Behringer VT15FX Virtube Guitar Combo Amplifier (15 Watts, 1x8")

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With 16 digital effects and 15 watts pumping out of the 8" Bugera speaker, this combo is the perfect practice amp for players of all ages and skill levels.

Equally perfect for aspiring and for accomplished guitarists for practicing or warm-up with uncompromised sound options. The Behringer VT15FX is armed with 15-Watts, a custom-designed 8" Bugera speaker, and sixteen digital effects, including four each of the following: reverb, delay, chorus and flanger, this baby is ready to rock!

Features

- Powerful 15-Watt, 2-channel guitar amplifier with authentic VTC Tube Modeling
- Awesome digital FX processor with reverb, chorus, flanger and delay
- Original heavy-duty 8" Bugera vintage guitar speaker for classic sound reproduction
- 2 full-featured channels offering everything you need from clean to super-fat distortion sounds
- Radical bass, mid and treble controls -- for every sound from traditional to scooped modern
- Additional Headphone and Line output with integrated speaker simulation
- Dedicated CD input for playback of line-level signals (e.g. CD player, drum machine)
- High-quality components and exceptionally rugged construction ensure long life
- Conceived and designed by Behringer Germany

Where Are the Tubes?

Ask any guitarist what they want most from an amp and they'll answer with a single word -- Tone. That quest for tone drove them to develop Behringer's family of Virtube amplifiers. Their proprietary VTC (Virtual Tube Circuitry) gives these amazing amps their in-your-face tube-amp tone. Amps with such rich, harmonic character and buttery tube-like goodness, you'll wonder where they hid the tubes.

All Virtube read more amps have split personalities: one that features dulcet-clean output, and one that drives your tone with an aggressive punch that only tubes, or their VTC modeling, can generate. So when the time comes, you'll be ready for everything from mellow blues to metal mayhem.

Revolutionary VTC Technology

The secret behind Virtube's incredible sound is their VTC Tube Modeling processor, which exudes the very essence of tube saturation and compression. But VTC does so much more than just generate a cheap copy of a specific amp character. It accurately emulates the interaction between classic tube stages, responding to the subtle tonal changes that occur when one stage hands the signal off the next. The resulting signal is rich in harmonic content and far more true to the nature of tube amps.

Two-Channel Operation

Virtube's Clean channel is elegant in its simplicity. The sound is open and uncolored and can be tailored to your needs by Volume and the analog passive equalizer. The Overdrive channel features Gain, Volume, Bass, Treble and their proprietary Contour control, with its radical midrange sweep. All this versatility enables you to artfully define your "perfect" tone, from traditional to scooped modern and anything in-between.

Digital FX

All Virtube models, with the exception of the VT15CD, come with state-of-the-art effects -- and not some cheap-and-cheesy reverb chip, but a full-blown 24-bit digital effects processor with 16 great-sounding reverbs, choruses, flangers and delays. This tasty collection of effects is a must-have for any guitarist and includes room, stage, concert and cathedral reverbs, slap-back and medium echoes, two long delays, plus slow and fast modulation effects -- all right at your fingertips.

Handmade Speakers

It takes a special speaker to handle all this incredible technology, tube-like tone and brutal output power. That's why they fit each Virtube combo with handmade, heavy-duty Bugera Vintage Guitar speakers. These babies were custom-designed and handcrafted specifically for the Virtube Series, and are ideally suited for classic sound reproduction.

Get Connected

Whether you're recording or just jamming on your latest riff, you need the right connections -- Virtube really has you covered. The Phones/Line Out B jack is much more than just a place for your headphones to call home. As the name implies, this jack can also be used to send your guitar signal, with speaker simulation, to another amp or mixer.* When the Phones/ Line Out B jack is in use, the internal loudspeaker is muted, allowing you to crank your guitar into the wee morning hours, without bothering the neighbors. If you'd like to play along with previously recorded tracks, just plug the output of your CD/Tape/mp3 deck into the CD In/Line Out A jack. This jack also serves a second purpose, providing yet another Line Out, this time without speaker simulation.*

* Note: Use a standard 1/4" TS cable to connect this linelevel signal to the destination device. If a hum is detected, or the cable run is more than a few feet, you may get better results using a Direct Injection box, like the DI100 or DI20.
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Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. (1 ratings)
Submitted January 5, 2011 by a customer from gmail.com

"Just a nice little amp"

Overall: 4 out of 5 stars
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Over all I am very satisfied with this purchase. It was not my first choice, but for what I got for the price it was worth every penny. Most guitarists (and I'm not saying this to make anyone upset it's just what I've seen during my years in the music industry) hear from every other guitarist that if you want to sound good you have to put down some serious cash. If you believe this then sure go ahead and lay down $30,000 for a vintage tube system it's your money. But realistically, you just need something that does exactly what it's supposed to, your talent will fill in the rest. A $30,000 system won't help you play better.

Sound
I have played with a lot of gear over the years, and Behringer has always surprised me with their cost vs. quality. This amp is no exception. The sound quality is crisp and clear but still able to rumble your guts if you want it to. The VT circuitry when turned on adds a nice subtle mellow to the sound much like a real tube. The overdrive channel is very capable of reproducing a nice blues on up to a metal shred fest. The tone control seems to have a very nice curve to it as well.

Features
The built in FX are very simple. Not a whole lot of variation in different levels but a nice addition. They are not going to replace a good pedal, but not bad for something so simple. Aux input and headphone out are nice, but my favorite is the 2 channel line out for direct recording.

Ease of read more Use
As with most of Behringer equipment this amp is so simple to use it's ridiculous.

Quality
The amp is pretty solid feeling. The cabinet feels very stable and rugged. My only complaint would be the knobs. They are a chrome colored plastic and when you grab one and jiggle it you can feel the potentiometer it's connected to move inside the amp which is not what you really want to feel. I am a little worried that if the knobs get kicked or something falls on them that there is a very good possibility that it will damage the potentiometers inside.

Value
As I stated before Behringer has always surprised me with their cost vs. quality. I have played on equipment that's 10 to 20 times more expensive and although the problem I have with the knobs irks me a little the sound quality of this little 15watt solid state amp is wonderful.

Manufacturer Support
Behringer does have really good customer support. Their reps are friendly and willing to help if you need it.

The Wow Factor
I personally like the look of this little amp. It has very clean lines and is layed out very simply. The best part for me is it doesn't weigh a ton and it does exactly what I want it to.

Musical Background:
All around sound guy. The shorter list would be what I haven't done.

Musical Style:
Rock, Metal, Dance
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