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Behringer a SOLID name?

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I own a couple of pieces of Behringer gear. I own an MXB1002 mixer. Very compact mixer. It is obvious they cut corners: the mixer has very low level output, if you crank the bass you have to be very careful about levels or it seems to go into some type of internal feedback, and the faders have become so loose they move if you bump the unit. The phantom power is also only 18V, but that is common for these small mixers. But for $100 for a mixer *with faders* I can put up with the shortcomings.

I also own an EP1500. The specs are complete BS bordering on fantasy, but once I realized that, it is working well for me. And again, it was very cheap. Cheaper new than a used head.

An interesting aside is that the mixer cannot even come close to driving the power amp. Also, if you run the amp bridged, use the information on the back of the amp. The information in the manual is wrong.
 
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Jared92 said:
Alright. I have heard alot of bad so... Any way i need and amp bigger than my 15 Peavy or 70 watt (mostly broken 1986) gorilla amp. And i' dneed it for home practice and prase band gigging for a crowd of about 140 people. Also i cant spend alot So i was thinkin the 300$ Ampeg combo... r the Gallien- Krueger Brat Pack
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I have the BA 115 and it gives me fine tone for pratice and small gigs. Once you reach 150-200 people with a 90 db A + volume level, you will need to upgrade to the higher output BA 115 HP, or something equivalent. The 100 watts is just not enough. They are great cabinets though for what they do, and the tone is just fine, bordering exceptional in that price range.
 
#27
You are right, Behringer is a Solid name! they have solidified their name with unreliable and problematic pieces of equipment. :D Honestly though, i owned one of these cabs and the speakers seals broke on the outside of the aluminum cones roughly 5 days after i bought it. I worked at Guitar Center and had to take in a piece of Behringer equipment on repair roughly once a week. Also, that piece of gear is kind of expensive, i'd be willing to bet you can talk them down.... say, up to half of what they are charging if you really want it ;)
 
#31
Endorsements mean nothing. All it means is that someone got free or reduced price gear, or someone is getting compensated somehow to say they use their gear.
 
#34
BTW, endorsements are not at all what they say they are sometimes. I know this for a fact from knowing some of the guys in Molly Hatchet and 38 Special way back when. Hatchet and Lynyrd Skynyrd endorsed Peavey back in the 70's when it was crap, and they had big walls of Peavey gear onstage. Little did anyone know but the Peavey heads were rebuilt as Marshalls and Fenders. So they would endorse Peavey while playing Marshalls and Fenders enclosed in Peavey amp enclosures.
 
#35
Mel Gaynor from Simple Minds uses some behringer gear. I know of at least two local pros that also use it. Not bass cabs or amps but some of their other products. Their not endorsed but they are used professionally on stage and in production recording.

While we can all generalize I'm not sure a brand as such can be labeled good or bad. Fender sure make some nice gear, they also ship some crap from Corona too.
 
#38
These Behringer threads have been going on for years. At the end of the day chops imo are what count. I'd rather have all behringer gear and chops than a rack full of Foderas and crap chops.

I'm glad behringer exist, cheap gear to get you started or for those who simply can't spend the money on better gear. At least they can get a start and go from there.

One of the absolute most talented guitarists I've ever seen at the time played a squire strat and a 50w marshal.
 
#39
The Behringer warehouse in Melbourne burnt down here a little while ago. I was convinced for a long time that all Behringer gear was fitted with a self destruct mechanism. Many believe the warehouse fire was caused by many of these circuits going off simultaneously.

Behringer gear is very economical. They have to save on production somewhere.
 
#40
I've used a few Behringer products over the years. My school has got one of their FX boxes and a 31-band EQ. The FX has some presets that don't work, but I mean the reverb is fine. Admittedly, we try to baby the rack as much as possible (because we've got an $800 mixing board and a $400 power amp), but still it's survived for close to six or seven years now from what I've gathered.

On the other hand, one of my friends who has his own project studio that was originally equipped with Behringer stuff. From what I've gathered, more than half of the equipment died within a few years of him having it.

And on a third hand, I've got a friend who started playing bass last year. He was on the cheap, and so he bought the complete Behringer starter package along with a 180W combo for his band. I have no idea how it sounds, but he's not a bad player (his slap technique is better than mine, although I have a faster fingerstyle). The bass is hideous (there's a weird grain to the FB), the strings are super-heavy (probably at least a .115 on the E), and the action's a mile high. But, it's worked for him.
 
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