Jazz Guitars

I was given this amp as a birthday present. My kids have a limted budget. I plugged in my Guild GAD 40CE and I was pleased with the sweet crisp sound. This is not a gig worthy amp, but it sounded great in the confines of my living room. Nice boom to the bass and the sustain was very impressive. I must admit that perfomance wise, it is as good as amps costing much, much more. MY kids were pleased and I was amazed at some much amp for so little cost. The 8 inch speaker does a good job on reproducing the highlights of my guitar. Do not tell my guitar amp (snob) band mates. They drag amps that weight more and do less. Great amp. I continue to be very pleased and surprised by it’s perfomance.
Rating: 5 / 5

As far as construction goes, this appeared to have been built solidly. The design itself looked quite nice and the features were easy to use. Unfortunately, even as a practice amp goes, this one is poor at best. I’ve been playing guitars for nearly 30 years. I’ve had everything from 5 watt battery powered amps to stage amps. I received this package today, 1/25/10. I removed it from the box, set up, and did what any good musician does: I tried it with no effects, no pre-amps, and nothing inline. Just a clean guitar to amp connection. At volume settings below 5 it played nice and clean. Once you hit 5 or higher, it breaks up (more as you increase the volume). It begins as a light fuzz at five, and turns to a crackle by 10. It’s rated at 15 watts power and has an 8″ 30w minimum rated speaker with a max rating of 125 watts. While this makes it durable, it also limits sound. I’m guessing that the speaker is actually too much for the amp circuit to drive, but I could be wrong. Sadly, my son’s 10 watt fender squier practice amp overpowered this amp. With the Behringer set to 10 on the main volume and 10 on the drive, the little tiny Squier 10 watt amp overpowered it while the Squier was set to 3, without the drive on.

To make matters worse, I could actually talk more loudly than the amp. Granted, this is only a practice amp and it really should not be able to rattle the windows, and that is fine. But it should be able to at least keep up with a 10 watt amp. My son likes to play with me, and I was hoping that this would make a nice match for his practice amp so I wouldn’t have to ramp down all my equipment to keep him in hearing range. Unfortunately (again) this amp wasn’t even able to do that.

I then tested this with my most basic pedals, and then eventually with my RP350 multi-effects pedal. ANY type of effect I tried simply caused the speaker to give up the ghost. The speaker is so unresponsive that distortion caused it to lose sounds left right and center. If I tried to play a simple blues solo, I’d lose about every other note due to the speaker not being able to keep up with the sounds being produced.

For this reason, I’d never recommend this amp to anyone but a child with a cheap guitar who can’t play more than “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” (And I don’t mean SRV’s version)

I didn’t even bother to try it with my mic for vocals because there was simply no point.

If the company that produces it can get it to at least equal the power of most other 15 watt practice amps, they’ll have a nice piece of equipment on their hands. The cabinet was solid, the controls worked smoothly, nothing was loose or rattling. It’s actually very attractive looking. It has a “modern” feel to it with a more classic look.
Rating: 2 / 5

At only $60 I was a little apprehensive about this amp, but decided to give it a try. A local music store owner offered that if I weren’t satisfied, he’d take the value of it out of the cost of an amp I’ve had my eye on in his shop.

It will not be needed! This amp is a little shocker! My Strat Clone sounds downright sexy through this thing. And, small small changes in the settings make a difference with this one! With a similarly priced amp in the shop, it had to have big changes in settings to make small differences. With the Behr, the change of going from 2 to halfway between 2 and 3 gives a little change. Sensitivity is not an issue at all.

It also feels quite durable. I wouldn’t throw it off a building, but it should tolerate being chucked in the back seat of the car for a jam at a friends house. And, if loud is your thing, then it should suit you nicely. I’ve already gotten it loud enough to get a grouchy phone call from my neighbor. On the mellow settings it gives good, and when the switches are set to the Calif/Hot setting, it still works great!

For $60 at this level of quality, it’s one of the best deals I’ve gotten off Amazon!
Rating: 5 / 5