I bought the Behringer LX112 v-ampire a few years ago to have a solid state combo kickin around the house. If you’re not familiar with this amp it’s a modeling amp that is essentially the v-amp in a “120-Watt” 12″ combo package.

To be honest I never really used this amp much. I usually just run my v-amp through a keyboard amp or play my princeton reverb or micro-cube.

I recently bought a Metal Muff and I wanted to see how well it worked with a solid state amp. Much to my surprise I was able to get the LX112 to sound pretty good !

First of all it’s fairly well known that the LX112 is shipped in L1 mode which means that cabinet/speaker simulation turned on. It doesn’t make sense to run a guitar speaker sim into a guitar speaker does it ? Switch the mode to L2 (speaker sim off) by To do this press the D and E buttons to go into config mode. Use tha arrow keys (bank up/down) to change the mode to L2. Also while in config mode the live 3 band eq can be changed by the tone controls. I set my bass and highs= 1 o’clock and the mids to 10 o’clock

Now that the amp is properly set up just accept the fact that the rectifier model is NOT going to sound like a rectifier being pushed through a 12″ open back cabinet. You can get some really great tones out of this amp but it ain’t no 5150.

Third - user your ears and not your eyes to dial in some tones. I was looking for some clean amp settings so I rotated the amp selector to “clean v-amp”. However I still had the gain cranked so the signal was distorted. It caught my ear though because although it sucked as a clean tone it had some pretty nice sounding crunch.

According to the manual the “clean v-amp” is a combination of a JC-120 and a Marshall plexi. As you crank the gain the Marshall tone kind of takes over.

Here’s a quick video I did of the “clean v-amp” setting. It’s not exactly AC/DC but it does have some nice crunch to it. The amp was mic’d with a Giant Squid mic. The guitar was a piece of snot with the GFS Crunchy Rails. I like this pickup a lot.