Baringer

[Vinny_G]

 

[portpc]

Behringer, TC, Bugera are all products made in this gigantic plant...………..
Behringer's mindblowing new factory is actually a city | MusicRadar

 

[Iristone]

Baringer?
I literally just read about a biologist named Boehringer today.

 

[LowRick]

My first bass-amp after the 30W rumble that came with my Squier Affinity Set was a 100W Behringer. It was awesome and good for me then, but only a step between. The next became a 300W Ashdown, which i still play now. A band i was in also had a Behringer mixer panel which performed well, for years.

Anyway, the best way for a brand which knows they might not have the best name is buy in name and know-how. I think this is a good way and a step forward for Behringer.

 

[40Hz]

basically stealing their intellectual property

Not really. I think "buying it for an agreed price" would be a more accurate and honest characterization. Unlike countries, businesses aren't invaded and taken over by force and their assets seized. They're purchased.

 

[Iristone]

Not really. I think "buying it for an agreed price" would be a more accurate and honest characterization. Unlike countries, businesses aren't invaded and taken over by force. They're purchased.

I think he means when the big company shuts the small one down, like what Fender did to SWR/Sunn etc.

 

[FaithNoMan]

Had a deepmind 12 and can confirm it was fantastic for pads. UI is a bit cumbersome, but I'm not an avid synth nerd.

Lol awesome. I mostly use pads, so that's just feeding the beast.

Clanky bass with tribal drums and some awesome drifty pads. That's the stuff I love. Toss a distorted guitar blasting power chords in there once in a while..

 

[iiipopes]

A decade or so ago, yes, as Behringer was breaking into the market, they had some deficient products. Now, their X32 digital boards with Wi-Fi capability are some of the best on the market, and my party band has used one for many years now with superlative results. No more bugging the soundman: he walks the room with an iPad to set mix and eq, and each person has a personal monitor mix controlled by a cell phone app.

 

[JohnArnson]

Not really. I think "buying it for an agreed price" would be a more accurate and honest characterization. Unlike countries, businesses aren't invaded and taken over by force and their assets seized. They're purchased.

Well, I am talking about the employees, I thought I made that pretty clear, do you think they have a say in the sale or see any of the money from it?

No, the people who actually really invented the designs in question most often doesn't have anything at all to say in that deal, you could then claim that that's the term when working for companies like that, and that they are fully aware of that term, since it's in those kind of employment and severance contracts, but really did they had much choice if they wanted a job, and do you think they counted on getting their ideas bought up and frozen for eternity, the development of them cut off and shut down forever, without any say in it whatsoever when they started on that job?

A form of intellectual slavery and mind control really.

Yes, they have their brain children stolen and brutally executed, as well as getting fired on top of that, when a bigger company buys up the smaller company they work for just to shut it down, just like that.

 

[Stewie]

Polar bought WaistWatchers and killed off my favorite diet soda "Black Cherry". I'm still crying over that too

 

[DWBass]

I have no respect whatsoever for Behringer as a brand or Music Group (even though I have good friends who work there). As some will remember, Behringer has been sued numerous times for literally copying the circuitry of other brand's products. All they've done is to copy the circuitry of other products AND to buy the companies of respectable brands like Tannoy, TC, Lab Gruppen, close down their factories and engineering, and move production to a large facility in China. If you buy one of their products and have a problem, I've heard horror stories about how poor their service and support is. I'm absolutely not interested in purchasing anything from their companies.

Thanks for your PSA. This is getting old though. We already know many of you hate Behringer. Every thread is full of the rhetoric!

 

[Ross W. Lovell]

so it allows to say Jesus, but when I mention Satan it gets deleted.

Its all about the marketing..........

 

[Element Zero]

I'm confused. What does the shirt and your post about a inexpensive manufacturer have in common?

In the mid 00's we sold a ton of Behringer bass and guitar amps. Lots of them came back broken within months. Their reputation was atrocious.

 

[JohnArnson]

I did not like any of the Behringer effects that I have ever tried.

I do have a Behringer bass amp that is OK … but I use an ampeg instead

The attractive feature of Behringer is price

Fair enough, but guess you don't like Boss pedals either then, most of their Boss pedal clones sound exactly spot on like the original Boss ones they are clones of, just being in a plastic enclosure and having the possibility of flimsy knobs/pots.

 

[Ric5]

Fair enough, but guess you don't like Boss pedals either then, most of their Boss pedal clones sound exactly spot on like the original Boss ones they are clones of, just being in a plastic enclosure and having the possibility of flimsy knobs/pots.

I don't think I ever owned or played through a boss pedal so I can't speak to whether or not I like them

What does have me interested is the Behringer C200 ... add a powered sub and you have a pa, ar guitar amp, a bass amp , an keyboard amp, an acoustic guitar amp ... etc ...

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[Ross W. Lovell]

Polar bought WaistWatchers and killed off my favorite diet soda "Black Cherry". I'm still crying over that too

What happened to Tab Soda?

 

[DWBass]

i found out baringer owns tc electronics now , is that good or bad you think. baringer does not have a very good reputationView attachment 3587874

Behringer doesn't have a good reputation if someone says they don't. There's plenty of it here on Talkbass. However, there are plenty of 'manufacturers' who have poor reputations including bass builders, cab builders and pickup makers. Several stickies say so. I've been around Behringer products for many years. Seen them. Used them. Owned them. Never ever seen any of these catastrophic explosions, fires or failures many have spoken on.

 

[DWBass]

TC video demos used to in abundance. It seems like they've pulled back on the marketing lately and you don't hear much about them on TB these days. Is that a Behringer strategy?

It's a TB member strategy.

 

[Ric5]

Behringer doesn't have a good reputation if someone says they don't. There's plenty of it here on Talkbass. However, there are plenty of 'manufacturers' who have poor reputations including bass builders, cab builders and pickup makers. Several stickies say so. I've been around Behringer products for many years. Seen them. Used them. Owned them. Never ever seen any of these catastrophic explosions, fires or failures many have spoken on.

There are reasons for the lower price points

 

[Ric5]

I think some people have issues that other companies will invest a lot of R&D in their products and then Behringer comes along and copies it and sells the copy for a low price. Also many times the copies are not as good as the original. But like I said before I own a Behringer product …