Sansamp BDDI vs Behringer BDI21 BLIND TEST!!!! - Page 3

bassbully43 · #41 01-25-2007, 08:38 AM

This is an awsome thread...congrads...dont worry about the behringer being plastic. I have had mine since they first came out and its beat to hell. I have dropped it off my amp top many times at gigs and even shorted out the AC adapter by using the wrong polarity adapter and it still works. I just hard wired and a nine volt adapter into mine...still works great...hell i might get another as a back-up..what $30.00 for such a great pedal.

XtraLongScale · #42 01-25-2007, 08:48 AM

I've had both and definitely prefer the BDI21. There's one for $16 locally that I'm thinking of scooping up & rehousing it although it's relatively sturdy as-is..

DavePlaysBass · #43 01-28-2007, 01:29 PM

Way cool thread.

For round 1 I preferred the Sans Amp. I think that flat the SA has more snarl than the BDI.

For round 2 I preferred the BDI. Seemed to have a more crisp sound and a nice snarl. The SA was not as brilliand sort of like an undersampled mp3 with a hint of midrange harshness.

For round 3, I preferred the BDI. More definition. Tighter lows. More defined highes. The SA was harsh. Unusable IMO.

Makes me wonder if I am falling for the smiley face in a solo setting... Anyone compare these two guys in a band context?

I have been debating about getting a SA. I feel bad putting money into the hands of a company taking jobs out of the US while copying inovation with nearly zero contribution of their own. But the sound to dollar value makes me scratch the head.

Dave

BillyB_from_LZ · #44 01-28-2007, 03:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavePlaysBass

...Anyone compare these two guys in a band context?...

Perhaps I'm deaf, but I doubt that anyone could tell the difference when the band is playing...

DavePlaysBass · #45 01-28-2007, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BillyB_from_LZ

Perhaps I'm deaf, but I doubt that anyone could tell the difference when the band is playing...

I believe I hear more midrange on the SA stuff which may make it sound uglier soloed but it may cut better.

Joseph.Magnum · #46 09-15-2008, 05:55 PM

Has anyone tryed GDI21 with bass? Can you get OK results, with no drive, CLN mode; you know - a bass setup on GDI21?
Thanx!

bluesmandan · #47 09-19-2012, 08:46 AM

I think I preferred the Behringer on the first two clips, and both about the same on the overdriven clip. Not that the clips in round 3 sounded the same, they were different, I just didn't prefer one over the other.

Someone mentioned the output volume of the two being different... that the Sansamp has a good deal more volume than the Berry. How much of a difference is it? And what about the noise level on these two pedals... is one quieter than the other as far as hum goes?

alano99 · #48 11-06-2012, 09:40 AM

So I haven't really listened to any demos of the Behringer BDI pedal yet, but I've heard it's very comparable to the Sansamp so I don't think I'm even going to try to guess which one is which, although I will put which sounds I prefer for each round.

1st round goes to: Sample 1

2nd round goes to: Sample 2

3rd round goes to : Sample 2

If the answers to this post have already been posted, I purposefully haven't looked at them either, so I did this completely blind.

Rocksolid · #49 11-07-2012, 02:31 AM

Considering this is a 6 year old thread its safe to say the results are in there somewhere... ;-)

jumblemind · #50 11-08-2012, 02:41 PM

Crazy old thread, I found it in Google just now, so it's funny that someone just posted to it. I had the answers to this right, and it's because I can easily identify the exact aspect of the SA tone that is driving me crazy. That plastic like sound on the back end of notes, sort of like when you hit the open end of a big pvc pipe.

I've been looking for a tiny bit of drive but scared to but my SA on my pedalboard because I sometimes find myself standing in a mix of beer and vomit on stage. Getting this Behringer unit tomorrow.

Steve Dallman · #51 12-04-2012, 06:50 PM

I used a Behringer with my GK1001RB. At church I use a programmable Sansamp into a GK combo with the same settings...no distortion. They work the same for my purposes. I gave a Behringer to a bass player/soundman friend in Nashville. They use it at their church interchangeably with a Sansamp BDDI and no bass player that comes through the church, or soundman cares which is which.

I've had mine since they came out, and throw it in the cord suitcase when I'm done and it has narry a scratch on it, despite years of use and some normal abuse.