Yamaha DG60FX-112

A bit more flexible than the other DG amps - I can live without motorised knobs. The amp offers a selection of different models that can cope with my indie rock pop sound. Like other have said - this is an amp that is great for a garage sound. It's sound very lo-fi compared to other modeling amps. It won't do nu-metal but will do the strokes. Good usable effects and a passable wah. Tuner kinda works if you're patient but it could do with a bypass, a really messed up distotion setting and the pedal that comes with it (same interface as the stomp boxes) could have been easier to use. I use a behringer pedal now instead. It's also easy to carry compared to the other heavy weight DG amps.

This amp responds to your guitar. Unlike other modeling amps where you could plug in any guitar and it'll sound the same. It alters with tone and volume settings in the way a real amp would. Great clean sounds, great dirty sounds - just don't expect it to get too dirty. Messing about with the amp simulation gets various results. And volume wise it happily plays over the top of the drums when it's about half way up.

Been bashed about and hasnt complained.

Yamaha have been helpful with other things I've bought for them but I think they've forgotten about this gem now.

Best bit of musical gear I own. With a better pedal, bypass, slightly more informative tuner and some gutsy distortion effects it would be awesome (you hear Yamaha!). I use it live and in the studio on a regular basis and would try and find another if someone half inched it.

THIS IS A CORRECTION TO MY REVIEW. When describing the tone, I got Drive 1 & 2 and Lead 1 & 2 mixed up. (i.e. My comments on Drive 1 pertain to Drive 2; my comments on Lead 1 pertain to Lead 2, and vice versa.)

(I realized this when I was programming a couple new presets.)

Bought new in February '02. It's basically a DG Stomp with an integrated power amp and speaker. There are 8 amp models (gain, master volume, and 4 bands of EQ for each) and a fairly comprehensive effects section with compression, modulation, delay, and reverb sections. A footswitch (w/built-in tuner, tap switch for the delay time and an expression pedal jack) is included. Up to 90 patches can be stored and fairly easily accessed. REALLY HANDY: each effect has its own switch that lights up when it's activated PLUS independent knobs - none of this one knob does all nonsense. I wish it had an effects loop, though. The 60 watts and 12" Celestion are plenty for home, church, and fairly small clubs. (The DG80 is markedly louder, but it's much heavier and more expensive.) This is the best combination of features in a portable amp - not perfect, so no 10.

I play a variety of styles for my own amusement and regularly play for worship at church. This amp is a great fit for my needs. I'll give a little blurb on each of the models and how I use them:

Clean 1: Kind of a tweed Fender vibe - actually reminds me of a brownface Pro that I used to know. Not much overdrive available, but it's nice and warm. I use it with the excellent tape delay simulation for old country/rockabilly stuff. Fun!

Clean 2: Some kind of Blackface/Vox hybrid thing - that's a GOOD thing. Plenty of lows and highs, but if you crank the mids and the gain it has more of a Vox than Fender flavor. It gets crunchy yet remains very touch sensitive. I spend a lot of time in this realm. It's very versatile: country, R&B, roots rock are all at home here.

Crunch 1: It's in the Bassman/JTM-45 vein. It really sings and snarls nicley as you increase the gain. Sounds completely different with a strat than with a semi-hollow, humbucker equipped guitar. I'm using it more and more for blues and ZZ Top type sounds.

Crunch 2: I might need to spend more time with this one. I can coax some really ugly chords and very midrangey sustained single note lines from it. Is this for Cake tones? Is this a really obscure Supro or Silvertone? I'm not in love with this one.

Drive 1: A nice mimicry of the Marshalls of my youth (JMP series). It's very responsive to the volume control on your guitar. From Rush (kick in the effects!) to Billy Squier - there are a lot of guilty peasures to be had from this model. If I'm home alone, this is where I'll be.

Drive 2: This captures some of the singing midrange of a Boogie MkII. The low gain settings work nicely for smooth leads and even some rythmn work.

Lead 1: JCM 900 territory. Ten years ago I would have used it a lot. Now it remains mostly dormant. It's very good, but it doesn't inspire me.

Lead 2: If this amp had just Lead 2, it'd still be a great amp. Tons of gain, but it remains articulate and is full of very pleasing harmonics. Admittedly, I usually prefer the tones produced by overdriven power amp tubes - but this nails the best pre-amp tube saturation you'll find. If you want to shred, look no further.

OK - there's my overview. The effects are generally good. The delay, reverb, and phaser are excellent. (The modulation effects have a couple "hidden" parameters like feedback and mix that make them very useful to me - I can add "just enough" chorus or flange so that it's very subtle.) The models respond very differently to different guitars and most of them react well to volume knob changes and picking attack. (I play a Les Paul Special w/P100s, a strat w/EMGs, and an Epiphone Dot Deluxe.) It feels like a tube amp live - if that's something you like. (I sure do.)

If it sounded exactly like Deguello era ZZ Top or Brian May's wall'o'Voxes, then I'd give it a 10.

So far it's perfect. Yamaha has a generally very good reputation.

I've not dealt with them.

I've been playing for 24 years - bass and guitar. I've got plenty of gear, but for now this is my only amp. If it was lost, I'd get another. It's hard to find a light weight, cost-effective, great sounding amp like this one. I tried Line6, Johnson, Rocktron and Peavey modelling amps before I found a DG80 to audition. It was so impressive - and heavy - that I ordered a DG60FX-112. I wish it had a little more power, but the light weight is important to me. I have previously owned Fenders, Peaveys, Carvins, and a Vox (loved the tone; hated the reliabilty).

Lots of features:MIDI, Volume, WAH, lots of Effects, Pedal Board, speaker simulation,... I miss a speaker-out and a noisegate.

I use a PRS and a Yamaha RGX TT.Good for Blues, Jazz, Country, Alternative, Rock, 80'Metal. Bad for Death Metal. It's barely noisy,just the lead channels. Delay, Reverb, Rotary are very good. Chorus,Flanger and Phaser are o.k..
Channelsounds:
I love the lead2, drive2, crunch1&2, clean1&2.

Cant complain yet, but its digital and you know computers...

no experience

For the money its unbeatable!!!
Digital-Combos are a compromise and Yamaha created the best deal!
IMO only compareable to VOX Valvetronix AD60 and Hughes & Kettner but it's much more priceier than both.
Forget cheap Line6 Stuff.

Read below or check out their website. This is a feature-ladened amp.

I play a Mex Strat with humbuckers--SD '59 in the neck and an Anderson HN2+ in the bridge. I wanted something versatile that was loud enough to gig with and needed one pedal to operate. This amp COULD have fit the bill. I am not going to give a rating on this amp because I do think many people will be satisfied. Here is the one reason why I was not satisfied and returned the amp: response. I play a lot of muted notes, which this amp does not amplify to the extent it does unmuted notes. Not only are the muted notes significantly lower in volume, they do not sustain. Is sounds as though I have dropped out of the music, which then causes confusion because I am not hearing myself. I was able to fix this tendency somewhat with the use of a compressor, which squashed notes too much, or with an EQ. But this defeated the grab and go quality I was searching for. This amp needs a hot input signal, IMO. As far as modeling amps go, besides the problem I mentioned above, I think Yamaha has got the feel of real amps. Regular, unmuted notes sound authentic and the amp cleans up with volume changes like few amps I have tried. Give it a try but it wasn't for me.

Seemed solid.

They email me when I ask them something. I suppose that is all one can expect from a big company nowadays.

Lightweight, good modeling, responds to guitar volume control well but does not reproduce muted notes. The latter two seem inconsistent but I know what I am hearing so, go figure.

Got everything you need on an amp. Very versatile. Got tons of features - read the other reviews. Loaded with a 12"Celestion 'Seventy 80' driver. Comes with its own multi function footswitch which is built like a tank. Thanks Yamaha for not making us pay for this footswitch as an optional extra.
Hey guys NO TUBES to change ever again. This thing is well built. Looks lovely too.

I use quite a few guitars with my main axe being a Yamaha AEX 520 also use an Epiphone BB KIng Lucille, a Yamaha Pacifica 812. My style is all round - rock pop blues and jazz.

This amp so far seems to be suitable for everything. I have not had it long and I will update everybody after I used it live. So all my ratings are based on jamming sessions only.

I dont play in a band as yet but I hope to join one in the near future for playing small pubs and clubs so I hope this amp will do the job. This amplifier has a huge range of sounds you can dial in from the 8 models you are given. On the Drive 2 it has a sound really close and similar to a JCM 800 so I am using it a lot. I notice it seems to compress naturally too just like my trusty old JCM 800 used to. Lets get one thing straight here - its a modelling amp of 60 Watts and has nowhere near the power of a 50 Watt tube head but...it only weighs 17kg, I dont need to drag around that 4 x 12" beast with me anymore and no need for leads, pedals, little power supplies (yes they always blow fuses dont they right before a gig).

The sounds are REAL close to any tube amp I have heard and the DRIVE 2 and LEAD 2 models will blow you away for sure. You can get quite a respectable volume out of this amp. Gigging - I dunno yet but should be fine for most small gigs. If you are really playing to very large crowds then you may want to look at the big brothers the DG 80 or DG 100. The thing which swung this for me out of these 3 models was the price tag. I am only going to use this for small gigs initially but if it proves to do the job then I will look at getting rid of my Amp head and the 4x12. I can probably set up for a gig in minutes now and i need only one power outlet. Also if your PA is big enough you can go straight on to your mixer cos this thing seriously sounds good. I mean it. It is awseome. I also tried the DG60 112 (no effects) which uses an Eminence driver but the DG60FX has a Celestion like I say and for me anyway sounds a bit brighter than the Eminence. But that is personal taste. So I went for this one but believe me it was a hard choice. I was gonna go for the new DS 60 powered speaker and use it with my DG stomp but Music Plaza had this amp on promotion and it was a good deal , not much dearer than a DS60 and means I will have a cleaner stage set up. NO DC POWER SUPPLIES reqd and most importantly NO trailing 220 Volt leads stretching across the stage. Plug and Play. The sounds can be summed up as being truly amazing. The only thing which can be annoying is the Power amp hiss but it aint that bad. Anyway most amps have some amount of hiss. Once the band starts you wont even notice it. It could do with a little less distortion on the clean models but you can control it with the gain and use the lo input. Ill give this a 9 for sound because of the hiss and the distortion. For some though the distortion may be nice because it really does sound natural. It actually sounds as though this distortion was intentional and built in by Yamaha to simulate a clean amp as it gets cranked up. Dont be put off by this again it is a personal thing.

Only had it for a short while so cant comment on reliability. Yamaha dont make junk so I have confidence in them. I also own several Yamaha guitars and NEVER once been let down by their standards. Check out even the lower end models of Yamaha guitars and they just ooze quality and you'll see what I mean. I will not make any score here as it would not be fair.

Never dealt with Yamaha technical support. Never needed them. Everything made by Yamaha has never failed me once. I bought mine from a Yamaha owned music shop so I have every confidence I will receive a good level of service from them. The warranty is for one year.

I been playing guitar for 30 years on and off and I own as mentioned a Line 6 300w Head and a Marshall 4x12 angled cab. This was also a nice real set up but I feel for what I will do in my next band it will be too big for me. I cant really fault this amp at all. If it was stolen I would replace it. I did compare this amp with a number of other amps including the Line 6 Spider, the Peavey Studio 112, the DG60112. Well.. the spider was not to my taste, the peavey just seemed to have no volume at all on a clean sound, the DG60 112 was nice but since they had this amp on promotion for only slighly more than the DG60 112, it was too good a bargain to miss. Really do check out the DG60112 if you are limited on price. It is a great amp. There are a lot of amps in this category on the market now. I am a relic from the eighties and loved to play Van Halen, Vai and Yngwie styles and when I was a young dude, lugging the 4x12 cab around was no big deal but I am getting older now and cant be bothered with all that effort anymore. Anyway nowadays we got these great little amps which can give us that BIG sound also we got better PA's now....

Don't know when it was made, clean and distorted tones are nice and beefy. It will definately be enough for any show if you slave it through the DS60 112 powered cabinent( and also look great). It has all the effects that i think you would ever need for most styles of music, the effects also have a lot more versatility than alot of multty effects pedals.

I use it with a Yamaha RGX 420S and an Epiphone Special model. The yamaha guitar soudsd great through this amp, especially when playing metal, not very noisy,you could acheive any tone for any style. The distortion is definatly chunky enough. The clean tones are quiet and nice.But it really needs the extension cabinent for playing a big show.

Definatly use it at a gig without a backup. Get the DS60 112 and set them on left and right, plug in to stereo, and power any show in any place. Alone you cant play a huge place or outside very nicely.

Yamaha are great with it, the first one i bought was cutting out and giving me a hard time so i called yamaha and they replaced it, no questions asked.

Been playing for 8 years, don't have that much experience with amps but its a lot better than all of the multi effects processors i've used, simpler and has much more versatility. the only problem is the foot switch should have a display or something to tell the banks so you don't have to count the flashes when changing patches.

Got this little baby August 2001. It's got the lot!! You don't need any more to play small venue gigs. I've chucked out all my stomps and only take two leads (one for back up). Importantly it takes me about three minutes to set up for gig. All the patches are set for the run list.

I'm using two guitars A Tokai TST 56 strat which I've vanadlised with a Seymour Duncan set (bridge to neck) qtr pounder stack - coolrails - duck bucker and A Cort MGM1. The sounds I can get out of this amp are terrific and I can terrorise metal heads with monolithic stacks to hide behind. The simplistic way that the models are arranged means that your never really lost in the digital void. The all out mayhem settings take your guitar sound and ram it straight down the audiences throat (metaphorically speaking)! The clean sounds can be arranged to break up like classic amps so if your playing gutsy blues, rock 'n roll, straight rock etc this amp is for you! I've taken to using the amp with all the volume and gain settings up really high (full on in some instances) and using the propriety pedal which fits into the (free) floor board to modify the output volume via the pre amp gain. Works fine! Clean sounds abound too I nearly get an acoustic sound out of the clean 1 setting it so pure. I think Yamaha have used the OSR2? which they spent millions developing and it shows!

I've only had the amp for 7 months but it's reliability long term should be no problem. The cab construction is fine although I'd have liked the speaker to be enclosed or a slip over cover for rain protection of the speaker when transporting. The circuit boards are the best I've seen since the WEM heyday and they've designed them to minimise noise cross buzz etc.

They're great (as Tony says) Their virtual sites mean you can get stuff direct or order data downloads etc. Dealer locator actually works.
Never had to get the amp fixed but would assume that it'd be no problem.

I've been playing since 1974 and although I've used loads of amps I have always tried as many as possible before purchasing and stick with my purchase for a long time. My previous best amps are a wem Dominator 45 (115) loaded with mullards slim tube valves and an old Marshall 50 (loaded with two Leslie 6550s) This amp has taken over. I've got rid of my other kit and saved on hospital bills for dislocated shoulders from dragging Stonehenge around the country! I'm waiting delivery of a DS60-112 which will finally get me where I want to be as the amp is only mono this will not only give me stereo but also will give me the speaker distance so flanging, phasing etc will really count (take note Fender! cause sticking two stereo speakers in the same box is a stupid idea)! As regards Line 6 I tried the full range out and I think they suck! the sound was Ok but nothing to write home about and the presentation (do they call it interface?) was crap. The Hughes and Kettner ZenTera looked the business but I think it was made for the blind cause I couldn't find where I was with it and when I finally got a nice sound I didn't know how to save the damn thing! The Fender Cybertwin looked great and sounded like a classic fender valve amp with loads of stomp boxes all turned up too high!(Yuk) Oh, and both the Fender and the H&K were twice as much money and twice as much weight.

I've had this amp for 3 months now. It is incredibly versatile. It has two inputs, so you can play with a friend at the same time. Lots of great effects. 90 fixed preset sounds and 90 user specified sounds. I'm still working with the preset sounds -- there are so many it is easy to find a sound you like. For those that don't agree, you can taylor your own sound. Great power. This is a fantastic amp for any price level, but for the price paid(which included shipping), it is unbeatable.

Samick/silvertone strat copy with 3 cheap single pickups and a Yamaha SSC 500 with 2 single rail pickups one have a center tap and one deMarzio humbucker switchable to single coil.
All kinds of styles have found nothing this amp can't handle well. Tremendous variety of sounds. Distortion is a brutal as desired, Clean sounds are superb. Overall can't imagine better. a bit noisy on heavily distorted sounds. very quiet on clean sounds

No problems to date and don't expect any.

Very good about getting information to me. No repairs have been needed and I don't expect any. I'm not sure about the warranty, I think it is 1 or 2 years.

Playing 3 years. Would definitely buy again--there is nothing out there compareable for the price. I compared it to Line 6 and Fender Blues Junior. This is more reliable than the Blues Junior and like the line 6 sounds good at both low and high volumes. The Line 6 did not compare in terms of features and sound.

8 different amp models in combination with 16 different speaker cab options. effects include chorus, flanger, phase, rotory speaker sim, tremelo, compresor, two types of delays, digital or tape replica, and three different reverbs, spring, hall or plate. All are adjustable. Everything is MIDI capable and the amp comes with a four button footswitch.

This amp sounds great in this wattage, size and price range. It could use alittle more punch for playing with a "loud" band but you can just slave it for that. I play a wide variety of musical styles and tones and have NO problems getting exactly what I want from this amp. I used to carry around a fender hot rod deluxe amp,and a 1970 Marshall SLP 100 with a four twelve cab, and a footboard full of individual effects, including a Fulltone II. Now all I grab is the Yamaha. I am using two guitars, a Floyd Rose Classic strat, and a Paul Reed Smith McCarty and they both sound fantastic through this amp. The thing that blows me away the most, is when you turn on the speaker simulator and record direct! I get better tones than when I recorded at Ocean Records in Burbank, Ca. through a row of vintage amps! It does clean to classic to over the edge overdrive and all in a very tubey vibe and feel that I've never gotten from other solid state amps. It is very responsive to your playing when you roll down the volume or tone knobs. It just flat out doesn't sound like a solid state amp! Another nice thing is that you can tell what guitar you are using. A strat sounds like a strat, a PRS sounds like a PRS, even Tele's shine through with that famous tone.
The effects are easy to use and have some good tones as well. Not nearly as complicated as say a Digitech or Roland effects processor, but I like that. More like using stomp boxes, just set them, hit store, and play!

No Problems

haven't had to deal with them.

This amp is so satisfying at getting great tones without having to spend hours coaxing and tweaking. It records great!!! Has all the basic effects I need.
I have been playing for 31 years and do everything from blues to over the edge Vai and Satriani type stuff, so I can tell you that I've had my fill of Gear Acquisition Syndrome. I've had this amp now for almost a year and have no desire to get rid of it. It does everything it is supposed to do, and with great tube tone. I highly recomend this amp!!!