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Behringer Bass V-AMP Pro

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CharlieC said:
The V-AMP's effects section can indeed be bypassed by turning the EFFECTS knob completely down (as you've figured out.)

You will note that the LEDs turn off around the knob and the effect in no way imparts the signal at that point.

If anything, I think the unit's engineers may be remiss by not additionally extinguishing the LEDs from the upper EFFECTS dial, but they've made me very happy so far that I'll just let this one slide!
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It appears that one can officially bypass the EFFECTS section using the free companion computer software from Behringer.

An on-screen "Global Fx On/Off" parameter switch exists for the tweaking and most likely it is "savable" to the patch for free-standing V-AMP use. And hopefully, all corresponding LEDs should extinguish from the front panel while this setting is in effect.

Can any of you, with working access to the software and hardware, confirm or deny this to be the case?
 
#423
caeman said:
Up to this point, I had not tried the MIDI interface. I am going to have to give it a try! I have a USB-to-MIDI interface I can try to use.
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Thanks in advance! Please keep us posted.

At a minimum though, I am confident that turning the effects knob to zero bypasses the effect section, despite an effect being selected/illuminated on the upper dial.

Keep in mind that the V-AMP is all-digital anyway. It's not like we're actually removing a stomp box or other piece gear from the signal chain in hopes for more sonic purity :-)
 
#425
caeman said:
That is true. But, they made it a point to have a button combo to bypass the pre-amp section. And it is still all the same DSP.
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Good point!

To me it appears that they simply ran out of buttons to afford further front-panel switching functionality like with the preamp bypass. This is why I think the "missing" functionality will finally be exposed using the computer interface, and I'll give you full credit for doing so, of course! :-)
 
#426
CharlieC said:
The V-AMP's effects section can indeed be bypassed by turning the EFFECTS knob completely down (as you've figured out.)

You will note that the LEDs turn off around the knob and the effect in no way imparts the signal at that point.

If anything, I think the unit's engineers may be remiss by not additionally extinguishing the LEDs from the upper EFFECTS dial, but they've made me very happy so far that I'll just let this one slide!
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If you use the computer program to create the presets, when you select "NO FX" the Effects dial does turn off.
 
#431
CharlieC said:
One of these days I will need to get an FCB1010 just to see what I've been missing, but until then, I know some of you have one!

Anybody care to share how to tame that beast?
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So I kind of cracked it, using the footswitches to navigate presets is out of the box and easy to setup.
The expression pedals were more tricky because they were not transmitting any signal, I latter found that the didn't came calibrated out of the box and thus it was as if the motion range was 0

Now, I have to say this pedalboard is HUGE in functions and I have still to figure out how to take full advantage of it but just being able to navigate the Bass V-Amp and control Guitar Rig is nice.

Also let me leave 2 interesting links on software and firmware for the FCB1010. The Software works very nicely and the firmware looks very interesting.
PC Editor for FCB1010
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#434
Not to change thread gears here, but are any of you familiar with the recent TC Electronic line of bass amps?

From their popular RH450 to their latest Blacksmith, these amps feature many things I like about the Bass V-AMP, in particular:

  1. Programmability
  2. LEDs around the knobs
  3. Built-in tuner
  4. Built-in compressor
  5. XLR + Digital outs
The question as to whether those TCE amps sound better than the V-AMP ( + a power amp) or vice-versa is highly debatable, but it's clear, for me at least, that both are on the right track for the future.

I feel it is also worthy of noting that one can acquire a brand new Bass V-AMP Pro and a Class-D power amp for one-half the $999 street price of the RH450, and one-seventh the future $3,500 price of the Blacksmith. Not exactly apples-to-apples, of course, but I am not opposed to saving hard-earned cash if at all possible. :-)

Cheers!
 
#435
Never A-B both but from a completely theoretical standpoint I would suspect that if we compare the V-Amp with some of the best Hi-Fi heads the sound quality would be noticeably different. But from what I've heard both RH450 and Blacksmith are rock, "dirty" oriented heads and thus I don't expect the sound quality to be all that different.
 
#437
almeak said:
Has this [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] been discussed on this thread before?:bassist: If not, worth checking out
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Some of the coolest stuff I've done with audio processors has been enabled by third-party firmware. Indeed, someone gets into the guts far enough, they can give users the improvements/implementation beyond what the parent company itself has been able to envision. Better programming, additional modules and/or parameters, it's really amazing how far it can go.
 
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