Behringer TM300 Tube Amp Modeler Reviews

One of the best distortion pedals

Don't let the price fool you, this pedal is a beast. It's perfect for any type of genre (I use it mostly for grunge and trash metal), you can can a lot of different tones from this thing and all of them sound amazing. If you are in a budget or even if you are looking for a distortion pedal that can do it all this should be your pick.

Usefull pedal

Yes its plastic, but very versitile soundwise, wont break your bankaccount

I like the sounds.

I use this pedal in front of a clean channel amplifier and I like the tight distortion sounds I get. I am very satisfied with the product and the affordable price.

wow

Bought this instead of SansAmp. This pedal is a gamechanger. Just make sure you have a nice clean channel and with a little bit of tweaking, you can make this scream like it's 1993 again.

Pedal is realy good but have a some noice and that is bit nervous.. but anyway in taht price you dont get a top quality..

great pedal

i test it with power amp in 1x12 celestion vintage 30 and emg 57/66 and also with headphone amp.many options to choose from clean to high gain. for the cost is a must have

Awesome Value!

The Behringer TM300 Tube Amp Modeler Effect Pedal does an excellent job of emulating the Tech 21 SansAmp GT2 pedal. It works and sounds like you'd expect. It's a great value for money product.

Not what i expected, but that is my fault.

I used this with multieffect unit that doesnt sound like tube amp.

I was able to get only 1 or 2 good sounds from this, but it did sound like a tube amp.

I recon this is better with real amp.

Soundwise is just amazing

Ok. You'll never find another pedal that could beat the features this pedal offers within the price range. It gives you 3 different amp types, different saturation levels and 3 different cab mic positions. On top of that it has a level knob, 2 band EQ and drive level. The combination of sounds you can get out of this pedal is just ridiculous. The gain levels (MOD) are more than plenty to play with. I couldn't recommend this pedal enough. The only CON it has, the construction, yes, it's cheap plastic but it's ok, it will stand a lot if you take some decent care of it.

A versatile pedal

You can make it your dirt box

You can go direct into PA mixer as amp with it

You can also use it before your sound card and then into your pa

Also love the cab selector.

I use it for sparkly cleans with my marshall mg and it becomes voxy. Very weird but I love it.

Good value for money

Despite the plastic case, it feels solid and well build. It might not handle abuse as well as metal case ones, but is is costs a fraction of the price of other brands.

It is important to read the manual. The battery compartment is well hidden under the foot switch.

Gamechanger

Behringer surprised me with this one! Bought it just to try a modelling pedal so I could evaluate whether to buy something serious (costly). No need. This little cheapy has great circuitry that does everything I want. I get thousands of euros of tube amps for something like €30. Using it both live and in the studio.

SAME AS GDI21. Except for the XLR, same features, same pot ranges and same sound on the output. Compared and thested with Boss LS-2 and Zvex Mastotron as a source of high frequencies.

Pretty good for the price.

I thought it will be noisier, because it's made out of plastic. It's not noisy.

I thought it will sound cheap and "thin". It's not.

If you have a "lazy" computer (with big latency), and recording through VSTs is an issue, if your neighbors can't put it with a real amp, this pedal can be a life savior.

You get the typical amp controls, clean and hot channels, 3 type of amps and mic position. The mic position doesn't impact the tone as much as I expected, I use in on center.

Cheap Tube Sound

As I have a solid state amp, I wanted to get an approximation of a tube sounds on a budget.

I bought this despite some negative reviews online in the hope that it would let me at least get in the vicinity of the ballpark of those tubey sounds.

Ideally it was the clean (ish) tube sound I was after and unfortunately that's not really what this pedal does best.

There certainly are a few clean sounds on the Tweed setting providing the drive setting is very low and it is very usable and certainly gives more of a tube character than I had with my amp alone but most of the settings on this pedal supply too much overdrive for what I wanted.

However those driven sounds are pretty good.

There are three setting for mic placement for each amp sound, and either a clean, high gain or hot pickup setting. All of these are pretty different and definitely add a tubey flavour to your solid state.

The British Amp is very like a Marshall, the Tweed is less like the Fender amp it's trying to be but still really good and the California amp setting is very 80s heavy rock. All are pretty good if you want a high gain, driven sound and there's lots of scope to mould your tone.

On the downside , this pedal is a bit unforgiving on your playing so I wouldn't recommend it if you have very microphonic or cheap sounding pickups or a very cheap sounding combo: it will amplify those cheap sounds.

If however you want to make your non-valve amp sound a bit more valve driven and your guitar and amp sound pretty sweet then this is definitely worth the low price.

get an expensive one not this crap

sorry about this but it really is a shitty pedal, you're better off just plugging a distortion pedal into the mixer, I mean that, it's probably good for practice tho if you don't have any 15watt cheap amp from your early guitar playing days, trust me you don't want this and the only way I'd ever talk good about one would be if I was selling one and I did sell one just a few days ago, poor bastard is gonna have a real hard time finding a proper sound on that that is if he doesn't sell it out of frustation, sorry behringer your product just straight up sucks

Budget overdrive pedal

I got this to try out on my sometimes rare attempts to play guitar. I liked the idea of having plenty of sounds available from one pedal and the overall sounds are generally OK, however I found it to be a little noisy and I think there are better alternatives available.

TM300 Tube Amp Modeler: disappointed

I have several Behringer effects (among which the excellent Vintage Tube Monster) and I find them very good. Not this one, that disappointed me. The sound is fuzzy, digital, noisy (loosing stability) - maybe it would satisfy those after artificial sort of distortion, which is not my case. The possibilities allowed by the various settings are pretty intuitive so I guess it is not a matter to find THAT particular setting that sounds good. So it will stay in the box....

Behringer TM300

The unit is OK for the price, but don't expect it to sound like real tubes. There is still that digital 'buzzing' at the threshold of distortion, found in all budget Amp Modelers. I carry it as a spare, just in case my valve combo failed and I had to DI into the desk.