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Club Behringer? hey hey hey

#61
please count me in as well. I have a bx4500 head playing through a carvin 15 and a carvin 210. I have had a couple carvin amps, fender, and hartke 3500. Out of all of them, i actually like my behringer the most, just needs a little more growl, and needs the ground hum taken care of, I'll have to do some research and figure how to do that unless someone wants to post a how-to.
As far as the lack of growl, I'm STRONGLY considering picking up a v-amp, the rack mount version. And when I change my cabinets, they are literally falling apart, I'll probably go with behringers as well.
 
#62
poomwah said:
please count me in as well. I have a bx4500 head playing through a carvin 15 and a carvin 210. I have had a couple carvin amps, fender, and hartke 3500. Out of all of them, i actually like my behringer the most, just needs a little more growl, and needs the ground hum taken care of, I'll have to do some research and figure how to do that unless someone wants to post a how-to.
As far as the lack of growl, I'm STRONGLY considering picking up a v-amp, the rack mount version. And when I change my cabinets, they are literally falling apart, I'll probably go with behringers as well.
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#68
poomwah said:
please count me in as well. I have a bx4500 head playing through a carvin 15 and a carvin 210. I have had a couple carvin amps, fender, and hartke 3500. Out of all of them, i actually like my behringer the most, just needs a little more growl, and needs the ground hum taken care of, I'll have to do some research and figure how to do that unless someone wants to post a how-to.
As far as the lack of growl, I'm STRONGLY considering picking up a v-amp, the rack mount version. And when I change my cabinets, they are literally falling apart, I'll probably go with behringers as well.
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the ground loop that causes the hum comes from the footswitch input on the front of the head, a very simple fix is,,,,

remove screws on top & bottom of head
carefully slide amp out thru the back of enclosure
locate footswitch input
remove screws, ( or nuts ) that holds assembly to chasis
take a small piece of 3/8" heatshrink tubing & fit over the threaded part of the footswitch input that goes thru the chasis
apply heat to shrink heatshrink tubing
enlarge hole in chasis either with slightly larger drill bit, or rattail file , so input will fit thru
place thin fiber washer, ( or plastic, rubber) over input on interior of chasis ( may have to enlarge ID of washer as well )
slide assembly back into chasis
place thin fiber washer over input on exterior of chasis, ( may have to enlarge ID of washer as well )
trim heatshrink tubing back to washer to make room for nut
install nut
install screws, ( or nuts ) that hold assembly to chasis
slide chasis thru back of enclosure
install screws on top & bottom of head

basically, all you are doing is isolating the footswitch input from the chasis,, it turn breaking the ground loop & hum

head will be absolutely silent after this very simple mod
 
#70
Steelers Fan said:
I have the BX4500 amp and the BX600 combo. No problems with either. Sign me up :smug:
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EddieG said:
Recommended. I've got one, it's a good piece of gear.
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NorCal Dog said:
the ground loop that causes the hum comes from the footswitch input on the front of the head, a very simple fix is,,,,

remove screws on top & bottom of head
carefully slide amp out thru the back of enclosure
locate footswitch input
remove screws, ( or nuts ) that holds assembly to chasis
take a small piece of 3/8" heatshrink tubing & fit over the threaded part of the footswitch input that goes thru the chasis
apply heat to shrink heatshrink tubing
enlarge hole in chasis either with slightly larger drill bit, or rattail file , so input will fit thru
place thin fiber washer, ( or plastic, rubber) over input on interior of chasis ( may have to enlarge ID of washer as well )
slide assembly back into chasis
place thin fiber washer over input on exterior of chasis, ( may have to enlarge ID of washer as well )
trim heatshrink tubing back to washer to make room for nut
install nut
install screws, ( or nuts ) that hold assembly to chasis
slide chasis thru back of enclosure
install screws on top & bottom of head

basically, all you are doing is isolating the footswitch input from the chasis,, it turn breaking the ground loop & hum

head will be absolutely silent after this very simple mod
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GreyBeard said:
I love their small mixers and I have a BPD21 pedal that does what it is suppose to.
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#74
winstonthecat said:
I'm looking at a used Behringer Ultrabass BX3000T, to pair with a set of 2x10 and 1x15 cabs. The reviews on this site are all pretty favorable for this specific amp, but I've also seen other posts where people say "anything but Behringer".

So what gives??

I'm new to the amp/gear selection process, so still learning all the nuances.

Thanks
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The quality control and the rip-off design.

I used to have that head. I bought it because I was 17 and that's all I could afford. It sounded pretty good for a rock tone but was quite noisy. However, having worked at a music store and seeing literally 30-40% of their products come back from the Christmas rush broken, I would never buy anything from Behringer again.
 
#75
We have some Behringer mics - i think there were 3 in a case for £18. You get a whole lot of mic for just £6 a piece! I think they're clones of one of the Shure mics but I'm not sure which. We do have a Shure mic (PG48?) and the build quality of the Behringer's is much better. We use them for micing up drums and speaker cabinets when we're doing some recordings. I know they won't compare to instrument mics that cost £££s but they're good enough us.

I bought our guitarist a Behringer stomp tuner because he always used my Korg one. The Behringer, whilst it works, is slow to register and so when you need to tune up quickly (ie. changing tunings in the middle of a gig) it's not exactly brilliant, and makes those long silences between songs even longer. For some reason it doesn't like the low strings on our guitarists guitars... it works ok from my Bongo though so maybe it's happier with an active signal...

Now when we gig Dave uses my Korg and I use the Behringer (this will soon change when I make Dave buy a new tuner!) . I use it from the tuner out on my Amp though because it does suck the tone if you plug it between guitar and amp...

As for other Behringer equipment I nearly bought a Behringer mixer but I found a nearly new Yamaha one on ebay for about £60 so I got that instead... I'm considering getting a Behringer headphone mixer and a DI box, but after the less-than-brilliant experirences with the tuner I think I'll avoid the FX pedals and save up for 'better' ones...
 
#78
I have a Behringer rack tuner...........it works just fine.

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I'm not a fan of their amps and of the effects I've tried. I will never say "never" in regards to purchasing behringer gear in future but i don't think I'll be buying anything in the short term that would affect my tone I think they've got a way to go to improve their products before this will happen.
Having said that, I beleive there is definately a place for Behringer in the market. Not all of us start out with 10 grand rigs and the product that they deliver is brilliant for the entry level market.
 

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