Behringer TM300 Tube Amp Modeler Pedal

Je m’en sers régulièrement pour m’éviter de transporter mon gros ampli en Rack. Au début, utilisée uniquement pour les répétitions mais cette pédale reproduit tellement bien mon son à lampe qu’elle m’accompagne même dans les enregistrements et les concerts.
Franchement, 29 euros pour un son pareil c’est incroyable. Pour ce prix elle est forcément en plastique mais il suffit juste de ne pas lui mettre des coups de pieds .

I play small gigs and this pedal has been nothing but impressive. Good tone, easy to use, and overall incredible value for the price.

Behringer gives really great sounds for the low price. This pedal gives a total of 27 different tube amp sounds of 3 main amps
1)Tweed (Fender Twin Reverb)
2) Brit
3) Cali
It has many other tube modellers which alters the way you want the sound as
If you want a low output consider getting a noise gate with it as I paired with a 40W bass amp (gives a really great sound tbh) the output volume is quite high even at 10% so consider getting a noise gate if you have a medium wattage amp and don’t want to disturb the house. Overall I’d give a 4.5/5 for this pedal. It’s true that Boss gives a better sound but if you have a budget concern and want to get a great tone out of it this is the pedal.
PS I run this through a Squier Affinity strat hooked up to a Stranger PM40 bass amp(mostly I play bass) and it gives me a great tone.

Sadly they discontinued the amp sim pedal with the XLR out, but to be honest side by side this one sounds identical even without the balanced out. I run my keyboards into these before going to the mixing board and they are Amazing. Better than any amp simulator, pedal or rack, I have ever used. It sits on top of the mixer and is always on when everything gets turned on so I don’t know about durability or live use, though I would for sure use it live as a regular pedal. I have found Behringer foot switches to be on the extremely cheap side. If I had to stop on this constantly I would get something else, but this is not an on/off type of effect for me. Behringer did a Great job on this one and it really brings my sound to Life. Highly recommend, good seller, fast ship.

If you want a quick review of this pedal (the Behringer TM300) let’s just say it might work for you but be prepared to send it back.

I’m trying to sell a keyboard amplifier combo that has 65 W, with a 15 inch speaker and a horn tweeter (it’s a Peavey KB-100). You can use it for keyboards, bass guitar, and vocals without changing anything about it. But because it’s a solid-state amplifier from around 1990 it doesn’t sound good with electric guitars. So I looked for a cheap pedal that would make the amplifier really howl.

This Behringer pedal, like most Behringer pedals, is a clone of a more expensive pedal. I believe it’s a copy of a Sans Amp GT-2, which costs typically close to $200. For around $25 it seems something that I should look into. It “changes” your amp into a Fender, Marshall, or Mesa Boogie. Since to get one of those amps would cost you probably over $1000, the $25 seemed reasonable.

The controls on the Behringer pedal let you choose between the three makes of amplifier I mentioned above, and there is a mic position switch, and three varieties of drive. As well as this there’s a volume control, bass and treble knobs, and a drive (distortion) knob, so you can dial in the exact sounds you like. I saw a YouTube demo of this pedal, and was very impressed.

When I received this pedal I tried it out and the first thing I noticed was an intrusive hiss. There are several solutions to this, but I was worried that the prospective purchaser would find the hiss annoying, and of course I had no idea which instrument they wanted to use it with. So in the end I wrapped it up and UPS came with a label to send it back to Amazon for a full refund.

I’d like to address some concerns that I see about Behringer pedals. The main criticism is that it costs too little “and it can’t be any good.” The electronics of today is different from those of yesterday. When you don’t have any development costs to design circuits, and you already have market research from companies like Boss, pedals can be cheap.

But the big cost saving in reproducing a pedal is modern assembly methods, particularly Surface Mount Technology (SMT). Because you don’t need human hands to assemble circuits, components can be very small. Circuits are put together by machine from spools of components at the rate of tens of thousands parts an hour and automatically tested.

Another issue with Behringer pedals is that “They’re plastic, so they’ll break.” There is a video on YouTube of a guy trying to destroy his pedal by kicking it across the room, throwing it what looks like a metal statue, and standing with both legs on the pedal. It still works. Think about the remote control for your TV – you sit on it, then push it down into the couch, and your dog decides it is a new dog toy. But usually when it fails, it’s not the case but the internal parts. I don’t see anyone advocating metal cases.

I was impressed by the thickness of the plastic of the pedal I had. I would use it to throw at the head of some dirty thief who stole my irreplaceable Squier Affinity Strat, and with the metal baseplate I’d use the pedal to hammer in nails. If you give it the slightest amount of respect it will last. If you’re intent on apeing that bats*** guitarist and jump on it, remember he probably has a whole boxfull of pedals and a roadie to swap them.

The only complain that affected me was installing the battery. Behringer uses this method in most of their stomp boxes, and it’s not obvious how to do it. Where the pedal pivots on the case there are black lugs on either side. Use a ballpoint pen tip to push these in, one at a time, and when each one is completely pushed in you should use your third hand to push the foot switch cover up and away.

Inside you can see the battery compartment with the connector for the nine-volt battery. Place the battery (that you supplied) into the compartment, connect it, and you’re all set. This sounds worse than it actually is (especially if you have a third hand), but my advice is to get the Behringer power adapter. With the adapter you have the space in the pedal for the battery to hold whatever you want, and no indication that you have a secret compartment. Do you get my drift . . . drift . . . drift?

I’m feeling a little guilty about returning this pedal – not because it was faulty (it was) but given a little more time and no prospective buyer to impress I might have been able to deal with the hiss. The amp I’m keeping is a solid-state Fender Princeton 65 (watts), and most people’s verdict on this is that it’s LOUD. I try to keep the volume down on it and also on my guitar. That means that the signal is not very loud, and so any extra noise from a pedal is noticeable.

So, had I not been pressed for time, I should have experimented with volume levels, particularly with my guitar. Any pedal that hisses or hums is going to sound worse with a low signal. Another fix would have been a noise gate. That’s a pedal that waits for a strong signal before it lets it on to your amp. Between songs your amp is silent, but when you play, a hiss or hum will sound from anything before the noise gate. Usually the guitar signal is so strong that it will drown out this extra noise.

So this hasn’t put me off Behringer pedals, and YouTube demos of the TM300 show it performs pretty well. If you’re concerned about getting a clone, almost every company has produced a pedal based on the circuit of Ibanez’s Tube Screamer under their own name. If you know exactly which make of amp you want to emulate you could use one of a range of Joyo pedals (JF-13 through 16) which reproduces the sound of one of the amps here (Fender, Marshall, Mesa Boogie, and on Joyo alone, Vox). These have only one company’s sound but a greater range of controls, are made of metal (for what that’s worth) and cost in the low end of the $30 range. Each of them has YouTube demos.

But I guess I was spoiled by getting the $50ish Zoom G1oN Guitar Floor Multi-Effects Pedal, which has far more effects, many different amp sounds, and is completely silent. I think we’ll see a Behringer competitor to the Zoom before too long, and I welcome the competition.