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Thats right, MORE Behringer.

Ste_m3

Ste_m3

Mar 26, 2006
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Northwest UK
www.purevolume.com
#1
ive just bought this pedal off the bay at 25 squid BIN.

Yes gobble gobble its behringer blah blah. but the amount of features this has and the price there going for, you start saying to yourself "how bad can they really be?"

im on a bit of a budget pedal binge at the moment, and ive just got this and the bass synth wah, to go with my bassballs and Behringer bass overdrive.

i shall write a review - unfortuantly my FX knowladge isnt extensive however im more than able to tell if somethings crap... I shall give it a few weeks so you'll all know it hasnt broken!

oh yes, and the link;
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#3
Again, its not so much the effect (even though they also sound pretty cold IMO) as to the build quality. I have owned heaps of the Behringer effects and heaps of Boss/digitech/EHX etc. They just aren't in the same ball park sound wise or build wise. End of story IMO.

Again though, as long as your happy with the fact that its a budget pedal and thats all it is and if at the end of the day it does what you require, then best of luck to you!! At least you can sit back with a full board and say it was nice and cheap to put together. Its the old 'don't just like/hate something cos your meant to'. Make your own choice.

My choice would be to burn them. Burn them all!!!!! :bassist:
 
#4
Behringer is probably fine as entry level stuff...for beginners or intermediate players who aren't going to be really putting their gear through the paces on the road, or from gig to gig/week to week. But for players who are gigging regularly, and need quality gear that sounds good and holds up...I don't think Behringer makes the grade (IMO).

We have one of their mixing boards in out rehearsal studio...and it's been nothing but trouble...
 
#6
fishtx said:
Behringer is probably fine as entry level stuff...for beginners or intermediate players who aren't going to be really putting their gear through the paces on the road, or from gig to gig/week to week. But for players who are gigging regularly, and need quality gear that sounds good and holds up...I don't think Behringer makes the grade (IMO).

We have one of their mixing boards in out rehearsal studio...and it's been nothing but trouble...
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spot on...

it's not the quality of the sound...because there, the behringer can hunt with the other dogs...

it's in the build quality...

if you treat the thing with kid gloves, it will perform...I have a BL100 (limiter) and it works great...but the knobs are flimsy, and I have to be careful with it.

I paid $45 AU for the behringer...

recently I bought a zoom b2.1u...the limiter function is built in, so my BL100 is now redundant...I paid $220 AU for the zoom...it also has a very good chorus, a half-decent flanger, a good eq,
good amp sims, a couple of "ok" distortions, AND I can record with it (Cubase LE bundled) and practice with it (headphones)...IMO, WAY more value for the buck..
and this pedal will withstand quite a bit more road abuse (although, I only gig in church 2-3 times a month)
 
#8
yeah, i have to agree that its the build quality that "lets them down" but you get what you pay for.

personally i LOVE the vintage series pedals (the EHX inspired ones :ninja:) i have the phaser and its SWEET built to a good standard (metal box with solid button), the only thing i have changed on it was to put a bit of rubber eraser in the cavity of the knob as it was a bit too easily adjusted.....now tho its nice and tight without putting pressure on the pot shaft.

i have the bass OD too, its nice but the plastic cheapness lets it down, oh and i only use a power supply as the battery box is like a rubix cube to negotiate open.
 
#10
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i only got it too see if i could use a overdrive in my set an it was only £15 an now im savin for a proper one. Its not amazin but it does do the job an if I was gonna get a chorus or flange or octaver or somethin I'd probably get another behringer one first to see if I could use it, if not, i've only spent £15 not £100.
 
#13
I got curios so i bought the bod100 overdrive and the flanger. My impression was that soundwise the overdrive was usable but not my kind of sound. The flanger on the other hand gave me exactly what i wanted. Since i´ve had them about a month, the buildquality is still an unknown factor.
I´m just glad i dont use batteries, because of the (stupid) way they built the batterycomparment lid.
 
#16
Tedintheshed said:
It doesn't matter how much you polish it, a turd is still a turd.
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I agree.

While some of you are playing up the "affordability", I ask you to consider other "affordable" brands that people don't hate. Dan Electro, FAB, DOD, some of the Digitech and Boss stuff, etc. etc. Look at the thread at all the pedals that outperform their price. There is affordable stuff out there that sounds great and can last quite a while with some TLC.

Behringer IME are priced much higher than their performance.
 

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