Hey, I've picked up a few tips now and then from TB, namely the Quick Start Guide to replace that waste of trees Behringer calls a manual. I'd been playing the BVAP for a year just on a decent default setting (Rock 2, a touch of compression, misc knob twisting) but never got into really tweaking it due to the manual. Finally was able to get into it with that guide, and made all the difference in the world. I liked it before, but the first practice after tweaking it, the band was coming up to me asking "what did you do to your tone? It ROCKS!" Other bass players are asking me at shows what my setup is.
Currently, I'm running it into a Carvin BX1200 poweramp, which does not need a preamp, it's got all the tone controls you could want built in. I was using an old Yamaha poweramp that was a 3 space, and had to weigh 40 lbs at least, glad to ditch that behemoth. I use the Carvin to establish a base tone, then tweak settings with the BVP. Despite setting tweakage, I'm still not impressed with the tuner, but if you don't have one, it works. I already had one that I hook up through a tuner port on the Carvin, so it's all good.
Thankfully, most of my music experience has been first hand, or close friends, not much reading reviews, so I'd never heard any of the Behringer hate. I own the full PA system that my band uses, which is 90% Behringer, and haven't had 1 problem. I'm totally sold on them for a price to quality ratio. I've had higher priced big name stuff that just flat did not sound good, IMO, or failed. I don't shop for name, I try something, and if it works, I use it. If it works good and lasts, I recommend it to others, and so far, I've yet to use a Behringer product that I'm not 100% satisfied with. Except for the manuals, but I think that's pretty universally known.
**QUESTION**
Ok, now that my lengthy "hi" is out of the way, I do have a question. I recently picked up the FCB1010 midi foot controller... but made the mistake of attempting to look at the manual. I'm no closer to making it work than I was at first. I've seen a few posts about people working on a GOOD user guide for the FCB1010, but haven't seen one surface yet. I'm not a fancy modeler or anything, I just want to be able to create sounds on the BVAP, store the patches, and access them on the board, as well as getting the expression pedals to affect things like wah & volume. Any help would be very appreciated.
Oh, and I'll take one of those nifty v-amp squad numbers if you haven't ran out
Currently, I'm running it into a Carvin BX1200 poweramp, which does not need a preamp, it's got all the tone controls you could want built in. I was using an old Yamaha poweramp that was a 3 space, and had to weigh 40 lbs at least, glad to ditch that behemoth. I use the Carvin to establish a base tone, then tweak settings with the BVP. Despite setting tweakage, I'm still not impressed with the tuner, but if you don't have one, it works. I already had one that I hook up through a tuner port on the Carvin, so it's all good.
Thankfully, most of my music experience has been first hand, or close friends, not much reading reviews, so I'd never heard any of the Behringer hate. I own the full PA system that my band uses, which is 90% Behringer, and haven't had 1 problem. I'm totally sold on them for a price to quality ratio. I've had higher priced big name stuff that just flat did not sound good, IMO, or failed. I don't shop for name, I try something, and if it works, I use it. If it works good and lasts, I recommend it to others, and so far, I've yet to use a Behringer product that I'm not 100% satisfied with. Except for the manuals, but I think that's pretty universally known.
**QUESTION**
Ok, now that my lengthy "hi" is out of the way, I do have a question. I recently picked up the FCB1010 midi foot controller... but made the mistake of attempting to look at the manual. I'm no closer to making it work than I was at first. I've seen a few posts about people working on a GOOD user guide for the FCB1010, but haven't seen one surface yet. I'm not a fancy modeler or anything, I just want to be able to create sounds on the BVAP, store the patches, and access them on the board, as well as getting the expression pedals to affect things like wah & volume. Any help would be very appreciated.
Oh, and I'll take one of those nifty v-amp squad numbers if you haven't ran out
