Behringer VT999

Universal pedal

Good pedal for rock music, it has lot of features and they are all working well. Most well built Behringer pedal, metal case, nicely working buttons. Sounds pretty good too.

If you want to connect your guitar directly to studio monitors, then this pedal fits perfectly between your guitar and your monitors.

Very good stuff

Super cool, just what we needed

Excellent but big

I bought this pedal after hearing a lot of good things about it. I also heard that it comes with a bad tube and a replacement for a JJ 12AU7 would be advised.

Honestly, though, I found the tube (Bugera premium selected 12AX7) to be totally fine and truthfully did not notice this pedal sounding much different or better when replacing the tube, it maybe taimed the gain a bit but that's it. So I don't know what's the whole ordeal about swapping tubes, maybe I luckily got a good one.

You can get a variety of sounds out of this pedal, from mild breakup up to heavy distortion. It has bass, mid and treble knobs with which you can really shape your sound. The inbuilt noise gate is handly if you don't have one already.

The only con I have about this pedal is how big it is, and I really underestimated that. 3 pedals big. Not only that, but if you take a look at the insides you see how unnecessary the size is. The box could have been easily half the size, however, I guess they were going for the vintage look of big pedals... It's fine and no big deal if this is your only OD pedal, but if you're already rocking with 10 pedals, you will have a hard time justifying its real-estate on your pedalboard. When this pedal was still 30€-something, it didn't really matter as you could put it on the shelf and grab it when you needed to, without feeling bad. However, for the money you have to spend now, it's good to think twice about the use case.

Awesome

I bought this because it is easy to swap the tube out for a better one. This is how products should be made.

Only con is that it could be a little smaller

as always fender picks

good heavy pick and as usual fender picks are high quality

Very nice tube drive with a very nice price!

This was bought to add a real tube overdrive channel for my single-channel amp.

I'm using the VT999 as an overdrive-channel for my VHT 44 Special, which is a strong, all-tube, single channel amp.

I had to swap the Bugera 12AX7-tube for a TAD JJ 12AU7-tube, as the AX had way to high gain level. It went from zero to full distortion at level 1 on the gain dial... There was no in-between.

What this box needed was a "milder" tube, and with the AU7 I am now able to dial in exactly the right gain-level, or find "the sweet spot", with incremental rise in gain/drive over the full 1 - 10 scale.

Conclusion: This is a budget friendly priced piece of equipment that's sounding really good, with minor modification (the tube-swap is done in 5 min.). It does add a fully fledged overdrive channel, with a "master" volume control knob, and good EQ capabilities.

With the tube-swap it's a straight 5 - without, it's a 3...

A really good fun effects box.

Worth the money ...

I use this pedal with the TS-9 or other filters and it sounds great. Can be connected directly to a power amp or to cabinet impulses. It turns out great. Another very useful thing is a noise gate.

I also recommend replacing the stock Tube, for example, with Sovtek. The sound becomes more focused and brighter, especially when playing rhythm parts.

One of the first pedals I ever used

Sorry, not going to be very objective with this one. Had one of these in the nineties and it disappeared somewhere along the way. So I just had to get one for the nostalgia. Will install mod though.

Pro: Easy to mod, sturdy casing, probably will survive anything.

Con: Limited features and sound as stock, but hey it doesn't cost much either.

Didn't dissapoint

I bought this for mostly experimental purposes at my home studio. It has a great range of sounds I'm getting out of it and I'm very happy with it. I wish Behringer would bring back their Time Machine pedal also, from the same line as this Vintage Tube Monster. I'd get it in a second.