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Pro Behringer!

#101
seamonkey said:
Who was liable?
Reference links to CE and UL claims?
There was one on FTC - but FTC is more concerned with home consumer markets.
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I am down for the count with the flu and really dont care if you believe me or not. Look it up. BTW, if you are old enough to have been around when the Mackie VS Behringer suit went down, they most certainly DID change what the contentious mixers looked like. post suit they looked completely different.
But hey, if you feel the need to defend a manufacturer such as behringer, more power to you. I think there are some wall st firms that could use your PR services as well.
 
#102
I've owned some Behringer stuff, from amps to pedals, and have never had the slightest issue with any of it. We still use a Eurowhatever mixer (that we don't really even take special care of) for the drums and it has not missed a beat (though we often have...)!

Methinks the Behringer hate be a might o'erblown...
 
#105
I would not say a word against Behringer if not the fact that my older mixer from them had gone dead after 3 years of use, the new one gives electrical shock on the microphone when I sing, the Audio/USB interface is a noise generator, and their overdrive pedal is just a tonal crap.

The phrase " Cheap wine is good 'cause it's good and cheap" applies to Behringer as truly as cheap wine is good, because it's cheap.
 
#108
I've got a BX1200 combo. Good little amp, plenty reliable. Never had a problem with it. I even used it to power a 410 on a couple occasions just to see what would happen.

People love to hate on some brands for one reason or another. I personally don't care if it says Behringer, Aguilar, Epifani or Hitler on it. If it sounds good, works properly, and I can afford it it's all good by me.
 
#111
I don't know exactly where I stand on Behringer gear, as I have recently played some festivals where (to my surprise) the sound guy was mixing with some Behringer compressors, graphic eq's etc...and the sound was great!

On the other side of the coin though, in my earlier days, I turned up to an impromptu rehearsal/jam and had to use the 'house' gear - a Behringer head and single cab rig. Approximately twenty minutes into playing time "do you smell smoke?". The amp had caught fire inside, and smoke was fuming out the back!
The am was properly set up, and I think I was using a very modest volume setting from memory...

Different products, different situations...but I always think, you get what you pay for - I would personally only buy gear like this as a backup to my backup in the first place.

...Maybe good for beginners to use when starting, but I was surprised when that sound guy was using Behringer at such a big festival. Hmmm...

All the best, JOHN
 
#113
I bought a Bass V-Amp Pro back in October, 2010. I have been using it on a weekly basis ever since, carrying it to two different churches. It has taken one tumble of 3' to a carpeted floor. My previous bass FX pedal -- a Behringer BEQ700 -- worked flawlessly for me for a year before that and still does, though I use it now with other instruments. The V-Amp cost me all of $75 used off CL. My needs for bass FX are simple, I just needed a good pre-amp, and I got it.

Every company has the occasional bad product. I used to have a Boss DS-1. The thing was so noisy, it made me doubt how anyone could like Boss. I mean, really, who thinks it is okay to pay $99 for a product that has long since paid for its R&D and production line, is assembled in some Chinese factory by workers for a dollar a day...and then has the audacity to put down Behringer for pricing the same effect for a more reasonable price? The fact is, there are only so many ways to accomplish the various effects. After decades of effects production, we are down to the minimum, efficient circuitry and everyone is using the same design.

Biyang makes a line of pedals that is re-painted and re-sold by various companies. What makes their RV-10 worth $70 direct from Biyang, or $150 from Modtone?
 
#115
I was not talking on cheap wine in the box.
I was talking on such stuff:
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Vintage apple wine, year 1983 ;-)

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Modern cheap apple wine. "Commando. Strong." The best to be drunk up to two days after manufacturing.

Both contain high level of sulfites ;)
 
#116
AntekStalich said:
I was not talking on cheap wine in the box.
I was talking on such stuff:
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Vintage apple wine, year 1983 ;-)
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That Goliath CZERWONE must be Poland's equivalent to USA's Boone's Farm circa 1974.

Either way, I say its time to put our Behringer differences aside and let's party!

We'll meet half-way in the U.K., Led Zeppelin will play a reunion show for us with Jason Bonham, and I'll bring the Boone's Farm :-)

Ramble On!
 
#118
CharlieC said:
That Goliath CZERWONE must be Poland's equivalent to USA's Boone's Farm circa 1974.

Either way, I say its time to put our Behringer differences aside and let's party!
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I've just learned about Boone's Farm ;-)
Much like ;)
I got Goliath '83 from old aunt around 1999. She thought it was her home-made juice, and it must've been hidden by (then late) uncle in the cellar circa 1983 ;) The bottle was unopened. After opening, it was precisely the same crap I used to drink as a high-school kid. Then, over 6 years, a glass was given once per year to my most respected guests ;) It used to keep the same "quality" all the time...

Modern Boone's Farm must be similar to Commando Strong, I'm sure. Or, perhaps Commando is similar to Mad Dog 20/20? ;) Let's party!
 

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