Behringer GDI21 V-Tone Guitar Amp Modeler Preamp and DI Pedal
Recreate the best amp tones money can by from squeaky clean to super distorted. This stomp box can go toe-to-toe with any amp.
Overall User Ratings (based on 8 ratings)
Submitted January 25, 2011 by a customer from hotmail.com
"Does it's job, and does it well."
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Good piece of equipment, depending on how long it lasts will determine my overall satisfaction with this pedal. If it were lost or stolen I would have to get another one just for the sheer value and effectiveness of it for the price.
Sound
I am used to playing through a class A tube amp, but needed something for church to use my custom pedal board. I was pleasantly surprised with the sound I got from this box. Convincing tube amp sound through the PA. As a DI box, this is the best electric sound I've had playing through a PA system. Great clean sound was very easy to find.
Features
Not a lot of features, which is nice. Simple to get a good clean sound. I have boutique overdrive effects so I was looking for something clean. Simple tone controls. You can also get a nice overdriven sound with this but I preferred my pedals for that.
Ease of Use
Very easy to use. Plug it in, dial in your sound, and go. Doesn't get much easier than that.
Quality
This pedal is well made, but it is plastic. I knew that. Sound wise it compares to other similar pedals, but this is a third of the price. You get what you pay for. I leave this on the platform at church and it never moves. I don't think it would hold up to use on the road, but it's good for what I need it for and for what I paid for it. Seems like it will be reliable as long as it is taken care of.
Value
For the price this can't be beat. You could spend a lot more on similar items that might be built better, but you'll pay for it.
Manufacturer Support
I have never dealt with the company. From what I've heard I don't know that I will ever have to.
The Wow Factor
This is just a practical addition to my set up. Patty Griffin and Emmylou Harris provide sex appeal for me, not equipment.
Musical Background:
Active Musician
Musical Style:
Worship/ Acoustic Americana/ Swampy country-blues
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Submitted May 14, 2011 by a customer from hotmail.com
"Great unit for the money."
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Overall I'm very pleased with this unit. Especially considering the price I paid for it. Had I paid more I might not have been so happy with it though.
Sound
It's not bad at all. Tweed clean with the drive all the way down is the only setting that will actually do a truly clean setting. But it's a decent tweed sounding clean. Distortion sounds are useable and better then I expected.
Features
I love the XLR output and the quarter inch (non speaker simulated) output. Very cool. I wish other sans amp units would take note of this.
Ease of Use
Pretty straight forward and self explanatory. If you can use an amp you can use this.
Quality
Haven't had it long, but it's a bit more robust build quality then I would have expected, for the money. And for the money, if I get a year out of it, I'll be happy.
Value
For the money this thing is great. It does make a bit of noise, but nothing unacceptable for a live situation. Great for a small budget studio. Or an apartment studio with no ability to use an amp. I use it for late night practice and recording without waking the whole neighborhood.
Manufacturer Support
Never used it.
Musical Style:
Rock.q
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Submitted December 12, 2019 by Keith B in Manchester, NH
"So So"
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To be honest I had an old blue V amp type pedal with the expression pedal and mulitiple amp cab sims etc......I loved that thing and the sounds it could put out. I had high hopes for this pedal as well but was quite disappointed. For the money though you can’t really cry about it. I mainly wanted it for the Mesa sounding distortion. I run it through a couple different tube amps and I gotta say it ain’t that great. I think that if you use this more as a way to go direct then you will probably like it. I wanted the thing as more of a different pedal....” I have many other distortions , OD pedals and so on. But as I said for the cheap money it’s worth a shot. YMMV as they say.
Musical Background:
Played guitar for many years
Musical Style:
Metal and Hard Rock
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Submitted June 13, 2011 by a customer from yahoo.com
"Great Pedal for Many Cool Sounds...at a Great Price"
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Short of going out and buying three full sized amps, I couldn't ask for more from this pedal. I still have and use some 30+ year old pedals...I hope this one lasts as long. If it did break or wear out I would probably replace it.
Sound
The different sounds are fairly authentic. I use it primarily for recording. It hums a little more than I'd like it to...but what pedal doesn't?
Ease of Use
Very easy to use. Just plug in and fiddle around!
Quality
Seems very solid. I've only used it in the studio but, I would gig with it and be confident it would meet my needs.
Value
Big bang for the bucks.
The Wow Factor
It's not sexy....it just does the job well.
Musical Background:
Active Musician. playing for 40+ years
Musical Style:
Rock, Pop, Punk, 60's, 70's & 80's stuff
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Submitted January 19, 2013 by Rich K in Merced, CA
"Avoid this unless you want extreme distortion"
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The unit models 3 different amps and also allows straight pass-thru. The output levels are wildly different, the tweed level is very low, the straight-thru is a little louder, and the 2 others are crazily louder, making it very tricky to switch between them. Also, even with the drive set to the lowest setting, the 2 non-tweed settings distort (my mixer wasn't indicating overload, so the distortion was coming from the Behringer).
I actually thought the unit was defective following an exchange with tech support, and ordered a different one from a different source, and it was exactly the same. The tweed setting did sound a little bluesy, but muffled (I play blues). For the record, I was playing through a Mackie FX-12 mixer and Mackie SRM 450v2 speaker; the mixer has a DI box option built into one channel, and the guitar (1980 Gibson 335s with Dirty Fingers pick-ups) sounded better through that channel and integrated DI than through the Behringer into a normal channel.
Musical Background:
Play guitar at home and in jam sessions; have sat in with bands, but not in one.
Musical Style:
Mostly blues, some rock and jazz standards.
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