Behringer V-Amp 2 Review / Demo
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- In this review/demo I talk about the pros and cons of the V-Amp2 Guitar Effects unit and then go through each of the guitar amp models and effects. This is a great unit for the beginner to intermediate guitar player looking to explore now sounds on a budget. The unit has a street value of around $100 or less. I recommend this to any guitarist looking to expand their sound, but don't know exactly what effects they want or need yet.
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Great review.....I have the V-Amp 3 Just received it...this was most helpful to me. I like the talking and the demo you did. Blessings to you.
Thanks for recording and posting this. I like mine a lot. It looked like you only went through half of the models, though. There is a second model for each position that you can get by pushing down the left button as you turn the model dial.
That is correct; holding one of the letter buttons down for a few seconds stores your settings to that patch. A thru E are the 5 patches in a single bank, and the Bank Up and Bank Down buttons switch between the banks.
Thank you my friend.You made friendly to play, explain, show.Congratulations.
Don't be sorry about that. You gave a great review about it , for me , when it comes to 32-bit digital effects processors, It always good to have the "cost-bennefit" section in the review as well.
Very useful review. Might have to get one of these.
love that thing. Had one for years, and don't plan to get rid of it. I use this for electric guitar parts on my lofi stuff.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned here: on the V-AMP you have a second group of amp models as well as a second parameter you can control for the effects. The "second" options are labeled in a lighter grey text and are accessed by holding down the Tap Tempo/2nd button while you turn the amp model selector knob or the effects knob.
Yes exactly.... and this basically is the same text processor it's built into my V-ampire
And as far as beginner to intermediate hold it right there my friend I'mma tell you right now if you know what you're doing with a solid-state amp especially one that's actually pretty damn complicated like the one that I have and not like your user-friendly tube amp I went up against another guitar player all the time in my band playing a Behringer V amp fire and the other guitar player a marshall stack tube amp as far as tone and everything goes in the end my guitar and amp cost a total of maybe $1,000 was way better than dudea
got the v-amp pro off ebay a couple months ago for around £50. it is an incredible piece of hardware
I'm an intermediate acoustic player just starting to experiment with electric. This review is really helpful. Thanks!
wohhhwwww : watta experience for me !!!!! i just brought it from a friend for 35.-€ !!!!!! about 26.-$ .....and its an astonnishing little box,whats up AND in it. your demo is absolutely awesome,as you make me LEARN,how to use it !!!!! thanks a lot man,for sharing this with us !!!!!
Don't be sorry about talking at length: You give a lot of details and provide your viewpoint aboth the gear, which give us more valuable information when we have to decide on getting one of these or not. Thank you!
I agree, most people just play sounds rather than explaining what does what and how to do it,that's really important.
I agree. My son is using my Nova System in the studio right now, but once I get it back I plan to use my FCB1010 to control it and my VoiceTone GX-T. It's a great foot control board for the price.
The V amp has effects and gizmos and all But the V amp is first and foremost an Amp and cabinet SIMILATOR... thats what it is.. Had mine for about 7 years or so.. love it.. Had alot of fun
Nice review. I have both the V-AMP2 and the V-AMP Pro and still find occasional uses for them, even though I have upgraded to mostly tc electronic gear on a nice pedalboard setup. I've gotten good results getting a reasonable facsimile of a Mesa sound using the Rectified Hi Gain model when recording with a Strat. Also, note that it is not necessary to use a MIDI cable to record with the V-AMP; you can run the audio out to a line in on your sound card or recording interface.
KennisRussell, you are wrong about "the brick in the middle" of the adaptors chord. It´s very good thing because electrical sockets on the wall or on an extention chord usually get crammed up because of the brick-like adaptor at the end of the power-supply so one needs more and more and more extentions.
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:) Ps. Thanks for your review.
very good review!!!
I'll buy one!
Yes, the FCB1010 is very good and you can use it with any Unit you like. You can also use it for the GR-55 as a midi-controller. Same as the Controlling unit from Roland.
I have these pedals, unfortunately I've had trouble using them because when connected to power the led symbols mark "E2" i dont know if its the pedals or the battery, but I've tried resetting it and the "E2" symbols keep appearing. If anyone knows how to fix this please help.
Very good demo. Thnks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kennis Russell Hi! Can you tell me if this is or isn't good with mini amps such as the Boss Katana Mini? I tried to some heavy distortion with this thing and I think it could blow it out....little nervous.
The best test and clean sounds checking at now. Thanks for that Kennis!!
Great review
Can someone tell me how to plug this one into computer for recording? I've heard about this little device called UCA-222, but someone told me that it works only for V-Amp 3, and V-Amp 2 looses all of the sound quality when plugged in via UCA... Also, does this program that comes with v-amp 3 (ztx-something, sorry for my bad memory) works with v-amp 2?
do you have to connect it to another amp or can you just connect it to a guitar and play immediatly.
I have this unit. I use it to practice with headphones and to easily maniuplate/edit sounds. The sounds available are, quite possilby, the easiest to edit of any device of this type. Granted, you're not going to sound exactly like any specific amp, but you can get the gist of how to setup the real thing with one of these. They are inexpensive, and the sounds available make this well worth the small investment.
Its ancient but still man BEST tones ever. I just creamed myself during a jam with it. The JCM800 model in this SWEET. Legendary processor.
I just scored one and thanks mate this vid was very helpful
But I'm actually a bass player and this sounds somewhat strange with a bass plugged into it
@@tomaaugro5124 Not if you use the right settings. I set mine up for bass and once I EQ in the final mix, I get a great bass sound out of this.
How do I use this... I have a regular guitar amp and I dont knownwhat cable I need for it to work ?
I currently have a regular guitar cable going from the guitar to the vamp 2 but what cable do I need to go from vamp 2 /to my amp? Anyone know please lol
Similar, but much smaller units such as the Lekato PA-1 amp & Pockrock are available now for about $30-40. Pockrock is even shaped like this unit, tho smaller, as I said. Pockrock includes 40 drum loops and the ability to Bluetooth in for play-alongs...but Pockrock has a conventional tone knob, whereas the V-Amp appears to have an actual bass, mid & treble boost.
A neat thing that can be done with any of these units is to plug in an inexpensive Bluetooth transmitter & use an inexpensive, small wireless speaker to replace a practice amp. Some of these speakers output as much as 20-30 watts. But others are small enough to fit in one's pocket...and, especially "bone conduction" speakers that amplify the sound thru the surface they sit on can be surprisingly loud, with good bass.
we want Ken to talk a lot actually to make us understand every single thing about it.. im one of the ppl who actually like the way Kennis explains about such things... i need to understand every single thing about it and every button before getting totally lost in what all those switches are about coz im not used to such pedals/amps whatever.
i say good job Ken i just subscribed to ur channel due to the good explanation and taking care of details
keep on ur way bro
@kennisrussell Yes that helps. I have an other question, because i am a beginner/intermediate electric guitar player and i think its cool to have a multi effect device but i don't know which one and i don't have that much money to spent, so what do you recommend? Or is this v-amp device one of the cheapest multi effect device?
I'd say the V-Amp 2 works well for even an advanced guitarist for a practice amp. It really is surprisingly good.
Good review,
can you also do one of the v amp 3? Or is that almost the same?
Very nice Review. Thank you Kennis. I've the Unit, too. But the sounds are better from Line6 and Roland/Boss. But for beginner it is very good. I have the FCB1010 Footswitch, too.
Wow, it's huge!
Hey, this is a shot in the dark, does anyone know a pedal that sounds like "Modern Class A"? (at 16:00 in the video)
I'm just guessing since I don't have the unit in front of me at the moment, but I would start with the Brit Hi Gain amp model with compression enabled if I was trying to get Slash's sound. If you can get the tone from the amp model without enabling compression, then probably enable delay instead.
Yeah its a great design actually. Its tweakable right from the front panel. You also don't lose your tweaks if yous hut down and start up, the vamp shows you what setting you had last. It's not the greatest unit in the world but its way better than most people think. :D
Hola saludos se puede desactivar los amplificadores y utilizar solo los efectos
muito boa a explicação...parabéns...
would you say it is better to play this through an acoustic amp, i have a marshall stack and i find the noise gets quite distorted when i play it. even without the drive turned on (on the amp) however, when i play it through the headphone jack it sounds brilliant!
great video! very helpful
I've even used mine for trashy vocals, when I want something different like distortion and/or echo. I also mic'd a harmonica and ran it thru a distorted amp model with good results.
I have just bought a V-amp 2. It sounds great on headphones but on amplifier (I have Roland cube 30) it sounds so bad. what amp/speakers are you using? is there a specific way you connect to them (line in/out, aux, etc.)? sorry i'm just a novice.
You're not supposed to hook it up to a guitar amp. Try hooking it up to your stereo and I bet you'll get far better results.
Can you set tones with more than 1 effect? Eg phaser + auto wah + delay? Thanks. I have 1 of these but I'm not very good with the technical stuff. : (
Can you run a pedal after or before you run it into a speaker ?
Hi, thanks for the very detailed review. I am thinking of getting a used one. I have just begun to play the e-guitar, so some stuff is still not quite clear. Can I simply plug it inbetween the guitar and my simple amplifier? I can't find infos about what the deal is with this left and right 'out'? Could I simply connect one of them directly to my amp? Or doesn't this work this way at all?
***** Thank you for your answer. I just sold my amp since it had a real bad sound. I read something about the vamp hooked up to a hifi-system. I already played my guitar on my stereo, it just sounds way better. What types are the left/right out jacks on the vamp? RCA? That would be good since that's what my aux in is on the stereo.
Anybody experiences with vamp + hifi-system?
@@Abszurdista-fatalista You need to set up the noise gate properly and it won't be hissy sounding
What is the headphone sound like on this unit? dos it have a eq/tone control?
How many improvements have they made over the vamp 3 compared to this one? Are the effects better? Amp modes better or more of them etc?
Find a used Vox Tonelab desktop model instead. It's worlds better than the V-Amp for about the same price.
Anyone know how to banking on pedal effect vamp 2?
Will this work well as a di box?
I have both the V2 & V3 and I've found that the units need a strong volume signal for the tuner to work at its best -- I just turn the guitar's volume to 10. You can control the volume out with the Master Volume. (Then it works just as well as my Hardwire HT-2 pedal tuner.) So, when the tuner is on you can silence it or turn the volume up to suit your tastes, The tuner is like an additional patch -- it'd be the 126th I guess. Anyway, Thanks for the review and Praise God. John 15:5-10.
Does this have its own sound or do I need to buy an amp too?
hey, is it also fuctionable with electro-acoustic guitar?
Hi There,
Would you please be so kind as to tell me what the exact output of the power supply is please.
Voltage and if it's AC ~ or DC = output please.
It's not regular connection, if you are looking for replacement power supply. It looks more like a small MIDI connector, with 4 pin. I don't see any other devices use this kind of connector.
Yes completely. Ive even used it as a vocal preamp and it sounds great.
You can use the tube compressor setting and switch cabinets OFF. That will give you a nice smooth tone for your electro acoustic (if its a jumbo). If its a ES335 style thin body, you can try a Fender Twin or Fender Bassman model with the matching cabinet (the vamp will select it automatically for you)
Then you can add a big of plate reverb or some similar subtle reverb also on the vamp ad you're ready to go.
Good luck!
I had a few of these units over the years and it used to be that for the price it was totally unbeatable. I did discover a major drawback with it, though. When you turn on one of the effects it totally dulls your tone. Let's say you have a great distortion tone dialed in and you just add chorus. You can hear the tone lose a couple of dB of gain and it becomes somehow thin and muddy. That's the reason why I finally had to move on to more expensive units.
It also depends how thick of an effect you add
These are great for figuring the effect you want then buy the pedals. Great for beginners!
How do you connect it to a combo amp?
i have the vamp2.. but i cant use them -.- , do i need a good guitar also? or a normal guitar will play like the one u playing with effects?
Muito massa, estou com uma vontade imenssa de comprar uma desse mesmo estilo, esse pedal combina para Guitarra (Guitar) Fender ?
How whi can save? On vamp 2?
does anyone know how they have the information to recreate the amps' sounds? i'm a noob at music tech
Mainly reverse engineering, they buy some amps just to disasemble and a team of engineers study it and make a project to make the circuit more cheaper. Behingher is great at it.
@@thalesnunes1693 thank you!
I just bought from Ebay and i need a manual but cant seem to find a download.anyone?
is the power supplie with it?? I bought one a few minutes ago on the internet but i'm not sure.
plz help me! :D
and thank you Kennis
How do you get a slash (sweet child o mine) tone out of this thing?
You should review the behringer x v-amp
can i use with mic
Can I ask you how do you connect the v amp to the amp?
I connect the guitar to input,and the line out to the return of the amp.
but i see you connect two jacks to the lineouts L and R,
can you please explain?thanks
I suspect he’s got it plugged into the PA head.
@@Shred_The_Weapon possible,but even in that case,why(and how) he has both lineouts connected?
PA channels can be panned left and right. That could’ve been what he was aiming to do.
@@Shred_The_Weapon thanks for the info
How is it with other analog pedals?
The neck pickup...on everything??
Hey man, did you say "street value" ?? LOL jokin with ya.😄 I enjoyed your video 👍 Very professional.
Thanks for the review / demo, when I can play better, I could do lot of things with my V amp 3 ;-)
nice video, some people dont know how to forward a video i gues..
@kennisrussell I got one of these things for free from Church ... The thing is I play bass, Can this be used ?
yes
@kennisrussell does this work with bass guitar?????????
Yes but as he says in the video, there is a BASS GUITAR version of it.
Plug a Les Paul into the Mesa programs. It absolutely rocks.
Golden age of guitars where Beatles, Hendrix, Brian May, and Page would have killed for something like this back in their time.
thanks man ,seems that my antivirus its acting up but switched search engine and found it imao..
@MrLesleyP Hey, I just use an amp with overdrive for that. Hope I helped ;)
Anytime
That's why its called a review (read information) :-)
didn't know Sean McVay does guitar videos...
can I use this with guitar Rig
I use mine through a power amp, and it sounds awesome.
the x vamp has a simlar kind of power supply
No clean sound?
I've just dug mine out after not being used for 11 years... Bloody need a degree in astrophysics to use it hahah not easy now for an old man lol
Really? I never owned V-Amp 2 but had in my life 2 V-Amp Pro units and half a year ago also bought FCB1010 midi controller and from what I heard that's the tricky one to use it especially when it comes to import/export the midi presets and setup lol
with a wall box you take up more space on a power strip
he said Jack Wood at 5:32
Cabinet emulation can be turned on and off, and there are various cabinet models to select from (4 of them if I remember right). Still might not be like the sound you are used to from your speakers though.
faz o da vmp3
i run a portable CD player to the AUX in which contain my drum/bass tracks when i play at open mics. i control the mix between drums, bass and guitar with the v-amp and send that in stereo to the soundman's board telling him to set the EQ flat, no reverb and no effects. Then all he has to do is mix that to my vocal.
BRIDGE PICKUP PLEASE
It´s really good for begginner like you said, but i definitely don´t like that chorus, sounds like an flanger to me.
i was gona buy 1. gtr center was all out soo i went with a me25 boss iam glad i did this v amp sounds soo plastic. however if you did something heavy metal more mid treble gain it might sound better than a gumby tune. just like sex it aint what ya got its all how you use it. but i do recomend beringer mixing consoles i have 1 in my studio with my rig and its nice n clean as well as hard driveing like a marshall stack. but it is a pro board.
thanks for taking the time to do this... but please be aware that you spend too much time talking about stuff no one cares about-- you should cut to the chase early on in the video. you could've summed up the first 7 minutes in 6 seconds. people come here to hear the unit; you only changed amp models without tweaking any tone controls and gain controls (which should be the focus of the video). :)
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I liked the talking part
I guess we all want different things:)
Umair Nadeem the man is explaining wot it does an how it works I for one thought he had done a good review, if you came to hear wot it sounds like all ya gotta do is hit the fast forward button , it’s not rocket science now is it
Los efectos de metal le sacaste toda la ganancia y no suenan como deberian sonar. Deben probar el vamp2 con gain 10 y NUMETAL O MODERN HIGH GAIN los cuales suenan bastante pesado.
i've got a v-amp and it's good but i don't like behringer's factory presets, they're all over the place. No pattern and they didn't set all the volumes equally
Hey man. I have a boss multi effects too, its good at what it does but boss distortions are very weak sounding to my ears. Their amp modelling isn't very good either. For hi gain amos forgeddaboudit. Boss wins on effects for sure. Delays, Choruses etc. All the HiFi stuff it wins. The vamp wins on tone. IMHO of course.