Dedicated to crystal-clear or mildly distorted sounds. Ultratwin combines the tonal qualities of legendary twin amps with revolutionary flexibility of tone and I/O options.
Ultratwin GX212
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unregistered, on january 22, 2004 2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Purchased from: Musician's Friend
Features: This amp has many good features that I was suprised with. The digital effects on the amp are great sounding and have good options. Not only does the amp have 99 presets, you can also mix the sounds around to make your own type of effect. This amp is a 2 channel amp which is nice if you are going to run a distortion or clean/effect channel. The amp also has a footswitch that comes with it. The ampage is amazing too! // 8
Sound: Well, the sound is amazing. The amp is 120 watts in the combo, and the amp has very, very loud sound. The distortion for the amp is very bad though so I ran a MetalZone pedal through it, and the sound was amazing. The amp can handle all the different tones in the pedals including the highs and lows. The clean sound is also great and loud too. // 10
Reliability & Durability: I would definitely use the amp for gigs due to the great sound and quality of the amp. The amp also has a very durable casing on it, and can takes scrapes and hits. The quality is great for the price. // 10
Impression: The overall rating of the amp is great. The sound is very loud and clear but the distortion for the amp sucks. I suggest running maybe a MetalZone pedal through the amp to get the full distortion you need. The clean/effect channels sound great, so there is no need to run anything else. The amp is truly a great amp for the price I paid. I would suggest anyone looking for a loud good sounding and very affordable amp, go with this one! // 10
Ultratwin GX212
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TjerG, on april 29, 2009 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: € 190
Purchased from: second hand
Features: I have no idea in what year the amp was made, because I bought it from another guy. The amp suit's the styles of music I play well, which are mostly rock, punk and metal. It has two channels: a clean channel and an overdrive channel with two overdrive options in it. There is an effects loop, but I don't use it, because it makes all my effects sound very weak. My amp came with a footswitch. But it hasn't got a headphone jack at all. I use my amp only for the clean sound, because the rest just doesn't sound nice. I don't use all of the 99 effects on the amp, because I don't like the effects and you can't quickly Switch between other presets.
I use this amp when I'm practicing with my band and I use it in my bedroom. I don't use it at gigs. I use someone else's koch amp at gigs. // 5
Sound: I use my amp with an Epiphone SG and an Ibanez RG270b, both humbuckers and the Ibanez has a single coil pickup. It suit's The Music styles that I play, but all because I use effect pedals. The amp is noisy when my distortion is on.(DigiTech Grunge) but there is absolutely no noise at all when everything is clean. The amp itself can only make some nice clean sound, the overdrive channel has too much low and not enough high sound. It has not enough gain. I never use this channel.
This amp stays clean untill you put the master volume higher than 5 or something like that. The distortion is abnormally weak, I don't think anyone will use it. // 5
Reliability & Durability: I actually can depend on this amp, I don't think it will ever break. I would use it on a gig without a backup, because I don't have one.(the Behringer would be the backup if I had another amp). It has never broken down yet, I don't think it will break in the near future. // 7
Impression: I mostly play rock and some metal. It is a good match when I use my effects pedals. I have been playing for 2 years now. My setup is: guitar >> Dunlop crybaby >> DigiTech Grunge >> MXR GT-OD >> Ibanez AD9 Analog Delay >> Boss ME-50(only modulation effects) >> Behringer amp.
If it were stolen / lost, I would buy another amp. There is nothing I love about this amp. I hate the overdrive channel and effects loop. My favourite feature is the clean sound. I chose this amp because I needed one and I didn't have a lot of money. // 5
Ultratwin GX212
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unregistered, on february 23, 2006 0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 274.5
Purchased from: Eskildsen
Features: First of all, I do not know anything about the creation of this amp, except Behringer made it. I found that the amp really isn't versatile enough for my style of music. When I bought it, I had played guitar for a few months and had just learned power chords. So I went to the guitar shop without knowledge about amps or a pick to test it properbly. Secondly the salesman asked what guitar I used, and it was a Squier Strat which isn't good for anything. I mainly play grunge and like a very thick and muddy grungy sound, which my DS-2 takes care of, but I also like a sharp and crisp clean sound, a bit twangy. This amp does neither! It's over a year since I bought it, and still the first thing I do everytime I play it is messing with the settings without luck. So no versatility! The amp has two channels - a clean and an overdrive. The od channel sounds like crap no matter what, and so does the clean in fact. It comes with a switch, which is a good thing. This amp also has a seperate effect channel with 99 preset digital effects that you never would consider using - and besides, no build in effects (especially not digital effects) sounds way as great as pedals! But that doesn't matter with this amp, cause it sounds bad either way. And yeah, it has a headphone jack. I wish it sounded better! I only use this amp at home. And I've experienced that when you turn the volume loud enough up, it sometimes switches off or reduces the volume for a short time but that might have something to do with the fact that it's a cheap demo-model from the shop I got. Bad sound and way to many effects that you never would use. // 1
Sound: I run the ealier mentioned Squier Strat (now with a humbucker in bridge and single coil in neck and a 3-way switch for each pickup (for the humbucker, it's on, off, on and for the single coil, it's on, off, phase)) through a cheap Behringer preamp, that I use to get feedback, through a DS-2 and a Electro-Harmonix Small Clone Chorus and finally this thing called an amp. I play grunge and sometimes classic rock, and it doesn't fit that at all! The guitar sound is too modern. To clear. Too even and boring. And the OD channel is just noisy and too high-pitched. The dynamics are very poor in this thing. The clean channel gets distorted when turned all way up inb level, but only a little bit. You can see the red "clip" led light up when that happens. Then you just turn the clean voluime down and the master up! Bad, bad sound for my taste! // 1
Reliability & Durability: It has never broken down, but I wouldn't take this to a gig. It's simply just not the right thing! // 3
Impression: This amp is an amp for everything else than rock. And that isn't great, when you try to play grunge. I've been playing for a little over a year (I learn such things pretty fast) and the more experience I get with guitar playing, the more I just hate this amp! If it were stolen, I would start an investigation for the thief, and when he's found, I would thank him, request the money for it and buy a Marshall (which also is my plan except selling it instead of getting it stolen). // 1
Well, I've been playing guitar since Nixon was honest, and I used to play through SUNN stacks and Dual Showman cabinets in nightclubs! This was during the HENDRIX, CHICAGO, BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS era and it wasn't all about volume then. I had to get the sounds but at comfy club volumes, and a great clean tone was always the starting point. (I'd play TAKE FIVE and APRICOT BRANDY in the same set)
I bought a GX212 with broken input jacks for 50 bux (USD)from a hard luck story who needed quick cash. (His mama was in jail, prolly for singing too loud in church or sumthin) I didn't know what I was getting myself into until I got into the amp, but fortunately, a consummate pro named LeaAnn at Behringer helped me get the replacement jacks even though the amp is discontinued. (The jacks are RF-filtered and are soldered to a little circuit board that plugs into the mommy board. The jacks are plastic to isolate them from chassis ground, too. Great idea except it's possible to accidentally break the plug and/or the jacks if you leave a cord plugged up and bump it, which is how the original owner broke both of them! (I unplug every time I put the guitar down!)
So, for a total of 65 American bananas I have a like new, 2X60 watt "guitar workstation" that just knocks me out!
I use stompies for effects and I haven't begun to experiment with the 99 presets because the clean channel and one bluesy setting on the overdrive have made me really happy. (I play blues, jazz and melodic and crunchy country these days, and I have 9 or 10 carefully selected effects that I rotate in and out of the lineup depending on my biorhythms.)
I can't believe how great this amp sounds and the response and tone actually inspire me to play much better! I mean, bruthas and sistas the tone is kickin' compared to my five other amps.
And. with all the other plugs (MIDI, RCA, phone, input/output, speaker bypass, etc., on the back of this amp I have a great start on building my own studio. Coupled with my 8 track digital deck I'm already happier than I've been since the old studio glory days.
(Back then we recorded on this weird stuff called "tape". You have to see it 'cause it's hard to 'splain)
From what I've read some cats may not fully appreciate what the company was going for with this amp. Well, let me say that I get it , and I'm happy with Behringer's concept and development of this fine amp. Thanks for the best sounding amp I've ever owned. (Hey, it would be a bargain at twice the price! )
I've got more than enough amps for great sounding effects, and with an EQ they all get decent, gig worthy clean tones. But, nothing comes close to the delicious ear candy this amp puts out, and that's with no prosthetics at all!
I'm going to try a new Behringer now because the price is right and I'm curious to know what the company thought it could improve on with the GMX212 for instance. I'm sure that the newer models smoke and I may want to buy a few, but the GX212 is the only amp I'd go out the door with and leave my pedals at home. (blues or country gigs for sure)
I'm so impressed that I also bought one of the company's reverb pedals and (with an AC adapter because it eats batteries like lobster/crabmeat hors'de hourves) it also sounds dynamite and the price is excellent!
I love this amp. I'm not entirely sure what all the bad words are about it, its always sounded great for me clean and distorted. The distortion on this amp, to me, is as raw and real as any solid state i've encountered, and gets plenty heavy (with a few exceptions of styles and genres im sure.) I will say the effects don't serve alot of purpose, but i've found two or three that i can make use of. The main downfall of the effects is the impossibility of switching between two separate effects while playing. Lots of the effects are gimmicky, but some of the reverbs are nice enough. I've never heard a single distortion stompbox pedal that sounded as good as this amp. The Ultratwin delivers beautifully unprocessed sound, and thats what i love. I've never used it at a gig, but i definitely would, as its plenty loud, as well as sensitive to playing, and also a great monitor if you're running through a pa.
It's still the only amp i practice on, bedroom or with a band.
Also has several tape inputs and outputs which are quite handy. I play my record player through it on the clean channel and it sings.
All in all, its a terrific practice amp, maybe even a good gig amp. It's too bad its been discontinued, cause if mine breaks (not that it seems it will for a long time) i'm gonna be hounding Behringer for replacement parts.
It's my primary recording amp now and and there's another bonus; the Behringer two-button foot switch is the correct type (momentary, not make or break) to activate my MR8 (FOSTEX) digital recorder when I need to punch in and record over a pre-recorded track. I don't need the FS to change channels or effects when recording so I didn't have to buy or build another for punch ins!
With my BAD MONKEY (sale price was like $25) and the Behringer reverb pedal (also less than $30) I'm getting my signature blues tone. I also found out why the reverb pedal eats batteries. Using my volt-ohm meter (VOM) I measured the current draw on all of my stompies, and all of them draw between 13.8 ma (BOSS LS-2) and 16.4 ma (BAD MONKEY Overdrive). But the Behringer Reverb draws 64 ma when the reverb is "idlin'" and 70 ma when its 'verberatin'! AH HAH! This explains why it eats batteries. (and why I power it with a wall wart even if I'm tempted to gig with batteries for the other effects) The chip that produces those fine reverb sounds comes at a price-a heavy current draw (relatively speaking, I mean it's only milliamps) roughly 4 times the next heaviest stompie effect pedal.
"Why don't I just select one of the amp's fine reverbs?", you may ask. Because the amp's compression presets (two of the 99 presets) are better than my compression stompie.
This amp has served me well. I picked it up in 2005, nearly new (it still had the protective plastic covers on the face of the amp!).
I only use the clean channel because I have used a Zoom Driver 5000 distortion for the last 16-17 years, and I get the drive I want from that.
I find that setting the EQ Bass=7 Mid=5 Treb=5.5 gives me great tone for both the guitars I play on. One is a Strat with aftermarket Duncans, and the other is a Frankenstein Strat style with EMGs.
I also like the fact that this amp has HI and LO inputs for active and passive guitars.
The on board DSP is pretty groovy, man. Just twenty years ago, you could easily drop $500 on 6 pedals that you had to buy batteries and cords to connect. I have since bought the MIDI footboard the Behringer also makes. Connecting it to the amp really broadens the possibilities of what this amp can do if you take the time to program the expression pedals.
I thought about getting rid of this once I started adding some new toys to my arsenal (read Amplitube) but I will run this into the ground before I give it up.
Great amp for casual gigs, and for basement and home jams.
I bought a GX212 with broken input jacks for 50 bux (USD)from a hard luck story who needed quick cash. (His mama was in jail, prolly for singing too loud in church or sumthin) I didn't know what I was getting myself into until I got into the amp, but fortunately, a consummate pro named LeaAnn at Behringer helped me get the replacement jacks even though the amp is discontinued. (The jacks are RF-filtered and are soldered to a little circuit board that plugs into the mommy board. The jacks are plastic to isolate them from chassis ground, too. Great idea except it's possible to accidentally break the plug and/or the jacks if you leave a cord plugged up and bump it, which is how the original owner broke both of them! (I unplug every time I put the guitar down!)
So, for a total of 65 American bananas I have a like new, 2X60 watt "guitar workstation" that just knocks me out!
I use stompies for effects and I haven't begun to experiment with the 99 presets because the clean channel and one bluesy setting on the overdrive have made me really happy. (I play blues, jazz and melodic and crunchy country these days, and I have 9 or 10 carefully selected effects that I rotate in and out of the lineup depending on my biorhythms.)
I can't believe how great this amp sounds and the response and tone actually inspire me to play much better! I mean, bruthas and sistas the tone is kickin' compared to my five other amps.
And. with all the other plugs (MIDI, RCA, phone, input/output, speaker bypass, etc., on the back of this amp I have a great start on building my own studio. Coupled with my 8 track digital deck I'm already happier than I've been since the old studio glory days.
(Back then we recorded on this weird stuff called "tape". You have to see it 'cause it's hard to 'splain)
From what I've read some cats may not fully appreciate what the company was going for with this amp. Well, let me say that I get it , and I'm happy with Behringer's concept and development of this fine amp. Thanks for the best sounding amp I've ever owned. (Hey, it would be a bargain at twice the price!
I've got more than enough amps for great sounding effects, and with an EQ they all get decent, gig worthy clean tones. But, nothing comes close to the delicious ear candy this amp puts out, and that's with no prosthetics at all!
I'm going to try a new Behringer now because the price is right and I'm curious to know what the company thought it could improve on with the GMX212 for instance. I'm sure that the newer models smoke and I may want to buy a few, but the GX212 is the only amp I'd go out the door with and leave my pedals at home. (blues or country gigs for sure)
I'm so impressed that I also bought one of the company's reverb pedals and (with an AC adapter because it eats batteries like lobster/crabmeat hors'de hourves) it also sounds dynamite and the price is excellent!
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