Behringer, low quality products?

[jeremy]

Re: Behringer, low quality products?

i used to sell their stuff at gc and i dont think its that great.

the quality control is abysmal. in general id stay away from anything with a power amp. we had more amps blow in the store than you could imagine. i would say sometimes as high as a 50% failure rate and at best 10%.

much of the other stuff still has the same failure problems but if you get a good unit and treat it like baby it can be ok.

i have a small mixer and other than the effects being overly noisy it works fine. i keep the thing in the box it came in totally packaged up with styrofoam and enclosed in a padded plastic bag

 

[ratherdashing]

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I have a Behringer UB-802 that is now relegated to low-priority live performance duties. Three words: noise, noise, noise.

 

[pstarove]

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I have two Behringer products: a GM108 combo and a HB-01 wah pedal. both are not very reliable, I would say. the quality of pots and switches in both of them is flimsy at least. But the sound quality is decent if you don't touch the pots. You get what you pay for, i paid $30 for the wah pedal and 85€ for the combo, so there must be some tradeoff between quality and price. If you want a quality product, buy the real thing, not the cheap imitation. I won't buy a Behringer product in the future, but it's nice to have a backup wah pedal, and I like its auto-on/off feature. The combo, however, will be sold for some $30-40.

 

[AzCat]

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What about the V-amp pro rack mount thing?

I am thinking about getting one with a power amp and using it through 4x12 cab.

For the price it can't be beat but that's partially due to the fact that there's not much else in its price range.

Behringer makes cheap gear which does have its place in the market. Their stuff is one whole hell of a lot better than the significantly more expensive (in inflation-adjusted terms) low end gear that was available when I started playing back in the early 80s.

 

[lex666]

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the only behringer product I have is this behringer tuner:
http://www.music123.com/Behringer-Chromatic-Tuner-i156792.music

I bought it cuz it very closely resembed the Boss TU2 which I use all the time. I wanted it for a 2nd rig I was building.

Anyways, it works fine as a tuner, but I wouldn't use it as a pedal. cheap cheap plastic...

 

[JWKnight]

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I bought a v-amp last summer and by the end of summer the thing had crapped out and stopped working i contacted behringer and they basically told me it wasnt their problem and they wouldnt replace it so ill probably never buy from behringer again. it might cost a little more for dunlop,marshall,and mxr but it's worth it

 

[darwins_ghost]

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The only experience I have is with thier 4x12 cabs. For the money they are great. I bought my girlfriend one and she's never had a problem with it and with a Vox modeling head it sounds really good.


I have tried a few of thier new pedals at a music store and they just weren't that great to me.

 

[pinto79]

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I use 2 MX-802 mixers and few DI boxes. No complaints here.

 

[OrkestrA]

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like with most companies; some of their gear is alright and the rest of the quota made up of poor or really great...

people who buy such products are likely to be inexperienced with them and as such; break them.

I have a vAmp II and it has survived such torments I cannot fault it... it sounds ok, much better than a POD... to me anyway.

I also have a desk and it's fine for me, sure it doesn't have the class but for 80 euros, who can complain?

 

[Baltar]

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i like my behringer mixer. it's nearly noiseless and works well for more than
3 years now. it was carried around a lot without a rack, fell down twice,
pot levers got bend back, everything still fine.
i'd buy it again if i break it one day.

their active crossovers are also a good buy. noiseless, all the features,
great price.

i didn't like their guitar amps. the two i have tested where sounding worse
than my oldie engl after the caps went dead

 

[Kane17]

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Unfortuanetly,


I find their stuff to sound really great.

I've owned a X-Vamp...the floor pedal.

Very much features put in to that thing and very good sound quality for a digital floor pedal. although they need to take a lesson from digitech in building a convenient editing interface...shheeesh.
Never had any problems with it though.


I've also owned a GI-100 Guitar DI box w/ Speaker emulation

This also sounded very good (the speaker simulation I mean). However, had problems with it from day 1. The sound would clip out unless I HELD the battery in. I was able to wedge it for a while, but it always needed more pressure after time went on. After about a month it was totally unusable. I wanted to get another but didn't want to just burn more money into something not so reliable. Berhringer said they would replace it, but I decided to experiment on it anyways and managed to destroy what was left it somehow...

 

[Crazy_Guitar]

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I use a FCB-1010 (MIDI foot controller), a HB-01 (wah pedal) and a DSP-1000P (multi-effect DSP) and I am pretty satisfied with every single one!
The FCB is much better than a 4-times more expensive Roland equivalent (and has an extra expression pedal).
The HB is a 535Q with a soft-switch (like the Bad Horsie). For me, this is a blessing! All my life, this is the wah pedal I was looking for!!!
The DSP has some amazing delays and reverbs. I use it for delays only (up to 10.000ms delay, i.e., 10sec!!!). Pure and crystal...

Plus, I have a little mixing console I use for my home-made recordings (Eurodesk 1202FX) and, too, I am amazed with it. It has built in effects that suit the needs of any home-recording enthusiast musician.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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I think that I will buy this sucker, and rehouse it, maybe replace a few things...
But if it sounds anything like the old Dimension C....uhu!

 

[Binnerscot]

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I have a rack full of their multi compressors and gates...they work well enough, not the greatest sonic quality, but not horrible. I have found that it is better to have a rack full of cheap compressors and gates that not have any or few high qaulity ones when running live sound.

 

[Diego]

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A friend bought a modeling amp from them and it died 4 months later. Something (the transformer maybe? I know nothing about the insides of an amp besides tubes) blew up and burned everything. Guarantee got him another one that died in two weeks! Same reason.

He ditched it and got a Peavey Bandit instead. Less sounds, but as reliable as a tank.

It did have good sounds though.

 

[Red_Label]

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I bought the V-Amp2 several years ago and it's still going strong. I then bought a Vampire 1X12 and later the Vampire head and they're both still going strong. I've also been using a Behringer board for several years now as well. Never a problem with any one of my 4 Behringer products. They sound great (for modelers) and get the job done daily. I don't use them live because I prefer tube amps. But I'd have no problem using them live if they made a tube amp (and the new Bugera tube amps are coming soon... so I just may be using them live).

I'd say the value for Behringer stuff is OUTSTANDING considering the price.

 

[Markk]

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I've only worked with one of their Mixers, UB2222FX or something like that. Never used the FX, the inputs are sometimes too close to each other. I'm no sound engineer, but to me it worked and got the job done with minimal complaints.

 

[James Rock]

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I find their guitar effects (the complete clones and the wah) quite good maybe not boutique quality and arent built that well but they are boss like tone at CHEAP CHEAP price (i think alot of boss pedals cost TOO much). A know a bass player who has been playing for about 30 years and loves the behringer bass cab he's played through (WAY better then the fender bass amp at school). As for their mixers, i've used a few and while they arent as good as mackie or anything they sure beat the peavey we have at school. I dont think they are excellent quality (especially build wise) but well worth the price and unlike the squier analogy they are very close to what they clone sound wise IMHO.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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And the funny part is....it used to be expensive highend stuff once
Boss is wellpriced, just look how many old Boss pedals that still works...and works....and works....without stinking troo diepass!

 

[Rich_T]

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blimey, its like forum has caught the rage virus.