had was the ability to store settings, there are so many good sounds available that two channels is simply not enough (i am being greedy) the more expensive versions have the programmability, but hey.... its a lot of amp for $290!. the reverb is clear and smooth and not "digital sounding at all. yamaha did a great job ob this one. it has a single 12inch speaker made in the USA.

as stated previously, the amp is able to get all sorts of sounds, from clean to full on 80's saturated distotion, together with the tone controls, the sound pallet is huge. distotions are very valve like and can be set from subtle to full on grunge. this works equally well with both single coil pickups, as well as humbuckers. the amp is also very quiet. the clean channels are clear and warm reminding me of fender amps... owever these clean settings are just that clean. if you want dirty/clean then its easy to get from one of the dirty channels with the gain down low. overall a very valve sounding amp of excellent quality. i have many guitars ranging from vintage a strat, yamaha SG3000s, guild, charvel, eastwood savannah and they all sound great through it.

i have had it only some weeks now, howver my general experience with yamaha stuff has been excellent. i do not expect any problems judging from past history

in all that time i have had yamaha gear i have NEVER had to call them. this includes processors, guitars (i own 3 yamaha guitars) and amps. customer support have been most helpful when i have contacted them regarding info on older model guitars.

i have been playing since 1975 and have had many guitars and amps over the years. i tend to stick with tried and true classic models, such as vox etc...however this amp is excellent... really!. it complements my VOXAC30 very well and have used the two together on a gig....it makes for a really serious mix of sounds... especially given the variety of sounds from the yamaha. I only wish it had a speaker out just to try it with a quad box... but i guess i am being greedy here.

Not sure of the year but thinking 2000-2004. Has two channels but has 8 amp models on each channel. Each has their own reverb and 5 way EQ gain and volume. I cranked this amp up before I bought it and it sounded great loud!. Some amps seem to have a louder clean channel than the overdrive channel but not the case here. Has an effects loop and line out. The reverb can also be turned on and off with a footswitch.

I just had to write a review on this amp. I picked it up used at my local Guitar Center for...are you ready...$75 bucks!! It is in great condition with just a little dust on it. I got this for my practice amp with the band so I would not have to lug around my Line 6 Duoverb or Crate Shockwave half stack. I had a Line 6 spider II that I thought was cool till I run across this and tried it out just because of the price. The cleans will dirty up nicley and the distortions are great. The 5 way EQ is AWSOME and each channel has its own EQ and reverb. I play a Paul Reed Smith standar with it and there is some slight hiss on the drive channel with the gain up at 9-10 but who cares...its my practice amp. Man I wish they had this there when I bought the Spider II, it gets lost at rehersals. This is one of those buys that I will keep! Best $75 bucks I ever spent.

This is my first Yamaha product but my friend who plays keyboard says he has never had any problems with his yamaha gear.

Been playing for 30 years and play in a working band playing rock music. Everything from the motor city madman to godsmack. This is my new found treasure. If stolen I would try to find another one. I have tried out a fender frontman 25r and a crate gt65 and ended up with a line 6 spider II. If I would have seen this first I could have saved over $100 bucks. The only thing I wish it had would be some chorus for the clean channel but I have a pedal for that if I want it. I have to give this a 10 because for the $75 bucks I got it for it is a 10.

Made in 2002; I;d been looking for one since they were discontinued last year. I found a new DG-60 on eBay (N.O.S.). Perfect for my needs - a simple switchable 2-channel setup in a compact package. 60 watts - just enough for me. Solid state, but it has GREAT Yamaha digital amp emulations. The only reason it doesn't get a 10 is is that it doesn't have a billion presets, but I don't need them...

I like and play most classic rock (Steely Dan, Lindsey Buckingham w/ Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits) - this amp does a nice job of covering the bases.

WONDERFUL, played either quietly or loudly. Both Clean settings and the Crunch 1 setting are worth the price of this amp alone. Previous posts noted that the standard Eminence speaker was the weak link, but it sounds fine to me.

My signal chain is a Tele clone with active EMGs (and a Fishman PowerBridge, which goes to an altogether separate output) to a Whirlwind AB box (one side goes to a Korg tuner) to an MXR DynaComp to an Ibanez Tube Screamer to a Dunlop CryBaby to an Arion Digital Delay to the Yamaha DG-60. The Tube Screamer is used simply to boost the volume slightly for leads and "tighten" my sound. The distortion is produced by the Yamaha.

I use the direct out to send my signal to the board, but I would be comfortable miking it with an SM-57. Guitarists need to learn that amps don't need to be loud onstage. I keep my stage volume comfortably low and let the FOH sound man take care of my volume out front; a nice monitor mix lets me hear what I need to hear.

No tubes to worry about. Built like a tank. I'd comfortably use it at a gig without a backup.

Yamaha is class organization that builds nice stuff, with dealers in virtually every town.

This is my ideal amp: versatile, compact, affordable, just enough features. No need for a 200 lb Marshall stack for me...

This is an amazingly versatile solid state modeling amp with a 12" speaker, all in a small and lightweight package. See earlier reviews for a complete list of features.

Features I like: The huge variety of tones you can dial up with the 8 modeled amp sounds. There are 4 basic sounds (clean, crunch, drive & lead), each with a bright and dark setting. Add to this... gain, 5 part equalization (including presence control), and a sweet digital (spring) reverb. All this can be dialed up independently on 2 foot-switchable channels - sweet! Most of the control knobs are clearly visible and accessible.

Features I dislike: The lack of extension speaker output. The stock 12" Eminence speaker does not do justice to the amp. The sensitivity of some of the controls (eg. reverb, gain) are wonky - on some amp settings, I wish I could expand the range between, say, 2 and 3 on the gain knob because that's where all the nice tones are packed. I guess this adds to the versatility of the amp but it makes it tricky to dial up some of my favourite tones. It'd be nice if the effect loop jacks were on the front of the unit, but that's a minor peeve.

All up, it's pretty darn feature-packed.

I mostly play my Steinberger GM with active EMG-60 and SA pickups through it. I play all sorts of stuff but I mostly dig cleaner tones and even my lead style tends towards smooth, thick, harmonic distortion rather than metal crunch. I started out quite frustrated by this amp in combination with my HiFi Steinberger guitar. As other reviewers have found, the amp tended to sound shrill or dry and it just couldn't handle the rich bass notes that the Steinberger produces. At even moderate volume the bass response was loose - bassically crap :) Then, out of curiosity, I hooked the DG60 up to a 12" RCF speaker in my 130W vintage Mesa Boogie copy tube amp. I was blown away by the sound of the DG60 through the RCF. The DG60 was suddenly producing beautiful, lush, warm clean tones and some excellent lead tones. The shrillness is gone, the bass is big and tight, and the amp simulations sound much more interesting. By comparison, the amp sounded like a toy played through the stock Eminence speaker.

A lot has been said in these reviews about tube amp emulation. The DG60 can give the warmth of tube sounds with the fidelity, versatility and convenience of solid state - it can deliver the best of both worlds if you run it through a decent speaker. It's a mystery to me that Yamaha would pair such a sweet amp with such a crap speaker - and then they didn't even provide and extension speaker output!

If your DG60 leaves you cold, I suggest (as some other reviewers have) that you swap the Eminence for something better. I might do that sometime, but for now I'm bypassing my tube amp and playing the DG60 through the RCF - and I'm loving it!

Rating the DG60 for sound is tricky. With the stock speaker,4. With a well-matched speaker, 10 out of 10. So overall, I'll give it a 7.

I've only had the DG60 for about 3 years. I have taken it around town a bit and I've never had any problems.

I've never had to deal with Yamaha. Given the size of the company, it shouldn't be difficult to get it serviced if need be. I bought it 2nd hand - don't know 'bout no warranty.

This is a fantastic amp paired with a crap speaker. Played through a good speaker, it comes alive. In comparison to my newly serviced tube amp, played through the same RCF speaker, the DG60 is almost as warm, but without colouring the sound. The DG60 lends more depth, expressiveness and subtlty to my playing than the tube amp. It improves the outputs of my Boss CS3 (compressor) and my Boss CE-20 (chorus/dimension). As I'm not strictly after so-called "vintage" sounds (Stop livin' in the past!), I think the DG60 is a better amp than my Mesa Boogie copy. It can provide the best of both tube and solid state worlds - and that's amazing!

This is my... uh... almost-four-year update on this amp. In my original review, I took the amp back to the store. A few months later, I bought a used one off the HC classifieds. I've kept that one ever since. So, manufactured circa 2000... this is a basic two-channel modeling amp, etc., features have been sufficiently covered in all the reviews below.

The thing I've always liked about this amp, as opposed to a number of other analog modeling amps in history, is that it stays true to traditional amp design. The controls are all accessible in realtime from the front panel. There is no patch memory and the only effect you get is reverb. I like that.

I'm still upset that it's a pain to kill the internal speaker for direct recording, and I'm especially peeved that there is no external speaker jack. At some point I'll probably cut this up a little to add a speaker out; for years, I've even contemplated taking it out of the cab and putting it into a homemade head box. This amp is lightweight compared to most 1x12" combos, but personally I find all combos larger than 8" to be a big pain in the butt. Then again, I am the sort of lazy / obsessive-compulsively hyper-practical individual who would happily own an inflatable couch if it wouldn't scare off the ladies.

Finally, there's really no other good place in the HC review template for this complaint: Although I don't really want patch memory per se, it should be mentioned that the knobs for all parameters (except the amp model on each channel) are way, way, WAY too easy to move. You can carry this amp with the front panel facing away from your pants leg, carry it with as little jostling as humanly possible, and somehow by the time you've moved it ten feet your settings are all gone. Thankfully, they don't drift while you're playing or anything, and the amp is not so very touchy and digital that only one exact set of settings will work. But this has annoyed me greatly over the years-- I dial in a sound I want in rehearsal, and have to dial it back in again once the band has set up on stage.

I've only ever used the amp with humbuckers. I note that most of the folks below who aren't raving about this amp seem to use single coils, so perhaps that's something to keep in mind. But personally, I still think this amp sounds absolutely fantastic for a shocking number of applications-- especially considering what it is, a second-generation modeling amp that sold for under $500 originally.

I had bad GAS some years ago. 50 amps came and went through my hands in a matter of two years-- VHTs, single-channel Soldanos, blackface and silverface Fenders, Traynors, Marshalls, old Ampegs, just about anything that was available on the used market for less than a grand... you name it, I probably had one for a month or so. Two years ago, I was down to this amp, an early silverface Bandmaster, and a '59 Gibson Skylark, the latter two of which not only sounded great but had longstanding sentimental value. I found I wasn't playing much any more, and I needed money. The Bandmaster and the Skylark went on eBay. I kept the DG60.

I'm still not playing much any more, and now I'm moving and need money again. I was contemplating getting rid of the DG60, maybe getting a ZVex NanoAmp (or whatever it's called) if I ever wanted to play again. So I got the DG60 out last night for the first time in ages-- and changed my mind. The present market value of this thing is at least four times lower than it ought to be.

I still don't care much for the sound of the Drive 2 and Lead 2 models, which I originally hypothesized might have been for single coils-- they sound way too nasal and honk-y, or at least they do with my Hamer's Duncan humbuckers. But every other model sounds great, once you've got the EQ set up right (which takes about five seconds of experimentation).

Here's my take: the amp is incredibly responsive and analog-sounding, which is still a set of adjectives that can barely be applied to the latest generation of digital modeling gear (although I'll admit I've not tinkered much lately!). Both clean models sound great, not clean as an operating room, just a hair more warm and Fendery. If I played jazz, I'd probably pick Clean 1 and get away with it just fine. Drive 1 has lots of punch and character... and Lead 1 is one of the best high-gain tones I've ever heard, period.

Once you hop up the gain on the clean models, you can even get a convincing, sweet, near-breakup overdriven / "blues-y" sound a la my old crusty Skylark-- a tone that completely eludes every other modeling device I've ever used, in that they just get brittle and nasty when they try to fake a nice mild breakup.

My only quality complaint re: sound is the incessant, steady-state hissing of the power amp, which is always there regardless of what model you're using or even what the master volume is set to. However, this is really only a nuisance if you want to record with the amp through the speaker. In a live context it's likely to go totally unnoticed. And at least it doesn't go up drastically as you increase the master level (actually, on the clean models it doesn't go up very much at all when cranked!).

Yeah. This thing just sounds way better than it has any right to. I thought I was mis-remembering or something, but apparently I'm not.

Four years on, been gigged some, sat around a lot, never a hiccup when turning on again after x number of months (or years!). It got used a lot when I first had it and did just fine, thank you very much. I think the pots are pretty cheaply (or at least weirdly) made, but I also have no reason to believe that they'll fail at any time in the near future.

Again, I have yet to have a problem with any Yamaha gear I've ever owned (and this is not the only Yamaha piece I've kept around), so...

If you see one of these for $150 like the guy below me (and you mostly use humbucker, perhaps?), well, I'll back him up on this one: you can't go wrong. I don't really think you could go wrong for $500. If you're looking for a portable, reliable, low-risk, low-liability amp that can just about do it all, you should seek this secret weapon out.

By the way, don't bother trying to "steal this preamp" with the now-very-cheap DG Stomp... the Stomp sounds nowhere near as good as thing does.

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.

Yamaha's DG series is an excellent set of digital amps simulating and modelling other amp types through careful study of electronic paths and such. When I first tried this amp, its 8 amp types blew me away. Not to mention its 2 completely independent and footswitchable channels, with reverb. There was no other amp for me. With an FX loop, and great line out to boot, I bought the DG60 within a half hour of trying it out. Only one thing wrong though (see Overall Rating)...

I use a Yamaha Pacifica and an Epiphone Les Paul Special. With either guitar, this amp produces an amazing array of sounds, from sparkling clean to gusty blues, to full on rock and metal sounds. However, it is very noisy, even when grounded and using good cables. Very hissy. And the feedback is an unnatural squeaking that makes me want to throw up. And it happens when the amp isn't even cranked. I loved this amp in my room and small practices, but when I had to crank it when my 5-piece rock band played a gig, the sound was disgusting. It was rattly and distorted and lost all of the nice harmonic content I had bought the amp for. I guess the 60watts just aren't enough to hide the fact that this is a digital amp and not a valve or solid-state amp.

Great little amp. Not too heavy, and it never failed on me. I even used it with an acoustic guitar onstange when my DI Box decided not to work.

Didn't have to deal with them, but the warranty is 3 years I believe and the guys at Buckley's Music (where I bought it) said to just bring it in if something ever went wrong.

I've been playing for 7 years and I've previously only owned a few smaller amps (10w Marshall Valvestate which actually stood up to a full band practice, a 20w Fender Bullet Reverb and a 15w DOD GrindIT). I borrowed my cousin's Peavey Bandit 112 for about year and absolutely hate anything that Peavey makes except their nice tube amps. This amp is a decent amp, but the lack of a speaker output made me have to trade it, because this amp just doesn't have the balls to stand up to a 5 piece rock band onstage with monitors, etc. At only 60w, it nearly makes it, but the sound is hideous when the volume is past 7 or so. With a speaker output, I would've added a cabinet and taht would've solved my problem. But I ended up trading it and my Fender Bullet Reverb for a beautiful new amp: a Laney Tube Fusion TF400. I got a great deal and I am not dissapointed. The Laney has 4 channels rather than just two, a great footswitch, speaker output, and it's 120w. Where it lacks in the choices for amp models like the Yamaha, it makes up for it in so many other ways.

Two channels, digital simulation of 8 different Tube-amps. Both channels offers amp-type, gain, master, bass, low mid, high mid, treble, presence, reverb. It have speaker-emulation out.
It can't remember any settings, you have to use the knobs.

It's a little bit noisy.
The 8 amp-modes are very fine, you can get all from Mesa to Fender-sounds, but not as a replica of those.
I play modern jazz and the Yamaha are very fine to do this type of music.

Topscore here - no tubes.

Here you are: 8 very good amp-simulation with a very big range of sounds. But no chorus, flanger, rotary .... And you can only have two setups a time - I need at least five.

A two-channel solid-state amp using Yamaha's digital modeling technology. There are eight amp models available per channel, each channel with its own gain, volume, EQ, and reverb. The channels and reverb are footswtichable but a switch is not supplied by Yamaha :(, I recommend the Roland FS-1 for switching channels. The reverb is selectable via foot action, however Yamaha has made it a completely separate input jack, requiring another footswitch for total operation. That's one of the weirder things I've seen lately. The amp also features an effects loop with a blend control, a headphone jack for super late (or early) night jams, and a relatively light 45 lbs. or so. It beats lugging a head and cab around. ;)

The amp is all about TONE. I tried the Line6 combos, the Johnson combos, the Marshall AVT series, smaller Fender amps, Peaveys - nothing even comes close to the overall OOMPH you get from this amp. Clean - just dial in two flavors (one more 2x12ish, the other 4x12 sounding). Crunch and dirty? Just call up the next two model types and dial in the right amount of gain. This is the first modeling amp I've heard that transmits a guitar's natural sounds. My Strat sounds like a Strat - a problem I had with the Line6 amps (second place in my small amp contest) was though it sounded great (the distortion channels especially) my Strat sounded very close to my two humbucker Carvin on any gain setting at 1 or above. This Yamaha amp will pick up pick nuances, string noise, pickup types, player quirks and good sounding bad habits ...

The gain is unreal on the lead channels but completely manageable and chords ring out through it, even in detuned (dropped D and below) situations. The bass response will make you look behind the amp and make you wonder how they get a closed back sound in an open back 1x12 combo.

What this amp won't do is perfectly replicate a tube sound. My Carvin MTS3200 100-watt head sounds completely different, and it should because that's my larger performing amp and sounds better when it's cranked. The Yamaha excels at getting you mind-boggling tones at any level, and though I haven't used this amp outside of my apartment I've been considering using it on smaller gigs. Just stick an SM57 in front of it, put the master on 4 and you're good to go.

I've had the amp for a few weeks and it has powered up every time, sounded great every time, and I don't expect any less. There's very little that could get busted on the front, the knobs are made of heavy duty plastic and the grill cloth is tightly woven and attached to the front of the cab. No chance of snags etc. from lugging it around from place to place (if you choose to).

Never dealt with Yamaha, though the DG amp website was tough to find on the web. Everything is posted on-line though, from manuals through product brochures. That's always a plus just in case you need a quick fix or tip.

This amp all about getting amazing sounds at moderate/quiet volumes without playing through an AM radio sounding piece of crap. You can gig with this amp, you can jam with this amp, you can play air Yngwie all you want with this amp. The distortion and crunch are the amp's shining moments, the EQ is pristine and very effective. A perfect small amp for the home, studio, or small gig.

made in 2000.
Extremely Versatile, From mellow blues to Hot rock to reverb drenched jazz...
2 channels, Identically voiced. has blendable fx loop, head phone jack/line out, speaker mute, footswitchable reverb and channel select
I wish it had an speaker extention jack - the unit has awesome sounds, but for big gigs, I have to go line out thru a power amp and into a quad box for the big balls.

everything is awesome except for the following - when using 'wet' effects -eg, Chorus, delay etc, the unit breaks the signal up at higher saturations of the effect. also it hasa tendanc to be real noisey when the gain is cranked up. ie, you turn down your guitar and get a huge hummmm. bit of a bummer. other than that its great!

Mine is a 2001 model. Footswitchable dual channel setup with independent controls for EQ and reverb. Has 8 usable preset amp types: 2 Lead, 2 Drive, 2 Crunch, 2 Clean; and the owner's manual includes a chart with 16 preset factory sound settings to get you started. (A variety of country, blues, Jazz and Rock sounds) It has an effects loop and a line out/headphone jack (which passes through a speaker simulator - great for recording). No chorus, no tremelo, no tape echo, no delay, no digital memory and no external speaker jack. The regular features on this amp are easy to use and versatile enough for me.

This amp sounds great! I tried both single coils and humbuckers on this baby and I have NO complaints on the sound and tone achieved by both. I play a Fender strat...and do not use any stomp boxes. The TONE I get from this amp is truly awesome.

I compared many, many amps before deciding on the Yamaha DG60-112. I looked at Fender, Marshalls, Crates, Peavey, Line 6 and found more versatility in the Johnson JM-60, the Tech 21 Trademark 60 and the Yamaha DG80-112 or 210. But all that versatility was not really what I was looking for. For the price/sound/tone, I could not find better than the Yamaha DG60-112.

This amp has a one year warranty. It is built solid and weighs 40 lbs. Used for bedroom practice and band rehearsals.

Haven't owned it long enough to rate it on reliability.

I've been playing for 25 years. Best sounding modelling amp I could find for the money.