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Berhringer cheap pedals reviews
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I bought the "Tube Screamer" for guitar and it sounded great... very much like the original. It was also very sturdy.
It varies greatly from effect to effect.
Generally Behringers effect pedals are not very good quality, and i know at least the plastic ones tend to come with a lot of hizz noise attached to them every time they are activated, especially a problem with any of their dirt units.
However this doesn't go for all their products.
For example the Behringer's BDI21, which is an almost exact clone of Tech 21's Bass Driver, a preamp pedal, sounds almost identical, but the Behrinegr comes at a small faction of the original's price.
Same for the Behringer GDI21, which is a clone of Teach 21's GT1, a guitar preamp, that by the way sounds excellent as a overdrive/distortion pedal for bass.
Also I know for a fact, from owning one my self, that the 7 band graphic bass equalizer Behringer make BEQ700 is an excellent EQ as well without any noise coming from it whatsoever, this is by the way a clone of Boss GEB-7.
Personally I use a Behringer Ultragain Mic100 mic preamp as my go to preamp for home recordings, and it's a quite decent device as well for the price. Sure it's starved tubes sounds nothing like a preamp that runs on true high voltage tubes, but to me it sounds as good as any other preamp that utilizes starved tubes, just a lot cheaper.
All in all my advise would be to do a search on the particular effect pedal you had in mind buying, and go through some reviews as well as hearing for yourself on some of the YouTube videos up.
Generally some of their products are amazing for the price while most unfortunately are worthless pieces of junk not even worth whatever little price you paid for them.
To be honest it would be safer and generally give you more quality compared to the price paid to give a few more coins and buy some Joyo effects instead, those, while generally a bit more expensive than similar Behringer products, are still dead cheap, and by far most of their products are of a surprisingly high quality.
Generally Behringers effect pedals are not very good quality, and i know at least the plastic ones tend to come with a lot of hizz noise attached to them every time they are activated, especially a problem with any of their dirt units.
However this doesn't go for all their products.
For example the Behringer's BDI21, which is an almost exact clone of Tech 21's Bass Driver, a preamp pedal, sounds almost identical, but the Behrinegr comes at a small faction of the original's price.
Same for the Behringer GDI21, which is a clone of Teach 21's GT1, a guitar preamp, that by the way sounds excellent as a overdrive/distortion pedal for bass.
Also I know for a fact, from owning one my self, that the 7 band graphic bass equalizer Behringer make BEQ700 is an excellent EQ as well without any noise coming from it whatsoever, this is by the way a clone of Boss GEB-7.
Personally I use a Behringer Ultragain Mic100 mic preamp as my go to preamp for home recordings, and it's a quite decent device as well for the price. Sure it's starved tubes sounds nothing like a preamp that runs on true high voltage tubes, but to me it sounds as good as any other preamp that utilizes starved tubes, just a lot cheaper.
All in all my advise would be to do a search on the particular effect pedal you had in mind buying, and go through some reviews as well as hearing for yourself on some of the YouTube videos up.
Generally some of their products are amazing for the price while most unfortunately are worthless pieces of junk not even worth whatever little price you paid for them.
To be honest it would be safer and generally give you more quality compared to the price paid to give a few more coins and buy some Joyo effects instead, those, while generally a bit more expensive than similar Behringer products, are still dead cheap, and by far most of their products are of a surprisingly high quality.
Can't argue there friend!!
I have a Joyo OJ and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!
Yup, can only agree, I got 2 Joyo Orange Juice pedals, as well as a California Sound, and love both.
Also I like most of demo's I heard of their other effect units, and plan to invest in an American Sound for my go to medium overdrive.
Just steer clear of the Moonbase pedal, which ironically is supposed to be a bass specific overdrive, while almost every other of their overdrive units, despite having been designed with guitar in mind, sounds a whole lot better and suck considerably less low end, if any, from your bass, even without clean blend, than this piece of junk.
I suppose it's likely to be a clone of the Bass Tubescreamer, which might explain my aversion against it.
In my opinion based on the experience of all the times I heard a tube screamer on bass, weather it had clean blend to get the bass version sticker on, or not, it sounded horribly thin, like it sucked all lows whatsoever out of your bass leaving a thin hizzy overdrive/distortion sound only if you even can stretch to call that miserable murmur of a tone it leaves you with that.
Many of them are great, really.
There are some that add noise even (or only) when the effect is off, like the Filter Machine (which I love but only plug in when I need it), and some that straight up suck, especially the pitch shifting ones which sound like toys.
Some of them, such as the digital delays, actually improve on the pedal (EG boss DD) THAT they're based on by adding extra options.
The first gen phaser (I think UP100) sucks as a clean phaser, though when I ran it as after the behringer bass overdrive I got some cool laser sounds, but from what I can tell later versions fixed that issue.
The echo machine is the dogs balls, especially if you want a ducking delay.
As someone else as mentioned, the behringer TS is as good as any tube screamer that costs 6x the price or more, no reason to buy any other unless you have plasticphobia.
Plastic... Well, I've owned some of my behringers for over a decade and they aren't beat up at all and none have failed, though my old Digitech DF7 which is made of metal is beat to hell, which I've had for about the same length of time. There are videos of people trying to destroy behringer pedals and failing, so they're better in terms of build quality than people tend to think.
IMO if you like a pedal, and there's a behringer, Mooer, JOYO, NUX or Donner version of it, try the cheap version first, in most cases it's just as good, or closer to the sound of the expensive one than the price difference would suggest.
There are some that add noise even (or only) when the effect is off, like the Filter Machine (which I love but only plug in when I need it), and some that straight up suck, especially the pitch shifting ones which sound like toys.
Some of them, such as the digital delays, actually improve on the pedal (EG boss DD) THAT they're based on by adding extra options.
The first gen phaser (I think UP100) sucks as a clean phaser, though when I ran it as after the behringer bass overdrive I got some cool laser sounds, but from what I can tell later versions fixed that issue.
The echo machine is the dogs balls, especially if you want a ducking delay.
As someone else as mentioned, the behringer TS is as good as any tube screamer that costs 6x the price or more, no reason to buy any other unless you have plasticphobia.
Plastic... Well, I've owned some of my behringers for over a decade and they aren't beat up at all and none have failed, though my old Digitech DF7 which is made of metal is beat to hell, which I've had for about the same length of time. There are videos of people trying to destroy behringer pedals and failing, so they're better in terms of build quality than people tend to think.
IMO if you like a pedal, and there's a behringer, Mooer, JOYO, NUX or Donner version of it, try the cheap version first, in most cases it's just as good, or closer to the sound of the expensive one than the price difference would suggest.
I have their Bass overdrive pedal and like it. It sounds good to me, and it has a blend knob like i wanted. I could afford "better more pricey pedals", but this one does what I need it to do. Being made of plastic is not an issue. I am not touring the world with it, and i do not abuse it. If it fails, its $25 to replace. I also have their Noise reduction? pedal, to kill the hum on my Jazz bass pickups. It does exactly what i bought it for. Once again, $25 to replace if it breaks. Just my two cents.
I have that OD, I didn't like it when unused it with bass but at the time I didn't really know how to set up a nice bass tone, since then I've used it as a "grunge" pedal on guitar and it ROCKS for that application, now that I understand blend knobs and know how to EQ ETC I'm sure I could get a great bass tone out of it.
The noise reduction pedal is great, has a loop it you want to use it, but works without the loop too. When engaged it changes the tone very slightly but not in a positive nor negative way, I mean, I can't find a preference either way, I don't know what exactly it changes, perhaps adds a little hint of extra treble, I'm not sure, it just sounds very slightly more like a recorded guitad/bass with it engaged than when it's not, Making it slightly tighter, that's probably the easiest way to describe. It's so slight that I couldn't record it and most wouldn't even hear it in the room. Worth buying this over the MXR smart gate I used to own which was good but not better, though it cost about 5x the price of the behringer.
I have the Slow Motion pedal. Still haven't quite figured out what my intentions are with it, just waiting for that moment when it becomes the obvious solution to a problem that has not yet arisen. Until then, I don't see the plastic case being a problem since I'll rarely step on it.
Been eyeing on the Orange Juice for a while. Building a second board consist of mini pedals and considering the Orange Juice for the preamp. How do you like it?
Behringer PB100 Preamp/Booster: Excellent; simply does what it's supposed to do, and does it well.
Behringer TM300 Tube Amp Modeler: Excellent; great variety of honest, tube-like grit.
Behringer ADI21 Acoustic Amp Modeler/DI: Excellent; very warm with nice mid control.
I still own the PB100 and TM300, and I'm thinking about getting another ADI21. I've also tried Behringers that I didn't like at all. As NoiseNinja said, "It varies greatly from effect to effect."
Behringer TM300 Tube Amp Modeler: Excellent; great variety of honest, tube-like grit.
Behringer ADI21 Acoustic Amp Modeler/DI: Excellent; very warm with nice mid control.
I still own the PB100 and TM300, and I'm thinking about getting another ADI21. I've also tried Behringers that I didn't like at all. As NoiseNinja said, "It varies greatly from effect to effect."
I own the BUC400 (I believe) and it's a fine chorus pedal. I believe they are using the Boss CEB as their template. I've had it for a few years, mounted on my board and it works great (and only paid about $30 Cdn for it).
I have two Ultra Shifter/Harmonist pedals, got them used for $20 each. A youtube review I saw showed that it tracked slightly better than the Boss it ripped off. I've compared mine to various EHX stuff like POGs and Pitch Fork, and while the EHX pedals maybe sound more "real," they have enough delay to annoy me, and the Behringer delay is much shorter. The sound is a little weirder, but I find it takes distortion better, and the short delay makes them much easier to play.
The biggest drawback is the plastic case. I think it'd be pretty OK with very careful use, but I reboxed one of mine just in case. It was a PITA, but I might rebox the other one some day.
The biggest drawback is the plastic case. I think it'd be pretty OK with very careful use, but I reboxed one of mine just in case. It was a PITA, but I might rebox the other one some day.
I owned the ADI21 Acoustic Amp Modeler/DI for about a year or so and it worked and sounded well, although a bit noisy at medium levels. Made of plastic, but sturdy enough to live on a pedalboard. I never owned a Behringer bass pedal.
I love mah Behringer.
I prefer a much gnarlier distortion than what the bass overdrive provides so I'm using a GDI21. I also have the metal vintage envelope fuzz wah thing, sounds great but it isn't really practical for what I'm playing atm.
I prefer a much gnarlier distortion than what the bass overdrive provides so I'm using a GDI21. I also have the metal vintage envelope fuzz wah thing, sounds great but it isn't really practical for what I'm playing atm.
I have tried a handful of their pedals and I feel they sound great for the price. Yes, they are plastic. And that kinda sucks. But I've owned at least 7 of them and had never had one break on me.
Some of my favs:
TP300- this pedal is so musical and awesome. Boss PN2 clone. My only gripe, it gets quiet when engaged
BSY600- bass synth. I still have this on one of my main boards. I spent some dough on this one, $90. Because its not made anymore. I really think this is a great bass synth. Small and compact too
BLE400- bass limiter- pretty much the same exact thing as the Boss LMB3
HM300- Boss HM2 clone. I liked it. Probably wouldn't use it for the band, but I'd jam it all day at home. Can't complain for $20
I still want to try a few more. But I def wouldn't shy away from them in a pinch. they are worth it IMO. Just depends.
Some of my favs:
TP300- this pedal is so musical and awesome. Boss PN2 clone. My only gripe, it gets quiet when engaged
BSY600- bass synth. I still have this on one of my main boards. I spent some dough on this one, $90. Because its not made anymore. I really think this is a great bass synth. Small and compact too
BLE400- bass limiter- pretty much the same exact thing as the Boss LMB3
HM300- Boss HM2 clone. I liked it. Probably wouldn't use it for the band, but I'd jam it all day at home. Can't complain for $20
I still want to try a few more. But I def wouldn't shy away from them in a pinch. they are worth it IMO. Just depends.
I had the guitar flanger, sounds okay if you're guitar and amp are decent but It's not going to satisfy you GAS. I have a tuner pedal by them now.
